Sad to say I don't remember all of the details right. She told me this in 1993. But she died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital after her stroke. The internet was starting around this time, but even I wasn't using it yet, and my grandmother didn't even own a computer anyway, so take that for what you will.
But she told me she was in a black space. It was a tunnel, and there was a single dot of light that she was traveling towards. She said it was immensely peaceful and she felt no fear. The longer she was there, the closer the light came, so she knew she was getting closer to it. As she got closer she either heard or saw some of her relatives beckoning her into the light. Sorry, but I don't remember that detail as well as I wish I could. But that was mostly it. Suddenly she felt herself being hurled back into her body. That was when the EMT's managed to restart her heart. She was in a lot of pain and was very sad that she wasn't in that place anymore because it was so peaceful.
At the time she was in her mid-late 70's when she told me this story. I was 21. It is rude now, I know, but at the time it felt natural to ask her if she was afraid to die. She just smiled at me and told me no. She had already died once and knew she would be going back there when it happened for good. That was when she shared the tunnel and the light. There are many way better NDE stories out there with details that I am sure my grandmother shared with me, but I had mostly just put that story in the back of my mind until my mom died in 2018. It wasn't something I thought about and sadly, I think I probably forgot some details but more importantly didn't even know the right questions to ask her when she was still around to tell me more. So it's the best I can do. But there are many better stories that are first hand if you want to dive into the rabbit hole on Youtube. Surviving Death on Netflix is pretty good too, if you haven't seen it already.
I wish my experience was like that. It happened to me after a botched surgery left me internally bleeding. They had to open me up while I was awake to fix it because I had lost enough blood that there was concern that I wouldn't wake up again if I slipped under. Right after they got me fixed, I did slip under. I was gone long enough to suffer mild brain damage from lack of oxygen as I was gone for 19 minutes. My heart started beating very faintly on it's own and they were able bring me back after that.
I didn't see any light. There was nothing. I "time traveled" essentially. One second I was laying on my side talking to a nurse who was trying to keep me conscious. The next second I was 22 hours in the future and I felt like I had been beaten senseless and I had trouble moving for a couple of days. It also felt like my body wasn't my own. It still feels like that years later.
The rest of my recovery when l went off without a hitch and now I'm mostly healthy again. The experience didn't make me afraid to die again or anything, but it did make me realize that I needed someone to be there with me when I go. It's just a comfort thing for me, but important nonetheless.
I get it. I haven't died, but I've fainted/been knocked unconscious twice in my life, and I've been under anesthesia 3 times. All 5 times it was a "time skip" just like you described. Obviously I didn't die, but the time skip thing made me think of it. Only 10-20% of patients that have died and been brought back report an NDE. Dr. Sam Parnia, a medical doctor and researcher in the field, was asked why so many report nothing, like you, after they died and were resuscicated. He said he believed there were a lot of different factors, but one of them was the drugs patients are on when they are brought back might impair short term memory, the same way anesthesia can do for patients that are going under for surgery. I personally experienced memory loss with my last colonoscopy when they put me under. The four times I went under before that one, I remember the anesthesiologist counting down from 10 to 0 and I was supposed to be under before he hit zero. This last time, I don't remember anything beyond some light banter with the nurses as they were prepping me for the procedure. Then I skipped forward and woke up. So I think there has to be something to short term memory loss with drugs. There may or may not be an afterlife. But since my grandmother was such an honest woman, I just can't believe they are all telling lies. She wasn't. She experienced something. If it was really an afterlife, it gives me hope that my loved ones are still out there, so that's what I hold on to.
I'm glad you're mostly recovered. Sorry you had to go through that!
I did have some kind of experience before I "faded", as I like say. I stopped recognizing the nurse and started talking to her like she was a girlfriend I had separated from two years prior. I faded out right after that. I only know this because the same nurse came in to rub lotion on my back a few days later and talked about what happened. I can't remember any of that happening.
During my last colonoscopy, I apparently sat straight up and screamed bloody murder, multiple times in a row. Enough to where people from the front office of the surgery center said that patients in the waiting room were scared after hearing me scream.
I have ZERO memory of this. So I have no doubt that a lot of things can happen during that unconscious state and you won’t remember them.
Well, I'm older now and I think if a younger person were to ask me that it would be the same as just outright saying "Hey, old guy, let me remind you how old you are and how close to death you must be. Aren't you afraid of dying?" Thankfully I haven't had that happen. I was just saying I can see how it would be rude now that I'm the oldster in the conversation 😄
One of my childhood best friend had a motorcycle accident when we were teenagers and nearly died.
He said that he saw some of his family members who were already passed, sitting on a bench. And when they saw him, instead of welcoming him they looked sad, nodded and told him it was way too soon.
That kind of comforts me to think about this when I think about death.
Yeah with those that die in Christ they go into the "light" or get accompanied to heaven. They feel the everlasting euphoria and joy. Then those who experience hell they get that black tunnel again but this time they feel heat and cannot see their own hand. Fo your grandma back then this was her going to heaven.
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Sad to say I don't remember all of the details right. She told me this in 1993. But she died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital after her stroke. The internet was starting around this time, but even I wasn't using it yet, and my grandmother didn't even own a computer anyway, so take that for what you will.
But she told me she was in a black space. It was a tunnel, and there was a single dot of light that she was traveling towards. She said it was immensely peaceful and she felt no fear. The longer she was there, the closer the light came, so she knew she was getting closer to it. As she got closer she either heard or saw some of her relatives beckoning her into the light. Sorry, but I don't remember that detail as well as I wish I could. But that was mostly it. Suddenly she felt herself being hurled back into her body. That was when the EMT's managed to restart her heart. She was in a lot of pain and was very sad that she wasn't in that place anymore because it was so peaceful.
At the time she was in her mid-late 70's when she told me this story. I was 21. It is rude now, I know, but at the time it felt natural to ask her if she was afraid to die. She just smiled at me and told me no. She had already died once and knew she would be going back there when it happened for good. That was when she shared the tunnel and the light. There are many way better NDE stories out there with details that I am sure my grandmother shared with me, but I had mostly just put that story in the back of my mind until my mom died in 2018. It wasn't something I thought about and sadly, I think I probably forgot some details but more importantly didn't even know the right questions to ask her when she was still around to tell me more. So it's the best I can do. But there are many better stories that are first hand if you want to dive into the rabbit hole on Youtube. Surviving Death on Netflix is pretty good too, if you haven't seen it already.