To the Other Side and Back

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Story type: Near Death Experience
Location: Austalia
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Wed Dec 10 06:05:08 2008

I dropped in to visit a friend before going to my singing lesson. My friend was a musician who liked to smoke pot. At the time he had a female friend that was also visiting and they were both smoking pot and were high. I was sitting on an arm chair that had an elevated foot stool attached, and in front of me was a high wooden coffee table. My friends were conversing with each other but having different conversations it was like watching a comedy show on TV. I started to laugh so hard and felt a deep pain in my chest and couldn’t breathe. I blacked out. Everything was red. I could see my friends I could hear them calling my name but I could not respond as I felt trapped in my body. All of a sudden I saw a slide show pictures of my family ( the pictures looked like negatives from photo’s) The slide show was very fast at the very end of the slide show I saw a picture of a man with slicked back hair, I recognized this man as some-one I dated once, we had stayed in contact but I had not heard or seen him in a while as he had moved to Canada with his then girlfriend. Suddenly everything was black and I could hear the sound of water dripping it was very loud and I remember feeling really annoyed with the sound. I felt like I was in a tank it was dark and cold. All of a sudden I started moving very fast, I could see a small white dot in the distance but it was very faraway. It seemed to be getting bigger and I started to feel less panic and more peace. Then I started going backwards till the dot disappeared and BANG I was back in my body. I could hear my friends calling my name and see them standing over the top of me. The paramedics had been called but I was conscious by the time they had arrived. They believed that I had had a stroke or seizure. The following day I received a phone call from Paul the man I had recognized in the slide show and had not heard from in a long time. After that call I never spoke to him again. The experience was traumatic and life changing. I became obsessed with life after death; I became depressed and didn’t want to be on Earth. I started listening to classical music. I started to recognize a lot of negative things on Earth. It was like a veil had been lifted and for the first time I started to see how horrible the world was and cruel and evil people could be. Before this experience I was extremely naive and had been taken advantage of by many people, friends and family alike. Had I not had this experience I believe that my life would have become more of a mess than it already was. I am sure that this was a wake up call. I did go on a self destructive path for a while to the point where I just didn’t want to be here after this experience. I believe this was God's way to bring me closer to her/him God's energy. I understand that we are here to learn. I understand God better. I know that I am judged by God alone and no other. The life I live here is to help me grow, the pain I feel is the reflection of my fellow human beings. I am more sensitive and I hate to see people being treated unfairly and I dislike rude people immensely. We are here to feel pain to help us grow and to learn to love one another no matter the colour, religion or cultures. There is only one God who comes in many forms. Change what we can when it’s for the better; and accept what we can’t change. God sees all and God hears all God is the only judge. We are all a reflection of each other. I am now 39 years old, I have a 7 year old daughter. She is beautiful. She is constantly drawing me pictures with love hearts and smiling faces. She tells me she wants to make me happy. I believe she chose me as a mother for a reason. I see beauty in all the madness.