A Reddit member who believes they were clinically dead for six minutes has shared a disturbing and extremely intimate narrative of what they think they witnessed on the other side. It’s a very different vision of the afterlife than the peaceful, light-filled, and reunion-filled notions that make you feel good.
A lot of people have been talking about the anonymous post that was put on Reddit’s NoSleep thread, which is a place for frightening stories and real-life horror stories, because it is so detailed and scary. The person says the occurrence happened in 2003, when they were just 15 years old, and it was because of a serious medical issue that prompted their heart stop.
The post indicates that the event happened when the person was crossing the roadway. Emergency responders and doctors then told them what transpired throughout the bodily collapse and revival: their body was found unconscious and without a heartbeat. Emergency medical workers were able to bring them back to life while they were on their way to the hospital. But the most lasting impression was what happened during those six minutes of clinical death, before their corpse was brought back.
They said, “I was dead, in a way.” ” My heart stopped. I wasn’t responding when EMS found me, but they were able to get me back on the way to the hospital. I heard that part. What I remember is what happened in the middle.
They say that what happened next wasn’t a tunnel of light, angels, or the calming presence of loved ones who had passed on. They now label it mentally painful instead of enlightened; it was something else entirely.
“It felt like I had been thrown into a place that was familiar but wrong,” they faceless. “Everything around me seemed like things from my life and memories, yet they were all wrong. Time and grief have changed these echoes into something else entirely.
They said they were going to meet what they called a “presence.” At first, it seemed innocent and infantile, but it quickly became clear that it was calculating, manipulative, and even cruel. They reported that this presence played with them like a predator plays with its prey. “It hit me like a cat with a caught mouse,” they said.
There were no fires, pitchforks, or other scary things that people often think of when they think of hell. It didn’t hurt physically. Instead, they talked about a deep emotional sorrow that they called “soul pain.” They had never felt anything worse than this loss or trauma.
“Physical pains we think hell would give us are nothing compared to the pain of the spirit.” Losing a loved one is the only thing that comes close; it hurts deeply. It felt like all the bad things that had ever happened to me were happening to me at once, but worse.
There were no answers or insights on this place, and there was no angelic presence to bring peace or clarity. The presence, on the other hand, indicated something much more disturbing: that coming back to life would cost them something. It would be great to be a little higher up in the “slave population” if you could term it a “reward.” The Redditor didn’t fully understand the punishment, but they could still feel how heavy it was.
They added that the presence scared them more because it meant that if they told other people what they saw and those people believed them, things would get worse.
The Reddit user states that after they became an adult and acquired a pacemaker and had a few surgeries, they have never looked at life or spirituality the same way again. They perceive what many would call a miracle or a second chance as a burden, which is a terrifying fact they didn’t want to know.
“I don’t thank God for anything anymore,” they wrote. “Whatever I saw that day, it didn’t help me; it scared me. It didn’t help me feel better. It made me think that life and death are part of something cold and horrible.
The user says that since then, they have tried to talk to doctors and therapists about what happened. Most specialists think that what they observed was caused by trauma, the brain’s reaction to not getting enough oxygen, or the complicated neurochemical process that happens when people are close to death. The individual on Reddit, nevertheless, is still positive that what they witnessed wasn’t a dream or a hallucination. It was more real to them than everything else in real life.
“Those six minutes I was dead felt like weeks. Even months. It wasn’t fast or hazy. It was quite rough and uncomfortable. I can recall every second of it.
Their story is one of several that goes against what most people think happens after we die. People from a lot of different cultures and religions have argued for hundreds of years that the afterlife is either a paradise for good people or a place of torment for bad people. But other stories don’t fit into that simple category. They don’t have a defined set of rules, rewards, or punishments. There is a lot of confusion, emotional pain, and warnings that don’t make sense.
The Redditor’s narrative is scary, no matter if you think it’s a metaphor, a hallucination, user an actual meeting with another universe. It makes us think about death and how we’ve attempted to deal with it. What if the hereafter isn’t a calm place, but rather something we can’t understand and are afraid of? What if it doesn’t all make sense?
The guy who survived through those six minutes of death doesn’t have any clear answers. They just had memories that stuck with them and a warning they thought they had to provide.
Even if no one believes it.