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I was in an IBM sales class when I experienced heart failure...
Robert S NDE Home Classification NDE 2231 Robert S NDE 4454 Experience Description Upon passing out in the shower I fell forward and struck my face between the eyes on a small retaining wall between the shower and bathroom floor...
As a child of approximately 5 years, I went to a lake with my parents and a married couple, who were friends of theirs...
After the motor vehicle accident, I was brought to the hospital via ambulance and have no recall of that...
Paul H Probable NDEs Home Classification Probable NDE 2289 Paul H Probable NDEs 4549 Experience Description 1954, 1997 - Both experience of void and reaching incredible light, all colors, almost to boundary line...
Julian D NDE Home Classification NDE 2317 Julian D NDE 4592 Experience Description I was forlorn in my life and had wanted to die...
Carlos A FDE Home Classification FDE 2324 Carlos A FDE 4602 Experience Description One night I was driving on a two way single lane road in Florida after being tired from studying all night the night before for a graduate school exam...
It was a normal day...
It was afternoon and I had a different type of oxygen supply to my body...
I was 11 years old in 1966 when the accident happened...
I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
Jim B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2365 Jim B Probable NDE 4669 Experience Description In October 2009, I was in critical condition with the H1N1 Flu...
