The experience archive
Search first-person accounts. Follow an element, a feeling, or a question.
Accounts from NDERF, OBERF, and ADCRF. Each story belongs to the person who lived it.
Share your experienceA weekly collection of experiences and research worth spending time with.
Browse Experiences
How can I help?
Ask about NDEs, research, or this page
After my first surgery I was extremely weak, tired and in terrible pain...
Due to a medical mistake, I was administered a double dose of contrast liquid [a dye for CT scans] during a tac [(sic) = transient aplastic crisis]...
Suddenly, I was in a tunnel that was illuminated by a strong blue light...
I fell onto a metal railing in the city of London...
What is it like to have a near death experience...
I was admitted to hospital with a blood disease called sepsis...
I had arrived at the hospital, suspecting that I was having a heart attack...
I was standing out in the yard wrapped in a bed sheet...
In 2006, while undergoing a cardiac catheterization for an angioplasty, I was on the table and was able to hear the Doctor and nurse talking and every so often the doctor would ask me to cough or take a deep breath...
On 3/9/11 I entered the hospital for colon resection surgery [the surgical removal (resection) of a part or all of the large intestine (colon) and subsequent repair] and was discharged six days later...
In March 1993 I was living in Del Rio, Texas with my husband (we have since divorced)...
When it happened, I was watching television...
