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I heard a melody and I saw heavenly people floating in the air...
I was passing through a bright light...
I have no direct recall of the death during the surgery, but afterwards while recovering in the hospital ward I was haunted by an image and memory that I tried to capture in a drawing with color crayons...
I broke my back about six years ago in a skydiving accident...
At the time, my wife was suffering from liver failure, but I knew nothing about it...
Janie Anesthesia Experience Home Classification Anesthesia 3287 Janie Anesthesia Experience 6631 Experience Description I was having my tonsils out and I woke up in a theater, feeling myself drop my Rupert Bear cuddly toy...
Probable NDE due to auto accident at age 17 in Singapore...
After giving birth to my son, I was taken to a room where I passed out because I was bleeding very badly...
All of a sudden I got an allergic reaction that made me behave like a monster...
Dharam S NDE Home Classification NDE 3296 Dharam S NDE 6645 Experience Description I was a disk jockey (DJ) at the time and worked spinning at Hollywood after-hours parties until 6am in the morning and stayed up much later to party with roommates, friends, ...
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Helen E NDE Home Classification NDE 3305 Helen E NDE 6664 Experience Description I had been hemorrhaging due to a contraceptive (which soon after was pulled off the market)...
I was given too much anesthetic and found myself falling down a grey tunnel...
