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I found myself leaving my body and floating up to the ceiling area of the room in which the medical personnel were working on me...
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I found myself leaving my body and floating up to the ceiling area of the room in which the medical personnel were working on me...
I was a teenager at the time of my experience...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
I was extremely sick...
This happened in 1974...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
I was around 5 years old playing in a field with my step brother...
I realized that I was no more than an eye or something with vision, which was me, and I was on top of the lights in the surgery room...
I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
A few days post-operative I was laying in the intensive care unit and I felt a fluttering, alarms on the monitor sounded and hospital staff came running in and place a board under me...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
I was up in the air in the operating room...