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I was on a motor scooter and all of a sudden a car appeared in front of us...
Francis R NDE Home Classification NDE 1447 Francis R NDE 161 Experience Description I had just started the fifteenth seizure when everything went black...
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...
I exited my body and saw my relatives around my lifeless body...
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 an unbearable pain, level 12/10...
I was beaten by three aggressors and went into cardiac respiratory failure...
James F NDE Home Classification NDE 1480 James F NDE 118 Experience Description Shortly after eating a large dinner three days before Thanksgiving Day, 1996, I had experienced pains to my chest that was so sharp that it dropped me to my knees...
Working alone...
I awakened from anesthesia but didn't remember nothing about it...
Lee FDE Home Classification FDE 1527 Lee FDE 3458 Experience Description I had an out of body experience right before the impact...
Was on a golf course one night, had fallen, banged head, and the people I was with (only met that evening) thought I was dead...
