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I was in a tunnel with a light at the end of it, a very bright white light...
After getting the image of the emergency medical technicians working on me, I was transcending to a grey whitish light and started to travel through the tunnel...
Joe NDE Home Classification NDE 2151 Joe NDE 4346 Experience Description I experienced a beautiful, tranquil light, feeling of total peace and serenity at the time of the accident...
Michael O NDE Home Classification NDE 2152 Michael O NDE 4349 Experience Description I will start by saying that prior to the event, I was diagnosed with a condition called IGA Nephropathy...
I was lying on a bed and sniffing Protrusuin and I stopped breathing...
I was stationed aboard the USS Prairie in the Philippines, we had a ship's party on Grande Island there, I was scuba diving for coral, I was almost bitten by a sixteen foot long dark grey shark, I managed to get to shore unharmed I thought, I did not feel t...
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...
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...
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...
