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Yes and no all I saw was white (oxygen deprivation) then bugger all :(

Admittedly I did 'relax' whilst in said state knowing I was drowning, very surreal experience..

Not close to death, no, but I do experience that going through a tunnel to the light and euphoric feeling of peace and love because I am a temporal lobe epileptic. Yes, I mistook this for a religious experience for many years. I also experienced a presence with me and a feeling that I knew things were going to happen before they did. This sensation has been reproduced by the God Helmet experiments. Even some atheists saw whichever god they were culturally familiar with in that. A temporal lobe seizure was almost certainly what Paul suffered on the road to Damascus.

Edit - Ah, yes, that's different. I was trapped in a fire once and I felt very calm and thought 'This is it. This is how I die. At 24 in a burning tower block' and I felt a sense of wonder. It was not euphoric but very calm and clear. I didn't have children then or I might have felt differently.

Coming close to imminent death produces a surge of adrenalin as part of the fight or flight response. This produces euphoria and pain resistance. I once nearly hit a car when I was driving with a motorbike. I could immediately feel the adrenalin.

Well, think about this, when do they have that experience?

Let me know?

Many people claim to have had that experience, when mostly?

Many people claim they saw God and he said no, not yet etc.

But really if that was the case, why only mostly in this century?

They would have written stuff like that for the last 6000 yrs, people coming from almost being dead to life again.

of course, followed by a white light story

I went through depersonalization and experienced a fair share of "out of the world" experiences.

Most hellish and some euphoric.

It's all in the brain.

I was almost stabbed with a sandwich knife at a restaurant...I haven't laughed any harder in my life thinking about how great that would've been for a Darwin award.

No, I didn't treat it as a religious experience

Of course