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As I lay in the emergency room, I hovered over my body looking down at myself...
On the day of the near death experience I had just gotten into bed for the evening...
Marty M NDE Home Classification NDE 2694 Marty M NDE 5169 Experience Description I was in total blackness and wondered to myself 'What...
July 14th (2021) was rough...
I was in the cardiac recovery room after having a stint put into one of my arteries...
The incident happened in 1979, when I was 15 years old...
This is my best recollection of what I experienced at age 6 when I was drowning in a Wisconsin lake...
I used to be addicted to morphine, codeine, and painkillers like that and overdosed on morphine and codeine when I was eighteen...
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While I was pregnant, I kept having horrible, bloody dreams like I was getting a fishing hook stuck in my arm and pulling everything out...
Julian A NDE Home Classification NDE 3038 Julian A NDE 5417 Experience Description They were performing an angioplasty on me and they had entered via radial...
I don't remember the accident itself...
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I was playing pool with my wife in a tavern (she was NOT drinking, she was pregnant with our first child)...
