Woman Was Declared Dead in the Hospital – 2 Minutes Later She Came Back to Life & Shared What She Saw on the Other Side

A woman in her late 30s was thrilled to be expecting her first child. But on a quiet spring morning, she woke up with an unshakable inner warning she couldn't explain. Hours later, she was in the hospital, and what followed was a miracle.

A woman undergoing surgery was declared clinically dead after losing all vital signs on the operating table. Two minutes later, she regained consciousness.

She didn't come back confused or with questions, but with detailed memories of another place, descriptions of strange beings, and a message that challenges our understanding of life and death.

A Premonition Before the Collapse

It was the spring of 2015, and 39-year-old Nicole Meeuws was four months pregnant with her first child. One morning, she felt something wasn't right. The sky was clear, the air calm, but a deep unease followed her throughout the day. She described it as a premonition, an "inner knowing" that something was about to happen.

Though she looked forward to becoming a mother, Nicole couldn't shake off the feeling. She told herself it was natural to be nervous — many women, especially first-time mothers, worry about what the future holds. But when she noticed she was bleeding, her concern grew urgent.

Her husband, Christos, a specialized doctor, took her to the hospital immediately. There, doctors performed a scan and confirmed that she had lost the baby. The news was devastating. Nicole described being flooded with grief, confusion, and anger. "Why me? Why me at this time?" she remembered asking. "I've done everything I was supposed to do."

Her thoughts swirled as she was prepped for emergency surgery. On the operating table, things escalated quickly. As the anesthesia was administered, Nicole's vital signs reacted sharply. Her blood pressure spiked, and her heart rate accelerated. She became overwhelmed with fear and anxiety. "It went very, very fast," she recalled.

The hospital room, once focused and sterile, turned tense as medical staff scrambled to respond. Then, suddenly, everything stopped. Nicole lost consciousness, the surgical team was unable to detect any signs of life, and she was declared clinically dead.

In Western medicine, clinical death is typically understood as the complete and irreversible cessation of brain activity, also referred to as brain death. According to a PubMed abstract on the subject, the diagnosis relies on a combination of neurological criteria, prior medical evidence, and observable physical signs.

However, the authors note that even with these standards, declaring death is not a perfect science. "The concept is a real cultural construction," the report explains, adding that determining death often requires clinical judgment and should be approached with prudence.

Nicole remained unresponsive for two minutes. By all medical accounts, her life had ended, briefly, but definitively. Yet what happened during that short interval would go on to define the rest of her life.

A Tunnel, a Vast Chamber, and Beings Beyond Description

As Nicole lost contact with her physical body, she became aware of something else. She described being pulled through a tunnel of blue and white light, not a beam, but a corridor that felt alive. It had a presence, a texture, and a sound. "The light had a temperature, a tone," she recounted, "almost like music made of water."

There was no fear. Instead, Nicole felt as though she were being called home. Time didn't exist in the way it had moments earlier. She was no longer in the hospital room or anywhere she could define. As she moved through the corridor, she emerged into a glowing space with no walls or ceiling — an endless, luminous chamber.

The colors around her were unlike anything she had seen before: radiant blues, soft violets, and silver tones that shimmered without straining the eyes. They moved gently around her, never overwhelming the senses. The entire chamber pulsed softly and steadily, as if it were breathing. Then, she saw them.

At the center of the chamber were two towering figures seated on massive thrones made of what looked like marble. Their forms shimmered with energy. Though they had human features, Nicole noticed gills on their cheeks and tails covered in scales — like a fish — instead of legs.

Their eyes were large and indigo, filled with what she described as kindness and recognition. Nicole believed the place she had entered was more than just peaceful — it was familiar. "I understood this place, this feeling," she shared, "and I truly believe it was the original home from which we all come from [sic]."

What She Was Told and Why She Believes She Came Back

According to Nicole, the beings she encountered told her she was never meant to have children. That wasn't her path. Instead, they communicated that her purpose was to help others understand what lies beyond physical life.

The experience didn't feel like a vision or dream. For Nicole, it felt real. The beings didn't speak in words. Instead, she understood them instantly. Through what she described as telepathic communication, they conveyed that life on Earth is an illusion and that real life begins only after death.

The message was simple but transformative. "I learned that death is not an end. It's a return to our actual lives," she said. "I felt more known than I had ever felt in my life. I didn't want to leave." The time she spent in that space felt expansive, longer than the minutes she was physically gone.

But as quickly as she had arrived, she was sent back. Nicole described it as being "zapped" into her body. Her return stunned everyone in the room. Her husband tried to speak to her, but her response was not in a language he or anyone else recognized.

"It sounded like dolphin clicks," she recalled. "It continued for minutes, which left everyone around us stunned." She wasn't trying to make the sounds; she said they were moving through her. Even after she stopped speaking, Nicole said her senses felt altered. Her hearing, especially, had changed.

"My senses were heightened, and I could hear emotion in people's voices as color," she said. She described the return not as a recovery, but as a rebirth. "I returned completely different."

And while the medical event never happened again, the presence of the beings didn't disappear. In the years that followed, Nicole continued to see them, and eventually, she came to believe she knew who they were.

Who Were the Blue Beings?

Nicole claims their presence has continued in the form of visions, moments when they appear again in the same blue-toned forms she saw in the glowing chamber. Over time, Nicole came to believe that these entities were not symbolic or imagined, but part of something older and real.

She identified them as members of the Apkallu — figures from ancient Mesopotamian traditions, described in some sources as interdimensional beings or demigods. According to ancient accounts, these beings were said to have delivered civilization to early humans, not as extraterrestrials, but as non-alien intelligences from another realm.

Nicole views the Apkallu as neither mythological nor divine, but as teachers connected to what she experienced beyond death. She believes their role was to reawaken something in her, a message she was meant to carry forward, along with a purpose and talent she hadn't known she possessed.

Translating the Experience Through Color and Form

Nicole had never considered herself an artist. She didn't paint, and she wasn't looking for a creative outlet. But after the event in 2015, that changed. "I was a bit lost on this Earth," she later said. "Trying to find something that I wanted to do — and I never really had a clue until my [near-death experience] woke something deep inside of my heart."

Not long after her recovery, Nicole began painting. Her work became abstract, spontaneous, and intuitive, often inspired by what she described as emotional and energetic impressions rather than specific scenes. "These are the worlds that exist all around us," she shared, "they're just on a different radio frequency."

She doesn't plan her pieces. Instead, she allows herself to "tune into these realms" and paint from feeling rather than thought. Her brush follows where the energy leads, often choosing color frequencies she believes reflect the vibrations of the other side — golds, oranges, and greens among them.

"It's not a mind thing," she said. "It's a heart thing." For Nicole, the art is a continuation of her experience, an attempt to share with others the fluid, layered dimensions she says exist just beyond human perception.

Her Message: Love Is the Truth We Forgot

To Nicole, the brushstrokes on her canvas are only one part of the message. The rest, she believes, must be spoken clearly because what she saw was not meant to be kept to herself. She describes love as the central force of everything, more enduring than fear, loss, or even death.

"Love will always win," she stated. "It's where we came from." Nicole believes that humanity has forgotten this truth. She describes cultural, religious, and political divisions as illusions that pull people away from their shared origin.

"We're all one big family, regardless of boundaries, cultures, religion, and politics," she explained. "Everything that exists came from the same spark." Fear, she said, is what keeps people trapped. "The more we hold onto fear, hate, and lies, the easier it is to control humanity," she explained.

What she experienced in those two minutes erased any fear she once held about death. "I'm no longer afraid of death because I know what's waiting for me on the other side. It was a beginning, not an end," she said

Nicole is not the only person to report such clarity beyond the point of death. Years earlier, Dr. Mary Neal — an orthopedic spinal surgeon and mother of four — drowned while kayaking in Chile.

She was submerged for nearly 30 minutes before being pulled ashore with no pulse. Like Nicole, she described her awareness continuing even after her body had shut down.