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 had been struggling to breathe for about 24 hours...
After my heart stopped, I was awake and sitting in the transfusion chair...
When I was twenty-five, I had a second occurrence of parotid mixed tumors...
My experience began the day before the near-death event...
I remember once I came to from having been unconscious that I had this feeling, this urgent need to let go...
Jason N NDE Home Classification NDE 1838 Jason N NDE 3888 Experience Description I was woke up by someone I did not know...
I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I saw a girl in the hospital bed and knew that she was very ill and dying...
I was in surgery at the time...
I'm not sure where to begin with trying to describe my experience, so I think the best place is probably from the beginning...
Contains sensitive content
In 2000 I was shot in the right temple point blank with a twenty-two caliber handgun...
