[6insomnia9]

Yesterday night I was leaving my friend's house after a nice little Hot Pot session and my friend and i were just talking outside, i had my car door open while we were talking.

I see a car coming speeding really fast behind me (at least 60) , this street is super narrow and only had enough space for one passing car and it was super tight fit, if didnt pull back one door 1 second faster i would have got hit with that car with my door and maybe become a vegetable or worse death.

My heart was pounding so hard :/

I hope no one of you guys drive like that ..

The street view of the narrow street. (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=2166+burquitlam&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=7722l11446l0l11537l15l12l0l0l0l0l332l1389l6 .5.0.1l12l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1920&bih=955&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)

But imagine that street filled with cars on both sides.

[LiquidTurbo]

Cool story bro!

Kidding. Glad you see you are alive.

[bartone]

That's why you dont stand in the middle of a narrow road
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[Culverin]

I almost got run over by an ambulance.

I was making a left from Burrard eastwards onto Georgia, light turned amber. Ambulance slowed, then stopped, then just as I started moving, it floored it, no siren. No lights, no honk. Nothing.

Had to slam on my brakes to avoid getting plowed from the side. Almost low sided my bike when that happened.

[rsx]

I drive like that, especially when people just stand on the street talking like idiots. Fucking Richmond hongers always do that.

[Szeto]

why would you leave your door open? close your door, roll down the window.......

[XplicitLuder]

glad you're alive but ..no one to blame but yourself. Next time don't stand by your car talking with the door open ?

[Fcukedd]

Not really a death experience, but something I'll never forget

When I was like 10ish, I had swimming lessons with my younger brother. We were in the higher levels, and I believe one of the requirements were to tread water for I believe 3-5 minutes? Anyways, as we approached the end, my brother couldn't hold on any longer and pushed my head down in order to keep himself up LOL Drowning me to save himself :fuckthatshit:

[tool001]

ride a motorcycle....u will feel like that almost everyday when dumb car drivers do stupid things without looking around.
changing lane without blind spot check, turn left at a red light without checking for on coming traffice. riders dont have cage around them to protect them


when i drive my car i give motorcycle extra room..

[Anjew]

Not really a death experience, but something I'll never forget

When I was like 10ish, I had swimming lessons with my younger brother. We were in the higher levels, and I believe one of the requirements were to tread water for I believe 3-5 minutes? Anyways, as we approached the end, my brother couldn't hold on any longer and pushed my head down in order to keep himself up LOL Drowning me to save himself :fuckthatshit:

dont think that he didnt care about you. billion year old natural instincts for survival kicked in.

[StylinRed]

Not really a death experience, but something I'll never forget

When I was like 10ish, I had swimming lessons with my younger brother. We were in the higher levels, and I believe one of the requirements were to tread water for I believe 3-5 minutes? Anyways, as we approached the end, my brother couldn't hold on any longer and pushed my head down in order to keep himself up LOL Drowning me to save himself :fuckthatshit:

when i was 10 and my class was learning to swim @Renfrew CC the instructor got us all to jump in the pool and stand up but i just jumped in and stayed under for a few mins :lol i wasn't freaked out but the lifeguard pulled me up and started freaking out about why i was such an idiot :lol



to OP that's really just a close-call not the typical use of near-death-xp :P

[dealt]

Masturbated 41 times in 1 day but came to my senses and stopped. :troll:

[2 n r]

^LOL damn, you beat me to it

[TheKingdom2000]

Yesterday night I was leaving my friend's house after a nice little Hot Pot session and my friend and i were just talking outside, i had my car door open while we were talking.

I see a car coming speeding really fast behind me (at least 60) , this street is super narrow and only had enough space for one passing car and it was super tight fit, if didnt pull back one door 1 second faster i would have got hit with that car with my door and maybe become a vegetable or worse death.

My heart was pounding so hard :/

I hope no one of you guys drive like that ..

The street view of the narrow street. (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=2166+burquitlam&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=7722l11446l0l11537l15l12l0l0l0l0l332l1389l6 .5.0.1l12l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1920&bih=955&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)

But imagine that street filled with cars on both sides.

I don't understand why anyone leaves their car door open?
Especially since you know the street is narrow as fuck.
Granted, the driver should not be going that fast on a residential street, but you need to be smart about things like that.

Paco, Michelle, or Mrs. Hung would not be impressed if you caused an accident right outside their got damn house =D

[46_valentinor]

paKo""""" =D
you sure you weren't just super stoned and misjudged the cars speed when it was actually crawling at 30km/h?:troll:

[quasi]

Closest thing I had was when I was about 15 driving through the mountains around Christmas with my family. We were in Rogers pass and my sister looks up and says, "dad look at the waterfall". An avalanche was coming down right at us, 2 lane road at the time ( 1 each way) with a cliff drop off on the one side. My dad just kept on the gas and all the sudden everything went white, couldn't see anything and it sounded like 1000 fists beating on the truck. He kept driving without being able to see where he was going and we eventually came out of it.

We all thought we were dead for sure.

[punkwax]

ride a motorcycle....u will feel like that almost everyday when dumb car drivers do stupid things without looking around.
changing lane without blind spot check, turn left at a red light without checking for on coming traffice. riders dont have cage around them to protect them


when i drive my car i give motorcycle extra room..

No offense if you're one of the responsible motorcyclists out there, but I've found that SO many guys on crotch rockets talk shit about people in cars when they themselves are the fucktards out there. Weaving in and out of traffic, abusing shoulders in rush hour traffic etc. All illegal, all highly dangerous and despite doing all this irresponsible shit they have this attitude like they own the damn road. :speechless:

[tool001]

No offense if you're one of the responsible motorcyclists out there, but I've found that SO many guys on crotch rockets talk shit about people in cars when they themselves are the fucktards out there. Weaving in and out of traffic, abusing shoulders in rush hour traffic etc. All illegal, all highly dangerous and despite doing all this irresponsible shit they have this attitude like they own the damn road. :speechless:

i totally agree,, i think those riders weaving in an out of traffic are just asking for it. rides need to act responsibly for thr own lives , rather than trust other with it on the road

[kevin7352]

do you realize that you just posted up your friend's exact house address? (i think)

anyways, glad you're alive :D

[dinosaur]

I was surfing (poorly) down in Oregon at Devil's Punch bowl...got held under by a few waves and became totally disoriented. Ran out of breath and everything was grey and black. Just as I thought, "this was it", I popped up and dragged myself to the shore where I just laid there for what seemed like forever. For a good 4 days after I had salt water coming out of my ears and nose....so gross and SO FUCKING SCARY!

[drunkrussian]

one time my gf almost dragged me that robert pattison chick flick "water for elephants". i almost commited suicide. good thing she reconsidered. close one bros.
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[Happy]

wait.. does OP really think another car hitting his car door would kill him?
what's wrong with this world

[BlackZRoadster]

i always have near death experience eating jelly fish at chinese restaurants.

you wouldnt believe how many times the jelly fish gets dangled half way down the throat and the other half still in my mouth.

literally my life flashes before my eyes, and after a couple of seconds "everything was better than expected" , than 1 minute later it happens again. DAMN JELLY FISH Y U SO DELISH!!!

[LenovoTurbo]

i always have near death experience eating jelly fish at chinese restaurants.

you wouldnt believe how many times the jelly fish gets dangled half way down the throat and the other half still in my mouth.

literally my life flashes before my eyes, and after a couple of seconds "everything was better than expected" , than 1 minute later it happens again. DAMN JELLY FISH Y U SO DELISH!!!

Chew before you swallow :troll:

[MG1]

I suffer from sleep paralysis. Closest thing to near death exerience for me. I get to the point I start some serious panic attacks. I no longer sleep in on weekends or sleep for long periods of time. It isn't a once in a while thing. Another reason I log on to RS so much. Sleep is scary. Only power naps for me.

[spideyv2]

i always have near death experience eating jelly fish at chinese restaurants.

you wouldnt believe how many times the jelly fish gets dangled half way down the throat and the other half still in my mouth.

literally my life flashes before my eyes, and after a couple of seconds "everything was better than expected" , than 1 minute later it happens again. DAMN JELLY FISH Y U SO DELISH!!!

JULIAN SMITH - Jellyfish - YouTube

[6insomnia9]

I don't understand why anyone leaves their car door open?
Especially since you know the street is narrow as fuck.
Granted, the driver should not be going that fast on a residential street, but you need to be smart about things like that.

Paco, Michelle, or Mrs. Hung would not be impressed if you caused an accident right outside their got damn house =D

I was in between my door and my car fyi.


wait.. does OP really think another car hitting his car door would kill him?
what's wrong with this world


Oh you try standing between the door and the car and i drive 60km/h and hit you and you tell me if it hurts?

[Happy]

Oh you try standing between the door and the car and i drive 60km/h and hit you and you tell me if it hurts?

why would i try that? just because you're stupid enough to put yourself in that situation doesn't mean i am

[6insomnia9]

Exactly, so you wouldn't think that if i get hit and get sandwich by my door that i woudln't die?

I didnt choose to do that but my friend was standing 2 cars in front me as i was about to go into my car when he got into a conversation.

Numnuts.

[Happy]

i would say injured but not die for sure
plus if you see a car speeding towards you why wait till the last second?
why not jump away 1 minute earlier LOL

[6insomnia9]

i dont have eyes the back of my head?

i literally had to sandwich my door and the car so i dont get crushed.

There is only space for once car to pass and it isnt an open high, cars parked throughout the street on both sides.

[Halfpast]

I suffer from sleep paralysis. Closest thing to near death exerience for me. I get to the point I start some serious panic attacks. I no longer sleep in on weekends or sleep for long periods of time. It isn't a once in a while thing. Another reason I log on to RS so much. Sleep is scary. Only power naps for me.

Sorry to hear that...I really feel for you. I've only experienced it a few times in my life (and I'm sure a fair number of people here have as well), but the sheer terror I've experienced from a single episode is more disturbing than almost everything I've experienced awake.

In case you aren't already, I'd recommend that you try to think of those incidents as purely biological reactions. For example, the terror part of sleep paralysis has been confirmed to be an over-stimulation of the amygdala, not the demonic activity implications that many cultures associate sleep paralysis with.

[dignatas]

ate some skewers @ tropika when i was little at cambie. Choked so hard on the fat that the everyone in the restaurant turned their heads and stared straight at me. This one huge white guy beside my table grabbed my back and bear hugged me.

I swallowed the fat

:megusta:

[BlackZRoadster]

you gusta the huge white guy bear hugged you?

[spideyv2]

Exactly, so you wouldn't think that if i get hit and get sandwich by my door that i woudln't die?

I didnt choose to do that but my friend was standing 2 cars in front me as i was about to go into my car when he got into a conversation.

Numnuts.

bro..how are you gonna call anyone numnuts after the situation you put yourself in?

[6insomnia9]

yeah im sure i would predict that a car would been going that fast on a narrow street

[CRS]

yeah im sure i would predict that a car would been going that fast on a narrow street

Hmm I think you're missing the point.

Everyone is ragging on you not because of your lack of psychic abilities or telling of the future, but for you lack of common sense in this particular situation. Instead of putting yourself in that situation where you could've been seriously injured or have died, you should have avoided the situation entirely by following basic understanding of dangerous situations.

Basically, what you should not have done is gone between yourself and your car door in such a narrow street for a prolonged period of time. A prolonged period of time is any time more than it takes to get in/get out of your vehicle and off the streets. If you had done this, this whole situation would have never occurred.

So next time, instead of talking to your buddy with you sandwiched to your car/car door, walk on the sidewalk (where you're supposed to be) and talk there to avoid cars travelling on the road (where they are supposed to be).

[Fcukedd]

you gusta the huge white guy bear hugged you?

I'd gusta anyone who saves my life :megusta:

[dignatas]

you gusta the huge white guy bear hugged you?

eating the fat that almost killed me :sweetjesus:

[Meowjin]

MG1: I suffer from sleep paralysis but I learned to beat it, just focus on moving your thumb or toe. Seriously focus, you will eventually start moving it then your whole body along side it.

[spideyv2]

I heard sleep paralysis is some serious shit. Apparently a lot of it is due to stress?
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[Ulic Qel-Droma]

sleep paralysis is easy to get out of. just focus on breathing. or let it play out.

i've never gotten sleep paralysis waking up. only falling asleep. actually it happens a lot.

i'll be laying there, then things start to vibrate, like the air and all the molecules feel like they're vibrating, my muscles start to "fail". like its harder and harder to move, then i cant move... then my sight starts fading away darker and darker like im passing out, and i cant say anything, or move or do anything, and the buzzing gets louder and louder and louder.

i fought it once and got out, i just tried to move really hard and eventually the reverse happens and my body "wakes up".

sleep paralysis happens to everyone, just most people aren't conscious when it happens.

[TheKingdom2000]

No offense if you're one of the responsible motorcyclists out there, but I've found that SO many guys on crotch rockets talk shit about people in cars when they themselves are the fucktards out there. Weaving in and out of traffic, abusing shoulders in rush hour traffic etc. All illegal, all highly dangerous and despite doing all this irresponsible shit they have this attitude like they own the damn road. :speechless:

i totally agree,, i think those riders weaving in an out of traffic are just asking for it. rides need to act responsibly for thr own lives , rather than trust other with it on the road

I agree with both of you. However, I think we have all been driving long enough to know that there are fucking stupid ass drivers out there. I'm talking C-lai's that don't give a fuck, young people who are not yet experienced enough to drive, and just random dumb fucks.

I would not feel safe if I were riding a bicycle or a motorcycle. You could be the 2011 defensive cyclist/motorcyclist of the year and still get fucked up by the shit ass drivers we have in our city.

[Greenstoner]

i know my story will probably sound dumb but here it is.. because yeahh,. whoes kayak flipped before. I've heard none

i went to kayak this summer for the 1st time. I am a swimmer and was equipped with life jacket.

Anyways, I bend down and was fixing my pant and I guess I was leaning toward the left side a bit. A wave came from my right and I lost my balance, my kayak flipped and I was in the water after like mili second .

They all tell you DO NOT PANIC if you fall into the water but now come to think of it that was not fucking possible, there is no way that you dont panic at the moment you fall into it because I didnt expect that to happen at all. I panic for the first few seconds trys to get out the water to breathe and grab onto my kayak but i was not able to stable myself to float my head on the water and my brain tells me to "calm down, you are a swimmer equip with life jacket". The moment I calm myself down I was able to breathe right and functioning. I spent about 15 mins of swimming to shore, it seems fucking long when one of my hand was grabbing the peddle and the kayak. I was exhausted and thank my parent for sending me to swim lesson when i was young.

Didnt have any image pop up in my mind except for "holy fuck am i gonna die ? and i just lost my iphone that i bought few months ago which has a lot of my travel pictures"

and I didnt even notice i lost my eye glasses until i got onto the shore that i couldnt see shit lol


swimming in wet shoes, socks, sweat pant and t-shirt is not a good idea, thank god i wasnt wearing jeans so anything or else it would be pretty heavy. (last min plan, didnt wear proper cloth. I am going in shorts and nothing else next time)

[UFO]

I got misdiagnosed with a bad cold/flu when I was 15 or 16. I was quite sick for a week, missed school the entire time. Felt a bit better one day and decided to go back to school so I wouldn't fall too far behind. That day, I couldn't walk more than 100m without completely losing my breath, had no energy at all the whole day, and this was already 'feeling better'. My mom took me to the doctor right after school (some exceptional circumstances that day allowed her to have a day off from work), who then proceeded to tell me to go to the hospital right away. At the hospital, most things were a blur. But I remember getting wrapped in warm blankets, getting really high content oxygen, and admitted into ICU because the hospital was out of regular beds (they told my mom this just to make her feel better). Ended up in ICU for 4 days, regular room for another 3-4 days.

When I went to the specialist for a follow up a month later, he told me I likely wouldn't have made it through the night had I not gone into the hospital that afternoon. I ended up with a sort of pneumonia which was unusual for my age, and the fact that my regular doctor gave me meds to treat something completely unrelated did not help at all.

[BlackZRoadster]

is sleep paralysis when you feel like your whole arm is numb and prickly. It also feels like one arm is very heavy to move? I can move the other arm with the non affected arm. Feels like im moving dead weight.

Or did i just sleep too much on that arm and numbed it?

[Mr.C]

is sleep paralysis when you feel like your whole arm is numb and prickly. It also feels like one arm is very heavy to move? I can move the other arm with the non affected arm. Feels like im moving dead weight.

Or did i just sleep too much on that arm and numbed it?

Nope, that's numbness.

Sleep paralysis is when you wake up but you can't move anything. I've had it a few times. Scares the shit out of me every time.

[gars]

i know my story will probably sound dumb but here it is.. because yeahh,. whoes kayak flipped before. I've heard none

i went to kayak this summer for the 1st time. I am a swimmer and was equipped with life jacket.

Anyways, I bend down and was fixing my pant and I guess I was leaning toward the left side a bit. A wave came from my right and I lost my balance, my kayak flipped and I was in the water after like mili second .

They all tell you DO NOT PANIC if you fall into the water but now come to think of it that was not fucking possible, there is no way that you dont panic at the moment you fall into it because I didnt expect that to happen at all. I panic for the first few seconds trys to get out the water to breathe and grab onto my kayak but i was not able to stable myself to float my head on the water and my brain tells me to "calm down, you are a swimmer equip with life jacket". The moment I calm myself down I was able to breathe right and functioning. I spent about 15 mins of swimming to shore, it seems fucking long when one of my hand was grabbing the peddle and the kayak. I was exhausted and thank my parent for sending me to swim lesson when i was young.

Didnt have any image pop up in my mind except for "holy fuck am i gonna die ? and i just lost my iphone that i bought few months ago which has a lot of my travel pictures"

and I didnt even notice i lost my eye glasses until i got onto the shore that i couldnt see shit lol


swimming in wet shoes, socks, sweat pant and t-shirt is not a good idea, thank god i wasnt wearing jeans so anything or else it would be pretty heavy. (last min plan, didnt wear proper cloth. I am going in shorts and nothing else next time)

I've flipped my kayak before - but it was while I had lessons on how to exit a kayak. Were you kayaking by yourself and you don't know how to do a self-rescue?

[Greenstoner]

^ I was in the one person kayak, I got out the kayak as soon it flipped over. I consider myself lucky because I'm a pretty big guy and my feet weren't caught on anything. There were 3 friends nearby but we were all first timer. Not to mention 1 of them doesn't swim lol.
They later helped me dragged the kayak to the shore which helped a lot. The person who rented us the kayak didn't teach us anything other than telling us to go along the shore as the traffic was heavy. A lot of boats were passing by.
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[dignatas]

sleep paralysis sounds terrible and scary =/ never experienced it but if I woke up and am unable to move my body i would shit brix

[BrRsn]

Experienced sleep paralysis once, scariest feeling I've ever felt. It was fairly recent, in the summer. My sleeping patterns were all effed because I'd stay up a day or two at a time because of work .. anyways, I went to bed after taking some caffeine about 2 hours before. I woke up in the middle of the night after having a nightmare. My nightmare was that there was a demon/entity in my house, and it was trying to kill my family members. I woke up and heard stuff outside my door (nothing was there of course, was about ~3:30am), and instantly knew it was the demon. I want to get up and save everyone so bad but I couldn't move...I tried to scream but I couldn't scream -- I was essentially stuck to my bed. Then I started sweating pretty profusely (probably the caffeine, who knows) and I eventually snapped out of it at around 4am, and I was drenched in sweat and breathing super heavy. Realized I had just experienced sleep paralysis, and fell asleep.

Freaky thing is, my brother moved out about a year ago, and I sleep in his old room. He used to get this feeling of a ghost holding him down all the time, and he used to tell me this. I now know what he felt was sleep paralysis, creepy.



Other than that, my only "real" near death experience was almost getting abducted as a child when the family was on vacation in India. Some random guys came to a party we were having and kept asking me to show them where the town's convenience store was. We had the biggest house in a very rural area (no streetlights/paved roads), and the police department was quite a distance away, so we were easy targets. The convenience store was about a 10 minute walk away, and it was about 9 or 10pm. Thank god I didn't go with them, who knows what would've happened, or what orifices would've been invaded.


More recently, I was sitting in the backseat of my friends car on boundary, and my friend asked me to jump in the front at a redlight so we could use HOV (getting onto hwy 1 east), and I got out and was moving to the front when a big dump truck literally grazed my ass. That could've sucked majorly.

[SumAznGuy]

paKo""""" =D
you sure you weren't just super stoned and misjudged the cars speed when it was actually crawling at 30km/h?:troll:

I bet it was a P-car and the guy was in first gear. :fullofwin:

[Roach]

I don't really reflect on life much. But having read the thread title, I realize I have nearly died twice in almost 30 years.

At 6 years old, I went to India with my family for a month long visit. A few days into the trip, I became severely sick from drinking the water there (likely through ice cubes). My immune system failed and I was vomitting continuously and had continous shits. Lost half my body weight in days. The doctors there were actually mis-diagnosing me so that they could prescribe more medication and earn more money. India is a cruel place in that regard, as they target Canadians. After a couple of days my parents figured out the doctors were useless and I was flown home on a stretcher. Took me a long time to recover, but I don't remember much from it because of my age.

The second instance was in high school. My girlfriend was driving home pretty late at night. We were on 16th ave in White Rock waiting at a light right in front of Peach Arch Hospital (154th i think). Light turned green and she literally let off the throttle to accelerate. Her Jeep creeped forward into the intersection as the torque converter kicked in and WHOOSH.

A black late 80's Thunderbird just blew across us from 154th at an insane speed. It was a blur. 5 seconds later a patrol car blows past in full chase. We didn't even move. I'll never forget the feeling. We would have both been toast, T-boned at that speed. My girl was so startled she couldn't drive herself home.

Anyways boys. I've come to learn that you never know when you're going to go. Live life to the fullest. Buy fast cars, mack on the hottest bitches, work hard and enjoy every day that you are lucky enough to open your eyes in the morning.

Kev

[MG1]

Anyways boys. I've come to learn that you never know when you're going to go. Live life to the fullest. Buy fast cars, mack on the hottest bitches, work hard and enjoy every day that you are lucky enough to open your eyes in the morning.

Kev

Right on!

[dignatas]

Experienced sleep paralysis once, scariest feeling I've ever felt. It was fairly recent, in the summer. My sleeping patterns were all effed because I'd stay up a day or two at a time because of work .. anyways, I went to bed after taking some caffeine about 2 hours before. I woke up in the middle of the night after having a nightmare. My nightmare was that there was a demon/entity in my house, and it was trying to kill my family members. I woke up and heard stuff outside my door (nothing was there of course, was about ~3:30am), and instantly knew it was the demon. I want to get up and save everyone so bad but I couldn't move...I tried to scream but I couldn't scream -- I was essentially stuck to my bed. Then I started sweating pretty profusely (probably the caffeine, who knows) and I eventually snapped out of it at around 4am, and I was drenched in sweat and breathing super heavy. Realized I had just experienced sleep paralysis, and fell asleep.

Freaky thing is, my brother moved out about a year ago, and I sleep in his old room. He used to get this feeling of a ghost holding him down all the time, and he used to tell me this. I now know what he felt was sleep paralysis, creepy.



Other than that, my only "real" near death experience was almost getting abducted as a child when the family was on vacation in India. Some random guys came to a party we were having and kept asking me to show them where the town's convenience store was. We had the biggest house in a very rural area (no streetlights/paved roads), and the police department was quite a distance away, so we were easy targets. The convenience store was about a 10 minute walk away, and it was about 9 or 10pm. Thank god I didn't go with them, who knows what would've happened, or what orifices would've been invaded.


More recently, I was sitting in the backseat of my friends car on boundary, and my friend asked me to jump in the front at a redlight so we could use HOV (getting onto hwy 1 east), and I got out and was moving to the front when a big dump truck literally grazed my ass. That could've sucked majorly.

I am pretty sure a demon was holding you down and your dream is foreshadowing..

[BrRsn]

I am pretty sure a demon was holding you down and your dream is foreshadowing..

Thanks .. i really had to fucking read that at 2am ... *stays awake rest of night* :okay:

[BlackZRoadster]

Lol don't worry , if you can't sleep I'm sure the demon will keep you company :troll:
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[!e.lo_]

back in grade school, a friend had a pool party.
I can't swim, and some bitch decided to push me into the deep end.
They were all laughing until they noticed I didn't surface. I'm not very buoyant.
Blacked out, somebody pulled me out of the pool.

Car accident, big delivery truck made a left turn infront of me, slammed on my brakes, wet road, locked up, SMASH. Hit the wheel of the truck, if it had been a few feet left or right, my head would have been gone.

[insomniac]

Back when I couldn't swim (somewhere between grade 1-3) I drowned in watermania and blacked out.

Grade 4-6ish me and a friend were fucking around on a ski lift and I fell off.. Luckily it was near the end of the lift and I got away with a few bruises but was done for the day.

Not really a near death experience but almost got run over on the morning of the rs summer meet. An old man in a Benz was turning right at an intersection and was only looking at the oncoming traffic and started to accelerate when i was in front of his car.. Jumped out of the way and his bumper swiped me
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[bong890]

Was turning left onto boundry from marine to go up that big hill.
Had the left turning light and was maybe the 4th or 5th car to turn left.
As i turn i hear a trucks horn. when i finish turning i look in my rear view mirror and see that a semi truck has hopped on to the curb and grass area of that shell gas station there still hasn't stopped yet. Minutes later i realize that that truck came from down the hill and ran the red light because it couldn't stop. If that truck came down any sooner could have hit me or any other car in front of me. Or if i turned seconds later.

[Psykopathik]

i've told this one before, but i'll do it again for fun.

Early morning on my way to work, like 5:30 am
i was at the intersection of Clark Dr (left hand lane, turning left) and Broadway heading south on Clark.

sitting at a red light with a 5 ton truck on my right.

my light turns green.

still being half asleep, i hesitated at the light, not turning immediately like i usually do.

about 3 seconds later i hear this HOOOOOOOONNNNNKKKKK of a semi trailer coming from the left.

a car on the RIGHT side of the 5 ton truck beside me had pulled into the intersection.

the Semi had run a RED light and plowed into the small car at full speed. the small car couldn't have seen the semi because of the 5 ton blocking his view.

not sure if that driver survived.

[gars]

My buddy was giving me a ride somewhere, I was sitting in the back, driver's side.

We were turning a major street, and somehow my buddy thought we had our own merge lane - but in reality, we were turning right into the right lane. Anyways, there was a semi coming - and we essentially cut him off while he was going full speed.

The semi managed to swerve out of the way, but barely.

I was sitting in the back and had no idea what was going on. I turned to the left, and saw the semi blow past us while we were half in the lane. Honestly - it was a foot from the window, how it managed to miss us, I have no idea. I actually had that feeling where I saw my life flash before my eyes...

[dlo]

i get sleep paralysis sometimes but i dont panic as hard as you guys... its when i just woke up and just so dazed, i just lay there and wait it out lol, i just think its nothing because its when im super high or drunk when i sleep :lol

[spideyv2]

i get sleep paralysis sometimes but i dont panic as hard as you guys... its when i just woke up and just so dazed, i just lay there and wait it out lol, i just think its nothing because its when im super high or drunk when i sleep :lol

shieeeett braaah, you sure you're just not still tired as fuck and don't wanna get up?

[Halfpast]

Some interesting responses in this thread regarding sleep paralysis.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that the terror that many people experience with sleep paralysis is not because they can't move: it's because the fear center in their brain, the amygdala, is essentially in overdrive. When I experience sleep paralysis, I try to scream not because I can't move (I'm sure many of us have been so drunk to the point that we can't move for an hour the next day we wake up), but because I'm so damn scared for no good reason than that my brain is making me scared.

Just imagine if you found out your whole family got brutally murdered or that RS got shut down permanently :eek:. The feeling is that of your worst imaginable fear coming true...(and the hallucinations of other people/creatures sitting in your room and staring at you don't help).

But about half the people I've talked to about sleep paralysis have experienced what Ulic described: little if no hallucinations and abject terror, but that damned buzzing noise, the weight on their stomach, complete paralysis, and being locked in that state for what seems a long, long time, but in reality, is much shorter as you have a warped sense of time when you are in these semi-conscious states.

[MG1]

The worst one I had was in winter, when I had the heater on in the bedroom. My mouth was dry. So dry it was hard to breath. There's a water bottle on the night stand. I know it's there because I always put one there before I go to sleep. I force myself to move one arm to get up."Great, it worked!" All I need to do now is to get up and reach for it. "I've done it!" Nope, I'm just imagining it. I hear someone in the room. It's my wife. I ask her to wake me up. She doesn't hear me, because I'm not saying anything. So I start to raise my voice. It's now a scream for help. Still nothing. My throat is so dry......... I convince myself not to panic. "It's going to be over soon," I say to myself. "Just stay calm." I stop breathing, gasping for air. I can't help it. I go into panic mode again. I then go blank.... only for it to happen again. I eventually keep trying to move my arm. Finally it works. Wife comes into the room and says, "Boy were you out like a light." I felt like crying. I scream at her, "Why didn't you wake me up?" Guess what? I wasn't really awake. I was still in paralysis.........

I now sleep with my iPod next to me and have the alarm wake me. 4 hours max of sleep. Strange thing is, I often take power naps on the couch or anywhere other than the bedroom and I never have a problem waking up or getting to sleep.

Before sleep paralysis crept into my life. I used to enjoy sleep. I dreamt a lot and I remembered each one vividly. I got to the point where I could control my dreams. I would often wake up and force myself to go back to sleep to continue a good dream, and at times change the ending.

I often wAnder if my sleep problems are the result of all the drugs I took in my younger days, LOLOLOLOLOL.

[BlackZRoadster]

^ dude, did your doctor not say anything?

Is it contributed to snoring? Or sleep apnea? Maybe those oxygen masks will help you out. Your condition sounds quite serious.

[MG1]

^ dude, did your doctor not say anything?

Is it contributed to snoring? Or sleep apnea? Maybe those oxygen masks will help you out. Your condition sounds quite serious.

I don't have a family doctor. The old one like died, LOL.

[BlackZRoadster]

lol find a new doctor and make him your family doctor.

How does your wife handle your alarm going off every 4 hours to wake her up as well? My wife kicks me when i snore too loud lol

[MG1]

lol find a new doctor and make him your family doctor.

How does your wife handle your alarm going off every 4 hours to wake her up as well? My wife kicks me when i snore too loud lol

First off, I go to bed late.......... blame RS on that one. If I go early, I take the ol' laptop to bed and surf.

As for snoring, I'm the quietest sleeper in the family. Funny thing is, it doesn't take much to wake me. As soon as the iPod Touch alarm goes off, I turn it off before the second ring ends. Any longer and it's because I can't find the damn thing.

And the doctor thing I mentioned in my previous post. I wasn't laughing at the fact he is dead. It's just he died so long ago. If he were still alive, he would be over 100 years old. Anyway, my old family doctor was amazing. He was a true doctor - in it to help others not in it to make as much money as humanly possible. He helped out the community so much. Based out of the DTES, he took care of people who could not speak English or afford anything. He would even fill out unemployment insurance papers and other government documents for those who couldn't read or write - for free. He worked without much rest. Truly a fine doctor. I imagine he inspired a lot of young people along the way. He even gave me my English name, because my mother couldn't come up with one.

I just thought I should clear that up. I would never make fun of the old family doctor. He had so much respect by everybody he cared for over the years. So sad to see him go.

[Death2Theft]

Sounds like typical sleep paralysis to me.

[dlo]

shieeeett braaah, you sure you're just not still tired as fuck and don't wanna get up?

yeah im 100% sure lol i guess i dont freak out bad, i only freaked out bad once, it usually happen cause i needa go piss and cant move, my body just shuts down and i sit there for a while until i REALLY need to pee, and hopefully i can move, nearly didnt make it once :lol

[CorneringArtist]

My brother and I were nearly shot...in Surrey of course. And yes, I honestly thought I was gonna die that day.

We were in high school at the time, coming home from rugby practice with a couple of buddies. All four of us were tired as shit, so we decided to cut through a park that's known to be...seedy to say the least. No one was really in the park that day, and as we walked towards the playground, we noticed a group of classic Surrey wannabe gangsters, who were drunk and high off their asses. They spotted one guy in our group, and one guy in theirs started yelling, calling him a rat.

We thought they were too wasted to do anything, we were wrong. As we walked past, one of them pulled out something metal from his bag. We thought it was a baton, but nope, he had a fucking gun, and I had heard the rumour he was packing heat before. So my buddy that got called out told us "we should probably start running".

Unsurprisingly, they went after us, and chased us into the nearby forest trails, the guy with the gun having it fully brandished. It was 15 seconds in that we came across a fork in the trail, and on the go, we asked each other which way to go. My dumb ass yelled to go right, but we broke left, and they were stupid enough to not split up. The whole time I was running, I could feel my legs cramping and I couldn't really breathe, but the adrenalin from being chased was keeping me going; it was a feeling of pure fear that I have never felt since.

We lost them, and basically I never cut through that fucking park since unless there's lots of people around. Even though he never fired it, seeing the gun alone was enough to question whether or not we were going to live.