Near death experiences you never even noticed
polycounter lvl 18
Man was i told an interesting story tonight,a co worker of mine came over tonight and recalled something which happened 3 weeks ago.
It was a saturday and a co worker and myself were headed to Amsterdam to hang out at coffeeshops and draw a little,we left the house and headed to the bus station and as i crossed the street a honda i guess saw a chance to test his cars speed and sped up to an incredible speed and as i walked without even noticing the car grazed the tip of my scarf.
I never even noticed, i felt that something occured behind me that day as i walked to the bus,but i had no idea a car almost killed me,i wonder if i would have noticed it coming might i have stopped for a moment would it have hit me.
events like this make you think about life in general
It was a saturday and a co worker and myself were headed to Amsterdam to hang out at coffeeshops and draw a little,we left the house and headed to the bus station and as i crossed the street a honda i guess saw a chance to test his cars speed and sped up to an incredible speed and as i walked without even noticing the car grazed the tip of my scarf.
I never even noticed, i felt that something occured behind me that day as i walked to the bus,but i had no idea a car almost killed me,i wonder if i would have noticed it coming might i have stopped for a moment would it have hit me.
events like this make you think about life in general
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r.
Same spot, maybe the same night, I was stretched out on the bench looking at stars and smoking filters (I'm pretty sure I have cancer by now) when some bag lady looking um, lady comes up to me and asks me if I have a girlfriend. I say no. And she says that's funny 'cause I look just like her boyfriend that just kicked her out! While she says that last bit she reached into her purse and pulled a broken bottle out on me. Relived she didn't have anything more deadly I talk her out of slitting my throat (or trying anyway) by convincing her I wasn't in fact her boyfriend. Later on that night my friends show up, and we bounce around the neiborhood occasionally bumping into the lady who had since upgraded her arsenal to include a big stick that she'd threaten me with whenever she saw me.
If you stop smoking so much dope, you might notice the next car.
r.
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Wow how incredibly witty,my grampa calls it dope also.
Read a little, the car was driving slowly and suddenly sped up,i didnt just jump in without looking.
But i guess you had to get your little stab in,im guessing you began to think up your witty response at about the point you would have read that part.
r.
Wow how incredibly witty,my grampa calls it dope also.
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Lol, I still call it dope and I ain't nobodies grampa.
To quote a famous commercial from my kiddie days "Why do you think they call it dope?"
If you stop smoking so much dope, you might notice internet humor.
If you stop smoking so much dope, you might notice internet humor.
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Are you kidding? Smoking "dope" makes just about anything humorous.
So your friend told you this 3 weeks later?
It's a wheel that you attach to the fuseloge with a clamp so you can more easily move the glider around the flight line, it's suppost to be removed once the plane is on the line, but I got the glider at the last second and it was pushed infront of the line, my instructor told me to get in and that he'd do the walk around inspection. (which is NOT suppost to happen, the PIC has to do it, but I was a student and I didn't know better)
The whole flight the glider was getting horrible performance and making wierd sounds. Till about half way during the flight I hear on the radio the tow pilot talking about a glider that still has a dolly wheel attached to it. Me, with no idea of my attachment chuckled to myself thinking of what kind of moron takes off with a tail dolly. After doing my landing circuit with was unusually sinkful and landing did I hear the horrible sound of the dolly wheel GRINDING into the grass runway and feeling the deacceleration against my straps of the glider as it grinded to a halt.
If the tail dolly had come loose it could have knocked the tail plane and removed the rudder (which would make the flight extremely and dangerous difficult) or the elevator (which would have been fatal and I would have no time to ditch before getting below 1000ft AGL
That was pretty close.
It's funny now when i think how stupid and careless that was. I screamed so loud the truck driver looked at me and screamed back. ha!
-R
How do you miss a speeding car? I mean, going as fast as you imply, how can you not see it, or hear it coming? And why would it speed in a pedestrian area, and not react to missing you? It's only natural for someone to suspect something more to the story. I guess it's one of those "you had to be there" moments.
So your friend told you this 3 weeks later?
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Well it is possible to miss seeing,if you are about to cross a fairly short street and you see a car furthur down and its at a decent distance and a slow speed in which you know you can walk the street safely before it even gets to you you dont expect the car to speed up as it did and could definatly miss it.
as for why he forgot,that day i barely made the bus and he missed it ,i wager if he did make it he would have told me.
Normally id tell him he was full of shit but that day i do recall some sort of commotion behind me,but when i turned an look i saw nothing unsusual and didnt pay it much attention.
Ros:Touche you got me
that aside--
if you never even noticed it, did it happen?
i believe if your mind did not perceive (or generate) the experience, it never happened.
all the more reason to let it go and pack another one
I share shotguns subjective viewpoint of the mind generating the experience but that would only be true for JO's mental reality.
Physically this did happen, maybe not noticed by the person himself but then brought into mental existance through communication (friend) wich was then reflected on, in reference to his own beeing, and I think that is a good thing. It reminds you of your physical mortality.
I would not get caught up in "what if" questions because on that turf that can turn very ugly quite fast. See it as a little spark you can use for an interesting chain of thoughts to move forward.
That is how I see it
Now, respect the fact that you live in the promised land and light another spliff
Among the same absent minded lines, i once placed my toaster on my nice kitchen, you know, those ceramic ones, where there's just like a glass. Instead of turning the toaster on i turned the fire under it on. Ever seen a molten toaster ?
Took me days to completely scrap off the stinking plastic from the plate. I also regularly put the mail and shampoo in the fridge after buying groceries, and i'm pretty sure one day i'll kill myself and wont notice.
**edit: oh, one day i put shampoo on my toothbrush instead of paste, tasted horrible, couldn't get rid of the taste for hours. That sure counts as a near death experience... you know, poison and such
But it's all to the above left as I was above my body looking down.
Doctors said, it may have been me watching myself in the light/mirror that was pointed at me, but to this day I don't recall the light/mirror just the images..and I honestly think I was away for a bit, as I was either in shock but I had no pain, and they didn't have time to give me painkiller or local anesthesic as I was losing alot of blood..
Headwounds bleed like crazy.
Scott
Near death experiences you never even noticed
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Hasn't happened... I stay inside my house and don't touch anything except the occasional time when I look out of my windows at those strange beings outside.
and one time we narrowly missed the oncoming traffic.
When I was 7 I swallowed a marble and it got lodged in my windpipe and I started choking so I ran to my mum to try to tell her what I had done but all I could do was point at my mouth and choke. Eventually I strained so hard I managed to bring the marble back up and when my mum realised what had almost happened she nearly suffocted me with hugs.
When I was 9 a car nearly ran me over, I stepped back just in time for it to run over my foot instead.
When I was 14 I tried to fix my amiga a500's faulty power supply by monkeying with it myself and then turning it on.
The resulting electric shock threw me a few feet across the room.
Between 17-19 I survived 8 car crashes, 4 of them were write off's where I and whoever else was in the car, had to kick out the windscreen to get out when we were upside down and the car had stopped spinning.
Generally these wrecks ended up so flattened that exiting via the doors was impossible. On one occasion my friend turned the car back on to get his tape out of the cassette recorder.
I was never the driver during these crashes.
When I was 19 after coming home high from a nightclub I began hallucinating at a friends house and got freaked out by the people there so decided to try to drive home at 4am.
I hit 90 on the bypass heading home to the t junction and must have zoned out and had to break heavy as I went straight across the junction, over it, through traffic and into the hedgerow after the ditch on the other side of the road.
I was so terrified I broke 2 of the prongs on the 3 prong steering wheel in an effort to pull back and slow down.
Essentially I almost completly ripped the steering wheel off in the midst of panic. Somehow I managed to drive home after that without incident and slept it off.
And people wonder why I'm colourful.
r.
"What are you...ON DOPE!?"
Everyone once in a while someone will ask (normally little kids) "where did you get that"? I point at it and say "recliners aren't toys" and smile. I probably heard "_____ aren't toys" about a zillion times growing up. My brother and I have used it as a joke since we where teens, my mother never laughs.
I had decided to disassembled a paper shredder, and take the motor and wiring out, to use to make a revolving platform for a stabile. In my laziness I plugged the thing into the closest outlet (on a pole), and decided to switch it on to test it, forgetting that my fingers were what was keeping some of the wires connected together. The moment I flipped the power switch to 'On' I felt a tingling sensation that quickly became a sharp pain, then my arms were numb. Due to the way I was keeping the circuit connected with my fingertips, when the power went through both of my arms and caused my hands to form a gripped fist, the wires disconnected and fell to the floor. Thankfully I was only exposed to high voltage for a fraction of a second...and the only side effects experienced was arm numbness, and then pain over the next few days.
this isn't technically a near death experience but I really believed my days where numbered: as a teen I was misdiagnosed as having a severe form of muscular dystrophy and was told I probably wouldn't live past my 18 birthday.
Then, something a bit more recent....last christmas when I flew back from Germany to Canada I had to switch planes in Amsterdam...When the plane took off from Amsterdam the weather outside was terrible. It was stormy and there was rain... You know, when a plane takes off and you can slowly see the houses and things becoming smaller and smaller as you gain height? Well our plane took off and the houses started becoming smaller but then suddenly we went straight through a thick black cloud of storminess (height was about 400 metres) and the plane started shaking like crazy... I had a window seat so I looked outside and I could see that the plane was dropping and VERY QUICKLY LOSING HEIGHT and the plane was slanting to the left and I could see the houses becoming bigger and bigger again... The whole thing took about 5 seconds before the pilot corrected it but I was so freaked out and people were screaming.
I am also quite regularly "nearly missed" by stupid car drivers in Montreal when I try to cross the street. People here can't drive worth shit...seriously.
And people wonder why I'm colourful.
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I always figured it was just the scotch.
Frank the Avenger
fell out of a tree once and landed on my back, could n't breathe for what seemed like 10 minutes.i just reached up for this branch which was totally rotten. was only a small tree.