

I was not aware of my body as I know it…. I felt the aloneness, the emptiness of space, the vastness of the universe, except for me, a mere ball of light, screaming.”Ī woman who attempted suicide felt herself sucked into a void: “I was being drawn into this dark abyss, or tunnel, or void….

I was spinning around, and I realized that this was eternity this was what forever was going to be…. I had become a light out in the heavens, and I was screaming, but no sound was going forth. 1–5Īnother woman in childbirth felt herself floating on water, but at a certain point, “It was no longer a peaceful feeling it had become pure hell. “No,” they said, “none of that had ever been real this is all there was.” She was left alone in space. She argued with facts about her life and descriptions of Earth. A group of circular entities informed her she never existed, that she had been allowed to imagine her life but it was a joke she was not real. A woman in childbirth found herself abruptly flying over the hospital and into deep, empty space. I saw the blinding white light come right to me and engulf me.”Ī woman collapsed from hyperthermia and began re-experiencing her entire life: “I was filled with such sadness and experienced a great deal of depression.”Īn NDE of the “void” is an ontological encounter with a perceived vast emptiness, often a devastating scenario of aloneness, isolation, sometimes annihilation. I realized that we were on a collision course, and it terrified me. He was panic-stricken by the bizarre scenario and his inability to affect what was happening.Ī woman in childbirth felt her spirit separate from her body and fly into space at tremendous speed, then saw a small ball of light rushing toward her: “It became bigger and bigger as it came toward me. Next he was shooting through darkness toward a bright light, flashing past shadowy people who seemed to be deceased family members waiting. “No! No! This isn’t right!” He screamed, “Put me back!” but they did not hear him. A man thrown from his horse found himself floating at treetop height, watching emergency medical technicians working over a his body. In some NDEs, features usually reported in other NDEs as pleasurable are perceived as hostile or threatening.
