Experience description: 

I remember being transported from Sandusky Michigan via ambulance to Lapeer County General Hospital. I am not sure that I remember the arrival to Lapeer, only the departure from Sandusky. I found my self in a dark void. Total blackness. No boundaries, nothing to touch, nothing to see, nothing to smell, nothing to taste. I was totally separated from all creation. There was no floating sensation, yet there was nothing solid around, above or below me that I could see or touch. There was nothing there except me. Alone in the dark.

I could think clearly, there was just nothing to interact with. No joy, no happiness, no fear, no sadness... just empty, alone.

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?          No

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           HIGH level of awareness, fully aware of my displacement from the reality of the hospital setting, yet no awareness of those who claim to have been beside my bed, and body.

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   NO! Dreams fade away. This experience is as real today some seven years later as it was at the time of occurrence. It still brings out a fear of returning there. I never want to go back!

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     Uncertain

I appeared to be in my body in this void of darkness, yet my body was in the hospital room under very bright lights.

Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?           No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?          Uncertain

            Describe:      There was only darkness, no tunnel, no anything, just darkness.

Did you see a light?           No

Did you meet or see any other beings?           No

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

The place I was in could not be of this dimension.

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

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?         Uncertain, An affirmation of the order of existence.

Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?   Yes

My belief in creation, and the order of that creation has has compounded many fold. I know that I have been given a glimpse of life without the beauty of GOD all around us. If there is a purgatory, I have been there.

How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?       I respect humanity now and treat everyone I meet with visual concern for their well being. I do not get angry at mistakes, I hold no "hard feelings" toward anyone, no matter what they might do or say. I look to GOD for direction, actively pursue knowledge so that I can share it.

Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?         Yes

The consequences of the stroke left me unable to work.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes

Those who have heard of my experience have all been affected by it. The miracle of science, the miracle of GOD. The doctor test me monthly to see why I am alive, they say I should not be. The religious know that I have in the waiting room for hell. I know that GOD has given me a second chance.

What emotions did you experience following your experience?  Fear, not of the darkness, not of death, but fear of being forsaken, having God take away all that has been created, from me.

What was the best and worst part of your experience?      The only good thing from this experience was my being returned to the hospital room, and life what ever it may bring. The experience goes down in my memory as the worst thing to have ever happened to me, no part of it was better in any way, bad across the board.

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?        One only has to experience this once to realize just how important life is, and just how great this gift of life we have been given is.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         Yes

Reading the accounts of others who have had similar experiences both good, bad, and worst has cause a "re-visiting" of the events, they scare me even more if that is possible than the experience itself. The fear of returning there.

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