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A grand-mal seizure causes one to lose complete awareness of not only where you are, but who you are...
Christine S NDE Home Classification NDE 1390 Christine S NDE 268 Experience Description I remember passing out from the smoke and not being able to breath...
Burnie A NDE Home Classification NDE 1422 Burnie A NDE 205 Experience Description When I was unconscious I felt like I was watching a play, I was traveling to different places, some fields, riverbeds, and my home...
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Doina Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1463 Doina Probable NDE 3379 Experience Description I was on the operation table; the last event I have in my memory was when I received the anesthesia in my hand...
At age seventeen, I took a street drug with several girlfriends...
In the fall of 1993, I designated forty days to abstain from food, sleep and human contact in preparation for a suicide attempt...
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I was completely conscious and terrorized by what was happening and without ceasing to have physical convulsions caused by the electricity...
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I was prescribed a painkiller following oral surgery...
I was at the beach...
Christy NDE Home Classification NDE 1546 Christy NDE 3485 Experience Description I remember total darkness, being comfortable, and not wanting to leave...
Gilbert H Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1559 Gilbert H Probable NDE 3448 Experience Description At a given moment, my thoughts started wandering off and a bright white light arose around me, until I found myself in a kind of white room with ...
