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OT: Near-Death experiences

Yes, but not in the same context as that show (where they’re reporting visions and such).

I was t-boned by a semi who ran a red light - the first officer on scene told me that he had radio’d in DOA as soon as he pulled-up thinking there was no way someone survived that.

I went with my sister to the junkyard a few days later to get things from my car, and two guys who worked there approached us asking me if that was my car. I told them yes, and one of them stuck his hand out to shake mine, saying I was the luckiest person he had ever met.
 
Yes, but not in the same context as that show (where they’re reporting visions and such).

I was t-boned by a semi who ran a red light - the first officer on scene told me that he had radio’d in DOA as soon as he pulled-up thinking there was no way someone survived that.

I went with my sister to the junkyard a few days later to get things from my car, and two guys who worked there approached us asking me if that was my car. I told them yes, and one of them stuck his hand out to shake mine, saying I was the luckiest person he had ever met.
yikes. what a story. glad you're still with us!
 
I had a near death experience on the Memorial Stadium turf! I can't even remember what year it was, but I'm thinking it had to be either 89 or 91. After we defeated the Sooners in Lincoln, I was on the field, and it was packed. I was standing near the goalposts when they came down and the crowd surged to get closer. I was knocked to the turf and felt bodies just landing on top of me, one after another. Eventually everything went dark. The next thing I remember, a cop is pulling me to my feet and asking me if I was OK. Good times.
 
Watching “Surviving Death” on Netflix, all about Near Death Experiences. Anyone ever have one?
NDE's...really fascinating stuff. The volume of such accounts, the differences and/or similarities among accounts from people with ethnic and cultural diversity, and then the undeniable question of authenticity surrounding a mysterious thing.

I am analytical person. I am a "prove it to me" type of guy. I need science, I need data, I need mathematical averages. SO...this book below really surprised me. Great read, and far more than a collection of stories.

Can read some chapters for free from Google Books (linked).

Imagine Heaven by John Burke - Google Books

Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future that Awaits You

FYI--I am NOT pushing an agenda or intending to be offensive to anyone. Merely a suggestion if the topic intrigues you.
 
Yes, but not in the same context as that show (where they’re reporting visions and such).

I was t-boned by a semi who ran a red light - the first officer on scene told me that he had radio’d in DOA as soon as he pulled-up thinking there was no way someone survived that.

I went with my sister to the junkyard a few days later to get things from my car, and two guys who worked there approached us asking me if that was my car. I told them yes, and one of them stuck his hand out to shake mine, saying I was the luckiest person he had ever met.

Just curious, where did that happen?
 
I had a near death experience on the Memorial Stadium turf! I can't even remember what year it was, but I'm thinking it had to be either 89 or 91. After we defeated the Sooners in Lincoln, I was on the field, and it was packed. I was standing near the goalposts when they came down and the crowd surged to get closer. I was knocked to the turf and felt bodies just landing on top of me, one after another. Eventually everything went dark. The next thing I remember, a cop is pulling me to my feet and asking me if I was OK. Good times.

It was 1989
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NDE's...really fascinating stuff. The volume of such accounts, the differences and/or similarities among accounts from people with ethnic and cultural diversity, and then the undeniable question of authenticity surrounding a mysterious thing.

I am analytical person. I am a "prove it to me" type of guy. I need science, I need data, I need mathematical averages. SO...this book below really surprised me. Great read, and far more than a collection of stories.

Can read some chapters for free from Google Books (linked).

Imagine Heaven by John Burke - Google Books

Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future that Awaits You

FYI--I am NOT pushing an agenda or intending to be offensive to anyone. Merely a suggestion if the topic intrigues you.

I’m right there with you. I’ve always been fascinated by that stuff. I know a few guys who do “ghost hunting” with all the equipment. One has some pretty freaky pics from a civil war battlefiel

I have a relative who lived in a house after an elderly resident died in the home. Weird stuff happened that sure seemed paranormal. After my relatives moved out, the new residents who bought the house a few months after moving in, asked the next door neighbor if the prior residents (my relatives), ever said anything about the house being haunted.

Another relative dated a girl who’s grandmother died in the house she lived in. Lots of weird stuff happened in that house.

Another relative of mine had a heart attack and coded in the ambulance. Flatlined for a few minutes. Unfortunately no near death experience. Some medical staff at the hospital told the family not to be surprised if when he came to, that he might say he spoke of a near death experience. Guess it just wasn’t his time?

I definitely believe at least some of the NDE claims could be true. Like the 90s movie Flatliners, I’d probably volunteer to try it.
 
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I was 16 standing with my thumb up my ass watching some guy trying to fix a piece of equipment. He was cutting with a torch and the next thing I heard was a big crash behind me and my hat had been blown off my head. Whatever he’d been cutting was holding a 2 ton arm in place and it released at a rate of speed that I never saw it go over my head. It punched a 6 foot hole in the wall behind me. I laughed and the other two guys and the guy doing the cutting were white as sheets. They had no idea how it missed my head.
 
Huh. The crowds are bigger in my memory.

It was packed. You just stormed the field. You were surrounded by the crowd so it seemed even bigger. Not to mention the 76K at the game. I went down to the field soon after I took these pics. I got my pic taken on the N. It was a wonderful night. Gdowski was the man that day!
 
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Working in a data center, trying to feed a power cable into a rack through a cutout in the raised floor tile, I was lying directly behind the rack, halfway under the floor with my chest on the edge of the open tile. I tell the guy I need it pushed back just an inch or two to route the cable, he goes back 6, wheels go over the edge and a rack filled with UPS’s (batteries) and a bunch of drives weighing 2k+ pounds is tipping and should rightfully fall and kill me. Somehow it doesn’t actually end up falling and I walk away just fine.

This is an example of what I was half lying in.

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Another relative of mine had a heart attack and coded in the ambulance. Flatlined for a few minutes. Unfortunately no near death experience. Some medical staff at the hospital told the family not to be surprised if when he came to, that he might say he spoke of a near death experience. Guess it just wasn’t his time?

One explanation I've heard is the idea that everyone has a near death experience, just not everyone remembers it, like how most people don't ever recall their dreams.

I recall some portion of my dreams every night. Have done so for the past 20 years. I would say I am in the minority, and these near death recall events are as well.

 
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I believe the brain releases a large amount of DMT and that’s where those ‘visions’ come from.

For those who don’t know, DMT is the most powerful psychedelic substance on the planet and commonly thought to be released naturally by the brain.
 
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I believe the brain releases a large amount of DMT and that’s where those ‘visions’ come from.

For those who don’t know, DMT is the most powerful psychedelic substance on the planet and commonly thought to be released naturally by the brain.
 
nah. but the concept is pretty interesting.
Mind is separate from the brain.
Mind, in this physical world, engages through the physical senses, interfacing with the brain.
Its interesting to me that just in the last few months a lot of people are starting to bring up questions about things like this.

If you ask the average person how many senses they have, its most likely going to be 5. But ask a blind person and the answer is 4. Light doesn't exist to them. A deaf person has no idea what loud is. To them, loud doesn't exist.

So for each individual person, they can experience life in an entirely different way than you do. You experience things with 5 senses while others may only experience 4, or 3, or 2. So who's to say that there aren't more than 5 senses? Just like a blind person can't experience the sense of vision, maybe there is a sense that you can't experience as well.
 
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True near deaths-

I almost drowned in Holmes Lake back in 1977 when I was 4, back when swimming was allowed. I didn't know how to swim and my sister stole the beach ball I was using and all I saw was bubbles and rays of lights. The only thing I remember is waking up on the beach coughing up water. My mom had no clue.

Probably a year later she was organizing and washing out the garage with a garden hose. I see the old school Christmas lights and think hey those would look cool plugged in. I was barefoot and standing on wet concrete and this was before gfci. I now know how people die from 110 because you truly can't let go. She was clueless again.

In junior high I had an old fluorescent light that my great grandfather had. The kind with the old cords that are individual wires wrapped in a metal sleeves. I loved sleeping next to the heat vent on the floor next to my bed and would use that light to read. In the middle of the night I wake up to extreme heat on my head. I open my eyes and have flames next to my head that are at least a foot tall and getting bigger quick. I take my pillow, snuff it out as much as I can, jump up to to get my clueless mom and inhale a bunch of smoke that had built up about choking me to death. Next day I do to school smelling like a campfire and have to explain to everyone why. 🤣 A few more minutes and probably would have never had to worry about getting a haircut again.

In 1999 I got my Jeep stuck at Lake McConaughy kicking sand up all over the engine. Days later when back in Lincoln my idle is running high but I dont take the time to lube things up. Sitting at 70th and O st heading north some car pulls up in the ahold lane. Since I was running a stroked small block Chevy I wanted to mess with him but had my friends son riding with me so wasn't going to be reckless. Light turns green and I get on it some. Unfortunately the throttle sticks and all I can do is ride brake and pump the gas. Nothing changes. I finally shut the ignition off but it keeps running, locks up the steering, and steers me right into a power pole. I close my eyes expecting to wake up in the hospital or be dead. Instead the pole hits the frame rail which breaks the pole off at the base and flies over the jeep just missing us. Both walk away some how and I get to spend the next year rebuilding it.

This past summer I'm out in Ogallala and go to cross the street. Some young hillbilly is turning left but looks at me and acknowledges I was going to go across. He pulls forward a little since it's a blind spot and sees a car coming a half a block away and panics, flooring it why cranking hard left. I went from a quick walk, to a jog, to a full sprint being missed by inches and truly saw my life flash before my eyes.

Kind of near death-

My appendix burst in the summer of 1991. I lay in my bedroom before my clueless mom takes me to the hospital only because I had unbearable pain from the infection spreading. I loss 30 lbs in a week and wish I could do that now days, just not from being sick.

2 years ago I go to get blood work done since I'm old and have had health issues before. Without going into detail, the hack mens health clinic by 44th and O st butchers my blood draw "pushing through" and "not wanting to dig around", then sets vials of blood right in front of me right after I told them I dont like blood and needles but had never passed out before. After even telling the hack I wasn't feeling well and dizzy, twice, he kept going. Next thing I know I'm out. Long story short, they lied out their butt that I fell. I spent 3 months living off Xanax trying to function from dizziness, anxiety, constant headaches, panic attacks, basically every symptom of post concussion syndrome. It took 5 months of seeing different specialists, having an mri done only to find out from an eye specialist that specializes in brain injuries that i had a concussion. The fall could have honestly killed me and the look on their face when I came too backed that up. If I didn't have kids that 11 months of hell might have been the end of me too not being able to function living with constant anxiety, head pressure, and zero brain function. The best part is they have no record of me being there so suing them would have cost more money than what my lawyer would have received so now I just flip off their commercials every time they come on. 🤣

Most recent. I took my mask off in public. 🤓

I think that's all and hopefully the end of them, until the actually end when I'm old and don't even know it.
 
Watching “Surviving Death” on Netflix, all about Near Death Experiences. Anyone ever have one?
My sort of near death experience happened at an un named indoor range in lincoln. Short story short, a man was "teaching" his girl how to shoot his pistol 2 or 3 lanes right from mine. She was holding the gun sideways, admiring it, when she negligently discharged it into the wall to the left of me.
 
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While on a bike ride, got hit by a car that was doing 50ish, I was doing 5...the sound was atrocious....per witnesses I did several full rotations thru the air where I landed so far away from the impact I couldn't believe it....now I'm laying face down on the concrete sprawled out and broken bones everywhere and I feel warm liquid that I thought was blood running thru my fingers, from my head I thought was cracked open, and I thought "you left the house without a helmet and now you're going to be dead in a minute" I was so scared to look, I mean I was as scared as a person can be....I finally took a peek and it was water from my Camelback that had burst....right about then all the burning sensations that broken bones give you started popping up and down my body. The car that hit me needed a new bumper cover, absorber, impact bar, radiator support, both coolers, hood, w/shield, dash, driver door mirror (fell off to side and took mirror out). Took 4 years and 4 surgeries before I was healthy enough to ride a bike again.

So my experience wasn't near death as in I saw the gates, or God, but I truly did think I was in the last minute of my life and was bleeding out thru my head and you know how people say "I thought I was going to die" when they are retelling a story,?? Well I really truly thought I was going to right there, and I remember every detail of that so clearly.....when the meat wagon showed up and they stuffed me inside I told the guy "I ain't no drug addict but I need some help, I'm in bad shape here" and he said "we're hooking you up right now, and I said "What are you giving me"? he said "Morphine" and I said "fill er up" I very clearly remember that conversation so well. Now I'm in the emergency room begging the staff not to cut off all my clothes as I was wearing a lot of money in sweet gear, she said "just relax we know what we're doing" and out came the scissors, they ruined all of it (sad face) and now I'm full on naked in front of a room full of a lot of people and a few cute nurses....I said to everyone...."Do a good job, I am competing in a duathlon in Kansas next weekend"
 
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While on a bike ride, got hit by a car that was doing 50ish, I was doing 5...the sound was atrocious....per witnesses I did several full rotations thru the air where I landed so far away from the impact I couldn't believe it....now I'm laying face down on the concrete sprawled out and broken bokes everywhere and I feel warm liquid that I thought was blood running thru my fingers, from my head I thought was cracked open, and I thought "you left the house without a helmet and now you're going to be dead in a minute" I was so scared to look, I mean I was as scared as a person can be....I finally took a peek and it was water from my Camelback that had burst....right about then all the burning sensations that broken bones give you started popping up and down my body. The car that hit me needed a new bumper cover, absorber, impact bar, radiator support, both coolers, hood, w/shield, dash, driver door mirror (fell off to side and took mirror out). Took 4 years and 4 surgeries before I was healthy enough to ride a bike again.

So my experience wasn't near death as in I saw the gates, or God, but I truly did think I was in the last minute of my life and was bleeding out thru my head and you know how people say "I thought I was going to die" when they are retelling a story,?? Well I really truly thought I was going to right there, and I remember every detail of that so clearly.....when the meat wagon showed up and they stuffed me inside I told the guy "I ain't no drug addict but I need some help, I'm in bad shape here" and he said "we're hooking you up right now, and I said "What are you giving me"? he said "Morphine" and I said "fill er up" I very clearly remember that conversation so well. Now I'm in the emergency room begging the staff not to cut off all my clothes as I was wearing a lot of money in sweet gear, she said "just relax we know what we're doing" and out came the scissors, they ruined all of it (sad face) and now I'm full on naked in front of a room full of a lot of people and a few cute nurses....I said to everyone...."Do a good job, I am competing in a duathlon in Kansas next weekend"

I'm glad you're here.
 
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True near deaths-

I almost drowned in Holmes Lake back in 1977 when I was 4, back when swimming was allowed. I didn't know how to swim and my sister stole the beach ball I was using and all I saw was bubbles and rays of lights. The only thing I remember is waking up on the beach coughing up water. My mom had no clue.

Probably a year later she was organizing and washing out the garage with a garden hose. I see the old school Christmas lights and think hey those would look cool plugged in. I was barefoot and standing on wet concrete and this was before gfci. I now know how people die from 110 because you truly can't let go. She was clueless again.

In junior high I had an old fluorescent light that my great grandfather had. The kind with the old cords that are individual wires wrapped in a metal sleeves. I loved sleeping next to the heat vent on the floor next to my bed and would use that light to read. In the middle of the night I wake up to extreme heat on my head. I open my eyes and have flames next to my head that are at least a foot tall and getting bigger quick. I take my pillow, snuff it out as much as I can, jump up to to get my clueless mom and inhale a bunch of smoke that had built up about choking me to death. Next day I do to school smelling like a campfire and have to explain to everyone why. 🤣 A few more minutes and probably would have never had to worry about getting a haircut again.

In 1999 I got my Jeep stuck at Lake McConaughy kicking sand up all over the engine. Days later when back in Lincoln my idle is running high but I dont take the time to lube things up. Sitting at 70th and O st heading north some car pulls up in the ahold lane. Since I was running a stroked small block Chevy I wanted to mess with him but had my friends son riding with me so wasn't going to be reckless. Light turns green and I get on it some. Unfortunately the throttle sticks and all I can do is ride brake and pump the gas. Nothing changes. I finally shut the ignition off but it keeps running, locks up the steering, and steers me right into a power pole. I close my eyes expecting to wake up in the hospital or be dead. Instead the pole hits the frame rail which breaks the pole off at the base and flies over the jeep just missing us. Both walk away some how and I get to spend the next year rebuilding it.

This past summer I'm out in Ogallala and go to cross the street. Some young hillbilly is turning left but looks at me and acknowledges I was going to go across. He pulls forward a little since it's a blind spot and sees a car coming a half a block away and panics, flooring it why cranking hard left. I went from a quick walk, to a jog, to a full sprint being missed by inches and truly saw my life flash before my eyes.

Kind of near death-

My appendix burst in the summer of 1991. I lay in my bedroom before my clueless mom takes me to the hospital only because I had unbearable pain from the infection spreading. I loss 30 lbs in a week and wish I could do that now days, just not from being sick.

2 years ago I go to get blood work done since I'm old and have had health issues before. Without going into detail, the hack mens health clinic by 44th and O st butchers my blood draw "pushing through" and "not wanting to dig around", then sets vials of blood right in front of me right after I told them I dont like blood and needles but had never passed out before. After even telling the hack I wasn't feeling well and dizzy, twice, he kept going. Next thing I know I'm out. Long story short, they lied out their butt that I fell. I spent 3 months living off Xanax trying to function from dizziness, anxiety, constant headaches, panic attacks, basically every symptom of post concussion syndrome. It took 5 months of seeing different specialists, having an mri done only to find out from an eye specialist that specializes in brain injuries that i had a concussion. The fall could have honestly killed me and the look on their face when I came too backed that up. If I didn't have kids that 11 months of hell might have been the end of me too not being able to function living with constant anxiety, head pressure, and zero brain function. The best part is they have no record of me being there so suing them would have cost more money than what my lawyer would have received so now I just flip off their commercials every time they come on. 🤣

Most recent. I took my mask off in public. 🤓

I think that's all and hopefully the end of them, until the actually end when I'm old and don't even know it.
I think you may have some mommy resentment issues ;)
 
Watching “Surviving Death” on Netflix, all about Near Death Experiences. Anyone ever have one?

When I was 15 I was almost killed in a farm accident. I ended up losing my dad and my brother in the accident.

We were going to clean out a elevator pit on our farm. It had rained earlier in the week, so the water mixed with the grain and the bottom of the pit and formed carbon dioxide with out us knowing it. My bother and dad made it down to the bottom of the pit and immediately passed out. I started down the ladder to help and passed out from the gas about half way down.

Thankfully when I a passed out I slumped forward so I got hung up on the ladder. If I would have fallen to the bottom of the pit where the gas was more concentrated I would have died for sure.

I had a small niece who was staying with us and she heard me yelling at my dad and brother to ask them what was wrong, and she told my mom we were yelling at each other. At that point my mom come out of the house and found us and called the volunteer rescue squad for help.

Being a small town these dudes weren't true EMTs or anything like that, but they saved my life. My high school football and basketball coach was on the call as it happened during the summer. When they pulled me out of the pit, I wasn't breathing and had no pulse, and my coach said the beat the shit out of me for a long time to get me breathing again. I believe it, when I woke up my chest hurt like hell, they must have done their CPR right because I made it and I didn't have any broken ribs.

I didn't ever really have any type of outer body experience or anything like that. I do however remember regaining consciousness in this small town ER with a doctor and two nurses standing over me working on me. Their voices were very echoy (if that is even a word) and they were outline by the examination light, it was really like a scene out of a movie.

Just a weird surreal feeling.
 
I had a near death experience on the Memorial Stadium turf! I can't even remember what year it was, but I'm thinking it had to be either 89 or 91. After we defeated the Sooners in Lincoln, I was on the field, and it was packed. I was standing near the goalposts when they came down and the crowd surged to get closer. I was knocked to the turf and felt bodies just landing on top of me, one after another. Eventually everything went dark. The next thing I remember, a cop is pulling me to my feet and asking me if I was OK. Good times.
I was a student at UNL in 89. I had season tickets. I don’t remember being at that game at all. I must have had a good time
 
When I was 15 I was almost killed in a farm accident. I ended up losing my dad and my brother in the accident.

We were going to clean out a elevator pit on our farm. It had rained earlier in the week, so the water mixed with the grain and the bottom of the pit and formed carbon dioxide with out us knowing it. My bother and dad made it down to the bottom of the pit and immediately passed out. I started down the ladder to help and passed out from the gas about half way down.

Thankfully when I a passed out I slumped forward so I got hung up on the ladder. If I would have fallen to the bottom of the pit where the gas was more concentrated I would have died for sure.

I had a small niece who was staying with us and she heard me yelling at my dad and brother to ask them what was wrong, and she told my mom we were yelling at each other. At that point my mom come out of the house and found us and called the volunteer rescue squad for help.

Being a small town these dudes weren't true EMTs or anything like that, but they saved my life. My high school football and basketball coach was on the call as it happened during the summer. When they pulled me out of the pit, I wasn't breathing and had no pulse, and my coach said the beat the shit out of me for a long time to get me breathing again. I believe it, when I woke up my chest hurt like hell, they must have done their CPR right because I made it and I didn't have any broken ribs.

I didn't ever really have any type of outer body experience or anything like that. I do however remember regaining consciousness in this small town ER with a doctor and two nurses standing over me working on me. Their voices were very echoy (if that is even a word) and they were outline by the examination light, it was really like a scene out of a movie.

Just a weird surreal feeling.
So unfortunate.

It feels like I read an article every few months about someone being killed while working in an elevator on the farm...
 
I’m right there with you. I’ve always been fascinated by that stuff. I know a few guys who do “ghost hunting” with all the equipment. One has some pretty freaky pics from a civil war battlefiel

I have a relative who lived in a house after an elderly resident died in the home. Weird stuff happened that sure seemed paranormal. After my relatives moved out, the new residents who bought the house a few months after moving in, asked the next door neighbor if the prior residents (my relatives), ever said anything about the house being haunted.

Another relative dated a girl who’s grandmother died in the house she lived in. Lots of weird stuff happened in that house.

Another relative of mine had a heart attack and coded in the ambulance. Flatlined for a few minutes. Unfortunately no near death experience. Some medical staff at the hospital told the family not to be surprised if when he came to, that he might say he spoke of a near death experience. Guess it just wasn’t his time?

I definitely believe at least some of the NDE claims could be true. Like the 90s movie Flatliners, I’d probably volunteer to try it.

Strange how there are no ghosts in hospitals or nursing homes.
 
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When I was a teen I was driving a big old car equipped with only a lap belt. It was somewhat foggy and the driver-side headlight was not adjusted to be worth anything. So I was following the stripe on the shoulder side of the road and the road painter had painted the line off into the dirt. Before I could recover and get back on the road I hit a tree head on going 65. I'm not a spiritual guy or a paranormal guy or anything, but I will swear to my dying day that the moment the car hit the tree everything slowed to ultra slow motion and I was traveling very slowly toward the windshield. A "tunnel of light" of some sort seemed to replace the windshield and I was traveling toward it. Then the lap belt stopped me and pulled me back into the seat. The tunnel disappeared and time returned to normal. Luckily it wasn't a real big tree and it snapped in half. The grill was caved in 3 feet and the motor sheared off the motor mounts and on the ground, but I was OK and walking around when someone stopped to help.

In my 20s and friend and I, both very good swimmers went swimming at Huntington Beach in November in fairly big surf, no wet or dry suits. A big wave slammed us and then we were in a rip tide being swept out. I've been in plenty of rips, you side-swim out of them, but this one was wide, powerful and going about 5 knots. By the time it subsided we were maybe 1/4 mile out. We tried to swim back, but it was cold and we had been in the water for 15 minutes and had little strength to swim. There was no on one the beach and no lifeguards. I panicked briefly, but had always been taught not to panic. He and I decided we were going to die. Five minutes later a helicopter flew down the coast, we waved frantically, but it went on. The helo must have radioed because five minutes later a yellow speck traveled down the beach. It was an Orange County lifeguard truck. They set up a telescope and a guy with flags directed two swimmers out to get us. They arrived after another 10 minutes, hooked us up to horsecollars and towed us back in. They had fins on that were about 4 feet long. I didn't see tunnels of light or anything like that, but was blue when I got out. We both had warm clothes on a beach towel, so the guards hung out a bit after we dressed to make sure we were OK.
 
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