Megan M's NDE

Experience description: 

After weighing, the nurse told me that the doctor wanted to take off 6 kilos and I said that I was already dry and challenged his request.  I was thirty minutes into the treatment and happened to be eating my lunch at the time. I remember starting to pass out and calling for the nurse.  In the next instant I was in a place, garden with the most incredible array of brilliantly colored flowers where I met my mother who was deceased and another figure whom I did not recognize and the feeling of warmth and peace was I had only experienced once before in a meditation. There was a feeling of timelessness and comfort that I cannot explain, but I do recall that when I came to I wanted so badly to go back to that place.  From what the nurses told me I was out for less than a minute.  But in reality time is an illusion.

Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?     No

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? No

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes

dialysis treatment

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           unconscious

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   That is where I am not sure if my sleep consciousness is another level of reality.

Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?           no

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?          No

Did you see a light?           No

Did you meet or see any other beings?           Yes, My deceased mother and another male person whom I did not know.

Did you experience a review of past events in your life?    No

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          No

Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?           Yes

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Yes

Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?    No

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No

Did you become aware of future events?       No

Were you involved in or aware of a decision regarding your return to the body?       No

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?         No

Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?   No

How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?       I now know that I am not my body.  Having had 36 surgeries and 8 procedures and going to have an atrial ablation next week this container is only that and the essence of who I am is eternal.  I try to live in the moment and with gratitude.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes, My family members think I am crazy anyway but my friends were accepting of my experience.

What emotions did you experience following your experience?  Disappointment that I could not go back.

What was the best and worst part of your experience?      Having to come back to my sick body.

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?        In May I will be six years post transplant and know that I do not have near the answers that I would like to have regarding life.  I do think now that when I am critical of others I immediately look at my own shortcomings and try to be more tolerant and accepting.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         No

Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?               Yes