I don’t know if my ‘visit to the white room’ really was my first visit of my eternal home-to-be or just the neural fallout produced by a brain being super-heated by a body running a temperature of 44 degrees Celsius. I had the feeling of being cradled in someone’s arms, almost swaddled like a baby, and seeing millions of stars while this huge wave of comfort washed over me. Dovid: My attitude to your proposal, can be compared to the attitude of a normal government to an impostor, who impersonates a judge and tells criminals that they are free to do death-penalty crimes. I don’t think my heart stopped but blood flow to my brain did. Researchers have identified some basic points that come up repeatedly in most of the testimonies of those that were clinically dead and then revived. Submit your writing to be published on Thought Catalog. I’ve posted before discussing this, so it may be overlap for some. Tell us about Tony Cicoria. Reddit users who clinically died for a few minutes and then came back to life have been sharing what they remember from “the other side” in a fascinating thread. It told me choosing to end my life separated me from the light, that I was being returned to finish my life as it was meant to be…and to remember two words: fear not. I want it again. I felt nothing but unspeakable peace and joy for a second. It was during a dark period in my life where I chose substances over EVERYTHING in my life. Each of those feels different coming back, but the leaving always felt the same. Things I couldn’t or shouldn’t have known. Then it all blacked out, I woke up in an ICU and was fucking terrified of the beeping and tubes and screamed until my dad came and comforted me. edited 2 years ago. “I was in a house fire and suffered pretty extensive burns when I was 15. The tunnel itself was made of metal and looked exactly like the tunnel from Bespin where Luke ends up. My first thought was ‘WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING?’ It then progressed into ‘How do I get down?’ ‘How do I get down?’ Faster and faster. A British woman who was starved of oxygen for 30 minutes and given up for dead by her family made a miraculous return to life, in a case that left medics baffled. Sign up for the Thought Catalog Weekly and get the best stories from the week to your inbox every Friday. Most death travelers don't want to return to the living, and when they do, they find it is a painful experience. I just knew instinctively that if I wanted to ‘cross over’ and stay dead that I could go into what I can describe as the fifth dimension—where you go if you want to stay dead, and don’t want to get back into your body. Every sense heightened. Pronounced Dead, Man Comes Back to Life. There is a sense of very rapid transit within a long and dark tunnel. And even when you laughed, when you cried. I even had a nurse remove herself from my case because of this once.”. When I came back, it felt like I’d been there two hours. As I approached the center, it seemed like I was joining a universal consciousness; a being made up of the thoughts, emotions, and experience of everyone and everything that had ever lived. They say it took 2 minutes to revive me on the beach. When I was 13 (28 now) I had a severe asthma attack that took my life for 3 minutes. Then the edges of my vision started to go black, and it was just complete darkness. However, the evil who rebelled against the Almighty are shown the Divine Presence at their hour of death and are told: Come and see the face of the King against whom you rebelled and who will yet take His vengeance of you, while the righteous, at the hour of their death, are shown the Divine Presence and are told: Come and see the face of the King whom you serve and who will shortly repay you… and even little children are received by the Divine Presence, as the verse says: “The seed which will serve Him, it should be told of the L-rd to the coming generation.” (Psalms 22:31). What do you think about him? I get it’s just a rough subject.”. No lights, no pearly gates, no angels, just peace. My girlfriend was traumatised by what had happened. The person suddenly realizes that he is located outside his physical body, The first thing that happens is my vision starts to go, peripherals first narrowing into tunnel vision, then greening out before going black. Like you’re them. Pop! It was bliss that lasted for millennia. My "death" put immeasurable strain on my relationship. It was like my brain needed a hard reboot and to remember how to do various things.”. Every so often I would come to a little bit and saw brief hazy flashes of scenes of a visitor (they lived out of state at the time so I was confused/happy to see them but couldn’t physically talk to them) worst feeling EVER, then from the next thing I remember was the famous LIGHT! I had neither. I’m dangling above the concrete floor. I was hanging myself in my garage. I also wish to make it clear my intentions is not to slander but just to save you from the harmful spiritual influences of Rabbi Zecharia, as spelled out in Hilchot Lashon Hara 4:10. Pavlov: You know then what this implies ? https://vilnagaon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wedding_songs2.mp3. I felt myself moving forward into it and then I stopped, the black felt less suffocating, the cold stopped just before it reached my heart, and I started to move back. I think this is because I cannot convey the emotions and feelings to you. It wasn’t a solid white light; it was like headlights in heavy fog, driving fast right at me. I lost about 3-5 minutes in total, during which I was likely dead (fun fact: your brain and heart can react to lightning strikes by hard rebooting multiple times, in a process that looks like but is functionally different from arrhythmia/brain death). Furthermore, we learn from our holy Sages, that even the sinners and the wicked, at the hour of their decease, behold the face of the Divine Presence and the great Light of the Glory of the Almighty. While my body was basically boiling my brain away, I drifted in and out of sleep before slipping away completely. I was awake, but it was like a dream. The third time, cardiac arrest joined the party—at that point, they were expecting me to finally fade out and die, no energy left to fight on with, but apparently I soldiered onward. I then get up and walk toward the statue when I hear my name being called. I heard a super-high-pitched ring and all I saw was black that faded slowly to a light gray, and then there was nothing.”. I know it sounds insane. There was a Taco Bell on the corner of the strip mall we were at. And all I felt was like when you need a hug the most, when you are at your very worst. Stand on some cinder blocks, secure the rope around my neck. .’ Congrats Skyline in Salt Lake City, your chant was able to pierce the veil of Death. He was about to call 911 when I woke up and asked him, ‘Why are you interrupting my dreams?’ The look on his face when he told me I wasn’t dreaming I was dead is something I will never forget. Sometimes, the line between life and death can seem blurred. Almost as if you were meditating. I was unresponsive for about two minutes until they were able to revive me with CPR. When I came back, and was able to talk to people, I was able to confirm the things I’d found out, things that people I knew or was close to, were thinking or had done in the past that they thought nobody knew about. If you have the patience, I’m willing to show you an article on the subject of Hatred; and why I’m against groundless love to everyone. They were circling around each other while getting bigger and bigger (they seemed almost as if they were trying to save me?) That is it. And so too, was it explained in the Zohar (Vay’hi 250, 2), that when our forefather Yaakov entered the Cave of the Machpela, the Cave was filled with light emanating from the illumination of the Divine Presence, and there is one candle –which is the mystical secret of the light of the Divine Presence, that illuminates there and when the Patriarchs, Avraham and Yitzhak left the cave and came to Yaakov in Egypt to be with him during his dying moments, –so that his bed would be counted as full then that same candlelight, which is the illumination of the Divine Presence, left the Cave. My entire being cried out for light. Years later, I sought to return to that light after waking to a rapist that had drugged my food. Then it felt like I was being yanked out of that bed, and all of a sudden everything HURT. There were so many pretty people. The Midrash tells us (Shocher Tov, end of psalm 22): “Rabbi Yochanan said… Both righteous and evil are received by the Divine Presence. I was a loon. It feels like my body is swaying back and forth, like I am rolling in the waves of the ocean. Everything around me felt soft and at ease. When I came to again, I found myself in a large room hewn from white marble—no doors or windows, only a nice fountain purring soothingly in the center. Many of … In response to this post. The feeling was awesome, though. It was like being in a black cloud. The next second is when they bring me back. Very at peace and just relaxed. They describe the experience as a transit within a space resembling a cave, a well, a trough of water, a tunnel, a valley, and other descriptions of this sort. TL;DR I no longer fear death but am extremely grateful for life.”. What death looks like to people who have been there and returned to life. Each was on his own, standing alone; they all looked exhausted and disappointed, like people having waited way too long for a train, starting to question whether the train was ever supposed to arrive at all in the first place. But I have been told I’m not actually moving during this time. Tags: afterlife , death , clinically dead , life Related Stories Also, as I mentioned before, time is an illusion. According to the head of station (‘Chief doctor,’ don’t know how you call them in the states), they were not expecting me to wake up anymore—apparently, I’ve went into respiratory arrest and organ failure (Sorry, don’t recall all those Latin expressions) three times while I was out. It was all black, but not empty. I don’t think my mind could comprehend what it was seeing, so it filled in the gaps as best it could. A very altered one, where you’re still you as an individual mass of energy, but you’re also very connected to everyone and everything, so it’s like being part of a collective consciousness of everyone both dead and alive. I couldn’t comprehend anything said to me for almost 10 minutes. I had been in the ICU for a week. It was like the darkness was stuck to my skin and surrounding me, like that’s what I was choking on. I think if I had gone any further into that tunnel, if the cold had hit my heart, and if he hadn’t let go exactly when he did, it would have tipped the scale.”. Learn about us. I felt happy. It was not a pleasant job. I also was able to see things that were going to happen in the future, and I can tell you that the things I knew would happen a few years down the road if I chose to stay alive, did happen. My husband thinks it’s cute, so eh fuck it.). I dreamt I was naked and in a cold dark tunnel that suddenly opened up into this massive area. This time, my body came through the veil. All in all, it was bizarre, and I now know that there is a consciousness after death. But they managed to pull me out of the water and revive me. If the soul is found worthy (i.e., if the person has done that which he was supposed to do in this world), they rejoice in it, and they open the gateway to the Garden of Eden and it enters into the Garden, but if, Heaven forbid, the soul is found unworthy, they push it outside so that it does not enter the Garden of Eden. Then I send a few texts and kick down the cinder block tower. If you choose to stay, your brain will die and it’s permanent. That time? “I made a suicide attempt about six years ago. ), that all human beings, whether righteous, pious and innocent or sinners and wicked, pass through the air at their hour of death to see Adam Ha-Rishon, and after they see him each is sent to the place he deserves – the righteous to the Garden-of-Eden and the wicked to Gehenom. Really waking up took a lot of time, however—I was as weak as a newborn kitten, took me six months to get back to full strength. “I almost died from drowning last year and the experience changed me. The things I saw/heard made me believe the world I had entered was liquid. I remember a lot of black which quickly enclosed like a shell into a tunnel. Some have had the rare opportunity to pass through the portal of death and return, only to find their understanding of life radically transformed. My vision began stuttering. Most tissues and organs of the body can survive clinical death for considerable periods. Riding in the back of our truck to the game, sitting in the stands with my mom, and how annoying the opposing team’s chant was. By Nancy Szokan. The souls of the righteous pass before the Patriarchs in the Cave, for the Cave is the gateway to the Garden-of-Eden, so that the Patriarchs can wake up and see their descendants who merited to ascend with virtues of holiness, and for this they rejoice before the Holy One Blessed be He. Until now, I had no need for him, but now, in light of your words, what do you think if I went to learn a little about Judaism from him. I could see the electricity running the lights, through the walls. It’s something I’ll never have an answer to.”. Depending on how fast they were to respond they would use chemicals or paddles to revive me. It was the first step toward a more spiritual (not religious) perspective. I remember the night it happened and being terrified of my mum leaving me and feeling like there was a presence in the room. And even when you were sad you were really happy. Lyudmila Steblitskaya is another example of someone being declared dead and subsequently placed in a morgue, only to be later found alive. It wasn’t black, it was just simply void. I could feel love for the people I was close to, and I really wanted to be near them. What answered was a voice I felt, not heard. An Australian man who was clinically dead for 40 minutes has been brought back to life by a brand new resuscitation technique. Pavlov: What’s so bad about groundless love? Then all of a sudden I was sucked out of the darkness and realized I was floating above myself in the hospital bed and could see the doctors getting ready to save me. Dovid: Because, in the name of “winning people over to love Judaism” he’s willing to make unacceptable compromises on details of Jewish Law and he’s willing to distort the ideals of Judaism. It felt like a ‘welcome home’ message. But I seem more at peace with everything. To make it go away anyway I can. Pavlov: I also heard there is a liberal Orthodox Rabbi in my neighborhood, named Zecharia, that might also be willing to teach me about Judaism. SKYLINE! It was like suddenly I lost all feeling in my body, I fully lost my body, and then my vision. At this point I can still hear, and if I am standing up I start to go down. I do not know how long I was dead. I was clinically dead for about only a minute, but the place I went to…time means nothing there. And became the same. “I attempted killing myself by trying to slit my wrists, I passed out, but was found by my sister in the bathroom and my parent and she alerted my parents and they took me to the hospital while trying stop the bleeding. I have to assume that all of this was ‘back-filled,’ as I obviously wasn’t producing new memories or sensations when I was out.”. Doctors can't explain why Tony Yahle's heart started beating after having stopped for 45 minutes. No warmth and no cold. So, that’s my story. That sounds bad, haha. Could have been a very vivid dream of hallucination, but I like to believe what I experienced was just the beginning of an afterlife.”, “I had a sudden heart failure in the hospital during surgery. Here are some translated excerpts from his book,Ha-Chaim She-l’achar Hamavet. Not sure if it was an afterlife experience or just my brain coping with the fact my heart had stopped.”. I kept reaching for the ground. Du kannst auch jetzt schon bei uns bleiben wenn du möchtest.’) After a while, I realized that ‘my visit in the white room’ took two weeks. “I was clinically dead for only one minute and I think because of the limited time I was able to retain some memory of it rather than cause brain damage luckily. Pavlov: Are there reports of people, who were not religious Jews, who also experienced, what you described ? It is very important to remember, these studies say, that this description of testimony is not the testimony of a single person restored to life, but rather a comprehensive and inclusive representation of very many testimonies of “people restored to life”. I still knew who I was (or who I had been? So many pretty faces. clinically dead and then were later saved to show that Heaven really does exist. I was only gone for 227 seconds.”, “I had a dream I was flying over all of us. Clinically-dead mother returns to life after baby is born Filipina was clinically dead when doctors delivered healthy boy Published: May 12, 2013 11:31 By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Either I was moving toward it, or it was moving toward me. You can see it as if it’s all happening at once. He did not "return to life" until a doctor began to make an incision in his abdomen as part of an autopsy procedure. There is a sense of very rapid transit within a long and dark tunnel. Those who return relate in their testimony that they felt, while in the process of dying, as if their souls were passing along “a dark tunnel”, to which they were drawn very quickly. My rope had snapped and because of that I am alive.”. My mind was dark but also light at the same time. Pronounced dead immediately after he was hit by a car in 1976, he was left for three days in the morgue. I talked to some birds. Arizona woman, clinically dead for 26 minutes, returns to life 12 May 2014, 1:00 am EDT By James Maynard Tech Times An Arizona woman remarkably came back to life after being clinically dead … I remember it being dark nothingness at first but very peaceful at first. And we all kissed. By subscribing, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Statement. I got this feeling like it’s time to go so I watched my mom as I left. Then I see the light, and I start hearing sounds and feeling things. I did not feel anything, nothing. The feeling of utter peace and contentment still messes with me from time to time. So I can’t verify the ‘clinically dead’ part. One man said his brother who was clinically dead saw black gates and also heard a voice telling him that it wasn't his time to die yet. Nothing. © 2000 [ 5760 in the Jewish Calendar] All Rights Reserved. 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