Sheila L SDE

Experience Description

The experience I'm describing this time happened in a hospital room. The man's wife and daughter had just left the room. I was attempting to help him eat his lunch, but he didn't want it. I stepped back from his bed, and he made a small sound. Then I felt him floating above his body. It felt like the air pressure in the room changed, and the room filled up with people. I couldn't see them, but I felt their presence. Then it felt like a doorway opened in the room. I felt a pure unconditional love come through that doorway. I felt that love completely surround me. Then it was like the man went through the door, along with all the people in the room, and the door closed.

I have a history of TBI from when I was 12 years old. This happened 53 years ago. At that time, I spent three days in a coma. I woke up with both legs in traction due to both femurs having compound fractures and a skull fracture. I have no memory of an NDE from this. I also learned energy healing called Healing Touch in nursing school. I believe my history has helped open me up to all I have sensed and still sense now.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date of NDE: 00/00/2008

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes
At the time of this experience it was not my life, but the patient, a man in the hospital bed I was caring for, who crossed over.

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

Did you feel separated from your body? No

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? When the man left his body and the doorway to heaven opened.
I felt a pure unconditional love that I realize could only come from God. I know it cannot be found here.

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? No

Were your senses more vivid than usual? More vivid than usual

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience I did not see anything different, but only felt what I couldn't see.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience No change in hearing.

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? Yes
I believe the beings that I felt in the hospital room were there for the man that had just left his body.

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? No

What emotions did you feel during the experience? Unconditional pure 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 united or one with the world

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? Christian - Other Christian

Have your religious practices changed? Uncertain
Because of all my life experiences, I'm content. The only change from this last experience is I have felt God's true love for me. I look forward to going home someday to live surrounded by his love.

What is your religion now? Christian - Other Christian
This experience, along with my past experiences, has just strengthened my faith. I know what is waiting for me when my Lord takes me home.

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
My faith was always there, but having felt God's love coming through that doorway only strengthened my faith. It took away any lingering fear I may have had. I no longer fear death. It is even hard for me to mourn family now when they go before me. I know I will see them again.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes
I always believed in God, but after having felt his love so strongly, I no longer believe in death, only crossing over. I don't mourn the passing of friends or family. I know where they are going and I will see them again.

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 didn't see or hear any beings, but I felt their presence fill the hospital room I was standing in.

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? Uncertain
Not during this experience, but a past experience gave me knowledge of past lives we may live. I had a fear of the sound of drums. A shaman helped me discover a possible past life and heal from the drum sounds. Also, when I was doing a trauma release Healing Touch treatment on a man that had night terrors, we discovered he had a past life where he was being marched over a hill with a group of other people to their execution during the Holocaust. After the treatment he came back to tell me the night terrors were gone and he could sleep through the night.

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
As said earlier, God is very real to me. He is my heavenly Father, and his love for me knows no bounds. I look forward to the day I meet Jesus in heaven. I look forward to giving to him and receiving from him a hug.

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? Yes
The knowledge I gain is the gift from our Lord that he is real and he loves me unconditionally, and that the home waiting for me is a perfectly wonderful place where I will be loved unconditionally by my heavenly Father. I will also finally meet my Lord and Savior Jesus.

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? Yes
Through this experience and others I no longer fear death. I believe we are here to fulfill a contract and to learn lessons. I now almost look at this life as a play we are going through until our parts in the play are over, then we go home.

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? Yes
This experience and others have just strengthened my knowledge that God is very real, that his love for us is pure and unconditional, and that I am here just to learn, and then one day he will take me back home to live with him. I simply don't believe in death.

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? Yes
Throughout my life I have experienced many things. I have felt God's pure unconditional love, had proof of past lives, and no longer fear death because I don't believe in it. I learned how to help others with healing some areas of their issues.

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
I experienced pure unconditional love like no other love.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life
I ended up on disability due to TBI, and PTSD symptoms increase with stress. I have moved several times, but all in all I'm more at peace than I have ever been because of this life changing experience.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes
I enjoy friendships with family and friends, but I'm also content to be alone. I find I'm content both ways.

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 admit that due to the TBI I had as a kid, I have some lingering deficits. I have trouble remembering specific dates and other things, some speech and cognitive difficulty when stress increases, but I will not forget this event. I crave that pure unconditional love. I know it is waiting for me when I'm called home someday.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Uncertain
I have been empathic for most of my life, and it is hard to be around crowds. My uncle taught me how to divine with copper welding rods to find things. Working on a psychiatric unit in our local hospital after having done Healing Touch, I opened up and heard the voices coming from a schizophrenic client. I had to learn to shut this off. Doing Healing Touch on a client who had fibromyalgia, my hands felt like I had put them in a bee's nest. These are just a few of my experiences.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Just feeling the pure unconditional love that surrounded me. Until I felt that, I didn't know what true love was. I will never forget this now.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes
I don't remember how long it was before I shared this. But when I started to share I got mixed reactions. My daughter and her husband just tell me I'm crazy, and another friend I shared with has been trying to connect with God more.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Yes
When I was 12 years old, I had a motor vehicle accident. The horse I was riding was hit by a truck. I was in a coma for 3 days. I don't remember any NDE from this, but I felt more peace when I woke up than before.

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real
Because prior to this experience I have felt angels around me, my uncle could see and talk to those that crossed over, and again the feeling of the spirits in the room was very strong, the pure unconditional love surrounded me. It had to be real.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real
I already had knowledge that heaven is real and God's love is 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
Each question helps to explain the experiences and helps to bring out my answers to your questions.