Near Death Experience

Post Reply New Topic

About a couple of months ago, I was relocated to sleep on my couch due to my horrendous snoring. By morning, I had a strange experience. I thought I heard and felt an electrical impulse in my head. When I woke up, I felt this tremendously, beautiful surge of loving energy as if a long, dead synapse was re-connected - love and understanding synapse. It was love directed at me. It wanted nothing in return. The room even had a pinkish hue to it. I went back to sleep and woke up later the same miserable person that I always am. All this time, I've been longing to feel that sensation again. I started to think that it must have been a good vitamin or some good food that I had during the day that did this. I even started to wish that I had remained awake after this to maybe reconnect my whole damned brain. Strangely, the previous night, I was texting my son who was waiting for me to pick him up at a train station. My cell phone picked up a message that said, "I'll be right there" but it came from my own phone as if I sent it to myself which I didn't. Whether or not this had anything to do with my experience is something i will never know. Well, now, I think I know what the experience was. After a physical, my doctor suggested I go for a sleep study at the hospital due to my mention of snoring and feeling tired most of the time. They found that I tend to stop breathing during the night so I need to have an appliance made for my mouth and possible start using a CPAP machine. Then, something occurred to me. I think I may have actually died and that experience was God. The surge was coming back to life but that feeling was a remnant. I NEVER believed in these sort of things until now. I think I experienced the "in-between" portion of being biologically dead but spiritually awakened. This HAD to be SOMETHING because I NEVER experienced such a feeling. Right now, I'm profusely crying because I feel ashamed of any negative thoughts I ever had about my life or anytime I didn't appreciate what I had. We are blessed in ways that our brains cannot possibly understand. Please believe me.

You had a non-death experience? Maybe just lack of oxygen. I got a cpap, and it makes a world of difference.

According to the internet:

Sleep apnea is literally when a person stops breathing during sleep. As a result, the brain undergoes repeated moments of suffocating. In popular culture, snoring is viewed as funny, and people often laugh when a snoring person lets out a sudden explosive snort. The reality is this loud snort is often the person gasping for air, as the brain is not getting enough oxygen. Sleep apnea interrupts sleep for both the sleeper and their bed partner. In the case of a female patient whose husband refuses to get evaluated despite showing signs of sleep apnea, I often urge the patient to bring their husband with them to their next appointment with me. Whether it’s the patient or the spouse, I often hear the line, “I have always slept this way.” When that happens, I explain that poor sleep is like alcohol. In our 20s, drinking a six-pack of beer would lead to a rough morning after, but the same six-pack of beer in our 50s can require a week to fully recover from. Likewise, recovering after an all-nighter without sleep in our 20s tends to be much easier than trying to pull an all-nighter in our 50s. That being said, younger brains tend to be more resilient with toxic situations, like alcohol consumption and sleep dysfunction, than the same brains later in life.

If improvement of headaches, mood, energy, wakefulness, memory, and cognition are not motivation enough, I also advise that untreated sleep apnea leads to an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, and dementia (brain damage). That usually gets people’s attention, and reduces the need for me to perform unnecessary surgeries like a husbandectomy to allow the wife with insomnia to get a good night’s sleep, and subsequently less headaches.

Source: Snored to death: The symptoms and dangers of untreated sleep apnea

So in a way your brain was starting to experience death by lack of oxygen.

For many years I snored which kept my wife awake all night. She was a light sleeper. I had weight loss surgery and lost significant weight. One of the side effects of the surgery was that my sleep apnea went into remission and has remained in remission for 5 years now. I would wake up sometimes and find my wife hovering over my body. I asked her what she was doing. She would say that I was sleeping so soundly that she thought I died and she was checking to see if I was still alive.

You connected to The Source. As for the message, yes, it sounds like something was communicating with you.

Asphyxiation is not the best way to achieve a transcendent experience. David Carradine might disagree.

^^^yup.

Sounds perfectly believable to me. It's happened to a lot of people. I've come close to dying a couple of times, but probably not far enough for that experience.

Apnea-induced anoxia is the simplest explanation, and does not require the assumption of supernatural entities.

That's the good thing about believing in an afterlife... you'll never know if you're wrong.

if I didn't have my faith i'd be lost.