Elaine P Probable NDE

Experience Description

Being twenty at the time and three months pregnant, I wasn't allowed to receive any normal post-op drugs. I had two tablets every four hours and in a lot of pain.

I went down a a dark helter-skelter tunnel. At the bottom was this beautiful, whiter-than-white space and a feeling of absolute peace. A woman was standing there in a 1940s-style WRAF uniform. She looked a bit like me but wasn't as tall. Her hair was done up in combs in the 1940s style. She told me that "It's not your time yet; you have to go back." So I climbed all the way back up the tunnel, and that's when I started to get better.

I described her to my dad, and he said it sounded just like his sister who died in 1945 when she was twenty and three months pregnant. I have never seen a picture of her, and my dad never talked about her. After that, it was amazing how green the grass and the trees were. The birdsong never sounded so lovely. I no longer fear death, although I wouldn't want it to be long and painful.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date of NDE: 5th June 1986

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes
I was stabbed in the stomach while on a hospital bed 48 hours after having my appendix out. I believed I was going to die but came through an operation to repair my bowel and the day after I had my experience.

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

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? I don’t know. It’s like I fell asleep.
It just felt like a dream

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

Were your thoughts speeded up? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning
There was no sense of time or life or people I had left it just was.

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 Everything was much brighter

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience Apart from my aunt speaking it was quiet

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

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? Uncertain
A helter skelter is like a tunnel but not.

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

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased beings? Yes
An aunt I had never met

Did you see or feel surrounded by a brilliant light? An unusually bright light

Did you see an unearthly light? Yes
It’s a brightness you can’t descibe

Did you seem to enter another world? Some unfamiliar and strange place
Just a brilliantly white space

What emotions did you feel during the experience? Peace and love

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? I felt no longer in conflict with nature

Did you suddenly understand everything? No

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? Unaffiliated- Nothing in particular- Religious unaffiliated

Have your religious practices changed? Yes
I became Roman Catholic.

What is your religion now? Christian- Catholic
After my experience my faith came to me I finally had something to believe in.

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
I believed in nothing after the experience that changed. I still don’t believe in God as a being but he was there in that feeling of peace and love and the Catholic Church seems to come closest to what I felt.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes
Before I was coasting through life it taught me to appreciate it a bit more

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
Definitely female in 1940s WRAF uniform

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? 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? Yes
This is not all there is there is better to come.

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

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? Yes
The fact that my aunt who died many years before was talking to me.

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? No

During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes
Love is the point.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life
While I appreciate what I have now I’m also ready for what is to come

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
Nearly 40 years later and I can still remember accurately everything about what I saw and felt. I don’t remember the operation to take my appendix out which was only 48hrs before and what happened leading up to being stabbed is fuzzy.

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? The fact that I look like my aunt a fact I never knew

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes
I told my dad straight away he went very pale as I described the woman I saw he said I had no way of knowing what she looked like. I believe in sharing what I know with my family it made my dads passing easier and I hope it will be the same for my mum when her time comes.

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 too vivid not to be real.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real
It’s still too vivid not to be real

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
I wrote it as it was.