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I was twelve years old and on a vacation with my family...
I saw a girl in the hospital bed and knew that she was very ill and dying...
I did not see myself getting out of my body nor floating above it, I just remember going into a wide and long tunnel, like entering a train tunnel...
V NDE Home Classification NDE 1866 V NDE 3928 Experience Description I remember it being a lovely day, weather-wise, and I was very happy that my mother was allowing me to take a nap in my parent's bed, rather than my own, which was on the floor and hard...
We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
I went in for a scheduled surgery on July 10th, 2008...
On December 16, 1996, I was driving to work with my sister...
I was given a general anesthetic for a routine surgical procedure for my bladder...
Paeata BC NDE Home Classification NDE 1898 Paeata BC NDE 3971 Experience Description No Description Given Background Information: Gender: Female Date NDE Occurred: various over many years NDE Elements: At the time of your experience, was there an associated...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
It was as if I was part of the tides of the ocean...
I came into a place where children were playing games, it looked like a public square, a very broad space, where the colors were unusually brilliant to see, and everything seemed very calm, with no anxieties...
