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Victor D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3037 Victor D Probable NDE 6278 Experience Description When I was five years old, a friend and I were playing out behind our homes...
Julian A NDE Home Classification NDE 3038 Julian A NDE 5417 Experience Description They were performing an angioplasty on me and they had entered via radial...
Samuel C NDE Home Classification NDE 3047 Samuel C NDE 6284 Experience Description I awoke at about 2 AM, having a powerful thirst...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
I was in a drug-induced coma; on a respirator and life support, after a pulmonary hemorrhage caused by severe lupus...
Belazreg H NDE Home Classification NDE 3069 Belazreg H NDE 6304 Experience Description I found myself floating in a universe of nothingness...
Jon S NDE Home Classification NDE 3071 Jon S NDE 6315 Experience Description I was 7 years old and in the second grade...
Bill D NDE Home Classification NDE 3072 Bill D NDE 6316 Experience Description We were hunting about 20 miles out of town...
Teresita Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 3074 Teresita Possible NDE 6310 Experience Description I found myself in a place where several things claimed my attention: the place was like a luminous city, but the luminosity was not sunshine...
At 11 years old, I was rushed to the intensive care unit due to a case of septicemia [a dangerous blood infection], which was the result of a bad diagnosis made by a general doctor...
I had a problem pregnancy...
Jenny C NDE Home Classification NDEs 3094 Jenny C NDE 6345 Experience Description FIRST TIME: I was about five when my first NDE happened...
