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James F NDE Home Classification NDE 1480 James F NDE 118 Experience Description Shortly after eating a large dinner three days before Thanksgiving Day, 1996, I had experienced pains to my chest that was so sharp that it dropped me to my knees...
My First Near Death Experience I remember this one time when I was about two and a half years old (1974-1975, somewhere in Texas), it was my first death experience...
I had been ill with the flu for about five weeks, was at home on sick leave from work, and was in bed...
Barbara C NDE Home Classification NDE 1505 Barbara C NDE 25 Experience Description I was undergoing an operation to remove my gall bladder...
I was in a motorcycle accident on August 10, 1986, on a highway between Kamloops, British Columbia, and Merritt, British Columbia...
Kolleen NDE Home Classification NDE 1518 Kolleen NDE 1079 Experience Description I remember me going through an orange tunnel accompanied by an entity; it was guiding me...
Chris H Probable REM Intrusion Home Classification Probable REM Intrusion 1553 Chris H Probable REM Intrusion 3494 Experience Description I was exhausted and hit the bed intent on getting some sleep...
Molly M NDE Home Classification NDE 2415 Molly M NDE 4762 Experience Description 4762: I saw so many people I knew throughout my life...
Mouse NDE Home Classification NDE 1556 Mouse NDE 3498 Experience Description I was doing a tilt table test to see how my heart would react...
Gilbert H Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1559 Gilbert H Probable NDE 3448 Experience Description At a given moment, my thoughts started wandering off and a bright white light arose around me, until I found myself in a kind of white room with ...
During basic training in the army I became sick which was later diagnosed as a pneumonia...
