2---I've had 2 respiratory failures after surgeries. The first, I saw nothing---everything just went black. I am not one of those that believe you go immediately to hell or heaven at death, but sleep until Jesus returns and resurrects us. People experience NDE according to their believes during Oxygen deprivation.. The 2nd time was about 3 years ago. After Colon Cancer surgery. I was having a dream, in my dream I was in a room full to the top with water and I was enclosed in a very thick net. I could not breathe and was fighting to tear the net---then all of a sudden I just stopped fighting and said---"Whatever you want Lord, alive or dead, whatever you want." I immediately felt the greatest sense of peace I have ever known in my life. Not euphoria,as from drugs. The most profound inner peace and I felt that God had wrapped His arms around me. I was content and went to sleep in His arms. Then everything went black.
I woke up 2 mths later and was informed I'd been on a respirator for 2 months. I immediately thanked God. You see, I have fibromyalgia. And with that my brain will experience remembered pain for years. One thing I asked God before surgery was that I would not want to have to live the rest of my life constantly re-experiencing my post surgical pains. When I woke up, I was practically healed. I never experienced post surgical pain. I spend the next month just learning how to sit up and stand, and getting back into my wheelchair so I could come home. These are NDE---not after death experinces. I was not with God on the first one---I was very far from Him, wanting nothing to do with Him. The 2nd, I'd returned to Him.
