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As I lay in the emergency room, I hovered over my body looking down at myself...
Although lamentably true, the following story may appear as though I sat up a few nights concocting it, or could blame it on a bad experience with mood-altering substances (substances that I used to refer to as “recreational drugs” -- most of which were no...
I'll try to recall this as accurately possible...
I was on a motor scooter and all of a sudden a car appeared in front of us...
Decembra B NDE Home Classification NDE 1442 Decembra B NDE 167 Experience Description I was swimming with a friend as a child and I swam too far across a lake to get back...
My boyfriend and I were playing around in the park...
James G NDE Home Classification NDE 1445 James G NDE 164 Experience Description I was in a coma, gangrene right leg, heart failure, lungs -- pulmonary edema...
I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off...
Francis R NDE Home Classification NDE 1447 Francis R NDE 161 Experience Description I had just started the fifteenth seizure when everything went black...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
I exited my body and saw my relatives around my lifeless body...
Doina Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1463 Doina Probable NDE 3379 Experience Description I was on the operation table; the last event I have in my memory was when I received the anesthesia in my hand...
