Yamuna S Probable NDE

Experience Description

My experience happened during a seizure in the middle of the night in September 2013. The seizure was caused due to a blood clot in the left frontal lobe of my brain. I saw myself in the mirror with a single streak of blood flowing from the right corner of my lips. I had bitten my tongue into two pieces during the seizure. I felt no pain and I was calm and quiet. I was not in my body and was seeing from above. Then I saw my body sitting in the left front seat of our red car. My husband was driving through a huge, black steel gate and stopped in front of a building complex.

A few moments later, I floated down from bright light into a place with white curtains and many partitions. I see that the light is still bright, like it is the only presence around and it is everywhere. I moved from one corner of the wall, went around and then settled in one spot. I was seeing all that is happening, but not through my eyes. A lean man with wires and tubes all over his body was looking at me. I was thinking, 'Why this man is staring at me?' and sensed that he was in the ICU for renal failure. I slowly started to feel my eyes, mouth and my physical body. At that time, a person dressed in white was brushing my teeth and wiping my mouth with a cotton swab. I realized that I was in the ICU of some hospital and that the person attending to me was a nurse. My body mildly shook and I asked the nurse, 'Where am I? Why am I here?'

The nurse immediately called the doctors and informed them that I had regained consciousness. After the initial check-ups, my husband came and I immediately hugged him. I had tears in my eyes as I said,'I am back. No need to worry anymore.' My husband is not able to recall me saying this, so I assume that I must have felt that way. Then the rest of my family came and my children ran to me. After the initial meeting, they were worried about the way I talked and how my tongue looked. They very gently held my tongue together for a few seconds every time they visited me in the hospital.

My husband did not tell me anything other than I had seizures in the middle of the night and we went to the hospital. I did not want him to recall an unpleasant situation and make him remember his fear of losing me. He told me that I was not responding and was in a semi-coma state for almost a day. The medical reports said the same. The clot dissolved on its own and the bloodflow resumed by itself. Although they had medicated me to bring me into a normal active state.

I am trying to remember what happened after I saw everything from above until I floated down from the bright light. I do not remember or recall any of the in-between. I do not fear death. Dying is peaceful, calm and I felt absolutely no pain. I only fear not coming back to the same body and this life. I strongly believe and sense that I came back because I do not want to let go of this body and this life because of my husband and my children.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date NDE Occurred: September, 2013

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Illness Life threatening event, but not clinical death. A blood clot in the brain and epileptic seizures

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

Did you feel separated from your body? Yes I saw myself wearing a yellow dress. My husband changed me into that dress to take me to the hospital from the nightdress I was wearing. The patient opposite my bed in the ICU was there for kidney failure. 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

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? When I saw everything from above and seeing the bright light before reaching my body.

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. Everything was happening at the same time for a few seconds. I was out of my body compared to my medical records, that says I was not responding for almost a day.

Were your senses More vivid than usual? More vivid than usual

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I could see everything clearly though I did not feel my eyes or body

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I do not remember hearing anything

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? An unusually bright light

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? Calm, peaceful, no pain and no confusion at all.

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

Did you have a feeling of joy? No

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? I felt no longer in conflict with nature

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? Everything about myself or others. I understood what is dying and beyond death.

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? I came to a definite conscious decision to return to life I do not fear death. Dying is peaceful, calm and absolutely no pain. I only fear for not coming back to the same body and this life. I strongly believe and sense that I came back because I do not want to let go of this body and this life because my husband and my children know me in this body.

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Select Spiritual

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes I have learned SKY yoga, arising kundalini and practicing vipassana.

What is your religion now? Spiritual

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 I do not fear death. The universe is taking care of me.

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? An afterlife definitely exists. I was alive and was watching what was happening

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? Large changes in my life. I am always spiritual. I always believed there is a superpower guiding me. The universe sends signals and takes care of me at different stages of my life.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes It is definitely changed for the better. I have accepted living in the present life. I have started to explore more to attain awareness and being in the present.

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 do not know how my remembrance of the experience compares to my remembrance of other life events

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Uncertain my friends who come for specific advice and help with their life situation. They tell me that they got clarity after speaking to me.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Clarity about death. Life after death. Uncertainty about, returning to the same body and life.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes My husband. He did not want me to talk about this incident. Now he understands and accepts the truth of death. He is overwhelmed with my experience.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Uncertain Sometime in 1996, I was jumping over the waves in the Bay of Bengal with few of my college friends. I was taken in by a strong wave and felt shortness of breath and rapidly sucked into a spiral tunnel and passed out. When I woke up, I was on the beach coughing and spitting water and my friends helped me up my feet. I did not share this with anybody, as I was afraid about the tunnel and passing out. For a split second, I thought that I was dead.

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real. I know it was real. I tried to remember all of it. I don't remember entering or being in the bright light. All I remember is floating down from the bright light when I was let go to return to my body.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real. Death is pleasant. There is life after death. Only the body dies, the soul(life) does not die.

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? no

Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? not sure.