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Paula D Daughter NDE Home Classification Second-hand NDE 2147 Paula D Daughter NDE 4335 Experience Description My name is Paula and I am writing this information on behalf of my daughter who had the experience...
I only remember that when we were at the hospital Emergency room, I was floating above my body...
I was in a tunnel with a light at the end of it, a very bright white light...
After getting the image of the emergency medical technicians working on me, I was transcending to a grey whitish light and started to travel through the tunnel...
Joe NDE Home Classification NDE 2151 Joe NDE 4346 Experience Description I experienced a beautiful, tranquil light, feeling of total peace and serenity at the time of the accident...
Michael O NDE Home Classification NDE 2152 Michael O NDE 4349 Experience Description I will start by saying that prior to the event, I was diagnosed with a condition called IGA Nephropathy...
I was stationed aboard the USS Prairie in the Philippines, we had a ship's party on Grande Island there, I was scuba diving for coral, I was almost bitten by a sixteen foot long dark grey shark, I managed to get to shore unharmed I thought, I did not feel t...
I was twelve years old when I had my near death experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
In the midst of the heart attack, I was talking with the emergency medical technician in the ambulance one second, and the next I was somewhere else...
I had just finished a year of teaching kindergarten at a private school in southern Arizona, and was living alone out in the middle of the desert without a phone...
I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
