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I was at the dentist with my mother...
I went into a tunnel and was met by dead friends and relatives...
I remember being concerned, and being prepped, and wheeled into the operating room, but I don't think I made it to 99 counting back from 100...
I was told I looked as if I was having a seizure and as if I was really about to die...
This experience happened to me more than 60 years ago...
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...
Prior to the experience, I was under a lot of stress but I was not physically ill...
Frances Z NDE Home Classification NDE 3001 Frances Z NDE 6242 Experience Description By the time my son found me, I was blue...
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We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
Rose F NDE Home Classification NDE 3028 Rose F NDE 6269 Experience Description I was in Italy for summer vacation with my mother; her parents resided there and so we spent the whole summer with them...
Vivian M Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3030 Vivian M Probable NDE 6272 Experience Description At age 17, I took some kind of hallucinogen...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
