What Happens When We Die?

Jay_Train's NDE comes after a long period of drug abuse and describes something of a "rebirth" experience:

"I developed a staph infection from an injection site, and did nothing about it for over a month [...] I had completely insane fever hallucinations, including one terrifying night where I was convinced these giant man owls were going to torture me if I didn't buy a set of their owl language encyclopaedias [...] Eventually, after not hearing from me for over two weeks, my best friends at the time came to check on me and forced me to go to the ER. I don't remember anything after this point other than the death experience. I remember floating above the ER, looking down at the surgeons and my dead body. I went to a place that, best way to describe it was like being back in the womb. It was extremely comforting and there was like a weird rhythm to everything, and it was pinkish red. That's all I remember."

There have been some theories in the past that episodes such as this could be the brain re-living pre-natal and birth memories (including the "light at the end of the tunnel" phenomenon - we'll leave that one to your imagination), but such theories have been largely discredited. Jay_Train has absolutely no idea why this was his experience, but informs us that he didn’t buy the owl language encyclopaedias in the end.