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I was age 15 and having an operation...
I must say that I have thought about it enough to publish what I am going to relate, either out of shame and stigmatization due to the environment or circumstances which caused the experience to occur, or because of the fear of being singled out...
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I had struggled with episodes of extremely rapid heartrate at a young age...
For some time I was interested in paranormal/spiritual experiences...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
I have no description for what happened...
So I was driving home and on a little road by night, at one moment I just became more and more aware of the world and of my life and while I was asking questions, the answers were immediate...
I want to preface my experience by telling you about two earlier NDEs I had as a child, and to explain the events of my childhood that led up to my main NDE story...
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I remember the beginning of the dream...
At age 16, I had attempted suicide by taking an entire bottle of pills with with half a bottle of long island ice tea (an alcoholic mixed drink)...
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The first night at home I was so tired that I don't remember anything...
I experienced something more real than Earth, Heaven or Hell, and something beyond any religion...
