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Lindsay C NDE Home Classification NDE 1766 Lindsay C NDE 3774 Experience Description While in an argument following an event with my ex-husband I lost all stress and anger and sadness...
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My kindergarten class was on an outing to a local state park where we swam in a shallow tidal pool and played on the beach...
Ted V NDE Home Classification NDE 1782 Ted V NDE 3803 Experience Description After a summer monsoon rain event my friend and I were throwing rocks into a flooded river bed or wash...
I had a bad cold, but no other known health problems...
At first I seemed to be moving through a dark tunnel toward a white light at the far end...
Thomas B NDE Home Classification NDE 1795 Thomas B NDE 3820 Experience Description I was hitch-hiking home from work and got a ride with several unsavory men...
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I had a stent placed in my coronary artery to open a severe blockage...
Michael H NDE Home Classification NDE 1819 Michael H NDE 3853 Experience Description At 2:24 am, I had been hit from behind by an intoxicated driver...
One evening when going back to my room, I got a pain in my chest and fainted...
It was a beautiful August, day and we had been fasting and praying...
I was in Physical Education class and was doing the Cooper Test (an endurance test, running laps around a field)...
I was just seventeen years old and staying with my aunt and uncle in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada...
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