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I don't remember how I got there, but I ended up in a room that was like a waiting room...
Sheryl NDE Home Classification NDE 3278 Sheryl NDE 6615 Experience Description At the time I was twenty-two years old and was struggling to forge my way through college...
I was passing through a bright light...
I broke my back about six years ago in a skydiving accident...
Janie Anesthesia Experience Home Classification Anesthesia 3287 Janie Anesthesia Experience 6631 Experience Description I was having my tonsils out and I woke up in a theater, feeling myself drop my Rupert Bear cuddly toy...
It's been 16 years since my experience and for many years I wasn't able to talk about it out of fear of judgment...
I do not remember what led up to my drowning, but I saw my life flash before my eyes...
After giving birth to my son, I was taken to a room where I passed out because I was bleeding very badly...
I was spending a weekend at the beach in Sète (near Spain on the Med), and I was in a restaurant with my husband, my son and my mother...
I had been feeling pain in my left hip for fifteen years...
All I remember is being up above where the nurses and doctors were working on my body, and looking down and watching...
Helen E NDE Home Classification NDE 3305 Helen E NDE 6664 Experience Description I had been hemorrhaging due to a contraceptive (which soon after was pulled off the market)...
