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I don't actually remember a large portion of the day prior to the event, and I still can't...
I had a severe bronchitis that evening that caused severe shortness of breath...
D NDE Home Classification NDE 3762 D NDE 7394 Experience Description This memory or 'experience' remains unchanged in my memory since those years...
Vernon C NDE Home Classification NDE 3792 Vernon C NDE 7443 Experience Description I went swimming in Gold River with two friends and got swept out into a fast current...
Andrew G NDE Home Classification NDE 3801 Andrew G NDE 7453 Experience Description On October 28 1976, I, my brother, his wife and daughter went down to the lake with our kayak...
Bonnie L NDE Home Classification NDE 3844 Bonnie L NDE 7517 Experience Description I was spending the day at the river with my younger siblings, my mother, and some of her friends...
When I was seven, I snuck into a swimming pool in my apartment complex...
Hailey M NDE Home Classification NDE 3884 Hailey M NDE 7575 Experience Description I was going into surgery, for the third summer in a row, to try and correct a failed spinal fusion...
I found myself in a dark room...
I was 8 years old and I was attending a pool party for my brother's baseball team...
I have two memories growing up that I've never been able to understand or put together until now...
my inner tube was stuck around a dead head tree rapids behind me right before the event I understood I had no other choice than to follow the voice in my head that said on the count of three push the inner tube down and you will be okay pushed and bang the ...
