Rick Probable NDE

EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION:

In my near death experience, I was standing in my family's cemetery.  Everyone in the cemetery is a relative of mine.  The graves date back to 1869. I saw a number of my dead relatives standing around me; however, none of them could see me.  In this experience, their were no tombstones in the cemetery.  Some of the people that I saw there died before I was born, yet I am able to describe their mannerisms.  I walked through the crowd of dead relatives, and noticed that they were looking in one direction like they were waiting for a car to arrive.  I realized that they could not see me even when I walked right beside some of them.  I decided to leave the scene because I felt that I was not the person that they were looking for.  When I woke up, I was being run down the hall of a hospital on a stretcher.

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     I was dying of a terminal illness.  I have had full blown AIDS and I had been viral load had skyrocketed

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    Towards the end of the experience when I noticed that no one could see me.

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

            Towards the end of the experience when I noticed that no one could see me.

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.)?  No      

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?     Uncertain

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            Confusion

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

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?          Yes     ONe of my aunts had a baby that died in Childbirth.  My Aunt died before I was born.  I saw her with her dead husband, holding the baby.  I later described my aunt to others and they confirmed that she had a baby that died in childbirth.

Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?            Yes     I just visited my family cemetery

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

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     Uncertain           

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No      

Did you become aware of future events?       Yes
            I saw my aunt looking for her husband.  He died shortly after this experience.  I also saw my great-grandmother looking for someone.  My grandmother died within a few weeks.

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Yes     I have never had piano lessons; however, a few weeks after the experience I sat down at the piano and started playing classical music as if I had been playing the piano for years.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     I shared it with others a few months after it happened.  My mother was shocked because I very accurately described some of the relatives who died before I was born.

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   

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?            Based on some of the actions of the people that I saw there.  I was alerted to the fact that my uncle and my grandmother were about to die.  They both died within a few months of this experience.

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?           Uncertain     

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