anybody else have a near death experience?

[StSanta]

Heh dunno if it counts: was sorta stuck in a wreck for 10 minutes after I stupidly silted up the water and got tangled in my guide line. Buddy couldn't get in due to the restricted space. After 10 minutes of trying to untangle myself (dinnae want to cut my guideline for obvious reasons) I got out of my BCD, dragged it behind me and got out. Wee bit of panic starting to come after 7-8 minutes.

Malfunctioning chute once. Sorted itself out at 2000 feet, just before the reserve was about to shoot. Wasn't very scary: merely very hectic and confusing. Time slowed down and seemed to go in slow motion, but I'm told that's how the brain reacts to situations where time is critical.

Well, fallen off cliffs and stuff and gotten bruises, but that doesn't count either.

Closest thing musta been an ex girlfriend of mine. She *really* intended to stab me during an argument. Luckily, it was over the phone

[Charon]

Totalled a couple of cars. Had a trainee almost let an M113 get away from him going down a nice-sized hill on a driving range (I was practically out of the TC hatch "yelling in his ear" even though I was using the CVC helment microphone  ) The old 113a2 version had twin spade grips and you could begin a process of overreacting to a sway, a right and left oscillation, and eventually get sideways and roll, which wasn't too pleasant of an idea.

Recently had a couple of bad acid-reflux attacks where I woke up in the middle of the night choking and unable to breath (liquid squirted into my air passage). Was sppoky the first time, until I realized that if I tried hard enough I could force air down until it cleared out. What a way to wake up!

Charon

[Tumor]

Originally posted by Zapkin72
had one last night....fortunately didnt pull the trigger.

Dude?

[Eaglecz]

hi pimpjoe

well few things...

you can not survive life, you are dust and you will become dust again
once it happen, doesnt matter, if you had fine or bad life.... simply doesnt
you can try to do whatever, but we all gonna die anyway

so be cool, and try to find something to do with your time
people whitch will remember you, gonna die anyway and you will be forgoten.... as every body

thats it.... no matter how you will cry for it.... its already in progress ...

death is only 1 thing you cant imagine.... trying that is wasting time


meet that loving feeling twice

once in hospital 3.5 years ago, when i was 18
but i didnt use drugs or alcohol before


ahh btw ... welcome to the life

[krazyhorse]

i have had several,  the worst well a car accidentwhile driving home from work when i was 21,  hydroplane my car(to broke to buy good tires) into a power pole the front bumber was touching the rear bumper i was thrown into the passenger seat my legs were pinned under the dash well any how  they had ta jump start me 3 times on the way to the hostpital i lost 6 pints of blood yadeedaadaa  was in a coma for 5 days seen some funky weird crap in my mind while i was out .  i lived. the scariest thing ever to happen to me was in march this year my 12 yr old son got strep virus, it went to his kidneys, then to his heart , i almost lost my boy, aint nuthin ever scared me like that and i  thank GOD everyday for saving him.

[Gaylord]

Well, helLO, but I showed up for the FDB squad party wearing the same exact skin as Hangtime and SOB were. I could have just died! I think three pink spitfires in one arena is two too many.

-Gaylord

[pimpjoe]

thanx fella's!:)

nice to know im not the only one thats almost died at a young age.


oh...and uh...gofaster...lighten up a bit eh?

[Urchin]

Yea, 89 Mustang meets big bellybutton concrete wall doing 65.  Smashed the car all to toejam, I walked away with barely a scratch.  Knocked the rearview mirror off with my head, starred the driver side window on the rebound.  Pretty sure I'd have been a red smear if I hadn't had my seatbelt on, funny thing was that was the first time I'd put my seatbelt on in like 6 months.  I wear it religiously now lol.

[Vulcan]

roadkill, just like the story

Originally posted by bounder

What was in the duffel bag? Airhead
(i'm going to regret this)

[senna]

Yeah I died and came back to life. Not a big deal actully. Lotsa lights and a warm fuzzy feeling. Not very convincing, I know. Anyways, whats interesting is that I believe I was a female supermodel in my past life and lived a very exuberant lifestyle traveling around the world like a total gold digging blabla that I was. What you dont believe?

[Airhead]

Originally posted by bounder

What was in the duffel bag? Airhead
(i'm going to regret this)

Bounder, it's none of your fugging business what was in the duffel bag.

[Hangtime]

life IS a near death experience.

i die every night, i'm born every morning.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Vulcan
roadkill, just like the story

 

LOL Vulcan's heard that one before Sorry Bounder, it's an old joke that's much better live than typed out. I had a Cambodian woman pull that on me a couple of months ago and THEN it was funny. Oh well, sorry bud:)

[Octavius]

Originally posted by Leslie
An "out of body" experience Yeager.  That's what you had.  

One quarter at school I took 24 hours to try to hurry things up a bit.  Was getting 4 hours of sleep a night, and studying about 16 hours each day.  Lots of No-Doze washed down with coffee, and cigarettes to stay awake (had quit for two years and started back that quarter.)

Whenever I tried to sleep, there was a buzz-saw sound, but not in the ears.  Also the same sensation of floating and being able to see my room at different angles.  It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling, kinda like where you are moving about throughout the room, or the house, and yet subconsciously know you're in bed.

Since I was at college, and was studying Psychology, I asked one of my professors what was causing that.  He said it was an attempt for my "alm", or soul, to expand and escape the body.  Of course, this particular professor was on the fringe (he gave much credence to Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge", "A Separate Reality" and "Journey to Ixtlan."  He said not to fight it, but go with the flow whenever this happens.  I told him it was a terrifying thing to do.  He said I would return to my body and not to worry...that I would never find out what was there if I didn't lose my fear.  Go on and get it over with, it wouldn't be so bad.

Well, I followed his advice, and next time it happened I went with it.  It was strange, because there was something there that wouldn't let go, even if I wanted to (the experience was somewhat pleasant, because I was prepared for it this time.)

I believe this happens when someone's tired (exhausted), and under stress.  Doesn't happen often, thank God, because it gives the sensation someone else in in the room with you, (when there ain't.)  Especially when asleep.  Scary.


Pimpjoe, I will pray for your speedy recovery, and am glad you are ok.  Please follow the doc's advice mate.  


Les

Wow!  Leslie consider yourself extremely lucky.  OOBE (out of body experience) are extremely rare and not many can purposely do them.  Yeager you too.  What happened for the both of you was that whatever you ingested (no-doze or drugs or whatever) kept your mind alert and possibly over-sensitive while your body was physically too tired and exhausted.  The buzzing sound occurs every night when you go to sleep.  Its the "crossing over" from consciousness to unconsiousness... only you were conscious the whole time .  

I have been extremely interested in this sort of thing for about a year now with lucid dreaming.  Lucid dreaming is basically being aware while you're dreaming and is a bit different than an OOBE.  The advantage of being "awake" in your dreams is self explanatory .  It may be scary for some, but exhilirating for others (me included!).  If you just "go with it" or just let like your professor said, you could possibly initiate a lucid dream.  Simply let go, float into it.  IF you'd like to try it again, I could give you some tips and a few links to some very helpfull sites that discuss such experiences.  

Consider yourself lucky



And PJ!  Glad to hear you're doing ok buddy

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Hangtime
life IS a near death experience.

i die every night, i'm born every morning.

Try and ease up on the sauce, man.