Christopher D
ADC
Greyson Scale: 8
#33142
- CountryUnited States
- GenderM
- AgeAdult
- Date Experienced11/6/1990
- Date Submitted10/5/2025
The experience included
See a bright unearthly lightDevelop psychic abilities
Experience Description
In the darkened waiting room during prayers for my sister, she appeared to me floating above the floor, surrounded by a glorious light. Gold flecks shot off rays in all directions. When they passed through me, I was infused with an overwhelming feeling of love.
After my sister’s passing in 1990 I heard about a class at Stanford University on “Lucid Dreaming” as a method to contact people who had died. I couldn’t afford the class but read all about it and how to contact our Loved Ones by calling/praying for them to enter our dreams which I did for several months as I was going to sleep by thinking “Hey Susan if you can hear my thoughts please come into my dreams tonight, I want to talk to you, know how you’re doing, and where you are and what you are now.” Finally, one night she did appear in a dream and when I saw her I instantly became awake, but stayed focused in the dream state and I said to her:
“Susan! You heard me calling you to come into my dreams!! She said “Of course I did. Let me ask you something…You don’t hear me do you?” I said “No, I don’t” and she said “that’s because you’re thick as a ton of bricks, what do you want?”
I said “I want to know how you are, where you are what you are now?”
She said “My reality is beyond the Human Mind’s ability to comprehend.”
I said “I don’t care, tell me anyway.”
She said “OK do your best to concentrate.”
Instantly the scene changed and I’m sitting in a chair facing her standing in front of a blackboard. She had her back to me as she was beginning to draw a large complicated circular design and explaining it. She starts answering my question while occasionally looking over her shoulder back at me to emphasize certain points she’s explaining.
As soon as she finished the design (I later discovered it to be “The Flower of Life”) she turned around and said “There, you didn’t understand that did you?”
I said, “No, I didn’t”
She said “I told you you couldn’t because it’s beyond the human mind’s ability to comprehend my reality now. I really need you to concentrate on what I'm going to tell you now but you won’t remember when you wake up. However, it will be “in you” and it’s important that it is.
The scene changed and we’re sitting across from each other at a small table. She begins answering my question as to what she was and where she was in great detail. She talked for another long while and as soon as she finished I woke up. All I remember was the Flower of Life design. I wish I remembered what she explained that she told me I wouldn’t consciously remember. I do remember that it was important and it would be “In me”.
Background Information
Gender
Male
Date NDE Occurred
11/6/1990
Near Death Experience Elements
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event?
Yes, Surgery-related, Other (briefly specify), I was at the hospital after my sister's procedure in the ICU waiting room.
How do you consider the content of your experience?
Entirely pleasant
Did you feel separated from your body?
No
How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness?
More consciousness and alertness than normal, It is almost indescribable. My sister was infusing me with love.
At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?
The whole time
Were your thoughts speeded up?
No
Did time seem to speed up or slow down?
No
Were your senses more vivid than usual?
Incredibly more vivid
Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience
It was perfect and accompanied by a powerful feeling of love coming from the golden rays emanating from her in all directions.
Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience
It was silent.
Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere?
No
Did you pass into or through a tunnel?
No
Did you see any beings in your experience?
No
Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings?
Yes, My sister, whose body was in the ICU.
Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light?
A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin
Did you see an unearthly light?
Yes, Described above.
Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?
No
What emotions did you feel during the experience?
Powerful feelings of love as my sister was looking at me and her golden aura was sending out many golden rays in all directions, including through me.
Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness?
Incredible peace or pleasantness
Did you have a feeling of joy?
Incredible Joy
Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe?
No
Did you suddenly seem to understand everything?
No
Did scenes from the future come to you?
No
Did you come to a border or point of no return?
No
God, Spiritual and Religion
What was your religion prior to your experience?
Christian- Protestant
Have your religious practices changed since your experience?
No
What is your religion now?
Christian- Protestant, Aside from my beliefs in Jesus, I'm open to other faiths.
Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs?
Content that was entirely consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience
Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience?
Yes, Confirmation of the truths in many of the NDEs as described on the NDERF.org website.
Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice?
No
Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc?)
No
During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness?
Yes, Described above.
Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion
During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose?
Yes, The experience was a divine gift to me from my sister.
During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life?
No
During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife?
Yes, My sister's body was in the adjacent ICU recovery room.
Did you gain information about how to live our lives?
Yes, Clearly, we or she continues in spirit.
During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships?
No
During your experience, did you gain information about love?
Yes, The love my sister was infusing me with was wholly divine.
What life changes occurred in your life after your experience?
I have had two other close friends who passed come to me through another person who told me what they wanted me to know. One was my best friend Dr. Vernon, a doctor and surgeon who confirmed the stories of our "Book of Life" in a great library in the heaven world.
Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?
Yes, Sometimes, I find people in denial of heavenly realities and events. My report described here is not believed or taken seriously.
After the NDE:
Was the experience difficult to express in words?
No
How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience?
I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience
Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience?
Yes, Seems my intuition is often accurate.
Have you ever shared this experience with others?
Yes
Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?
Yes
What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?
Experience was definitely real
What do you believe about the reality of your experience now?
Experience was definitely real
At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience?
Yes, As mentioned above, I've had two other friends come back to me through another person used to give me messages.
Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience?
No
Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?
Yes