Have you ever had an out of body or near death experience?

I don't know if you'd call mine an out of body experience as such,but 5 years ago i miscalculated my antidepressents,i went all sleepy,my eyes were apparantly rolling and i couldn't wake myself up properly for bout 4 hours,while i was in and out of consiousness i saw myself floating round the earth and also lying on the couch...Also i believe in spirits and stuff,my grandma who died years ago used to visit me every night,one night while she was there and i was sitting on the chair watching tv,i suddenly went into a daydream type state and i saw myself sitting in the chair,like my spirit had left my body and i was standing in the corner of the room

im one of them..just check out my discussions i do have a topic identical to this one..the experience changes you totally in the way you view life..nowadays i dont think im human anymore..i feel like an ANGEL living inside my body alongside my spirit..

im one of them..just check out my discussions i do have a topic identical to this one..the experience changes you totally in the way you view life..nowadays i dont think im human anymore..i feel like an ANGEL living inside my body alongside my spirit..

i only heard of stories like this and saw them in movies. i wonder if they really are true. how about you? ann

Actually, I have never had that kind of experience. But I have been the victim of a violent crime. I was stabbed 17 times and cut from my ear to my windpipe and remained almost docile. I was just kinda not in my mind while it was happening. I really can't explain what I mean. I just knew while it was happening that it wasn't my time to die. That I would be "OK"! While I was being stabbed and trying to keep him off me something said to me "play dead" and as he stabbed one more time and almost cut my left ear off and the blood was covering my face I just laid down on my bed and played dead and he left my room and ran out of the house. But before he left he stabbed my son in the face under his eye and it went threw his sinus and down threw the roof of his mouth. Now my kid can't smell anything thing anymore. But when they rushed me to the hospital the doctor said if I had not played dead and remained calm like I did I would have bleed out because of all the stab wounds I had and how deep they were. He said I was lucky. They had to open my chest to make sure none of the stabbings went in my heart or lungs. I was out of the hospital in three days. God really saved me.

hi peacefulwmn9,

you are right, but after death our astral body is wandering near about areas of death place and watching all things happening to the deadly body

Hi Karen!
I've heard people telling about near death experience and I have read about it like you. Fortunately or unfortunately I or any of my near relatives have not faced any such experience so far. People who have faced such experience first hand can throw more light on this issue.
Nonetheless, quite an interesting discussion.

I have been dead for 5 minutes during my Ceasarian operation with my baby. I never felt that light nor being drawn to it. I never felt that I have been dead. They are about to revived me when I heard someone told me that my baby is a girl and the baby started to cry. I immediately open my eyes and spoke and they can't believe theirselves. That was my near death experience. Maybe it is not yet my time.

yes i have and it was horrible, it frightened the life out of me, last year after i had cance surgery i was poorly and i was in my bed under the influence of medication, i was laying there but i could see myself laying there, it elt like i had got up and floated away from myself, i also saw a bright light above me and i really thought at that moment i was going to die, i immediately got uo out of bed and went to get some fresh air but i will never forget that experience, it was a scarey moment for me.

I often have OBE's. It's usually before falling asleep but I've also had them at other times. I've had them all my life. The only way I can describe them is like a dream where you are watching yourself and yet still being aware of what you are doing. It's more like there are suddenly two of me and one is defying the laws of nature. I'm often floating above the scene or looking over my own shoulder.
I've also experienced a near death experience. It was during the birth of my daughter and it was for me an uplifting experience. (I've heard of ones where the person experienced a kind of Hell!) I went somewhere very beautiful but didn't see anyone. I just had an over-whelming sense of peace and then a sudden urge to go back and the idea that I had much to do before I could return 'home'. I then saw the Doctors trying to revive me and I saw one holding a suture and asking how I looked then remembered nothing till I woke up.
I remember two nurses talking and when I asked one of them later about why she'd called my baby a little doll she nearly freaked out! They were in the corridor not in the theatre! When I eventually saw my little girl the reason was obvious, although full term, she was tiny (4lb 3ozs) and because she was a Ceasarian birth she was unmarked and very beautiful.
I don't know (or care) what caused it, whether it's an indication that there is a 'life' after death or just the random firing of electrons in the dying brain as scientists say, all I know is that it was an enjoyable experience and that I've never feared death. (I fear the pain of illness before dying though)