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Near-death experience: User claims to have seen souls enslaved after death
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Near-death experience: User claims to have seen souls enslaved after death

From Veฤernji List · () Croatian

Translated from Croatian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • A Reddit user shared a near-death experience where their heart stopped for six minutes at age 15.
  • The user described a terrifying vision of the afterlife where souls are enslaved by higher beings.
  • The story sparked debate, with some sharing similar experiences and others offering scientific explanations.

A Reddit user's harrowing near-death experience has resurfaced, detailing a terrifying vision of the afterlife. At 15, the user's heart stopped for six minutes due to ventricular fibrillation. Initially, they experienced a calming white light, but this quickly turned to horror.

Describing a journey through "doors" to a place beyond reality, the user encountered unknown entities. Mistaking them for angels, the user was instead subjected to a humiliating and terrifying experience. The entities allegedly revealed that the human world is a "soul farm" and that deceased souls become slaves to higher beings for torment and exploitation.

Doctors eventually revived the user, but their family dismissed the vision as a product of trauma and youthful perception. Despite this skepticism, the user maintains belief in their experience. The story has prompted numerous comments, with others sharing their own near-death accounts and offering various spiritual and scientific interpretations.

While the veracity of such claims remains unprovable, neurological research offers some insights. Studies suggest the brain can experience a "storm of activity" at the moment of death, with areas responsible for consciousness, emotion, and memory remaining active and communicating. This scientific perspective suggests these experiences might stem from biological processes, though the debate continues.

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Originally published by Veฤernji List in Croatian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.