Have you had a close encounter with your own death?

I was climbing up a wall of sheer granite in the white mountain national forest when halfway up I lost my balance, and for a few seconds (which seemed like an eternity) I was caught between life and death.

If I regain my balance I live, If not I plunge 100 feet to my death and the rocks below.

It still stands out as the scariest moment of my life but now it's just a memory and I've gone mountain climbing many times since without any adverse effects

That moment between life and death still stands out as the strangest feeling I've ever had.


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Many years ago, I was hit by lightning during a bike tour with a friend. We slept in an open barn out in the fields where the thunderstorm surprised us.

So I dreamed yet the dream was real. I saw all my life pass by in just one moment as if there was no time; and I realised this moment is my life, all of it - like it stores every single moment that has been and is yet to come, inside its timeless center. Yeah strange, but then I think it's still stranger if we keep up the illusion ... I had a vision of light too, but also knew this was not yet my final exit point.

Life looked different then, illusive and fragile yet strong at the same time, and tremendously precious. And not as serious either.

 

I heard an account similar to that made by a man who was suffering a heart attack. He said that his vision appeared like a bubble that was divided into many facets and each facet was a different time and place in his life. He could see all of his life in the facets. He said he felt that he could enter any facet at will and go back to any time in his life. His daughter was holding his hand during the heart attack. He said that she was like an anchor that kept him in the facet of the current time and helped him survive the heart attack.

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I did that exact thing. I had a vision that all these figures(beings) were pulling me into another dimension, and for a second i knew i was dying. So i started fighting and saying, "its not my time...im not dead yet, im just doing some nitrous." Then i came to. it wasnt a very comfortable thing, dying from nitrous that is. You feel cheated. i felt like it wasnt supposed to happen like that.

 

When you see those inter-dimensional being again (hopefully sometime in the far distant future) they’re not going to be happy you cheated them out of a soul years earlier

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when i was 17 i was beaten to a bloody pulp by about 4 guys while 6 of their friends stood and watched. i was supposed to sell them a few ounces of weed but i got beaten and robbed. i was laying on the ground, my friend also bleeding, for like 20 minutes until I woke up.

That time, I learned never to let your guard down. If you're going to bring backup they better have your back. and its knife time when its time to fight for your life.

So not a month later I was robbed again by 3 kids on a coke binge. They beat me up and took my backpack, but then I popped up and shanked two of them with a boxcutter. I broke the blade off inside one of them. It felt all at once really horrible and really good. I didn't get beat to a pulp like the other time, but then I was covered in other people's blood.

So as a result of that encounter I was getting death threats for a while. I dipped out to the boonies for a while to lay low.

 

and when i was 15 i was hit by an SUV while crossing the street.... i blacked out and then next thing i remember was waking up in intensive care like 6 hours later in the most pain i've ever experience.

broken, ribs, broken arm, two punctured lungs, my face was all cut up and swollen. every breath hurt. even sneezing was like getting bitten in lung by a shark.

i fought for my life for 20 minutes before i got to the hospital. i dont even really remember anything for the night it happened. total blank. all i remember is waking up in IC and the nurses told me that while I was under anesthesia I was saying that they were beautiful angels. hahahaha, even when im on the brink i'm flirting. lol

 

I had a hemlock break off halfway up while I was falling it and fall backwards. Another one barberchaired on me and missed my face by a handful of inches.

I was caught in an avalanche while skiing two years ago.

 

What was the feeling like?

 

That's an interesting story. Gives creedence to the saying, "life is but a dream."

I've heard similar accounts from these two people who were severely mauled by grizzly bears. The man said that after the attack he went back to his truck to drive into town and on the way there he started to fade in and out of consciousness and thought, "okay, well, this is it." So he pulled over to the side of the road to die. He sat there and the black faded moments became longer and longer. He picked up his cell phone to say goodbye to his ex wife. When he did so the act of talking to someone he knew and loved brought him back to reality, so to speak. After he hung up he felt a little more conscious from talking to her and he got the strength to drive into town. He's alive today.

I think a situation like that could be a lot like a drug experience, a bad one that is. If you have enough mental strength to convince yourself which reality you belong in, I think that could sometimes make the difference between life and death. Acknowledging that this reality is the one you've inhabited for the last x amount of years, then remembering what it's like, feels like, the people you know there, etc.

 

oh god i hope not...what a great way to start the afterlife.

 

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I meant more like upon the realisation that you could fall to your death any second, were you; scared, sad, peaceful, curious, etc.?

 

Stark terror


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stark terror of that feeling of uncertainty of now knowing what comes next? or of the pain! could you imagine falling and not dying instantly OW!

 

My only thought was to freeze and regain my balance before plunging into the chasm below which meant certain death



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