Elaine P
Probable NDE
Greyson Scale: 16
#33148
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- GenderF
- AgeCollege Age
- Date Experienced6/5/1986
- Date Submitted10/22/2025
The experience included
Time lost all meaningSee a bright unearthly lightLikely experienced clinical deathTime is an illusion and does not exist in the spiritual worldDecided to come back to life
Experience Description
Being twenty at the time and three months pregnant, I wasn't allowed to receive any normal post-op drugs. I had two tablets every four hours and in a lot of pain.
I went down a a dark helter-skelter tunnel. At the bottom was this beautiful, whiter-than-white space and a feeling of absolute peace. A woman was standing there in a 1940s-style WRAF uniform. She looked a bit like me but wasn't as tall. Her hair was done up in combs in the 1940s style. She told me that "It's not your time yet; you have to go back." So I climbed all the way back up the tunnel, and that's when I started to get better.
I described her to my dad, and he said it sounded just like his sister who died in 1945 when she was twenty and three months pregnant. I have never seen a picture of her, and my dad never talked about her. After that, it was amazing how green the grass and the trees were. The birdsong never sounded so lovely. I no longer fear death, although I wouldn't want it to be long and painful.
Background Information
Gender
Female
Date NDE Occurred
6/5/1986
Near Death Experience Elements
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event?
Yes, Surgery-related, Life threatening event, but not clinical death
How do you consider the content of your experience?
Entirely pleasant
Did you feel separated from your body?
I lost awareness of my body
How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness?
Less consciousness and alertness than normal
At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?
I don't know. It's like I fell asleep.
Were your thoughts speeded up?
No
Did time seem to speed up or slow down?
Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning, There was no sense of time, or life, or the people I had left. It just was.
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
Everything was much brighter.
Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience
Apart from my aunt speaking, it was quiet.
Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere?
No
Did you pass into or through a tunnel?
Uncertain, A helter-skelter is like a tunnel, but not.
Did you see any beings in your experience?
I actually saw them
Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings?
Yes, An aunt I had never met.
Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light?
An unusually bright light
Did you see an unearthly light?
Yes, It's a brightness you can't describe.
Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?
Some unfamiliar and strange place, Just a brilliantly white space.
What emotions did you feel during the experience?
Peace and love
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?
I felt no longer in conflict with nature
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?
Unaffiliated- Nothing in particular- Religious unaffiliated
Have your religious practices changed since your experience?
Yes, I became Roman Catholic.
What is your religion now?
Christian- Catholic, After my experience, my faith came to me. I finally had something to believe in.
Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs?
Content that was both consistent and not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience, I believed in nothing after the experience that changed. I still don’t believe in God as a being, but he was there in that feeling of peace and love. The Catholic Church seems to come closest to what I felt.
Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience?
Yes, Before, I was coasting through life. It taught me to appreciate it a bit more.
Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice?
I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin, Definitely female in a 1940s WRAF uniform.
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?
No
Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion
During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose?
Yes, This earthly experience is not all there is. There is better to come.
During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life?
No
During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife?
Yes, The fact that my aunt, who died many years before, was talking to me.
Did you gain information about how to live our lives?
No
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, Love is the point.
What life changes occurred in your life after your experience?
While I appreciate what I have now, I’m also ready for what is to come.
Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?
No
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, Nearly 40 years later, I can still remember accurately everything about what I saw and felt. I don’t remember the operation to take my appendix out, which was only 48 hours before, and what happened leading up to being stabbed is fuzzy.
Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience?
No
Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you?
The fact that I look like my aunt, a fact I never knew.
Have you ever shared this experience with others?
Yes
Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?
No
What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?
Experience was definitely real, It was too vivid not to be real.
What do you believe about the reality of your experience now?
Experience was definitely real, It’s still too vivid not to be real.
At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience?
No
Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?
Yes, I wrote it as it was.