Experiences triggered by surgery & anesthesia
NDEs during surgery occur while patients are under anesthesia, often with verified observations of surgical procedures. Some of the most compelling evidence for consciousness beyond the brain comes from surgical NDEs.
I was in bad pain, at ten on their scales. I asked God to take the pain away. Then I was suddenly above looking down on my monitor and IV pole and my body. I then saw a white being that floated up. I was asked if I was ready and I said yes. Then the ...
I was lying on an operation table and I can remember the doctor applying ether. After a few seconds, I saw my body floating in the air and moving to the right side of the room. I was amazed at what I saw. (I could remember every detail of the operati...
I am writing this from two views, firstly from my experience and second from Alicia's view. On July 16, 2001, I had been sent out of town with the Army, my roommate, more like a daughter, was ill from intestinal blockage brought on from a cesarean se...
Shawna J NDE Home Classification NDE 468 Shawna J NDE 20495 Experience Description I remember going under from the anesthesia and then suddenly I was jolted awake by the sensation of pulling. I began to rise an as I did I saw my body on the operating...
I had been coughing a lot and been sick. My mother took me to the doctor who sent me to the hospital. I had pneumonia and trouble breathing. After I had been in the hospital for at least a week and was not getting better, I had surgery to have mucus ...
I did not leave my body. I told my wife as soon as we were alone after I awoke. I did not find out what had happened during surgery until two months later. My experience went like this. I was in complete darkness but I could see what was happening. I...
I had a routine outpatient surgery on my kidney which accidentally ruptured my spleen. Fifteen hours later, my husband took me to the emergency room. An inept staff left me waiting in the lobby for more than half an hour during which time I lost cons...
I saw a light and experienced a warm blanketing feeling around me. I felt really at peace but was looking behind me for my husband and baby. I was really concerned for them. There were the presence of people saying to me that my time wasn't up. The p...
At that time, I had never heard of a near-death experience and had no idea what it was that had happened to me. During the experience itself, I felt as if I was being propelled feet first down a long tunnel at warp speed. There was a distinct sensati...
Jeffer S NDE Home Classification NDE 495 Jeffer S NDE 20542 Experience Description I felt a couple of jolts through my body as if I was being shocked. After the shock had disappeared, I looked down toward earth to find that the dentist was still tryi...
In the beginning of my experience I was in the helicopter going to the emergency room. I was in and out of consciousness. When I arrived at the hospital, I told the friends that were with me goodbye but they insisted that I stay awake. I could not. I...
I heard my friends' voices; one said you better go and get his parents, this looks serious. Shortly after that I remember seeing myself lying on the road, next to the telephone pole - my hands were stretched up, pointing up to the sky, as I was still...
Sameer NDE Home Classification NDE 512 Sameer NDE 1085 Experience Description Following the accident, I was carried to the hospital. I had a surgery operation. I stayed in the hospital for one month. I was in full coma, but sometimes I awoke. The pro...
They brought me to surgery on a stretcher; I was talking to the anesthetist, medical serum was injected on my right arm, when I watched my clock (round, made of plastic, white with a black frame) and noticed that it was 18:20 pm of that blessed 29th ...
'If the lack of sunshine at night time makes you cry, you won't be able to see the stars. If you sit down on the road, always face what you will walk and give your back to what you already walked' Chinese old saying.In here, we will handle a portion ...
I found myself outside of Creation, in a gray immensity with no end. Not as in a dream, but crystal clear with no interference. And all was perfectly silent. Not the quiet in the middle of the night, where you can hear your own heart beating, but the...
It was a normal day. I had come into work early feeling good. I developed a headache and went to medical for an aspirin. As soon as I entered medical, my chest had exploded with pain. The nurse put me in a chair and started putting aspirin down my th...
I was asleep, under anesthesia, then I was projected in a bright tunnel at a dizzying speed; some colors, some flashes of light. Then, a slowdown, I was out of the tunnel. I was floating in the air and I went forward; I heard divine music and a voice...
Silvia C NDE Home Classification NDE 535 Silvia C NDE 1097 Experience Description Everything began when I was at some friends’ house and suddenly I felt a severe headache and felt sick. I put my hands on my head, but the pain was unbearable. I starte...
Northwestern College, Evanston, IL Sponsored-Sailing Nationals, Top 10 schools in town for the event. Water temp. was 41 degrees, snow on the ground. The mood was intense and the elements were tough. Our boat capsized: 'A Flying Junior' small craf...
Surgery-related. One week after surgery to replace a failing aortic valve with a plastic one. I seemed to be getting well enough for discharge. I passed out and recall hearing voices saying emergency surgery was needed to release blood collected near...
I was undergoing surgery to correct a series of SVTs I was having (Super Ventricular Tachycardia a form of severe abnormal heart rhythms). During the procedure they routinely shock, stop, and restart your heart. They don't give you normal anesthesia ...
Tamara V NDE-Like Home Classification NDE-Like 553.5 Tamara V NDE-Like 1083 Experience Description 11 July 2002, we decided to make a tour on the motorbike.When returning home I closed my eyes for a moment because of the brightness of the Sun, we wer...
James P NDE-Like Home Classification NDE-Like 556 James P NDE-Like 20664 Experience Description After the surgery for a traumatic brain injury, the doctors put me into a coma for a couple weeks to help give my body time to heal. During this time, I t...
Park Sang Hee NDE Home Classification NDE 595 Park Sang Hee NDE 1098 Experience Description Before being put under anesthesia, I prayed and left everything to God. With that state of mind, I went into surgery. My experience occurred after I gave birt...
I heard and saw the doctor giving me too much anesthesia and the surgeon saying, 'Damn it, you gave her too much, you killed her.' Immediately I was in a black velvet tunnel. It was pitch black, but soft like velvet. The noise was like a thousand tra...
On both occasions a being of white light appeared to me, took my hand, and took me to a door that opened on its own. As a child, I remember I had to climb three steps to arrive at the door and in the last experience I didn't see any door. I went dire...
The physician arrived in response to the call for help from my husband who had just arrived with my two older daughters. They couldn't find any veins to put the intravenous needle into for the blood serum. I was almost unconscious, my body did not re...
I had had surgery a week before. I developed an infection, and had a bleeding vessel in my abdomen. Suddenly, I began to bleed. I had been in pain for quite some time before this event, but at the time, I was not feeling any discomfort. I was an ...
I was ten years old and swimming in a public pool (couldn't swim well). I got confused, swam into deeper water, and started to panic. Trying to yell 'help' I just choked down more water. It was very scared and exhausted.Then all of a sudden, such pea...
I was in the labor room of a clinic in my city trying to give birth to my son after twelve hours of labor. They took me to the labor room without answering my questions and they only wanted to know when I had last eaten. After answering, they put me ...
At first I was experiencing the most excruciating pain I had ever felt in my life. It was like being stabbed with a white-hot sword over and over again!After roughly twenty minutes of this pain, I began to feel serene and the pain was fading. Apparen...
There was no wall in the intensive care unit. All I saw was blue people and trees and I wanted to get over to the other side, to the ladies in bright white who were laughing and throwing snow, and one of the ladies was my grandma Bessie. The blue tr...
This experience began with hospital admission to have the gall-bladder removed and an umbilical hernia repaired. The gall-bladder job was expected to be regular keyhole surgery, but it was pointed out that it was sometimes necessary to 'revert to the...
My first near death experience (NDE) was vague. I remember coming out of the anesthesia feeling very frightened. The second experience I had was more intense. I remember the void, the light, my failure to reach the light and then the horrible ‘fallin...
I had a somatic aneurysm burst and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance from home. I thought I had the flu, but then I knew it was something worse. I called my husband home. I was sitting in a bamboo chair. The bamboo chair was simple, old but ver...
It happened when was about to have a ureterectasis surgery, I have an Egyptian friend who's got his PhD (in anesthetic drugs) from a university in London, he had his own researches in hypnotism and I had my readings in parapsychology and the neo-spir...
As a result of a mistake made by a doctor, I was operated on. After the operation, I was in the intensive care unit. Suddenly I was in a desert. At the same time, I was on my bed. Sometime I was being lost in the sands of the desert; but suddenly I w...
In the recovery room of an outpatient surgery facility is where my NDE took place. My husband was in the room next door when he heard the alarms go off. Alarmed, he got up and opened the recovery room door. He said my color was bluish white and my bl...
When I was a child I had my tonsils removed. I remember being very scared the days before the surgery. The first thing I remember is that I had to inhale gas from a mask. Then I felt myself slipping (spiraling) in an unconscious state. Soon after tha...
MY NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Mary B (Licensed Practical Nurse)The accident was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, and it is also the best thing that has ever happened to me. I will share this experience because it is the basis for what I learn...
Involved in explosion received chest and lung injuries from metal pieces of the explosive device. The NDE occurred two days after the accident while in hospital. I felt that I was falling horizontally 'down' a tunnel or long hallway towards a bright ...
During the night of May 15 to May 16, 2004 at a Paris Hospital intensive care unit, where I was in a coma after a first surgical operation undergone on May 4th (aorta/ descending distal superior mesenteric artery - higher mesenteric - superior mesent...
I was admitted on August 10, 2001 for surgery. (Hysterectomy.) The next day, I experienced severe abdominal pains. The gynecologist called the help in of a surgeon on Sunday 12 August. I was sent for various scans/x-rays. By 13th of August I was extr...
I was undergoing a gynecologic surgery. I was given anesthesia and it seems I lost consciousness and then I felt like a fight within my body and then an escape towards a black tunnel, which had bronze colored stripes, at an ever increasing speed. The...
I was spending the day at the river with my younger siblings, my mother, and some of her friends. My brother and I had wandered off to the water’s edge, up to no good. I was dared to go past the red line painted on the boat launch where the river mee...
When I was nineteen, I contracted a fatal bacteria called Neisseria meningitis. Within the first fifteen hours of the first symptom, it is ninety-five percent fatal. After entering the hospital, I was put into an induced coma because my entire body w...
I was told that I was unconscious for approximately thirty seconds, but I felt that I had 'been gone' for what seemed like two hours. Also, felt the presence of a male figure and knew that we had been 'conversing', and this of course was difficult to...
I have had numerous occurrences, but they almost always start the same. Your back opposite of your solar plexus locks up, and then it runs down your legs where you cannot move, followed by up your shoulders and then down your hands where you cannot b...
I was having my gallbladder removed. I remembered I was leaving my body and there was a ‘big white angel’ taking me away. When I turned around, I saw my body lying on the operating table. Doctors were working on me. The angel asked me if I wanted t...
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