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I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
I was in an accident...
I sustained a major brain injury, broken back and rib cage from an accident between a bicycle and moving van...
David W NDE Home Classification NDE 2173 David W NDE 4382 Experience Description The morning after my bypass surgery, the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting...
In early to mid-2003, I was undergoing a considerable amount of stress at work...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
By telephone, I interviewed Rebecca yesterday evening...
Gayle V NDE-Like Experience Home Classification NDE-Like Experience 2194 Gayle V NDE-Like Experience 4396 Experience Description 'I'm Dead'...
On March 1, 2010 around 3:00 pm I am being awakened after a five hour operation...
First of all, I arrived in a cemetery where my father (who died in 2003) was with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens...
I had a lung collapse in 1994, and was hospitalized, no apparent reason other than I had a cold and had a history of asthma, I was eighteen when this happened...
During the birth of my second child, the labor started to go drastically wrong...
