I'd be interested in hearing people's near death experiences in here. It's always nice to remember sometimes, "Wow, I made it". 
I've had two near-death experiences.
#1 - This was when I was 14 and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea in Mammaris, Turkey. I swam quite far out on a little plastic floaty thingymajig. Anyway, I was messing about in the sea as you do and I could no long touch the sea bed so I decided to swim back out.
To my horror, I felt that I was being pulled back and it suddenly became very strong. Scared for my life I started swimming but I wasn't going anywhere. When I realised this I must have had a massive adrenaline boost. I stopped for a minute, caught my breath and then just manically swam as hard as I could.
Luckily, I escaped the current and managed to swim safely back to the shore.
#2 - This was when I was about 10 years old. My family were staying down in Devon in a static caravan and earlier in the day my big brother pushed me in the pool and my lips went purple. Having Asthma back then, it was scary but I quickly warmed up and all was good.
Later in the night I went to bed and all was ok. I woke up though, about 3 hours later and I couldn't catch a breath. I was suffocating and didn't know what to do at first.
I managed to gather my thoughts and decided I needed to get to my mum so I rolled onto the floor and started crawling. I was suffocating and I felt faint and like I was about to just collapse.
With my mum in sight I managed to JUST tap her and wake her (luckily, as she is a heavy sleeper). She quickly realised what was going on and sat me up and ran outside to the phone box which was close by.
When she was away, I remember feeling this absolutely awesome and amazing feeling whilst suffocating, then, in a last frantic attempt I tried to get some breath to no avail. Then I went unconscious.
I woke up about an hour later in an ambulance and that's all I remember of those 2 weeks. I don't remember my 2 week stay in the hospital apart from a slight memory of a Thomas the Tank Engine dinner cart.
So what about you? Any near-death experiences?
Phil.
I've had two near-death experiences.
#1 - This was when I was 14 and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea in Mammaris, Turkey. I swam quite far out on a little plastic floaty thingymajig. Anyway, I was messing about in the sea as you do and I could no long touch the sea bed so I decided to swim back out.
To my horror, I felt that I was being pulled back and it suddenly became very strong. Scared for my life I started swimming but I wasn't going anywhere. When I realised this I must have had a massive adrenaline boost. I stopped for a minute, caught my breath and then just manically swam as hard as I could.
Luckily, I escaped the current and managed to swim safely back to the shore.
#2 - This was when I was about 10 years old. My family were staying down in Devon in a static caravan and earlier in the day my big brother pushed me in the pool and my lips went purple. Having Asthma back then, it was scary but I quickly warmed up and all was good.
Later in the night I went to bed and all was ok. I woke up though, about 3 hours later and I couldn't catch a breath. I was suffocating and didn't know what to do at first.
I managed to gather my thoughts and decided I needed to get to my mum so I rolled onto the floor and started crawling. I was suffocating and I felt faint and like I was about to just collapse.
With my mum in sight I managed to JUST tap her and wake her (luckily, as she is a heavy sleeper). She quickly realised what was going on and sat me up and ran outside to the phone box which was close by.
When she was away, I remember feeling this absolutely awesome and amazing feeling whilst suffocating, then, in a last frantic attempt I tried to get some breath to no avail. Then I went unconscious.
I woke up about an hour later in an ambulance and that's all I remember of those 2 weeks. I don't remember my 2 week stay in the hospital apart from a slight memory of a Thomas the Tank Engine dinner cart.
So what about you? Any near-death experiences?
Phil.
