Kate D NDE 3518

Kate D's NDE

EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION:

This whole experience felt like it may have been an hour in length in total. From the time I became unconscious to the time I awoke. However, I was unconscious for about seven hours. The experience happened right before I woke up in the emergency room. This is what I felt and what I saw.

I was sitting on my grandfather's lap, ( who has been deceased since I have been 8 yrs. old) in the kitchen of the house he used to reside with my grandmother. I was happy to be with him, to see him again after so long and I had felt so at peace just sitting with him on his lap. As I was sitting there, I noticed his arm's come above me and he placed a wooden box in front of me onto the table in the kitchen. It almost looked like a small, intricately carved jewelry box. As he had placed it on the table, his hands opened the wooden box slowly- as if to gain my interest as to what was inside. As he opened the box, glowing white light emerged from it. It felt magical as it appeared and I slowly bent my head down into the box to see what was inside. As I had submerged my whole face into it, I felt an unexplainable feeling of calmness and belonging. I felt at unexplainable peace and love on a level which I felt I did not want to even come back from. It felt like a suspension of time in this state. From there, the brilliant light turned into, all of a sudden, a glorious sunset. The dawning sun was setting on a road- it was so massive and beautiful/reddish-orange in color. From a third person perspective, I witnessed myself (as a little six year old girl still) with my grandfather holding my hand and walking me toward the emanating sun set...from behind ( in third person I was behind both of us walking toward the light. During this happening, I turned to my grandfather and looked up at him and said, " Grandpa, where are we going?" and he looked straight ahead at the sun, and said "I'm taking you home, Sam, I'm taking you home". I felt my heart drop, like I did not want to go back- wherever that was to me- I wanted to stay there, forever, wherever we were. Shortly after this happened I began to sense, with my eyes still closed, a white light and heard voice's mumbled and slurred in the background calling my name. I opened my eye's and I was surrounded by about five ER doctor's abruptly shouting, " Samantha, Samantha...Do you know where you are? repeatedly trying to snap me out of this state. I tried to utter, "Yes, I'm in Cornwall" ( it was difficult to talk with a tube down my throat. One of the doctor's replied " Where?" and I said, " Cornwall.." He then informed me that I was not in Cornwall, but in Mississauga General ( a hospital in range of where I resided.) I was very confused as to why I was there and not in a hospital in Cornwall( five hours away) where my grandparents used to reside.

The next day I was baffled, trying to compare what I had experienced to a dream. However, it had no significant relevance, in my mind, to a dream. This had happened, and I know my grandfather was with me in spirit. I even discussed this with my mother a year later, letting her know that I knew grandpa was in a such a beautiful world that she should not even worry, ever, about dying. It made me aware that there is something so beyond what we experience, as humans on this earth, that is a part of an unimaginable picture we can not fathom in this life.

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Uncertain      It was hard describing the feelings associated with the experience.

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     Was on respirator in hospital. In a coma. Non responsive. I was told the next day that my heart beat was at a low of 4 beats per minute.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    At the end of the experience, when I had a fear of going back to where I came from. Parting with my grandfather.

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?    More consciousness and alertness than normal

If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain:            At the end of the experience, when I had a fear of going back to where I came from. Parting with my grandfather.

Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such as clarity, field of vision, colors, brightness, depth perception degree of solidness/transparency of objects, etc.)? Uncertain      It felt like it was really happening and everything looked normal. I never got a chance to actually see my grandfathers face, it was blurry- but I knew it was him. The sun set was so magnificent in reds, oranges...incredibly oversized, seemed disproportionate to the road.

Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect, such as clarity, ability to recognize source of sound, pitch, loudness, etc.)?
            Uncertain      Voices sounded like they were echoing -as if softly spoken through a tunnel.

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

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            Calmness, surrealism, loved, protected, safe

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?          Uncertain      When I was looking into the box with the light, a medley of emotions came over me. It was so bright and I didn't know if I had traveled into the light ending up at the road with the sunset holding my grandfathers hand.

Did you see a light?           Yes     It seemed to glow from the box at first, but when I put my head into the box the light became overpowering, but calming at the same time. It was very white/ bright.

Did you meet or see any other beings?           Uncertain      I felt as if there was beings in the light, I felt there presence but I could not see them.

Did you experience a review of past events in your life?    Uncertain      The fist part of the experience sitting on my grandfathers lap in the kitchen, I remember that it actually happened when I was six years old. It seemed like a play back from that point in my life. The box of light and the road with the sunset I cannot make any links to.

I always felt when my grandfather died while still a child that he watches over me, had actual feelings that he was my guardian and there in spirit with sometimes. This experience verified that for me.

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 road with the sunset. It was just a very long road in the surrounded by nothing. It was the sun that was so unworldly. It seemed so grand in comparison to the road.

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Uncertain      I had no accountability of time

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     Yes     I became less fearful of the notion of death. I felt like I was shown that there is a different parallel our spirits reside to when we die.

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No

Did you become aware of future events?       No

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

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     It was a few months after the experience that I divulged it to my close friends. About a year to my mother.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    No

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real    I viewed the reality of the experience as unexplainable. The emotions that I had felt are not tangible in this reality.

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?            Definitely my grandfather being there felt like he had been watching over me since the day he had died until present. Very significant as we had a more non-

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was definitely real    I can remember it like it had happened yesterday. When I even think about it, or bring it up in conversation my heart races a bit, and it makes me a bit nervous where I sometimes stutter while trying to describe it to someone.

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           Yes     I looked at relationships very differently after the experience. I had a much better communicative relationship with my parents, and I wasn't hesitant on making adjustments to the friends I previously had prior to the experience. I ended a long term relationship with someone I had grew apart from closely followed by starting a relationship that was significantly different than any other relationship that I had in the past.

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            No

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 so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?         Yes