The experience archive
Search first-person accounts. Follow an element, a feeling, or a question.
Accounts from NDERF, OBERF, and ADCRF. Each story belongs to the person who lived it.
Share your experienceA weekly collection of experiences and research worth spending time with.
Browse Experiences
How can I help?
Ask about NDEs, research, or this page
I was a very serious athlete all of my life and knew my body very intimately...
Jenny C NDE Home Classification NDEs 3094 Jenny C NDE 6345 Experience Description FIRST TIME: I was about five when my first NDE happened...
Ramon Probable NDE Home Classification NDE 3099 Ramon Probable NDE 6320 Experience Description It was around 5 pm on that day in October 2004 that I felt very tired...
Sonia M Possible NDEs Home Classification Possible NDEs 3103 Sonia M Possible NDEs 6352 Experience Description At the time of my first NDE my boyfriend and I had broken up and I was severely depressed (but not so much so that I was suicidal) and extremely d...
John K NDE Home Classification NDE 3119 John K NDE 6377 Experience Description It was Holy Thursday, 2006, at about 2:00 in the afternoon...
Johanna S NDE Home Classification NDE 3137 Johanna S NDE 6400 Experience Description I had been living with my adoptive mother (who was actually my aunt)...
I killed myself but I was sent back...
Contains sensitive content
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
Contains sensitive content
Annette Q NDE Home Classification NDE 3314 Annette Q NDE 6672 Experience Description I was taken into the hospital operating room to get control of the tetanus seizures [med: Tetanus is a serious bacterial disease that affects your nervous system, leading t...
Miles NDE Home Classification NDE 3321 Miles NDE 6678 Experience Description I had been hiking for several hours carrying a fifty pound pack...
I had been ill from a recent operation I had had...
As usual, I had to have another session of chemo, horrible chemo...
