Out of Body experience?

[john79t]

I guess this is a little off the wall but I am curious has anyone on the board had an out of body experience? I had an uncle who had CARB in the 70s and said he did. However, he said instead of the usual floatng up experience (he had a heart attack after the surgery) he felt himself slipping off the bed and down, He laughted and said mabe that should tell him something. He was less thaan 50 when he had his surgery All his brothers died of heart attacks in their 40s and 50s. He kept smoking and finally quit after the second quard bypass. He died of cancer at 81.

 

[Bina]

I think during the 70s there were many people experiencing the "floating", but I don't think they all had OHS.....

 

[john79t]

Careful now I am a child of the 60s.

 

[deano89]

i beleive there is a study in uk and us where some hospitals are placing things high and well out of normal vision in the operating theaters and wards to see if its really out of body or not
some good reading hear about NDE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7639798.stm

 

[lb151]

I think during the 70s there were many people experiencing the "floating", but I don't think they all had OHS.....

Very true Bina,,mine started at Woodstock!

Not to make light of it though,,I did have a g/f that had a heart transplant and experienced something like that.

 

[Karlynn]

My old cardiologist did research for Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and her life after death work. While I had no out-of-body or death experience, my cardio had heard enough stories to be a believer.

 

[Eva]

Before my mother passed away by three days while she was in the hospital, she saw a tunnel of light and she was saying how beautiful it was, yet she could not reach because the woman next door is lying there and blocking her way. My sisters asked who was that woman, she kept repeating with open eyes, yet not there, 'the woman next door' and was upset how they could not understand her 'is blocking my way'. When my sisters asked her about the light and the woman while she was alert and real awake, she did not remember!After two days, a woman in the room next to mom's at the hospital died...my mother passed away one day later!!

 

[Ross]

I won't entertain answering this question because people find every reason not to believe, but have a look for yourself:

http://www.valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10511

 

[Bridgette]

I loved both my grandmothers very much - they were both such amazing, incredible women. Unfortunately they passed away within a couple of years of each other, in the 1990's and I still miss them heaps.

After my surgery in 2006 I had pericardial effusion and was flown to hospital to have further surgery to fix it - it was the sickest I have ever felt in my life, way worse than after the original op or anything. I was lying in bed in my room, waiting to go to theatre, and I felt like if I could have pulled the plug, I would have. Everything felt hazy, I was probably a bit delirious, but all of a sudden I could see both my Nanas, sitting together at the end of my bed, smiling, and they said, "We're not ready for you yet. Stay, you will be okay"

I'm not a believer really, but that was a such a vivid experience...I haven't told it to many people at all, but now it's out there in cyberspace

Anyway it's a very interesting topic - thanks for the link too, Ross.

 

[john79t]

Ross thanks for sharing that thread.
My mother (who died in 1999 of poor medical care and cumidin now mabe you know why I want a tissue valve) The day she died my sister was with her and she started talking to my dad who had died several years before. My sister knew she believed you would see departed relatives when you died started crying and said no mom dad is not here. Mom trying to console her said oh mabe it was some other man. An hour later she died.

 

[palmaceae]

I never have had one, but I know I will one day!

 

[Eva]

I loved both my grandmothers very much - they were both such amazing, incredible women. Unfortunately they passed away within a couple of years of each other, in the 1990's and I still miss them heaps.

After my surgery in 2006 I had pericardial effusion and was flown to hospital to have further surgery to fix it - it was the sickest I have ever felt in my life, way worse than after the original op or anything. I was lying in bed in my room, waiting to go to theatre, and I felt like if I could have pulled the plug, I would have. Everything felt hazy, I was probably a bit delirious, but all of a sudden I could see both my Nanas, sitting together at the end of my bed, smiling, and they said, "We're not ready for you yet. Stay, you will be okay"

I'm not a believer really, but that was a such a vivid experience...I haven't told it to many people at all, but now it's out there in cyberspace

Anyway it's a very interesting topic - thanks for the link too, Ross.

Ross thanks for sharing that thread.
My mother (who died in 1999 of poor medical care and cumidin now mabe you know why I want a tissue valve) The day she died my sister was with her and she started talking to my dad who had died several years before. My sister knew she believed you would see departed relatives when you died started crying and said no mom dad is not here. Mom trying to console her said oh mabe it was some other man. An hour later she died.

Bridgette, I am glad they were not ready for you and your two sons need you.

John, Before my sister Silvia died, she saw angels and Mother Mary opening her arms on a big white cloud...she started saying what she was seeing to my other sister Fifi who was with her at the hospital. It was 3 am...Silvia kept saying: 'The angels and Mother Mary are coming to take me' ... she then took out her engagement ring (she was engaged) off her finger and gave it to Fifi & told Fifi: "I do not need this ring to where I am going...give it back to William and tell him and tell everyone not to cry ... it is so beautiful up there". My sister got scared and new what was going to happen....she called us at home and before we arrived the hospital, she was gone!

 

[Nancy]

A few days before Joe passed away, he was in the ICU and in a semi coma. My daughter was there with me.

Joe sat up in bed reached out his ams, smiled and said, "Hi Lenny". Lenny was his brother who had died in the same ICU 3 months earlier.

During another hospitalization they put him on Ativan. He saw kitties walking all around his room, even described them to me. But of course, that was the drug speaking.

When my father was dying of cancer and in a coma, he woke up, sat up in bed and started singing and moving his arms as if he were directing others to sing. He had a very large family, many of whom had passed on, and they always celebrated holidays with lots of singing.

 

[Ross]

Ross thanks for sharing that thread.
My mother (who died in 1999 of poor medical care and cumidin now mabe you know why I want a tissue valve) The day she died my sister was with her and she started talking to my dad who had died several years before. My sister knew she believed you would see departed relatives when you died started crying and said no mom dad is not here. Mom trying to console her said oh mabe it was some other man. An hour later she died.

John, just so you know, Coumadin management has come along way since 99. Admittedly, there are still managers out there that don't know what they're doing, but it's nothing that you couldn't do yourself. Not trying to sway your decision, just trying to clear up the perspective on Coumadin. It's a whole new ball game today then it was 10 years ago.

 

[john79t]

I know Ross. She had an idiot for a doctor. They would let her go months without testing. I did not know the effects of it at the time. But still leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

 

[Tom F.]

My aunt was nearing 90, in a nursing home and slipping away. She would tell me about how this person or that had come to visit her, all long deceased relatives. My mother in law is beginning to do the same, she is not well and I think her time may be near. I have other stories, one including my dog, that seem to support the idea that things are far more complicated spiritually than our minds can understand.

 

[catwoman]

I haven't had out an out of body experience.

However, I have had odd flashes about someone close to me and then found out that that person/animal died at just about that moment.
First time was my parents' next-door neighbor. He died of a massive heart attack at age 54. When my parents called me with the news, I was very surprised, since I had been thinking of him that morning.
Ditto with my parents' dog. Gate was not latched securely, there was some wind and he got out. He was hit by a car.
There have been others. I can't describe it, but it's not like thinking normally about someone. It's a very "heavy" feeling.

 

[BigOwl]

I wonder if muslims see Allah, or if atheists see...who, Rodney Dangerfield? Could it be that we see a 'guide' that is most comfortable to us? My mother-in-law said 'God is in the room' before she died. My dog, after a stroke, and on his way to be euthanized (I hated to do it, but he was suffering), sat up and seemed as if he was looking to some higher 'being'? He was a great dog.

My wife used to work in a convalescent hospital -- she said she always knew who was going to die before they died because she could smell roses around them.

While it may be comforting to think there's something better (or at least something) for us after we die, there may actually be something to it.

For me, I'm having enough of a time having in body experiences to give out of body ones a whole lot of my attention.

I'm with you Clicker--my views in a nutshell. Also, I figure that if you're not sure there's really anything coming after, you're apt to do a better job of trying to get it right this time.

I had plenty of really odd experiences in hospital and immediately after coming home (really vivid narrative dreams)--all attributable to the narcs. Now that I'm relying less on them, the dreams are less colorful, but I'm getting better sleep.