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It has been many years...
I was playing with my sister hanging upside down on the washing line over a stone path...
Catherine P NDE Home Classification NDE 2534 Catherine P NDE 4935 Experience Description It was a regular school day...
I was in surgery for a cervical fusion from a broken neck several months prior...
I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
I was in a very weak state later described by the medical staff in layman's terms of a 'walking coma'...
Vincent K NDE Home Classification NDE 2548 Vincent K NDE 4936 Experience Description About five minutes into my recovery period from a stress-test on an exercise bike, my eyesight began to cloud over, starting from the outside corners...
My dad and some of his friends were in a garage working on a car, they were in the front by the walk in door which was open at the time...
A friend dunked my head under the water and I did not know how to hold my breath...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
My experience started with a terrible pain in my chest, followed by a sinking, falling feeling...
When I was fifteen years old, I lived in Southern California on Coronado Island...
