Robert L FDE

Experience Description

It was a Saturday in June of 1979. I was 17 years old. My friend and I had planned a double-date. We met that Saturday morning and then picked up our girlfriends with his mother's car. We got back to his house and were sitting in the basement when his mother came downstairs. She told us it was time to take the girls home and to come back home with the car.

I later found out that my friend had taken the car on Friday night and that his mom was very mad about that.

We dropped the girls off at their homes and were headed back home. We were sitting at the stoplight when my friend decided to drop the car into low gear while waiting for the green light. He yelled, 'I’m going to blow up the motor!' When he hit the gas, I laughed saying, 'Sure you’re going to blow up the motor.'

We went speeding down the County Road, approaching the high school and the bend in the road. I sat up, looked at him and yelled, 'We’re going to crash!'

The next thing I know, I’m in the air and looking at a square window or possibly a monitor? Everything is black around me. I feel myself standing there, but I can't imagine what my face looks like. It’s me in the screen. The car was speeding down the highway and hit the curb. The car hit the telephone pole hard.

Then I’m thrown back into my body, gasping for air and looking around. I was thinking, 'Oh my god, that just happened!' I started looking around to see where we were. We were sitting in the street. I looked back, behind me, and noticed the indentation from the telephone in the back quarter-panel of the car. My friend was lighting his license on fire. I told him that was foolish. He said, 'You’re right' as he started up the car. We drove about three blocks with two flat tires when the car wouldn’t go any further.

I climbed out of the window on the passenger side of the car. A police officer pulled up to me. While I’m watching him, I notice several other police cars coming up the street. He was yelling at me to leave the scene. I told the officer that I was fine and that I knew I needed to make a statement. Again, he demanded that I leave. As I was walking away, all the other police officers in three or four police cars ran right past me. They didn’t say a word to me and let me leave the scene. I felt like the first police officer had an angelic feeling to him. I remember thinking as he was walking toward me, 'Man, that man is huge!' He had blonde hair and muscles that were just bigger than I’ve seen on any man before.


Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: 1979-june

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Uncertain Accident Other: I was pulled out of my body before the accident. I was the passenger.

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. It’s seemed to be the same

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? Before and after

Were your thoughts speeded up? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? No

Were your senses More vivid than usual? No

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I don’t understand

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Same

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere, as if by ESP? Yes, but the facts have not been checked out

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? 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

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- Catholic My mother was Catholic and she taught me about God. Under that faith, I went for my first communion. When the priest asked me to confess my sins, I told him I would not confess my sins to another man. He got angry and made me leave. That was the last day I was a Catholic. I attended a couple other churches. I had an experience at a Christian church camp where I felt God‘s love for the first time. My faith has grown since then.

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes After going through something like that, you’re definitely going to believe in God

What is your religion now? Christian- Other Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ; he is my savior

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. It definitely made me believe in God because there is no other entity they could do what happened to me that day

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

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? I am uncertain if an afterlife exists

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? Slight changes in my life. Life went on as usual

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? No

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes The experience was very confusing. At 17 I was not real religious. It wasn’t until years later, that I really put it all together.

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. That is odd that I really can’t remember a whole lot about anything around that time, compared to the event that I can remember so clearly

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? No

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes I didn’t start re-living my experience until around 2004/2005. This was when I believe God made it clearer to me what happened

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 definitely real. That it really happened

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real. I still believe that happened and it made my faith stronger in god.

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

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience? I have had other experiences

Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? I think your questions are sufficient