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I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
I remember being somewhere where it was very bright...
V NDE Home Classification NDE 1866 V NDE 3928 Experience Description I remember it being a lovely day, weather-wise, and I was very happy that my mother was allowing me to take a nap in my parent's bed, rather than my own, which was on the floor and hard...
Since my memory being what it is (bad) I am going to tell you what I recall from my own vantage point and also what the others have told me (mother, father, brother, doctors)...
I was on the roof of an apartment that was under construction...
How can I describe this with words...
There was a white bright light, very chilly weather - I lost my consciousness...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
It was in August 1988, on holiday on the banks of the Loire with my girlfriend at the time, whom I was fed up with (we broke up two months later after a four-year relationship)...
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
I was slowly aware of a light ahead of me...
I was a stewardess at the time...
