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Pain and fear of something that was happening inside me...
Every time I begin to tell the story one more time I am grasped by the numbness I seem to feel...
I was walking upstairs from our apartment to go outside...
I was on a motor scooter and all of a sudden a car appeared in front of us...
I felt dizzy while I was speaking on the phone, sitting in a chair in my room at the hospital...
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...
Attila D FDE Home Classification FDE 1980 Attila D FDE 4106 Experience Description I had only passed my car driving test for a couple of weeks, but my dad let me drive his car as I never owned my own car at the time...
I was eleven years old...
I was sitting around talking with friends when I felt my heart speed up faster and faster and then stop...
I found myself in a very long area, quite narrow for me at the beginning, with lots of people in the distance, gray shade silhouettes of different intensities, according to the distance where I perceived them, turning more and more grey, and finally white a...
After the motor vehicle accident, I was brought to the hospital via ambulance and have no recall of that...
My near death experience happened in the early 1990's...
