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I was taken unconscious to the hospital at age twelve by an undisclosed illness...
Lois T NDE Home Classification NDE 3008 Lois T NDE 6248 Experience Description We were at a lake in Washington with lots of kids there...
I was a three year old boy playing at the edge of the street with my brother...
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I was riding a motorbike without any helmet on...
Soony NDEs Home Classification NDE 3011 Soony NDEs 6348/16029 Experience Description 16029 First time, I had a near death experience as a teenager when I was drowning in the river...
I was in the bathroom and turned from the sink to the towel bar and the next thing I knew, I was at the ceiling floating...
It was an elective surgery (appendectomy) and I woke up in the middle of the surgery, vomiting and with impaired breathing...
I was drowning and I saw my life flash before my eyes...
In the course of an operation to remove an ovarian cyst, there were complications...
Dear Friends, I am taking this opportunity to relay my uncle’s NDE experience...
We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
I was undergoing surgery during a termination of pregnancy...
