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I felt like I woke up and saw my body lying in the pool...
I was a silhouette of dark grey with light grey surrounding the whole area, except for the bright light that seemed to be heading up...
Frank G NDE/ADC Home Classification NDE 2012 Frank G NDE/ADC 31670 Experience Description On Aug 2...
I was on holiday and ended up in hospital with a twisted bowel, which had been left for some considerable time, when they decided to do an emergency operation on me...
Gina D NDE Home Classification NDE 2016 Gina D NDE 4123 Experience Description I bled out (twice) after childbirth, flat-lined...
Benjamin H NDE Home Classification NDE 2017 Benjamin H NDE 4127 Experience Description My squad was out on patrol, and I was in a Humvee...
Robert T NDE Home Classification NDE 2018 Robert T NDE 4129 Experience Description I was moving towards a wall of bright lights and in front of me were hundreds of people moving with me...
All of this happened during my camping trip, in the camping cabin surrounded by four of my friends in Vladivostok, Russia...
Linda's Book: "Time To Believe: A Life and a Near-Death Experience Click Here My story is very long but the events leading up to the near death experience are as important as are the events that took place after the experience...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
Ricardo FV NDE Home Classification NDE 2023 Ricardo FV NDE 4170 Experience Description On 28th April, 1984, which was a Sunday, I awoke early, feeling very relaxed...
I was critically ill, had surgery and within twenty-four hours I was septic and went into adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and placed on a ventilator...
