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It was a cold night in 1991...
Kelly W FDE Home Classification FDE 4256 Kelly W FDE 8160 Experience Description I thought we were going to die in a head-on high-speed collision...
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...
I had a bad cold, but no other known health problems...
I was sitting in a chair facing another person, and saying a mantra (meaningless set of words)...
Matt H NDEs Home Classification NDE 2757 Matt H NDEs 5248 Experience Description My best friend and I were at a family reunion on a ranch a hundred and fifty miles from Sacramento, California...
I am a doctor, and left the medical school at around four in the afternoon...
It was summer, very hot and I could not sleep...
This is my amazing NDE...
I was driving out west with my destination being Hollywood, California...
Brenda F Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1294...
Johnny F NDE Home Classification NDE 5489 Johnny F NDE 13081 Experience Description NDE 2014 I had been very ill with Twar, a bacterial lung disease, for about a year when this happened...
