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I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
‘Bring your son into the examining room, the doctor will be there shortly’ the young nurse instructed...
I was in the recovery room of a hospital after having a minor surgical procedure that required a general anesthetic...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
I was born with a rare heart disease (Tricuspid Atresia)...
I've only recently wanted to talk about my experience because it destroyed my previous life...
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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...
Adaline C NDE Home Classification NDE 1862 Adaline C NDE 3920 Experience Description At age twenty-four I encounter a problem with my then boyfriend...
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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...
I was standing in the ocean...
