Riki's Stepfather, Lee's NDE

EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION:

            This is a story that my deceased stepfather, Lee M., told me.  He was admitted into the hospital for a heart attack.  While he was in ICU, he experienced another heart attack.  He told me that the doctors and nurses were there checking him out.  He heard one of them say, "We're losing him" and he looked over to the heart monitor expecting to see it dropping.  He told me that he was surprised to see it was a flat line and said 0 (zero).  Then he was out of his body, up above the doctors and nurses, by the ceiling, watching them work on his body.  He could see his body lying there and he said his mouth was wide open.

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     Heart Attack

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    I don't know and cannot ask now.

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

If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain:            I don't know and cannot ask now.

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      I don't know and cannot ask now.

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      I don't know and cannot ask now.

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

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Uncertain      I don't know and cannot ask now.

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     Uncertain            I don't know and cannot ask now.

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No       I don't know and cannot ask now.

Did you become aware of future events?       Uncertain
            I don't know and cannot ask now.

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Uncertain      I don't know and cannot ask now.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     He shared it with me right away.  I don't know about anybody else.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    Uncertain            I don't know and cannot ask now.

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real    I know he thought it was real, because he could see his mouth open and the doctors/nurses working on him.

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?            Unfortunately, many of these aspects did not come up when he told me about the experience and I cannot ask him now.  At the time, I didn't know much about NDE's and didn't know what to ask.  I believed him and thought it was very cool, but I didn't know what to think or what to ask.

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was definitely real    I don't know and cannot ask now.

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           Uncertain      I don't know and cannot ask now.

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            Uncertain      I don't know and cannot ask now.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         Uncertain      I don't know and cannot ask now.           

Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?         Yes     As much as I know.