I’d be interested to hear about it if you did. 
Not yet.
I had a dream one time that I died. But never a life after death thing… Sorry nothing exciting here…
Not unless you count certain botanical substances applied along the lines of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
In retrospect 23 years later, it’s kind of hard to decide how bogus it all was versus how helpful it was. If it helps a person practice to face death with equanimity, then I think it’s for the good.
We have a member who claims to have had an out-of-body experience during surgery; his name is Lekatt. He’s had a particularly rough ride on this site; he attributes this to the unpopularity of his views and bias on the part of his skeptical audience, but I honestly think it’s very much more to do with his poor debating methods and unsubstantiated claims.
Here is a link to one of his threads - please don’t post in that thread though, as it’s been dead for several years and should probably not see life again.
Ironic? 
The factual answer to this question is “no.”
Having read that thread for the first time, I have to say DocCathode is my new hero.
No. But before my current boyfriend, I dated *three men in a row * who all claimed to have been clinically dead for a short while before they came back to life. One from a terrible car wreck, one from meningitis and one from some kind of terrible flu he had as a child. I started to wonder if there was some reason that I was attracting people who had died before.
Not a “life after death” experience but the white light thing - my mother told me she saw a light when giving birth to my older sister, and was saying something like “I don’t want to go I don’t want to go”. Afterwards she asked the doctor about it and he said “oh don’t worry about it, it was nothing”. This was back in the early 1970s though, before the near death experiences were that common.
I’ve heard that the white light thing may just be what your brain perceives when the cells become oxygen starved? Or when they’re shutting down they all attempt to fire to get things going again? Who knows really…
I think it’s probably claimed by a lot of men simply because they think it sounds impressive - sort of like showing off scars.
I’ve had many “life before death” experiences, if that counts.
Strange thing is, I’ve come very close to dying before, like the sort of traumatic car-crash sort of thing that “causes your life to flash before your eyes” and it’s never happened to me. Always just sort of happened, been over, life (luckily for me) went on.
Not a General Question. Moved to IMHO.
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I experienced what is technically called a deathbed vision. It’s a very common phenomenon in Hospice Centers and hospitals. I was a witness to it and it was my sisters vision and communication with someone not of this world. All I could do was watch closely and listen to hear conversation which turned out to be our long dead grandfather waiting to take her hand and help her through when she’s ready.
It was somewhat scary, yet peaceful at the same time.
Nope. But I did have an experience under the influence of some psilocybin (legal in my location at the time, by the way) where I had the conviction that I had died, the universe had ended with my death, and I recreated it from the seed of my consciousness. What convinced me that I was wrong about this was looking out the window and seeing the usual tangle of man-made crap.
I believe my first words after that contemplation were, “Hell, I could do better than this.” Which is, in my opinion, still one of the most damning arguments against a higher power; even the afterglow of mushrooms can’t make power lines and roads look cosmic enough to make a god look good.
Heart stopped-nothing happened.
Brain stopped-nothing happened.
First marriage stopped-bright lights and a chorus of angels descended from the heavens!
That’s interesting. I once saw everything in my field of vision go suddenly stark white, except for black shadows that gave things their shapes. It was not under the influence of any substance. It was when I was walking on the street in India, had contracted dysentery or something, and was suddenly taken ill. The onset of illness happened so hard and so sudden, it might have been something like what you described. Instead, I just had a “feeling-like-death-warmed-over” experience for a few days.
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This may corroborate your theory-- on the street in India, I blacked out while standing for just a brief moment and when I could see again it was that White Light (plus shadows, which is how I knew I was still in this world).