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I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
The day had been an emotionally difficult one, as my mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer...
I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
NDE at 6 years old: (Thanks to Barb Schmidt and Meera Jacka, Australia, for the Translation) I had to undergo a tonsillectomy...
The doctor came in and talked to me...
I had been feeling ill and in pain for weeks...
I had drowned and found myself in a dark place where I felt I was being pushed and pulled...
The first event in 1998 was when I had an allergic reaction to a medication I was taking...
Maria GP Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2874 Maria GP Possible NDE 5378 Experience Description I had been in pain for many hours and could not achieve dilation...
This experience happened to me more than 60 years ago...
We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
Ramon Probable NDE Home Classification NDE 3099 Ramon Probable NDE 6320 Experience Description It was around 5 pm on that day in October 2004 that I felt very tired...
