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
I remember a police officer slapping me across the face, telling me to wake up...
I was pulled from my body...
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...
The day had been an emotionally difficult one, as my mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer...
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...
I had open heart surgery, and even though I had died on the table, and even though things were just not feeling right to me, I was sent home...
I went to bed after going to watch my husband play football, and when I got into bed, I felt a severe pain in my head...
I had been feeling ill and in pain for weeks...
I vaguely remember feeling very ill and being put to bed (they did not bother so much with hospitals in those days) feeling very miserable, hot, and that my chest hurt me...
I had the morning before said to my husband that I loved him and if anything happened to me that he was to keep on doing things as he did...
The tunnel was green or light yellow...
I was 18 years old...
