Rafael EH's NDE

         I was playing during recess at school, with my friends, and a friend told me that he knew a game that was really fun and I didn't know that squeezing the arteries in your neck would make you pass out.  I agreed to play in order to appear tough and he told me to take a breath and hold it.  I did while he supported me against the wall and put his two hands around my neck and squeezed the arteries against the wall. Around 8 seconds later I felt dizzy and lost consciousness.  Suddenly I saw myself sort of floating about 2 meters from my body.  As I said, I was 12 years old and felt that floating out of my body was the most normal thing in the world.  I looked at the scene with my friends laughing and hitting me to get me up.  I don't know how to explain it, but I was only consciousness.  I didn't move from the site while I saw myself on the ground.  Suddenly I raised my eyes up towards heaven and felt an inexplicable force that pulled me at full speed.  Stopping all at once I looked down and could see the entrance to the school. It's about 800 or 900 meters  from the porch where I lost consciousness to the door into the school where I could clearly see a group of women waiting in the doorway.  I couldn't think.  I was only conscious of everything around me.  And once again, that force returned in a second to pull me away and I found myself back in my body.  I came to and realized what had happened.  My friends went away laughing but I didn't care.  In that moment I realized what we are and what awaits everybody.  Friends, earth life is not the only thing we experience. 

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       

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?   When the force pulled me the first time and I saw the door of the school and a group of women waiting. 

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

            When the force pulled me the first time and I saw the door of the school and a group of women waiting. 

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.)?  Yes     I didn't feel either hot or cold, I only felt I was part of the surroundings.  I saw everything as normal with a clarity the same as usual.  I saw the sky and the earth, the color of the trees.  Everything around me seemed normal.  

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.)?            No       

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     No         

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

Did you see a light?           Yes    Only for an instant.  That force that pulled me felt like a light that enveloped me. 

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?          Yes    I saw some women.  I know they were there, laughing and talking quietly.  Let's see...there was only one baby.  With the passage of years I realize everything was real.   

Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?           No            

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   No       

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?       Yes

        It's incredible that you should ask me this.  I have never told anyone.  A few years after my experience I was in a plaza of my neighborhood playing soccer with my colleagues and I had a kind of vision that happened in a second.  It was of my brother and his girlfriend making love.  I thought about it a minute and although surprised by this strange vision, I just started playing with my friends once again.           

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

Have you shared this experience with others?         No       

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    No       Being only a kid, these topics never caught my attention. 

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real    

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was definitely real    

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           No     

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