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Jason N NDE Home Classification NDE 1838 Jason N NDE 3888 Experience Description I was woke up by someone I did not know...
I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
‘Bring your son into the examining room, the doctor will be there shortly’ the young nurse instructed...
After I was shot, I ran about a hundred yards...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
I was standing on a moving swing and fell down after a girl shook the swing (and I wasn't holding myself to anything)...
I had been seriously ill for several weeks, but the doctors didn't acknowledge that...
