I was in the labor room of a clinic in my city trying to give birth to my son after 12 hours of labor.  They took me to the labor room without answering my questions and they only wanted to know when I had last eaten.  After answering, they put me on a gurney and told me to count backwards from 100.  At the beginning everything was illuminated by white light which I immediately associated with death, but I was afraid to ask if I was dying.  I saw my husband dressed as a doctor, with the white surgical gown and mask.  Truly, I barely recognized him.  Later I found out he was praying constantly for me and the baby. 

Somehow, I began to move through some kind of brightly colored geometric figures that served as a sort of matrix, yet I did not feel alone.  It was as if many eyes were watching me.  The only thought I had was, "Aha!  I recognize this.  I know what it is.  I have experienced this before."  I don't know whether I went upwards or forwards, but I immersed myself in those colors.  I intermixed with them.  Further on I felt as if I left the previous experience by passing through some tiles or bricks.  I was flying but I didn't understand much of what I saw.  People were working down below, while I was near some windows.  In another scene I saw myself down below but not in the hospital bed, rather standing up, very pregnant, saying goodbye to the "me" that was flying. 

Without  further experiences, I awoke in the hospital bed but only for a short time because I continued sleeping for about 5 hours.

 

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Yes     I believe that everything in the experience is difficult to describe in words or perhaps emotionally since I think one leaves the time-space parameters that our mind deals with in ordinary reality.
 

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Uncertain           

Keeping in mind the health-care system in my country, it's possible that I was in danger but they didn't tell me about it because before having the experience I asked why they were giving me general anesthesia for giving birth, but they never answered my question.  I felt ignored.  The strange thing is  I thought my son should have been born about 9:00 a.m. and the clinical report says it was at 11:00 a.m.
 

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    When I began the experience and during the time I was moving through those colors. 
 

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:            I was very skeptical before this experience but I found out I came from an greater source, that earthly existence wasn't the only reality, that I had experienced life before in some unknown dimension. 
 

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    A field of vision that was at least 180 degrees with bright colors that were alive as if they had life themselves. 
 

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?     Yes
 

What emotions did you feel during the experience?           At the beginning fear and uncertainty, but as the experience transpired I felt the familiarity of something previously lived, well known, but later as something just completely natural. 
 

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

Did you see a light?           Uncertain     Everything around me was incredibly white at the beginning.  There were no limits or reference points. 
 

Did you meet or see any other beings?           Uncertain     

It was as if I definitely knew I was not alone and I even felt I was being watched.  Not by beings with human form, but by some other consciousness or entities that I don't know how to explain.

 

Did you experience a review of past events in your life?    No 

Of course as a result of this experience I understood that when I die it won't be the complete, absolute blackness of nothingness that I had supposed.  My consciousness  came from somewhere and I separated from it for some reason that I now believe I understand.   When I was 2 years old I was baptized Catholic.  Before that I didn't profess any religion.  Now I know there is something beyond this life but I'm not longing to get there.  Somehow it will come on its own.
 

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           

I saw that world of 3 dimensional, brilliantly colored figures with intonations that went from the reds to the violets.
 

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

Perhaps somehow I understood that time and space are the same.  As space began to expand from a certain point it gave birth to time.    And I understood I existed even though I didn't have a human body.
 

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

First, there is something beyond normal consciousness.  Somehow I understood that my thoughts or ability to reason was very connected to what is purely terrestrial rationality, seeming more like a computer processor, becoming aware that I exist, that I am something, and continue to be.  By becoming aware of myself I discover how to be.
 

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? Uncertain.  When leaving the place of colored geometric figures I had the sensation of passing through a tile or brick wall that contained them, then I flew over an earth-like place.
 

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes

I tried to bring it up with my husband, but he didn't give it any importance.  I also mentioned it to a psychotherapist, but I didn't describe it.  I only said that I had changed my way of seeing life.
 

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

I had heard stories of this kind perhaps on television and had read about some out of body experiences and reincarnation.  But my experience wasn't  like those others.
 

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

Since returning to normal reality, I have relived the experience.  Coincidentally, the day Princess Diana died, I dreamed about part of the experience, of those colors that spoke and had consciousness, who judged one and belonged to a dimension that exists in another place in space.
 

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?    Yes, knowing that I exist as something.
 

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

Before I was a skeptic when it came to spiritual things or the continuation of our beings.  I believe my understanding was primitive, to be sure, scarcely realizing I was something more than a body still very connected the known, material world of this life.  Today I believe by an accumulation of knowledge that is never destroyed but rather stored eternally within the atoms, it is possible that the memory of a computer can become aware of its own existence, can become conscious of itself.
 

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           Yes    

I can say from that experience began a point of no return toward my eternal father, God, divine source; an awakening of consciousness that of course has influenced me in all aspects of my life.
 

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?  Yes           

Since I didn't believe in the Judeo-Christian God who was, to a certain degree, too human, I began to discover a God that transcends all earthly understanding, a source, pure and primordial from which all things emanate; alive and present in absolutely everything that can come into being, that exists and will ever exist.   Because of our 5 senses, time is only a limitation of our very limited human perceptions.  But this is the way it should be because everything that happens has a perfect reason for being and it is necessary to experience the agreeable as well as the disagreeable in order to know the difference.  We need to live through "Heaven and Hell" in order to choose.  It's that simple.
 

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         Uncertain

Only the dream I mentioned which occurred months afterwards.     
 

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?         Well, perhaps recalling the experience, my feelings were those of birth, like "from this point I began,"  I began really to be.
 

Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?         Uncertain     To describe in as precise a way as possible, to measure that which is immeasurable or express with human words and understanding that which perhaps escapes this reality, is difficult.
 

Are there any other questions we could ask to help you communicate your experience?     It is pretty extensive and covers all the alternatives humanly possible.
 

What could a national organization with an interest in near death experience (NDE) do that would be of most interest to you:          Nothing        Other    It is very interesting to hear of all these experiences because they have an influence on people and give us to know that in order to arrive at a spiritual goal, you can't go after it.  It will arrive of its own accord to touch each person's consciousness just at the right moment .