Your Near-Death Experience

[Tspoon]

Escapists, what has been you near-death experience?

 

[Tspoon]

I've never really had one.
The closest I've ever gotten was in Jr. High. My mother had dropped me off across the street from school. I went to cross in front of the car and some idiot zoomed past just as I was stepping out. If I hadn't seen him coming out of the corner of my eye, I wouldn't have been able to jump backwards. As it was, I STILL felt that car's side view mirror brush against my shirt. I could feel that thing pass like an inch from me.

Holy shit. That reminds me. I was one just walking on the sidewalk, when all of a sudden, this car comes out of this turn and stops like 5 inches in front of me.

 

[Free Thinker]

I almost drowned while in Hawaii. It was weird. Everything was in slow-motion, it didn't hurt not being able to breathe, and then a lifeguard pulled me out by the arm. Didn't actually seem like a big deal actually.

 

[Stollos]

Breaking just in time at traffic lights to avoid getting slammed by a guy who had run a red light. I was on my L's at the time with my dad next to me and I was pretty shaken.

Maybe not quite a 'near death' experience in heinsight, but it sure as shit felt like it at the time.

 

[thiosk]

After being cryogenically frozen in carbonite, I saw a really fat slug getting a lap dance from my sexy princess girlfriend.

I wanted to scream but my face was totally full of carbonite.

Note: as compelling as the stories have been so far, near-death experiences are not "oh shit this truck almost hit me lol" anymore than a being at a bar in jersey during 9/11 is a near death experience. Usually NDEs are referring to "i could see the doctors working on this body, but the one kept drinking whiskey, then i realized it was me, but this lady came in with a zap paddle and pulled me back in."

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

When I had one of those study bunks I used to get down the ladder with my back to it. Once I slipped and fell forward and nearly hit my neck on the corner of a bookcase. Thankfully I caught the ladder just in time. On another occasion I got stuck upside-down when I used to kayak, my instructor swum down the entire course to save me. It was pretty awesome.

 

[Dango]

I almost died in a tube sledding accident, which I find hilarious.

 

[The Rascal King]

When I was 13, I was told I almost died through sort of rare stomach virus, but luckily I was administered antibiotics hours before my estimated death based of temperature level gain. It was not fun, it feels like your stomach is being gutted out from the inside while sitting in an oven. Then you start seeing things. I had thoughts I didn't even stress to think about, like it was a dream.

Since then I've understood the meaning of living nightmares

Edit: Who the fuck tells a kid they were close to death? I mean they didn't tell me until my temperature went down, but shit. Thanks for scaring my preteen self,asshole doctors.

 

[TehCookie]

My first winter driving I flipped my mom's truck. Going too fast, tried to slow down and fishtailed so I decided to take the ditch and hit a snowbank and barrel rolled it. I ended up upside down with all the front windows broken and climbed out the driver's window without a single scratch. If I didn't have my seat belt on at the time I probably would have died.

 

[xmbts]

I was actually pronounced dead once. I don't remember anything about it though due to the whole repression thing.

All I know is I was riding in a car and then BAM herpies I wake up a few days later not feeling so hot.

 

[Tonythion]

For fun I was riding around my pool in an old cast iron tricycle and when I got up from it the tricycle fell into the pool and it snagged my pants, I went all the way to the bottom, stayed there for two minutes trying to tear my pants and swam back up. ...I was ten...That was a fail if I must say so myself.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

When I was seven, I was riding my bike up a path next to a fairly large cliff. At the bottom off the cliff, jagged death-rocks. Coming up the path, I notice the back of a large sign; I turn my head to read the sign, and all it says is "WARNING: VERY LARGE CLIFF" before I fell straight over the edge of the cliff.

I landed on a small landing a few meters down, a mere centimeters away from plummeting into the jagged death-rocks below. I was freed, and taken down the cliff, wherin I tripped over walking over a patch of grass and nearly brained myself on a glass bottle. No lessons learnt!

 

[The Rascal King]

When I was seven, I was riding my bike up a path next to a fairly large cliff. At the bottom off the cliff, jagged death-rocks. Coming up the path, I notice the back of a large sign; I turn my head to read the sign, and all it says is "WARNING: VERY LARGE CLIFF" before I fell straight over the edge of the cliff.

I landed on a small landing a few meters down, a mere centimeters away from plummeting into the jagged death-rocks below. I was freed, and taken down the cliff, wherin I tripped over walking over a patch of grass and nearly brained myself on a glass bottle. No lessons learnt!

Do not be alarmed, but I think you are the luckiest bastard on the planet.

 

[Dark Knifer]

I was learning to sail when I was about 7 and the single man boat tipped over and my foot got caught and I nearly drowned. A more recent time I nearly got run over by someone driving quickly but I managed to dodge it.

 

[spacepope22]

I almost drowned when i was 6. A Bigger kid canon-balled on top of my head and knocked me out at the community pool.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

DC/ Beltway sniper. His attacks were in the area I lived in and for a few weeks, I didn't know if I was being watched through the sights of a sniper rifle. It was scary if a bit passive. That's about as close to dying as I've ever come I guess.

 

[LostAlone]

I've had two fairly close brushes with death.

First when I was maybe 10 or 11, I rode my bike off the sea wall and full a good 15 feet onto my face. Got some pretty nasty concussion and what not, and I looked like TwoFace (not kidding either, one whole side of my face was just solid blood, the other was fine) for a month till it healed. Luckily no scars. According to my mother who saw it (I don't have those memories for some reason ) the front tyre of the bike hit the concrete just before I did, so I didn't take the whole impact. So maybe I might have died if I was leaning forward more when I went over.

Second was a car crash when I was 18. Well I say car. My car into a coach that had turned across both lanes to get around a sharp bend. Predictably this ended badly for my car and not so bad for the bus. Anyways, the car was totalled (thing crumpled like a beer can) and I broke my wrist and got some whiplash. My passenger faired rather worse, and had the seatbelt lock against her neck, and although she didn't die (or even get a lasting injury) she had a a big friction burn/bruise on her neck for ages that looked like she'd survived hanging. Creepy shit. Anyways, I count that as a brush with death, if only because this was how I discovered my airbags didn't work.

Edit -

Also, to those who've never had both at the same time: Really serious bruising is a metric shit ton worse on the pain scale than a straight broken wrist, and if you get both together, you won't know you broke the bone until you try and sign police documents with what you think is the non-injured hand. My right hand went through the dash panel, and although didn't break anything HURT like a ************ for weeks after. My left hand went off the gearstick into the stereo column and neatly snapped at the wrist, but it figured I had enough to deal with so didn't let me know.