Charles K NDE

Experience Description

All throughout the years that have past, I remember this experience as though it happened just now.

I was working in a telephone business office/repair service center building in the Bronx where an elevated train runs. There are two lanes in each direction, with one lane inside the El girders and one outside the girders. There was also a parking lane on my side of the street. I left the building for my coffee break at about 2:30 in the afternoon. I usually took the shortcut across the square since the crosswalk was a ways up the block. I walked between two parked cars and to an area near a girder. A blue passenger van didn't see me and swung from the inside lane to get to the outside lane. The mirror hit me and sent me spinning backwards on my feet. Then I saw a maroon van with silver painted bumpers coming at me in that lane. My thought was, 'Oh S#IT, I'm dead.' I felt nothing.

Suddenly, I was up above myself and looking down at my body. I had landed in-between two parked cars, and closer to the car parked in front than the one parked behind. I was about a foot or so from the curb. I was curled up on my left side with my face looking out, toward the street. It was a cloudy day and I looked up at the clouds. It wasn't a tall building, so I could sort of see over it. I was aware of something above me but didn't look up at it. I assume it was the train platform. I had the most blissful feeling, like I could stay there forever. I saw a man walking up the sidewalk as though he was walking toward me. The way I was facing, it would had been impossible for me to see him coming. Suddenly, a thought of my pregnant wife came to me and I said,'No, I can't go yet.' This was the most convincing reality. In a flash, I dove back into my body, seeing myself as I got closer. I happened so fast.

I started to get up and that man was there to help me up. He asked me what color was the truck? I said maroon, not remembering the first was blue. He helped me back into the building. They took me into the office and called an ambulance. They paramedics came and saw I had a two by two inch injury on the back of my head. I found out days later that that man said I slipped on the curb. I figure he's the one who hit me. They took me to the Hospital. They undressed me when I told them it was a truck. My whole left side of my body was black and blue so they scanned my entire body. They found no broken bones or internal injuries. I was in a lot of pain but insisted on going home. They advised me to stay but I wanted to go home to my wife, so they let me go after I signed something. I was driven home by supervisors. I was pretty banged up for about a week, having to mostly stay in bed. I am a skeptic by nature but I know I left my body that day. I've tried for a long time to poke holes at why or how this happened, but I never could. I know it happened. My family knows about this. I haven't told more then 5 people throughout my lifetime, because of the reaction shown when I told someone. No one will ever convince me that this wasn't real.


Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: 1982

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Accident Hit by truck(s). Other: knocked unconscious from being hit by one or two trucks while crossing street.

How do you consider the content of your experience? Entirely pleasant

Did you feel separated from your body? Yes Where I was and the man walking up the sidewalk from the direction of the car parked in front of where I was lying. I clearly left my body and existed outside it

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? More consciousness and alertness than normal. I felt blissful, no pain or sorrow. I wanted to stay there.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? When I was above my body, I call it floating above my body

Were your thoughts speeded up? Incredibly fast

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning. It all happened in in a flash but It had to be longer.

Were your senses More vivid than usual? Incredibly more vivid

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. My vision was expanded until I focused on my wife.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I can't remember hearing anything

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere, as if by ESP? No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? No

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings? No

Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? No

Did you see an unearthly light? No

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? No

What emotions did you feel during the experience? I felt blissfulness and concern that my wife needed me.

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Incredible peace or pleasantness

Did you have a feeling of joy? Incredible joy

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? No

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? No

Did scenes from your past come back to you? No

Did scenes from the future come to you? No

Did you come to a border or point of no return? I came to a definite conscious decision to return to life. I came back for my wife. But I believe I could had stayed there if I decided to.

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Christian- Catholic Not a believer but tried to believe

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Uncertain I'm still not that religious but know we have a creator who has a better place waiting for us.

What is your religion now? Christian- Catholic Believe in a creator and that we are here as a spirit farm.

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was entirely not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience. Didn't know what happens when I die.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes There is an afterlife.

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? No

Did you see deceased or religious spirits? No

Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)? No

During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? No

During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? Uncertain Hard to answer that. I felt like I was part of everything.

During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? No

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? No

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? An afterlife definitely exists. I was a separate entity from my body. I was 'alive?' without my body. I knew I couldn't be seen.

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? Yes Wasn't afraid of death but that fear returned in time because I wouldn't want to leave my wife and children.

During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? No

During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes Hard to answer but felt blissful in a loving way.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life. My wife passed away before me, which comforts me knowing she went where I was going and that we will be reunited when I pass over.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes We hopefully will see our families again in the afterlife.

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? No

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience? I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience. As I said, it is as though it just happened.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? No

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Thinking, no I can't go yet and diving back into my body. That it really happened and it was no dream.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes My wife right away. My children when they grew up. Very few others as they seemed not to believe it really happened and one said it must had been a dream.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? No

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real. It was and is Definitely real to this very moment.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real It was and is Definitely real to this very moment.

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? No

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience? NO

Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? A little redundant.