Donna S NDE

Experience Description

On June 16, 1992, I was at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, giving birth to my first son. During labor, we experienced serious complications because the umbilical cord was wrapped around my baby's neck. For several hours, I tried my best to deliver him naturally through the vaginal canal, but although he was crowning, the cord prevented him from being fully delivered. I told my mother and my baby's father that I felt like I was dying. I could feel it happening, and I knew something was terribly wrong.

I was hemorrhaging, and my vital signs were dropping rapidly. A specialist was brought in to examine me and discovered that the umbilical cord was wrapped around my son's neck. Because of the complications and severe bleeding, the doctors decided that I needed an emergency Cesarean section. As they transferred me to another room for surgery, I could feel myself slowly slipping away.

Suddenly, I found myself completely outside my physical body, hovering approximately seven feet above the floor. I was floating above everyone's head, watching the medical staff prepare my body for surgery. I could clearly see them cleaning my stomach with Betadine, placing blue surgical drapes around my abdomen, and preparing the surgical instruments. I watched them secure my body and begin the operation, using what appeared to be a device with four parts to open the surgical area. From my position above the operating table, I witnessed the doctors physically remove my baby from my abdomen.

While watching the birth of my son, I suddenly noticed my father standing in the right corner of the room. He was there with me in spirit, even though he had already passed away. I could see him as clearly as I could see everyone else in the room. I was hovering above him as well as the medical staff, and I was able to observe everything that was happening. My father was present throughout the birth, and I believe he was watching over me during this life-threatening experience.

After witnessing the delivery of my son, I suddenly felt an intense sensation, almost as though I were being electrocuted. It felt like an electrical current was passing through my spiritual body, followed by the sensation of being slammed forcefully back down into my physical body. I later understood that the medical staff had been resuscitating me on the operating table. I felt the electrical sensation even while I was outside my body, and then I was suddenly pushed back into my physical vessel.

When I returned to my body, I was not immediately aware that I was back inside it. I found myself looking around a hospital room, but what I saw was unlike anything I had ever experienced. The room seemed to extend into endless dimensions, with thousands upon thousands of hospital beds stretching into infinity. It was like looking into mirrors reflecting other mirrors, with rows of hospital beds repeating forever and ever. The dimensions seemed endless, and I could see these countless beds extending farther than my eyes could follow. This was part of what I experienced during my encounter with death.

After being resuscitated, I remained in a coma for almost two weeks. When I first regained consciousness, I had no idea how long I had been unconscious or what had happened to me. I did not realize that I had nearly died or that so much time had passed. My first thought was about my baby, and I began screaming at the top of my lungs.

"Where's my baby? Where's my baby?"

A nurse came into the room and gave me an injection in my leg, after which I lost consciousness again. I returned to a state of complete darkness, with no light, images, or awareness of my surroundings. It was as though I had entered a very deep, dark sleep.

When I finally woke up again, I began feeling the full extent of the pain in my body. I could feel tremendous surgical pain below my waist, and my legs hurt so badly that I could not move them. I felt completely disabled, as though I had lost control of my lower body. The pain was horrific and traumatizing, especially after everything I had already experienced.

When the medical staff came into my room, they tried to calm me down and explained that I had a very high fever. Because of my condition, I was not allowed to hold my baby or breastfeed him. By that time, my son had already been taken home and was being fed Similac formula. He had been given formula before I had even been allowed to hold him. This was extremely upsetting because all I wanted was to have my baby in my arms.

I knew my son was alive because I had watched the doctors deliver him while I was outside my body. I remembered seeing them remove him from my abdomen, and I desperately wanted to know where he was. At the same time, I kept asking about my father because I remembered seeing him standing in the operating room during the delivery.

"Where's my father? Where's my father? I saw him!"

The people around me insisted that my father had not been there. They explained that my mother, grandmother, and baby's father had been at the hospital, but no one else had been present. My brother had arrived later to see the baby, but during the actual surgery, only the medical staff and I had been in the operating room. I continued insisting that I had seen my father standing in the corner because the memory was absolutely clear to me.

My father had been separated from my life when I was only three years old. Later, when I turned twenty-one, I conducted an investigation to find out what had happened to him. An investigator obtained his death certificate and gave it to me. I was astonished to discover that my father had died approximately three months before my near-death experience on June 16, 1992. At the time of my son's birth, my father had already passed over to the other side.

This discovery was extremely significant to me because I had seen my father standing in the operating room during my out-of-body experience. I believe he was able to be there in his spiritual form because he had already died. I also believe he could see me in my spiritual form while I was hovering above the medical staff. His presence during the birth of my son confirmed something that I had experienced firsthand but had not understood at the time.

Because of this experience, I know for myself that there is life after death and that spiritual consciousness continues beyond the physical body. I was fully aware of my surroundings while outside my body, and I was able to observe the medical staff, the surgical procedure, my son's birth, and my deceased father's presence.

I have also had two other experiences that I consider death experiences and another near-death experience. These involved drowning, a head injury, and an overdose of alcohol and pills. Each time I experienced what I believed was death, I also experienced leaving my physical body. Every time I returned, I carried memories of being conscious outside my body.

I have also experienced unusual spiritual gifts since I was approximately four years old. These include seeing future events and having dreams or visions about extreme weather disasters, people dying, and pets or other animals dying before those events actually happened. I consider myself a prognosticator because I have experienced these abilities throughout my life.

For approximately twenty-seven or twenty-eight years, I have kept dream diaries documenting my experiences, predictions, and unusual abilities. I have recorded dreams and visions involving future events so that I can compare what I experienced with what later happened. These records have helped me understand and document the spiritual experiences and abilities I believe I have been given.

Everything I have experienced has convinced me that life after death is absolutely real. I believe our spiritual consciousness survives the death of the physical body and that we remain aware of our surroundings after leaving it.

I am a living, walking testimony to that reality.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date of NDE: 06/16/1992

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes
Emergency C section complication in childbirth, hemorrhaging.

Did you feel separated from your body? I clearly left my body and existed outside it
I saw my son's father basically collapsing. He was losing consciousness because he was blacking out from the stress of me dying. And I saw my mother at the window of the door demanding to be let in. They wouldn't let her in the room. My grandmother told her to calm down, and she had to go back to the waiting room and sit down, and I kept trying to tell her I'm okay, I'm right here, I'm right here. But she couldn't hear me talking to her.

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? Every single moment after my heart stopped, basically, and I left my body. I felt an extremely high level of consciousness and was very much aware of everything going on in the room. I was able to see the entire procedure and was able to see my dead loved one, my father, in the room with me also.
I was able to not have any pain for some reason. I couldn't feel anything, but at the same time I was able to see as clear as day, just like I was 7 foot tall. I felt like I was an extremely tall person over the heads of everybody working on me. I was physically over the top of them. I could hear them talking, I could hear them saying pretty much everything about the procedure, and also they were working pretty hard to bring me back.

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? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Time seemed to go faster or slower than usual
Time to me seemed like minutes. It did, even though it was several weeks of this experience, or several, actually minutes seemed like seconds. And when I was in the coma, it felt like just a few hours or something. And they're telling me it was two weeks, but I did not feel like it was that long.

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 so vivid and so clear that I felt like I was able to yell out to them. I was able to scream at them and talk to them, and nobody could hear me. I was telling everybody, you know, I'm here, I'm here, and I was looking at my dad. I kept saying, I want to go with you. He didn't say a word to me. He was not even able to move or walk toward me. He just stood there staring at me like he was basically in a trance.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience It actually sounded a little bit louder than usual, like everything was amplified. I heard multiple voices speaking over each other too.

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? Yes, and the facts have been checked out

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? I actually saw them

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased beings? Yes
My father was definitely there in spirit. He had already passed away, but nobody had knowledge of that until after the fact. And my mom, my baby's dad, and my mother were there, but they were alive. And I saw all the medical staff and the anesthesiologist.

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

Did you see an unearthly light? No

Did you seem to enter another world? Some unfamiliar and strange place
I was able to enter into another dimension of the hospital where I saw a plethora of beds next to me, going on for thousands and thousands and thousands of beds. It was like a never ending dimension of the hospital, almost like a mirror was installed and it just showed a reflection going on forever.

What emotions did you feel during the experience? It was more of an excitement. I did not feel joy whatsoever. I was very upset that my baby was being taken away from me, and I wasn't able to control the situation. I wasn't able to hold him or have any control over anything that was happening to me, because I was completely disconnected. So it kind of stressed me out. I felt hyper and stressed. I felt like I was basically yelling at everybody, and nobody wanted to listen to me or pay attention to anything I was saying because they couldn't see me. They didn't see my spiritual form.

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

Did you have a feeling of joy? No

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

Did you suddenly understand everything? Everything about the universe
I completely understood everything about the universe. I knew for a fact that my conscious spiritual body was able to be completely separated from my physical body, and I was able to look at myself from outside of it. That made me very much aware also that my father being able to visit me during that time in my life, dying, and him also being dead, made me feel more assured that I'm going to be able to be with him when I die in the future.

Did scenes from your past come back? No

Did scenes from the future come? Every single death experience I've had, I've had prognosticational visions that have all come true, and they're all in my dream logs. The most important one that I've ever had was in the visions of the Orville, down breach, and of deaths of other people's babies, being able to know their sex and that they're going to be born stillborn. I've been able to predict animal deaths, have visions of extremely terrible disasters, and be able to number the death toll. And the most crazy one of all is, I predicted all of the bugasphere orbs and the silver spherical orbs that were going to make their presence known to Earth, and some supernatural or extraterrestrial activity that is coming to the planet. I was also shown the Easter Island heads and they had scriptures and glyphs and carvings on their backs, and they told me the meaning of those carvings. I'm the only one on the entire planet that knows what those mean. Nobody else has been able to decipher them, but they told me exactly what they mean, and I wrote that also in my dream log. And several years after the fact, the Bugas fierce heads were uncovered and were found to be true, that they did have engravings on their backs. But nobody has been able to decipher them except me.

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No

Did you come to a border or point of no return? I came to a barrier that I was not permitted to cross; or was sent back against my will
I wanted to reach into my father. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to hug him. I wanted to go to him, but it prevented me from doing that. I also wanted to go down to my baby, and I could not physically go to him. It was like something was holding me back. It wasn't allowing me to be able to mobilize myself.

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Christian - Other Christian
Baptist Christian

Have your religious practices changed? Yes
Like I said before, yes, it caused me to have a deeper, more spiritual bond and relationship with God.

What is your religion now? Christian - Other Christian
Baptist Christian

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 believed in the supernatural realm already, because I had experienced it earlier in life, and I had supernatural gifts as well to communicate.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes
I began having more deeper ESP. The gifts were a lot stronger. My psychic abilities or my prognostication abilities were more amplified.

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
I heard a voice clearly talking. And it did not sound like anybody I knew, or anybody that was in the room. There was somebody speaking to me.

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? Yes
There is certainly a universal consciousness of awareness and connection to other spiritual beings.

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? Yes
My special knowledge and purpose since age 4. Before this death, I had died of drowning, and I also got killed by a neighbor with a head concussion and was brought back. So I have other stories to tell. But at the same time, in the first death experience that happened to me, I had a voice talking to me as well. I was able to see future events from that point about earthquakes in California, and I was able to warn my family from 1979 forward of the Pasadena Rose Bowl quake that happened in Pasadena, California, during the Rose Bowl Game, and it happened exactly like I told my mother it was going to happen. And I actually got injured in that earthquake, and nobody believed me when I told them to take us out of the house, that there were three shadow beings jumping around dancing to the song Bricks in a Wall that was playing on the stereo. I saw the three shadow beings on the roof and I told them to come outside. I had left my body and was astrally projected out of my body onto the front walkway of the entrance door, and nobody believed me. I kept telling them to come out, come out. And when I went back into my body, I told the woman sitting next to me while I was sitting on the couch, they were eating hot dogs and watching the Super Bowl on TV, and I told everybody that there were three monkeys, which is how I looked at them. I thought they were like gorillas or something. And I said, they're up on the roof, and they laughed at me and told me I was silly, and I told them to come outside, come outside, and they were trying to get me to come outside. That's the whole point, but nobody believed me. And the popcorn ceiling, the asbestos type popcorn ceiling that we had, had cracked and fractured and broke off the ceiling and smashed us in the face. It scratched my entire nose, gashed my neighbor's right eye, and she went screaming out of the house saying that your daughter's a witch, your daughter's a witch, and she thought, because she's so superstitious, that I was the one who caused it to happen. But I was just warning her that it was going to happen in my own childlike way at such a young age. And nobody believed me. And then it was too late and we got injured, but ever since then, I was able to go back to the USGS to quantify the fact that that experience of mine as a child really did happen during the Rose Bowl Game, and there was a pretty large significant earthquake that day. And I was able to predict it at 4 years old, so having all of those memories in me on this death experience with my son, I was already hyper aware that I have special gifts to see the future and I can connect to the supernatural realm.

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? Yes
I know that love and connection with your spiritual ones are able to be done. I was able to have contact with them even after the fact. So I know that they're always around us and they're always aware, even though they're not alive anymore. They're able to communicate with us and connect to us. So I believe the purpose in life is love.

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? Yes
There is definitely a continuation of life after death. A hundred percent guaranteed.

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? Yes
There was a special nurse. I believe she started to freak out because of my age, and also because of the high risk of death. She felt like I wasn't going to be able to be revived. And I was just basically telling them I'm alive, I'm alive and I'm not dead, and they didn't have any awareness that I was outside of my body. I don't think they've ever experienced real life death experiences either, so it was very difficult for me to communicate to the living. Even though I was yelling at the top of my lungs and in my awareness of my own death, I was not even afraid that I died. I already knew I was going to die before it happened. I even told my mother and my baby's father that I was dying, and my mom yelled at the doctor, telling them she's telling the truth, you better listen to her. She's going to die, and that's when they came in and swept around in my vaginal canal to find that the baby's cord was wrapped around his throat, and that I was hemorrhaging, and I was fading, I was fading, my vital signs were slipping away, and they rushed me into an emergency C section. So the fact that I knew I was dying, but I wasn't afraid of it. I embraced it, and I just let it happen. Basically I didn't struggle or scream or fight. I just let it happen.

During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? Yes
My most traumatic experience of this death was the fact that I was going through a lot of domestic violence and labor abuse with my baby's father at the time, and it made me not want to come back to my body. I wanted to stay with my father. What, no, I'm busy, I'm trying to finish this report. Leave me alone. No, I don't like how you're talking to me, and I don't want to deal with it.

During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes
I definitely experienced an undying love for my father. Knowing that he was there to be with me even in the afterlife, because he couldn't be with me in real life, proved to me that love completely exists in life after death and beyond this body.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life
My relationship with my mother was greatly, significantly altered, because of the lies that she told and the horrible story she told about my father and preventing me from being able to have him in my life. But there was no bond that could ever be severed between a father and a daughter. In the spiritual realm, I let her know straight to her face that she could never cut or sever that bond, that I was able to experience him in the afterlife, and that he's there waiting for me. And I look forward to seeing him again soon.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes
Yes, it caused a great division between me and my biological mother, my brothers as well, and even other atheist family members. We separated, and it caused great division between me and my atheist relatives, because I was adamant that God is real, and they had no belief system whatsoever. And I told them, I guess it's going to take them to die to believe.

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
This is the type of experience of death being able to be with my father again, and see him again in the afterlife, that will be forever haunting me. The rest of my life I've made music about it. I've written songs about it, and I've shared it publicly, the experience that I had with my father.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes
Being able to experience future events and waking visions, not just in dreams, but actual waking visions, and writing them down and timestamping them and putting them into dream logs, and then being quantified or being able to be proven. Its trail has significantly increased after my death experience with my son.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Seeing my father again filled a massive void in my life and reassured me that he is always there, and he's always waiting for me, and that he always loved me. And nobody on this earth could sever that bond.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes
I shared it immediately with the hospital staff, my relatives, and friends at school. I wasn't afraid to tell anybody the testimonies that I've had of my death experience, all four of them.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Yes
I died at the age of 4 from a drowning. I also died at the age of 5 of a severe head injury caused by a drunk neighbor in a domestic violence assault against her husband. She threw a bottle and struck me in the head, in the back of my head, and I hit a coffee table, and it killed me instantly. I also had another later in life, in my thirties, an attempted suicide that I was revived from, and every single death experience I've ever had has always led me to have an out of body experience and to make contact with the spiritual realm.

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. The moment was happening to me. I knew it was real the moment I became conscious and in my body again, and nothing and nobody could ever make me believe otherwise.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real
The reality of my experience altered everything. I believed in Christian beliefs and it made me dive deeper into my spiritual teachings and the Bible and being able to have a deeper, closer relationship with God.

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
Like I said, everything I've ever experienced in death was out of body, very vivid, very real, very lucid, completely aware. It was not a dream. It was not my imagination, it was not just some brain injury. I actually died.

Anything else to add? Everybody experiencing what I went through would have to die to experience it. It's not something you could experience alive. You'd literally have to die to be separated from the body. And no drug, no alcohol, no pill, no type of meditation could ever get you to experience that without actually dying.