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
It was 103 degrees outside and I was lucky to be wearing jeans this 25th day of June, 2003...
I lived in Zimbabwe, Africa and was driving back to boarding school with my cousin in the front passenger seat and two friends in the rear of the vehicle...
Dixie E NDE Home Classification NDE 1121 Dixie E NDE 3125 Experience Description According to the registered nurse, an old lady visiting someone in the hospital (Darien) saw me sitting in my car, looking 'dead...
My heart stopped and I left my body through my head...
In 1975 I was traveling on a road that runs parallel to Highway 2, North of Fort Lewis...
I was traveling down a city street in a compact rent-a-car at about 40 mph when my car blew a tire and the vehicle I was in spun out and ended up on the other side of the road facing the wrong direction...
I was little at the time, I think 9 or 10, but I could have been younger...
Philippe R NDE Home Classification NDE 1135 Philippe R NDE 3156 Experience Description I was spending my holidays with my parents at my mother's uncle and aunt's place, in Toulon...
Chuck K NDE Home Classification NDE 1137 Chuck K NDE 3290 Experience Description Just another cold January day in 1998, receiving another series of allergy injections for wasps...
I awoke in the light, experiencing all the emotions I had caused others to feel in my life here...
The Harbor...
My Uncle Carl (who had just returned from the Korean War) was living with us and offered to take us children swimming at Percy Quinn State Park, Pike County, Mississippi...
