Elisabeth Z ADC 15008

I also had an experience with the afterlife, but quite like any of those that the book describes, even if there are similarities. That's why I wasn't sure if I should fill in the forms or not, because it doesn't really fit into the NDE category, if you will.

In fact, it was rather a RDE, a real death experience, if I can say that. Maybe I best describe it to you, because I really want to share it.

What happened was that my mother came to me at the moment of her death, during the night. She died over 400 miles away, I should add, after a long illness. I had suffered a lot to see her suffering so much in the last few years of her life, and had visited her as often as I could.

That very night, I dreamt that she had died, and that I was standing at her bedside, together with my 5 brothers and sisters. In my dream, she was totally white (though during her last years, her skin had been full of red patches). I extended my hand to touch her and felt that she was ice cold and stiff. I got such a fright in my dream, because this touch felt so real, that I woke up with a start. And in this moment, I felt her next to me. I sort of saw her with my inner eye, it is hard to describe. She was in a beautiful golden light and I could feel the joy and happiness and unearthly bliss she was experiencing. I knew that moment without any doubt that she had left her body. A few hours later, my sister called and told me "Mum died this night." All I could answer was "I already know".

After this experience, I read lots of NDE testimonials, and watched interviews about it. And I'm always so moved how about every single person describes exactly the same feelings that I had (or that I was allowed to share with my dying mother during a short moment). The parallels I can see are those:

-impression that what I saw and felt was even more real than what I experience in my "normal life" or everyday life