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I only remember that when we were at the hospital Emergency room, I was floating above my body...
I was in a tunnel with a light at the end of it, a very bright white light...
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...
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...
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 was twelve years old when I had my near death experience...
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...
I woke at 2:10 am to find myself looking at the alarm clock drifting around the room and feeling light and cool (airy) going out to kitchen then back to bedroom to find myself looking for the first and only time in my life at myself from somewhere else...
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...
