Life After Death/out Of Body Experience

[chrissie1212]

I know this is an age old poser and boring to many, but I am interested to know if any reader has experienced this strange phenomena and what their feelings are about the subject (not necessarily religious). I have a very credible friend who is convinced this happened to him and now has no fear of death and an unshakable belief in an afterlife. What's your take on this?

[jennyjoan]

twice for me - two accidents - won't go into the nitty gritty but at those times - a very pleasant ambience washed over me both times and the feeling - I am happy to go.

[Old_Geezer]

I think it is a great aid to coping with life/existence issues, and who knows, may even be reality. I'm still struggling to achieve an in-body experience once more.

[chrissa1]

I would love to believe it, not because I’m scared of dying but I’d love to know whether I could see my loved ones when I’m gone.

[chrissie1212]

Thanks to those that replied. Yes, I agree, it is a comforting thing to believe in or experience. I'm fascinated by those who claim to have had the experience.

[tonyav]

Once, long time ago ( was in hospital when first National Lottery draw was drawn, Noel Edmonds ). I had a brain aneurysm ( very lucky to be alive apparently ), after my op at Smethwick Neurosurgical hospital I could hear mrs av calling Tony Tony but I could have quite easily have followed the light.

[david small]

I’ve experienced several out of the body projections. I am not religious, and follow no creeds. I also believe in life after death having had various experiences confirming the subject to my personal satisfaction.

[chrissie1212]

David, (also tonyav and jennyjoan). May I ask - were your experiences "near death" as in accident or operation, or an unrelated happening? Did anyone communicate with you? Sorry if I am being nosy, but like I said, I find it all extremely fascinating.

[Garaman]

I have had two, one as a child when my mother died, and another when I had a really high fever in the Far East. I have posted this on here before, but I will again as it is quite relevant to the OP.

It is to with the way our brain works, which probably isn’t how most imagine. Our senses take in the surroundings and recreate those surroundings in our brain. Our brain then puts us inside those surroundings it has created, so basically it’s like we live in a video game in our brain. That is why it takes a child so long to learn to walk – positioning ourselves in our brain is a very hard task to learn, whereas a child’s growing brain could master the art of walking in no time. That is also why we have out-of-body experiences as the brain can lose its ability to put us in the right place, through severe shock for example. The most common place to go when we lose our position is the ceiling and we look down on ourselves, but we can go anywhere.

[waterboatman]

It happened to me. It was beautiful. I didn't want to come back.

[Peter Pedant]

well people have out-of-body experiences
we know this by reading the scripts above

we also know that they arent out of body
we know this by reading my previous post -
They put numbers on the tops of lampshades and asked those with out of body experiences in the ward or cas what the numbers were ....
Sorry no takers .... no one got the numbers right ( above random) [ accident hospital Brum, eighties]

[david small]

My out of the body experiences were not near death occasions. Far from it. Several times,I was simply laying in bed and I started to roll back and forth, like I was turning over. I then rolled out of my body. It happened rather too frequently for my liking. My sister saw herself sleeping, and out of her body walked to the bathroom. She could not see her reflection in the mirror. Her friend came in and started doing her ablutions not seeing my sister. When she awoke she told her friend what she saw her doing?? A very embarrassed friend confirmed her words.

[dunnitall]

This all fascinates me too. I haven't experienced anything like it but my mother many years ago having an operation in hospital claims she found herself back in the pub they had.... When she came round from the operation they apparently told her she had 'died' on the operating table.

I only know when she did pass away some years after...I experienced her presence in the pub a lot. Could say more on that on the morning she passed away too but that's another story.

[NoMercy]

One person who has done some groundbreaking research into this subject is the late Elizabeth Kubler Ross. Her findings were truly fascinating.

[pixie374]

I have asked a psychiatrist about this and there really wasn't much mystery after his explanation and diagrams. Basically a lack of oxygen causing hallucinations.

[NoMercy]

That's only a theory, Pixie.

A dear friend of mine who sadly died of myeloma in 2009 was regressed and told, with fascinating detail, how he'd been killed early on in battle, during a Charles I / Cromwell conflict, by a cannonball hitting him in the chest. He specified details about his fiancée and about an oddity in the formation of the King's army. After specific research undertaken in the aftermath of his regression, all his details turned out to be true and correct.

My friend was a devout Christian throughout his life and a scientist by profession. He was one of the most intelligent, enlightened and honest people you could ever hope to meet.

[NoMercy]

Ps. Elizabeth Kubler Ross was a Psychiatrist too. A real M.D. ;-)

[pixie374]

They are all MDs, aren't they? Are you putting that down to reincarnation? Or something else?

[NoMercy]

Yes, a Psychiatrist is an MD, a Psychologist isn't.

I know the subject of NDEs / LAD and reincarnation isn't for everyone but I do believe there's much more too it than "the brain's last fling" caused by a lack of oxygen.

[pixie374]

Yes, I said psychiatrist :-). I don't believe at the moment that there is any more to it than chemicals. If it gets proven differently, then fair enough- but until that's fully understood, I am wary about putting explanations down to supernatural causes.

[naomi24]

//I have a very credible friend who is convinced this happened to him//

Me too - and he says it's happened more than once. I don't know - but I've no reason to disbelieve him.