Has anyone else ever had a near-death experience?

What you described is not a Near Death Experience or NDE. An NDE is when something medically has happened to you and your heart has actually, physically stopped for some time to the point where you are physically dead and a short time later are brought back to life. Such as people who have drowned or had a heart attack.

People who have had NDE's have described the short time while their heart is stopped in very similar ways where they see a light, a tunnel, etc. and are pulled toward it at extreme speed. They see people they know who have died, they see Jesus, God and sometimes have even described seeing what they believe as being parts of Heaven. They also have out of body experiences where they feel themselves actually leave their body. They can feel themselves floating upward in spirit and see their physical body below them. They also feel themselves actually "falling" back into their body when the experience is over.

You can go to this site for more information on this subject:

http://www.nderf.org/

I think you will find it very interesting.

I think what you are trying to explain is that of having an experience where you have come very CLOSE to death. And yes I have been there a few times. And it does make you think. If made me realize how short life really is, how fast it can all be gone, how much I had taken for granted and how much of life I still want to live and in a more fulfilling way. It taught me to want more quality in my life. I feel as though I've been giving a few second chances and I don't waste my days anymore.

There is a difference between a Near-Death Experience and a brush with death.

I have had both.

If you really like the subject I would advise you to read the many books written concerning Near-Death Experiences.

A significant portion of Americans have had these experiences, but it has only been in the last thirty or forty years that they were openly discussed. Before this they were treated as religious experiences and not shared.

Many ordinary people have had brushes with death, from sporting accidents to road accidents or medical emergencies. Most of these did not go as far as an NDE, where the person is declared dead or assumed to be dead. They're just seriously hurt.

When I was 5, I was walking on this cliff-like type of thing with my friend. On the edges of it, there were cinder blocks (idk why). The view from up there was far, and there were sharp and huge rocks on the bottom. I lost balance and I almost fell down there. I was hanging onto the cinder blocks with my fingers for life, and my friend pulled me up. If it weren't for him, I would've fallen and busted my my head open from the rocks, and maybe broken a bone or two.

Also one time, I almost drowned in an ocean while trying to use a boogie board, but my brother rescued me.

Another time, as stupid as it sounds, I choked on a piece of melted cheese at a party. I couldn't breathe or move. Then my friend beat the life out of my back since she didn't know the heimlich maneuver, and it worked. haha.

Oh and another time, I was running and someone ran me over with their bicycle. Their breaks weren't working and I couldn't run fast enough. A car was like 5 inches on front of me while I was laying in the middle of the street. I had scars and scrapes all over. Not to mention a giant gash on my knee. The car was beeping a lot and they slammed the breaks hard. Then the driver got out and was swearing a lot.

Praise God for saving my life all those times. <3 :)

I had several instances where I came close to death. Once I jumped off some rocks into the river below me. It was night and there was a full moon. We were all blitzed out of our minds. My friends all had jumped with no problems. Two of them climbed back to the rock where I was getting ready to take my jump. The other stayed down below to wait for me. Good thing he did because I jumped too far and the currents from the river started to drag me down that river. I kept hearing him yell ,"swim Mary, swim harder, c'mon you can do it." Without his encouragement I believe I would have been swept down the river and maybe had been lost forever.

Yes as a matter of fact I have.

When I was eight years old I went running into the middle of the street to go to my neighbors. I did not look both ways before I ran out. There was the screech of tires, a blaring horn as I stood frozen. The car stopped just an inch from killing me.

What happened after was a solid belt whipping.

Taught me not to run into the street without looking again.

My husband is a police officer who was shot in the head while answering a kidnapping call. While he was in surgery, he said he "floated' above the operating table and could see and hear everything the surgeons were doing. He described the surgery to me in detail. At that time, no one had told him what went on, because he was a coma for three weeks afterward. He told me what transpired about six years after it happened. He had never said anything to anyone, because he was afraid they would think he was crazy. I had never heard or read what had happened to him, either. Later I was able to read the police report and the medical records, and what he had told me was precisely what happened. We both definitely believe in life after death.

If you want some serious answers www.youtube.com Dr. William D. Hinn- Christ in you - Resurrection life center intl. This is for christians who really want to know what this is all about, you sound ready.

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That's not really a near death experience, a near death experience is just like an out of body experience, where your consciousness separates from the self, and you're then free to travel....

Drowning- three times as a young child.

Asthma attacks- a couple.