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I was swimming in the lake...
My kindergarten class was on an outing to a local state park where we swam in a shallow tidal pool and played on the beach...
At the first time, I was lying down on my bed ready to sleep when I felt an intense pain which seemed located in the heart (chest)...
I was 9 1/2 years old and it was mid-winter in Northern Ontario...
I heard a melody and I saw heavenly people floating in the air...
10 SECONDS 10 seconds in a liquid black sea I lay for this time, but what did I see...
In September 2017, I had an infection in my foot and leg for a few days...
I was being prepped to go in to a routine hernia repair outpatient surgery...
One early evening in 1972 while I was driving on a freeway in Atlanta, suddenly I found myself ( or my consciousness and sight) floating near the ceiling in the back seat...
This was not a strict NDE but I'm registering it here because it was so much like many of the NDEs I've read about here - I find it interesting that this happened during a lucid dream...
Well first there was complete darkness and all was very silent...
I was taken to the emergency room around 7:00 am with extreme pain (headache and body aches), nausea and disorientation...
