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The Light
The iconic NDE element: a brilliant, loving light at the end of a tunnel or surrounding the experiencer with warmth and peace.
The iconic NDE element: a brilliant, loving light at the end of a tunnel or surrounding the experiencer with warmth and peace.
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Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions wh...
I was in an extreme emotional state. I had periodically suffered bouts of depression but this time I was unable to work myself out of it. I was not on any medication, nor had it ever occurred to me to...
At the time of this experience, I was in a very depressed period of my life. Following a work related injury, I had already undergone one back surgery and was scheduled for a second. Simultaneously my...
EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION My experience began during a failed nap. I was unable to sleep so I began to meditate. I felt normal sensations of deep relaxation. Heaviness, weightlessness and movies on a scr...
I underwent surgery for papillary cancer. The moment I awoke from the anaesthesia, it was difficult. I just wanted to cry and I couldn't understand why I couldn't move. It was the first time I had had...
I had been visiting family, up late, having gone to bed around 12:30 a.m. I woke up almost 2 hours later having horrible leg cramps. I got up to walk around, glanced at the clock and it was 2:22 a.m. ...
Two nurses came into my hospital room to help me sit up for the first time since my injury and subsequent surgical repair. Just as they had helped me sit up on the edge of my bed, I passed out or fain...
Petra J NDE Home Classification NDE 3587 Petra J NDE 7012 Experience Description It was Friday morning of May 1992, two weeks before my 17th birthday. I woke up feeling bad, thus I did not go to schoo...
I woke up at 5am with the full moon shining in between the slats of the blinds in my room. I got up, opened the blinds and admired the moon then, I went back to bed and fell asleep. While I was dreami...
It happened August 29th on Friday afternoon 1997. I stood with a shovel on the slope along the east side of my home where I had begun digging up grass to start a new garden. I stopped for awhile and l...
I saw and heard my husband cry and did not understand the reason. For me, everything was going to pass and I was well. I said to him: 'Manuel, I'm well! It’s over!' He didn’t hear me. I insisted. He w...
I experienced death attacking me several times in a form of a tidal wave while I was resting in the beach. The wave could hit the beach several times but once it was about to cover my head it subsided...