Have you ever had a near-death experience?

By "near death experience" do you mean tunnels and God and sh-t, or do you mean something like The Tractor And The Snail story above?

Yeah more than 1!

When I was young I was following my mate cycling around and he obviously saw a chance to pull out into traffic from the curb. I followed blindly and 'SCREEECH', a transit was right up my arse and the bloke gave me a right earful bout how I should be dead if only he didn't jam on the brakes.

That wasn't the scariest. I was only 12 or 13 then. A couple years ago rented a van to drive to London. needed to pull in to look at map just before Liverpool. Saw a hard shoulder, slowed a bit, pulled in, lashed on the brakes, skidded the last 5 meters till I hit where the hard shoulder was finished in a curb cutting back on to the main motorway, if u know what I mean. 2 seconds of quiet, then a massive juggernaut whooshed past probably 3 meters away. I should be brown bread If not for lady luck.

Moral of the story: 1 look before you leap and 2 don't be intimated by anyone or anything on the road(or elsewhere for that matter!), slow right the fcuk down as much as you need to even if u feel like you're in the way

J. Marston wrote: »

Nah, I thought I was dying or dead when I had sleep paralysis though. I was 15 and hadn't a clue what was going on, scary.

Has happened to me also at least 5 times wen I was younger.. very scary. I used to force my body to stay awake thru it an then I d get up an pinch myself or pour water on my face to make sure I wasn dreaming... has happened in round 8 yrs tho

When I was about seven we were waiting to cross a main road. I incorrectly thought my parents had started to cross so I stepped into the road, and suddenly realised vehicles were bearing down on me. I then just ran blindly across in terror, just managing to avoid getting run down by some sort of van.

When I was about 20 I was waiting to cross a main road. I was at traffic lights in central London. A car stopped so I assumed the light had turned red and I started to cross. I missed being bashed by a bus by a couple of centimetres.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

That's fuckin scary.

You okay now?

My left hand and leg are still a bit off but other than that sound thanks.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I've had mental health issues throughout my formative years and beyond. On January 6th 2006 I took my mothers handbag and made a noose out of it and attached it from an outside swing we had. I remember pondering before I jumped from the perch the finality of it all.

The initial physical aspect of the event was quite horrific, the jump i had gauged was not sufficient. I remember a death like grip on my throat before the blackness. When I woke up I was in Nenagh hospital in the company of my parents, I made a bad choice that night, no matter how bad you feel its always worth continuing.

****, glad your ok man. And you r right, it is always best to continue......

I ran out of McDonald's one day, I nearly died when I had to get up and buy more, does that count #fattyinmickyds

I've had a few! Was putting together a huge chandelier in work one day, was hanging 12 foot up, weighed 70 kilos and had pointy glass drops on it. I was on a ladder under it, customer called me and literally as soon as I'd taken my foot off the last rung of the ladder the chandelier fell and smashed into smithereens. Everyone said if I'd still been under it I'd have been killed.
Few weeks later in the same job a huge chunk of concrete fell from the original ceiling and just missed me.
I was starting to wonder did someone have it in for me by that stage!
Oh,and I nearly drowned in an aqua park in Spain, lifeguard took ages to save me!
Think that's them all..

In Malta a few years back, the car I was travelling in nearly got smushed by a lorry. Luckily the car stalled and the truck missed us. Was only recently myself and my friend talked about it.

Was knocked down by a car and have no recollection of the impact but waking up in my homeplace and being brought to hospital.