a strange question- when i was 7 or 8 - i was taken to the er with a fever of over 105. i remember feeling fine. kind of floaty and warm. i remeber the drive over, and i remember being in the er bed with the rails up.when i try to remember anything else i can't. i feel like my brain hurts on my right side of my head from below my ear to above my ear to over the right cheek bown and i feel a kind of panic. i know i had someone talk to me and tell me i would be fine , but i can't remember their face. Probably a nurse. So why can't I remember the whole incident? I was not hurt and the only thing about being sick that i hated when i got home was the cold showers. My parents tell me they were actually not cold.

In Reply to: HIGH FEVER when i was a child. posted by ANONYMOUS on September 25, 1998 at 11:27:14:

Your question demonstrates the need for a more precise way to document the transformation seen after near death experiences. It would be neat to have a simple blood test, or electromagnetic measurement that could serve as the fingerprints of having the experience.

My immunology study is designed to answer this very question. If there is a distinct immunological signature to the experience, then we could give you a blood test and see if you have had one.

Your description of the experience could be a true near death experience (the perception of another reality), or a semiconscious distortion of this reality. I doubt anyone could say more than that.

You could take our Transformation survey and see if you have the typical psychological profile of someone who has had a spiritual experience. We have only informally tested it on 50 subjects, so it is not a well validated psychological tool. We have never published it, although most of the individual pieces are mainstream psychological instruments.

Unfortunately, it requires a lengthy interview which I am not set up to provide at this time. Furthermore, I am not sure exactly what it would prove.

You probably have all the genuine information already. Anything more that you "remember" would run a high risk of being a false memory.

Usually spiritual visions have a simple and straightforward message. The more convoluted your experience, the more it was a distortion of reality.

I would recommend going to an IANDS meeting in your area. You might be surprised that your experience might be similar to someone else's.

I hope this gives you a starting place to understand what happened to you.

Melvin Morse