Mark B NDE

Experience Description

I was in the hospital for a tonsillectomy. I was anesthesized with an ether drip but the dosage was too high. My heart and breathing stopped. I was clinically dead for around 10 minutes before being revived.

During this time, I was floating away from my body and into a vast opening space, like a gigantic stadium. I was facing downwards. The stadium was beyond any conceivable size with billions of people in the seats. The stadium was rotating around me as I floated down counterclockwise into it. The sound was overpowering. I felt the sound as energy, as well as hearing it. The sound was similar to a 'Shepard's tone,' rising and falling continuously. Later in life, I thought it sounded like the powerful THX Dolby snippet that they play in theaters during the opening movie credits.

For some reason, I understood that the billions of people in the vast stadium were all humans who had lived and died before me. As I got lower and lower into the stadium, I realized it had no bottom, just darkness. As I went into the darkness, I was back in the surgery suite.

Being 8 years old at the time, I thought that was what happened with anesthetics. Until my parents tols me that I had flatlined for at least 10 minutes before being revived.

Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: July 1957

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? No. Surgery-related While under general anesthesia. CPR given Clinical death (cessation of breathing or heart function)

How do you consider the content of your experience? Both pleasant AND distressing

Did you feel separated from your body? No. 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? More consciousness and alertness than normal. It was more real. I still recall it vividly and in absolute detail 67 years after the experience.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? while floating down into the stadium

Were your thoughts speeded up? Faster than usual

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning. I was outside of time and space

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. no comparison. It is like comparing apples to oranges

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I heard very powerful Shepard tones. The sound was more felt than heard, like the THX Dolby music played as movies start

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? Yes more of a downward opening, like a massive bottomless stadium

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? No

Did you see an unearthly light? No

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? No

What emotions did you feel during the experience? confusion mostly

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? No

Did you have a feeling of joy? No

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? No

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? Christian- Protestant

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? No

What is your religion now? Other or several faiths Biocentrist - consciousness exists outside of space and time and created the universe

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was entirely not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience. It was completely outside of all my experiences

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? No

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? No

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? No

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? No

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? No changes in my life

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes at 8 years old, it was beyond my ability to put into words

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. I remember vivid and detailed to this day 67 years later as if it happened this afternoon, especially the sounds

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? No

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? I have dreams which seem more real than my waking existence also occasionally I do lucid dreaming

Have you ever shared this experience with others? No

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? No

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was probably real. I felt curiosity and confusion as to what happened

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real. It was more real than anything which has happened to me since

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

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