near death experiences - Writers Forum

Crazy_dude6662 · 10-09-2005, 05:03 PM

how many of you have had near death experiences

three times

nearly drowned, i was 6/7 and just learning how to swim, i went in to the deep end and a went to the bottom to see how long i could stay down, i rose the surface to find an inflatable boat floating above me, couldnt get out from under it, pushed it away, someone pushed it back. not sure what happend, woke up on the side of the pool.

nearly got nocked down in rome.

swallowed ventalin, had to get stomach pumped.

and thats me. what about everyone else?

oh and leaving new york a day before the twin towers
or leaving an island in the way of the tsunami a day before the tsunami hit dont count

Hodge · 10-09-2005, 05:14 PM

Those aren't near death experiences. You may have come close to death, but a near death experience is something else.

An NDE is when your brain shuts down and you are clinically dead. People who have these experiences often see the typical "light at the end of the tunnel," have out of body experiences, and see and feel strange and wonderful things. We haven't been able to fully explain it yet, but we have been able to recreate some of the experiences in a lab.

Crazy_dude6662 · 10-09-2005, 05:36 PM

okay then, times where you were close to dying.

Pawn · 10-09-2005, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by starrwriter

I have occasional near-life experiences.

A turn of phrase worthy, I feel, of congratulation.

journyman161 · 10-09-2005, 08:26 PM

When 18, I was heading out for a night of (hopefully) debauchery with a mate & 5 mins before leaving, I had severe stomach apins & nausea. He eventually left without me & my illness cleared right up within minutes.
He had a head-on (his fault) leaving him almost unscathed, the other driver mildly injured, the other passenger in hospital for 9 months & where I would have been sitting, the roof of the car was 1 inch above the seat. I would have been the fatality but for an unexplained illness.

In Perth, I refused a lift with a sober driver & drove drunk, something I was very much against. I got there, she didn't. If I'd got in the car it would have been 3 dead, not 2.

It would be nice if these warnings were a little more specific.

lisajane · 10-09-2005, 08:47 PM

I've had two -

1. Was doing flips over a gymnastic bar, came upside down again, blacked out, let go of the bar, dropped onto my head and bent my neck backwards. Apparently was out cold for several minutes and unbreathing - teacher started talking to me and I woke up mostly fine.

2. Lost control of my car on a long, busy road. Drove off the road, across a sidestreet, narrowly missed road signs and a power pole, across a small grass field, into a petrol station and stopped about a metre in front of a fuel tank. According to onlookers, I was headed straight for the power pole, and if I hadn't steered the car away from it I would've been killed on impact.