Death was like being underwater - NDE / Near Death Experience
What Researchers Found
The Story
The person was a 35-year-old mother in Saudi Arabia having her fourth C-section on June 16, 1996, to deliver her daughter Maha. She suffered a respiratory arrest from an overdose of paralyzing anesthesia and was clinically dead for three minutes. During the NDE, she felt like she was at the bottom of a pool looking up at a blue sky and shining sun, with soft violin music playing. She struggled to swim to the surface for air but looked down to see a bright white stone path lined with waving people she knew, including Jesus at the end. She felt torn between directions. Her deceased grandmother's voice told her to return because Maha needed her. She broke through the water's surface, heard hospital monitors and chaotic voices, and saw herself as a child in a swimsuit on TV. Her husband urged her to breathe. After the NDE, she lost fear of death and recalls the peaceful music during stress. Her sons felt a force that made them pray in Arabic they did not know. She experienced cognitive changes and PTSD but found validation from a psychologist. She uses the memory to find peace in chaos.
“over life I just remember back to the music and the peace I felt while in the”
The account describes a clinical death with respiratory arrest, featuring unpredictable veridical elements like a deceased grandmother referencing the unknown name 'Maha' for the newborn and accurate recall of husband's plea amid crisis, corroborated by family. However, it lacks claims of physically impossible perceptual access (no OBE details of surgery) and features late reporting without pre-verification documentation, capping evidential strength.
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What Researchers Found
The account describes a clinical death with respiratory arrest, featuring unpredictable veridical elements like a deceased grandmother referencing the unknown name 'Maha' for the newborn and accurate recall of husband's plea amid crisis, corroborated by family. However, it lacks claims of physically impossible perceptual access (no OBE details of surgery) and features late reporting without pre-verification documentation, capping evidential strength.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
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Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
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