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I was riding my horse in the riding ring which was located at the base of a very long fenced pasture...
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...
I was riding a motorbike without any helmet on...
Soony NDEs Home Classification NDE 3011 Soony NDEs 6348/16029 Experience Description 16029 First time, I had a near death experience as a teenager when I was drowning in the river...
It was an elective surgery (appendectomy) and I woke up in the middle of the surgery, vomiting and with impaired breathing...
In the course of an operation to remove an ovarian cyst, there were complications...
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...
Next I awoke...
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...
