(OPINION) ETH – A man who goes by the name of “Joe” claims that he saw his life play out like a movie following a motorcycle accident and claimed that he had died and shared his testimony with the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF).
Joe claims that when he was only 16 years old he was thrown off his motorcycle with his friend after striking a pothole. He then claimed that as he was thrown from the bike that he experienced a “pleasant life review”.
Joe went on to state that “It had just finished raining a typical southern downpour and we left the highway to turn around in a parking lot and head back home. “There was a large pothole covered with water in the lot and my friend drove right through it thinking it shallow.
“It was actually pretty deep and the front wheel of the motorcycle stuck and we were thrown from the vehicle – neither of us was wearing helmets. “As I tumbled through the air, I had a partial pleasant life review, as though I was in a movie theatre, and many memories/experiences of my current life up to that point were played out on the movie screen.”
Thankfully. Joe was blessed to have landed in a nearby creek and apart from a few bruises, he was unharmed. However, for a few years after the accident, Joe claimed that he experiences “occasional disassociated feelings” that his life was unreal or he did not exist.
Joe went on to say that: “Some years later in college, I took a psychology course that discussed this life review phenomenon and validated that what I had experienced previously was real and not too uncommon given the circumstances.”
According to medical experts, many people who have stood on the brink of death, describe seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel or hearing angelic voices and many people describe a sensation of a bright, warm, welcoming light that draws people towards it at the point of death.
Dr. Sam Parmia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York stated “They describe a sensation of experiencing their deceased relatives, almost as if they have come to welcome them.
They often say that they didn’t want to come back in many cases, it is so comfortable and it is like a magnet that draws them that they don’t want to come back. “A lot of people describe a sensation of separating from themselves and watching doctors and nurses working on them.”
