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When I was nineteen, I contracted a fatal bacteria called Neisseria meningitis...
I awoke suddenly at 5:38 am from a very deep sleep...
10 SECONDS 10 seconds in a liquid black sea I lay for this time, but what did I see...
Martha C NDE Home Classification NDE 754 Martha C NDE 21096 Experience Description I was having fainting spells...
I have to say from the depth of my heart that I don't want to lie in any way...
I was home with my children (home from school on spring break - ages eight and ten)...
I knew I was taking my last breath for I could feel the air become thicker with smoke than with air (due to the fire)...
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event...
The experience took place during the summer of 2002 while I was in Afghanistan as a reporter covering stories for media outlets that I worked for...
Visiting a friend's place a few houses down from where I lived with my parents, I straightened an old Christmas decoration that was hanging from an old glass light fixture on the ceiling...
Early evening (dusk) I was traveling in light traffic at about thirty mph, an oncoming vehicle came round a bend and didn't correct her steering...
On 11/20/2019, I woke up because I was having severe nausea, and an aching in my left arm and lower left chest area...
