Hello all....
Fascinating subject, and if I may add my tuppence worth, from personal experience, and I mean direct first hand...
Last July the 27th, I went for a drink with my Wife, spur of the moment - I picked the pub... we were going through a very intense period of separation, brought on by myself- I’ll spare you the gory details- though we were keeping things as civil as possible...
Well during the latter part of the evening ( there was some drinking, but not excessive by our standards l had 1 pint and 2 glasses of wine, I never managed to finish the 3rd)... it transpired that (probably) during the second wine, I was dosed with Rohypnol.
Long story short- and I can only relate what I was told to me by my Wife, Daughter, the paramedics and the hospital Acute Medical Ward staff- I rapidly went of control in the pub and after some “ adventures “ in getting me home, my Wife and I retired for the night- even though I appeared disturbed and very argumentative, and at around 1.00 AM in our bedroom after a particularity loud exchange - I stopped in mid sentence and collapsed.
Initially my Wife thought I’d finally “zonked” out- but as I’d folded up with my face in my lap She rolled me back, only to find my eyes wide open and totally unresponsive, She admitted later to poking my in the eyes ( in case I was faking) and hitting me hard around the face to the degree my inner cheek was badly split the next day and I wasn’t breathing and She couldn’t find any pulse. admitted later that at that moment She panicked and froze.
Luckily our Daughter was in the process of coming into our room - our arguing had woken Her up, and after doing the usual checks on me, finding no pulse or breathing, started CPR. They were on the phone live to the Ambulance and doing a running commentary whilst awaiting the Paramedics.
Despite our Daughters best efforts, I wasn’t responding, no pulse, no breathing, and by then had been “ dead” for 7 minutes...now they did get me going after 8 minutes, but I relapsed- twice and in total I was “ dead” for a total of 16 minutes, when the Paramedics arrived and shocked me into a responsive state, where I finally did stay breathing and my heart kept going.
I have utterly no recollection of this going on, but bizarrely, all I can say is that whilst I was “ dead” - and for quite a while...i remember nothing, I saw absolutely nothing, no light, no tunnel no past relatives, no feeling of anything at all except a sensation of blankness, and darkness...
I know that the state of “ Death” is a problematic one, in many cases, but I can only speak and tell you my experience...