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When I had this experience, I knew nothing about NDEs totally ignorant...
I was approximately 14-15 years old, in a summer camp and we were playing a game, which I thought innocuous at that time (a monitor even took part) but which, in fact, is really fatal (a variant of the ‘scarf’s game’ which takes a tragic turn in playgrounds)...
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I was sitting by a campfire at a lake, talking with an older man about rodeos and horses...
BaRaMi NDE Home Classification NDE 476 BaRaMi NDE 10095 Experience Description I was crossing the reservoir with one of my friends without bathing suits, putting up the trousers...
It was about 8:30 pm I had just put all my children to sleep and got on the internet with my husband who was in Iraq at the time...
For a couple of days prior I was so ill and now looking back realize too ill to even comprehend what was happening...
I did not have the 'tunnel experience' many others have had...
I fell asleep sitting in my chair at my desk...
My name is David; I live in Hawaii, I am 32 years old, and am a survivor of NDE...
At that time, I had never heard of a near-death experience and had no idea what it was that had happened to me...
When I was five years old, I became sick with a streptococcal sore throat (strep throat), and had to go to the hospital...
Jeffer S NDE Home Classification NDE 495 Jeffer S NDE 20542 Experience Description I felt a couple of jolts through my body as if I was being shocked...
