Near Death Experience - NDE - COMA

Muineach

hya's,
Just before xmas I had to go into surgery for a tumor on the brain, during the surgery my brain swelled up and they ended up putting me in a deep coma, as far as I can tell it was a
level 1 coma, which means that i "No response: unresponsive to stimuli", and on top of that I was on life support. Then over 5 days they slowly let me come out of the coma. They did this to let my brain recover, btw I'm completely fine and was released from hospital only 10 days after the surgery. During this time my brain wasnt funtioning and couldnt even breath for myself.

Anyway for the first few weeks I didnt ask the family much about it, then last night I was talking to my two sisters, I was joking did I confess to anything while I was coming out of the coma, just joking around, then got all quite and looked at each other, "well there was one thing".

Seemingly I told them that I had seen or dreamt that I saw a light and that I had crossed over, of course at this stage the sisters thought "what the f**k ?", so they asked me what was it like ? my response was :
"well it's not bad, i'd say you'd like it", then I went back to sleep.

I've no memory of this at all which is kinda annoying, but I have 100% faith in my sisters being accurate, to be honest they were a little shaken telling me. The thing is how much of this was the drugs I was, or was it a true NDE ?

Or if anyone has a similar experience I'd be interested to know, thanks.
Muineach

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

they're called dreams.


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=41428

Carrigart Exile

Mordeth wrote:

they're called dreams.


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=41428

I don't know if any of you caught a programme on BBC about 'Children who had lived before'. The story focussed on a 5/6 year old Glasgow boy who insisted that he was from Barra (Western Isles of Scotland) and that his current mother was not his real mother. Anyway, the boy gave a catalogue of information about his previous life which when followed up by the TV programme was astonishingly accurate. Supporting the programme was a USA based University Professor who had studied over 200,000 similar cases world wide. The constant amongst these children was the description of what had happened to them after death. They had met God who told them they were going back and then they fell through a hole filled with light and were born again. As a sceptic when it comes to the supernatural it certainly shook me.

Muineach

just to make it clear that I'm not some religious nut, I'm kinda spiritual but then the other side of me is sceptical and believe that when you die you die, full stop.
And I fully accept that this could have just been a dream, just its a bit odd not being that religious and say something like that.
This hasnt changed me at all, just found it odd that one of the first things I said when I woke up was about the NDE.

As for the 'Children who had lived before', I did see it a few years back, and it was definetly odd to say the least.

DublinWriter

Carrigart Exile wrote:

I don't know if any of you caught a programme on BBC about 'Children who had lived before'. The story focussed on a 5/6 year old Glasgow boy who insisted that he was from Barra (Western Isles of Scotland) and that his current mother was not his real mother...As a sceptic when it comes to the supernatural it certainly shook me.

I got a copy of that from uknova and found it equally impressive, although they fell short of getting proof positive at the end.

Didn't they say that he could have seen a programme about Barra and 'absorbed' the memory?

OP - so sorry to hear about your tumour. What type and grade is/was it?

Muineach

ah its a grade 2 astrocytoma in an aqward position, inbetween speech and control of the right side, dont feel sorry for me there are far worse out there

littlebug

That's interesting Muineach. Glad to hear you've recovered!
My uncle claimed to have a NDE after a car accident in his 20s. He only told us about it 25 years later when he developed cancer at the age of 47 and he said that because of what he had experienced back then, he wasn't afraid of dying. Whether it was a dream or not I like to believe that the experience he had helped ease the difficult time he had at the end.

Muineach

The funny thing is I never did have a fear of death, whether it be "shining lights" or nothing, I liked my response though "its not bad ya know"
Wel at least it wasnt a big fire I was heading to

DublinWriter

Muineach wrote:

ah its a grade 2 astrocytoma in an aqward position, inbetween speech and control of the right side, dont feel sorry for me there are far worse out there

I'm very sorry to hear that. My Mum was diagnosed with a grade 4 astrocytoma in the exact same place at the same time as you. She had the tumour removed in Beaumont just before Xmas and will be attending St.Luke's very shortly for radiotherapy.

How old are you can I ask?

Muineach

I'm 28 at the moment and was in Beaumont at the same time, I have to heave off to St. Lukes for radiotheraphy as well, first appointment is for tomorrow, in case you recogise me, I was the one with the shaved red hair and the eye ring

DublinWriter

Muineach wrote:

I'm 28 at the moment and was in Beaumont at the same time, I have to heave off to St. Lukes for radiotheraphy as well, first appointment is for tomorrow, in case you recogise me, I was the one with the shaved red hair and the eye ring

I probably passed by you a zillion times as I was up in Adams McConnel Ward on a daily basis for most of December.

You weren't that German guy with the mohekan who used to patrol the wards and leer at the nurses, were you?!?

Although Beaumont is a crazy auld place, you couldn't have been in better hands than with Prof.Boldgers team.

You'll find St.Luke's a hell of a lot more relaxed and condusive to getting better.

Muineach

No I wasnt tat german guy, even though he did had a good haircut :P try shorter, I'm a smoker so I was constantly outside listening to feckin recording "for the sake of our patients and visitors there is no smoking allowed in this area" that repeated about every 20 seconds drives you demented.

DublinWriter

Muineach wrote:

No I wasnt tat german guy, even though he did had a good haircut :P try shorter, I'm a smoker so I was constantly outside listening to feckin recording "for the sake of our patients and visitors there is no smoking allowed in this area" that repeated about every 20 seconds drives you demented.

Me too, that's why I used to go down as for as the wooden pagoda for my fix.

I think I do remember seeing you as my Mum was moved down a room everyday post-op. The first post-op night for her was grim as the guy in the next bed kept roaring and screaming for his car-keys and kept pulling his adult-diaper off. You probably remember him too!

Carrigart Exile

DublinWriter wrote:

I got a copy of that from uknova and found it equally impressive, although they fell short of getting proof positive at the end.

Didn't they say that he could have seen a programme about Barra and 'absorbed' the memory?


The boy got one thing wrong from a list of the family name, the location, the location on the island, the next doors pet, the timing and his means of death. It was pretty impressive for a 5 year old, It really spooked me when they found a living family member and introduced the boy to them; unfortunately it was a non event.

DublinWriter

Carrigart Exile wrote:

DublinWriter wrote:

I got a copy of that from uknova and found it equally impressive, although they fell short of getting proof positive at the end.

Oh for sure, but the fact that the kid described aircraft landing on the beach shoud have narrowed the research down to the later half of the 19th century.

There's a more compelling case documented by the BBC concerning a Scottish woman who in a previous life had two sons still living in Malahide. I'll let you goggle it for yourself.

In Hinduist/Buddhist terms, the trauma of rebirth can leave 'you' a bit confused is an understatement to say the least. It's easy to mix various past lives into a single memory.

GuanYin

Just gonna say, be careful naming Beaumont doctors please, apart from the fact I know many of them personally, I don't think its right to discuss them here..

Muineach wrote:

Wel at least it wasnt a big fire I was heading to

I think you hot an interesting point here:

Has anyone ever heard of an NDE that describes going to hell rather than heaven?

I guess we go into the theological debate of whether hell (or indeed) exists or whether it is a concoction of the church - but to th ebest of my recollection, all NDEs I've heard about have had the person going to the light....

stevenmu

I've never heard of anyone going to hell, but in this DamnInteresting article on NDEs and how they're experienced differently by people of different cultures, Durga Jatav's experience sounds a little unpleasant.

Catari Jaguar

Yea, there's an excellent NDE site, which I can't remember. I really believe in NDE and there was one story of a guy who OD'd at a party, and went to hell, but not a fiery pit hell. Had really scary disturbing vision of himself ODing and mad freaky stuff. I think in the end he did get collected and floated above Earth and aall that happy stuff and then was alive again.

If I find the link I'l post it up