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The surgery was scheduled for afternoon, they laid me on the operating table and the anesthesiologist gave me the anesthesia, I saw that other people entered the operating room I think they were nurses and nurses' aides...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
‘Bring your son into the examining room, the doctor will be there shortly’ the young nurse instructed...
I left work around 9:30 pm...
After I was shot, I ran about a hundred yards...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I remember being somewhere where it was very bright...
I was born with a rare heart disease (Tricuspid Atresia)...
I was twelve years old and on a vacation with my family...
I was standing on a moving swing and fell down after a girl shook the swing (and I wasn't holding myself to anything)...
I saw a girl in the hospital bed and knew that she was very ill and dying...
