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I was having surgery...
This experience happened to me more than 60 years ago...
I had the sensation of weightlessness and floating in spirals, of leaving my body and feeling in a body-free state...
Chuck H NDE Home Classification NDE 2986 Chuck H NDE 6222 Experience Description I was hit by a car while I was driving a motorcycle...
Not very much actually happened but it's still clear as a bell 50 years later and has had a very marked effect on my life...
Here is the letter we received from him: I am a survivor...
I was riding my motorbike on a main artery road to the south of Mexico City crossing over the Avenida Desierto de Los Leones...
Preston P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2992 Preston P Probable NDE 22663 Experience Description First doctors visit for upper respiratory infection I was given an injection of penicillin and told to come back in three days for booster of same...
I was transferred from a private birthing room to the emergency room after the staff noticed that my baby might require her stomach and lungs to be cleaned because she might have meconium aspiration syndrome...
Mindy T NDE Home Classification NDE 2996 Mindy T NDE 6238 Experience Description May 24th, 2005 started out like any other day...
Prior to the experience, I was under a lot of stress but I was not physically ill...
After delivering twins prematurely, I had retained placenta and was losing too much blood...
