No. but I once had an out of body experience. I was at a rock festival standing in front of the stage when suddenly I was 100ft up in the air looking down on the stage and crowd. I got such a fright that I immediately came back down again. Some mind altering substance had been taken but nothing substantial.

Just from mushrooms.

Yep. NDE, but I have not been conditioned in the religious sense so the only similarities to many I've heard about and a couple from folks in a group, was the tunneling of 'vision' and light at a distance. I tried to tell people about mine, but they said I was making it up because it didn't parallel what they'd heard. In mine there was considerable humor and nonsense along with colorful flashes and such (actually mirroring my daily life of fun, nonsense, and flashes of color). If I had told them about meeting relatives and ancestors along the way, maybe an angel or two replete with wings they would probably have been satisfied.

Anyway, in spite of the opinions from others, I know it was real because vitals were flat for a couple of minutes according to the docs, and they said the EEG was showing lots of activity. So, no, it wasn't the source of any major change in my life. I didn't start worshiping parking meters, getting visits from the Heavenly Hostesses, or hearing a wee voice in my mind guiding me to higher purpose. To tell you the truth, the whole experience just made me a lot more hesitant of going to doctors over anything, and at my age, that's not such a bad thing.

1. It was a damn sight more peaceful & pain free than being strangled!
2. And after the stroke (many years later) it was also a better place than that hospital bed, where I had lost control of one eyeball, lost the ability to read/write/ speak clearly, and could not recognize anybody until they spoke. Mystical my ass! Do you think if you are dying everything is rainbows & soft music? That's hospice.........
   Just dark, quiet,peaceful,and no pain....really lovely.
   And anybody who blats on about how "it gave them purpose" or whatever, just wants your money!

@Remiforce

How do you define "near death"?

1. No heartbeat, then revived through medical intervention.

2. Nearly fell off a cliff.

I experienced #2 several times while hiking.

I've had near death experiences before but they never included mystical experiences even with drugs.

Every day... when I wake up I return to this plane.

Oh yeah I had a big one. The light in my room became blinding and his presence as so strong I dropped to my knees. I was on some pretty good LSD at the time though so I doubt it was real.

I have seen a lot of apparently brain dead people promoting magical sh!t. That's pretty damned mystical to me!!

I was able to communicate telepathically with my Dachshund while on LSD. I did tests witnessed and confirmed by my friends present (also on LSD).

We were hiking and when we came to the clearing, I let Willy (my dog) wander around on his own. I was able to call him to return using only my thoughts. Varied the time intervals of the "calls", and would even dismiss him to go back to exploring using only thought communication. Was very scientific.

No, but I had a couple blizzard experiences on the road where I fully expected I would die out there in the storm.

I had ‘something’ happen
I’m not willing to call it mystical
Near death/dead yup
Big rectangle door shape with white noise inside
Walked in lots of light
Then I was awake
Don’t know

Every day is a "near death" experience.
Nothing mystical about it.

Had a few patients who did

I've had near-death experiences in that I've been caught up in circumstances that might easily have killed me but there was nothing mystical about them.

Nope... Don't believe in them...

No.

I experienced what you call an astral walk, while in hospital, after a couple surgical mishaps that almost killed me (according to the surgeon). Middle of the night vitals check - I was vaguely aware, but enjoying a ‘dream’ snuggle with my honey, so decided to stay in the dream and ignore the nurse. She got upset about something and left, then brought in the charge nurse. She tried to check my vitals too, then forcefully shook me - I felt yanked out of my lover’s arms and dumped in the hospital bed. Nurse seemed baffled, but glad to finally be getting my vitals. Apparently, while I clung to that ‘dream’, I had no vitals! I later learned my guy had a similar ‘waking dream’ from which I was suddenly yanked away. Too weird!

I have taken LSD 4 times - 1 good, 2 amazing, the last really, really bad.
I have had my heart stopped while surgeons fixed a few blood vessels.
I have had a few situations where I was near death and fully expected and hoped to die.
Never saw a bright light, felt the spirit of a god or anything other than the pain of surviving

of course its an altered brain state, the brain does very different things in response to its inputs/environment, and if you think being dazed and shocked during a car wreck is bad, imagine how youd feel as your life is slipping away.

anyhow, having done both, id say they are very different.

As a matter of fact I have.... I must have been 10 years old. Walking down the street where I grew up, I went across and jumped to the sidewak (It's a weird u turn downhill street) but I tripped myself and came down towards the street. Everything next happened in a split second.... as I am fallling, I see a bus moving down and I see the rear wheel spining and I know we will meet. It's amazing how fast the brain can present the possibilities under such stressful conditions. The level of awareness goes to the roof, it is true. The sense of "I saw my whole life in one second" is also true. While all that is happening and I am terrified, my brain also kicked the self survival mode and I decided (half way going down...still going down) that I was not going to die. I did manage to move my body bearly away from the bus wheel as soon as I landed on the paviment. It has been more than 40 years and I still remember the whole scene as if had happen to me just this morning. All the emotions I went through in a split second were very real, they are still real to me.

No NDEs but 3 or 4 “altered states of awareness” (without drugs) that I could easily describe as mystical if I wanted to, but I don’t. I think it’s just brain chemistry.

I've had a few "was nearly killed" experiences. Does that count? They certainly sharpened my perceptions of what was about to send me to my dirt nap and got me out of it. Nothing mystical though. Mostly terror, anger then immense relief.

I've been terrified for my life 2 or 3 times. No flashes or anything mystical. Just an awareness of needing to do something quickly and hoping it worked. It did. Still here. Thank no one.

While I have been close to death many times, I never had an NDE. A very good woman friend became extremely ill while in college. They took her to the infirmary. She reports she left her body & floated by the ceiling watching the medical personnel working on her. One of them said, "She's gone". They could not get her vitals for a long time.

They moved her body to a bright, sunny room. She watched what was going on from the ceiling. The realization came to her it was not her time to go. She struggled to get back into her body. Eventually she got back in & felt the illness she hadn't felt while she was up by the ceiling. She felt very peaceful & pain free up there.

Apparently this situation lasted for some time. Her parents got a call, "Your daughter died" & rushed to the college. The medical personnel said she reported accurately what happened.