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I was a young street racer...
I don't remember how I got there, but I ended up in a room that was like a waiting room...
Sheryl NDE Home Classification NDE 3278 Sheryl NDE 6615 Experience Description At the time I was twenty-two years old and was struggling to forge my way through college...
Before the experience: My mum, stepdad, grandmother, and I, were returning from home on Christmas day, 1979...
I have no direct recall of the death during the surgery, but afterwards while recovering in the hospital ward I was haunted by an image and memory that I tried to capture in a drawing with color crayons...
Thomas A ICU Home Classification ICU 3284 Thomas A ICU 6561 Experience Description 6561 I was raised in church and I know I have failed God a lot of my life, but I always did want to serve God...
I broke my back about six years ago in a skydiving accident...
At the time, my wife was suffering from liver failure, but I knew nothing about it...
Janie Anesthesia Experience Home Classification Anesthesia 3287 Janie Anesthesia Experience 6631 Experience Description I was having my tonsils out and I woke up in a theater, feeling myself drop my Rupert Bear cuddly toy...
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...
Probable NDE due to auto accident at age 17 in Singapore...
Todd N NDE Home Classification NDE 3292 Todd N NDE 6638 Experience Description It was a hot summer day in Florida...
