Recently I had a tilt-table test, which is used to diagnose a certain type of fainting problem. A positive diagnosis, on the test though, results in a flatline on the EKG due to a certain nerve’s (vagus) action on the heart when compounded with nitroglycerin.
Long story short, I fell unconscious during the test and dreamed, and I flatlined at some point. The dream I had, though, was pretty boring: just chatting with people, and starting to open a spiral notebook. I’ve heard of people having extremely profound NDEs, but this was pretty boring. Any thoughts on this?
I almost hit a ski pole. Literally centimeters away. But nothing exciting in terms of memory/flashes/etc.
Today, a truck almost sideswiped me because I was being a retard and thought that since it was going over a speed bump, it would have to slow down. Naturally. Anyway, nothing happened there.
From snakebites to iron overdose (from those Flintstone vitamin thingies) to almost being run over by cars and trucks here. Never had any interesting moment to share. I think those boring, mediocre NDEs are the true ones. I’m not saying the other are lies, but a boring near death situation sounds to me like something most enlightening. You didn’t see gods or angels, you didn’t find any higher truth, you just had a dreamlike hallucination about a stupid regular place with stupid regular people. Wouldn’t it be awesome if that was actually a true sight of paradise?
I don’t think that I flatlined for more than 10 seconds or so. Due to the circumstances (vagus-nerve-related-asystole), I think that they injected atropine.
