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I had been sick for six weeks and was in a lot of emotional pain...
I had an automobile accident while I was driving alone...
I was surfing on a boogie board in Hawaii...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
Michaele S NDE Home Classification NDE 2823 Michaele S NDE 5363 Experience Description I was driving my 9 year old daughter home from the dentist and she was sleeping on the seat beside me...
Before the experience I was vomiting and sweating, and then I passed out...
I was suffering from an attack of kidney stones for the third time that week, and a new doctor came in and said, 'I'm going to give you the maximum pain reliever that you can take, for your weight: 250 mg of a mixture of morphine and Demerol...
NDE, but predominant experience happened a few days later during meditation-like state...
I had just finished a long semester of school and went to visit a friend...
It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
The first thing that I remember is I was being confined or locked up in a room, unsure of where I was, and someone was taking care me and administered a shot...
My near death experience: It had been a strange day...
