Klaus K NDE

Experience Description

My experience happened in the summer of 1974. I had just turned 10 years old. A friend and I were on our way through fields on our bicycles. We had ridden rather far away from our homes when my friend remembered that he needed to be home soon. As he didn't want to arrive late, he started to speed up. As I didn't want to bve left behind, I was also speeding after him. In order to get home, we had to cross a federal highway with high traffic. My friend was crossing this road with great speed, I was about 20 or 30 meters behind him. I kept my gaze on him, so I would not to lose him and crossed the road shortly after he did.

Suddenly, I found myself several meters high above the road. I never experienced anything of the crash. I remember seeing the light blue, VW-beetle car. But, then I found myself immediately above the road. Below, I saw a VW-beetle car and a desperate young man bending under the engine cover. From my vantage point, I also could see through the car, the engine cover and the engine. I also noticed my feet sticking out from under the car. Then I watched as the young man was pulling my body out from under the car.

As soon as he had completely pulled my body out from under the car, I was suddenly back in my body. To the utmost surprise of the young man, I simply got up, took my now totally wrecked bicycle and was running home while dragging the broken bicycle along. Amazingly, I had a multitude of scratches, but no fractures or other injuries.

During theexperience, I had no emotions when I saw my body lying under the car. I was an uninvolved observer.

Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: Sommer 1974

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes. Accident. Out of body experience

How do you consider the content of your experience? Neither pleasant NOR distressing

Did you feel separated from your body? No. 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? Normal consciousness and alertness

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? During the whole experience, I was in a state of consciousness and alertness.

Were your thoughts speeded up? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? No

Were your senses More vivid than usual? No

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 didn't feel any emotions as I was in the role of an uninvolved observer.

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? No

Did you have a feeling of joy? No

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? No

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Christian- Catholic Growing up in a strictly Catholic family

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? No. I can't assess to what extent this experience contributed to my further spiritual way of life.

What is your religion now? Buddhist Yoga und Buddhismus

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was both consistent and not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience. As a 10 year old boy at the time, I didn't feel like I had experienced something unusual. It rather felt like something normal and self-evident. I didn't wonder at all about this out of body experience. But I had a feeling to keep the experience private, and did so for many years. I had no explanation for this. Looking back, I'm extremely astonished about this.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? No

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 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

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? No

During your experience, did you gain information about love? No

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Unknown At the time of the experience I was 10 years old, and had been growing up in a strictly Catholic family. During the many years after, I always had strange and also wonderful spiritual experiences; one was that I have been standing at the roadside of my life like beautiful flowers. Those partly spiritual experiences were leading to the fact that my life was more and more spiritually influenced and aligned.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? No

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. I still can remember the experience, almost as well as at the time when it occurred, 46 years ago.

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? Very significant for me is the fact of being able to see through the car, as if the engine cover and the engine, under which my body was lying. I also consider as meaningful, the aspect that in no way I had a feeling of having experienced something special. It felt as if I had been having this experience many times, which definitely wasn't the case. Also astonishing was that I didn't experience the collision with the car.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes The first time I shared my experience was with a Female classmate, who was interested in this matter. Then with nobody for many years.

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

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience? Yes

Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience? Uncertain