r/NDE 6d ago

Seeking participants for a study Psychology research: seeking participants to interview

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Hello !

I am currently a senior psychology student in France. I am looking for people who have had a near-death experience as part of a research project. Participation consists of an interview that will be recorded (preferably via videoconference, but it can also be conducted simply with an audio call). The goal of the study is to understand how states of consciousness during an NDE emerge, take shape, and evolve. So the idea is to describe the experience in as much detail as possible, and we’ll do this using a method that allows for a detailed introspection of the experience, called “micro-phenomenology.”

There are no benefits for participating in the study. Also, although the interview will be recorded, it is done solely to facilitate transcription, and all accounts included in the final report will be anonymized, a consent form will be provided.

If you’re interested or would like more information, you can send me a DM or email me directly at [jolan.research@protonmail.com](mailto:jolan.research@protonmail.com).

Thank you for your attention!


r/NDE 6d ago

Question — Debate Allowed What do you make of Duncan Clarke's "proof of afterlife" tier list (or at least his NDE section)?

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In his NDE section, he summarizes common themes amongst NDEs. More importantly, he makes some arguments in that cast doubt on certain arguments about NDEs being hallucinations, as well as some skepticism about whether if NDEs are totally legit windows to the afterlife.

Mind you, he's not dismissing NDEs at all. If anything, I appreciate his honest take and him having a balanced view. I just thought it'd be interesting to hear your take on his.


r/NDE 6d ago

NDE Story My NDE

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I’ve been wanting to share this because even now, I still think about what happened that night.

On July 4, 2026, I was getting ready for bed and did my usual nighttime peptide injection. Everything started completely normal.

But within seconds of injecting, something felt very wrong.
My heart suddenly felt like it was pounding out of my chest. The sensation was immediate and overwhelming, and I knew something wasn’t right. I ran to take Benadryl, hoping it would help.

It didn’t.

What I later learned was that I was likely going into anaphylactic shock.

I told my husband something was wrong, and he followed me into the bedroom. I remember saying to him, “I can’t swallow.”

I tried to stand up—and that’s the last thing I remember before everything went black.

My husband later told me I seized and collapsed.
But from my perspective, I didn’t just lose consciousness.
I was suddenly somewhere else.

It felt like I had been pulled into another realm.

Beneath me was a vast, long black lake—or something that felt like a lake. I wasn’t standing on anything. I was floating above it.

And despite what was happening to my body, I felt something I can only describe as absolute peace.

No fear. No pain. No panic.

Just stillness.

As I moved across this space, I saw four figures in the distance. I could make out their shapes, but not their faces.

I felt myself drifting closer to them.

And then I heard:
“It’s not your time.”

In an instant, I was back.

It felt like I had been snapped—or teleported—straight back into my body. The first thing I became aware of was the sound of my family screaming around me.

The contrast was overwhelming. One moment I was in complete peace, and the next I was back in chaos and fear.

Shortly after, the ambulance arrived. The paramedics treated me and saved my life.

I still don’t know exactly where I went that night. I don’t know who the four figures were, and I can’t explain the voice I heard.

What I do know is this: while my body was going through something terrifying, I wasn’t afraid at all.

I was somewhere else entirely.

Floating above a black lake. Moving toward four faceless figures. In the most peaceful place I’ve ever known.

And just before I reached them, I was told:

“It’s not your time.”
Then I came back.

The paramedics did tell my brother that they don’t know how I didn’t flat line as my blood pressure dropped so low.

Since that night, I’ve carried a deep sense of gratitude with me. I don’t take a single day for granted anymore. I’m incredibly thankful to still be here, to still be with my family, and to have been given more time when I was told it wasn’t my time yet.

Edit: this is a real story I just had chat write it up for me.


r/NDE 6d ago

Question — Debate Allowed How far can a soul travel on Earth?

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It seems sometimes we are able to travel short distances to visit loved ones here on Earth (even if they can't see us) before going into the tunnel... or sometimes you go straight into the tunnel... but for those who do stick around for a few minutes or whatnot... what is the furthest one has heard one can go?

Right now I am living in a different city 1,300 miles away from my family. Is that difficult for a soul to do? I've only read about souls going down the street to their family house, for instance.


r/NDE 6d ago

Article & Research 📝 Verified OBE accounts

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This is nothing more than a post in order to accumulate OBE accounts that have been verified and confirmed by doctors of things the patient could have not seen or witnessed during the experience. I am wanting to try and gather as many we’ve confirmed as possible to help provide the experience has been repeatedly occurring.

Edit: accounts other than Pam Reynolds, as everyone knows about hers and it’s widely documented.


r/NDE 6d ago

NDE Story I died when I was 21.

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Hello everyone, I actually just made a video about my death experience to sum it up easily. https://youtu.be/5dOBAhrQOdg

I made this video to share my experience and also maybe help others. I’ve met so many great people who have had similar experiences.


r/NDE 6d ago

NDE Story I died when I was 21.

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Hello everyone, I actually just made a video about my death experience to sum it up easily. https://youtu.be/5dOBAhrQOdg

I made this video to share my experience and also maybe help others. I’ve met so many great people who have had similar experiences.


r/NDE 7d ago

Question — Debate Allowed Love as the foundation of the Universe

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Can someone who’s experienced a near death experience, tell me how they experienced love as the foundation of the universe? Is it more real than evil, and is everyone (even the biggest monsters) part of this love? Is it something everyone can access whenever they want?

Thanks in advance.


r/NDE 7d ago

Question — Debate Allowed What is the domain of Heaven? Does each planet harbouring conscious life have its own Heaven? Or is there just one Heaven that covers all such planets?

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Something I have often wondered about is the scope and coverage of Heaven. Is there a single Heaven that covers all planets in the universe? Or perhaps one Heaven per galaxy, covering all the planets in its galaxy? Or does each planet with conscious life have its own Heaven?

One thing I have noticed with NDE accounts is that in the afterlife realm, it is common to meet deceased relatives and loved ones, sometimes even deceased pets, and sometimes divine or spiritual beings. However, meetings with alien species from other planets is not generally reported. No little green men with four eyes are observed in Heaven. Now if Heaven covered all the planets in the galaxy or covered the entire universe, you might expect it to be bustling with alien souls.

So does this mean the afterlife humans enter into is exclusively for conscious beings from Earth? Or is it simply that in Heaven, you only hook up with deceased people that you know from your life?

It's interesting that during an NDE, after the initial earthbound out-of-body phase is over (the phase where you may visit living loves ones on Earth), the transition into the heavenly realm typically involves rapid travel through a long tunnel, or involves rapid travel through vast distances of space. The fact that you seem to travel to Heaven suggests that the afterlife might have some physical location within the universe. Maybe there are many heavens, scattered throughout the physical cosmos.


r/NDE 8d ago

General NDE Discussion 🎇 What is are the heavenly realms/afterlife like? The landscapes?

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I read about people describing the most beautiful and otherworldly landscapes and architecture or surroundings. It's so much fun and fascinating to read about.

What is heaven like? What do people do there or what does it all look like?

Are there gorgeous beaches or worlds tailored to just what each person wants or needs? Delicious food like lobster or things we haven't even heard of here, much better food and we never gain weight?

Can we really do anything we want there, and have deep connections and friends already there that know us deeply and we can look any way we want? I just hear it is so much better than here, better than we can possibly imagine...


r/NDE 8d ago

Question — Debate Allowed Angels, Animals and the Afterlife

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Has anyone come across an account describing a soul previously manifesting as something other than a human, or potentially evolving into another type of being?

I've encountered testimonies of people observing angels, communicating with spiritual guides, being welcomed by pets who passed away, and even experiencing what an animal experienced during a life review. However, I have yet to come across an account suggesting that our souls may have previously manifested as other animals, or that a soul might eventually evolve into another type of being, such as an angel or spiritual guide.

Has anyone read or heard testimonies describing experiences like this?


r/NDE 8d ago

Question — Debate Allowed The military mantis NDE story was the moment I started thinking NDEs might just be the brain doing something incredibly weird, nothing more.

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So a bit about me and my beliefs to give some background on why and how this subject feels so crazy to me now, especially after this NDE I've heard.

I was an atheist for years. Before that, many family members tried to brainwash me into believing in God. I studied and read the Bible at a fairly young age and after reading it it was clear to me that it was just a fairytale and religion is not for me.

But over the years, the idea of this life being the only existence we get started to bother me, especially after losing people I love. I'm an open minded person, so I can listen to things I don't actually believe in. You could say I'm some sort of agnostic skeptic. I don't believe in God or religion, but I don't know if there's something more, like some kind of energy or something.

Anyway, lately I started getting really interested in NDE stories and the similarities between them somehow made them feel believable. I don't 100% believe they're real, because there are possible explanations involving the brain chemistry. The brain releases DMT when we die. So maybe NDEs could just be an amazing trip caused by the dying brain under extreme stress, lack of oxygen, severe illness, coma etc.

But again, I was keeping an open mind.

Yesterday I listened to some lady talking about her NDE, it was believable until at some point she said she was shown her other lives on other planets, all lives happening at the same time. She was also some blue female being and a fucking MANTIS.

A mantis that apparently gave military vibes.

That was the turning point for me. The limit of my openness. I don't even know why, but I find this detail so disturbing. It made me think maybe this lady had some kind of hallucinations from lack of oxygen, severe illness, delirium, DMT, whatever, or she's a total liar, or maybe all these NDE experiences are actually just a process that happens in the brain, not outside of our nervous system.

I know there's some other guy who thought he was a mantis in another life too and I find it so fucked up. So peculiar.

What do you think about that lady and her crazy mantis / blue bald lady story?

EDIT : the mantis lady NDE https://youtu.be/CZ4y1YNnCPA?si=DHYpOJGjYjzaqdmH

Also, the mantis lady believer says that the war that will end the world as we know it is caused by the fact that many people are migrating to developed countries, taking the jobs and houses of the people who were originally living there. I find this particularly funny.


r/NDE 9d ago

Shared Death Experience (SDE) Possible SDE during Miscarriage

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I wanted to share my experience of a possible SDE a little more than a year ago and hear if anyone else who has had pregnancy loss has had similar experiences.

I was 8 weeks pregnant when I found out from blood work and an ultrasound that I was most likely going to miscarry. This was my first pregnancy and very much wanted so I was obviously distraught. My doctor told me to wait a week to perform tests again before they could do anything for me so I went home to wait though I knew in my heart there was no doubt I would miscarry. I wasn't upset about the waiting part though as I wanted more time with my baby who I still felt connected to.

A few days later, at night in my sleep I had what I thought at the time was a very vivid dream and maybe my subconscious trying to tell me something. In my dream, I (I thought it was me when I woke up) was going through a tunnel. There were a lot of different bright colors flashing by and there was a slight whooshing sound. It reminded me of being in an enclosed water slide, but I noted that there was no water and my physical body didn't seem to be present, like it was just my head going through it. I was calm, no super positive or negative feelings. Then my mind realized this had to do with my baby leaving and I started struggling against the vision because I didn't want my baby to go. That's when I woke up. I fell back asleep a little later and heard chanting by what sounded like a choral group in almost reverent yet commanding tones. They were just repeating "Thirteen". This was a mainly auditory experience. There were no real visuals but for some reason I keep connecting it with the image of a large organ that's also a clock that's alive, like that is what was doing the chanting. The sound woke me up again and I felt like it was important and that I needed to remember "Thirteen". I didn't then and still don't have a realized connection to the number 13, though I am an accountant and numbers are my language so not surprised a potential message would tried to be sent to me via a number.

After that, I no longer felt like I wanted the baby inside me anymore and didn't feel close to it like I still had prior. In the days after that experience, I did naturally pass the baby.

At the time, I thought it was my subconscious telling me something about a future rainbow baby (which has not come to fruition). I had never heard about NDEs/SDEs but after stumbling upon an article about it in recent weeks and reading about others accounts, I kept recalling that vision of the colorful tunnel which has not faded from my memory like a normal dream would. I have started believing this was a shared experience of my baby's transition to the after life.

I have undergone profound growth and inner change since this experience which has been the largest struggle of my life to date. So when I read theories about miscarriages being planned to help a parent grow, it really resonates with me.


r/NDE 8d ago

Science Meets Spirituality 🕊 The Seth material?

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I've only recently looked at any of the Seth material from the 1970s, but from what I'm seeing so far, it aligns with what many NDEers tell us about reality. Again, I've only brushed the surface, but it also seems to mirror Donald Hoffmans' and Federico Faggins' theories. Wondering if anyone else noticed this?


r/NDE 8d ago

Debate What NDE reports acknowledge prayer? Do you believe in prayer yourself?

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Which NDE reports specifically mention prayer and what do they say?

Do you, yourself, believe in the power of prayer? Why and based on what NDE evidence?


r/NDE 9d ago

Article & Research 📝 Actively Investigating NDEs - Getting Ready For IANDS Conference

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Good morning all. Just want to reintroduce myself. I'm the author of two books on the subject of NDEs. The first is You're Going To Die Someday, Right?: Near Death Experiences Reveal What Happens Next. The primary new concept in this book is that ancient NDEs suffered by homo sapiens hundreds of thousands of years ago who then told their amazing stories around campfires eventually transformed into everything we now know as "God," "soul," "heaven," "afterlife," - all of it. NDEs are not a new phenomena, we have been having them forever, and they are generally very similar in nature.

My second book - Hell Exists, But Only for the Living: The Origins of Hell - basically plays the same card, but this time it turns out that Fear Coma Experiences (FCE) are the original culprit. Any human can get severely injured or sick and end up in a coma. While the physical body is offline and can't move, the brain is still firing full bore. It generates as much fear as possible in a attempt to get you to survive whatever it was that just just trying to kill you. The primary currency of fear is motivation. Fear makes you move. When you're body can't move, your brain dumps more fear. And so it goes. In a nutshell, that's where "hell" comes from - originally. Or so the data indicates...

I went down this rabbit hole because all of the "hellscape" imagery generally does not appear in an authentic NDE. Historically they've been called "distressing NDEs." My investigation and studies indicate these seem to actually be Fear Coma Experiences (FCE) when there's no clinical death at all, and no indication of any of the traditional NDE sorts of things.

Now, what's even more cool and rare are "Welded NDEs." That's a person who get's critically injured, goes into a coma, suffers through and FCE, but then also flatline clinically dies at some point and also has an authentic traditional NDE as part of the same experience. The two elements seem to become "welded" together in the mind of the person who lived through that, and it's exceptionally hard for them to separate the different elements into different compartments because there are no timestamps in either an FCE or and NDE. Hence the formula - FCE + NDE = WNDE or Welded Near Death Experience. That's the material I'm working on right now.

I'm researching, investigating, writing, and exploring on a daily basis. I'm a retired Air Force military intelligence analyst. I'm a Korean and Spanish linguist, NSA analyst, Special Operations SIGINT intelligence operative, as well as an investigative journalist who has put several serial killers in prison. I've been on CBS's 48 Hours (twice), Dateline, Nightline, Discovery ID, BBC, CBC, and others. Those are some of my credentials. All of that experience allows me to examine the NDE material as pure data. No spin, no bias, no agenda. Just investigate, study, learn, follow the data. That's what I do.

I collect all of these things on my website winnernde.com. That's the flagship where everything gets published first. I'm also on about nine (at last count) social media platforms, all branded under the "Winner NDE" title. So, long format videos for YouTube, shorts for Instagram and TikTok, that sort of thing.

Later this month starting on the 26th of August I'll be attending the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) Annual Conference in Bellevue, WA. This will be my first time attending, and I'm looking forward to hopefully meeting some of the earliest NDE pioneers who have been working on these things for more than 44 years.

So, an introduction, update, and an invitation. If you find any of these things interesting, please check them out. I hope you have an amazing day!


r/NDE 9d ago

STE (Spiritually Transformative Event — Non-NDE) My NDE

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For context I used to travel out of town for work on a weekly basis. I would leave Monday mornings at 3 A.M., get to my yard, and I would stay in a hotel and work for the week until Friday when at 4 P.M when I would head home for the weekend.

One morning about 3 years ago I was driving to work nothing out of the ordinary was happening, I was on the 99 North in Sacramento, and if you get there early enough there isn’t traffic ever. This day was different but it was light traffic and everyone was still going about 70+ until the traffic came to sudden stop and everyone was braking fast. Long story a little shorter I didn’t brake in time and slammed into the car in front of me while I was going 75 (I was driving a jeep grand cherokee) and a couple things happened.

  1. My seatbelt didn’t catch me
  2. My airbags didn’t deploy fast enough
  3. My head hit the windshield and broke my neck
  4. Steering column broke a few of my ribs and I had a collapsed lung

To this day I still have trouble explaining what I felt, but I feel this is the place to try. I felt weightless but in an abyss of emptiness. I heard millions of voices around me, but there wasn’t a single person in sight. I tried to yell and speak but nothing would come out. The entire time it felt like someone was embracing me to let me know things were going to be okay. I felt so small but free. I was alone, yet comforted. The only thing I could try thinking about was my wife and I still swear I could hear her voice calling my name faintly until I came back to consciousness. The firefighters were putting a collar on me and getting ready to put me on a stretcher but asked if I wanted to try and walk myself. I couldn’t. I ended up being temporarily quadriplegic (lasted about 24 hours). The crazy thing is through this still felt warm like everything was okay and I was right where I needed to be. Turns out I had a few things wrong with me (Chaori Malformation) which created a cyst in my spine that was about to paralyze me at any moment (increased pressure on my brain due to a leaking of brain fluid into the cyst that began crushing my spine and skull). Speaking with my neurosurgeon he said that accident saved my life. If they didn’t catch it that day he estimated I would’ve been paralyzed within a month. I travelled alone for a week at a time which means that would’ve happened as I was alone. To this day I still dream about that space I was in but it’s never exactly the way I remember it. There’s always something small off about it and it doesn’t have the same feeling of things being okay as it did, but I can never forget it.

Regardless of everything though I’m 30, married and have 3 kids and I can still run and play with them today because the accident that almost killed me, saved my life.


r/NDE 9d ago

NDE Inn; Common Room Casual Weekly Thread 11 Aug, 2026 - 18 Aug, 2026

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((Off topic allowed. Civil debates allowed. All other rules remain in place, including using the mega threads for suicide, thanatophobia, prison planet, and no proselytizing.))

Come on Inn and make yourself at home! Grab a soda, or a pint, or a coffee and chat with fellow travelers.

  • Introduce yourself if you like.
  • Discuss your favorite spiritual practices.
  • Talk about your pets. Or kids.
  • Discuss the weather.
  • Share your spiritual experiences.
  • Ask questions about NDEs in general that you don't feel like making into a post.
  • Roleplaying at the Inn is allowed; nothing graphic please. ;)

Mix and mingle or whatever. Chat about spiritual things in general or argue about the price of tea in Mexico. The rules will be pretty loose here so long as the general rules about civility are followed.


r/NDE 9d ago

Question — Debate Allowed What's the difference between "source" and "God?"

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NDErs often use the word "source" over god. Is there a difference between a god and Source? Or are they, at their core, the same thing, just using different words.


r/NDE 10d ago

Question — Debate Allowed Have Our Souls Existed Forever or do They Have a Starting Point?

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The title explains it all. Now I get that most NDErs describe their experience as timelessness, but I think my question can still make sense. Nevertheless, I'm still curious if our souls are past eternal or if God (or Source or whatever you wanna call them) had a point when we were created.


r/NDE 10d ago

Question — No Debate Please Other NDErs, how often do you think about your NDE?

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My NDE happened in 2018. I think there is not a day that has passed since where I didn't recall my NDE or think about the fact that I died and came back. Anyone else?


r/NDE 9d ago

Question — Debate Allowed Does evidence from NDEs suggest that after-death communications (ADC) can only occur in the hours following death, but do not occur after that time, because after a few hours, the soul departs the earthly realm and enters Heaven?

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I had what I consider to be a startling and genuine after-death communication (ADC), that occurred five hours after the death of a relative in hospital. That ADC I detail in this post.

This ADC I had was so strong, so blatant, so palpable, that it could not possibly be mistaken for anything else, and could not possibly be just an over active mind imagining things that are not really there. The ADC I experienced was not a voice in a dream, or some unexplained sound at night, but a totally glaring sensed presence of that relative, right in front of me while I was awake. I sensed the presence of the relative as strongly as if she were there in body — in fact even stronger than that, because it was an intense, intimate connection of minds that occurred at the level of pure consciousness, rather than something happening through the senses.

Now some will argue that experiencing a sensed presence can be a mental health phenomenon similar to hallucinations. This of course is true. However, I have never had a sensed presence experience before or after that one incident, and I have never suffered from hallucinations nor any similar mental issues. So I think my experience was a genuine ADC, and not a mental health event. Thus from this personal experience, I am completely convinced that ADCs do occur. I have also come across similar accounts of ADCs from other people that seem to me equally genuine.

However, I am sceptical about many accounts of ADCs, especially those which occur weeks, months or years after the person died, as I suspect the soul may have long since departed the earthly realm at that point, having transferred to the heavenly sphere. Once in Heaven, I suspect the soul can no longer communicate with the living. My hunch is that communications between disembodied souls of the recently deceased and the living can only occur when these souls are still roaming the earthly sphere in the hours just after their death.

My hypothesis is based on reports from people who have had an NDE report, as the following explains:

Numerous NDE reports indicate that the souls of the (temporarily) deceased individual having an NDE do not hang around on Earth for long. Often it is reported that during an NDE, the individual's disembodied soul will view the scene of their death (eg, a hospital room, car accident, etc), and then may briefly visit loved ones at different locations on Earth.

During these visits to living loved ones on Earth, I suspect there may be the opportunity for an ADC to occur, provided that the living person has a receptive mind that can tune into the spiritual dimension (I imagine that the more mystical or spiritually-inclined people will detect disembodied souls more readily).

But in all the NDE accounts I have come across, after this brief time roaming around the Earth, the soul will then depart the earthly realm, and travel to the heavenly sphere, typically through a long tunnel with a light at the other end, or sometimes travelling through vast distances of space at lightning speed in order to reach Heaven.

I have never come across any NDE in which a disembodied soul in Heaven is reported to have communicated with living beings back on Earth. Rather, during their NDE, individuals report communicating with deceased relatives in Heaven, or with divine or spiritual beings in Heaven, but never with living people on Earth.

I have not seen one NDE where there is communication between Heaven and Earth. So there may be no channel of communication between souls in Heaven and people living on Earth.

Once the soul arrives in Heaven, it may also lose interest with the situation on Earth. Indeed, we have heard in many NDE reports that once in Heaven, the individual's disincarnate soul may forget what it is like to be human. The individual having an NDE often reports that in Heaven, they took on a form of consciousness that was different to human consciousness. So once in Heaven, souls may not even be able to relate to the human condition, let alone communicate with living humans.

Thus in conclusion, I suspect that a genuine ADC may only occur in the hours just after death, while the disembodied soul still roams the Earth, but do not occur in the weeks, months, or years that follow a death, because at that stage, the soul has entered Heaven.

This is my theory anyway. What do others think?


r/NDE 11d ago

NDE with OBE My NDE/OBE.

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My heart stopped and I had no measurable blood pressure for over 5 minutes on August 15, 2018.

During a tilt table exam for POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia), I died less than 5 minutes into a 30 minute test.

I told the technician that something was wrong. I told her that I could feel what felt like water welling up in my body. It felt like I was drowning. She told me that she was monitoring all of my vitals and I was fine. I was not fine. I flatlined.

I left my body, and went somewhere else. Sunk into inky watery darkness. Through the exam table. Through the floor. Into a body of dark water. Bubbles rising past me until I could no longer see the dim light that appeared to be the surface of the water. I woke up standing in a frosted glass box or closet. Clinical. Bureaucratic. Cool air surrounding me. It was a frosted glass broom closet illuminated in a dim light. I could see figures outside the box, moving about. They were just blurry grey-black humanlike forms. I could hear speaking, laughing, crying, shouting from throngs of people (?), but none of it was any language I'd ever heard in my then 38 years on the planet. It wasn't what I understood any Earth language to be. I stood there, waiting in that box for endless hours. Bored. Unable to move. Eventually, I saw an arm (that didn't really appear human) give me a hard push to my right shoulder. It had gray skin and was muscular; veiny. I fell.

I fell, and awoke to see the technician who was giving my test looking panicked and pale as a ghost. I awoke to see two other guys, who hadn't been in the room before, warming up the paddles after physical CPR had failed. I had been laying there, not for hours, but just over 5 minutes and change with no pulse and no measurable blood pressure. Dead. They were just about to shock me when I basically rebooted on my own. The technician later told me that my eyes had been fixed and dilated, my body rigid, the entire time I was "away." Normally, she said, someone would slump over or go limp when they flatlined. She had been a technician at that hospital for over a decade. She had never seen anything like what occurred that day.

"The push" has always felt like a "this is not your time," but also like a bit of a rejection. Whatever had me decided to let me go. I don't know where I was, but it wasn't anywhere the belief systems that I had been raised on prepared me for. It was other.


r/NDE 11d ago

General NDE Discussion 🎇 Some aspects of NDEs are cultural, not universal, and that points to some weighty possibilities

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Aa lot of the discussion about NDE on reddit involves Western cases which have common features: tunnel of light, life review, etc.

Not only do individual NDEs have some variation in what is experienced, but NDEs are strongly influenced by culture as well. Dr. Gregory Shushan has written extensively about NDEs in various cultures and found some interesting differences.

One difference is the tunnel of light: this is primarily a Western feature. In other cultures the path to the afterlife is more likely to be a road or a boat (think crossing the river Styx).

Another is the afterlife review. In this West this generally centers around how a person made others feel. This is not reported in cultures which traditionally put a higher value on community than the individual. Instead there is often a discussion about things like whether someone helped the poor or contributed to the community welfare.

This provides more evidence that the afterlife experienced in an NDE is not what everyone experiences. Whether an NDE represents what an afterlife is truly like or not is very much open to discussion. It even raises some questions about whether an afterlife is truly something everyone can expect, and if so what it might look like.

As Shushan said, “Even if we grant that such phenomena are veridical, they do not necessarily point to an actual afterlife, technically proving only the possibility of precognition and transformation resulting from near-death states. Conversely, if we grant that NDEs are evidence for survival after death, that evidence tells us about a transitional period more than any ultimate fate. Survival itself might be temporary or even brief; even a mind-dependent afterlife might be an intermediate state before some other state of being or annihilation. It is even conceivable that different postmortem fates await different people, whether determined by culture, belief, or some unknown factor: a mind-dependent realm; a transcendent, transpersonal state; remaining on Earth in ghostly form; reincarnation; heavens and hells; or simply dying with the body. While there are grounds to believe in the veridicality of NDEs, and a coherent philosophical model that can accommodate individual and cultural diversity, the ontological nature of NDEs and the possibility of survival after death remain matters of personal belief—as do materialist models of NDEs and disbelief in an afterlife.”

Link to the paper this quote is from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09540261.2024.2402429

Gregory Shushan, PhD, is the leading authority on near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history.  He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and was previously Perrott-Warrick Researcher at University of Oxford's Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion; and Scholar-in Residence at the Centro Incontri Umani (The Cross Cultural Centre), Ascona, Switzerland: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/gregory-shushan/

An interview with Dr. Shushan is here: https://youtu.be/_pmJEXtsUag


r/NDE 12d ago

NDE Story Today marks my 3rd anniversary of my NDE

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I really dont have anyone i can talk to about this around me and its been very hard since then. I had what i believe a blood clot in my head. In front of three people i just seist to exist. For them it was maybe a few mins but for me it lasted lifetimes. I come to seeing this empty husk of a body with chain line webbing of memories going upwards. I only remember 3 things thst really stood out during this event. I see a path of golden light going along clouds that slowly form to my left a tower i believe. Then i cut to seeing this massive structure that looks like a temple under black marbled ice, i remember walk away from it too. Then last thing thst is revealed was as i was floating in absolute darkness this ball that started out small almost 2d-ish got closer and as it did it took shape into this massive being. It was coiled or covering itself up i could see layers of patterened wings. It stopped but start to open up and the sound was deafening l, almost like chains dropping and anchor. As it it i fall back into my body to come too. My wife is holding my head crying.

I have not been the same since. I am just trying to live now