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I was riding my bicycle and I felt...
My out of body experience surrounded several days of pain and sickness with an un-diagnosed ruptured appendix...
I had already had severe asphyxiation episodes which had led to unconsciousness...
I was five years old...
Even if I was so young when I had the experience I still remember as if it happened yesterday and still feel how it felt during the experience...
As I was fighting to stay afloat in the freezing temperature of the water, I could feel the weight of my boats pulling me under...
Debbie B NDE Home Classification NDE 2672 Debbie B NDE 5134 Experience Description In my first experience, I remember opening my eyes and seeing my husband standing a distance from me...
I felt the presence of my dead father in the theatre room when I realized that the anesthetic was not working on me...
Well, it was the winter of 1977...
I was young – twenty years old...
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I was admitted for surgery on an ascending appendicitis, which means the appendix was lodged between the kidneys and the liver, and was difficult to see on a scan...
Niel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2711 Niel L NDE 5191 Experience Description When I was four, I went to the swimming pool alone to get some coins I had seen at the bottom...
