[Mountain Climber]

Have you had any near death experiences? Have you ever been revived by artificial means, resuscitation?

[Splintered in Her Head]

Just a slight one. When I was nineteen, I came down with mono pretty badly to the point where I was super-dehydrated and they had to rush me to the hospital. I remember 'slipping' out of my body several times, when I say this I mean it was like I was light as a feather and just slipped away like a breeze blew me out of my body. But I would come right back, especially once they got the IV liquids going for an hour or so and I was hydrating again. I know this is just a slight NDE and I've read extensively on more indepth ones. I find them fasinating!!

[Mountain Climber]

I have been revived more than once. I remember out of body experiences, being lifted out of my body, looking down at my body and that "light" feeling...

I drowned when I was five, had to be taken out of surgery when I was five, had mono when I was sixteen and had dysentary when I was seventeen.

[Jawz]

@Mountain Climber - You are a powerful woman and I've been reading your posts since May. You have survived great ordeals. You are a fighter. You are a warrior. I respect you.

I wouldn't call them near-death experiences, but I have faced my mortality thrice at the mercy of muggers. Once I dared a mugger to shoot - and I felt completely numb at that point, ready for anything.

I survived a suicide bomb attack where I saw blood spattered walls and burning human flesh and body parts. I have survived protests where I saw people being beaten to inches of their life around me but I was untouched.

I survived an accident where I became nearly crippled. I ended up with a badly broken knee and a broken back.

But no - none of my experiences are close to near-death.

[Etherea]

I don't really have any near death experiences, per se. When I was 7, I went to a birthday party and my friend had wanted ponies at the party, but what they brought were actually horses. I was riding one of them with an instructor, just galloping around the yard, and the saddle broke. As we fell, the instructor managed to catch my head, otherwise I probably would've cracked it open. Ended up breaking my collarbone.

My more intense story is, and I rarely talk about this, when I was around 8 or 9, my mom dropped me off at her friend/drug dealers house and someone who was mad at him did a driveby on his house. It happened so quickly and I barely knew what was going on, I didn't have time to be scared or really react. I just remember him being panicked and telling me to get down.

[pmj85]

I once called a girl I was dating "Rebecca" when her real name was "Rachel". Slip of the tongue and all that.

That was a pretty near death experience, I assure you.

[laurie17]

Nothing very bad. Nearly drowned in the sea. I got sucked out by a current and it was luck I managed to time it right to jump off the top of a wave and back into the normal current, or I probably would've just kept going out.
I've had some pretty bad falls too, but I've never needed resuscitation, thankfully.