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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I remember the beginning of the dream. There emerged our of deep-sleep darkness, luminous orange ovals against deep brown. The orange morphed into moist peeled carrots on tilled earth. Sensing a prese...
When I was young, I had a near death experience. It is what happened after this, which is otherworldly. Since then I received gifts, which I only realized much later in life. Many non-earthly things h...
Last weekend congruent with my experience, I attended an ecumenical retreat in which representatives of all religions of the world were invited. This allowed me to experience the unity between men and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The experience began as a dream. My dreams have always been vivid and some have been lucid. I had been having lucid dreams before my NDE, though at the time I didn't know what they were. (It's also wo...
I was at work at about 9:00 am on a Saturday morning in the spring of 1984. I was assembling a large piece of machinery (a huge clothes washing machine). The machine was almost complete and I was work...
I had a bad cold, but no other known health problems. I was just a kid, about 8 years old. I was standing in the bathroom before the mirror and my mom was applying Vicks Vaporub to my chest. There was...