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I want to share an experience I had while I was in the hospital in Switzerland about to go into emergency surgery for my pelvis. I'm not sure if it was a near death experience or just a hallucination from all the drugs I was on. I don't think I ever coded, but they did say I was unstable at some point, and I lost enough blood to need a transfusion. It's impossible to fully capture with words what I felt and saw, because it was like nothing I've ever experienced or seen and stranger than anything I could have previously imagined. It was as though I was outside of my body and all my fondest memories were playing in front of me. I was seeing many memories all at once, and they started to fade and drift away. I wanted to hold onto them, but I could't. I was losing myself, every experience I had was fading into nothing, like it never happened, like I never was. Then I felt like I was drifting to somewhere new, to some new form of existence. The normal rules of physics no longer applied. I changed in size from my normal size to small enough to fit under a door jam and all sorts of other sizes and shapes in between. I felt no pain, but I was scared. The worst part was I had no control of anything, and I didn't think I was going to make it back.

That explanation doesn't do the experience justice, but I wanted to share it here, because I know a lot of people on here have had similar traumatic injuries. Anyone had a similar experience?

Sounds like your Anesthesiologist is Hip to the O'l Saline Drip, spiked with Dimethyltryptamine .
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Could be, but I've been put under three times prior to that and never experienced anything even close.

+1

His anestheiologist(his pineal gland) WAS hip to the DMT. He was entering into another realm.

Hikeat, if you haven't already, check out Rick Strassmans book DMT-The spirit molecule. It's a great read about his testing of DMT in human subjects. DMT is a chemical compound that is considered to be the strongest 'hallucinogen' known. It's illegal, yet it is within many, many things including our pineal gland. It is produced when we are born, when we dream, when we have near death experiences and when we die. It's a fascinating subject.

I went and found a link, and it looks like there is a film about it now. Here is the trailer.
http://www.thespiritmolecule.com/html/media.php

If you want to read a copy of the book, let me know and I'll lend you mine!

I remember some really trippy, mind-bending stuff from when they had me in a chemical coma after my cliffstrike. "Down the rabbit hole", if you will. As with you, the following description does NOT do the experiences justice...

- Floating in space, watching the "Big Bang" happen and the resulting expansion from a single nucleus to the infinite size of the universe as we know it, something sort of like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGEjrADGPA
- Alternate dimensions and "universes within universes"
- Matrix-like thoughts about the world (universe) as we know it being the equivalent of someone's grade-school "science experiment", or even a computer simulation of some sort; questions about the purpose
- How self-important our lives and our "stuff" are, but how meaningless and insignificant they are in the REALLY big picture
- Many more profound thoughts along these lines that are no longer consciously accessible to me

It would really be interesting to go back and explore these thoughts more fully, but I'd rather it not be under the same circumstances.

There weren't any feelings of fear, per se. I remember feeling uncomfortable (emotionally, not physically) for a while, but then a fascination with what I was seeing overcame that.

And, even given all of the above, the deep appreciation of both how important it is, and how lucky I am to have good people and friends in my life.

My advice is to write all of these things down, in a little journal or something, with as much detail as you can remember. Then you can go back and revisit them.

Good song to go with the tripp.. Rossetta Stoned by Tool. Same thing going on..