The experience archive
Search first-person accounts. Follow an element, a feeling, or a question.
Accounts from NDERF, OBERF, and ADCRF. Each story belongs to the person who lived it.
Share your experienceA weekly collection of experiences and research worth spending time with.
Browse Experiences
How can I help?
Ask about NDEs, research, or this page
Spring 1979, early afternoon: I was 11...
I was driving alone when, without forewarning, I fell asleep at the wheel...
I was treated by a doctor's assistant for clearing out my ears, due to wearing earplugs now and then I have to do this every once in a few years...
I was feeling ill for six months before I was admitted to the hospital by my PCP...
I was at boarding school...
Contains sensitive content
The year was 1962...
I was reading https://www...
I went to donate blood on my college campus...
I was clinically dead for approximately 2 minutes according to first responders & my medical records...
I became short of breath on June 10th, two days prior to the event with a heart rate of ~144 and oxygen sats around 85%...
I was in my bed (it was a kind of wooden bed with bars for children)...
In July of 2019 I was in a car accident...
