A man who was clinically dead for seven minutes has recounted his extraordinary visions from ‘the other side’.

The astronomer was hospitalised in March due to breathing difficulties. It was there he suffered a lung haemorrhage, leading to cardiac arrest and the urgent ‘code blue’ call signalling a life-threatening medical crisis.

Sharing his story on Reddit, he said: “It took the doctors seven minutes to get my heart started again. During that time, I had a stroke due to the lack of oxygen in…