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I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
I was in an accident...
I sustained a major brain injury, broken back and rib cage from an accident between a bicycle and moving van...
David W NDE Home Classification NDE 2173 David W NDE 4382 Experience Description The morning after my bypass surgery, the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting...
My experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
By telephone, I interviewed Rebecca yesterday evening...
In May, I entered the hospital...
Gayle V NDE-Like Experience Home Classification NDE-Like Experience 2194 Gayle V NDE-Like Experience 4396 Experience Description 'I'm Dead'...
During the birth of my second child, the labor started to go drastically wrong...
Jerry M NDE Home Classification NDE 2207 Jerry M NDE 4417 Experience Description My first experience in learning or hearing the same voices I heard and later engaged with during my Out of Body Experience, started when I was six years old...
Michael C NDE Home Classification NDE 2210 Michael C NDE 4422 Experience Description I was in the middle of a heart attack and the medics took me to the nearest hospital (Community North) because it was the nearest medical facility...
