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In the middle of my surgery I woke up, looked at the doctor and told him that what he was doing hurt...
I remember the very bright purple and white lights...
Marta G NDE Home Classification NDE 2037 Marta G NDE 4160 Experience Description I was only five and could not swim...
Marta Y NDE Home Classification NDE 2094 Marta Y NDE 4251 Experience Description March 13, 1985, I was admitted to Ayala Hospital of the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social - publicly-funded) in Guadalajara, following an accident in a taxi causing me...
William M NDE Home Classification Shared NDE 2099 William M NDE 4269 Experience Description I was driving on the Queen Elizabeth Way from Buffalo to Welland, Ontario, after being very tired from working a 40 hour day job and 4 or 5 music projects...
I was in a rollover accident on a busy major highway, on my way home from a two day shopping trip...
Intense pain, loud noise, swiftly extracted through the top of my head to the uppermost left-hand corner of the ceiling of the surgical suite...
All I remembered was the sensation of almost being pulled into a vacuum that seemed like a tunnel...
It was a beautiful fall day November 2, 2003...
I was admitted to the hospital around September 1969...
Nilda P NDE Home Classification NDE 2662 Nilda P NDE 5123 Experience Description I was on the way to my weekly volunteer work, a job done with acupuncturists, when I started to feel ill, I couldn't concentrate myself, I had shortness of air, disorientation ...
I was a baby...
