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Frank G NDE/ADC Home Classification NDE 2012 Frank G NDE/ADC 31670 Experience Description On Aug 2...
I was on holiday and ended up in hospital with a twisted bowel, which had been left for some considerable time, when they decided to do an emergency operation on me...
Robert T NDE Home Classification NDE 2018 Robert T NDE 4129 Experience Description I was moving towards a wall of bright lights and in front of me were hundreds of people moving with me...
I had a very bad kidney infection, running 105 fever...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
Ricardo FV NDE Home Classification NDE 2023 Ricardo FV NDE 4170 Experience Description On 28th April, 1984, which was a Sunday, I awoke early, feeling very relaxed...
At the time this happened I had been living in a tent city for contractors in Beaumont after hurricane Ike...
Tim B Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2032 Tim B Possible NDE 4151 Experience Description I recall that it was like a portion of me floated out of my body and was looking down at myself on the bed...
Nannci R Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2036 Nannci R Possible NDE 4157 Experience Description I found myself travelling down the tunnel, I was floating, couldn't see myself (my human body) but felt I had some type of 'other' body...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
The details of my near-death experience are just as vivid today as they were in 1964...
