Adam Tapp, a paramedic, shares his insights after having ‘died’ for 11 minutes before being brought back to life.
His brush with death occurred in 2018 when he was electrocuted during a woodwork project. While doctors worked to restart his heart, Tapp experienced a profound journey that has since transformed his perspective on life.
In an interview on the YouTube channel Beyond the Veil, he described his near-death experience as one of ‘absolute tranquility’.
“I felt like I was falling for ages,” he said. “And then it was just like waking up from a nap someplace that I’d always been.”
Tapp detailed his experience as being in ‘perfect inky blackness’, reminiscent of ‘deep space’.
“I was seeing spherically from a single point outwards, like I had just become a single point of awareness and I wasn’t Adam, I wasn’t dead, I wasn’t, anything I was just perfect… like absolute contentment, and I was just in this space.”
He eloquently explained how he felt integrated into ‘the fabric of the universe’, describing his experience as ‘perfect’ and a ‘natural progression’ in life’s cycle.
However, this state was abruptly interrupted when he was ‘electrocuted again’, which he later realized was the defibrillator reviving his heart.
He survived, though he remained in a coma for eight hours, having no sense of the time that had passed during his unconsciousness.
Upon regaining consciousness, Tapp initially questioned the reality of his experience until he reconciled with the fact that he was still living.
“I was left with his overwhelming sense of that this is just a stage, this is simply an evolution.” he recounted. “It was going back to the source of everything.”
He also noted a change in his personality, stating that he now appreciates moments without assigning them deeper meanings.
“Death is quite possibly the most natural thing that happens. I think that death in itself is just simply a transition.”