Few individuals have the ability to recount an experience of being dead, but one Reddit user who experienced death and revival has shared their extraordinary encounter.
In a detailed post, the user, who is employed in the healthcare sector, revealed they were ‘on life support for quite some time’ following an incident that left them declared dead ‘for a couple of minutes’. They were subsequently placed on a mechanical ventilator for several days.
Through this experience, they gained a unique perspective on life, having been both a patient and a healthcare worker. The user noted that the event ‘really heightened’ their outlook on existence.
Encouraging others to inquire about their near-death experience, the Redditor invited questions from social media users, leading one person to seek more information.
In response, the healthcare professional shared: “The experience was humbling. I felt absolutely no pain. I was comfortable even though my body was fighting hard against everything physically. I remember vomiting a few times while on the ventilator and aspirating… but, it didn’t hurt.”
With family present in the ICU, the patient felt comforted and could even hear their conversations.
“It was a bit like an out-of-body experience… I can still recall conversations my family had in the ICU room but no matter how much I wanted to reply to them or even interact with them, I couldn’t. That was the weird part for me,” they recalled.
The experience became even more peculiar when they saw someone impossible to be in the room with them.
They described: “Upon extubation (removing ventilator from lungs), I remember seeing my grandmother who passed away in 2004. She told me to ‘turn around… my time here is just beginning’. Then… I felt the tubes slide out of my lungs and the nurses yelling my name.”
In another comment, the user expressed feeling ‘blessed’ to see their grandmother, stating: “She basically told me that my time here on earth wasn’t finished.”
“I like to refer to her as my genuine guardian angel,” they continued. “I do not really know if she came to me or not… or whether it was the medications. However, it was comforting and opened my eyes to the real possibility of seeing my loved ones who have passed on again.”
Reddit users found the story ‘wild’, with one commenting: “I love reading about stuff like this. Sure, the brain is powerful and it’s entirely possible that was a hallucination of some kind. But it’s also possible it wasn’t.”
Other users shared their own encounters with individuals near death, including one Redditor who worked in a brain trauma unit, explaining that staff ‘always talked to patients in vegetative states because we know that you can never tell with 100% accuracy whether or not a person can perceive anything at all.’