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My story started when I was having dinner at home...
Vincent K NDE Home Classification NDE 2548 Vincent K NDE 4936 Experience Description About five minutes into my recovery period from a stress-test on an exercise bike, my eyesight began to cloud over, starting from the outside corners...
My dad and some of his friends were in a garage working on a car, they were in the front by the walk in door which was open at the time...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
My experience started with a terrible pain in my chest, followed by a sinking, falling feeling...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
This is from my book and in a way, my editor toned it down but it conveys much of what happened...
Jean C NDE Home Classification NDE 2567 Jean C NDE 4982 Experience Description My mother took me to the dentist when I was seven...
I spent a year in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Division...
I was standing in the hallway of my house and started to see little black dots that gradually closed in my field of vision until my heart stopped and I stopped breathing...
