Samantha S NDE

Experience Description

That evening, my mother-in-law and her mother were over at my house with my husband and new, baby son. I put our small dog into the area off the kitchen where he slept. I reached over and when I stood up, I felt like something had happened. I began to bleed a small amount. I went to lie down in the bed and elevate my feet. But as time went on, I kept bleeding. It was not fast, but the flow was steady. Meanwhile they were putting things under me to catch any blood, like a towel. About 3 hours later, and we’d gone through all the extra blankets we had, I was passing small clots. So we called the doctor once again and he said to meet him at the hospital emergency room. As I got up off the bed and we walked me slowly into the living room trying to get to the car, I collapsed on the way to the car.

I was no longer in my home. I was in a dark area with nothing around. All of a sudden, on what seemed a wall in the darkness, pictures began to fill in like from a reel of film. The entire area I was looking at, was filled with pictures of me and events in my life. There were hundreds of pictures. What mystified me was that as I looked at them separately or even looking at the entire group, I could feel the emotion attached to every single one of them ALL A ONCE. I can’t explain how to tell you how it happened that I could do that, but I could. I knew every single emotion and experience of the picture and then each one became all of them together. I was able to absorb those feelings all at the same time.

Then I was back on the floor in my home and my family had gotten me into the car. When I got to the emergency room, the doctor came up and lightly pushed on my stomach and a large round blood clot came out. He said, 'Get her into surgery STAT!' And from that moment, everything thereafter was normal. I was in the hospital for a couple of days. They had given me several pints of blood and told me that I was very lucky.

And that’s my experience of which I’ve never forgotten how amazing it was to know the human can see all their life and review it in such a way.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date NDE Occurred: 3/24/1968

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Post Partum for 3 days, bled out at home. Life threatening event, but not clinical death Post partum, after live birth delivery.

How do you consider the content of your experience? Neither pleasant NOR distressing

Did you feel separated from your body? No I lost awareness of my body

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. I believe because I was able to do something that I cannot even imagine doing here in my life.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? Just before I passed out. And then again when I was in this dark area reviewing my life.

Were your thoughts speeded up? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? No

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. Clear as day. Except it was night. Before this experience, I was tired, exhausted and worried.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I heard nothing, it was all visual.

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

Did you see an unearthly light? No

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? A clearly mystical or unearthly realm. It was as if it was spatial not solid, and yet I wasn’t above or below anything.

What emotions did you feel during the experience? It was very calm as the pictures first appeared, and as I began seeing them all I still remained calm, but I knew every one of them was of me as you’d see photos in an album and remember what the circumstance was, where it happened and the feelings attached.

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Relief or calmness

Did you have a feeling of joy? Happiness

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

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? Everything about myself or others I could feel the emotions of every picture, so I’d say it’s as if you are presented snapshots of your entire life and you see it side by side one after the other as on a wall of photographs of you and who, what or when attached and all of a sudden you realize you are capable of feeling them all - feelings of every photo of your life, so you are attaching back to your entire life and you can actually know them all at one time, which seems impossible until it happens and you do it.

Did scenes from your past come back to you? I remembered many past events All the events of my life were in picture from in front of me. I knew as I began looking at them, it was my life photos.

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

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes There more intense now on the spiritual realm - how could it not be.

What is your religion now? Christian- Catholic

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. I never imagine I was capable of such a thing, it was incomprehensible to me that I had that ability.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes I am more in tuned with my soul and that of other soul life on earth in all forms.

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? Yes It was very clear that we have the ability. Or I did, to grasp our entire life and not in hours of looking at it, but in a millisecond of time you absorb it all.

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? Uncertain Well, I didn’t feel pain or sorrow or joy or delight, and yet, those feelings were all entertained as one, so how to explain your ability to feel joy and sorrow or laughter and disdain all at the same moment is hard to explain, but I knew I felt them all at the same time. See it’s hard to explain how that can be, but it was so.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life After this happened some years later, I was obsessed with NDEs and am still. I love reading the stories and believe them. I know there is a different realm of our spiritual life which we are able of soul connection. I believe strongly in soul and that of other souls.

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 Since then I’ve had several dreams and one in particular actually two. When my grandfather died I got the call about it the next day and I was shocked beyond measure because my grandfather hadn’t been sick and I was closest to him than anyone. I cried all day and that night, in my dream I was in a large room of marble while and brown marble and lard ceiling to floor marble columns and I was near one of the columns and my grandfather who looked exactly as I would know him, walked from behind the column and said I’m fine and don’t worry. I love you and we’ll meet again around Easter and then it was over. My birthday is days from Easter and I know that is when I will die and leave this earth; near Easter. The other was more remarkable in a totally different way. It was a dream at night and I was walking up a rounded road on the right going circular path to the right. Looking over the road to the left was a set of homes with window and lights in them and there were people in them and a few cars in the driveway. It was a happy time seeing the scene and as I was walking there was snow on my side and pine trees that I looked over the road but under their limbs. Then suddenly I was about to walk up a few steps to what was a landing area which there was a Male figure (didn’t see a man, but felt Male energy) stepping off the platform passing by me on my left side and I was about to step up on the area he just left. As I did to the left out in the universe was vast area of darkness but something solid so high I couldn’t tell where it ended. It was like the colors of brown, yellow, gold, white as you’d see on a planet. Colors like lines of it here and there intersecting with all these colors. It was beautiful. As i focused on the path ahead of me to walk I could see in the distance on the path sever figures together and they were cloaked in robes of beige and at a far distance there was a dark entrance as if in the side of a mountain and they were heading there as so was I on the same path, which wasn’t straight but a bit curved to the right also not so much as the scene below on the road with the houses. As I looked over the side of the path to the right I realized I was up above a very deep crevice area and I remember saying now I don’t want to go further and then I was on the same path by the houses, but I was not looking anywhere but where I was walking over snow and branches from the pine trees and the road was all curing to the left now and I could tell I was walking down it instead of up. And as I write this I’m as clear now as I was when this dream happened and that was close to 10 or so years ago.

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 sense or feel things attached to people. I have that with animals also

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? The entire experience of almost bleeding to death was a shocking one, and yet there was a sense of calm which makes me wonder if you “know” you are on your mission of death and have resigned to it. The experience of where I was and seeing my life review was a shock but I didn’t feel shocked while there, it was silent and seemed familiar, not unsettling. It was my amazement when I could fee all at once, that occurred but it didn’t shake me to my core, it was “how can this be?”

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes Many people, I wasn’t afraid to share it but it was always with people I knew, not strangers.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Uncertain I never knew anyone who’d gone through it, but read a lot afterwards. And if before the experience I think it was an amazement of so many things we humans don’t know, but learn.

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real It was as real then as it is now. My two dreams and the NDE. I could paint it as clearly as I speak it.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real It’s the very same, it has never changed.

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

Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? I don’t believe so, it’s quite thorough. Thank you for the time to share, as small as it was in comparison to many others.

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