Anyone ever have a near-death experience?

Sgt Hartman · 15-01-2014 02:47PM #1

I had a VERY close shave with death back in 2000.
At the time the bypass from the Roxboro Road Limerick to Adare was completed. I was at the top of Carew Park and I decided to cross the road at the entrance to the bypass to the side where the Roxoboro Swimming Pool once was. A Bus Eireann coach was coming down the road to my right hand side.
I thought the bypass hadn't opened yet and assumed that the bus was gonna turn left into Carew Park so I casually walked across the road. To my horror the bus kept coming straight for me and the driver was beeping his horn like crazy at me. I dashed over to the other side as quick as I could and the bus missed me by about one centimetre. I just stood at the side of the road shaking like a leaf. To make me feel worse one or two drivers who saw the incident stopped by me to to call me a "fcukin' gob****e". I was literally one second away from death:(

Anyone else have really close shaves??

Dave H · 15-01-2014 02:49PM

I logged off once and had a near life experience.

Lemsiper · 15-01-2014 02:50PM

Happyman42 · 15-01-2014 02:52PM

Here's what is happening...simples!
http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/scientists-claim-that-quantum-theory-proves-consciousness-moves-to-another-universe-at-death/

35cent · 15-01-2014 02:53PM

I nearly choked to death on a frostie when I was 2.

preston johnny · 15-01-2014 02:56PM

I had a near deaf experience when I got some water in my ear..

nozzferrahhtoo · 15-01-2014 03:02PM

I fell in front of an oncoming truck in cork once over 10 years ago now. I had one of those everything slowing down horror moments where I thought this was it I was going to die.

Clearly I managed to hit the floor and get back up in time to avoid being run over.

I can however report that my final words, or what would have been my final words had I not gotten up in time were... "whhhheeeeeeeeeeee".

I do not know why, but that makes me happy.

Dave H · 15-01-2014 03:03PM

Lemsiper wrote: »

<p>No, Dave, no.</p>

Eh?

To add to the thread, I was driving the Shercock to Cootehill road in Cavan, it's a winding road full of potholes for anyone who doesn't know it. At one of the bends a lorry came belting around the corner, half way across the road. I actually don't remember even thinking, all I remember is my wife going "oh Jesus" and then I dipped the car a bit into the ditch to avoid it. It was a big artic lorry so it would have flattened us no doubt. I drove on to Cootehill and stopped at the petrol station and just started shaking like a leaf.

castletownman · 15-01-2014 03:06PM

I survived an earthquake.

It barely shook the pictures in the hotel room, and I was the only one to feel it, but it made the local Vegas news that morning so it does count.

Phill Ewinn · 15-01-2014 03:08PM

I've had a beer death experience.

gugleguy · 15-01-2014 03:10PM

OP clearly that Bus Eireann Driver and these vulgar motorists did'nt spend enough time playing with dinky toy cars/buses or playing Outrun video game in the arcade. Around that time ofcourse there was a game for real warrior types called carmageddon. This is true: a single Decker green Dublin bus was modelled for this game.

pippip · 15-01-2014 03:10PM

I witnessed one a few years back. At a set of lights I could see the driver in front was trying to get something from passenger side of the car. Anyway lights went green and we both turned onto the bypass. As we drove on I could still see the driver messing about and with that their car started to drift into the on coming lane, there was a few cars coming round the bend further up and only at the last minute did the driver see where they were on the road and dart back across. They had gone so far over they were about to hit mount the footpath on the opposite side. Happened so quickly I didn't even have time to blast my horn.

A few meters on the car pulled into the side of the road. I reckon they got the shock of their life.

Specialun · 15-01-2014 03:15PM

i jumped into a river when 12.I forgot I couldnt swim so had to be rescued and pulled out

Eight Ball · 15-01-2014 03:15PM

Witnessed a woman only 10 feet or so from me pushed in front of a subway train in NY once by a wacko back in the 90's. Shook me up for a long time. The guy didn't know her just said he was sick of living on the streets and wanted to go to prison for life (according to the papers) because it was warm and he'd get food. He nearly didn't make it to prison after the beating he took from other people standing on the platform. So yeah that's as close as I've come or ever want to come to death.

czechlin · 15-01-2014 03:16PM

I almost got ran over by a car once. I was away with the fairies (as one is walking around town...) and wanted to cross the road without even looking. Heard the car coming at the last minute and stepped back quickly cursing my idiotic behavior, the poor driver must have freaked out completely.
I was almost hit by one of those big wheelie bins (containers) while walking from a class. There were two lads pulling it from a lane (side exit of a restaurant) and they lost the thing and were trying to catch it. I was completely oblivious to this as it was happening around a corner so I couldn't see or hear anything. Thankfully the hill wasn't too steep and they caught it as I was passing the lane about 2 meters away from me. It was full so I guess if it didn't kill me it would push me onto the road. We all stopped for a second and then laughed it off.

The worst was when I choked on a vinegar (yeah I know it sounds weird) and just couldn't do anything while my brother and dad chatted away. My brother realized the change of colour in my face and gave me a big pat on the back and sat down and kept talking. It didn't work. I still couldn't breath and thought that it was a really stupid way of dying. He looked again and did one of those moves you see in the movies, which finally worked. I couldn't eat alone at all for about six months afterwards I was so scared.

They all seems quite ridiculous but that really was enough for me.

usersame · 15-01-2014 03:21PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Witnessed a woman only 10 feet or so from me pushed in front of a subway train in NY once by a wacko back in the 90's. Shook me up for a long time. The guy didn't know her just said he was sick of living on the streets and wanted to go to prison for life (according to the papers) because it was warm and he'd get food. He nearly didn't make it to prison after the beating he took from other people standing on the platform. So yeah that's as close as I've come or ever want to come to death.

That's horrific! Would he not have just tried to rob a shop, best case scenario a couple of grand and freedom to live it up for a while, worst case free lodgings and food, he must have really wanted to seal the deal

usersame · 15-01-2014 03:24PM

My friends on a j1 lived in gaff that was next to a train station. I drunkenly wandered into the rail yard and climbed on top of a freight train, sat down and started to finish off a can I was drinking, the train very slowly started to take off, I climbed down and got off easily enough. As timid as it sounds that probably was my closet potential near death experience

Daqster · 15-01-2014 03:24PM

I bring you, Mr Gary Busey:

(NDE experience account at 6min 20sec)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OYiFl5G3A

problemchimp · 15-01-2014 03:27PM

I got stabbed in the neck in London many years ago. It didn't hurt strangely, but I was within minutes of death. I didn't realise how serious it was at the time but really freaked me out when the doctors explained it to me a few days later.

Wibbs · 15-01-2014 03:27PM

Yep and it was well bloody weird I can tell you.

Muise... · 15-01-2014 03:30PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Yep and it was well bloody weird I can tell you.

Well? Tell us so!

pundy · 15-01-2014 03:33PM

i drowned in a swimming pool in spain when i was 11. i had to be revived on the ground beside the pool. it worked anyway, im still alive. but i do remember struggling loads in the water, then just saying to myself "aaaah this isnt too bad" and feeling relaxed and then waking up on the ground getting the kiss of life.

i was out for about 2 minutes though.

Frank Black · 15-01-2014 03:34PM

Probably the time three guys tried to beat the **** out of me for no reason one night - I managed to get away, but sometimes wonder if I hadn't, would I have been punched/kicked multiple times in the head. You hear about that kind of thing leading to someone being killed all the time.

taytobreath · 15-01-2014 03:35PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Witnessed a woman only 10 feet or so from me pushed in front of a subway train in NY once by a wacko back in the 90's. Shook me up for a long time. The guy didn't know her just said he was sick of living on the streets and wanted to go to prison for life (according to the papers) because it was warm and he'd get food. He nearly didn't make it to prison after the beating he took from other people standing on the platform. So yeah that's as close as I've come or ever want to come to death.

Did she survive?

Evelyn Cusack · 15-01-2014 03:38PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Yep and it was well bloody weird I can tell you.

I'd be interested to hear, did you have a spiritual experience?

y0ssar1an22 · 15-01-2014 03:41PM

I once told a friend in study I was going to pretend to choke on a refresher bar. A big chunk accidentally got lodged in my throat. He was sitting there laughing, thinking I was only messing. I couldn't draw breath to cough it out, and was beginning to panic. I stood up clutching my throat trying to get to the supervisor. After about 30 seconds (I don't know how long it actually was) my body, in order in save itself, initiated the gag reflex and I puked everywhere.
Out came the refresher, along with dinner and off to the nurse with me.

Umekichi · 15-01-2014 03:46PM

Nearly drowned in a pool in Pontins Prestatyn when I was 10.
See I was used to pools being marked with lane markers, so I went into the normal pool and while swimming ended up in the deep end. Of course I started panicking and swallowing water etc. Tried calling out to a couple that were near me but they couldn't hear.

I then realised if I bunny hopped towards the bar on the side I would be fine. Did that and refused to go near that pool again

Reedsie · 15-01-2014 03:50PM

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

I once told a friend in study I was going to pretend to choke on a refresher bar. A big chunk accidentally got lodged in my throat. He was sitting there laughing, thinking I was only messing. I couldn't draw breath to cough it out, and was beginning to panic. I stood up clutching my throat trying to get to the supervisor. After about 30 seconds (I don't know how long it actually was) my body, in order in save itself, initiated the gag reflex and I puked everywhere.
Out came the refresher, along with dinner and off to the nurse with me.

That made me laugh.

Sorry.

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-01-2014 03:52PM

I could smell flowers when i had my one

Frank Black · 15-01-2014 03:59PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I could smell flowers when i had my one

Why, did it happen in the local garden center?

Lucena · 15-01-2014 04:00PM

I’ve nearly died a few times.

First time I was around eight and I came tearing out the school gates onto the road, a car came flying by just in front of me. If I’d gone onto the road just a split-second earlier, the car would have ploughed into me.

Second time I nearly got hit by a bus when I walked out into the street without looking (aged 12, so I should have known better)

Third time, this time as an adult, I was standing at a zebra crossing waiting to cross when a lorry came past quite quickly with a load of those metal bars (the ones used to reinforce concrete) sticking out of the side. One of the bars was sticking out a bit more than the others and passed a couple of cms from my head. I got the shock of my life, and judging from the looks of the people around me, it really was a near miss.

Fourth time, I was driving on a twisty, mountainous road, hit a patch of black ice, the car went skidding, hit the side of the road, flipped into the air, flew between two trees with barely enough space to let the car through, spun a couple of times in the air and landed on the wheels in a field below. The slope the car landed on was steep enough, so only for the fact that the car landed on the wheels and broke both axles, it could have rolled for a good hundred metres. I had one small bruise to show for it.

Sometimes you hear about people having a new outlook on life, like a fresh new start, after a near death experience. Just after the car accident, I even expected that I’d feel happy to be alive and thank my blessings, but just a couple of days after, I was back to my usual normal self.

Anyone ever have a near-death experience?

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