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I stole my dad's car and drag raced a friend on a back road...
It was as though I was stuck in a clean, approximately eight feet diameter, pipe with the brightest white light at one end and completely pitch dark at the other end...
During basic training in the army I became sick which was later diagnosed as a pneumonia...
Cyndi G NDE Home Classification NDE 1596 Cyndi G NDE 21780 Experience Description I was at the hospital having a second heart valve replacement done in six months...
On passing out I felt a sudden rush past many people's faces...
Ryland D FDE Home Classification FDE 1608 Ryland D FDE 3576 Experience Description When I got sucked into the drainpipe, the instant I knew I was in trouble, my life flashed before my eyes not like a movie with scenes in it...
I was four years old...
Baghdad, 21 October, 1996...
I don't have any clear memory of the accident, of the rescue, of the helicopter flight...
Russell P NDE Home Classification NDE 1703 Russell P NDE 3705 Experience Description I felt my breathing slowing, and then stopping...
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As I was on the floor and the blows just kept coming, I held my breath; thinking that my back would stop going up and down and they would think that I was dead or passed out...
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Hazeliene M NDE Home Classification NDE 1720 Hazeliene M NDE 3725 Experience Description I was at home and about to play my favorite online game when I suddenly found it very difficult to breath...
