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It was the beginning of the Christmas holiday where I worked...
I was walking down a path in an obvious direction away from a starting point...
Sylvia R NDE Home Classification NDE 2079 Sylvia R NDE 4248 Experience Description A surgeon had performed a hysterectomy on me and I was being wheeled to my room...
It was a boring Saturday night, just after a city celebration called 'Crazy Water Festival', where it had rained all day...
I was taken to a very nice garden-like place with fine grass to walk in...
This is my amazing NDE...
I remember at the gas station where I was shot looking down and seeing my internal organs lying in the ground and knowing that death was soon upon me before I passed out...
Alan M FDE Home Classification FDE 2705 Alan M FDE 5181 Experience Description The experience is most difficult to put into words...
I had been drinking with friends and started to feel light headed...
NDE, but predominant experience happened a few days later during meditation-like state...
It's been 16 years since my experience and for many years I wasn't able to talk about it out of fear of judgment...
Frank G FDE Home Classification FDE 3339 Frank G FDE 6714 Experience Description It all started when I was alone at Christmas time again and I was due to go to Nepal to climb in the Himalaya and so I wanted to break in my new pair of high altitude climbing ...
