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I was shot in the mouth by a gun from 12 feet away...
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Prior to NDE: I started smoking cannabis from age 15 recreationally, by time I was 17 I began noticing that it had strange effects on my mind and body...
I was down on the floor, on my hands and knees...
My experience took place in the delivery room while giving birth to a ten pound baby...
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It all began when dozens of times when I would wake up in the night feeling “something” I want to call or nickname as my soul...
It was supposed to be a simple hysterectomy...
I was being prepped for a root canal...
sleeping felt light and slowly detached from my body I was frightened at that time then floated in the rooms of the house then back into the body where I felt safe Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience...
When I was sixteen years old, I had an operation on my hip...
It all started when I was trying to have a Dream Initiated Lucid Dream...
In September of 1994, I had a mild cold prior to my experience...
I was going through one of the most difficult times of my life, married with 2 children and threatened with the possibility of unemployment 2 years prior to reaching retirement age...
