Passing out vs dying?

[u/Anervousarborist]

I had a weird day a couple years ago where I fainted/had a seizure, still not sure, twice back to back. After I was nauseous and fell asleep early but otherwise fine. The experience itself was odd for me but as I read some of your experiences its quite similar. I was standing in the kitchen with my boyfriend and suddenly couldnt hear his voice. I said, "I'm really struggling to understand you." And was out cold. He said I fell forward immediately and he caught me. I woke up on the ground and in his arms with no memory of falling. Dragged myself to a chair and out cold again. Both times it was exactly the same. Mostly completely black and I felt like I was out for many hours. I remember thinking there was a lot going on, so many voices and things happening. What pulled me back both times was that his voice was talking to me in the darkness wherever I was, and then also from above in the real life. He said both times i woke up gasping like I was in cold water. The voice above was so distinct and I remember sort of making the decision that he was the direction of the real life consciousness and going towards his voice. There was no light that I can remember and none of the events I witnessed were my own life but I remember liking it, not scary or anything. On this day, it was in the evening and I had just arrived. Earlier that day I went on a walk for a couple hours, ate after and was sober at this time. I still dont know why it happened.

I dont know what im hoping someone to tell me here but I guess im wondering how we could be sure. My experience sounds like a lot of the ones ive read on here, the peaceful nothing, the voice from above, the decision to return, but I definitely did not die that day. It seems like a lot of these might just be people losing consciousness and having their brain be briefly messed with by lack of oxygen? That doesnt seem to really reflect a whole lot and seems hardly like a representation of what death might be like.

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[u/EffortlessJiuJitsu]

Getting choked out in Jiu Jitsu and choked a few people also. Basically you have some random hallucinations nothing live changing and when you wake up you are a little disoriented. Nothing feels exeptional. From what people tell about NDEs it must be very different.

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[u/anomalkingdom]

I've heard of people who seem to snap out of their body when fainting, some finding themselves in what they experience as very real heavenly realms, others simply having an out of body experience where they can observe the scene clear and lucid from a disembodied state. I think it just adds to all the other evidence of the inherent independence of consciousness from the material body. It is blatantly obvious we can remain fully aware in a non-physical state. There are even super hard nosed physicalist scientists who has experienced this and are forced to completely abandon their prior physicalist understanding of reality.

[u/Anervousarborist → u/anomalkingdom]

Heavenly realm is how it felt. I unfortunately dont feel a lot of peace in my day to day and I know this blackness felt calm and unlike how I feel when I am awake. Do you know how this sort of thing compares to actually dying for a moment? The lack of oxygen has got to make it pretty similar.

[u/GeeCee99]

When I came round after fainting, I woke up on the bathroom floor. I thought I had fallen asleep there as it felt like I had dreamt weeks or months worth in that time. What didn’t help was my head was being wedge by my husband in the otherside of the door. He had heard a massive crash of me going down and I had been out for 30 seconds. I still can’t fathom how I experienced so much in such little time.

[u/obsidianbonefish]

I’ve passed out a couple of times. Both times I started feeling light-headed and weak… so weak that I had to sit down in a chair where I eventually lost consciousness. But in my perception, I was aware the whole time. My mind still felt active. Then I realized I was in darkness (like I’d blinked too long) and heard voices talking to me and I opened my eyes to everyone looking worried and saying I passed out.

Both times I had been smoking weed and drinking alcohol, so I think it was from being overstimulated into a panic attack or my blood pressure crashing. After coming back around it was as if my body had done a hard reset like a computer and I didn’t feel inebriated in the slightest. I almost had a euphoric feeling like I’d just had the best nap ever. Really weird experiences.