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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...
(The truck accident that burned my body & threatened to take my life) The chase was on and I savored every moment I could to talk or spend time with my father...
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D NDE Home Classification NDE 3762 D NDE 7394 Experience Description This memory or 'experience' remains unchanged in my memory since those years...
WHEN I GET READY TO GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT IT TAKES ME HOURS TO FALL ASLEEP BUT WHEN I GET THIS (OBE) I FALL ASLEEP RIGHT AWAY I CAN SEE MT SELF WATCHING ME AND MY HUSBAND SLEEPING IN ARE BED BUT I FEEL AS IF IM FALLING STRAIGHT DOWN REALLY FAST I HEAR AND CA...
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...
I had been feeling extremely depressed and thinking about suicide for the entire night...
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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...
