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I was completely outside time, so I can't say how long the experience lasted...
In the summer of 1985 I was at a beach in California with my family...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
Belazreg H NDE Home Classification NDE 3069 Belazreg H NDE 6304 Experience Description I found myself floating in a universe of nothingness...
I was laying back in the dental chair with a nasal mask on through which I was receiving laughing gas...
Georgia P NDE Home Classification NDE 3080 Georgia P NDE 6332 Experience Description I was pregnant with my first child; from my fourth month on I kept having problems...
After a brief visit in a physician's office he determined I had a ruptured ovarian cyst and was rushed the emergency room...
I was in a research study at Yale New Haven hospital for women who had been successfully treated for post-partum depression...
Ramon Probable NDE Home Classification NDE 3099 Ramon Probable NDE 6320 Experience Description It was around 5 pm on that day in October 2004 that I felt very tired...
Sonia M Possible NDEs Home Classification Possible NDEs 3103 Sonia M Possible NDEs 6352 Experience Description At the time of my first NDE my boyfriend and I had broken up and I was severely depressed (but not so much so that I was suicidal) and extremely d...
My near death experience: It had been a strange day...
I was a passenger in a car traveling along a very twisty mountain road with a beautiful fiord on the right...
