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I was driving in my car and was experiencing much emotional distress when I experienced the sensation of an invisible arm sweep down from above me and across my face very fast, and then plunged with great force into my chest...
For a period of time I had the ability to take myself out of my body at bedtime...
Prior to NDE: I started smoking cannabis from age 15 recreationally, by time I was 17 I began noticing that it had strange effects on my mind and body...
It all began when dozens of times when I would wake up in the night feeling “something” I want to call or nickname as my soul...
I was going through one of the most difficult times of my life, married with 2 children and threatened with the possibility of unemployment 2 years prior to reaching retirement age...
I was sleeping and dreaming one morning and then it became lucid and instantly I thought of wanting to get out of my body...
This is not an experience but something I vaguely remember before being born...
It was Lunar New Year Eve, and my family got together to play Mahjong till past midnight...
When I was 13 I had a horrible dream...
-occurred at around 4:00 am, felt electric tingles throughout my body, waves going up and down...
I was practicing a concentration technique and I saw a bright white light like a star attracting to the core of it...
Prior to the experience, I collapsed from overwhelming stress caused by conflicts at work, overworking, and severe depression...
