# Anyone ever had a NDE (near-death experience)?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 7, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123 "2004-01-07T01:36:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/1 "2004-01-07T01:36:57Z")
I was wondering this today. I’ve never had one. Any of you all ever had one? If so, what was it like?
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### Author:  [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/2 "2004-01-07T01:50:05Z")
Uh-oh. Everyone into the trenches. My Portable Lekatt Detector currently reads “The end is nigh.”
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### Author:  [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/3 "2004-01-07T04:31:16Z")
No good can come of this.
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### Author:  [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/4 "2004-01-07T05:20:49Z")
My great aunt nearly died once (a stroke, I think) and floated out of her body for a while. She watched the doctors try to revive her.
She’s still with us, though.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/5 "2004-01-07T05:34:38Z")
Do you mean a.) have I come _very_ close to being killed before or b.) have I had one of those tube of spinning darkness, incredible lightness of being, out-of-body come-back-from-the-dead experiences?
Well, a.) at my age, 50, I’d imagine most people have had some amazingly close scrapes and b.) I woke up naked on a slab in a morgue once, but I missed out on the incredible lightness of being part - I’m still atheist.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/6 "2004-01-07T05:49:59Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Gadfly \*
> \*\*Uh-oh. Everyone into the trenches. My Portable Lekatt Detector currently reads “The end is nigh.” \*\*
Nah, he shouldn’t post here-he only had a bad _dream_ about having a NDE.
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### Author:  [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/7 "2004-01-07T07:49:39Z")
Uh, apparently I did - yesterday.
Under total anaesthetic (for a fairly routine tooth-yanking) my heart stopped for “less than a minute”. No light tubes, no heavenly hosannas, no guys in red pyjamas. I didn’t know anything of it until they told me just before discharge.
Apparently the operation went well otherwise - I’m only in a moderate amount of pain, which is apparently a good thing - but I’m more than a little nervous about the whole heart-stopping thing.
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### Author:  [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/8 "2004-01-07T12:57:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Ringo \*
> \*\*I woke up naked on a slab in a morgue once… \*\*
Now, you know you can’t just toss out that line and let it sit there, like an elephant on the patio! Details, man, details! 😃
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### Author:  [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/9 "2004-01-07T13:07:57Z")
Yes. No lights, no fancy crap, no tunnels. Nada.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/10 "2004-01-07T15:30:19Z")
I once slipped on a sand-covered step and almost fell off a cliff a hundred metres into the Foaming Torrent[sup]TM[/sup] below Vernal Falls in Yosemite Park, but I don’t think that counts…
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/11 "2004-01-07T16:42:41Z")
I once (and this’ll be hard to believe for those who’ve seen me) almost died of malnutrition. It’s a slow, painful way to go, and the last 24 hours of it (before hospitalization) involved incredible pain and paralysis. Not fun. No corridor of white light, and I’m told if I’d let it go much longer, I’d simply have shut off like a light.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/12 "2004-01-07T17:20:38Z")
Nope - but thought about it.
Going into surgery, they’ve medicated me into submission and were starting to put me way under. I had been intubated and some idiot used the phrase “Prepare for anaphylaxis.” My happy little drugged brain, hearing it’s worst fear, promptly goes apeshit. There’s no way in hell I’m going without a fight. Eyes wide open, I reach up, start pulling out the tube, trying to sit up. My doc pushes me down and yells something and that’s the last I remember for the next several hours.
Not NDE but it scared the hell out of me!
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/13 "2004-01-07T17:24:03Z")
I’m not _sure_ about this—I _may_ be wrong—but I _think_ **lekatt** may have had one?
Hmmmmmm?
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/14 "2004-01-07T17:26:48Z")
Not me. But [he has.](http://ndeweb.com/)
Sorry, someone had to do it. ☹
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/15 "2004-01-07T20:04:48Z")
When I was in labor and getting my epidural. I was in that hunched over position sitting on the edge of the bed hooked up to all the monitors when the nurse in front of me looks at the monitors, then looks at me funny and says “Do you feel alright?” I said “I have a funny taste in my mmooouuttthhhhhh…” and felt the world slow down. I wasn’t really all there. I felt them lay me down on the bed and everything was in slow motion. I saw the nurse run out the door and heard her yelling something about needing an eppy in room 2 and in the background I could hear the “beeeeeeeeeep” of the monitor. I thought, “Well, that can’t be good.” but I never panicked or anything. It was all very calm and I didn’t have any of the floating above feelings. They gave me the shot and finished the epidural while I was laying there. Once I was out of pain and the eppy hit I could’ve made lunch for the whole floor and mopped up afterwards I felt so good.
Hope that’s what you’re looking for.
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### Author:  [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/16 "2004-01-07T23:52:44Z")
In my young addict days I nearly once OD’d on a mixture of Coke and Crank. After getting nice and toasty with a bottle of Jack, my friends and I started to doing rails of coke and crank. After my second line my heart started to race. I ran to the bathroom and vomited a good portion of the liquor and went back to sit in the room with my buddies. Started to listen to my heartbeat…Thump,thump,…thump… then silence. I remember trying to speak but I fell over. Didn’t see a white light. But did see everyone in slow motion. Luckily my friends were able to get me up and walking. I was absolutely sick for the next two days.
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/17 "2004-01-08T00:06:05Z")
AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! NOT NDE’S PLEASE NOT NDE’S I’M BEGGING YOU LET IT DROP!!!
Ahem.
NDE’s have never been proven to be of a supernatural or paranormal nature. There have been NDE experiences generated experimentally, which suggests a prosaic, logical explanation for them as a form of hallucination.
But that’s just the _scientific_ explanation. Lekatt will be along any minute now to link you to his website where he claims they’ve been proven.
Any minute now…
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### Author:  [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/18 "2004-01-08T01:02:51Z")
My father had one. He had had tuberculosis and was getting weekly pneumothorax (they pump air into your ribcage to flatten out the one lung that still has TB germs, to let it rest and heal–my memory of explanations given to me as a child).
They gave him a shot of a different anaesthetic, and he lost his sight and fell over (anaphylactic shock I believe). The nurse called out, “Get a Doctor”! My father said, “No, no, get an undertaker”! The nurse said, “Oh, no!” in a horrified tone, and that’s **all** my father was conscious of until he recovered consciousness. No tunnels, no Beings, no messages.
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### Author:  [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/19 "2004-01-08T01:04:43Z")
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> \*Originally posted by photopat \*
> \*\*AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! NOT NDE’S PLEASE NOT NDE’S I’M BEGGING YOU LET IT DROP!!!
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> Ahem.
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> NDE’s have never been proven to be of a supernatural or paranormal nature. There have been NDE experiences generated experimentally, which suggests a prosaic, logical explanation for them as a form of hallucination.
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> But that’s just the _scientific_ explanation. Lekatt will be along any minute now to link you to his website where he claims they’ve been proven.
>
> Any minute now… \*\*
What’s the big deal? So what is **lekatt** believes in them? To him (and others), it has not been proven to be a necessarily scientific phenomenon. If they wish to see something spiritual in it, let them. It’s not like it kills you. Skip the post if you don’t want to read it.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Petter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petter)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-had-a-nde-near-death-experience/223123/20 "2004-01-08T02:22:09Z")
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> \*Originally posted by liirogue \*
> \*\*What’s the big deal? So what is **lekatt** believes in them? To him (and others), it has not been proven to be a necessarily scientific phenomenon. If they wish to see something spiritual in it, let them. It’s not like it kills you. Skip the post if you don’t want to read it.
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> :rolleyes: \*\*
Yeah, it’s not like he’s got 1000+ posts claiming he’s got proof of life after death on a forum based on fighting ignorance.
They’re welcome to see something spiritual in it, but could they possibly provide some evidence?
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> \*\*
> it has not been proven to be a necessarily scientific phenomenon\*\*
What does that mean?
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