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While doing my job I became increasingly slow...
I was playing a game of basketball at school, when the ball left the court...
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...
I was five years old...
Benjamin H NDE Home Classification NDE 2017 Benjamin H NDE 4127 Experience Description My squad was out on patrol, and I was in a Humvee...
I had already had severe asphyxiation episodes which had led to unconsciousness...
Finally, I hear a siren, and soon, two men and a woman arrive (she's the doctor, I think)...
Jennifer J NDEs Home Classification NDEs/Shared NDE 3838 Jennifer J NDEs 7510 Experience Description After a normal and relatively easy childbirth, I began hemorrhaging uncontrollably...
This is how mom related her experience to me: She felt like she was in a tunnel...
I went into a space where there was a huge castle made of golden-yellow light...
I was scared at first everything around me faded to darkness...
Mark B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 5226 Mark B Probable NDE 16133/4249 Experience Description 16133 submitted 8/26/2023 I am forwarding this email and paper I wrote about an accident that killed me but the coroner and EMTs brought me back,...
