I lost my first cat in September 2018 in a brutal way. The cat was used to go outside in the evening. On this evening it was meowing near the window. At the moment when I took it in my arms to give it a hug before letting it out, I looked at him and I heard it talking to me (of course not straight away, but through thought). I heard it very distinctly telling me: “This is the last time that I see you.” For the moment I was astounded to hear this but I said to myself that this must have been my imagination, so I let it go out.

A few minutes later I felt a bad feeling, it was something like culpability, which is a feeling that I usually didn't feel when my cat was going outside. Being anxious, I even remember going outside and calling for. But it didn't come back.

Next morning it didn't come when I opened the shutters, while usually it was always sitting there, meowing to get in. Oddly enough, I didn't dare to go out for a search. I remember that during a moment in the morning I said to my spouse in a shaking voice: “I hope that it is not dead” trying to convince myself while at the same time I knew that something wasn't right since the evening before.

Shortly before noon, my spouse went to look for the cat, while my legs refused to move. I literally broke down when I saw him coming back, face closed, carrying the corpse of my cat.

Same evening I felt like a kind of paralysis of my body, I couldn't move. During a few seconds I didn't see anything else except a light of a milky white, powerful but not blinding. And then nothing.

The same night I think my cat came visiting me in my dreams. It sat in front of our home, near the street where it lost it's life. It was watching me, it's tail delicately wound around it's body and two things did strike me; first the way it looked at me, I perceived such serenity in it's glance, it was as if it was telling me: I'm well, down't worry”; second, there was the hole at his side. It seemed quite deep considering the heap of earth close by.

Several days after telling it it's last good-bye, while I was outside, I remember that I suddenly sensed like being enveloped into an immense softness, I then experience something like a kind of peace of mind. I believe that something in myself knew that it was my cat that at that moment gave me news from the other side.

Since I haven't felt anything alike. The power of the emotions that I felt had nothing to do with normal emotions. The more, the accounts about near-death experiences that I could read since, make that I question myself lately. To tell the truth, I don't know how to interpret what I experienced given that it was my cat passing and not myself. I love to think that for sure I went with it on it's last journey...

J'ai perdu mon premier chat en septembre 2018 de manière brutale. Il avait l'habitude de sortir, ce soir-là il a miaulé près de la fenêtre. Au moment où je l'ai pris dans mes bras pour lui faire un câlin avant de le laisser sortir, je l'ai regardé et je l'ai entendu me parler (pas directement, bien sûr, mais par le biais de la pensée). Je l'ai entendu très nettement me dire : 'C'est la dernière fois que je te vois'. Sur le moment, j'ai été étonnée d'entendre ces paroles, mais je me suis dit que ce devait être mon imagination, donc j'ai laissé mon chat sortir.

J'ai ressenti un sentiment de malaise quelques minutes après, c'était comme de la culpabilité, sentiment que je ne ressentais pas d'habitude lorsque mon chat sortait. Je me souviens même être sortie de chez moi dans la nuit et de l'avoir appelé, inquiète. Mais il n'est pas revenu.

Le lendemain matin, il n'est pas venu quand j'ai ouvert les volets, alors qu'il était toujours là d'habitude, à miauler pour rentrer. Curieusement, je n'ai pas osé sortir de chez moi pour le chercher. Je me souviens à un moment dans la matinée avoir dit à mon conjoint, d'une drôle de voix mal assurée : 'J'espère qu'il n'est pas mort', comme pour m'en convaincre, alors que je savais que quelque chose clochait depuis la veille.

Un peu avant midi, mon conjoint est parti chercher mon chat tandis que mes jambes refusaient toujours de bouger. Je me suis littéralement écroulée lorsque je l'ai vu revenir, le visage fermé, tenant le cadavre de mon chat dans ses bras.

Le soir même, j'ai ressenti comme une sorte de paralysie de mon corps, je ne pouvais plus bouger. L'espace de quelques secondes, je n'ai plus rien vu d'autre qu'une lumière d'un blanc un peu laiteux, puissante mais pas aveuglante. Et puis plus rien.

La nuit même je crois, mon chat est venu me rendre visite dans mes rêves. Il se tenait devant chez nous, près de la route où il a perdu la vie. Il me regardait, la queue délicatement enroulée autour de lui, et deux choses m'ont frappées : la première, c'était la façon dont il me regardait, j'ai perçu une telle sérénité dans son regard, c'était comme s'il me disait 'je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas'. La deuxième, c'était le trou qui était creusé à côté de lui. Il semblait plutôt profond, à en juger le tas de terre qui était à côté.

Quelques jours après lui avoir dit un dernier au revoir, alors que j'étais dehors, je me rappelle m'être d'un coup sentie comme enveloppée dans une immense douceur, j'ai alors ressenti comme une sorte de quiétude. Je crois que quelque chose en moi savait que c'était lui qui, à ce moment-là, me donnait des nouvelles depuis l'au-delà.

During your experience, did you encounter any other specific information / awareness that you have not shared in other questions that is relevant to living our earthly lives?   No   

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge or purpose?   No   

What occurred during your experience included:   Content that was entirely consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience    I always believed that there is something else after death, another form of life, for sure more beautiful. This experience was showing me that I was right to believe this.

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience?   I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of th    This experience has deeply marked myself because I had a special attachment to this particular cat that I considered like a child. Five years after, I still remember as clearly as if it happened yesterday.

I try to be much more attentive concerning my feelings, as I believe that we all have a 'hidden' sense that we are not using enough, but what can turn out essential to make the connection between life on earth and the afterlife

My experience directly resulted in:   Moderate changes in my life

Did you have any changes in your values or beliefs after the experience that occurred as a result of the experience?  No   

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience?   No   

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you?     3 parts; When I heard my cat foretelling me that it would leave me; When I saw the tunnel and the white light after it's death; When I would see it in my dream and I felt all it's love and it's serenity. Those three parts let me think that my cat wanted me to accompany it in it's last journey, thinking this warms my heart.

Have you ever shared this experience with others?   Yes   A short time after this experience I shared it with a stranger in a forum dedicated to paranormal experiences. She didn't judge me and showed kindness, as she had been experiencing a similar kind of experience.

I also talked to my mother, who seemed wanting to believe me and didn't judge me too.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?   No   

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:   Experience was definitely real    This experience was real, what I experienced and felt wasn't a coincidence.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience at the current time:   Experience was definitely real    I still have the same opinion than five years ago, this even strengthens my belief that there is another form of life after death. Only the body dies, but consciousness remains intact.

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?   No   

Have your religious beliefs/spiritual practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?   No   

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience?   No      

Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?   Yes