http://io9.com/5916403/how-to-have-a-near-death-experienceI was technically born this way, three months premature, and it happened again in my neonatal ICU incubator. And it kind of happens a lot throughout my life, especially during times of viciously extreme stress, and during some epileptic seizures. I'm not dying, I don't see gods or magic people, I don't see dead people. But I do see lights and tunnels. And I do touch something outside this reality that is powerful and inexplicable and indescribable. It's fascinating and weird. All I know is that We Are Not Alone. Even if it is merely our higher selves reaching through the universe into Other Places. To quote Babylon 5 ... we are the universe trying to understand itself.
http://www.movietvquotes.com/u/universe_quotes.html