what is a near death experience

“A near-death experience is a phenomenon that occurs to human beings at the moment of death.”4:26

“As with any condition, there are some identifying characteristics, some the common characteristics of near-death experiences are, um, people feel a sensation of coming out of their physical body, possibly fe, uh, being up at the ceiling and watching and hearing everything that is happening before them, might be during a resuscitation or during an accident.”12:22

“I don't think, first of all, a near-death experience means that you're not dead. Everyone who had a near-death experience has never died because if they died, they wouldn't come back. And so I think a near-death experience is that, that, I guess, that time in between where you can reflect on your path, if you like, on this life.”28:28

“The second type of near-death experience is called a deeper near-death experience, and it goes beyond the near-death, out-of-the-body experience, and additionally goes into a mystical experience.”32:26

“Near-death experiences is a brief encounter with death; it can be an out-of-body experience, or it could be levitating, a life review, a light beings, religious beings or dead relatives, telepathic communication, finding yourself going through a tunnel or in some kind of landscape that's otherworldly.”0:55

“It's called a near-death experience.”0:18

“Actually, the expression "near-death experience" could be recast as a "near-life experience". Death is only, as I see it, the short moment, the fraction of a section, the fraction of a second in which you leave life here on earth to enter a new life in the hereafter.”15:49

“A near-death experience.”23:05

“People who have had near-death experiences report that they suddenly found themselves outside of their physical body after an accident and were able to observe events as if from above. They tell of impressive experiences, how they met deceased relatives, and how they felt an oppressive confinement when they had to return to their physical body.”0:56

“There's been a lot of debate, like, well, why do you call it a near-death experience? Well, I'm a psychic medium. I talk to people who have have died. So that's a death, death experience. A near-death experience, think of you're right here and your consciousness is on a rubber band. It goes bounding and it just sort of touches, touches the afterlife frequency of the other side and then it returns.”4:33

“So essentially, a near-death, a complete near-death experience consists of the person experiencing their consciousness leaving their body.”5:13

“Some people will interpret a near-death experience as meaning that they have literally separated from their body in some way, and the identification of who they are is no longer like this; it's something else, a spirit, a soul, something like that.”15:53

“And so, what my experience was, what they call, what researchers today call an out-of-body experience, but yet it was so near-death-like. Uh, I call it a near-death-like experience.”12:23

“I personally like the definition with the characteristics that a near-death experience is an out-of-body and or white-light mystical experience, and it happens when a person is close to death, clinically dead, or facing imminent death or such severe trauma. And I like this definition because it highlights a very important point: you have to have both to be a near-death experience. Both. So if you go out of body when you're having your morning coffee and there's nothing near-death about it, that is called an out-of-body experience. It is not a near-death experience. Similarly, if you have a cardiac arrest and you are clinically dead for X amount of time, but your doctors managed to resuscitate you, but you have no experience other than you feel you were asleep for the entire time, then you were clinically dead and resuscitated, but you did not have a near-death experience.”10:59

“I just woke up somewhere else. Near-death experience is, of course, also just a term. It became established in the 1980s. Because people all over the world were analyzed who had had such experiences. Certain situations within the experience have been defined. And there is now also a scale that can be used to define whether it was a deep or not-so-deep near-death experience. The experience doesn't necessarily have to take place near death. There are also other triggers. The term near-death experience is therefore somewhat problematic.”30:06

“So an NDE, near-death experience, is where somebody is between our material world dimension and the afterlife frequency.”6:10