A man who 'died for three minutes' has revealed what he claims he saw on the other side after making a surprising recovery. Speaking on his behalf, a man explained how his friend overdosed on drugs and suffered a stroke as a result. He was legally pronounced dead for a little under three minutes in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He says the emergency team saw his heart flatline and didn't expect it to start beating again, even with their assistance. But much to their surprise, it did.
Taking to Reddit, he said: "He remembers the stroke, and being wheeled to the ambulance on a stretcher. Then he felt like he was floating under ice cold water, and it was dark, but he wasn't really thinking or feeling anything emotionally, just existing and knowing it was very very cold and he couldn't see. Then he woke up, and the EMTs were kind of freaked out because his heart had stopped long enough that they figured he was done.".
When recovering in hospital, he started to reflect on his out-of-body experience - and became convinced he was in hell. The friend added: "At some point in the following days he became convinced that what he experienced was hell minus the knowledge of suffering, like a toned-down preview, and thought it was a warning for him to change his life. Sadly he didn't stay clean for long.".
Commenting on his post, one user said: "Wow! This reminded me of a dream of my mum's. She told me about while I was a kid. She said she woke up, engulfed in a room of flames and people screaming. Then she blinked and it was gone. She was convinced that was a sign she was going to hell. She’s cleaned up since then and is a really good person.".
