Anyone had a near-death experience they'd like to share with the world?
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once i was suffering from very temperature, around 106-7 odd degrees. i could remember that i went senseless. then at the next moment i saw, my mother, who was sitting beside me and crying, and didnot know what to do. our driver had a red water bucket adn he was splashing water on to my head. and then i realised i saw myself too.\n\nthen i regained conciousness.\n\ngosh!! it still gives me goose pimples. all this i saw from from the corner of the roof.\n\nif you happen to get hold of it, please read light after death by allen brynson
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Has this actually happened to you?
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I love it when someone asks me this question!  I mean, the fact that I'm just alive today is Miracle Enough for me but I had an experience that I'll never forget and no one can explain.\n\nI was in Lake Tahoe, at the time, driving back to a friend's house after a trip to the hardware store.  It had started to snow pretty heavily, and once I got off the main roads there was patchy ice in-between the drifts that had begun to blow across the road.  In my rear-view mirror, I saw at least 3 cars following behind me, which made me nervous and I thought about slowing to let them pass me but decided against it because I didn't want anyone to think I was stopping in need of help, so I kept driving.  \n\nBasically, I was heading up a good incline (I was in the mountains, understand) and at one point there was a good hair-pin turn where I had to go up on one side and down a steep hill on the other.  There were steep banks on either side of the road in some places and there was only one road to turn-off at at the top of the hill; no other routes to go, except to the right on that road (taking one further up the hill) or the sharp curve to the left (down the other side of the hair-pin).  \n\nAt the bottom of this hill, I glanced in my rear-view mirror and regretted not having the other cars pass me and regretted not putting my truck in 4-wheel drive before leaving the hardware store.  I briefly asked God to just get me home safely and help me to concentrate on driving.  I eased up on the gas at the top of the hill before heading down the other side and immediately, I felt the back end of my truck, continuing to slide in the opposite direction of the turn.  Of course, I tried to correct and that made it worse.  I was sliding back and forth across the road, completely out of control.  \n\nI remember just letting go of the steering wheel, and calling out, "Jesus, help me!"  \n\nThe car continued to spin.  I have no idea how I stayed out of the trees and the steep hills on either side of the road, but suddenly, the car stopped moving and I realized I was at the bottom of the hill, in the opposite lane, facing back in the direction I'd come from.  \n\nI remember wondering when the other cars were going to crash into me and then I realized it was just quiet.  The car had stalled and it was just completely quiet.  The snow was still falling heavily and I looked up the hill I had just come down and saw where my car had dug up the dirt and sprayed it off into the white snow on both sides of the road.  I'd somehow covered pretty much the whole road on my way down.  There were no other cars in sight, from either direction.  \n\nI thought it was a miracle that the cars following me were all heading up the road at the top of the hill instead of down the side I'd gone.  I started up the car and realized that the safest way for me to turn back around would be for me to go back up the hill and turn around where the road was wider for the turn-off.  When I got to the top of the hill, however, and turned onto the road where I was going to turn around, I realized that there were no tire-tracks on the road - fresh or old.  \n\nThe road hadn't been driven on at all, since the snow had started.  I turned around in a driveway and there was still no sign of anyone having been in the area.  And when I got back down to the bottom of the hill I'd nearly gone off, I was making fresh tracks in that snow.  Somehow, God had caused those cars behind me to disappear completely.  \n\nEvery time I tell this story, I know it had to have been a miracle because I'm telling the God's Honest Truth and even I don't believe it.  I often try to figure out how it happened and I just can't explain it.\n\nWhen I got back to his house, my friend told me I looked like I'd seen a ghost.  I said, "No but, apparently, I've been in the presence of an angel," and I told him what happened.  After the snow let up,
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One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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No I haven't, but I would love to.  It's one of the things I'd like to do before I die.
16550
Yes, God has made His presence known to me a couple times in my life.  I've also had some interesting occurances transpire that lead me to believe in the strong possibility of life after death.  It makes sense to me that our energy transfers to a different state.  Seems scientifically plausible, but it goes beyond our realm of understanding.
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Yea... I died 3 times...total crashes in a hospital.  O2 sats to 0,  coma, 3 years to get up again.No O2, no heart beat, no nothing. Myabe some random firings of neurons in the dying brain, stimulating memory cells. No, there is no out of body experience after death, only those memories coming back fuzzily and random
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Amazing testimony! There are so many good stories like this out there....and that is why it is important to share it. Amazing! I am so happy for you and pray that you further move n Gods favour.
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No real experiences I can share....but I almost died twice: once when I was little and once while having surgery when my blood pressure and heart rate dropped to 0.
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True Story: \n\nI was in the basement f'ing around with a television I got out of a dumpster when I literally electrocuted myself. I fell to the ground and could not move. \n\nI prayed to God that my wife upstairs would come find me. \n\nI heard footsteps upstairs... She was headed to the basement door! I could see her shadow approaching it.\n\nI started to thank God for answering my prayer when my wife said: "No wonder it's so cold up here! Shut the God Damn Door!" and she slammed it shut.\n\nAnd I continued to lay there.
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Yes I believe in reincarnation and another plane of existence. I have had an NDE and it opened my eyes to what is going on out there.
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Yes and yes.  On more than one occasion I have either seen, heard, or felt the spirit of someone who had passed.  A little boy use to visit me at regular intervals.  He would stand next to my bed until I would sense him and open my eyes.  He would smile, then disappear.  I haven't seen him since my second son has been born.  We smell smoke every time my wife's grandfather is near.  In our old house, there were cold spots that moved around the house.  Our cats would move around the spots like they were trying to avoid running into someone.  I watched two surgeries being preformed on myself and was even able to give details and repeat parts of conversations and actions of the doctors and nurses.
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I have had 2 that I can think of.. probably more if I put my mind to it.. :)\nI was swimming under a floating raft in a lake and got my foot tangled in the chain underneath that was attached to the anchor that kept it from floating away.. I was pulled out from under it 2 minutes later and woke up to my sister pushing on my chest and some guy I don't know giving me the liplock of life.. I heaved up a whole lot of water.. but here I am :) .. the other one was when I reached into a mailbox in a thunderstorm.. lightning hit the wooden mailbox post and shattered it while my hand was inside. I got a small zap from it and sat or fell onto the sidewalk.. my mother came out screaming saying my hair was steaming :) go figure? I lived.. no worries.. life is full of them.. people are like cats.. just not as lucky.. if only we had 9 lives.. then I could have 6 more near death experiences.. what a thrill that would be :) naw.. I am joking.. it is scary to imagine what not having the luck to walk away from it would mean.
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Yes, and what a trip. There was this guy in my house. I sensed it. I flew up out of bed and this male silhouette is in my living room. Only he's just black like the absence of matter. But he was there. I yelled at him to GET OUT. He went through, literally, the door, without opening it. Then I looked down at my hands and they were that weird black. I flew back into my body and sat up. It just happened.\n\nAnother time I was meditating. I saw this incredibly white light. But it didn't hurt my eyes. And I felt totally safe,satisfied, contented and euphoric all at once. It lasted an instant and was gone. This I induced.
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I'd definitely pick to have my flying dream again.  I've had it more than once and can remember some of the details, but mostly, I could feel myself flying.  I'm kind of scared of heights...not so much of being high up, but of being high up and not secured to something.  I remember the actualy feeling of being in the air, looking down and getting light in my stomach.  I eventually taught myself how to fly.  It required a thought process, and if I stopped the process, I'd fall, though I never hit the ground.  It makes you feel like you can take over the world when you wake up.
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Near Death Experience. Usually results in a change in behavior/beliefs.\n\nI've had one before, so, yes.
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Yes, I have. He is an Indian shaman. He told me that his name should only be known to me and not to share it with others. I was involved in a serious vehicle accident while serving in the Army. The accident occurred north of El Paso, TX on a small military range in New Mexico. I was thrown from the vehicle as it flipped over. For the next 5 days, I was awake and talking in the hospital trauma ward. But, I have no memory of those 5 days. That is except for one thing. I had a re-occurring dream, or at least I thought it was a dream. I was standing out in the middle of the desert watching a burial take place. Next to me stood me spirit guide. We watched without saying a word as two men brought the body of a deceased man to a place in front of us. The mans body was carried on a man made stretcher made of wood & animal skins. The stretcher was placed on top of four - 6' long poles, one pole at each corner. Then the men moved away. The shaman and I would turn and look at each other now & then. Still no words were spoken. Then, another man walked over to the body with a torch in his hand. He set the body ablaze. We watched as the body was consumed by fire. It was then that I realised. The body on the stretcher...was me. This whole dream repeated itself time & time again until I finally awkoe from fog that my mnd was in due to the accident. The whole dream sequence was shown to me as a way to tell me that my life was beginning again and I would be going down a new path. I now refer to that time in my life as my "phoenix phase". Thank you to my guide for helping me through a difficult transition.