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feeling of hurtling towards the vacuum brought her around the words you have a boy she was experiencing was only night mare & tormenting pain was pain of while delivering child & in 1st case of may be pain of having a girl child.
Another example reported by an artist having no religious upbringing, . lost control of car on a snowy winter it did into a brook & hit his head on windshield & lost consciousness. He described living his body & watching icy water filled the car saw ambulance coming, people trying to help from car to hospital at that time I was no longer in my body felt warmth & kindness of people felt their compassion & good feeling it was very powerful & I was afraid of it so I didn't accept it I was uncertain & did not feel comfortable so rejected it at that moment I felt planet I see myself going away, way up in the air then beyond solar system beyond the galaxy & out beyond anything physical I did go with it see where it went & stayed calm but then as hours went absolutely no sensation no pain, no hot, no cold, no light no taste, no smell, no sensation, only slight sensation of traveling at fast speed & I was leaving the earth & all physical world at that point. It became unbearable, horrific no feeling, no sensation, no sense of light. I started panic & struggle & pray, think of struggle to get back, communicate with sister who passed away & I went back into my body & I was in hospital.
Many cases of eternal nothingness experience were reported during anaesthesia. Common theme include eternal emptiness experience of being mocked & sense of all of life being an illusion experience leave the individual with a pervasive sense of emptiness &fatalistic despair after event.
A manager at age 24 during child birth exhausted in sever pain lost consciousness then found herself floating in a narrow river towards a beautiful arched bridge made of large stones, the shadow of bridge made of bridge getting closer “I was flotting with body all down in water except head above & bobbing up &down. It was very peaceful - after I reached the shadow I was in the heavens ,but it was no longer peaceful feelings it had become pure hell. I had become a light out in the heavens & I was screaming but no sound was going forth it was worse then my night mare I was spinning around & screaming I realiesd that this was eternity for screaming within my own body which was small ball of light I felt emptiness of space the vastness of the universe except me a mereball of light screaming Hellish imaginery dreams or ND E includes more graphic hellish symbolism such as threatening - demos or falling in to a dark pit. Whether prior mental status or religious
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