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The first time I had an OBE, It I was with a friend in his garage...
I was in a dark area, like in a room...
My first out of body experience happened while I was hanging out with my friend in his garage...
I was on a group, mountain biking ride in a remote part of San Mateo County and about 20 miles south of San Francisco...
After a day of passing blood, I went to the hospital emergency department...
I was a fairly naive and innocent teenager...
I am an experienced emergency medicine physician...
Before: On Saturday, July 20th, 2013 I was at a music festival with friends in Ohio...
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My older sister decided she didn't want me in the tree house...
Before the experience: For two weeks I'd been sick, not feeling too well in my stomach and when eating feeling dizziness, eventually starting having episodes of melancholy about life and my ill feelings lasting around an hour or so at a time and making me d...
I wrote of my experience in a 2019 story for Medium, as follows: I Know Something You (Probably) Don’t Know But I’m going to tell you what it is...
Cara's Experience Home Page Share Experience New Experiences Experience description: My very first one I was 6 years old and was playing in my mothers room standing in front of her bed facing it with a dresser to my back, all of a sudden I got dizzy, but ye...
