Dying and floating towards the heavenly light at the end of the tunnel....

[badbaseman]

Has anyone here died or know anyone that has and were brought back to life and seen this phenomenon which some think is the brains reaction to not enough oxygen in the brain? What were yours or theirs final thoughts and do you believe death was at the end of the tunnel, also has this changed your religious belief in any way?

http://www.stevemcint...120a57bce74970b-800wi

[chakka35]

No, I have never died as far as I know. But in my touth I had a couple of teeth out using gas and on both occasions I experienced precisely that both on going to sleep and on waking up. But I didn't see God or angels or dead relatives, I'm afraid.

No change to my atheism.

[chakka35]

I think I meant my youth.

[cab]

Facinating subject , but noone will ever know for sure.

[society]

"Has anyone here died"

lol you are assuming there are dead people posting on AB? lol

[cab]

LOL at society

[Henkle]

A mate of mine was hit by a lorry back in the '70s when we were kids, he claimed he died on the operating table (don't know how long he was GONE for) and this was the same question we put to him over and over, even years later as teens.
His answer was always - I saw the lorry, then I saw the intensive care ward. Nothing in between. Not even a dream.

[Androcles]

I have died on a couple of occasions, usually of embarrassment. At that point your whole life flashes before you. It may be a religious experience because you say things like "OMG". At this point you wish a tunnel would appear as you hope the earth would open up and swallow you. Sometimes you do think death may be the best thing at the end of the tunnel.

Then you get over it.

[saxy_jag]

A sometime work colleague 'died' on the operating table during a routine op. She was 'gone' for several minutes and they almost didn't get her back.

As with Henkle's mate, she remembers nothing from going under the anaesthetic to waking up in intensive care.

[rojash]

I'm immortal I'm afraid, so can't give you any advice. In fact, it's a total waste of your time reading this - so stop now.

[Le Chat]

A friend of mine 'died' during an operation on the back of his knee. He felt terrible pain, as the surgeons knife dug into him and then he was in the top corner of the room looking down at himself being operated on. He said it was actually 'himself' looking down, he was completely aware that he had no body, so to speak and was completely aware of everything going on below him. He said that he could feel a warmth and a light behind him but deliberately did not turn as he knew that if he did, he would not get back into his body.
The man in question is an atheiest and I had to drag this info out of him as he dare not believe it himself really as he can't be doing with this kind of nonsense!!
Similarly, I knes of someone who 'died' for 10 mins after a scuba diving accident and remembers nothing.

[naomi24]

I have a friend who claims to have out of body experiences, similar to the one Le Chat describes, where he suddenly finds himself looking down from the top corner of the room at his own sleeping body lying in the bed. Le Chat said her friend is an atheist, and as a matter of fact, so is my friend, but I think that's completely irrelevant. I see no reason to assume that such experiences are automatically related in some way to a God. Why link anything we deem 'supernatural' to something for which there is no evidence whatsoever just because we don't understand how or why they happen? If we imagine we already know the answers, we'll never seek them and hence, we'll never find them.

[MarkRae]

Astral travel is perfectly possible - I do it all the time...

[mandimoo]

ive had a few out of body experiences. the first one i recall being very aware and very bemused by the fact that i was aware of being still in my bed, but also suspended in the corner of my bedroom. i realised that i could travel anywhere i wanted (having read a very little about astral travelling), but was afraid that it meant i was dying. so i fought a struggle to get my 'out of body' to go back to my physical body. and it was a struggle too. very strange.

[naomi24]

Birdie, //Every tool we have shows that cognitive neuronal activity exists within the brain which suggests that consciousness is clearly a physical manifestation rather than an esoteric one. //

Perhaps we don't yet possess the tool that might indicate otherwise.

//If your consciousness exists despite your physical body then it begs the question, where does it come from?//

We can only say we don't know, because we don't.

Mandimoo, my friend said the first time it happened to him, initially he was amazed, but then it occurred to him that he may have 'died', and panic took over because he was worried he wouldn't be able to 'get back'.

[mibn2cweus]

I've been out of my mind more than once. But my brain was always still right there, in my head, waiting for me to return . . . and still is!