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I felt myself float out of my body...
PRIOR TO THE EXPERIENCE I was in the midst of another episode of debilitating depression...
I was at a friend's house with three of my friends...
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I had a complete hysterectomy due to continual cysts, and endometriosis that never ever quit...
Before my experience, I was in a delirium that was apart from stress...
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event...
We were all training on combative techniques...
I was laying in my bed, it was extremely hot and I was having a regular day, nothing out of the extraordinary...
I was lying in bed awake when I 'saw' a black, ropy, roiling mass coming down toward me from a point at my upper left...
Excerpt from my personal essay on the subject published on openeyes1031...
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My mother was a widow when I was born in February 1963, only three weeks after my biological father passed away...
After a day of passing blood, I went to the hospital emergency department...
