Near -death experiences..

Esel · 01-01-2017 07:12PM

bear1 wrote: »

Around 2008 when we had a few weeks of hot weather, myself, the then girlfriend and our dog drove up from Tramore to Sallys Gap to chill out next to nature rather than sit on a crowded beach.
Anyway on the drive up there is a waterfall, can't recall the name of it, and I stopped to let the dog out and take some pictures.
The dog suddenly jumps the fence and runs straight for the large stream which then falls off a very high cliff.
So he is just standing there near enough the edge and refusing to come back - potentially scared.
So I slowly walk over to the stream and get in to get the leash and bring him back.
Except I slipped and the current was so strong that it was throwing me towards the cliff edge.
God knows how but I managed to get traction at the last second and jump back onto the grass at side.
Dog was fine too but I would have 100% been a goner if I had have gone over.
Scary as **** when I think about it.

Glenmacnass waterfall.

DrPhilG · 01-01-2017 07:44PM

Probably the closest I came to death was when I fell asleep at the wheel. I was young and stupid and working too hard with not enough sleep.

I woke up to the sound of my wing mirror exploding from the impact of the articulated lorry coming the other way. Another few inches and I'd have been hit head on and smushed. A very sobering feeling to realise that I could have killed myself and others with my foolishness.

TerrorFirmer · 01-01-2017 07:50PM

I got pulled underwater one time by some sort of freak current, and no matter how much I struggled I just couldn't seem to move upwards, it was a horrific sensation, the moment where the dread and panic just washes over you and you have this sort of conversation with yourself that says "OK...I am in serious trouble here". Thankfully I managed to get out of it but I feel extremely uncomfortable even thinking about the sensation of fear and helplessness.

bear1 · 01-01-2017 07:52PM

DrPhilG wrote: »

Probably the closest I came to death was when I fell asleep at the wheel. I was young and stupid and working too hard with not enough sleep.

I woke up to the sound of my wing mirror exploding from the impact of the articulated lorry coming the other way. Another few inches and I'd have been hit head on and smushed. A very sobering feeling to realise that I could have killed myself and others with my foolishness.

Happened to me as well.
Fell asleep driving back to Charleroi from frankfurt.
Must have 3am and all of a sudden the car was in the centre ditch part about to smack the safety barrier when I corrected it.
Learnt my lesson that night.

bear1 · 01-01-2017 07:53PM

Esel wrote: »

Glenmacnass waterfall.

Shivers..

picturehangup · 07-01-2017 02:03AM

After my second baby, I suffered a post-partum haemorrhage. Could feel something pulling me down, down and down further, like I was sinking in quicksand. In my mind, these horrible plants with tentacles were pulling me down even further. Next thing I knew emergency bells were ringing and there was at least 12 medics around my bed hooking me up to lines of all sorts. Felt so sorry for the lady Obstetric Doc, who could not hide the shock registered on her face when she saw how much I had lost. It was on the floor, everywhere. Poor woman was about six months preggers herself.
My question.. I could see no light at the end of the tunnel. Was I going to hell? I am not that bad of a person, prob some kind of hallucination associated with the blood loss, but I certainly felt I was on the way out, and to me, it was a near-death experience. Still terrifies me to think about it.

campo · 07-01-2017 02:20AM

picturehangup wrote: »

After my second baby, I suffered a post-partum haemorrhage. Could feel something pulling me down, down and down further, like I was sinking in quicksand. In my mind, these horrible plants with tentacles were pulling me down even further. Next thing I knew emergency bells were ringing and there was at least 12 medics around my bed hooking me up to lines of all sorts. Felt so sorry for the lady Obstetric Doc, who could not hide the shock registered on her face when she saw how much I had lost. It was on the floor, everywhere. Poor woman was about six months preggers herself.
My question.. I could see no light at the end of the tunnel. Was I going to hell? I am not that bad of a person, prob some kind of hallucination associated with the blood loss, but I certainly felt I was on the way out, and to me, it was a near-death experience. Still terrifies me to think about it.

No such place but anyway near death experience I told Mrs Campo I be home from pub at 9pm but did not arrive back till 11.30pm once .....now that was hell

uch · 07-01-2017 02:26AM

I had one when It was about 86, it was when having a 'Few' pints and driving was acceptable, the brother had a Mini, and the women were loving us, so he decided to bring everyone to Johnny Foxes, now the roads at that time were shíte, anyway he piled about 9 people into a Mini and off we went, and me being only a slip of a thing at the time, I had to lie across the Girls sitting in the back, anyway if you remember the old Leopardstown road, we were coming back from Lamb Doyles and met a Bus, the brother decided it was best to go faster, we met the side of the Bus at about 55mph, but my head was lying on that side, the bus took the wing, door and back window off the Mini and when he eventually stopped, me hair was like I was after getting off a motorbike without a helmet

Capt'n Midnight · 07-01-2017 02:42AM

Nose full of ammonia so breathing reflex stopped for a minute or so, a bit like being winded.
It also meant I couldn't call for help which was worrying.
Weird.

Stovepipe · 08-01-2017 03:51AM

I crashed a light aircraft (absolutely smashed it to bits) and as it tumbled to the ground, having struck a tree, I thought I was done for. Hit hard, briefly blacked out and came to, sitting in the wreckage. Felt like it took for ever to happen, as I was going through the event. I suffered a compression fracture of my T5 and Doc reckoned I was within a centimetre of paralysis.

Melisandre121 · 09-01-2017 04:39AM

My dad had a seizure once and smacked his head off the concrete ground, he went into a coma after and was out for a while but he said he can't recall how long exactly.

He said he can't remember seeing anything but he felt a sense of pure bliss and happiness and like he could do "anything he wanted". When he awoke he said he was annoyed to be back. I asked did he think maybe there were drugs in his system in the hospital while
he was unconscious but he said they hadn't given him anything.

Maybe there's an explanation, either way I find it interesting!

cerastes · 09-01-2017 05:15AM

Stovepipe wrote: »

I crashed a light aircraft (absolutely smashed it to bits) and as it tumbled to the ground, having struck a tree, I thought I was done for. Hit hard, briefly blacked out and came to, sitting in the wreckage. Felt like it took for ever to happen, as I was going through the event. I suffered a compression fracture of my T5 and Doc reckoned I was within a centimetre of paralysis.

Had a few near misses in the last few years, Thankfully can't say I've been in an aircraft crash, having similar experiences to other posts, first thing to mind reading this was, well that didn't happen me And, lucky any fuel remaining didn't burn given you were incapacitated due to unconciousness.
Nearly got hit by a car in the snow, think it was 82 I a kid, never told my mother, I think me and the driver shat ourselves, had some close calls with traffic and cycling growing up and as a young adult, was hit once by a car on a hardshoulder(got glanced, so not a full on smack but the car was going fast and I went flying), got hit by a car on my motorbike a few years ago,car drove into me in my lane, still never told my mother! was briefly out cold, some gaps, and a lot of bad pain since. Last year collapsed and was given cpr, more or less told I was dead and I'm lucky to be alive, Dr seemed astonished when I went to the review, my understanding is I came back when defibrillated but only after they tried cpr for a while, can't remember any of it or the lead up to it,

learn_more · 09-01-2017 05:34AM

I don't think any of the posts so far, cute as they are, match what is considered a Near Death Experience

An I nearly died experience is not quite the same thing.

learn_more · 09-01-2017 05:39AM

Melisandre121 wrote: »

My dad had a seizure once and smacked his head off the concrete ground, he went into a coma after and was out for a while but he said he can't recall how long exactly.

He said he can't remember seeing anything but he felt a sense of pure bliss and happiness and like he could do "anything he wanted". When he awoke he said he was annoyed to be back. I asked did he think maybe there were drugs in his system in the hospital while
he was unconscious but he said they hadn't given him anything.

Maybe there's an explanation, either way I find it interesting!

My dad used to do long distance driving for a living. He'd just drive a vehicle down to a garage that someone wanted to buy, the drive taking something between 3 to 6 hours depending on.

One day when in transit he said he felt this lovely warm feeling come over him. That's was because he had fallen asleep when driving. Thankfully he woke and nothing happened. Learned his lesson.

Point is , the brain has ways of making you feel things, lovely things; which don't depend on an afterlife or anything superstitious.

Graces7 · 09-01-2017 05:40AM

learn_more wrote: »

I don't think any of the posts so far, cute as they are, match what is considered a Near Death Experience

An I nearly died experience is not quite the same thing.

As the thread starter.. Near death has many forms.One was almost being creamed by a racing tanker. Many others in the thread.

Jerome77 · 09-01-2017 05:41AM

Injecting heroin / cocaine on my own, came close to death many times. Glad to be free of it all now.

FanadMan · 09-01-2017 06:04AM

When I was a kid and was learning to swim, was in the sea using a lump of polystyrene as a float. Got caught in a current and was pulled further out to sea and towards rocks. I panicked and let go of the float. I remember sinking and choking badly and then nothing. My older brother and aunt who were good strong swimmers spotted me and managed to drag me to shore and clear my lungs.

Was back in the sea a few days later but did finally learn to swim! Was nearly 40 years ago but remember it so clearly.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-01-2017 10:24AM

Graces7 wrote: »

As the thread starter.. Near death has many forms.One was almost being creamed by a racing tanker. Many others in the thread. Also the hyphen makes the difference!

You can't consider a close shave in the car, where no collision took place and nobody was injured in the slightest to be a near-death experience. That's like when one of my children used to cry because she "nearly fell".

Near-death (hyphenated or not) is not near-misses.

Graces7 · 09-01-2017 12:46PM

FanadMan wrote: »

When I was a kid and was learning to swim, was in the sea using a lump of polystyrene as a float. Got caught in a current and was pulled further out to sea and towards rocks. I panicked and let go of the float. I remember sinking and choking badly and then nothing. My older brother and aunt who were good strong swimmers spotted me and managed to drag me to shore and clear my lungs.

Was back in the sea a few days later but did finally learn to swim! Was nearly 40 years ago but remember it so clearly.

Terrifying and you were so lucky.

My first ever panic attack was while swimming in a river. Nearly drowned. Realised later that it was a flashback to my brother drowning a few years earlier; the setting of river and trees and mountains was almost identical.

Near -death experiences..

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