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I was on a motor scooter and all of a sudden a car appeared in front of us...
Decembra B NDE Home Classification NDE 1442 Decembra B NDE 167 Experience Description I was swimming with a friend as a child and I swam too far across a lake to get back...
Francis R NDE Home Classification NDE 1447 Francis R NDE 161 Experience Description I had just started the fifteenth seizure when everything went black...
I was rushed to hospital at 4:00 am with massive pain, really aggressive pain...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
Richard B NDE Home Classification NDE 1453 Richard B NDE 144 Experience Description I was on my way to work, 1:30 in the afternoon, temperature was 105 degrees, I was riding my motorcycle, car turned at last second, I hit car approximately two feet from fro...
It was May 5th and I was in my private room on the ninth floor of the University of Cincinnati Hospital recovering from a surgery to remove my first and second rib...
My name is George and I narrate the experience of my mother-in-law, whom I didn't know...
Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions which were much stronger than at any other time...
It was an unbearable pain, level 12/10...
It was a very hot and sunny day...
