The experience archive
Search first-person accounts. Follow an element, a feeling, or a question.
Accounts from NDERF, OBERF, and ADCRF. Each story belongs to the person who lived it.
Share your experienceA weekly collection of experiences and research worth spending time with.
Browse Experiences
How can I help?
Ask about NDEs, research, or this page
I was standing on a pier four inches above a body of water...
At age seven, while swimming (I had not really learned yet) in a motel swimming pool, I found I could not get my head above water...
Jose MO NDE Home Classification NDE 1682 José MO NDE 3653 Experience Description My brother and I were in my bedroom watching a movie we were really enjoying...
I was swimming in the 'Young Men's Christian Association' (YMCA) pool...
Contains sensitive content
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
I was a Combat Marine, in a battle in which certain death seemed imminent...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
I started playing the 'choking game'...
Contains sensitive content
Sunday afternoon on a beautiful sunny day in Georgia, my family and friends were at a local lake...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
