Do you believe in Near Death Experiences?

Geez SB, you and I could be sisters, lol.:semi-twins:
I too had a Catholic upbringing, from prep school for 10 years all at the same Convent School with those strict nuns.
We were taught exactly what you've just said about dying. I think I sort of believed it when I was a young naive girl
but as I matured I really doubted it. I'd had enough of religion after my school years and more or less stopped
believing most of the stuff they taught me or should I say drilled in to me.
I was also with both my mother and father just after they passed and didn't experience anything but total grief.
I was also hit by a car when I was about 3, came out of it with scratches, maybe my Guardian Angel was looking
after me eh? Maybe those nuns were right!:angel:
I do sometimes wonder about NDE as I knew one person who said he had one and he wasn't at all religious or the
type of person to invent stories like that......who really knows? Like you, I try to keep an open mind.
 

Yes I have had an OBE when I had my operation when our first child was born,I was looking down from above watching them operate on me, very strange experience it was too.
 
I've had lucid dreams quite a few times in the past, I'm a big dreamer anyway. It's usually a dream where I'm threatened, or trying to get away from something. Then in the dream I become aware that I'm dreaming and I can wake myself up with a movement or scream....usually works. My mother, sister and brother who have passed on are often in my dreams, just as I remembered them...but I never felt I was really being visited or getting a message, just reviewing the personal things in my memory bank.
 

nan said:
Yes I have had an OBE when I had my operation when our first child was born,I was looking down from above watching them operate on me, very strange experience it was too.
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That is a unique experience Nan, I've heard stories like that before...thanks for sharing that. :)
 
OH, I have experienced some very vivid dreams as well. Sometimes, i have awakened, still thinking the dream was real.
Many years ago, I lived in a tiny, tiny cabin; we had three little kids and three Great Danes, several cats and a Poodle, all crammed into that little space every nite.
One night, I dreamed that we added on another small room to the house, just for the Great Danes, and when I woke up the next morning, I was SO happy, and went to look at the new room......but when I got there, it didn't exist ! It was such a realistic dream, and I was so disappointed that there was nothing there.
Sometimes, I have had dreams where I was not myself in the dream; and even was a man in a few of them. I hate flying, but in one of those dreams, I was some kind of a rocket-ship pilot, and knew exactly what I was doing at the console as i was flying it around. Life is strange...
 
I started questioning my faith as I grew up, even still in Catholic school. I started to notice that they were hitting us up for money at every turn, not just the collection basket at mass. We didn't have much money to begin with, so it was very noticeable to be sent home with envelopes to be filled with bills and returned for various things. I started thinking of the church as a business really...and that point of view has just been strengthened over the years.

When I started public high school, I stopped going to church completely. Even way back in those days, there were rumors of the nuns going out with men, and aborting their babies in the convent, and the priests performing acts on each other...got easier and easier to believe as I matured.

I never needed a religion to tell me to be a good person. Even as a child, my mother taught me to be considerate and caring to others, and it was just inborn in me. Never had the desire to harm or destroy, treat others as you would like to be treated, pretty much. You can say I'm spiritual also, not religious.
 
grannyjo said:
I remember when my Mum was dying - I didn't even know she had been sick. We were hundreds of miles apart - physically. I "saw" her at the end of my bed. She somehow pulled the blankets up and told me not to worry - it was all OK. The next morning I got the phone call to tell me she had died about the same time I had the vision of her.
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How odd...the same kind of thing happened to me when my grandmother died. She was standing at the foot of my bed in a white nightgown. She didn't say anything, just stood there with a sweet and kindly look. The next morning my mother called to tell me that she had died the night before.

I should add that at the time I lived more than 1500 miles away from my family. Also, it was about two weeks before my birthday, and the day before I'd received a birthday card from my grandmother, which seemed very odd because she managed somehow to always get that birthday card in the mail to be delivered on exactly the right day.
 
nan said:
Yes I have had an OBE when I had my operation when our first child was born,I was looking down from above watching them operate on me, very strange experience it was too.
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I'll be darned...another one! When our first baby was born, I'd had a spinal so was awake. I heard the doctor say "drape that mirror!" (so that I couldn't see what was going on), then I drifted away to a far corner of the ceiling and watched the doctor, nurses and myself. Don't remember anything after that until I was in a room hours later. The doctor came in and said "we were sure we could save the baby, but there was a split second when we thought we lost you." OBE? I guess so.

I had what was called toxemia then...pre-eclampsia now...but don't remember that the doctor ever tried to make an impression on me about how serious it was.
 
I'm not sure about these near death experiences, I've read several books. However, I have been giving some thought to the end game.
 
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What had caused this sudden, seemingly spontaneous healing? Even now, science has no answers.
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No? Neither does religion. The article lost me with this 'miracle' stuff I'm afraid. How do we know how this nurse ticks? The writer's beliefs are what we are reading and when we don't know what they are then we have to sift carefully what is couched as fact from what is personal interpretation of them.
There are no doubt many more nurses, some of which I've known, who are just as convinced that the lights go out and that's it.

Anaesthia's effects, and the depths of coma differ between individuals and while most register nothing in those conditions there are some who continue to operate at low level, and sometimes quite high level, consciousness. Too many tales from people who were rendered paralyzed by anaesthetics but not unconscious attest to that. They too remember the horrors of operations and conversations but it had nothing to do with NDEs, it was an organic resistance to the anaesthetic. Many remember things from a comatose state too, which is why it's advised to speak carefully around them.

And that ceiling floating thing? No one ever dreamed they were floating around watching things happening 'out of body'?? Even I did once!
I was on my side and I wasn't game to move in case I woke and fell! I floated about on my side with knees drawn up. So I knew I was dreaming and that makes it kinda complicated to think about. The brain does some really funny stuff.

But never mind... no determined mind was ever changed on the 'net by posted opinions from others that I'm aware of so go with whatever floats your boat.
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Some people here might think I'm crazy,but I have had a few OBE, and I also believe some of us have the ability to communicate with the dead.My OBE came the night my BIL passed away. He wasn't sick so I wasn't worried about him. When I was sleeping I found myself on the ceiling looking down at my sister and her husband in their bed. I saw him get up and go into the bathroom. Then there was a thumping sound and I saw him laying on the floor. My sister ran in screaming and then I woke . About 2 hours later my Niece called and told me her Dad had passed away exactly like I saw in my dream. And as far as talking to the dead,I went to see James Van Praagh give a lecture. My sister and I didn't know anyone there, yet during the lecture James Van Praagh spoke to me and my sister about how our Dad had passed away. He even knew my Mothers name and that she was still alive. He told us soo much but my Sister and I just sat there frozen.We should have stood up,but we were too shocked to move.
 
I am not too sure what I believe about Near-Death-Experience,
but, there are so many stories (that I like to read) about it, so
I think that there is something that cannot be explained.

One story that is very interesting, to me anyway, is the one in
the link below about a neurosurgeon who didn't believe, he said
that it was something in the brain.
That was until he had one himself His Story

Mike.
 
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