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I was surfing on a boogie board in Hawaii...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
Michaele S NDE Home Classification NDE 2823 Michaele S NDE 5363 Experience Description I was driving my 9 year old daughter home from the dentist and she was sleeping on the seat beside me...
Before the experience I was vomiting and sweating, and then I passed out...
I was hiking with a friend in the Bowness River valley and we decided to climb up from the valley via a very steep hill...
On August 14th, 2007, I was a sergeant with a Sheriff's Office and I was on duty during the day shift...
Pamela M NDE Home Classification NDE 2858 Pamela M NDE 6032 Experience Description I have a story...
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Alexandre B FDE Home Classification FDE 2875 Alexandre B FDE 5375 Experience Description I was swept away by a wave on a Corsican beach and was saved by my father just before swallowing sea water...
I was suffering from an attack of kidney stones for the third time that week, and a new doctor came in and said, 'I'm going to give you the maximum pain reliever that you can take, for your weight: 250 mg of a mixture of morphine and Demerol...
NDE, but predominant experience happened a few days later during meditation-like state...
We were having a family picnic at the lake...
I was around five years old...
