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I was lying on a bed and sniffing Protrusuin and I stopped breathing...
I was stationed aboard the USS Prairie in the Philippines, we had a ship's party on Grande Island there, I was scuba diving for coral, I was almost bitten by a sixteen foot long dark grey shark, I managed to get to shore unharmed I thought, I did not feel t...
Mike K NDE Home Classification NDE 2157 Mike K NDE 4356 Experience Description In early 1969 I had an out of body experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
In the midst of the heart attack, I was talking with the emergency medical technician in the ambulance one second, and the next I was somewhere else...
I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
I was in an accident...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
In May, I entered the hospital...
When I had my son I had a very rare case of Preeclampsia which caused my heart to stop beating during delivery of my son...
I wrote this in my journal a few months later; because I was afraid I would 'lose it' as one loses a dream...
Trevor J Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2195 Trevor J Probable NDE 4539 Experience Description Paranormal experience 19/20th March 2007 On the evening of 19th march 2007 for some reason, I fell into a state of unconsciousness on my bed as I p...
