[wessorh]

Having recently recovered from Legionnaires where I was in a medically induced coma for nearly 2 months where I received CPR twice for flat-lining here is my experience... I didn't know what happened but I did get to meet deities, aliens and participate in a bunch of sci-fi oriented excursions. In short I learned about where the mind goes under a lot of drugs and I appreciate the experience. It was easier to remember and clearer than dreams. As to the bright light -- I thought it was nuclear war :) It a long "bad trip" but recovering well, thanks to a great community of concerned friends and healers.

[Jeff_Brown]

I had open heart surgery once, and was given a lot of drugs. It was extremely intense and strange, and I felt like I was at the edge of discovering something immensely important. In retrospect I believe I learned nothing.

[NovaDudely]

I think I posted it on here before but I recall a story of someone who said they would speak to God on LSD and that everything was profound.

So one time they decided to ask "God" what the meaning of life was and they would write it down to study the next day. The next day all that was written down was "Walls". It felt profound but meant nothing.

That is unless walls is the answer and it is just too blunt for us to understand but that is a question for another day. ;)

[iancmceachern]

I'm very happy for your recovery, wishing you many more good years.

"It was extremely intense and strange, and I felt like I was at the edge of discovering something immensely important. In retrospect I believe I learned nothing."

I love that the "it" in this sentence could be lots of things, heart surgery, marriage, school, and even life as a whole itself.

Just a words thing

[CSSer]

It sounds like it was a really heartfelt experience.

[crossroadsguy]

Definitely not like you but last year I had COVID and while everything else was fine as doctor said I had high fever for 5 days straight with little dip and I hallucinated like anything had known before.

Then after some time I had dengue. Well, that made COVID fever experience a walk in a well maintained park. I would not wish dengue on anyone!

The difference of these hallucinations was that it seemed so real. I got to remember what happened and a lot I can remember even now - after months. Characters, people, my connection with them, whys, whats, names, clear faces, places, signs and marks around me from those episodes. While in case regular dreams by the end of an hour so it disintegrates so fast I can barely remember I had a dream and can’t recall much of it.

[EvanDotPro]

This sounds quite similar to many DMT experiences you see on YouTube and hear about on podcasts. I wonder if there's been any studies monitoring DMT levels in realtime as people pass away to measure if there's a significant spike around the time of death. I recall hearing that measuring DMT levels is difficult because we process it so quickly.