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
It was New Year's Day evening...
I was at a friend's get together and everyone had been drinking at around 12:30 at night I was extremely hungry, everyone there was eating cookies...
Contains sensitive content
I was leaving an art show at the local art gallery that I had put together for the artists I was acting as agent for when I was struck in the middle of a busy intersection by a car...
I still don't know whether it was caused by the anesthesia or if I was truly dying...
I've had contrast during magnetic resonance imaging's seven or eight times before so there was no reason to think of having any problems...
It was a summer day in July or August, as I remember although I'm not sure...
I had gone up to Madrid on work-related business and there, in my hotel, I started feeling ill...
The experience that changed my life: In March 1987, I didn't feel well...
I was playing in my high chair and it tipped over causing me to hit my head on the floor...
The car that was transporting us broke down in front of a small cemetery...
I felt like having been thrown into space with a perfect vision of moving away from the earth and entering into a very bright light...
I was admitted to hospital with acute abdominal pain, the surgeon performed an emergency laparotomy (stomach inspection)...
