It's a bit OT, but when I mention what happened to me,I do get that question a lot. It's very,very hard to respond with a simple answer.Let's just say the experience changed me permanently. This much I can tell you for sure. There's a whole lot more to human consciousness than can be accounted by for sum total of the electro-chemical activity in that 3 pound organ between your ears.. Don't mean to be obtuse, but what I experience doesn't seem to fit the classical near-death stories I've heard. But the simple fact that I did experience something tells me Shakespeare got it right "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet (1.5.167-8)