Sandra Ayling

I was looking down on myself in the chair and at my sister's sleeping boyfriend. I felt weightless, floating freely. I couldn't feel the pain in my chest any more.

Near Death Experience

My near death experience happened in 1980 but I will never forget it. I was 36 and had no idea I had a medical problem that could have killed me. It was late at night and I was watching television at home. Brian, my sister's boyfriend, had dozed off on the sofa. Suddenly, I had huge chest pains and this crushing feeling in my chest. As the pain got worse so did the crushing. I was clutching my chest and my throat, gasping for breath.

Just as I felt I couldn't breathe any more, I found myself flying vertically upwards through a tunnel at high speed. There were gruesome, distorted faces passing over me. It was horrifying. There was a blinding light at the end of the tunnel but the faster I travelled the further away the light seemed to be.

That's when the pains in my chest were at their worst. Then I came out of my body and floated upwards until I was level with the clock, halfway up the wall. I was looking down on myself in the chair and at my sister's sleeping boyfriend. I felt weightless, floating freely. I couldn't feel the pain in my chest any more. I couldn't feel a thing. There was nothing except peace and tranquility. I've never experienced that feeling of bliss any time in my life.

Then I started thinking that I wanted to get back, back to life. I looked down over to Brian and I thought I'd try to wake him up. I shouted and shouted but I couldn't get through to him - in reality, I suppose, I wasn't making any noise. So I willed myself to come right down. It seemed like I went back in my body from my feet upwards and it felt like someone gave me a really sharp bang in my ribs when I went up through my abdomen. I had a tingly feeling all through my body and now I assume that's when my heart restarted.

I did wake Brian up then. I was shattered. My chest felt as though a thousand horses had run over it. He said to me, 'You look like a ghost'.

Sandra stayed in the same chair all night, too frightened to fall asleep and not understanding what had happened to her, physically or spiritually.

The next morning, I shuffled to the doctor. I was very fit but that morning I couldn't walk faster than a shuffle. It was agony. The GP took one look at me and sent me to hospital for tests. It turned out I had had a pulmonary embolism and they said I had come very close to dying.

Since her experience, Sandra says that, like many of those who suffer NDEs, she has become more interested in the world and the people around her.

I became more aware of the natural beauty around me in Cornwall. I felt lucky to be alive. I give a lot to charity and I do a lot of charitable work. I am not a religious person but I do pray a lot. I am convinced I saw a glimpse of hell in that tunnel and of heaven afterwards when I was floating and everything was so blissful.

It wasn't a dream, it was as real as anything you see.

FROM: A glimpse of the other side
AUTHOR: Darius Sanai
SOURCE: The Express
DATE: February 23, 2001

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