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I am a nurse, and was on duty running the ER I had no idea what was happening. The experience involved visuals but more ...feelings. Profound, never-before felt feelings of love, kindness and joy. Elation. Complete calm. I was fully dressed in the hospital bed. In this "waiting room", as I aptly select to term it, was bathed in bright, golden light. I was wearing a light grey yoga-type garment.
After the moment of my death, I became like a breath, and was "breathed" into the body of a nude, non-gender being. I was standing alone on a bare, sandy beach, before a fairly still body of water, above which was an open, blue sky. I was very confused and frightened.
About one year ago, I had an epileptic seizure. I didn’t know that a person could stop breathing during a seizure. I had back-to-back seizures, and that they were dangerous, although I didn't know why. I knew people died from seizures, daily, but was in severe denial about my epilepsy for what I now understand to be extremely superficial reasons.
When I was three, I was stricken with a severe fever of unknown origin. As the fever worsened I experienced fits, my eyes rolled back in my head, my body became covered with sores, my tongue had blisters, and I eventually became unconscious. I moved from conscious to unconscious states repeatedly over a 14 day period.
My near-death experience happened when I had been very ill with some sort of virus and a bacterial infection that spread throughout my entire body and left me pretty much bed-ridden for 6-7 months. I remember telling my mom that I was certain I was going to die from this illness.
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