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I was almost eight months pregnant with my first child...
My first NDE (accidentally, I have had a couple) occurred when I was a child of seven...
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)...
The car that was transporting us broke down in front of a small cemetery...
I had a near death experience several weeks ago (May 1999) as a result of attempted suicide...
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I had had a very rough time with having to have my wisdom teeth surgical removed because one had impacted and shattered...
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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...
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...
