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As I was coming out of anesthesia I could not see, move, talk or breath...
I was prescribed a painkiller following oral surgery...
I was at the beach...
Christy NDE Home Classification NDE 1546 Christy NDE 3485 Experience Description I remember total darkness, being comfortable, and not wanting to leave...
I couldn't catch my breath, I heard the doctor say, 'Let's get that baby out of there...
My skin turned red and I was having problems breathing...
I am writing this account on behalf of my friend and partner who died 12 years ago due to complications from AIDS...
Mouse NDE Home Classification NDE 1556 Mouse NDE 3498 Experience Description I was doing a tilt table test to see how my heart would react...
I stole my dad's car and drag raced a friend on a back road...
It was on Monday, September 3rd, I went to work as usual and felt as if I was coming down with tonsillitis, so I went to the pharmacy and bought over the counter pain killers...
It was as though I was stuck in a clean, approximately eight feet diameter, pipe with the brightest white light at one end and completely pitch dark at the other end...
During basic training in the army I became sick which was later diagnosed as a pneumonia...
