Tom C NDE

EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION:

I had a NDE when I had a bad car accident 6 years ago. My right front tire blew out at about 80 mph and I left the road almost instantly and rolled several times. The most bizarre thing was that I have NO MEMORY of the accident at all - just memory of the blow-out. Next thing was that I watched the EMTs try and revive me right after it took the fire and rescue men almost an hour to extract me from my car.

I was hovering overhead! In this time, I felt no pain, no fear at all. I remember actually being over my body in the ambulance as they took me to the hospital! A male EMT gave me CPR and I remember the tattoo he had on his upper fore-arm. I could draw it! I don't remember his face or name at all. I 'followed' myself from the ambulance down the hospital corridor with the the EMT still trying to revive me. I was covered with blood! They had cut my tee-shirt and jeans off of me. I was in one of those neck brace things. I had a broken pelvis, ribs and both legs. The left side of my head bashed the door column, ripped my ear off and gave me brain lacerations from the impact. My small intestines were ripped into due to an adhesion I had since I was 4 years old when I had an appendectomy. Blood kept coming out of my mouth and nose also. I watched as I had a seizure!

Now I was backing away as if a camera lens was backing off from a close-up to a wide angle shot. I had the most unbelievable happiness and elation that really can't be put into words! The vividness and small details of this experience match nothing that has ever happened to me before! I seemed to be backing away through a very long (infinitely long) tunnel you hear described in NDEs. This tunnel was rings that had very bright dotted lights on each ring. I seemed to go on for hours. The feeling of peace and happiness was unbelievable. The vividness and detail, I could go on and on about it! Everything that had happened in my life seemed to be like a movie on a monstrous screen. I reached the point of my accident and all ended!

I awoke from a drug induced coma after about two days. It was as if I was home from a very long vacation. Both my sisters were there when I came to. I was told by one of the doctors that my heart had stopped due to blood loss. I had been given seven or eight units of blood! I was in the hospital for 21 days. It took me almost three months to walk again.

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Yes     Some of it is! Other stuff I could go on and on about but some of it was like a dream you have sometimes that can't be described in words

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     Car accident

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    During the life review

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:            During the life review

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     It was as if things were much more detailed

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.)?            Yes     I could hear everybody talking that were around me.

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

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            Happiness and a high sense of adventure!

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?          Yes     It was rings that I passed through. A tunnel made of rings that were not attached to one another. There were lights on the rings in concentric patterns and not once were they alike from one to the other, every one was different

Did you see a light?           Uncertain      I didn't, to my knowledge, make it to see the light that they describe as very bright but painless. One seemed to be in the distance but was in the direction I was going FROM

Did you meet or see any other beings?           No      

Did you experience a review of past events in your life?    Yes     It was like a movie without a screen. Very very detailed

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Yes     tattoos on the EMT's arm -- but I don't remember his face!

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? Uncertain      I stopped going down a vast line of circles with light in them

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?         Uncertain      Very few people

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    Yes    

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

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?    It was like nothing  I had ever experienced before. I believe in the NDE, OOBEs etc before I had the accident, but when I experienced one it was like a gift!

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

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           Yes     My sisters have become aware of the affect of NDEs

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            Uncertain      I am agnostic, and still am, but the feel of complete peace makes me believe that there is life after death for sure

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

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