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I was on the roof of an apartment that was under construction...
After getting the image of the emergency medical technicians working on me, I was transcending to a grey whitish light and started to travel through the tunnel...
Finally, I hear a siren, and soon, two men and a woman arrive (she's the doctor, I think)...
After knee surgery in Mackay Base Hospital...
All of this happened during my camping trip, in the camping cabin surrounded by four of my friends in Vladivostok, Russia...
The most vivid part of the experience was at one point I could see my mother holding me in her arms...
I was standing in the hallway of my house and started to see little black dots that gradually closed in my field of vision until my heart stopped and I stopped breathing...
My experience was rather boring...
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In September of 1972 I was driving a friend to Connecticut to his wedding...
Ran a mini-marathon on a very hot (a hundred degrees plus) day...
I was visiting a friend in Lompoc, California...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
