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Robert S NDE Home Classification NDE 2231 Robert S NDE 4454 Experience Description Upon passing out in the shower I fell forward and struck my face between the eyes on a small retaining wall between the shower and bathroom floor...
David M NDE Home Classification NDE 2234 David M NDE 4457 Experience Description What I recall is that I was not feeling well for the past couple of days, like I had fever and no appetite and when the medical staff aboard the USS Coronado drew blood from me...
My husband and children went to church but I stayed home to rest since I wasn't feeling very well...
The first thing I recall is seeing my 'fiancé' beside my bed and then doctors/nurses surrounding the bed in a 'flurry of activity' and then seeing myself lying in the bed and being shocked by that...
First, a bit of background, I had left Quebec on April 30, 1983 to go learn English in Alberta...
Patrick H NDE Home Classification NDE 2260 Patrick H NDE 2260 Experience Description The hospital staff had finished stitching my wounds when I heard my name being called and they noticed that I was no longer responding...
Maurice B NDE Home Classification NDE 2273 Maurice B NDE 4687 Experience Description I played a football game with a loose shin pad...
Dick M NDE Home Classification NDE 2283 Dick M NDE 4534 Experience Description I had been drinking alcoholically for 30 years...
Connie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2285 Connie P NDE 4536 Experience Description I had been complaining to my doctor for several months of severe period pain, a stabbing pain in my lower abdomen, night sweats, etc...
Maria C NDE Home Classification NDE 2287 Maria C NDE 4541 Experience Description I remember that I woke up with a headache, but I suffer from migraine since I was about five years old, this time I was thirty-three years old and I was three days with a bad h...
Anita C NDE Home Classification NDE 2288 Anita C NDE 4543 Experience Description During a dental procedure there was a bright light that I rose up to and was subsequently fully engulfed by...
David B FDE Home Classification FDE 2294 David B FDE 4557 Experience Description Fall weather 1979, a friend and I decided to ride the high creek water out to the lake in my canoe...
