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I was late for breakfast at my boarding school...
The first event that I can remember, I was 3 yrs, I was in a swimming pool, I could not swim and I somehow walk to far into the pool and went under water and started drowning...
I heard a siren from a paramedics' truck coming up our street...
I was neither ill nor in a coma or anywhere near death...
In summer 2003, I had become very ill with the flu...
On January 13, 2025, Monday morning, I went to the “Afterlife...
I don’t know whether this would be class as an STE or SOBE, but either way this experience has stuck with me...
In an afternoon in the month of Ramadan (the month in which Muslims fast), I was laying down in my house...
It was midday and the room was sufficiently illuminated by sunlight...
I was feeling postpartum depression overwhelm with my life...
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I was a university student I lived in a flat with other residents...
I left our world...
