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August 28th, 2005...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I was driving in a car and it seemed as if I was about to crash into a truck...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
When I was five, my mom worked at the Pageant of the Masters show in Laguna Beach...
I'm not sure if time slowed down, or that my thoughts and cognitive processes were so incredibly fast...
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...
Every time I begin to tell the story one more time I am grasped by the numbness I seem to feel...
Suddenly, I was in a tunnel that was illuminated by a strong blue light...
I started to feel very cold, as if I were having fever chills...
I was under general anesthesia during a four-hour surgery about two weeks before my mother passed away...
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...
