Yes I did have a near death experience 1954 as a child of 4yrs old. I had an accident to my eye when living in Kawerau, my parents took me to Dr Lipa and as we had to travel to Waikato Hospital he gave my mother morphine drops to put in on the way, but because of the distance they wore off and I was in agony by the time I arrived there.
When on the operating table they used a chloroform mask and I think they over dosed me as I was in shock, at that time the medical thought was that children didn’t feel pain because they had not developed a nervous system that registered pain in the same way that adults did and didn’t need pain medication, as it turned out I responded negatively to the chloroform and died, I recall travelling through almost something that looked like water, in a water fall, water passing so quickly that the shapes were blurred but I was moving against the current upward, the shapes that I could see couldn’t touch me as I passed but I knew they were trying to pull me back, at the end of this was an incredible white light, with an amazing sense of peace and compassion, I was given no invitation to be there or to leave there, but it was a place where no one could get me, I don’t recall leaving the body as I seemed to be intact. When I came to I had been put into a hall away from the rest of the children in the hospital and I had purposed in my mind that no one was going to get near me, including anyone in white, I was full of anger and lashed out many times while I was in hospital. I am not scared of death, for having this experience has given me insights into situations that I have had no experience with but I know what to do and say automatically, I intuitively know, it has left me with a sympathetic nervous system highly tuned, sometimes it is annoying to be this way but it just is and I can’t say that I have got used to it.
Thanks for enabling me to share this incident, Oh by the way there was no God image, angels or symbols or anything like that, although I am a Christian as an adult.
Kind regards
B.J.
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