Christa H Other

Experience Description

I went to bed on the night of January 25th feeling relaxed. I sleep with a satin eye mask on. Sometime early on January 26th, I woke from a dream and then had a vision. I know they were two separate experiences.

In the dream, I wore a mask over my nose and mouth. I was in a room filled with beautiful green and blue water bottles. Every bottle was full, but I could not drink from them. I tried to remove the mask, but I could not. I woke to the darkness of my eye mask and thought I needed water. Then I started seeing swirling colors and visions, whether my eyes were open or closed behind the mask.

I have had visions before and tried to understand them over the years. My past visions were always black, white, gray, or silvery. This one was different. The colors were bright magentas, oranges, and pinks like a sunset. In the middle of the colors I saw biblical angels. They were not human-looking angels. They looked like orbs covered with eyes and wings. I had seen beings like this before, but never this vividly or with these colors.

As I watched, I noticed two entities talking just outside my left peripheral vision. I instantly understood they were both me. One was the soul that had lived in this body for years. The other was my higher self. My attention moved between the waves of color and their conversation. It felt like some kind of performance review. My higher self seemed to be coaching the lower self about what to do next.

Then the colors shifted into the face of a man with soft curls. His face moved closer to mine. Suddenly he began screaming. His mouth opened wide and his eyes narrowed into slits. It looked like he was screaming with all his strength, but I heard nothing. I wondered why he was so upset.

That was when I ripped off the eye mask and sat upright in bed. I felt like I was not breathing. I felt empty, almost uninhabited. I was extremely dizzy. I thought my cold had turned into a sinus infection because vertigo was common for me. I decided I needed antibiotics.

I stood up to get water and use the bathroom. First I walked toward the window for some reason. Then I turned toward the bathroom. The next thing I remember is waking up on the cold bathroom floor. My husband was shaking me hard. His face looked very similar to the screaming man from my vision. He was yelling at me to wake up and saying there was blood everywhere.

When I came to, he called 911. An ambulance took me to the emergency room. Three hours later the doctors told me to stay away from Nyquil and sent me home. By the time we returned home, I felt different in a way I could not explain. Even though I had broken my nose in the fall, I felt strangely good. I felt new.

In the days afterward, I noticed major changes. My mind became quiet. The constant low anxiety I had lived with for years disappeared. Then I realized something even stranger. My clinically diagnosed ADHD also seemed to be gone. My mind suddenly had space and calmness that I had never experienced before. Before the event, I carried a deep soul-weariness. I was not suicidal, but I felt exhausted by life. That heaviness vanished completely.

After speaking with a friend who had a similar experience, I came to believe something extraordinary had happened. I did not just believe it emotionally. I felt I understood it deeply. I believed my higher self entered my body that night.

I also remembered another event from childhood. When I was about seven years old, I passed out in the bathroom. My parents panicked. We lived in Germany then. Doctors tested me for epilepsy and neurological disorders. I even had a sleep study. They found nothing wrong. Before that childhood event, I had always feared sleep because I felt I went somewhere I did not want to leave. My parents often talked about how obsessed and frightened I was by death as a child.

Now I believe another version of my soul entered me during that childhood event. I think it came to learn certain lessons.

Since January, many things feel subtly but profoundly different. I have become more coordinated and almost ambidextrous. Before the event, I never truly felt fully inside my body. Now I feel connected to it. I feel calm inside it and more aware of it. On some level, I feel like this new soul presence is healing it.

Memories from before the event feel distant now. I still remember them, but they feel more like scenes from a movie than experiences that happened directly to me. Many things that once caused anxiety no longer bother me. My intuition feels stronger too. I often simply know things without understanding how.

I do not think I was close to death. But I do believe I accidentally opened some kind of portal. I believe my higher self replaced my younger soul and continued my life with a renewed purpose and a greater mission.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date of NDE: 01/26/2026

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes
I had a cold and was self-medicating with NyQuil. I'd also been experiencing pain in various areas of my body (knee, back) and was experiencing disrupted sleep due to vivid and prolonged dreams, so I had been using a CBD/CBG/THC gummy supplement at night in order to sleep more deeply and without dreaming. This had been working for a couple of months and I had also included microdoses of other THC and CBD products. The day and evening prior to the event, I had a massage where the therapist used CBD-enhanced cream, and I followed my normal routine with the other products I had used, and it was about the fourth day in a row I'd taken NyQuil in order to alleviate cold and congestion. I had no idea I was mixing multiple substances and potentially creating a perfect storm for a problem. The doctors could not definitively tell me what happened or why, and just chalked it up to 'vasovagal syncope' and it is my intuitive assessment that the substances I was taking lowered my already-low heart rate to a place where beats were less than 40 per minute. We do know that this was likely the case as I have an implanted loop recorder (ablation for benign SVT in January 2025) and my cardiologist called the day following the event with the EKG that showed the slowing rhythm along with the pauses.

How do you consider the content of your experience? Both pleasant AND distressing

Did you feel separated from your body? I lost awareness of my body

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? Just before I passed out
This is how I felt when I ended the vision and I continue to feel heightened.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness? More consciousness and alertness than normal

Were your thoughts speeded up? Incredibly fast

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? No

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 It was like a new kind of clarity.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience I did not notice any auditory things at the time.

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? I sensed their presence

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

Did you see or feel surrounded by a brilliant light? A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin

Did you see an unearthly light? Yes
Described in my narrative, moving and swirling colors.

Did you seem to enter another world? No

What emotions did you feel during the experience? I remember feeling relieved during the vision, and calm even when I woke up on the floor covered in blood.

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Relief or calmness

Did you have a feeling of joy? Happiness

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

Did you suddenly understand everything? Everything about myself or others
In my narrative: I believe I knew I was holding onto a body and something else was happening to the soul(s) inhabiting it.

Did scenes from your past come back? No

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? 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? Other faiths - New age
Consider myself highly spiritual and intuitive, with proven mediumship experiences but still with a healthy dose of skepticism, I'm not entirely sure what I believe happened to me but I know that something happened and I am extremely different now because of it.

Have your religious practices changed? No

What is your religion now? Other faiths - New age
same as above

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was entirely consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience
I've had many other visions, and even though they've been remarkable experiences, I always held a bit of space for not knowing what's really happening and what anyone can attribute to 'new age' woo. After this experience, I absolutely feel like my visions and experiences prior to it were validated.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes
I changed the scope of my financial services practice and began focusing on the writing career I've always wanted to have.

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin
Also described in my narrative, two entities beside me had a whole conversation.

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.)? Uncertain
I think the man in my vision screaming at me was/is one of my soul guides, who I've often thought was the soul of a child I miscarried in 1997.

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

During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? Yes
The conversation of souls, though I can't remember it specifically, was certainly tied to 'God', but I feel like God is the collective of our soul energies rather than a singular being.

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? Yes
I know now what I'm here for. I have talents to share and the work that I've done for my clients as a financial advisor is no longer about the work or even about money, I've been placed in a space to help families of children with disabilities in a very unique way. All that I have learned in an industry I actually abhor is about helping the souls that are in the most vulnerable of bodies: autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy.

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? Yes
That the bodies are modes of transportation and experience for souls.

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? Yes
Absolutely. I learned that our bodies are some kind of organic vehicle for a soul, and our souls are multi-dimensional in ways we cannot comprehend. Like I don't know what 'my higher self' was doing the last four decades while this other soul was experiencing some really hard earthly lessons, but I know that it was time for that soul to go elsewhere but not for this body to die yet.

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

During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? Yes
I know that the higher self was telling the departing soul that they could rest now and had done well in this life, in this body

During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes
The vision was purely love. It was like walking into the feeling of love.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes
My circle has grown smaller and I no longer seem to have time or patience for toxic people in my life.

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes
The words don't exist to describe the beauty and chaos of the vision.

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 as accurately as other life events that occurred around the time of the experience
I know very definitely that the first part of my experience was a dream, the second a vision, prior to an event that has been termed a 'walk-on soul'.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Uncertain
I believe I have always had some psychic and mediumship capabilities. The event seems to have made them stronger.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? The remarkable feeling of calm in my brain is something I find significant on a daily basis.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Yes
I've heard of it and knew people who had had experiences.

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real
I knew it was real while it was happening.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real
I know it's real because I'm sitting here talking about it.

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

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

Anything else to add? When my cardiologist called the day after, they were concerned because they thought the event happened while I was sleeping. I told them about the NyQuil, CBD, THC, and the fall in the bathroom with a broken nose, and the cardiologist said he couldn't see a physiological reason for the event other than my body reacting to those substances, and that if it occurred again, he was going to prescribe a pacemaker.