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I was riding a motorbike without any helmet on...
Soony NDEs Home Classification NDE 3011 Soony NDEs 6348/16029 Experience Description 16029 First time, I had a near death experience as a teenager when I was drowning in the river...
In the course of an operation to remove an ovarian cyst, there were complications...
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...
Rose F NDE Home Classification NDE 3028 Rose F NDE 6269 Experience Description I was in Italy for summer vacation with my mother; her parents resided there and so we spent the whole summer with them...
Vivian M Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3030 Vivian M Probable NDE 6272 Experience Description At age 17, I took some kind of hallucinogen...
I had been in the hospital for two weeks and my cardiologist told me and my parents that my heart was not compatible with living (verbatim)...
Samuel C NDE Home Classification NDE 3047 Samuel C NDE 6284 Experience Description I awoke at about 2 AM, having a powerful thirst...
I had an attack of pancreatitis while at work...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
On or about Jan 31, 1977 I started feeling flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, general weakness and fatigue)...
I was in a tunnel, and I could see a bright light at the end...
