RE: How my death on the operating table in 1999 changed everything.
Thanks for your comment! I know it (my post) is just an anecdote, doesn't prove a thing, but anecdotes can still be useful.
You can imagine that I've had a little time to process it.... 19 years. It's not like I think of it often, but from time to time it comes back to mind and I'll look at the memory again, sometimes in a different way than before, as my understanding of things matures and so on.
It could very well be that nitrous, when used with (whatever that pill was), when oxygen is limited, and the person goes unconscious (or deeper), you get wild trips. Maybe it was akin to a DMT experience.
In 1999, I was still technically religious (not really much of a believer, but I still went to church and had my kids baptized and other such silliness). But no part of my experience fit what I'd read about in the Bible. My experience, back then, actually fits a more agnostic kind of viewpoint. Now that I'm more agnostic than anything else, I wonder if I 'died', would I see visions of pearly gates and brimstone? Heh.