A Reddit user has shared a chilling account of their near-death experience, claiming that the six minutes they were clinically dead offered no peace—only torment. Posting anonymously to Reddit’s NoSleep forum, they described collapsing from a sudden medical event at age 15 in 2003, only to be revived en route to the hospital. But what haunts them is not the recovery—it’s what they say happened in between.
The user recalls encountering a presence that felt both intelligent and malevolent—like a predator toying with its prey. “It batted me around like a cat with a mouse,” they wrote. The pain they describe wasn’t physical, but soul-deep, beyond anything imaginable. There was no light, no reunion—only dread. According to them, the entity warned that surviving would bring a better fate among “spiritual slaves,” but speaking out would result in worse.
Now living with a pacemaker and multiple surgeries behind them, the poster says the experience left a mark far beyond medicine’s reach. “I don’t thank God for anything anymore,” they wrote. While doctors have suggested brain trauma or oxygen loss as explanations, the user insists the clarity of those moments was sharper than waking life.
The story has ignited debate—not because it offers comfort, but because it doesn’t. It questions whether death is truly peaceful or something far less understood. Whether dismissed as hallucination or accepted as truth, the account lingers—unsettling, unresolved, and impossible to forget.