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When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
This experience happened sometime between the time I lost control of my motorcycle and three and half days later when I came out of the coma...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
My first experience was a feeling of floating...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
As I was put in an ambulance, I was above watching what was going on...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
Even if I was so young when I had the experience I still remember as if it happened yesterday and still feel how it felt during the experience...
As I was fighting to stay afloat in the freezing temperature of the water, I could feel the weight of my boats pulling me under...
