Have you ever had a near-death experience?

Biggins · 26-02-2012 03:20PM

A number of times I have been close to death - but sadly for Fianna Fail and others, I'm still here to be a thorn in their side!

kylith · 26-02-2012 03:21PM

Nearly drowned when I was about 4 when I jumped into a pool without my armbands. The lifeguard never saw me, but I managed to grab onto one of the other kids in my class, who kept trying to kick me off, and me there shotuing 'I'm drowning!' at him.

I used to get really bad tonsilitis as a kid, had a temperature over 104F once, and felt like I was floating. Another degree or so and I'd have gotten brain damage. I really don't miss my tonsils; little feckers were always trying to kill me.

TeddyTedson · 26-02-2012 03:23PM

I went to an boards beers a while back. I was wearing my skinny jeans. I walked in looking a bit lost and Degsy said to me, "you here for the boards beers boss?". Quickly realising I was the only one wearing them I just said, "No I'm just leaving, I was here with a few friends watching the match".
Got a taxi straight home and cried myself to sleep.

Pandora2 · 26-02-2012 03:36PM

Walked around with a clot in my lung for the gut's of a week....collapsed in the street and came to in A&E with an elephant sitting on my chest.....or that's what it felt like:eek::eek::eek:

Also had a post op haemhorrage (spelling?? Close enough;)), was the verge of a stroke, they told me later....stilll remember the nurses literally squeezing the bag of blood to speed up the process.....:eek:

Gotta say this Boardsie would not be here if it weren't for the the HSE, for all its faults!!

HAAA! HAAA! · 26-02-2012 03:46PM

Prof Pim VanLommel
(Lancet, Vol. 358, 15 December 2001, p 2039)

Life after death and all that lark.
Probably worth a look.
Just saying.

'Today I died' documentary is interesting too (but a bit weak).

And theres some highfalutin scientist wan on TED talks (big smarty pants convention) too who had a brain hemorrhage and died and what she describes is pretty amazing. Can't think of her name.

NDE's (and the whole mind vs brain thing) although controversial can no longer be whimsically written of as just airy fairy bullshyt, too much evidence and too many notable scientists at this stage.

Cynics must actually take time out and properly examine it now, the logic hammer can't crack it in one blow. Win or lose, that puts it in a different league to little green men and Elvis' resurrection.

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

Pandora2 · 26-02-2012 03:52PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I went to an boards beers a while back. I was wear my skinny jeans. I walked in looking a bit lost and Degsy said to me, "you here for the boards beers boss?". Quickly realising I was the only one wearing them I just said, "No I'm just leaving, I was here with a few friends watching the match".
Got a taxi straight home and cried myself to sleep.

Awww Teddy.......don't blame you......skinny jeans are sooooooooooo last Year!!;)

Pandora2 · 26-02-2012 03:54PM

HAAA! HAAA! wrote: »

Prof Pim VanLommel
(Lancet, Vol. 358, 15 December 2001, p 2039)

Life after death and all that lark.
Probably worth a look.
Just saying.

'Today I died' documentary is interesting too (but a bit weak).

And theres some highfalutin scientist wan on TED talks (big smarty pants convention) too who had a brain hemorrhage and died and what she describes is pretty amazing. Can't think of her name.

NDE's (and the whole mind vs brain thing) although controversial can no longer be whimsically written of as just airy fairy bullshyt, too much evidence and too many notable scientists at this stage.

Cynics must actually take time out and properly examine it now, the logic hammer can't crack it in one blow. Win or lose, that puts it in a different league to little green men and Elvis' resurrection.

Thank you.
Thank you very much.

Provocative Username....it took me 3/4 looks to realise that you were Thanking my post and not laughing at it!!:D:D

minidazzler · 26-02-2012 03:55PM

Me and my cousin played hangman for real before, we were around 8 and I was standing on a crate with a noose around my neck and got the word wrong, she kicked the crate and I dangled for a little while then my mam just happened to see me because she had been in the front room and we were out the back. My cousin had run away and if my mam didn't come out when she did I wouldn't be alive.

Another time I was quad biking up in Tipperary on a track. I lost control and didn't take my thumb off the throttle so I went straight into barriers at really high speed. I was knocked unconscious for about 2 minutes and when I came around I was completely dazed and confused but I continued on and finished the track. When I got off the quad I fell to the floor and couldn't stand.

Fight_Night · 26-02-2012 04:01PM

Don't know if it was a near death experience per se, but I was kidnapped when I was 3 years old. Has left me with several mental problems unfortunately...

Canard · 26-02-2012 04:07PM

The standard running across the road and almost drowning in a pool, yeah.

It only really occured to me how bad this other one was when I read about a girl from Waterford who died from a sudden, random asthma attack. Like her, I'd never had one before and I wasnt even suffering from the symptoms at the time, but I woke up in the middle of the night totally not able to breathe (apparently you can usually spot when theyre coming through shortness of breath, but obviously not if you're asleep). All I remember was making really weird noises and running to the bathroom in panic and leaning over the toilet in case I was going to get sick or something, that motion must have done something because I started breathing again. I didnt even have my inhalers because I was at a friend's house...I could easily have just not started breathing again. :eek:

HAAA! HAAA! · 26-02-2012 04:22PM

Pandora2 wrote: »

Provocative Username....it took me 3/4 looks to realise that you were Thanking my post and not laughing at it!!:D:D

Yeah i think the username has to go, it was influenced by nelson muntz in a moment of madness but i don't think it really works.

JohnCleary · 26-02-2012 04:30PM

Yes and no....

A car drove over me a couple of years ago breaking my spine... I was laying face down at the time of impact. Had I been lying the other way round (face up), the car would have crushed my vital organs, and would have been mince meat (literately) - that would have been a nasty clean-up operation!

aaronjumper · 26-02-2012 05:35PM

Two car crashes and a near decapitation by digger. It was then I realised I am indestructible. Or very lucky.

Also they happened on different days.

df1985 · 26-02-2012 06:20PM

Glad youre all still with us folks, some scary stories!

Mines more a preminition if you want to call it that more than a near death experience. My mother was native of Galway and regularly travlled down to visit her mother. Id always go with her as a child.

When i was 11, it was planned we were going down one weekend. The morning of going for some reason I point blank refused to get in the car with my mam.I told her id a bad feeling,she thought i was being a brat but no amount of arguing would get me into the car and she angrily left me with the neighbours for the day.

She was driving home that night near athlone when a bull bolted out of a field and took the entire passenger side of the front out where id be sitting. if i had got in that car god knows if id be dead or have been severly injured.

luckyfrank · 26-02-2012 06:25PM

Im dying for more drink NOW

cocoshovel · 26-02-2012 06:30PM

Closest Ive had was when I had no clear view of the road, and went to run across it when I was about 11. Car skidded to stop only about 1ft from me. My reaction was to close my eye, cover my ears and crouch down :pac: I dont know why I did that.
I suppose it wasnt much of a near death experience as it probably wouldnt have killed me. Nothing flashed before my eyes or any of that other stuff people say you see before you die.
Just really shaky after it due to shock I guess.

charlemont · 26-02-2012 06:34PM

Waking up in a burning room was possibly the closest I got to death, 2 or 3 minor car accidents, Got a few bad beatings too and a guy dropped a rock at my head and missed by inches the same **** went on to stab someone to death few years later. Actually the guy he killed saved me another time when I was so drunk I fell back on a concrete stairwell and he caught me by the head just in time.

dee. · 26-02-2012 06:43PM

When I was about 10 I was cycling my bike around the estate one night, wind blowing in my hair and pretending I was in a music video...then a car came around the corner really fast and almost hit me.

The guy driving the car asked me out about 8 years later, although I said no..think I was still too traumatized from the whole incident!

BrokenArrows · 26-02-2012 06:51PM

Ive done plenty of things which if they hadn't worked out I could have potentially died but nothing so serious where I was in hospital.

One of the stupidest things I agreed to do was to fix a windmill attached to an underground pump which brought water to the surface (was in australia). One of these. Link

The connection from the spinning bit to the underground bit had broken so i had to climb up the thing and stop the windmill from spinning by manually rotating it out of the wind and then strapping it down. It was fairly windy day so it was spinning like a mother ****er so had the wind changed while I was at the top I would have been ****ed.

But I got down and all went well. Then had to climb up after it had been fixed and unstrap it. lol.

Wibbs · 26-02-2012 07:08PM

Yep, had the whole out of body thang too. Very bloody odd. Didn't see any tunnel of light though that's not surprising for me

cocalolaman · 26-02-2012 08:19PM

A few close drowning scares when I was younger and went too far into the water at the beach or in a swimming pool. Also a few bad asthma attacks like others in this thread but apparently not bad enough to be in hospital for. Once I get to an inhalor I'd be grand. Have to keep it around me more often now though cos for some reason my asthma got really bad this winter, but now it's getting better as spring starts. Anyone else get this, or is it just me?

Fizgig Bandicoot · 26-02-2012 08:57PM

Swallowed the metal bit off a clothes peg when I was a toddler and turned blue, but was belted on the back when found, and suffered no ill effects.

A few years ago, I choked in my kitchen (bf and friend were watching telly in the sitting rom.) I panicked and was thumping around the kitchen trying to cough it up. All I could think was "I can't believe that I'm going to die in my kitchen and those eejits have no idea what's happening to me." Managed to make it to the loo, coughed it up, and puked everywhere, lay there for a while completly floored.

Went into the sitting room and regaled the story of what must only have been a minute or two but felf like such a long time, and both seemed extremely unconcerned.

Some very, very scary stories on here, mine are very tame in comparison.

DevilsBreath · 26-02-2012 09:00PM

Fight_Night wrote: »

Don't know if it was a near death experience per se, but I was kidnapped when I was 3 years old. Has left me with several mental problems unfortunately...

Christ what happened?

DevilsBreath · 26-02-2012 09:02PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Yep, had the whole out of body thang too. Very bloody odd. Didn't see any tunnel of light though that's not surprising for me

Ye went for surgery before and was able to tell the Doc exactly what they had been talking about and doing after. Was strange as if I was floating above them during the whole thing.

Schorpio · 26-02-2012 09:13PM

Always the first thing I think of when thinking about near death experiences....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdGKeQph-Q

Foghladh · 26-02-2012 09:26PM

I took a nosedive out of a second storey window when I was 3 and faceplanted the concrete patio. I ended up on a life support machine with a fractured skull and apparently it wasn't looking good. My parents were told to say their goodbyes and the catholic priest came in to do his bit. I got confirmed in my bed and was given the last rites. 2 weeks later I was hauled down off the garage roof by my dad after climbing up a tree and jumping across onto it. Apparently I don't learn lessons very well.

ThOnda · 26-02-2012 10:30PM

On Thursday evening, a speeding BMW on M50 (he was doing 140+) shot in front of me over all the lines to get into the slip lane. That car missed me by less then a meter.
Trust me, I was shaking two hours later, and I am already well used to surprises on Irish roads.

leggo · 26-02-2012 10:51PM

Actually had my life flash before my eyes when I was around 9-10. I was swimming in the aquatic centre in Galway City (forget the name) except the problem was...I couldn't swim. But I was grand messing around with the lads in the shallow end.

They went off to another section of the pool and, being the dozy little twat that I was, I followed and bombed in after them. Only then did I realise I was in the deep end.

I started panicking and waiting for someone to do something...nothing. Probably only a minute or two passed, but it felt like an age. Then I could feel myself lose control, let go and I could literally visualise my memories as if they were a DVD (or VHS in those days) being fast-forwarded really quickly. Now I don't know how to explain it, I was aware of the phrase 'life flashing before your eyes' so maybe it was a brain reflex thing, but I still remember the visual to this day.

Then I was awoken being shaken down by the lifeguards, looked to my left and saw a bunch of adult lads laughing at me (though it was probably hilarious to see a kid bomb confidently into the pool then nearly kill himself instantly). The lifeguard said he thought I was taking the piss, since I'd jumped in so readily, and only when one of the lads I was with started to panic and help me did he realise I wasn't.

Not as intense as some of the stories here, but still pretty scary to think back on.

Pandora2 · 26-02-2012 11:22PM

leggo wrote: »

Actually had my life flash before my eyes when I was around 9-10. I was swimming in the aquatic centre in Galway City (forget the name) except the problem was...I couldn't swim. But I was grand messing around with the lads in the shallow end.

They went off to another section of the pool and, being the dozy little twat that I was, I followed and bombed in after them. Only then did I realise I was in the deep end.

I started panicking and waiting for someone to do something...nothing. Probably only a minute or two passed, but it felt like an age. Then I could feel myself lose control, let go and I could literally visualise my memories as if they were a DVD (or VHS in those days) being fast-forwarded really quickly. Now I don't know how to explain it, I was aware of the phrase 'life flashing before your eyes' so maybe it was a brain reflex thing, but I still remember the visual to this day.

Then I was awoken being shaken down by the lifeguards, looked to my left and saw a bunch of adult lads laughing at me (though it was probably hilarious to see a kid bomb confidently into the pool then nearly kill himself instantly). The lifeguard said he thought I was taking the piss, since I'd jumped in so readily, and only when one of the lads I was with started to panic and help me did he realise I wasn't.

Not as intense as some of the stories here, but still pretty scary to think back on.

Feckin' Intense Enough for me!! How close would you like to get?? Used to be terrified when it came time for my girls to go swimming without me in tow......I was right to be!! Glad you are still with us:)

up for anything · 26-02-2012 11:50PM

Fight_Night wrote: »

Don't know if it was a near death experience per se, but I was kidnapped when I was 3 years old. Has left me with several mental problems unfortunately...

DevilsBreath wrote: »

Christ what happened?

Please... you can't leave it there.

Have you ever had a near-death experience?

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