What is it like to be dead? Patient who ‘died’ reveals all

IT'S the ultimate mystery – but an experience we will all have one day.

OTHER SIDE: What happens when we die?

But a user of social media claims he can give us a sneak preview.

Speaking on Reddit with the screen-name r00tdude, he said he has been clinically dead and revived…twice.

His first "death" came as a result of a motorcycle accident where he died for two minutes because his "body shut down from the pain and physical damages on my body".

"No pulse, no breathing and no consciousness”, he wrote on Reddit.

THE END: The man's pulse rate flatlined

His second, he said, was because was in agonising pain after surgery so I received loads of pain killers.

"The pain, coupled with an immense amount of pain killers, caused my pulse to drop to around 10bpm and my respiratory system shut down," he said.

At this point he was clinically dead.

And what he remembers will blow your mind – or maybe not.

SAVED: Doctors managed to bring him back to life

He chillingly wrote: "It was just black emptiness. No thoughts, no consciousness, nothing.

"Both times I was just 'not there'. It was just all black. I would describe it as when you take a nap.

"A short nap with no dream, you wake up and it feels like you've been sleeping a long time, when in reality it's only been about 15 minutes.

"The only reason I know is because the doctors were obligated to share the information with me."

He was quizzed on whether it was "just black" or if he has experienced a memory lapse.

But he responded with certainty: "It was definitely not just a gap. Much like a dreamless nap, you don't just wake up and feel like time just jumped ahead.

"You know that you've been asleep for a while. At the same time, you can't really remember experiencing anything at all, unless you had a dream.

"So yes and no. I experienced something, and that something was nothing."

AFTERLIFE: What really happens when it's all over

He argues that people who talk of near-death experiences where they may encounter a higher power are still conscious in some way.

R00tdude wrote: "I think that in their cases, their minds were still active. What they experienced was just a sort of dream.

"I have always been an atheist, but I have always had a part of me that hoped there was a God or Heaven or something greater than us. I mean, who wouldn't want there to be a Heaven?

"I am still an atheist, and now I know that there is no such thing as God or Heaven. At least not for me.

"My reasoning behind that is no God would ever put a person and family through such a experience.

"Death is death. Once your dead, that's it, it's over."