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I awoke in the light, experiencing all the emotions I had caused others to feel in my life here...
My first NDE (accidentally, I have had a couple) occurred when I was a child of seven...
It was the morning after my 31st birthday...
I was at the beach, body surfing for about 30 minutes...
I was speeding through a black tunnel, but I was traveling through the tunnel horizontally and not vertically like I always thought (going up to heaven, that sort of thing)...
I was driving along highway 290 going about seventy mph, when I saw a quick flash of a pickup truck in front of my car...
I was accosted, stabbed repeatedly and shot twice in the spine...
Some time after I went 'under' for the surgery, 'I' experienced a focused perception of being both just above and out of my body...
Kathy N NDE Home Classification NDE 1198 Kathy N NDE 3226 Experience Description The alarm on the blood pressure machine was the last thing I heard before it felt like I shot out of myself...
I was shown my newborn baby boy - felt love for him - then I blacked out...
First Person Interview as told to Elaine Smith (NDERF Volunteer): Karen's near death experience was in the summer of 1975...
Phillip H NDE 3191 Home Classification NDE 1223 Phillip H NDE 3191 Experience Description My two younger brothers, R and H, were traveling with me passing the Farm home, and R said run the stop because the Road had a bump and it was fun to fly...
