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I had just stepped out to take a walk with my wife after we had an argument...
Below is the experience I had which I wrote down about 2 years after it happened...
The incident happened in 1979, when I was 15 years old...
In the year my story took place I was doing research and teaching at a university situated in the mountains of the province where I was born...
I was driving in my car and was experiencing much emotional distress when I experienced the sensation of an invisible arm sweep down from above me and across my face very fast, and then plunged with great force into my chest...
I was driving down a road, when someone crossed into my lane, hit me head-on...
Prior to NDE: I started smoking cannabis from age 15 recreationally, by time I was 17 I began noticing that it had strange effects on my mind and body...
I remember hearing my wife shouting, 'Stay with me...
It was supposed to be a simple hysterectomy...
I was going through one of the most difficult times of my life, married with 2 children and threatened with the possibility of unemployment 2 years prior to reaching retirement age...
I was sleeping and dreaming one morning and then it became lucid and instantly I thought of wanting to get out of my body...
This is not an experience but something I vaguely remember before being born...
