A guy who died for up to 45 minutes before being resuscitated has described his experiences in the ‘afterlife’.

Former bodybuilder Vincent Tolman believes he saw paradise after going into a coma due to consuming vitamins that he obtained online with a friend over two decades ago.

He became unconscious on January 18, 2003, and then went into a strange condition in which he could see himself lying on the ground.

Tolman had a horrific yet profound near-death experience: “They thought I was dead for 30 to 45 minutes before they found me, but I was cold to the touch.”

“Back when I was an amateur bodybuilder, I was using a relatively new supplement.” It turned out that the supplement was hazardous, and I ended up aspirating in a public restroom.

“So I had passed out and started to vomit, and I aspirated on that vomit, and I ended up dying right there on the bathroom floor.”

Tolman abruptly revealed that he had been moved to a ‘very comfy cinema chair’ and was seeing his death occur from the comfort of what he thought was a theater.

He went on to say, “The movie was about this body on the ground, and I was gazing down from above. But what’s strange is that it didn’t seem like me at all; even though I was sitting there staring at my own dead corpse, I couldn’t identify it.

“It was almost like going to a genuine movie and seeing someone dressed and looking like you on the screen, but you’re like, that’s not me, because he’s over here watching the movie – that’s how it felt.

“So I had no idea that what I was watching was my own death.”

The detachment was so great that he questioned the ‘director’s’ decisions in what was included in the ‘movie’, noting that he had a background in cinema and television and questioning why the production contained the ideas of everyone in the restaurant, including the cook.

This telepathic knowledge struck him as excessive, weird, and lacking creative aim, adding to the bizarre, movie-like nature of the encounter.

Tolman says he saw the medics bag the corpse and heard a paramedic thinking in the vehicle.

“And as he was doing that, I actually saw light, a real light, start glowing from inside this rookie medic,” he told me.

“And it felt as if like someone put a light bulb inside his shirt, like light was actually coming out from his heart space and out of nowhere, this really strong voice says, this one’s not dead.”

Motivated by this overpowering sensation, the medic went against protocol, opened the corpse bag, and began looking for signs of life. Though he couldn’t find a pulse, he did feel a spark near Tolman’s inner thigh, which was enough to justify trying resuscitation.

As the body was being transported to the hospital, Tolman began to feel the straps being fastened around his arms. Still in this peculiar observer position, he was perplexed by the sense of being physically constrained.

Tolman claimed it was the moment he realized the ‘movie’ included his body.