Blind – But Able to See During a Near-Death Experience | Gülfide Egrigöz In Conversation

Mrs. Egrigöz, a woman who became blind at age eight and later developed myasthenia gravis, had a near-death experience in 2002 during complications after surgery to remove her enlarged thymus gland. She suffocated on food and underwent painful plasmapheresis, leading to the NDE. During the experience, she walked alone in a grey, abandoned concrete city and felt deep sadness, knowing it represented her colorless life. She then saw herself wired to hospital devices and transported to her mother's apartment. There, she watched her mother knit a red jumper and whimper in grief. Mrs. Egrigöz promised to return. She heard a radio message from auxiliary nurse Reini, who urged her to promise to live and gave her a symbolic ring. She felt inner peace but remembered responsibilities, like her guide dog smuggled in by her husband. Upon waking from coma, she saw a man in white, believed to be her father, sitting by her bed until she breathed on her own. Later verification confirmed her mother's red knitting. The NDE changed her life. It proved consciousness separates from the body and survives death. She now views paradise or hell as states of her mind. She lives with joy and laughter, finds silver linings in hard times, and works as an artist of senses and consciousness, mediating between physical and non-physical worlds.