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I was anesthetized for a simple operation...
Jeffery C STE Home Classification STE 4300 Jeffery C STE 8226 Experience Description Life events leading up to the Experience: Married for three years; no children, though wife was pregnant at the time of the Experience...
In the summer, prior to entering the 5th grade, I fell from our back yard tree...
Julian D NDE Home Classification NDE 2317 Julian D NDE 4592 Experience Description I was forlorn in my life and had wanted to die...
When it happened, I was watching television...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
In 1976 I was in a near fatal car accident...
I was diagnosed terminal and in and out of consciousness for several weeks...
After I passed out in x-ray, I was put into an empty semi-private room...
It was a hot August afternoon in Oklahoma when a friend and I were taking a walk to a fast food place...
Carlos A FDE Home Classification FDE 2324 Carlos A FDE 4602 Experience Description One night I was driving on a two way single lane road in Florida after being tired from studying all night the night before for a graduate school exam...
Prior to the experience: I had ordered a small, hanging stained-glass window with a wisdom quotation on it for my godchild...
