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In August of 1996, I was involved in an automobile accident...
I was a three week old baby at the time...
Poppy Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3198 Poppy Probable NDE 6500 Experience Description While I was undergoing neurosurgery, I experienced a period of darkness and then I saw grey and pink lights...
Roland B NDE Home Classification NDE 3200 Roland B NDE 6503 Experience Description I unknowingly grabbed a 2300 volt power cable...
Sandi R NDE Home Classification NDE 3202 Sandi R NDE 6505 Experience Description It was a rainy afternoon when we were driving home from my grandmother's after a visit...
Julia O NDE Home Classification NDE 3218 Julia O NDE 6526 Experience Description I was in childbirth with my second child, a girl as it turned out...
Polly R NDE Home Classification NDE 3231 Polly R NDE 6551 Experience Description It was 1/3/1988...
Tommy P NDE Home Classification NDE 3245 Tommy P NDE 6572 Experience Description This is pretty simple experience...
Portia NDE Home Classification NDE 3250 Portia NDE 5434 Experience Description I woke up and found myself standing to the right of the operating table...
Kelly C NDEs Home Classification NDE 3274 Kelly C NDEs 6611 Experience Description The first experience was in 1995...
Sheryl NDE Home Classification NDE 3278 Sheryl NDE 6615 Experience Description At the time I was twenty-two years old and was struggling to forge my way through college...
Janie Anesthesia Experience Home Classification Anesthesia 3287 Janie Anesthesia Experience 6631 Experience Description I was having my tonsils out and I woke up in a theater, feeling myself drop my Rupert Bear cuddly toy...
