Vincent Tolman Died in a Dairy Queen Bathroom at 25 — He Was Gone for Over an Hour and Came Back With 10 Messages About the Afterlife
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
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Summary
He was dead for 90 minutes. What he saw will shatter everything you think you know!
Doctors say this should have been impossible.
Vincent “Vinney” Tolman wasn’t just clinically dead - he was gone for somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour and a half, with no brain activity and no chance of returning without severe damage. Yet somehow, he came back - fully conscious, forever changed, and carrying a story that has left even medical professionals stunned.
What happened during that time? According to Vinney, everything we think we know about life, death, and reality is only the beginning.
After an accidental overdose in a restaurant bathroom, Vinney crossed over - and what he experienced on “the other side” goes far beyond a typical near death experience. He describes leaving his body and entering a state where he could hear the thoughts and feel the emotions of others, moving through a realm where time doesn’t exist the way we understand it, and encountering a level of unconditional love so overwhelming it defies human language.
In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, he shares the moment he met his spirit guide, learned how to raise his energetic frequency to travel, and underwent a profound life review, reliving not just his own actions, but feeling every ounce of pain and joy he had ever caused others.
After being resuscitated and placed in a coma for 3 days, Vinney returned with 10 specific messages he says were given to him from “the other side”, including insights into:
- Why we’re really here on Earth
- Hidden purpose behind suffering, conflict, & evil
- Why free will is essential to existence
- Truth about authenticity, love, & judgment
- How tech & other negative influences shape our spiritual path
- Why our value has nothing to do with what others think
He also reveals why he believes Earth has existed far longer than we’ve been told, how it moves through energetic cycles, and why children seem more spiritually connected.
But coming back wasn’t peaceful.
Vinney opens up about the dark psychological aftermath of returning to his body: waking up in a hospital, desperately wanting to go back "home", seeing what he believed were departed souls, and nearly losing himself trying to process it all. From being prescribed antipsychotics to a supernatural turning point that pushed him toward spiritual understanding instead, his journey didn’t end when he came back - it only got more intense.
Now, he shares how he connects with his spirit guide, the premonitions and guidance he receives, what he believes “Earth angels” really are, and how anyone can begin connecting with their own spiritual guidance.
He even links his NDE to childhood trauma, explaining how dissociation may relate to the ability to leave the body and what that means for human consciousness.
Vinney believes we are currently in a global “shedding phase”, and his mission is clear: to awaken as many people as possible.
This isn’t just a story about death. It’s a story about why you’re here…and what you’re meant to remember.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't see anything but just black. |
| 0:02.2 | You are in a locked bathroom by yourself, but your consciousness was outside of the bathroom. I was watching everything. I'm looking at a movie, but it's filmed from the ceiling down. This ambulance pulls up. Three medics. They check vitals, nothing. There is no heartbeat for well over an hour. They recorded time of death, put the body in a body bag. There's this beautiful man dressed in white, and he said, I'm not God. I'm your guide. |
| 0:27.8 | Vincent Todd Tolman was declared dead in the bathroom of a dairy queen when he was 25. Hours later, he was brought back to life. His book The Light After Death discusses his unbelievable experience in the afterlife and he's here to tell us what he learned when he died about the only way to live. You were in a coma. |
| 0:45.6 | Three days, zero brain activity. I don't want to go back to my body. I started to hear my brother saying a special prayer. I command you to be whole. I command you to come back to your body. I woke up. I don't want to be here. This was hell. Being here after there, that's why we can't remember it. If we could remember, we wouldn't stay here. I don't share my experience to try to convince anyone |
| 1:06.8 | of anything. I share my experience to try to convince anyone |
| 1:07.0 | of anything. |
| 1:07.9 | I share my experience like a PR campaign for heaven and for who we really are, so that we can reconnect, find solutions, and stop focusing so much on the problems. We have to bring love everywhere we go, and that will be heaven on earth. And that's coming. I |
| 1:29.2 | Am I And now be heaven on earth. And that's coming. [♪ Music playing in background, music playing in background, music playing in background, |
| 1:28.6 | Hi, I'm Mayan Bielek. |
| 1:30.6 | And I'm Jonathan Cohen. |
| 1:31.6 | And welcome to our breakdown. |
| 1:34.6 | Jonathan, that was a pregnant pause that I just inserted |
| 1:38.6 | because I don't know that I can do justice |
| 1:41.6 | to what you're about to experience here. |
| 1:44.6 | I'll give you the cliff notes. |
| 1:45.6 | Give us the cliff notes, Jonathan. |
| 1:47.6 | This man defies all medical explanation. He was dead for between 45 minutes and an hour and a half. And he came back with an unbelievable experience of what it is like in the afterlife, how souls get here, what we're doing on earth, and how to free yourself from the struggles that you're experiencing. Vincent Todd Toman is our guest today. He wrote the light after death, my journey to heaven and back. And yeah, as Jonathan just said, Vinny, as he goes by, Vinnie died in the bathroom of a dairy queen when he was 25 years old. No one knew he was in there. By the time they found him, his body was cold, there was no pulse. They called a time of death and they zipped him up in a body bag. However, he was watching the entire scene unfold from some sort of place above the dairy queen is how he describes it. He ended up not even realizing that it was his body until he was almost to the hospital, zipped up in a body bag. Not only did he come back, he was then placed in a coma, brain dead for three days. In that time, he experienced an interaction with the world after this one. He came back with 10 very specific messages, re-entered his body and began to live a life as someone with a completely different experience of reality, of consciousness, and of the quantum realm that we are all in. We are thrilled to have Vinnie here in person. Vincent Todd told me, and welcome to the breakdown. Break it down. Thank you. We've heard a variety of NDEs, and we're very, very eager to hear the uniqueness of yours. Before we tell the story or have you tell the story, if you had to tell people one thing that they should prepare to understand from the journey that you went on, what would it be? To understand that what you're thinking is real is not. And that there's a whole other reality that you were tapped into as a child, that you can tap into as an adult. I think where we should start is tell us how you died. Well, I was an amateur bodybuilder this back in. It wasn't like anything I made money off of, but it's definitely a major hobby working out twice today. And me and one of my best friends, we were doing that. And we found this supplement back then that would help your muscle recovery happen like twice as fast. So when you're building muscle, you rip it by lifting, you know, tear that muscle, it repairs itself bigger, and that's how you bulk up. And so we are in a bulk up on our arms, on our chest, on our back. And so we are doing these like really heavy routines and we wanna do them every day, and not wait for the recovery. And you can do that or you could have |
| 5:05.2 | back when this product was still legal. And so we ordered, you know, probably maybe 30 bottles across a year and a half. And all of a sudden it was so popular couldn't get it anywhere anymore. You know, you'd have to go on a waiting list no matter where you ordered. And then product would show up and it would get sold for like 10, you know, $10 on the dollar out the back door. |
| 5:27.8 | No one was getting their orders. |
| 5:29.9 | So. where you ordered and then product would show up and it would get sold for like 10 dollars on the dollar out the back door. No one was getting their orders. So we found some from Thailand. But I had lived in Thailand at one time for a while. So I thought Thailand's safe. You know, they have really good food and drug safety, at least in the manufacturing sector. |
| 5:45.1 | So I thought that's gonna be pretty safe. So we ordered a bottle, but the bottle came with all tie writing on it, and no English. So we cracked that open, we sniffed it, and it smells just like the American stuff, and it's a liquid. You just take a liquid bottle cap. So we both just said, let's do it. We're gonna go do a workout, go get some to eat, go see a car show, |
| 6:07.0 | like some to eat, |
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