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I was twenty-one and was with my then boyfriend in a hotel, in Paris...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
I was in the recovery room of a hospital after having a minor surgical procedure that required a general anesthetic...
After I was shot, I ran about a hundred yards...
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 hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
My boyfriend at the time was driving the truck...
I was born with a rare heart disease (Tricuspid Atresia)...
I saw a girl in the hospital bed and knew that she was very ill and dying...
I was in surgery at the time...
V NDE Home Classification NDE 1866 V NDE 3928 Experience Description I remember it being a lovely day, weather-wise, and I was very happy that my mother was allowing me to take a nap in my parent's bed, rather than my own, which was on the floor and hard...
