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I was twenty-one and was with my then boyfriend in a hotel, in Paris...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
My boyfriend at the time was driving the truck...
I was twelve years old and on a vacation with my family...
I had been seriously ill for several weeks, but the doctors didn't acknowledge that...
I did not see myself getting out of my body nor floating above it, I just remember going into a wide and long tunnel, like entering a train tunnel...
Adaline C NDE Home Classification NDE 1862 Adaline C NDE 3920 Experience Description At age twenty-four I encounter a problem with my then boyfriend...
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I was in surgery at the time...
Leta NDE Home Classification NDE 1865 Leta NDE 3923 Experience Description I woke up at 4:00 am...
V NDE Home Classification NDE 1866 V NDE 3928 Experience Description I remember it being a lovely day, weather-wise, and I was very happy that my mother was allowing me to take a nap in my parent's bed, rather than my own, which was on the floor and hard...
