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In November 2009, I was admitted to a Katy, Texas hospital with ventricular tachycardia...
My experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
By telephone, I interviewed Rebecca yesterday evening...
In May, I entered the hospital...
I was at a camp ground that had a large pond for swimming; muddy old thing and there were fish in it...
I wrote this in my journal a few months later; because I was afraid I would 'lose it' as one loses a dream...
Gayle V NDE-Like Experience Home Classification NDE-Like Experience 2194 Gayle V NDE-Like Experience 4396 Experience Description 'I'm Dead'...
Charles D NDE Home Classification NDE 2201 Charles D NDE 4411 Experience Description I had been taking medication for my heart and blood pressure...
I'm not sure if time slowed down, or that my thoughts and cognitive processes were so incredibly fast...
During the birth of my second child, the labor started to go drastically wrong...
Jerry M NDE Home Classification NDE 2207 Jerry M NDE 4417 Experience Description My first experience in learning or hearing the same voices I heard and later engaged with during my Out of Body Experience, started when I was six years old...
