Gary F NDE

Experience Description

I woke in a hospital bed, without the energy to even grow a fingernail. It took me maybe 15 minutes to be able to get the buzzer to alert medical staff of my condition.

They immediately responded with a crash cart and more staff than you could fit into the room. During this early intervention time, I left my body. I didn’t see myself in bed, but I left the body for sure.

I went to a place where I had no body and drifted in space above a hard flat surface. I was a long way off the ground. I was drifting while being suspended but still wide awake and very aware of my surroundings.

I was above a sky filled with individually colored drops like the candy of liquorish or differently colored candies with chocolate inside. There were millions and millions of them coming from the right to the left above me and filling the sky. Actually, they were the sky. Athough I was far above, I could see each one individually as they were pushed or making their way across the sky. I could have watched them for hours and hours.

I could move by just thinking about being somewhere different. The chocolate multi-coloured drops were moving to a point in the sky where they were falling down, like a waterfall. They were dropping from a long way up as a wall of multicolored drops falling into into a large gap in the ground below me.

I moved closer to the edge of the gap and peered over the edge. I couldn’t see a bottom at all, as millions of these candies fell down from the sky to the bottom of the waterfall, somewhere deep below me.

The experience was amazing. I would return to that place today, anytime without hesitation if it was offered to me.

In total, I was away for maybe two or three hours.

I later learned that the medical staff had to remain in my room for the entire morning. Someone was watching me without pause or break for hours and hours.

I didn’t move in my physical body for about four maybe five hours during this medical event.


Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: 2012

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Illness. Life threatening event, but not clinical death. I was in the hospital with a very large Saddle Pulmonary Embolism (Blood clot) lodged between my heart and lungs. A clot of this size and location is nearly always fatal

How do you consider the content of your experience? Entirely pleasant

Did you feel separated from your body? Yes. I clearly left my body and existed outside it

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? Normal consciousness and alertness. There were subtle differences. I was more 'at peace' or more 'connected' to the environment than I would normally feel on Earth.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? The entire time I was away from my body

Were your thoughts speeded up? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning. I thought I had been gone for a short period of time. But it turned out that I was not with my body for hours.

Were your senses More vivid than usual? Incredibly more vivid

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. My vision did change. I could look up into the sky and individually pick out each individual aspect of the sky that I was experiencing.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I didn't hear anything during the time away

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere, as if by ESP? No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? No

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings? No

Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin

Did you see an unearthly light? Yes Not as a bright 'ray of light', but the place I went was lit up enough to see all around.

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? A clearly mystical or unearthly realm. I was weightlessly suspended in the air, but able to move around by just thinking about it. There was no boundary around me in any direction. The 'ground' was clear. The sky was different than anything on Earth, but no hills or other features around me. It seemed to go on forever.

What emotions did you feel during the experience? I felt joy, pleasure, grace, and the experience was humbling.

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Incredible peace or pleasantness

Did you have a feeling of joy? Incredible joy

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? I felt united or one with the world

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? No

Did scenes from your past come back to you? No

Did scenes from the future come to you? No

Did you come to a border or point of no return? No

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Unaffiliated- Nothing in particular- Secular unaffiliated

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes Became much more spiritually attuned.

What is your religion now? Unaffiliated- Nothing in particular- Secular unaffiliated

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was both consistent and not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes A real strong spiritual journey was made obvious to me. Events in my life was all leading to that point in time.

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? No

Did you see deceased or religious spirits? No

Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)? No

During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? Yes Awareness that I was home and that time was no longer a limitation. Things just were.

During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? No

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? No

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? An afterlife definitely exists. Time didn't exist. There was just the feeling of experience. But I did feel 'at home'.

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? No

During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? No

During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes Love was normal and 'Internal'

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life. My Spiritual Journey really started. I was sSeeing the world from a different place

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? No

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? No

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience? I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes I can now talk to spiritual guides via telepathic means. My spiritual guide and I can talk regardless of distance via our minds.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? The entire thing was life changing.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes Shared it directly with my wife.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Yes Internet

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real. My view of 'life' continues to explain this event even today. Reality has developed more and more each day after the experience.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real. No Change

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? No