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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: pimpjoe on October 12, 2002, 10:18:51 PM
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i was recently hospitalized for a collapsed lung. almost killed me. fluke thing...weak spot in the tissue and it just kinda popped. worst thing about it is that im only 18. skeers the sheet out of me if ya know what i mean. doc said that i have a 50% chance of it happening again too. anyway....it has made me quit smokin, and drugs. i look at life in a whole new light now. makes me really think about things from a whole new perspective
sooooo....anybody else have anything similar happen to them? how'd you deal with it? its killin me just thinkin about almost dyin, and even more that it could happen again:(
help
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I fell out of a helicopter at 200 feet.....that's alot of time to think about the fact that you're about to die.
Put it out of your mind man, or you'll drive yourself nuts. Relish the small things in life, enjoy everyday.
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Woolie and I had our own "near death experience".
We were driving home from a paintball game one Saturday afternoon. There was a 17mph wind in the area. All of a sudden ahead of us the telephone poles started to sway. It happened so fast we had no time to react. We hit the 2nd pole in a row of 10 that fell down like dominos. The pole hit the right front corner of the car at about 65mph's. If we were 20 secs quicker I'm sure I would have been decapitated. After the impact we found ourselves under a mess of live wires. Thinking it through we were smart to stay put in the car where we were insulated by the tires. You could see the lines wiping around the hood of the car and the pavement around us.
I remeber thinking If I was gonna die I hope its fast, you always hear about people burning really slowly by live wires. I didn't have any of those " your life flashes before your eyes" feelings, instead I was upset and telling my self "
I'm not even 30! damnit this is bullsh*t"
To ad insult to injury, the Power company and emergeny personal showed but couldn't do anything to help us. According to PG&E "All their representives were busy" and couldn't assit to kill the power. We sat in that car for over 2 hours under lives wires awaiting our fate. Evetually someone arrived called in the lines to be shutdown and the doors pried open.
An ugly lawsuit followed and PG&E was kind enough to pay my tuition for a year resulting from that mess :D .
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I had salmonella when i was about 7 or 8 years old... Almost died from not eating. (They started poppin me with needles thats how i am here today).
About 12 years old i got hit by a car, many bones shattered... Recovery period was long.
There were probebly other ones that i dont remeber. I know someone is watching over me, thats what makes me happy... had a supernatural experiance as well, will NEVER forget that.
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Two catastrophic car accidents, that if you saw the cars you'd think no one left alive.
At the moment I didnt think anything -- its the days afterwards that break your nerves.
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Wow Pimpjoe, glad youre ok - was starting to wonder why you werent around shooting chutes!! :p
I was in a rather bad accident with my mother when I was younger - bout 10-12 years ago I guess. My seatbelt actually broke - I ended up ok after a few days in the hospital but I can still visualize looking out the passenger side window and counting the pieces of the windshield glass floating past the window in slow motion... scary.
Stay safe.
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Kidney failure.. every day is a near death experience.
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Originally posted by WldThing
... had a supernatural experiance as well, will NEVER forget that.
Ok you brought it up.... out with it ya wierdo!! :D
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While doing speleology, I fell down a syphon(sp?), my bracers snapped, and I was stuck in mud from head to hip, couldn't move a finger. I remember being very calm about it... that feeling stopped when my buddies finaly pulled me out (heavy smoker, yet I stayed for more than two minutes without breathing, hehe :p). I think I was going to shatter my bones because I was shaking so hard. Mostly laugh about it today though :)
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it ain't the happy/easy times which shape your life but the traumatic/hard ones ...
glad you are ok .. sometimes we need to be grabbed by the collar and shook hard in order to have some wrinkles fall out.
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Had a perp try to stab me while making an arrest. He actually hit me high abdoman area. Fortunately the vest I was wearing stopped the blade since it was a broad design. I had to take him down hand to hand.
Totalled out a mustang that made a sudden left turn in front of me. Hit him at 30 MPH broadside on a Police motorcycle. Went over the top. The result is a right arm that is less than functional and constant pain every day. Both were situations that could easily been fatal.
Wife was diagnosed with cancer a year after we were married. So far she is in remission and we are praying it stays that way.
Live the day. No one is guaranteed a set time on earth. There is more to life than the daily grind. Go for and live your dreams for tomorrow may never come.
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Originally posted by Tumor
Ok you brought it up.... out with it ya wierdo!! :D
Okay. What had happened to me one day is im sitting on my couch watching a football game. I notice the tree i have in the corner of the room starts shaking madly, and im sitting there dumb founded while this damn thing is shaking. I stare at it for about 10 seconds and it stops.
I jumped up and went to the corner to see WTF was that. I look around the tree to see that there is nothing there, but then i thought how could such a big animal get in the damn corner and shake the thing.
I bang the doors to see if someone had banged the doors and thats why it shook. Nothing had come out of that, all the windows were closed so no wind could have blown it. Nobody else was in the room except me.
I wasnt scared i was just "stuck" i mean i had no explanation for it, except that it was something that i never experianced before. This sort of thing can play in my mind like it happened yesterday since it not a "usual" occurance.
So thats my supernatural experiance. :)
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no never had one:D
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I had a good one. When I was a kid (6) I had a bad asthma attack, quite a bizzare one really. First I passed out in class, the teacher thought I was sleeping, til I started turning blue. Then she called my mother, who picked me up, right up til this point I was actually aware of what was going on but unable to move or do anything. Bout the time my mother got me home I lost full consciousness.
Next thing I know I'm sitting in a small room, very white, very bright. Theres a nurse, shes bringing me some cookies and milk. But I don't get to eat them, a doctor comes in and says something like its time to go back. BLAM I wake up to see a nurse hovering over me and taking my blood pressure with other nurses and doctors all around - then I pass out again.
Apparently they injected adrenaline straight into my heart and I'm guessing thats when I woke for a split second. Very bizzare, very vivid.
I'm not at all religious either. So go figure :)
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MY sister has two friends that were both clinically dead for awhile. They are now born again atheists.
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Wow weird.
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I got really high once then I went to bed, all the sudden I was floating around overhead for a few seconds checking things out but that was too strange. Guess I worked my way back down.
Everything went well after that.
Beyond that, I have escaped violent death several times (mostly in cars, once when a friend thought the pistol WASNT loaded, thank god he was a terrible shot).
Learn to live life fully and accept death as the natural conclusion that it is. I have often thought that the old battlefield axiom "accept the fact that your already dead and things will be alright" actually applies to just plain old normal everyday living, in a minor subdued way.
PS: Glad your ok with that lung thing :)
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Nope, normal life here.
I got the wind knocked out of me in a varsity football game though. Thought for 30 seconds I would surely die. No ghosts or lights, just pain and some guys looking at me for a minute. All was suddenly good.
I do want to beat up SOB, as his films stink. (I know that has nothing to do with anything, but at least he hasn't almost died)
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anybody else have a near death experience?
Yeah.. I almost got married once !:eek:
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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
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had one last night....fortunately didnt pull the trigger.
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Let's see...
First brush... I used to work for a crop duster. I was mixing up some insecticide spray material. I didn't know what I was dealing with. Didn't take proper precautions... the nerve agent almost killed me. I spent three days in ICU. Think I was nineteen at the time.
Second brush... did a little offroading in a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. The accident lasted quite long enough for me to think (during the rolls), "Wow, this is sure lasting a long time." I was quite concious of my seat belts holding me in. Would have liked to have had side air bags 'cause that glass hurt like hell. Walked away from it. This one occurred at twenty-five years.
On another note... I've suffered two concussions. They are really odd injuries. Almost like a little death to have two holes in my memory that I simply can't recover.
Look at the bright side, PimpJoe... your SA gets better with age. :D
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I picked up a hitchhiker one time and the guy was really scary- he didn't speak and he had this rubber looking duffel bag. Feeling uncomfortable by the silence and wishing to make conversation I asked him what he had in the duffel bag- he replied it was "none of my f-----g business."
This guy was so scary I claimed I had to turn off the main road and dropped him off. He forgot to grab his duffel bag, and he weirded me out too much for me to go back and return it to him, so I kept it, but man that was a scary experience, and after looking in that rubber duffel bag I realized just what a near death experience I'd just had.
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Maverick said:
"Wife was diagnosed with cancer a year after we were married"
That is worst news ever. I hope she beats it. I lost my mother to that devil.
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Originally posted by Thrawn
MY sister has two friends that were both clinically dead for awhile. They are now born again atheists.
Gawd, how I love irony. :D
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What was in the duffel bag? Airhead
(i'm going to regret this)
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A WW2OL box.
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1)Minnesota-(I was 12 yrs old) Another 12 year old pulls a .22 rifle on me and fires it from his driveway, bullet hits my bicycle frame as I rode by (we had a fighter earlier in the day)Missed my calf by a fraction of an inch.
2)Minnesota-(I was 17 yrs. old.) 4 of us underaged minors drinking at a park, some drunk bastard begins to get in his truck and one of the guys in our party spews some verbage at the drunk bastard, he pulls out a hunting rifle, loads the magazine and starts waving it in our faces. Cops see it from a distance, arrest the guy. He's wanted in Wisconsin for Assault with a deadly weapon on a separate, unrelated charge.
3)Minnesota-(I was 17 yrs. old) hitchhiking home one night from a girlfriends house, her ex-BF and HER BROTHER pull up in a car, pull out a shotgun, force me into an alley and proceed to beat the crap out of me, at gun point. (They NEEDED that gun, or I'da whooped them both)
4)Washington-(I was 22 yrs old) Bartending, I cut a drunk off, he opens his coat to reveal a pistol that he claims he's gonna use on me if I don't serve him, manager sees this going down, calls the cops, the guys leaves soon after.
5)Washington-(I was 25 yrs. old) After telling an obviously drunk customer at a local bar that 3 guys were going to beat him up after he was going around pinching girls tulips in the bar (I was trying to warn him that he'd better leave, I wasn't one of the 3 conspiring to beat him up) the guy thinks *I* want a piece of him. He leaves. 30 min later I left, a car pulls up behind my car blocking my path, I get out, walk up to the darkened window, window rolls down, its the drunk guy with a .32, who fires 2 shots at me wildly (as I was ducking and running) None hit, he screeches off. Cops called. No arrests were made (But I hunted that son of a ***** down and mentally/emotionally harassed him for about 6 months...thats another story ;) )
6)My stepbrother, upon moving out here from Minnesota, wanted to get some shots of Mt.St.Helens letting off steam when she became active in late 79' and early 1980. We went thru the state to get "Blue zone" passes which were relatively close to the mountain, allowing one to get some good photos. After 2 months, we were finally approved. Passes good for Sat. May 17th and Sunday May 18th, 1980. Sat. was a work day for Jim, that evening we had a couple of girls over and drank until 4am (the girls left at midnight, so we continued drinking without them :) ) Alarm clock goes off at 5am (2 hour drive would have put us in the blue zone right about 7:30-8:00 am). I smack the alarm off and decide its best we do an afternoon photo shoot of the mountain. At 9am we get out of bed dragging our hung over tulips to the living room, turn on tv, and realize that liquor saved our lives...most of the 64 something people that died that day were in the Blue zone.
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trapped in a totalled corvair with the gutter full of gas and the engine going full bore and trying to break the glass to get out even tho your back is broke... watching the life pump out from the stump that once had a leg and foot on the end of it.... hep c.. guns and knives.... biker toejam.. dead sticking ultralights... Hot rods and Harleys.... women. dead guys heart valves where yours used to be....
I think most have put it clearly here... no one gets out alive... enjoy life and don't take things too serious... save the angst for something worthwhile... u may need it.
lazs
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It never ceases to amaze me when people mess themselves up and then wonder how they got there. Maybe all those high school auditorium student assemblies about drugs and booze abuse weren't a complete waste of time. :rolleyes:
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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 :D :D
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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
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Originally posted by Zapkin72
had one last night....fortunately didnt pull the trigger.
Dude?
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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 :D :D :D
ahh btw ... welcome to the life :cool:
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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roadkill, just like the story :D
Originally posted by bounder
What was in the duffel bag? Airhead
(i'm going to regret this)
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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?
:D
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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.
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life IS a near death experience.
i die every night, i'm born every morning.
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Originally posted by Vulcan
roadkill, just like the story :D
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:)
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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 :D. 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 :)
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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. :)
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Originally posted by Raubvogel
I fell out of a helicopter at 200 feet.....that's alot of time to think about the fact that you're about to die.
Put it out of your mind man, or you'll drive yourself nuts. Relish the small things in life, enjoy everyday.
at the risk of hijacking this thread, how did you survive?
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He landed on his head. Cracked the toejam out of the concrete, but no serious damage to him.
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"there was a buzz-saw sound, but not in the ears"
Been there, done that. Scares the crap out of me. I force myself awake when it happens. It does not feel good, more like something really bad.
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dudes...i just had a dream that the DC sniper was chasing me and i had nothing to defend myself with but a friggin bb gun.
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Wldthng, I had the same thing happen... last week. Instead of a tree it was a filing cabinet... and it didn't shake, it was being, like, shoved... 2 inches at a time... for a total of about a foot and a bit. I just stared at it until it freaked me out so bad I kicked and knocked it over. Then nothing. And no plausible explanation for it. Never did believe in ghosts, and I still don't... for I'm trying hard not to think about it at all.