Man explains how it felt 'witnessing his death' after being considered dead for 45 minutes

A man who was dead for several minutes explained how he could see his own body from the outside as he lay on the ground for minutes before someone found him.

Everyone is going to die at some point, but there are some people who've come to what seems to be the end of their existence before not slipping into the afterlife, and some of the things they see during that time are difficult to explain.

Author Vincent Tolman went viral on TikTok channel @after.life.echoes, which cobbled together various clips from interviews he has done explaining his experience.

He explained that he was an amateur bodybuilder who took a supplement that turned out to be toxic and collapsed in a restaurant toilet.

Passed out on the ground and vomiting, Tolman said he 'ended up dying right there on the bathroom floor' and described how he suddenly felt like he was sitting in a comfortable chair in a cinema.

What he could see was a movie with a 'scene of this body on the ground' and he was watching it from above, this body was the man himself but he said it didn't feel like him at all.

Tolman said he could hear the thoughts of others (Latter-Day Lights/YouTube)

Tolman explained that he was 'sitting there looking at my own dead body' but he 'couldn't recognise it', so at the time he didn't realise that he was watching his own death in this out-of-body experience.

He said it felt like he could hear the thoughts of other people in the restaurant, and his reaction was to think it a weird choice for the director of the movie.

Seeing his own body be discovered, he then perceived himself to be in a body bag in the back of an ambulance with a paramedic who was beating himself up over failing to save the man.

He claimed that he could then see a light coming from the paramedic and heard a voice say 'this one's not dead', and that the body bag was unzipped.

The paramedic didn't find a pulse but did attempt resuscitation, and Tolman only got 'the first reckoning' that he was actually watching his own death when he saw they were moving him from the ambulance to the hospital.

He felt like he was looking down at his own body, but didn't think it was him (Getty Stock Photo)

He said he realised this as he could see them strapping down the body and could feel it himself from where he thought he was watching.

Evidently he survived, and Tolman is not the only one to have a strange experience where he was pretty much dead and saw something.

A paramedic who died for more than 11 minutes said he felt as though he was in a state of 'absolute tranquillity' after being electrocuted.

He said he 'felt like I was falling for ages' and felt 'perfect absolute contentment' before resuscitation efforts brought him back, with the man waking up from a coma eight hours later with no idea how much time passed.