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I have always had a memory that I for sure is before I was born...
For years, I’ve sought to find others who’ve had similar experiences as mine...
Well it started out going to bed like any normal night, i had trouble falling to sleep that night but eventually i did...
My father passed away very suddenly from a heart attack in May 1992, he was only 51 years old...
I was debating if I should post this here because I was on drugs at the time, but I want to share my story of what I experienced...
My physical body was lying on the living room floor curled up and I was in immense pain, then I was up to the ceiling looking down at myself rolling about on the floor holding my stomach, curled up crying with pain, but I, up in the ceiling I felt no pain, ...
I was about midway through a two week leave from Iraq...
Sleeping at night at a friend's home, on the guest couch...
It was December 26th at 6:30 in the morning I laid down to take a few hours nap before my children would be out of bed...
Translation: I was lying down face-up on my living-room sofa doing a relaxation exercise...
I was sitting at a desk facing a wall in a large studio adjacent to the university photolab where I worked part-time, reading Robert Penn Warren's novel *All the King's Men* in preparation for an American literature class scheduled a few hours later...
When I was five years old, I went to the hospital for a noninvasive surgery, in which I was anesthetized with ether...
