{"id":5206,"date":"2025-09-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:34:02","slug":"i-came-back-from-the-dead-theres-definitely-an-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/i-came-back-from-the-dead-theres-definitely-an-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I came back from the dead \u2013 there\u2019s definitely an afterlife\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is it possible to come back to life? (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ray Catania was 20 when he died in a gas leak that filled his room and set fire to his parents\u2019 home as he slept.<\/p>\n

\u2018All night long, the gas was rising into my bedroom, and I was breathing it in,\u2019 Ray, now 57, tells Metro <\/strong>over Zoom from his home in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 \u2018There was a big ball of flames, and the wall caught fire. My father put it out with a fire extinguisher,\u2019 he remembers.<\/p>\n

Roused by the noise of police radios and fire trucks, Ray tried to get out of bed and failed. \u2018I couldn\u2019t move my legs at all. They were completely paralysed. I couldn\u2019t get my head off the pillow; I couldn\u2019t yell or speak.\u2019<\/p>\n

He managed to pull himself with one arm and fell to the floor, smashing his head on the boards. Strangely, Ray felt no pain.<\/p>\n

\u2018I didn\u2019t feel anything because I wasn\u2019t in that body anymore,’ he says matter-of-factly. ‘I was above it, in the corner of my room looking down. I could see my lifeless body.<\/p>\n

\u2018The room was a perfect square,’ adds Ray. ‘The colours were vivid and bright, everything was more vibrant, like going from old television to high definition. I could tell you the exact sweatsuit I was wearing. <\/p>\n

‘And I was soaking wet, because the first thing you do when you die is pee yourself.’<\/p>\n

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Despite being paralyzed, Ray felt no pain (Picture: Ray Catania)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Opposite him, in another corner, was The Light, he says.<\/p>\n

 \u2018It was a huge cone shaped white light, but not a light. It was everything. It was love, painlessness, peace, joy, enlightenment. It was not separate from me. I was part of it.’<\/p>\n

An unknown being called him into the cone and Ray felt a sense of euphoria. \u2018Nothing has ever felt as good as that moment, he recalls. ‘I don\u2019t think anything ever will again until I go back to the light.’<\/p>\n

However, as Ray approached it, he saw his father storm into the room and lift his body from the floor. \u2018He was screaming for the paramedics. Distraught, in tears.\u2019<\/p>\n

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