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I was riding my bike in the middle of the day in an area that had no trees (it was just planted farmland)...
It was a Friday night and it was dark...
At the time this happened I had been living in a tent city for contractors in Beaumont after hurricane Ike...
I was critically ill, had surgery and within twenty-four hours I was septic and went into adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and placed on a ventilator...
I was walking around the baby pool...
Tim B Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2032 Tim B Possible NDE 4151 Experience Description I recall that it was like a portion of me floated out of my body and was looking down at myself on the bed...
First I have to explain I'm a type 1 diabetic...
I was in my grandmother's kitchen...
Nannci R Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2036 Nannci R Possible NDE 4157 Experience Description I found myself travelling down the tunnel, I was floating, couldn't see myself (my human body) but felt I had some type of 'other' body...
It was Friday, October 9th...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
The details of my near-death experience are just as vivid today as they were in 1964...
