The experience archive
Search first-person accounts. Follow an element, a feeling, or a question.
Accounts from NDERF, OBERF, and ADCRF. Each story belongs to the person who lived it.
Share your experienceA weekly collection of experiences and research worth spending time with.
Browse Experiences
How can I help?
Ask about NDEs, research, or this page
For weeks I had been feeling painful tugging and cramping in my lower left abdomen...
I had a serious liver disease and I was taken to the hospital by my sister...
Douglas H NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2837 Douglas H NDEs 6014 Experience Description The first time, I fell three stories and had some serious head injuries...
Before the experience I was vomiting and sweating, and then I passed out...
I was hiking with a friend in the Bowness River valley and we decided to climb up from the valley via a very steep hill...
The doctor came in and talked to me...
A day before this happened to me, I was in a bookstore in Orlando, Florida where I was living at that time...
I had the morning before said to my husband that I loved him and if anything happened to me that he was to keep on doing things as he did...
I must have been recovering from the double pneumonia or perhaps was still ill; I know this because my mother was obviously watching me quite closely or she wouldn't have been alarmed when she looked at me sleeping that morning...
Contains sensitive content
Marie NDE Home Classification NDE 2849 Marie NDE 6029 Experience Description I remember me above my body floating...
I had drowned and found myself in a dark place where I felt I was being pushed and pulled...
Anna L NDE Home Classification NDE 2857 Anna L NDE 5373 Experience Description I lost my sensory connection with my surroundings...
