Examples Of Near Death Experience

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Have you ever had a near death experience? A near death experience is a profound psychological event that may occur to a person close to death in a physical or emotional crisis. Everyday normal people go through near death experiences the NDERF reports that 774 near death experiences occur in the United States. That is not all of the people who do not report their near death experience or die in there near death experience. In near death experience many people experience the following: time past slowly, change in priorities, a feeling of death and experiencing it as a dream. Many people have common experiences during near death experiences like time passed slowly. In the book Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket the author makes time pass slowly. An example of time passing slowly is Tom Beneke's actions"First his right hand, then his left" he uses it to slow down the reader and to let the reader know that he is moving …show more content…

Scott Lear had this change in priorities when he was in a bombing in Afghanistan in his second tour he was in a bombing when his team was looking for ieds that day one was undetected and went off it put him in a hospital in Germany. A change in priorities was circulated through the entire family the family back in the United States did not know if he was going day by day. When Scott Lear got out of the hospital he told us that “You don't sweat the small stuff in life anymore you just live.”(Lear) Brian Ingalls also had also had a change in priorities when he was in the tornado and him thinking about his family when he was on his way home.(Ingalls) Tom went through a change in priorities when he was on the ledge he first felt confident in getting the paper but his confidence soon vanished from within him and grew in fear this caused his focus to be more about living and not his success in life anymore.(Pearson,

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