Experiences triggered by cardiac arrest
Near-death experiences triggered by cardiac arrest are among the most studied in NDE research. The sudden cessation of heart function creates a clear clinical boundary, making these cases particularly valuable for scientific investigation.
Admitted to the emergency room with chest pain. Treated with clot busting medicine for blockage in vessel feeding the bottom of my heart determined by electrocardiograph. After ninety minutes, I said to the doctor, 'Boy, do I feel dizzy!' I immediate...
Without transition, and without pain, I was suddenly standing in a beautiful green wood. It was like jumping right into the middle of a vivid, colorful dream. There was lots of light and sunshine all around, light breezes rustling the leaves. Profoun...
I was 25, extremely pregnant, and a ceasarean for my second child was planned. I went in for surgery, my first child had been born through a ceasarean, so I knew what to expect. I had no fear, was not nervous. After the epidural, everything would be ...
When I had this experience, I knew nothing about NDEs totally ignorant. It was a few years before I learned about such things and read anything about them. I was extremely ill 106 fever for a week,My experience was vivid, every dead loved one and goo...
It was about 8:30 pm I had just put all my children to sleep and got on the internet with my husband who was in Iraq at the time. He was getting ready to come home on emergency leave due to my illness.I had said my good byes and told him that I wasn'...
I'd never experienced all that before. It made me aware of how alive everything is. God is in every fiber of the universe. He's all over and knows all. He's not a person as some may think. God is an energy. I can't type all this, though I know what I...
I fell asleep sitting in my chair at my desk. I awoke later to see my granddaughter there in front of me playing with the cat. That is the last conscious memory that I had until I woke up in ICU. There are other things though that are in my mind. Bla...
My NDE first one was in 1965, diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer. I was in a coma for ten days, and I was out of body seeing how all the nurses and doctors were saying 'we have lost her now.'I did not recognize the body, as I only weighed sixty-...
Benny G NDE Home Classification NDE 498 Benny G NDE 20543 Experience Description I did not float above my body or anything like that. I was instantly ‘on the other side’ and I instantly knew it, all three times. Each time I died, it was the same. It ...
During my last NDE, I was suffocating to death after surgery to my thyroid. My husband was informed that I was dying and nothing else could be done. I knew I was dying because I had an out of body experience and a deep feeling of peace while the doct...
At work I collapsed. Medical technicians came. They zapped me. No pulse. The rushed me to the Hospital. The emergency doctor could find nothing, in all about twenty minutes. Out of here.P.S. Did not want to come back would go again in a heartbeat (no...
On January 22, 1998 I suffered a major heart attack while sawing limbs off a large oak tree. I called my wife and said, 'I'm ill.' I did not call 911, because I was in a remote location and they might not have arrived in time. My wife came to get me ...
Dr. Boris NDE Home Classification NDE 515 Dr. Boris NDE 10102 Experience Description It began in February, 1988. I was taken to the hospital for chest pains. I was admitted to the intensive care unit under strict surveillance. Two days later, I suffe...
Now to what happened during Easter of this year (2004). This story is really in three parts. The first part is the physical circumstances leading up to the near death experience.I have got to let you know that I am in perfect health. I have regular ...
I'm not sure where to begin with trying to describe my experience, so I think the best place is probably from the beginning.As a child, I was severely abused by my step-father and when I was thirteen years old; he stabbed me in the chest and left me ...
Dario F NDE Home Classification NDE 536 Dario F NDE 1096 Experience Description On our way back from Atucha 1 (a nuclear power station), while escorting a five-truck convoy with nuclear waste, at a certain point, a car with two criminals began shooti...
I was in a warm and very comfortable place. I was not on this earth, but in dark space. I had the feeling that I had been here before, like I was home at last. I had no eyes that I could tell but I could see in every direction at the same time. No...
I remember that day I reached the Light as if it were today. It is so clear in my memory as if it happened this very morning.I recollect hearing my mother and my aunt crying, and Pepe, the training doctor saying that if I did not improve that there w...
I was admitted for surgery with high blood-pressure problems. As soon as I was under anesthesia I started seeing images of my life, right back to childhood. I saw my parents, my six brothers, my children and their mothers. I went back over many stag...
I remained conscious during the dog attack, and the dog's owner carrying me across the street to my father, who was getting ready to go to work on the night shift as an engineer. My father blanched when he saw me and ran with me next door to the neig...
I was having difficulty breathing. There was a doctor to my left and two nurses with him. He was injecting my IV and asking me why I couldn't breathe. I was now lying flat on my back looking at the ceiling. I had an oxygen mask on my face and it was ...
I was eight years old and growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, in the San Gabriel Valley in a town called El Monte.I was riding my bike one day with my best friend, Felix, along a busy street. I was on the right side of the road, going with the ...
After I fell, I felt a tightening in my chest as I attempted to get up. After that I felt like I was skiing again and it was very peaceful and serene. Suddenly it felt like I fell again and I was out of control when my eyes opened I saw my feet kicki...
Somewhere about mid-May 2004 life as I knew it I had begun a spiral downhill fast. I found myself, frustrated, as I had begun about a month before, unable to think properly, and getting lost going places I knew well. The family doctor sent me to test...
I was standing in the hallway of my house and started to see little black dots that gradually closed in my field of vision until my heart stopped and I stopped breathing. There was a sudden break in reality and my mind began to dream. I have always b...
The most frustrating thing about the entire experience is that I can’t remember most of it. I suffered severe short term memory loss from the accident and can only recall a few specific scenes, but unfortunately, the memories are not vivid. Therefo...
When I was two years old my grandpa died. He had a heart attack and died in the living room. I was there and my grandma said I tried to make him get up. We lived on a farm and animals die too. I had always been told that when things die they go to He...
Age four, summer morning, Glasgow, Scotland, not long after a garbage strike which saw an infestation of dock rats in my neighborhood, requiring the army to come out and kill them. I was excited as it was the first time in a while that we were allowe...
Six years ago, I was at a picnic with a bunch of friends. We were having a good time, fishing, playing baseball and Frisbee. Well, the heat got to me and so, I started to walk over to the table to sit down for a bit...Everything suddenly faded away! ...
I floated up to the ceiling and could see my body lying on the table. The doctors were alarmed and saying that they were losing me. I was not scared, I was with a couple of very kind people that I believed at the time were angels. They told me not to...
My heart stopped during an operation. I suddenly saw a clear light in a tunnel. As I entered further into the tunnel, I became quite calm and relaxed. The clear light kept attracting me until I heard a voice mention my name. I then retraced my steps ...
I experienced an NDE due complications during surgery. An artery burst when the surgeon tried to remove an organ, causing a hemorrhage that filled the stomach and I went into cardiac arrest. I was clinically dead for 8 minutes. They put me on an ar...
I was above my body and watching everything going on in the room. I could see my father at my bedside crying. I was confused as to why I was lying in the bed and suddenly was in a long tunnel with a small light at the end. I started to race through t...
First Incident: I was looking down at my body lying in a fetal position on the ground, but what was happening, because I was in the most beautiful light you could ever imagine. I came to; I realized I was in hospital. A nurse walked past, she looked ...
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was Christmas Day 1990 and I awoke and got up in the morning. I proceeded to the living room together with my wife and Jennifer. We opened our cards and gifts, enjoying the mood and feeling that Christmas Day has as...
I was admitted into a hospital emergency room and informed that I was having a heart attack. I stayed in the emergency room for what seemed like days. All told, it was a total of eighteen hours in which doctors were fighting to keep me alive. I learn...
I had severe chest and upper stomach pains the night before my cardiac arrest. My doctor had sent me home with acid reflux medicine (obviously misdiagnosing my condition). The morning of my cardiac arrest (I don't remember any of it except for fleeti...
During my time before surgery, two or three minutes, a medical student from the same college were I studied computer programming was in the room. Other medical students were inside the same surgery room with my doctor and other doctors and nurses. I ...
IMy experience starts with returning from camping and breaking up with a girlfriend. I stopped at a friend's house on the way back and she was there making the situation uncomfortable for me so I told my buddy that was riding with me all weekend to s...
I ignored the symptoms of heart problems for over a day but finally decided to drive myself to the hospital. About a half hour later they barely had me hooked up when I told them 'something was happening'. I started to go numb and the next thing I kn...
I was given too much gas in the dentist’s office, died, and floated up above my body. I was about three feet above. I could look down with complete clarity at the dentist and see the top of his head, back of his head, looking into my mouth. Then, I f...
I had a heart attack and was getting catheterized, two stents, died twice on the table, was defibrillated twice, burned pretty good. I saw bright vivid crystal fabulous colors very vivid and peaceful. Heard people yelling my name Henry, over and over...
I was experiencing much abdominal pain, perhaps because of cholera or food poising or something, nobody really knows. I had symptoms of being severely sick with vomiting and diarrhea with cramping in my stomach and extremities. I remember getting int...
I had been very ill with asthma for several weeks following the death of my father; I was also eighteen weeks pregnant. This particular night I was feeling extremely weak and out of breath. My husband was on night shift so my mother stayed with the k...
During a tilt table test my heart stopped for seventeen seconds at the eight minute mark of the test. During the four minutes, before I recovered I remember hearing the hospital public address system call out a code blue. Then I went into my experien...
12/27/2004, approximately 12:15 am, I was brought to hospital by ambulance having severe chest pain, vomiting, numbness of right arm, etc. I was wheeled into the emergency room and the doctor knew right away, what was going on. I was hooked up to all...
I had an allergic reaction to medications in the hospital. Total cardiac arrest and flat-lined. The sound I heard upon dying was exactly like the sound check that they used to give in the movie theaters when it says, 'The audience is listening.' I wa...
For precautionary measures and to ensure no internal injuries, I admitted myself into the emergency room after a car accident I was able to walk away from. I did not want to take ambulance because I felt fine immediately after the accident. However, ...
I had a caesarean section with my second child. Something went wrong three months after the surgery and I had a massive uterine hemorrhage, which in the end required that I receive more than one hundred units of blood and fluid. I know now that essen...
I was in the hospital for almost two weeks after having a major heart attack. Approximately one-fifth of my heart was damaged which caused bradycardia (a slow heart-rate). The doctor decided to discharge me early. I was sitting on the bed waiting for...
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