‘I thought they’d think I was lying or crazy,’ she said. But she didn’t tell anyone about her experience for many years. The next day, the crisis in Natasha’s illness had passed. I had to go back, he said, because I was important and had a job to do.’ He put a hand on my shoulder but told me not to turn around. ‘Then I was in a room and realised there was a presence behind me. I was just walking in light there wasn’t anything else. I stepped into it and kept walking towards the voice. ‘But the voice kept calling me, so I opened the bedroom door and it was just this pure brilliant white light. ‘I got up to see what the light was, and turned round to see myself still in the bed, asleep. ‘The light was spilling into the room around the edge of the door and I could hear my name being called - even though I’m profoundly deaf,’ she recalled. She was at home and fast asleep when she was woken by a bright light. 'The voice kept calling me into a bright light'Īt the age of nine, she’d had such a severe bout of whooping cough that the doctor had told her parents she was unlikely to survive the night. This is what happened to Natasha, now aged 33, from Cardiff, who is deaf. If a child is a bit older, though, he may also say he felt the need to return to earth in order to accomplish something in his life. The reason is often that the child doesn’t want to upset its parents.Īs an intensive care nurse who has also done a PhD on near-death experiences, I’ve personally come across many such cases. Usually, children who experience NDEs report being given the option of returning to life and deciding to take it. This leaves such a lasting impression that it can even have a negative effect on children who experience it.ĭr Phyllis Marie Atwater, a researcher who’s collected hundreds of cases of childhood NDEs, says that some have tried to commit suicide afterwards in order to find their way back to their blissful visions. The most common component children report is a sense of overwhelming happiness. Like those of adults, the NDEs of even very small children contain one or more of the usual components, such as the tunnel, a bright light, meeting dead relatives, out-of-body experiences, seeing a beautiful garden and coming to a barrier and being ordered to return to life. I tried to climb over the fence, but this man stopped me and said that I wasn’t to come yet and he sent me back down the tunnel and I was back in the hospital again.’ There was a park with lots of children and swings and things, with a white fence around it. When asked which park, he said: ‘The one through the tunnel that I went to when I was in the hospital. The boy said he wanted to go to ‘that park’ again. A few months later, Gary had a day off and asked him where he’d like to go. It was ‘touch and go’, Gary told me, but Tom survived. Evidence suggests that children as young as six months can have lucid visions ¿ and even remember them years later
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