David Ditchfield’s Remarkable Near-Death Experience

[Wake Up World]: In 2006, a man called David Ditchfield was seeing off a friend at a train station near Cambridge, England. He stepped on to the train to help his friend with her luggage and to hug her goodbye, but as he stepped back off, his long coat got stuck in the train’s closing doors.

Unable to take off the coat, he found himself trapped as the train set off. He was pulled along the platform as the train gathered speed, being ‘tossed around like a rag doll.’ Then he was sucked into the gap between the train and the platform and ended up on the train track, with the train hurtling by above him.

Despite the danger, David felt strangely calm. To maximise his chances of survival he pushed himself as far down into the track as he could. The final carriage of the train passed over him and he felt a surge of joy that he had survived, although now he felt intense pain. He noticed that the left sleeve of his coat had been ripped to shreds and then that his arm had been severed from the elbow down. As he says, ‘Everything unfolded in a slow dream-like way…I felt an unearthly, absolute sense of calmness.’

David was rushed to hospital by paramedics, with his life hanging in the balance, as he was losing so much blood. Shortly after arriving at the hospital, he lost normal consciousness and suddenly found himself in a completely different environment, immersed in a darkness that seemed warm and soft, with vivid colors and lights around him. There was no pain anymore, and he felt very tranquil. This is how he described his experience...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...