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My mother and I had traveled back to India to visit our homeland...
I was driving in my car and was experiencing much emotional distress when I experienced the sensation of an invisible arm sweep down from above me and across my face very fast, and then plunged with great force into my chest...
I am a meditation practitioner of 5 years...
For a period of time I had the ability to take myself out of my body at bedtime...
A set of what seemed to be personal synchronicities led me to a moment of complete surrender and I asked to go home...
Prior to NDE: I started smoking cannabis from age 15 recreationally, by time I was 17 I began noticing that it had strange effects on my mind and body...
My experience took place in the delivery room while giving birth to a ten pound baby...
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It all began when dozens of times when I would wake up in the night feeling “something” I want to call or nickname as my soul...
I was being prepped for a root canal...
sleeping felt light and slowly detached from my body I was frightened at that time then floated in the rooms of the house then back into the body where I felt safe Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience...
It all started when I was trying to have a Dream Initiated Lucid Dream...
I was going through one of the most difficult times of my life, married with 2 children and threatened with the possibility of unemployment 2 years prior to reaching retirement age...
