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My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
My first memory is of a dark tunnel, either being pulled or "sucked" very quickly towards an extremely bright white light, so bright that I was afraid that I would be incinerated, or at the very least blinded if I was to enter the light...
During the winter of my freshman year in high school, I was in a group called the Civil Air Patrol...
My ex-girlfriend went psychotic...
A second after my last thought I was standing in a vast cave/tunnel - it seemed to turn in on itself - the best I can describe it is to have you imagine that you are a speck or the tip of a pin standing inside one of those cat toys that the ball spins aroun...
On February 17, 2000, I was traveling with my family to go on a weekend vacation...
I had ask God to take me from this planet and I was very upset and just wanted to die and go away...
I was 6 years old and in surgery for a tonsillectomy and an adenoidectomy...
I first woke from my sleep but I was not awake and back as normal in the world...
I had experienced some transformative experiences prior to this, one on mescaline as a therapy tool and one in high school which popped up quite unexpectedly while musing about a photo of a galaxy...
I fell through a roof...
I went to my friend's house for a facial...
