David Ditchfield's Remarkable Near-Death Experience

July 31st, 2020

By Steve Taylor, Ph.D.

Guest writer for 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, in an interview with me:

I could see pulsating colors like little orbs, much brighter and sharper than any colours I’d seen in my normal life. Watching them was really relaxing and therapeutic. It was such a beautiful place, with a feeling that I was being cared for and supported. I thought that this is what it must be like to die – and then wondered if it meant that I had just died…

The sensation of love became stronger and as I looked at my feet, I saw a huge tunnel of light drawing closer towards me. I felt, and I still believe this now, that the white light was the source of all creation. I never dreamt I would ever see something so beautiful… It was the light of pure, unconditional love. Every molecule of my body was pulsating with love and light. It was the most incredible sensation. I felt more alive than I have ever done before. It felt like I was experiencing the true reality, while my old world was just an illusion. At that point, I felt certain that I was dead but I didn’t feel any fear or regret… I lay my head back and laughed because I felt so joyous. Then suddenly I was back in hospital, with an overdrive of noise and light and people and frantic voices. I was being rushed into theatre.

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