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On January 27, 1997, while in my local hospital, I suffered a cardiac arrest...
I was driving in an ice storm and a huge truck was sitting across the highway and I could not stop...
I lost consciousness in the hospital emergency room, stopped breathing...
I had been having intense fever for three days with great bodily pain and a rapid heartbeat...
While stopped in the breakdown lane due to engine failure, I was rear-ended by a car doing sixty-five miles per hour...
Burnie A NDE Home Classification NDE 1422 Burnie A NDE 205 Experience Description When I was unconscious I felt like I was watching a play, I was traveling to different places, some fields, riverbeds, and my home...
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Pluma S NDE Home Classification NDE 1440 Pluma S NDE 179 Experience Description My boyfriend at the time got some cocaine, and said I couldn't do any unless I did it like he did, with a needle...
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I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
It was May 5th and I was in my private room on the ninth floor of the University of Cincinnati Hospital recovering from a surgery to remove my first and second rib...
Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions which were much stronger than at any other time...
It was a very hot and sunny day...
