Quite a few years ago when I was only a little kid my uncle became really ill and the doctors said that he wouldn't see the next month.

My uncle was like best friends with this priest and this priest guy was praying for him everyday for weeks.

As time went on his condition got worse, and he kept on praying for him. One night he got really bad and the doctors reckoned he wouldn't make it through the night.

Anyway, in the morning he's completely fine and the doctors cant understand what on earth has happened.

He told the doctors that during the night every thing started to go dark and blurry, but suddenly a faint light appeared, it was small and faint to begin with but quickly became clearer. It was the figure of a woman, she told him that she was his guardian angel, and she was going to look after him until morning.

Everyone was amazed and described it as miracle, I was too young to really remember so this is all based on what other people have told me.

Dunno why I’ve decided to write all this, I'm not even sure if I believe in Guardian angels, I think I do but I'm not sure.

Anyone have any experiences like this they wanna share?

quote:Originally posted by Godzilla:

Quite a few years ago when I was only a little kid my uncle became really ill and the doctors said that he wouldn't see the next month.

My uncle was like best friends with this priest and this priest guy was praying for him everyday for weeks.

As time went on his condition got worse, and he kept on praying for him. One night he got really bad and the doctors reckoned he wouldn't make it through the night.

Anyway, in the morning he's completely fine and the doctors cant understand what on earth has happened.

He told the doctors that during the night every thing started to go dark and blurry, but suddenly a faint light appeared, it was small and faint to begin with but quickly became clearer. It was the figure of a woman, she told him that she was his guardian angel, and she was going to look after him until morning.

Everyone was amazed and described it as miracle, I was too young to really remember so this is all based on what other people have told me.

Dunno why I’ve decided to write all this, I'm not even sure if I believe in Guardian angels, I think I do but I'm not sure.

Anyone have any experiences like this they wanna share?

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I'm not prepared to completely dismiss what your uncle experienced as a Guardian Angel. I've read up on NDE's and like Joseph Campbell pointed out in his book The Power of Myth, it's no coincidence that most NDE's all have a few common denominators. Maybe that all has to do with expectations?

Bright lights. The presence of a "guardian", a feeling of traveling through a tunnel ...

I suppose if I expected all that to happen, it would happen to me as well if I found myself in a similar situation. The mind has a funny way of buffering experiences and making traumatic incidents a little easier to cope with.

The closest thing I can ever remember happening like that is when my dad had a six-bypass (open heart surgery). He flatlined on the table during the second operation. I was worried, anxious, and thought this was the end. I remember sitting in the Post-op ICU waiting room, about ( --- ) far from having an all-out panic attack. Then, suddenly - feeling this incredible calm go over me. It felt like my dad was standing right behind me, arms on my shoulders, tousling my hair and assuring me that It Was All Good.

Did this actually happen? Was the ethereal "spirit" of my dad standing behind me, making me feel better? No. But my mind concocted a trick in order to calm me down and make me feel as though that happened.

Maybe the same thing happens during NDE's. The semi-conscious mind (who, don't forget, remembers enough to tell about it later), finds some way to soothe the uncomfortable transition between life and death. Kind of like how the adrenaline system squashes out severe pain when the physical body is completely traumatized.

My two cents.