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I was leaving my mother's home and stopped to get gas...
Mike K NDE Home Classification NDE 2157 Mike K NDE 4356 Experience Description In early 1969 I had an out of body experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
In the midst of the heart attack, I was talking with the emergency medical technician in the ambulance one second, and the next I was somewhere else...
I had just finished a year of teaching kindergarten at a private school in southern Arizona, and was living alone out in the middle of the desert without a phone...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
I had spent about twenty-four hours in extreme discomfort from pressure in my chest and after taking a shower I packed a small bag with essentials and sat as quietly as possible waiting for daylight to call 911...
I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
I was in an accident...
David W NDE Home Classification NDE 2173 David W NDE 4382 Experience Description The morning after my bypass surgery, the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting...
In early to mid-2003, I was undergoing a considerable amount of stress at work...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
