A man has opened up about his experiences of what he saw and heard when he was in a coma.
There are a few things to fear in this world, and being in a coma is arguably one of the scariest things.
If it was one long sleep and you have no recollection of it, then it wouldn't be so bad.
But these stories of people being mentally aware of what was going on around them send a shiver down my spine.
With that being said, let's take a look at one of these stories.
Travis Shreeve, an accountant who had gained weight due to a sedentary lifestyle during the pandemic, saw his health rapidly decline after contracting Covid-19.
This ultimately led to his hospitalization and a life-changing experience, per the International Association for Near-Death Studies.
Travis was at home preparing to leave for a hospital appointment when he began experiencing severe breathing difficulties.
As his condition worsened, he told his wife to call an ambulance before collapsing in their hallway.
Recalling the events leading up to his hospitalization, Travis mentioned remembering “little bits” of the journey to the hospital.
Soon after, he fell into a coma.
During his time in the coma, Travis revealed that he was far more conscious than he had expected. "I was seeing the nurses come in, I was very aware of them," he said.
"They were coming in, and they wouldn't talk to me, they were just ignoring me and I felt that something was dangerously wrong."
Speaking on the Prioritize Your Life podcast with Wesly Lapioli, Travis described his 10-day coma as feeling like “three months.”
“It was the most terrifying thing of my life times 10. I was fighting to breathe,” he explained. “I fought, and I fought, and I fought to breathe, and there was a point where I felt such exhaustion that I felt like this is my last breath."
But as his body reached its limit, Travis found himself in a place he described as completely different from Earth.
“It was beautiful, it was white, it was clean,” he said. “The thing that told me that this was not Earth was that it was so clean, everything was just flawlessly clean.”
This surreal location allowed him to completely forget the crisis he was facing in real life.
During the podcast, Travis shared more about his experience, including an interaction with two mysterious individuals.
“I knew there were two people, I don't know why I knew there was a second person because I didn't see a shadow, I didn't hear anything, I just knew there were two," he said.
One of these figures was a woman Travis felt a deep connection with. She reassured him, telling him that “everything [was] going to be okay.”
According to Travis, the woman communicated in a way that felt like “downloaded information,” making him believe she had intervened on his behalf.
“She somehow intervened on my behalf,” he said, adding that while he wasn’t sure if she influenced a doctor’s decision or made a plea to a higher power, he was certain she played a role in his survival.
After this profound experience, Travis awoke back in the hospital but felt confident that the woman had “found a way out” for him.
“One last time, I was shown an image. It’s like I wasn't allowed to fully remember the image, but there was my family and there were a couple other individuals,” he recalled.
“She spoke to me one more time. This was my only moment of peace in the hospital, and she said, ‘Everything is going to be okay, we will be whole again,’ and I felt something special about that.”
Despite Travis's experience being mainly positive, it still terrifies me.
