Experiences triggered by drug overdose
NDEs from drug overdoses often feature distinct patterns compared to other triggers. Researchers study these cases to understand how different pharmacological states may influence the NDE experience.
I had been visiting family, up late, having gone to bed around 12:30 a.m. I woke up almost 2 hours later having horrible leg cramps. I got up to walk around, glanced at the clock and it was 2:22 a.m. The next thing I remember was laying on the flo...
I accidentally took some drugs that I thought were sleeping pills but they were hard narcotics. As I was laying down I fell into a very deep-sleep type trance I felt my spirit leave my body. I rose to the top of the room and looked back at my body ly...
I was at the time an addict, heroin to be specific. I had gotten a prescription from my family doctor for some pills to help with my withdrawal, I was trying to quit, and I had two little boys and knew that I had to stop. The biggest problem was thei...
My boyfriend at the time, who is now my husband, said that when I arrived in the room, I was no longer breathing, by abdomen was sunken in and I was purple. I had taken an overdose so he took something and opened my mouth. But I only remember being d...
I am glad to finally to be able to share this with someone.At the time of my most significant experience, I was a homeless teenager living in basically the worst neighborhood Philadelphia has to offer. I was there because I was a heroin addict and it...
At the age of fifteen I attempted suicide. I drank a lot of alcohol and took bottles and bottles of pills. This sounds funny but I changed my mind and decided I really did not want to die. I called an ambulance about the time my mother found the empt...
I collapsed due to a potential drug overdose experiment with Librium which became overpowering. After I dropped a glass ashtray that broke a sharp piece cut into my heel. I was bleeding profusely from my heel and passed out. Now here is what I experi...
I was fourteen years old, almost fifteen, and had been experimenting with street drugs. On this occasion I had taken two or three different kinds of drugs - actually prescription medications - illegally obtained. They were mostly 'downers' with a cou...
My now ex-husband was angry and held me against the wall by my neck with my feet in the air. He didn't realize he had strangled me to death. When he released his hand, my body fell to the ground and my head bounced off the concrete floor. He laid m...
It took place in my flat in London, UK on late February of 2001. After an exhausting day at work, I decided it was time for some release, went home with my friend and his girlfriend and a lot of drugs. I went to the bathroom where I shot a lethal inj...
I can remember it was 1976 or 1977. We lived in Helsinki. In my experience, I saw myself in a different Helsinki district setting, but everything was in silver tones, even the lawn was silver-ish. A voice said to me, 'See that young boy biking so hap...
I remember looking down on myself, whilst in the resuscitation room at the hospital. It was like watching TV. I watched the doctors working on me. Cutting my clothes to expose my chest. The noise. The brightness of the room. The energy, intensity of ...
I had a near death experience several weeks ago (May 1999) as a result of attempted suicide. The next several hours changed my life forever. Like many, I saw myself lying there, totally out of my own body. I had had many doubts up to that night of wh...
I was standing on top of the hood of the car but did not sense a wreck. I noticed traffic backed up for miles in each direction. I thought it was odd how I could see the sweat on the bus driver's face three blocks away like he was up close. I saw two...
One night I was experimenting with a drug that a friend brought over called Angel Dust. We were doing this drug along with beer and marijuana and after a while, I felt like I was going to pass out so I laid my head back.The next thing I knew I was fl...
Clark Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 1271 Clark Possible NDE 812 Experience Description I overdosed on pills, and rather than slowing my system down they sped it up. I had a seizure and there was an eight hour time period where I was b...
I took an overdose. I could see my dead father motion to me with his arms just go back it's not your time yet. He didn't talk but it was like I knew everything he was thinking. The next thing I heard was the voice of my wife and my children crying. T...
To begin with a guy I liked had moved overseas because of the military. This left me very, very depressed. I was living with my sister at the time. She was an office worker and her husband was a cop. I got so depressed I wrote a letter saying I didn'...
Burnie A NDE Home Classification NDE 1422 Burnie A NDE 205 Experience Description When I was unconscious I felt like I was watching a play, I was traveling to different places, some fields, riverbeds, and my home.I saw myself as an older teenager and...
It was in the days of Hippies, drugs, free sex, and rebellion. I had just turned twenty-one and was feeling on top of the world. I had saved up enough money to travel to London England (which would be my fourth trip in approximately sixteen months) t...
In the fall of 1993, I designated forty days to abstain from food, sleep and human contact in preparation for a suicide attempt. At exactly my time of birth, I injected the element known as mercury using a 10cc syringe and an 18 gauge needle. Within ...
I was at an all-time low in my life in all areas: Broke from gambling addiction, wife left four months pregnant with my son, a lot of financial problems, bad family relations all around. My wife came this day in June 1996 while I was at work, took my...
I was on vacation with my mother, father, a friend of mine and her mother in Kentucky. We went to Dewy Dam, which I believe is not far from Van Lear, Kentucky. We rented a small boat and when we got to a shallow spot at the lake my dad, my friend and...
At the time of the hanging it was my weight was cutting off circulation to my brain. I could have gotten up at any time I wanted to but chose not to. All I remember is I started floating down at a good pace down a dark tunnel filled with jewel toned ...
This whole experience felt like it may have been an hour in length in total. From the time, I became unconscious to the time I awoke. However, I was unconscious for about seven hours. The experience happened right before I woke up in the emergency ro...
In the last couple of years before Christmas 2006, I'd lost my husband, home, horses, dogs, and my car. The last two days before Christmas 2006, I lost my job.I was fired about 10:00 am. I gathered my things from my desk, marched to my car and drove ...
George T NDE Home Classification NDE 1619 George T NDE 3594 Experience Description When I had my NDE experience, I was at home as I had just taken some pills. I tried to kill myself. Although it appeared to me like a dream but in fact, everything was...
In a state of depression over the end of a romantic relationship, I attempted suicide with an overdose of heart medication. I was ready to die.I saw in the center of my vision an infinitely small, tiny black dot. I realized that this tiny dot of blac...
Russell P NDE Home Classification NDE 1703 Russell P NDE 3705 Experience Description I felt my breathing slowing, and then stopping. Then I was engulfed in light and there was a place - a completely black place I couldn't see through or break through...
I had been dealing with insomnia for a few days and decided to try taking a sleep aid. I bought a tincture of valerian root and took the recommended dosage. This worked for two days then I couldn't sleep again. I became so frustrated I doubled the do...
I remember getting into the medicine cabinet and taking the valium, a lot of valium. Sometime later, my parents discovered that I had taken the pills and they completely freaked out. I was then driven to the local hospital (I remember feeling really ...
I was experimenting with heroin, which turned out to be a very dangerous decision. I had had a fight with my boyfriend at the time and wanted to be alone. We were at a friend's house, I went into a bedroom sat on a bed and shot up the heroin. I was t...
I had overdosed on a barbiturate. I had three times the lethal limit in my system. I was lying on the floor passed out when my mom just happened to come home early from work that day and found me. When the paramedics arrived, I was not breathing and ...
For reasons I can't explain at this moment, I had attempted suicide at the age of nineteen. I had taken sleeping pills in my home. I became unconscious. Someone found me and took me to the emergency room. I don't know at what point in time this exper...
At the time this happened I had been living in a tent city for contractors in Beaumont after hurricane Ike. After several weeks of non-stop work, we had a weekend off. I had been drinking beer all day, there were some Mexicans camped next to us. They...
I was very unhappy in my family and social life, a gay teenager brought up in a very restrictive and rigidly conservative family where most of my needs for safety and care were not being met. I had gone away to college the previous year which meant l...
I was without a body as I floated down to a dry cracked lifeless plain that stretched on as far as I could see. The sky overhead was a rumpled grey/black blanket of clouds going on forever overhead into the horizon on all sides. There was no rain, bu...
My friend injected heroin into my left arm. He and his other friend were in a hurry to go to the store so they left me there in the apartment alone. I had immediately went for the kitchen to get a glass of water. I reached with my right hand to grab ...
The near-death experience I had was not as spectacular as some I have read about, but the epiphany certainly was.Yes, I did. I had attempted suicide for the umpteenth time. This time I left notes for all my family. I did my best to avoid anyone disco...
It was a boring Saturday night, just after a city celebration called 'Crazy Water Festival', where it had rained all day. The festival was held in the city park, and everyone had gone home, as it was late at night. I was riding around town with a f...
I was given sleeping pills and after taking them I awoke and felt much time had passed so I took more.I felt I was in a room with bright white walls. I saw no walls but felt they were there. There was what I felt to be an authoritative being in the r...
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I decided that my unplanned baby would be too hard to take. I could not tell my parents because they were devout Baptist and would not handle it well. I wanted a church wedding and could not see having one after having a child. So, I went in to abort...
Dick M NDE Home Classification NDE 2283 Dick M NDE 4534 Experience Description I had been drinking alcoholically for 30 years. I drank a quart of vodka but could not get drunk. I collapsed and blacked out, my wife called 911 and I was taken to the ho...
On December 7th of 2009 I under went for a routine upper scope and a stent was placed between my liver and pancreas. I developed pancreatitis as a result. I was hospitalized and placed on an IV pain pump of Dilantin.December 8th I awoke throwing up a...
A Naval Reserve dentist was extracting several of my teeth with a certain degree of difficulty. I was in the chair from approximately 08:00 hours to 14:00 hours. Upon returning to duty with my training platoon, I experienced difficulty in breathing a...
My sister and I were two and three years old. We climbed onto the sink into the cabinet and took out the St. Joseph aspirins. I split them up two for her three for me, one for her two for me. When the bottle was empty we ate them like they were candy...
You know when you look in the clear bright blue sky and see some fluffy white clouds - I was in those clouds. The peace and serenity I felt is something I will never forget!! I saw a dark figure in the distance (I believe it was my dad) and the voice...
My girlfriend and I had not been getting along so I moved out and got a condominium. I wasn't really depressed about the relationship ending just depressed about how my life was, it seemed everything was a mess. I was sitting in the condominium drink...
I was taken to the hospital after accidental mixing of alcohol with tablets. In the ambulance, I refused to lie down. I was sitting next to the paramedic as we were travelling. I remember feeling faint and trying to reach his arm. I was taken to the...
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