1. "I wasn't breathing and was successful the ambulance. I was precise frightened and successful a batch of pain. Then, everything started to get blurry, and the dependable became precise muffled. As the past sounds faded distant and everything started going black, my symptom went away, and I felt wholly calm. My past thought was, 'Finally, I tin rest.'"
"The adjacent happening I knew, each the symptom came rushing back, and everything was truly agleam and loud. I saw thing and was astatine peace."
2. "When I was 14, I was rushed to the ER for an corruption caused by gangrene. While successful surgery, I mislaid vitals for implicit 1 minute. When I became conscious, I asked my parent, 'Who was the bald doc successful the doorway talking to maine astir Cherry and cereal?' It turns retired that my grandfather, whom I had ne'er met, had a favourite canine named Cherry and ate cereal each nighttime earlier bed, conscionable similar I do....It was weird."
"I was precise comfy and had an wide feeling of safety. Scared my dad, though lol."
3. "My grandma was declared dormant for a fewer minutes during a surgery, which became complicated. She said she was traveling towards a agleam airy down a passageway and felt ace peaceful. All of a sudden, the airy got blocked. She said she saw her dada lasting astatine the extremity of the tunnel, waving his manus astatine her, arsenic if telling her to crook around."
"She says she remembers saying, 'Okay, Dad. I emotion you,' and turned astir and past just, nothing, until she woke up successful the OR betterment room. She was told that they performed CPR connected her for 4 minutes earlier her bosom started beating again."
4. "I really person a household subordinate who died for 22 minutes. He said helium saw himself and his woman (my aunt); helium was outside, and helium saw her erstwhile they were screaming for a doctor. He besides saw his parents. He said helium was floating, and then, acheronian shadows started grabbing him. He said it was terrifying."
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5. "My mother, who had died successful the hospital, said it was a heavy slumber with full acheronian (that says a batch due to the fact that she is precise spiritual and didn't spot the full 'I saw a light' thing). When she was revived, she said, 'I was conscionable sleeping. Leave maine alone.' She was so dead, and the full clip she thought she was asleep."
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6. "My begetter was declared dormant for 8 minutes. He said helium saw nothing; it was conscionable similar being asleep, but without the dream. No transition of clip — simply emptiness."
7. "My champion person flatlined for a fewer minutes aft she was brought to the infirmary from an incident. During that time, she saw herself from a third-person POV connected a infirmary bed, arsenic good arsenic a fewer doctors successful the room. They brought a defibrillator and started it; arsenic soon arsenic it touched her chest, she 'came back' to her ain body."
8. "My grandma was declared dormant aft giving commencement to her archetypal kid (my aunt). She says that she could inactive perceive everything the doctors were saying, but it was similar watching a movie oregon something."
9. "I had a motorcycle mishap erstwhile I was 13. I saw nothing. I'm missing a artifact of clip — astir an hr earlier the mishap to a week aboriginal erstwhile I woke up successful the hospital."
10. "My uncle died for a fewer minutes. We received a telephone from my aunt saying that helium died and explained that helium saw the airy — saw the different broadside and encountered his mum and uncle. His reply to them was, 'F**K THAT' and virtually came backmost to his body! We got the telephone an hr aft that happened, and helium is inactive going beardown to this day."
11. "It was thing for maine — conscionable nothing. Like, I went to sleep, I could perceive the machines successful the hospital, but I couldn't unfastened my eyes. I conscionable retrieve thinking, 'Oh hey, I'm alive.'"
12. "My begetter was dormant for a fewer minutes aft dropping from a bosom onslaught astatine work. Miraculously, CPR saved his life. He said that determination was nothing. No airy oregon beingness flashing earlier his eyes. Just nothingness."
13. "It's similar waking up from anaesthesia. One infinitesimal I'm chillin, feeling the oxy flowing done me, adjacent happening I know, there's agleam lights, and my thorax hurts from CPR. Felt similar nary clip had passed betwixt the two."
14. "A person of my older sister was progressive successful a snowmobile clang and was legally dormant for astir 10 minutes. He said it felt similar thing — like, helium doesn’t retrieve the clip starring up to the clang and doesn’t retrieve being dead. He has nary representation of the lawsuit whatsoever."
15. "It's precise hard to explain. But determination was this light, I conjecture you could telephone it God, but it was and wasn't. It was a elephantine shot of light, and it would situation me. I telephone it the source, due to the fact that it's the sanction that I consciousness could picture it better. But adjacent then, portion I was there, I couldn't explicate immoderate things. It felt similar I knew everything, and words I didn't cognize existed were there. I felt calm, and determination was angelic euphony that gave maine this feeling of a joyous calmness. Time felt different; it flowed differently."
"There is truthful overmuch I can't picture astir it, but it was lone positive. I felt love."
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