Near Death Experiences

My studies have me reading up on accounts on these experiences.
Have you ever had on or know someone who have?
If so, what are you willing to share with us about the experience?

Posted by oyes0435
What are you looking to find out

A few things, like how much did their view on life chance after experiencing it.
Also how did their attitude toward spiritual matters and the material world change, if at all.
Finally, if they feel comfortable, the experience itself.

Yes, my comp sci teacher in high school had one and his account was the first I've heard. Its a major research interest of mine currently, and has been for about a decade. Many serious studies exist that document the after-effects of NDEs.

Here's a good summary presentation with references to some of the major studies:

http://iands.org/jupgrade/images/stories/2006/noyes.pdf

There's a lot that's been written. Just do an "advanced search" in Google for "NDE Aftereffects" and specify for .pdf docs and you'll get a ton of paper on the subject:

http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/greyson-publications/mystical-Shift.pdf

http://www.pmhatwater.hypermart.net/resources/PDFs/Articles/Hannover-NDE-Aftereffect.pdf

http://www.transpersonaljournal.com/pdf/vol4-issue2/Cheryl% 20Fracasso% 20and% 20Harris% 20Friedman.pdf

http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-26-94-02-107.pdf

The psychic and electromagnetic aftereffects reported are particularly strange and very common. Here's a paper written on the former:

http://www.newdualism.org/nde-papers/Sutherland/Sutherland-Journal% 20of% 20Near-Death% 20Studies_1989-8-93-102.pdf

And a dissertation written on the latter:

http://www.lifepulsecenter.com/files/Dissertation__entire__final_copy_3-26-08.pdf

If you're studying NDEs, IANDS (International Association of Near Death Studies) is one of the best overall resources:

http://iands.org/home.html

Their Journal of Near Death Studies is mandatory for anyone doing serious research on this subject; the people doing the most important work in this field publish in it (Bruce Greyson, Michael Sabom, Raymond Moody, Peter Fenwick, Sam Parna, etc.).

Posted by TaurusLovesScorpio
Yes, my comp sci teacher in high school had one and his account was the first I've heard. Its a major research interest of mine currently, and has been for about a decade. Many serious studies exist that document the after-effects of NDEs.

Here's a good summary presentation with references to some of the major studies:

http://iands.org/jupgrade/images/stories/2006/noyes.pdf

There's a lot that's been written. Just do an "advanced search" in Google for "NDE Aftereffects" and specify for .pdf docs and you'll get a ton of paper on the subject:

http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/greyson-publications/mystical-Shift.pdf

http://www.pmhatwater.hypermart.net/resources/PDFs/Articles/Hannover-NDE-Aftereffect.pdf

http://www.transpersonaljournal.com/pdf/vol4-issue2/Cheryl% 20Fracasso% 20and% 20Harris% 20Friedman.pdf

http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-26-94-02-107.pdf

The psychic and electromagnetic aftereffects reported are particularly strange and very common. Here's a paper written on the former:

http://www.newdualism.org/nde-papers/Sutherland/Sutherland-Journal% 20of% 20Near-Death% 20Studies_1989-8-93-102.pdf

And a dissertation written on the latter:

http://www.lifepulsecenter.com/files/Dissertation__entire__final_copy_3-26-08.pdf

If you're studying NDEs, IANDS (International Association of Near Death Studies) is one of the best overall resources:

http://iands.org/home.html

Their Journal of Near Death Studies is mandatory for anyone doing serious research on this subject; the people doing the most important work in this field publish in it (Bruce Greyson, Michael Sabom, Raymond Moody, Peter Fenwick, Sam Parna, etc.).

Once again, TSL, shows why he's awesome!

Posted by antithesis
I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. (no snark)

ok, dr strangelove.

I had a near death experience about 15 years ago. At 4:30 one afternoon, a drunk driver swerved and their tires rode up a guardrail, which sent them sailing through the air. I was on a bridge and had no where to go. The car landed on my hood and slid up toward the windshield hitting the frame of my car which knocked them off onto the road. Could have easily kept sliding up into my windshield. Luckily, I wasn't injured.

Another close call was 3 months ago when the tornado ripped out my neighborhood, flattening the house next door. We were in the closet, could feel the house shaking, the suction pulling on the roof, items beating against the house.

Both were very, very scary moments that I will never, ever forget.

A few things, like how much did their view on life chance after experiencing it.- You get your priorities straight. You realize the little things don't matter. Who cares what kind of car you drive, or did the work at the job get completed, or is the house clean. Material things don't matter. Loved ones matter. People matter. You also get a renewal in your faith for humanity and get to witness people doing things because they care or because it's right. You realize people are basically good. They will step outside of their own lives and do something for strangers, people they don't even know. You realize who your true friends are because people show their true colors when you've had a crisis.

Also how did their attitude toward spiritual matters and the material world change, if at all. - Definitely!! I believe in God and guardian angels. God puts us through tribulations to teach us things, to bring out our best, to show us things, to make us become better people. I realize how close I've gotten and have been spared. There is a purpose for me out there that hasn't been fulfilled yet. These things help you strive to become a better person and a stronger believer.

Posted by AriesLady8
I think by near death experience he means you actually flatline and are considered dead but you are brought back to life

In some instances, yes. In some they actually register no electrical activity in the brain on an EEG. Its paradoxical because, at a time when they should be most inhibited from a neurological standpoint, they report such extreme lucidity to the extent that the NDE seems more real/vivid than normal waking perception. Pam Reynolds is an interesting and very controversial case because they drained the blood from her head, stopped her heart, she flat-lined, they plugged her ears and taped her eyes shut, and she still had an extremely deep NDE, where she was able to recount very specific details of the surgery during the Out of Body portion of her NDE. Here's her case:



But a bit contrary to your statement, in addition to people with heart failure and even brain death, NDEs have been found to be extremely common in people now who are approaching death, but don't actually experience any truly llfe threatening physiological circumstances; some of them simply *think* they are about to die but are not in any danger at all. These people still have experienced the OBE (out of body experience), tunnel, light, life review, seeing deceased relatives, heavenly landscape, even going into/merging with the Light, etc. This actually makes NDEs harder to explain scientifically, because one of the most common medical attempts to explain the NDE is anoxia (brain deprived of oxygen). In these instances where the patient is not actually dying though, we know that isn't occurring.

My Sag watches the show you mentioned btw.

Does nearly falling off a zip line count?