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I dove into the deep end of the swimming pool when I was age 10 or 11...
Mattie K NDE Home Classification NDE 3423 Mattie K NDE 6853 Experience Description First the wave smacked me, and then I found myself standing in a blue channel of light...
Before the experience, I had been huffing gas regularly for one year...
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We had just cleared a 'decoy' surface-laid IED nearby a narrow curve along one of the main maneuver corridors...
I walked towards the orchard, it was silvery white and beautiful...
Lizzy L FDE Home Classification Possible NDE 3551 Lizzy L Possible NDE 7055 Experience Description During the summer, I went as one of four chaperones for a youth group at our Presbyterian Church...
Since the age of 13, I regularly think about suicide to end a life that never brought me any pleasure...
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It was 11 pm, I was returning home from university and as a joke I sat on the hood of the car...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
It started for me awakening in a place without light...
When I arrived at the toilet, I had real pain in my stomach...
It all started out as a slow to moderate to and fro motion through the entire length of a very long "sparked" tunnel...
