Redditors who have had a near-death experience, what happened?

1. Mom had a seizure while driving and I was in the passenger seat. Couldn't reach the brakes so tried to take the wheel and do the best I could. Drove into a guard rail just before a pretty steep cliff and went under it, but it stopped us before we went over.
   — PersonaDante


2. Accidentally drank almond milk last year, I'm very VERY allergic. It was almost surreal, feeling each part of your body change one by one. First your mouth and tongue swell, your throats starts to close, you start panicking for air, your whole body erupts in hives and rashes and itches like crazy, then vomiting, choking on vomit because you can't breathe. When people say the coming of death feels peaceful, anaphylaxis definitely does not apply. I was practically begging for it to stop.
   — ahpuuro


3. A friend and I were jumped by 4 grown men and accused of selling drugs, totally untrue. Unfortunately this was on the top floor of a 5 storey building. My friend was punched but escaped, I was cornered. 4 grown men kicked me all over the bod and head before eventually telling me to get on my feet as I was to be thrown over the balcony. No way was I getting up but literally just as I was dragged to my feet the police showed up. I was told to follow the 4 men down the stairs and away but then they changed their mind and told me to go in front of them. As soon as I was in front I ran as fast as I could to the police who had gone into the shop on the ground floor presumably to find whoever had called them most likely alerted by my screams. It fucked me up for a long time and even now 22 years later I am still uncomfortable in situations with groups of people who I don't know and who are drinking.
   — baconandeggsandbacon






4. As a teenager I was skateboarding down this stairset near a road. I had been doing a few different tricks, but on my last try I did my signature nightmare flip, which I've landed a hundred times. Somehow this time I fucked up and fell on my ass, my board went into the street and got annihilated by a box truck instantly. Had I landed it, I would have been killed. It wasn't the kind of thing where I saw my life flash before my eyes or anything, but I just sat there in shock as the guy stopped and started screaming at me, my friends started yelling back, bla bla bla, everything was like muted and I just stared into the street like "what the fuck just happened?"
   — OutrageousClams


5. I was shot with a bow and arrow. The arrow hit me in the chest and luckily missed my vital organs. It was a complete accident and I made a full recovery, but even though I forgave him, my friend who fired the shot and I no longer speak...
   — jonassteele


6. I was using a urinal in a restaurant, and the next moment I was on a backboard surrounded by first responders. I had fainted in the restroom, and smashed my head on the tile floor, causing a brain bleed. 1/3 of the people who do this die on impact. (Sonny Bono) Another 1/3 die within 24 hours. (Natasha Richardson) I was in the fortunate 1/3 that survive, but still have some lifelong issues from it.
   — Scrappy_Larue






7. Not sure how near i actually was. I have a cardiac arrythmia (i forget which specific one, but it causes blood to...get stuck? Slosh backwards? I was young when it was diagnosed, 20+ years later and all i know is it feels godawful). My husband was working late so i was home by myself and the sun had set. It had finally cooled down enough to walk my dogs so i put their leashes on and walked outside. I felt a wave of dread as i left my porch, but looking around and seeing nothing, i continued. I made it about half a mile from my house when i started feeling strange. I was disoriented (had lived on this street my whole life and was suddenly lost). My dogs, two husky-shepherd mutts and a pitbull-catahoula mix normally bounced all over the place at the end of their leashes but had walked at an AKC-approved heel the whole time. They were panting and stressed. I stood there, trying to force myself to do anything. Finally my mind shouted HOME and i started walking, stumbling back. I stopped several times to gasp for air, like i was being held underwater (at the time i was 120lbs and ran five miles a day). It was 80 degrees and i felt like my face and mouth were numb. I got inside, gave the dogs ice cubes, and sat on the floor. I was just blank. I couldnt think, all i could do was focus on staying upright and gasping every few minutes. The room was spinning, my hands and front of my legs were numb and i was starting to spasm, muscles twitching. On a whim i looked at the heart rate monitor i had on (a polar ft7) and it was registering 39BPM. I remember thinking that was too low, so i got up and jumped around a bit. It rocketed to 120, and i watched it fall to 43. I felt like a cold blanket got thrown on me so i laid on the floor. I just felt foggy and tired. I was disoriented and my whole body was either aching or numb and i couldnt breathe...so i went to bed. I dreamed of my life up to then, and then nothing. Just darkness. I woke up just fine the next morning and wrote it off as being over tired. (Stupid, but i was 19). Its happened twice since then. Aside from the arrhythmia itself, i havent found a doctor that can tell me what happened. Apparently it isnt super deadly, but it certainly feels like it.
   — IVcaffiene


8. I overdosed when I was about 16, it just felt like sleep, though one thing id recommend, don't do that cause paramedics will cause you as much pain as they can to keep you awake.
   — billslikebobaggins


9. Driving home from school for Thanksgiving break just over a week ago I was caught in a flash flood going 80 down the highway. I was in the right lane of a four lane (two each way) road. A gust of wind hit me and I flew off the left side into a ditch, and spun around like a carnival ride. If the ditch wasn’t quite as deep i would’ve ended up in oncoming traffic. Closest to dying I’ve ever come.
   — canderis






10. When I was 12 me and 3 of my friends were playing near a pond near our house on a snow day. My friend threw my brand new Nerf football onto the snow covered ice (he was a dick) playing keep away and I went out to get it. I was 12 and grew up in New England, I new better, but it was brand new damnit! The ice under the snow wasn't thick enough and it was on a deeper part of the pond, where I couldn't touch the bottom standing but only to bob up and down. The water so cold though and all my clothes made me so heavy I couldn't keep doing it. I kind of held the ice but it kept braking. I've been cold before, but never that kind of cold. One younger friend ran home. Not to get help. Just ran to avoid getting in trouble. One friend ran to a house to have someone call 911 and the other friend, the one who threw it just started to yelling for help (there were houses near by). Luckily eventually one neighbor was a teacher and was home because of the snow day and came out. He ran to his shed or truck, I don't remember what he said after, and threw that to me but I couldn't hold onto that. My brain knew what to do, my body just couldn't. I was out there awhile now and was fading, so he ran out and slid on his stomach, I tried reach out but couldn't hold onto him. He grabbed my coat and just started sliding back. By now the woman who called 911 was out there and my friend's mom and they started making a chain and pulled me out. I remember the guy carrying me into his house and everything getting pulled off me, I couldn't feel it but i could see it. I remember seeing myself naked before they found blankets and the seeing color of my skin. I looked like ET when they found him in the creek. They threw blankets on me and the whole way to the hospital they were warming me up by holding me and keeping blankets on me. I warmed up and they kept me for observation but, that was pretty close. I got my Nerf back AND a new one from my friend who threw it (he was still kind of a dick about it), so a pretty good snow day in the long run.
    — kwyjibo8