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First experience: I was in a car accident while driving with my four children...
My friend and I were driving down an old two lane road heading into Fresno...
While having a heart attack and being in the doctor's clinic and being attended to, I saw an extremely bright light and experienced a great calming and thought to myself that I was going to die and thought 'Well, this is going to be a new experience...
This is my amazing NDE...
When I was fourteen, I went to visit friends for the weekend...
The light was green...
I was sixteen years old...
Francisco J NDE Home Classification NDE 2703 Francisco J NDE 5128 Experience Description There was a wall next to a swing, and I jumped from this wall to grab the cross-bar of the swing...
Alan M FDE Home Classification FDE 2705 Alan M FDE 5181 Experience Description The experience is most difficult to put into words...
My mother, brother and I were staying in a guest house next to the hospital where they were treating me, and every day I'd go over there and would have my blood taken and my condition monitored...
I had been in cardiac arrest for eighteen minutes...
After the accident occurred, I was trapped under a Toyota Tundra truck...
