Copyright1999 by Jody Long and Dr. Jeff

NDE Experiences and Comments: These are summaries of the accounts.  The expanded version can be found by clicking on the link for the experiencer's name. 

2552. Leonard R NDE English expanded version  12/29/10  All of a sudden, I heard an audible voice say, "LET GO." I instantly felt what can only be described as a tingle. All of a sudden, I found myself standing up.  A figure, or person, was across the street, summoning me to come to her. I say "her" because I felt as comfortable with this person as I would my own mother. I remember being a little scared or apprehensive about crossing the street to get to her.  I guess I was afraid of being struck again. The person assured me – not verbally, but, like, mentally –  that I would be OK.
NDE at age 2 due to being hit by car.  Remembered experience 38 years later.

2551. Holly S NDE English expanded version  12/29/10  The light underwater was blurry and bright but I then I blacked out. The next thing I remember I was hovering about 20 feet over my body--observing. I had been pulled from the water and was lying beside the pool on the concrete slab.  A female  and a male teenage swimmers were arguing with each other about what should be done. One wanted to turn me on my side and whack me on the back and the other wanted to do rescue breathing…I remember sobbing and wailing all the way home not because of the traumatic experience, but because I was sad and angry that I had been pulled back into this painful heavy plane of existence.
NDE at age 4 due to drowning.

2550. James FM NDE English expanded version  12/29/10  As soon as they touched the needle to cauterize it to the ulcer it literally exploded. I was spouting blood out of my mouth like a fountain. So they told me anyway.  It was then that I realized I was above my body looking down at it and at them working hard trying to save me.  I just kind of floated there watching them. I didn't feel any fear nor pain. Just a very deep feeling of being at peace with every thing and everyone. It felt incredible!  I floated down and onto the floor not sure why I did this, but when I did I realized I wasn't alone. There were what I can only describe as ghosts floating past me and out through the double glass doors that went out into the hallway. In the hallway there are giant pillars in front of the ICU doors and at the pillar directly in front of my room, there were 6 children, dressed in old fashioned clothes that you would wear to church. They were playing ring around the rosy. The "ghosts" were drifting past them and into this beautiful amber glow which was on the other side of the children. Then they would disappear from sight.
One NDE described out of stated multiple NDEs.  NDE due to blood loss during surgical procedure.

2549. Randall S NDE English expanded version  12/29/10  I went quickly through a tunnel and was met by two shimmering beings who stayed with me the entire time. The first place I went was a crystal city, every thing was vibrant and alive. These beings took me to different rooms within the crystal city, one of the rooms I came to know as the room of knowledge. In this room I knew all there was to know about everything. The beings didn't let me keep all the knowledge I gained at that time. The next room seemed to be a giant hall, where I was told all the great healers of the world were and I was amongst them. At that time I didn't know what that meant, the next room was octagon shaped and it had what appeared to be a well in the middle of the floor. I seemed to be at the edge of the well before I knew it, and as I looked into the well I saw what seemed to be moving and churning energy. It was in the shape of confetti and had all the colors of the rainbow. I put my hands into the well and felt the energy of it. It felt like static electricity and seemed to heighten all my senses.
NDE at age 6 due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

2548. Vincent K NDE English expanded version  12/28/10  From France.  Original in French, translated to English by Simon. Then I was in a "place", in the presence of other persons, smiling, very luminous but with a soft light. I don't remember faces but I remember the benevolence of the way they looked at me.  We were floating, though without the sensation of floating, we were just nowhere, which gives a floating feeling because there was no limit in space, no ground, no soft sky overhead... no notion of  time either, which is strange, impossible to say whether it lasted 1 minute or eternally, as time really does not exist, there is no feeling of time passing. Intense happiness, or rather well-being.
NDE due to unconsciousness.

2547. Brian J NDE English expanded version  12/17/10  I suddenly started to feel very light-headed, dizzy and short of breath. I decided to try and make it to my bedroom so I could lie down, with the hope it would subside. But I never made it to the bedroom. I was suffering from a heart problem I did not know I had. There was a dresser with no drawers in it in the spare bedroom, and I could see myself lying inside this dresser all curled up in a ball. I watched as one of my cats (Compass) walked up to me and lay down by my side.  Suddenly, I saw this very bright and pulsating light. It was like a strobe light, but a hundred times faster. It was pulsating so fast that it was almost a steady light. I heard people calling my name. Next, I found myself traveling to a place that was beyond comprehension. I was no longer feeling the pain that I had been when all of this started.
NDE due to unconsciousness from heart problem.

2546. Jenny A NDE English expanded version  12/17/10  From Canada.  After I died, I remember being pulled upwards towards the ceiling. Then suddenly the ceiling became a white mass which swirled into a blue tunnel. My spirit body? or soul was lifted up into the light.  As I was floating in the tunnel, I could see a bright white light at the end of that tunnel. However, when I was about halfway there, I felt this feeling as if a higher power was forcing me back down and urging me to go back to my body. Honestly, I was upset.  I didn't want to go back. I wanted to go into the light, because there was so much peace, and a soothing, calm feeling. So I was trying to force myself back into the light, but, once again, I felt a presence urging me back down the tunnel to my body. I awoke, back in my body, with doctors and nurses all around me.  
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2545. Michelle JK Probable NDE English expanded version  12/17/10 From the UK.  Jumped out of the window thinking I was Batman … I don't remember going to hospital, but remember that I was looking down at myself. The room was lemon yellow, a chair was at the bottom right of the room. My bed was near the door to the left, I was looking at me from the top left corner of the room, ceiling height. I remember vividly that there was a toy monkey with plastic facial features, looked realistic and scary, but I have no phobia of monkeys to date. I recall looking down at my physical body, motionless in bed and stare at myself for at least 2 minutes or so. Then shortly afterwards my eyes opened and I looked around the room and everything was exactly the same.
Probable NDE at age 5 following head injury.

2544. Ana Maria NDE English expanded version  12/16/10  From Peru.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon. In the winter of '81, I was on the way to the beach with a friend, and we were going down the steps (around 10h30 in the morning), when suddenly, as my friend tells it, I fainted.  Though I felt nothing, I just remember rising up.  There was a brilliant sun, giving me a special, soft,  warmth, which did not burn me. I could hear beautiful music and I could see birds flying beside me, it was an incredible peace, something extraordinary; I had never felt this before, it was a beautiful feeling, and I didn't want to come back.
NDE from losing consciousness.

2543. Susan H Probable NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  Surgery for the excision of meningioma. 6 hours. While going under with, was aware that Jesus Christ came into the room. I was taken from my body and observed to the point of Drs. beginning to open my skull. Communication was telepathic. They wanted to take me to a Golden Mountain that was illuminated with white and gold light. There I was greeted by family who had passed on. There was such joy and remarkable peace. They said 'do not be afraid'. Messengers were needed to let people know that death is not fearful. People had forgotten. They gave me instructions in how to work with the gifts we are given to assist one another. The illumination was so magnificent. Moving around was so easy in this body.
Probable NDE during intracranial surgery.

2542. Nelson L Probable NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  As a six year old child my appendix burst. I was rushed to the hospital to be operated on.  All seem to go well, then all of my sutures inside broke and I was rushed back to surgery. During emergency surgery, I felt as if I was levitating and I could look down at the operating table and see the surgeons working on me.  I felt very cold and just wanted to be warm again. I kept levitating higher, the higher I went the warmer I became. Then a woman started towards me, I became very frightened.  I said "who are you? I don't know you," she said that she was my grandmother's mother whom I had never met. She said "Everything will be OK, come with me." I told her I did not want to go, she kept telling me to come with her.  I kept saying, "no I don't want to go" and started crying. She left without me and I started to descend, the further down I went the colder I became.
Probable NDE during surgery at age 6.  Shared 62 years later.

2541. William H NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  Minutes after they placed me on the emergency room table and fit an oxygen mask over my face, I felt my heart stop beating and I sighed my last breath.  There was the briefest pause while my personality puzzled that I did not gasp for breath nor seem concerned that my body had just died—and then it was suddenly cradled in my higher soul and I was catapulted, for that is the only word for it, catapulted, wide awake, out of my body and into the Sphere of Universal Communion.  My whole life, it turned out, had been practice for the moment of dying:  my higher soul stepped forward, speaking reassuringly about how it had been through this so many times before.  While my lower soul, this lifetime’s personality, went mute in the face of the vast Unknown, my higher soul catapulted into It with one last sigh of joy and gratitude, What a glorious Creation!  I was fully awake when I entered the Sphere of Universal Communion.
NDE due to heart attack.

2540. Chuck M NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  I slid into what felt like a perfectly tempered Jacuzzi and had the most incredible feeling of love, as all things material slipped away and were no longer important and the next moment I was standing there in this beautiful field looking at my mother and grand mother( who have been gone for many years now) they were standing about 40 ft away from me wearing black dresses and pearls, they looked wonderful as if they were 30 or 35 or so.  There was an azure blue sky behind them and it was bright, but not eye hurting bright, as soon as I looked at my grandmother who seemed to have a tear on her cheek I knew they weren't going to let me stay, my mom then said to me you cant stay, I started running towards them (effortlessly like I was running on air) and my mom said again you have to go back but I wanted to hug them.  I kept running towards them as I got within 5 foot of them, I stopped and my mom said you have to go back, we are not ready for you. 
Three NDEs, all different from each other.  Chuck presented his NDE on the Biography television channel (United States).

2539. Johan C NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  I was watching TV and the room/world went silent and dark with my eyes wide open. Time ceased. No pain at all or sense of environment. Except for my 'minds eye' all senses were gone. It was very black and not the least bit frightening, a very calm transition. I knew what was happening and it was fine. I honestly wanted to see where this journey led me. If one can imagine oneself in the absolute void of space this was it. Then came the twinkling of lights. I sensed from deep within something like "are you sure?" With that 'conscious' thought I decided I wanted to live and the battle was on.
NDE due to illness.

2538. Jeri S NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  She was saying stay with me, calling my name, telling me to make a fist, telling me stay awake and help her. I didn't want to be awake, it finally felt so good to not be sick, or in pain, or have any problems. I saw a bunch of doctors run in the room, and a nurse was putting masks on them while they were yelling at my face. At first I wondered what they were doing and I realized I was seeing it all from above them. Why were they turning my face when I was over here? Why were they raising my legs so high in the air, and what was that noise? From up here, I saw all the activity going on, and was wondering why. There was a bright light kind of ahead of me, meaning that I could see, over all the people, but there were lights on under me too from the doctors.
NDE due to complication of childbirth.

2537. Chris B NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  I went in (Full 911 ambulance and the whole deal) with Bradycardia (slow pulse) at 25 BPM. This eventually got slower until it stopped altogether at 17 BPM. I never lost consciousness. I was watching the heart monitor and all of a sudden in a flash I was out of body and "standing" in the hallway outside of the room looking in from behind the medical team.  I felt warm and cozy all over like the most comfortable I've ever been. I was aware of a large male figure standing next to me but I couldn't make out his face and he didn't say anything but I could tell he was not with the medical staff. I believe he was wearing jeans and a flannel shirt kind of brown in color. He was unshaven with darkish brown hair. Was it an angel or Jesus? I don't know. He never spoke-just stood about a foot away and radiated warmth like a heater. The hall lighting was definitely the fluorescent lights in the hospital still. I could watch and hear the doctor yelling on the phone for someone to bring up a fluoroscope and he was arguing loudly with someone on the phone as to whose patient was more important. He told the person on the phone "you better get that god damn machine up here right now I have a guy in full heart block "
NDE due to cardiac arrhythmia with heart block.

2536. Michael C Probable NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  I was in surgery for a cervical fusion from a broken neck several months prior.  I remember the doc counting me backwards from a 100 not very far like 94 or something.  Then I felt cold air bellowing mine gown and I was in a very dark place floating and looking down I saw myself in a hospital gown laying on a ping pong table (I played ping pong a lot back then) the area around me and the table was very bright but all else was darkness it was like a circle of bright light with the table me and some docs and nurses doing something to me.  I remember I could hear my dad saying everything was going to be alright.  Then all of a sudden I was falling towards the table, it seemed very far away but I was falling very fast almost instantaneous and then I hit and actually felt like I fell and landed hard.  I didn't see anything after that but a heard a man yelling at me saying, "Mike stay with us! Come on Mike!..
Probable NDE during operation.

2535. Betty F NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  On the morning of 11/23/2010 I passed out/fainted.  I had 2 fainting spells. The first one was a complete blackout, no memory or recollection when I was out.  The second one has a memory.  When I awoke, I had a vivid memory of what I saw and it actually felt as if I had been somewhere, and that I had returned from that "happy place" and very loving.  It did not feel like a dream at all - it felt I was there, and it was incredibly "happy", exhilarating, and I was not content coming back to reality.  The memory is vivid, stronger than a dream.  Felt alert, aware, real, like being there, felt like I was awake, easy to recall.  I saw people but no faces, just dark/shadowed bodies in the background.  A person was next to me in the light - shining person, sort of looked like it might be a woman, don't know - but she had an enlightening feeling about her.  People felt real, felt like I floated back to reality, floated through an area.  I don't know what this was ...other than it felt like I was somewhere else physically.
NDE due to faint.  NDE occurred just several weeks ago.

2534. Catherine P NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  The moment of detaching myself from my body occurred quickly like a click in time. The part about my soul leaving my body and entering into the void was quickly fast forwarded so I couldn't figure out how I arrived to the void. Then I was in a dense hazy gray void -- kind of like seeing the world without colors with poor vision. I remember the feeling of self-reflection being enhanced. The only emotion present was peacefulness and a faint emotion of melancholy. I had all the time in the world. Physically, there were no boundaries around. I felt stable even though I was in mid air. There was no floor and no sky. I remember feeling alone and wondered what was happening. It was strange how I had no memory of who I was, where I was, how I got there, who I was related to, and what had happened to me. I entered a realm with no recollection.
NDE due to faint and cardiac arrest from unknown cause.  NDE apparently occurred a few days prior to submission.

2533. Guillem BC Probable NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  From Spain.  Felt a great peace, a feeling of happiness and peace as I had never felt. I was happy, suddenly started rising first slowly and then rapidly. At the end of the tunnel had a beautiful white light with a blue and white bicolor ring that was spinning like a roulette but slowly, the light aired emotional warmth, wisdom. when I was very close to the light the light was understood that God and felt a force that would stop me and would not let me into the light. Then I contact the light told me: Not yet. Then I started back down knowing that he returned to the living world. The light told me without words that I still on a mission on earth, but without saying what it was.
NDE from accident.

2532. Susannah W NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  I was playing with my sister hanging upside down on the washing line over a stone path. The line broke and I fell straight onto my head… I left my body and looked back at it without any worry or care. I then travelled in a floating sort of way to a place in the air at the other side of the garden. This did not take long and I felt no pain and very light. I arrived at a sort of cave entrance or tunnel and there was someone or some being waiting for me. He knew who I was. He was very bright and seemed sort of human but was not, he was so bright that he was quite hard to see or recognise. He was pleased to see me but did not seem to think i should be there. He said that he would go and ask what to do/if I should be there. The words were just 'felt' not spoken.  I waited outside the entrance sort of floating in the love. It was so beautiful and so perfect...I had never felt anything even close to this and was just in absolute 'heaven'and did not want it to ever end. I felt completely loved and that nothing bad could ever happen.
NDE due to head injury at age 10.

2531. Tommye R NDE English expanded version  12/12/10  I recognized that they had put me to sleep to make the incision in the artery.  And I realized that what I viewed was something I saw while I was asleep, namely, the physician standing at a console with a screen above it operating levers.  He was very intense.  The screen was blurry to me and I had the feeling that I could not understand what was on the screen, that it was like looking at one of the photos they take where they view the child in the mother's womb (can't remember what it is called).  The doctor, unlike the screen, was standing and very clear.  I felt no emotions at all.  I had a sense of myself as being larger than I was, in reality.  I was upright, not lying down… Later, I was told by my son-in-law that the physician who did the intervention told him that I had died just as they were preparing to put the splint in; I had no blood pressure or heartbeat.
NDE during heart attack.  Apparently occurred while under general anesthesia.

2530. Danielle V NDE English expanded version  12/7/10 From Netherlands.  Original in Dutch, translated to English by Annelies.   I then saw my life flash before my eyes, I also saw my parents and my children in the future and their sorrow. At that same moment or maybe one second later I felt myself leaving my body. I found I was in a tube and I was being sucked towards the light. It was a very liberating feeling, there was an ultimate feeling of love and freedom but most of all no fear and no pain. Before I came to the light I stopped and saw my deceased grandfather peek over the edge. I went further because I wanted to go to the light. I wanted to be "there" but my grandfather became very angry, he looked at me very angrily and shouted: "It's not your time yet, you have to go back".
NDE from criminal attack.

2529. Maria R NDE 4884 English expanded version  12/6/10 From Argentina.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Susana.  I woke up in a long and dark tunnel that suctioned me slowly towards a source of light that faintly lit the place where I was, since the light was still far.  I felt attracted to the light but I was not able to see it because I was facing in the other direction.  At that moment in time I had a feeling of total indifference, toward my life and toward my imminent death.  I did not have the wonderful feelings that many speak of, but considering my desperate and painful state, indifference was wonderful.  I was also not afraid, only the desire to stop suffering.  I came from a place of physical and spiritual suffering, being in limbo seemed like a treat.  While I let myself go to the magnetism that brought me closer to the light, I started to hear the faint screams of my husband who was desperately calling my name.
NDE from child birth complications.

2528. Austin T NDE English expanded version  11/30/10 Immediately, I was gone from my body but I had a body. The First thing I can remember is the feeling. I could feel other beings feelings of (let me search for words that will not be good enough) Happiness, Contentment, Knowledge, Overpowering well being, no problems! I could feel their Happiness going ALL through my being! The next thing was that it was different than daylight or dark, another color that I cannot describe. Later I remembered GOD created day & night. People that I knew knew I was coming. They were there waiting to greet and comfort me. I started asking questions like a Child. I asked 2 questions when I and Everyone else Knew to be quiet and we All did!
NDE due to industrial chemical overdose.

2527. Robert D NDE English expanded version  11/30/10  I can not tell you I was no longer afraid of the space the emptiness but rather it was the exact opposite, it was calm reassuring in a way and I was willing to stay there with no regards to any earthly reason to return. It is at that very moment when I thought and feel that, this powerful, serene, caring, authoritative loving male voice said to me " it is not your time, have someone hit you in the lower left area of your back" Instantly, I was back in the room with everyone standing around me and I motioned for someone to hit me in the area I was told. Someone did what I asked and my breathing released but it was still laborious to get air in still wheezing and whistling, it took about five minutes to regain breathing
NDE due to choking.  Received information during NDE that likely saved his life.

2526. Tim NDE 4927 English expanded version  11/30/10 During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table. I saw everyone frantically working to save me. I thought "what are they doing?" then I recognized my face and knew I had died. I was confused for a moment. I was pulled through the ceiling of the room and roof of the hospital and could see I was swiftly ascending. Then I was in the midst of a bright cloudy light with silhouettes waiting to greet me. Soon I saw my dear departed twin sister, grandmother, grandfather, and rows of departed uncles, aunts, etc. As I approached them, amidst this incredible light of love, a voice came from the direction of the light and said "Tim, it's not your time, you must go back, it's not your time to be here." I paused then argued for what seemed like forever. No way was I returning, I loved it here and was thrilled to be with my departed loved ones again.
NDE during surgery.

2525. Bob W Probable NDE English expanded version  11/30/10  As mentioned above at the point of blockage I ceased to breathe. I found myself on the ceiling looking down at a body on a bed. There was a red affect around this body. I was in a profound state of peace and contentment. There was a white light around or near me but I did stay there very long. Suddenly I was back in my bed awake and conscious of a bed full of bed prominently  claret dominated vomit and the walls and floor decorated in the same unwelcome  red detritus. Everything was red! I slowly put it all together. I must have choked and "died" momentarily. Despite the onerous task, at some ridiculous early morning hour, I cleaned up the room in a state of wonderment. I "knew" that I had died and that death was not at all like the "religious dominated dogma" and had no fear attached to it.
Probable NDE due to alcohol intoxication.

2524. Marilyn W NDE English expanded version  11/30/10  I was in and out of consciousness, and there were several doctors and nurses working on trying to get and IV into a vein to give me blood.  I remember them becoming more and more concerned because my veins were collapsing and they were not able to insert the IV.  I believe this went on for 5-10 minutes. I was listening to them talk, although I was not responding to them, I was able to open my eyes and see them.  I suddenly was above myself looking down at myself laying on the bed with the doctor and nurses working on me.  One of the nurses said "look at that sweet smile she has on her face." I then began thinking of my husband and my two children, and how hard a time he was going to have raising them by himself.  I knew that I was out of my body and dying.  I thought "oh poor Larry", then immediately felt very happy and felt a strong pull toward brightness. I could not see an actual light source just a brightness that continued to increase along with my feeling of happiness.
NDE due to hemorrhage after delivery.

2523. Mark S NDE English expanded version  11/30/10 & 5/5/13  After breaking my left femur twice, smashing both my knees and breaking both bones in my left forearm, my head crushed my left hand (bruised for months) against the dash and my spirit flung out as if I was tossed, landing on my feet and then stopping against an amazing spirit. The top of my head was at the middle of his chest. He was warrior yet father-like. Only an outline as if the light was behind him. The love was immense (as if a child being thrown against his father for the first time). I was angry not only due to the fact I just put up the fight of my life and failed, but because I already knew everyone else was dead and actually had to push myself back (when all I wanted to do was stay and listen but had a body inside a burning car to tend to). So I grabbed the spirit's chest with both my hands (forearms raised against his chest) and said "I'm not F'n done yet" while telepathically reasoning why I just spoke like that and what I'm committing to for my return with a caveat to return back if I fail.
NDE due to car accident.

2522. Wayne S NDE English expanded version  11/30/10  I was standing in the kitchen of my home. My wife asked me a question and I tried to answer, My mouth opened but I couldn't speak. The next thing I knew, I was looking at myself collapsing to the floor from what appeared to be the inside of a large, dark tube. Everything in front of me became dark and I lost sight of myself. Then a bright white light appeared behind me. I was not able to turn around and look into the light. Instead, the light started to slowly envelope me on either side, almost like fingers of light. I still didn't turn around to face it. Then everything went black. I had a brief moment when I opened my eyes enough to see the flashing lights of an emergency vehicle. The next thing I remember is waking up in the intensive care unit of a hospital connected to tubes and IVs.
NDE due to seizure.

2521. Giselle RV NDE English expanded version  11/29/10 From Costa Rica.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Susana. A being of light, even brighter and more loving, who could have been Jesus, asked them to show me part of what I still had to do on earth and to show me my new born son in the crib at the hospital.  They told me that my son had a learning path depending on the fact that I would be his mother and that my decision would greatly affect his life.  With all the pain in my heart (By the way I had no physical pain) I decided to return.  They would have to erase almost all of my memories because they explained that if I remembered too much I would not be able to handle the desire to return and would run the risk of committing suicide, which was considered wrong in that dimension.
NDE from child birth complications.

2520. Manuel P NDE English expanded version  11/28/10 From Spain.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon.  The next thing I remember is floating above the place of the accident, seeing people on the road and attendants putting me in the ambulance.
A short NDE from and accident. 

2519. Carol M NDE 4773 English expanded version  11/22/10 From Mexico.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Susana.  All of a sudden the room went from small to very large and the walls were now white.  Like a camera flash, the television set disappeared and where it hung I saw angels descending, dressed in white.  In the center was JESUS with arms crossed and he stood by the foot of the bed.  He did not say anything to me.  The angels started to touch me from my fingertips all the way to my head but without touching my stomach which glowed in a brilliant yellow.  It was as if I had a light bulb inside my belly.  At this point I felt nothing but great PEACE, no pain whatsoever.  I came to realize that I was in heaven, by the clouds.  I saw a beautiful field and a path where my 3 other children stood.  They were looking upwards and looked very sad.  
NDE from pregnancy complications.

2518. Mike I Jr. NDE English expanded version  11/22/10 Just after telling the EMS workers that "something is wrong with my heart" and several times saying that "I am so tired" I finally gave in and just exhaled and let me head fall to the side so I could rest...I sensed I would die if I did that but was so exhausted I did so anyway. Immediately upon 'letting go' I instantly was at the edge of the Earths atmosphere and I was staring into space. I literally saw stars, and many beautiful and captivating galactic things. I have since seen the same or similar things when visiting the website of the Hubble Space telescope. Now I realize I saw novas, supernovas, quasars, black hole and other things. The first thing I felt was an absence of pain (that WAS unbelievably intense just seconds before). I felt instant peace...peace and stillness beyond words and anything I have previously known. I felt calm, assured, complete and absolutely serenely wonderful. I felt LOVE...incredible perfect love...a perfectness...as if everything was just perfect, in order and so peaceful. I had a knowledge or oneness with everything it seemed...everything connected...a oneness I had never known.
NDE due to auto accident.

2517. Rachel Probable NDE English expanded version  11/22/10 I was about to sit down on chaise lounge which is in front of the TV when all of a sudden I could not swallow, I could not breathe. I tried twice with no good results. I went to try it again and heard what sounded like snap of finger I felt a release of something inside of me and it is then that I saw a white form come out of me and as I looked with my physical eyes I saw it formed my person. I recognized myself and I no longer had the sensation of not being able to breathe or swallow as I felt it was no longer needed wherever I was. I felt good and had no pain. I also felt like whatever problems I had in the world they were swept away instantly at the snap of fingers.
Probable NDE probably due to cardiac dysfunction.

2516. Mellony C NDE English expanded version  11/22/10  From Ireland During this time I could hear music and bells ringing all around me. Suddenly it went black and I could see nothing but felt at ease. I wondered why I was in darkness and thought maybe I was trapped. Quickly a light appeared to my left and I felt attracted to it. My self felt like an energy full of power and love. I could hear the vibe and voices of other ladies and men who were passing over to be with the holy mother with sure love and warmth. I could hear a strange language being spoken to me. It told me that my daughter who is mentally challenged would receive a great reward in the future an that I would find love for my very ill grandmother. I was told I had to go back.
NDE due to allergic reaction.

2515. Leslie vB NDE English expanded version  11/22/10  As time went by it got closer, like being in a tunnel with an oncoming train is the best way to describe it. Eventually after a couple of minutes, the light was upon me and enveloped me. I was the light. It's very hard to describe. I don't know how long this lasted but it felt very warm, safe, cozy and comfortable. Not at all scary. It was a nice place to be. This light of nothingness. Weightlessness. Freeness. Light, light, light. There is no space or time here. No darkness or shadows. Nothing bad. "No worries" as they say in Hawaii. Safe, light, free, weightlessness. I did many recreational drugs in my youth and this was the best high you can imagine. The high of all highs. The ecstasy of all ecstasy. The ultimate high if you will. Just so free, light and weightless. I can't stress that enough. Free, light, weightless.
NDE due to faint from unknown cause.

2514. Oscar D NDE English expanded version  11/22/10 Stopped breathing, no heart beat, had to be given CPR and chest pumping to start breathing again…
NDE due to anesthetic overdose at age 10.  Remarkable encounter with his biological parents. 

2513. Sergio J Probable NDE English expanded version  11/18/10  From Mexico.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Jacqueline. I fell asleep  for a moment but I woke up with my head on the side, resting between  two legs  protected by a white robe, which  feet were naked  in a pair of sandals. Then, I felt an overwhelming peace ...
Probable NDE related to surgery procedure.

2512. David B NDE 4908 English expanded version  11/17/10  From Italy.  Original in Italian, translated to English by Maurizio Balestrino.  I felt progressive loss of consciousness as a sinking down into a vortex, with a certain speed and a general feeling of alarm and distress, but with clarity.Then nothing: absolute nothingness, I do not know for how long, and suddenly the back of a conscience at the same time of a strong electricity shock.Then a new loss of consciousness with inability and now it pushed me gently, and then a kind of awakening out of the body, or rather without a body in a kind of a not well defined tunnel where I always felt to move towards a direction without the weight and gently, in an initial darkness that gradually grew more tenuous.I did not see any form of objects or people, but I felt the reassuring presence of beings or incorporeal souls which, without being able to distinguish from each other, I felt as full of love and desire to help and accompany me.I felt they were my deceased relatives or friends who were in close contact with me and they pushed me gently towards one direction.  My mood was an indescribable bliss and like a heat with no temperature but made of love and total satisfaction.
NDE from cardiac arrest.

2511. Christian A Probable NDE English expanded version  11/17/10  From France.  Original in French, translated to English by Jacqueline.  During the procedure (about 6 hours), I felt perfectly well, and suddenly, I saw a bright  white light, which had the shape of a galaxy, and was  turning  in the opposite direction of a clockwise . It lasted quite a long time I think , but how could I measure the length of time.... This light was composed of  the energy (souls?) of disappeared Beings; it was, somehow,  paradise, but where individuals were inseparable. However, a great joy  emanated from the whole thing, a total well-being, nothing bothering, and I wanted to stay there for eternity; I was part of that sort of galaxy, but at the same time, I was an outside spectator. Then, everything disappeared, much to my regret
Probable NDE during surgery.

2510. Alicia B NDE English expanded version  11/16/10  From Mexico.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon. Afterwards I went into  the operating-theatre and saw a lot of doctors and nurses surrounding the operating-table. I realized that they were really alarmed and were acting as fast as they could, but I watched them with complete detachment. I felt myself float towards the ceiling, and then straight away I was back in my body. I remember thinking "get these metal things out of my mouth" and feeling very cold. I wanted to bite the fingers I felt in my mouth but had no strength. I lost consciousness again and woke up when it was already night, in an oxygen tent and with saline and plasma drips all over me. For me at that age it was a "little plastic house"
NDE from surgery complications.

2509. Stephanie P NDE English expanded version  11/14/10  I saw some sort of machine being wheeled into the room. I saw a man rub two oblong shiny things together. The people around the body moved slightly back, and I got a better view as someone yelled and then it became quiet. I heard a sort of buzzing sound over the whoosh thunk and the beeeeeep, and then the shiny things were placed on the chest of the body on the bed, and it arched upward. This repeated until the steady beep became separate beeps again.
NDE due to cardiac arrest after suicide attempt.

2508. Amanda S NDE English expanded version  11/14/10  This is where I left the world as I knew it.  There was no travel it was simply done.  My eyes opened up and I was sitting cross legged on what could have been a platform or even mid air.  My surroundings were a bright white light that enveloped everything except me.  However, the light was not blinding nor did it hurt the eyes in any way.  It was really rather calming and full of love.  It was warm and the most peaceful experience I have ever had and the most loved I ever felt.  I often find myself longing for that feeling again. Praying for it.
NDE due to respiratory arrest from sepsis and pulmonary embolus at age 17.

2507. Nani NDE English expanded version  11/14/10  After the doctors could not revive me-I found myself above them in the corner of the room. I felt so peaceful and did not want to return to where ever i had come from then. It was like a clear white lit area, I could not see myself the flesh part but I could feel everything else of being human. I did not see anyone though it was so quiet. I really liked it. This feeling of peace I cannot really describe it all but it was the BEST feeling ever.  Ok, after a few minutes of that (maybe 5 minutes) I went back down to see what these doctors were working on-I saw that it was me. I, then, for some reason went back into my body and I felt so much pain as they brought me back to life.  I felt this twice in my life. For some reason I am still here...? I am NOT afraid of death now. I welcome it... I am excited to pass on; whenever that may be.
NDEs due to surgical complications, at age 18 and 24.

2506. Brice W NDE English expanded version  11/14/10  Quickly lost all sight of earthly environment, in space, not cold or particularly dark or foreign, but somehow familiar and vaguely pleasing. Came upon or was approached by familiar-seeming beings. Was hailed, hesitated connecting, instead reflecting on life left behind, feeling anger and resentment about the situation there leading to my ruined body.  Heard assurance that I could return to a body that would be made serviceable, but reacted negatively, not wanting to return to that situation. Was advised lovingly that this was my choice, which mollified me somewhat, and was then taken more deeply into light, thinking I was getting my wish and being taken home.
NDE due to complications of surgery in Air Force hospital.

2505. Lynn E Probable NDE English expanded version  11/14/10  Then the strangest thing happened.  Though I had never heard a choir singing or known of a near death experience, I remember hearing the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.  I wanted to hear more of it, I could hear people talking and calling my name.  This was very inviting to me, even as a child.  I knew I wanted to be where the music and singing was, and felt no fear whatsoever.  My name was said many times "Lynn, Lynn, Lynn".  Then I heard another voice.  It was firm and authoritative.  "Now is not the time, she must go back, she has work to do".
Probable NDE due to apparent carbon monoxide toxicity at age 9-10.  Shared 53 years later.

2504. Harold T NDE 4904 English expanded version  11/14/10 I remember being put in the ambulance and then a second ambulance came in and everyone was running around and then I was watching them from above. I was staring right in their faces and laughing ,I could see them sweating and sticking me with needle and yelling , but I really couldn't hear all I could hear was a kind of static and I could see myself it looked like my face had sagged and change color, I began to yell at myself but nothing happened.  Then I was free like a bird I could see the guys I work with talking to the boss and then I was were it was as bright as could be, not like the sun but a white bright.  It was cold but not cold and peaceful.
NDE due to heart attack.

2503. Mark P NDE English expanded version  11/14/10  From above the operating table, I saw the doctors working on my body. I felt no pain. Saw my wife and her parents in the waiting room and my mother 2500 miles away.. I will never forget it.  I was a medical student…  I was watching the doctors pounding me on my open chest wall. No consciousness during surgery, only while was like floating over my body.  I remember it as if it happened yesterday… Confirmed what I experienced with my family and two of the surgeons who were my friends and has attended medical school with me a few years before.
NDE due to surgical complications.

2502. Eddie H NDE English expanded version  11/9/10  I was unconscious in my car the fire department had to use the jaw of life to cut me outside the car. while I was in the car I was unconscious but I saw a white lady dress in white an she reach out for me with her hand an told me to take her hand an walk to the park with her an ill feel no pain! but I look at her in her face but I couldn't see her face! I saw her body an hand but couldn't see her face it look like I was looking threw a glass cup full of water! she felt so warm an happy! but I didn't take her hand because it felt strange an in the same time I heard far away a person screaming out can u hear me can u hear me I was going to grab the lady hand…
NDE due to auto accident.

2501. David A NDE 2386OBE English expanded version  11/9/10 I started choking and I was scared and could not breath, I closed the door to my room, because I didn't want to get in trouble.  I was alone  next think I know I saw darkness and felt very calm and quiet then I could see myself lying in the corner, curled up.  I see my cousin open my door and come to me and he is talking to me, I am looking down from ceiling.  
NDE due to choking at age 9.

2500. Brenda H NDE English expanded version  11/9/10 First of all I will NEVER fear death.  Maybe the pain of death but not death itself.  When I floated around that cubicle in the hospital I got to feel the real me & where I was going.  I wanted to go there. All the compassion in the world was in me & with me. My spirit was all knowing & goodness pored through me. I knew what the older nurse was thinking & the younger one, too. Older nurse was barking orders but I felt her thoughts.  I floated to one side of my curled up body from the ceiling & willed the shell of me not to hurt too much.  It's been a lot of years & it was before anyone had books or TV interviews about such things.
NDE due to cardiac arrhythmia during delivery.

2499. Pete V NDE English expanded version  11/9/10  However, while I was unconscious at the accident scene, I was in fact hovering above the entire scene below and looking down.  I saw the car against the tree, and the ambulance as well as onlookers from the neighborhood and stopped cars.  I was in no danger and no pain, perfectly aware of what was going on below, in a state of complete tranquility.  No discomfort, no judgment, no concerns.  My soul had left my body and was in a heightened state of consciousness.  Ironically, even though I was "unconscious", my soul was more alert and aware than it could have been merged with my body and mind.  Nearly 35 years later and I remember it like it was yesterday.
NDE due to auto accident.

2498. Robert C NDE 4899 English expanded version  11/9/10 Well had my second hernia operation , they had to keep me overnight for observation. Had an IV and an antibiotic .. The nurse got me out of bed to sit up I passed out or something .. I saw a bright light and went to it there I saw my mother, grandmother and mother-in law who approached me and said I have unfinished business and had to raise my sons .. Since I had just got divorced. I woke up screaming NO No. I liked it there.. The nurse and doctors try to say I had a reaction to the antibiotic but I woke all sweaty and my iv was out and I was all wet.
NDE following surgery.

2497. Ken M Possible NDE English expanded version  11/9/10   I realized from more pain in my chest that I was now inhaling water. As I came up I gasped for air, but nothing happened except choking. Then I got very relaxed and I remember thinking that the old cliché was "after 3 times going down.....it's final."  So after a few seconds of panic..... I resigned.....relaxed.....no pain.....no fear. Suddenly a hand grabbed the back of my wet suit and I was laying across what I thought was a surfboard. Then I realized that the water was shallow and I could stand up. I turned to thank the guy for helping me; but nobody was there.
Possible NDE, but a guardian angel encounter for sure!

2496. Sean M Probable NDE English expanded version  11/9/10  I was running to school and ran between two parked vehicles, about one block from my home, and ran into the side of a moving vehicle. I was knocked back and immediately lost my breath and immediately had my short life flash before me.  I do not have all that great a memory of events when I was a young child, but to this date, I vividly remember this event.
Probable NDE due to running into moving car at age 8.  Shared 62 years later.

2495. Robert L NDE 4893 English expanded version  11/9/10 I noticed light, a translucent being with a head, human-like face, arms, body, and know legs, a angel/spirit,  start to approach from my right side, was the voice of a young girl, and started saying, everything is going to be o.k., see you can fly, this gave me some comfort and that is when I stop being scared. Another angel/spirit being approached from my left side, was the voice of a young boy saying, it's fun here, you will like it here, don't you want to stay, I just watched as the two spiritual beings flew around me, laughing, seemingly having fun, I began to fly around with them and they both asked me, do you want to stay, see it's fun, I never replied, just smiled as I thought, I would like to stay here and play, but I still was missing my mother. They said see he likes it here, he wants to stay, It was like they had read my thoughts.
NDE from childhood “choking game” at age 8.

2494. Ricky W Probable NDE English expanded version  11/9/10 I tried to rescue an eight year old friend of mine from  drowning, and he took  me down under the water. He was too strong for me, and I thought that I was drowning, or that maybe I was dead. I began to see a bright, yellowish light and feel that if this was death, it was very peaceful and wonderful. One of my  feet found a rock, and then my head came  out from under the water, and I  was totally rejuvenated. Ever since that incident, I always wondered if I  was dead and was brought back by God. I have never experienced the bright light before and had never heard about it on television or other media sources. I do thank God because maybe I was dead, and he put the rock there.
Probable NDE due to drowning at age 9.  Shared 51 years later.

2493. Lady D Probable NDE English expanded version  11/9/10 I had been given a general anesthetic and barely recall losing consciousness.  The next thing I recalled had nothing to do with the earth or people.  I was conscious of my thoughts and of having no physical body.  I was a speck of light or energy suspended in a curved hallway that had no ceiling or floor.  The hallway walls where white, curved into infinity on either side of me.  The walls were infinitely tall.  I do not know how wide the hallway was it felt like 6 to 10 feet had I a physical body.  Where the ceiling and floors would have been there were dark voids.  I floated in the hallway.  I could stretch my light in a single line horizontally or vertically but I was always centered at one spot in the hallway.  The view was always the same.  I explored the space as much as my new existence (speck of light energy) would allow me.
Probable NDE due to delivery complications.

2492. Diane D NDE English expanded version  11/8/10 I fainted, fell backwards and hit my head on the brass covered foot of the table leg that was behind me.  I was in the dark, but there was no defined space and saw myself standing there.  A wonderful feeling of calmness came over me and then I started to walk away very fast with purpose, into this dark that I could see in perfectly.  I knew just where to go.  And as I watched myself walk away I remember asking all the pertinent questions I would ask and their being answered but not knowing how.  I then hear my voice say, come back, Diane, it's not your time. Then I watched myself turn around and head back the way I started.  I came to sobbing, with my mother and sister yelling my name over and over.  They told me I fell and hit my head so hard I wasn't breathing and they were slapping my face in panic.
NDE due to faint and head injury at age 12.

2491. Karen C Probable NDE English expanded version  11/8/10  I found myself in front of a door. It magically opened and my step mother greeted me. She said "Hi, Karen, Come on in". She was absolutely beautiful and younger than I knew her. She had a white gown. Her hair was long and shoulder length. I stepped into an apartment. It was the most brilliant white light I ever saw. As I stepped into her apartment, she said "I will show you around". I saw her bedroom, which was a single bed and white. Her living room all white. Her kitchen/dining room which she invited me to sit down and to drink some tea with her. I sat down and asked her who the guy was in the living room. I was thinking it. She answered that it was her first husband. Each time I was thinking about something, she had an answer.
Probable NDE due to hypoglycemia.

2490. Karen H NDE 4882 English expanded version  11/8/10  At some time that night I became 'aware' of the cardiac monitor making a loud continuous alarming noise and thought to myself that's the noise those machines make when you're dead.  I knew it was my machine making the noise but it didn't worry me.  I had this calm and relaxing sense of a beautifully all encompassing love, peace, and joyfulness.  It was a complete fulfillment but in a quiet, gentle serene way.  I saw the third year student nurse who was on duty that night come running to the door.  I was looking down over the top of the curtain rail.  I clearly saw her look at the monitor and a look of fear came over her face.  She quietly said "oh my God" to herself and then ran forward pulling the curtain out of her way.
NDE due to cardiac arrhythmia/arrest.

2489. Cori R NDE English expanded version  11/8/10  The next thing I knew I was on a path with "blurry" beings on each side.  They didn't look like "people" but I knew they were.  The colors were very earth tone.  As I floated down the path, there to the right I saw my dog Molly, who had passed away about 7 months before.  The next thing I knew, I was at the end of the path.  It felt so good.  Then I heard my daughter, from what seemed a million miles away crying "Mommy! Mommy!  What's wrong?!" I heard her, but I didn't want to go.  She cried again very, very faintly.  I again said to myself "I don't want to go.  I won't go!"  It felt so good there, no pain at all, so peaceful and cozy.  I felt so good.  Just then, one of my dogs literally jumped on my chest and stuck her tongue in my mouth!  I was then almost "slammed" back in to reality and stopped seizing. I ultimately ended up having a craniotomy to remove all the blood from the inside of my skull.
NDE due to brain hemorrhage and seizure.  Met her deceased dog.

2488. Ellen C Probable NDE English expanded version  11/8/10 In same hospital for second time with pneumonia. Recall being in old fashioned oxygen tent with heavy plastic tucked in around bed, zipper for staff to work with me and noisy machine. Parents away on vacation and had been called back as told "she may not make it"  Grandmother had been caring for me. At time of experience no longer sensation of not being able to breathe, no pain and  sensation of floating, everything very bright, feeling of softness on clouds. Clouds parted and revealed large white gates opening and end of the experience.
Probable NDE due to pneumonia at age 5.  Shared 64 years later.

2487. Holland C FDE & NDE English expanded version  11/8/10  I sat on my bike in front of the car that was about to run me over for what felt like hours, having a little conversation with myself. Commenting on things like what I nice hood the car had and this is what that angle was talking about, that I saw years before. and then the car ran me over. I went right under. I was told people lifted the tail end of the car off me, I don't know. but as for the other side. well . let me just say that I was eternal is the best way to describe it.
Fear-death experience (with life review) and NDE following due to being run over by a car at age 3 or 4.

2486. Bess J NDE vs. Anesthetic English expanded version  11/8/10 I was on the Operating Table after a terrible car crash that almost severed half of my right foot. I passed out. I then started to walk towards a very peaceful light sort of a tunnel and just a tremendous since of joy as I got closer to the end of the tunnel I heard an older man's voice that said it was not my time yet and then I awoke on the operating table and I heard the doctor's and nurses saying that I was waking-up and then they administered something that knocked me out again.
NDE vs. anesthetic awareness following accident at age 16.

2485. Thelma S NDE English expanded version  11/8/10 LIGHT? OH, IT WAS MORE, BIGGER, PROFOUNDLY MORE, THAN JUST LIGHT. IT WAS SO VAST! SHIMMERING, A CLOUD OF WARM, LOVE. IT WAS AS IF I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE WHOLE WORLD, AND EVERYONE LOVED ME BACK! IT WAS SUCH A GLORIOUS FEELING, THAT I DID NOT WANT TO RETURN. NO PAIN, NOT NEGATIVE IN ANYWAY. THEN, I ASKED IF I COULD STAY. IT WAS UP TO EACH OF US. WE HAVE ALL CHOICES. OUR LIFE IS A GIFT TO US. WE MAKE OF IT AS WE WANT. THERE IS A "GOD" FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, AND IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED love!
NDE due to criminal attack.

2484. David S NDE English expanded version  11/8/10  Ran a mini-marathon on a very hot(100 plus) day.  Became more and more impaired, trying to finish, until I collapsed.  Awakened in an ice-bath, conscious of worried faces observing me -- presumably doctors.  I was very worried that I was in grave peril -- suddenly I was watching doctors working over a body on a table -- I was either above, and/or I have the recollection of being behind large glass doors -- and I was willing (maybe shouting) that they NOT pull the sheet over that poor schmuck lying there, who happened to be me . . . and all of the sudden, I was back in my body, feeling my heart and temperature racing…
NDE due to heat stroke while running mini marathon.

2483. Zoe NDE  11/8/10  From Europe.  This experience I am keeping in myself for almost last 50 years.  I was born as a child after 8 months carriage with a very hard delivery. At age of about 3 I had epileptic attacks which are occasionally present all these years. Until today all e.g. had been within normal range, but without tablets did not succeed to live without attacks.  Winter 1960/61 parents had visitors and most were smoking.  After they left window was opened for short time to let smoke out.  Outside temperature was under -10 degrees C.  Full ashtray was left in the room. When parents were going to sleep they checked on me, as usual.  Then they found out that something was wrong.  Father, medical surgeon, started giving me mouth to mouth breathing, window was widely opened. I was watching from under the ceiling his work and listened to his asking, begging to start breathing. I was answering that where I was is beautiful and trying to persuade him to come to join me in this beauty, so that we both go out through the opened window. I felt no cold or any uncomfortable environment. He did not hear me. Then I found out when I was back. Next morning when I woke up besides this I had clear vision of how I knew some things at period when I was a baby of 10 months and older until this happening.
No link because this is such a short NDE.

2482. Pietro Probable NDE English expanded version  11/5/10 The pain has ceased, a feeling of peace and total well-being arrived, the feeling was like falling into a gray wadding. You could see a light that slowly died away or moved away, a bit like the old televisions when they switched off.
Probable NDE from ventricular fibrillation.

2481. Badtzmaru NDE English expanded version  11/5/10 I was unaccountably transported to a completely different place, with the searing pain in my head miraculously gone. I appeared to be in a large tunnel that led somewhere. The tunnel was in the shape of a large Roman arch and was constructed of a completely smooth material in an off-white color. Running through the tunnel was a wide path of the same material in the same color that disappeared into the distance.  Although no lamps were visible, the tunnel and the pathway were brightly illuminated. For some reason, my mind was aware that this was the entrance to heaven. But as I tried to proceed upon the path I found that I could not move forward, as if the way was blocked by an invisible barrier. Puzzled, I looked around, but could see nothing but the tunnel and the path. Then, from above and to my right came a voice that was unmistakably ethereal, that said, in a clear, resonant voice: “It is not yet time.”  
NDE from stroke.

2480. Cheryl O NDE English expanded version  11/2/10  I remember all of a sudden everything went white and I started to feel like I was spinning. I fell but didn't feel it, everything was numb. When I hit I could hear my friend's boyfriend screaming for help and the next thing I saw was the back of his head leaning over me trying to get me to wake up. My friend ran out of the bathroom still yanking her pants up to make sure everything was okay.
OBEs from spontaneously going unconscious.

2479. Trevor J NDE English expanded version  11/2/10   I was surrounded by a ring of fire, I could not see my body.  Dark figures where around the fire.  There were millions of other rings of fires with souls in them. I saw our driver who was a Private being dragged away by the dark figures. I called on Jesus Christ to save me A hole opened in the red skies and through the hole was A blue sky.
Combat NDE.

2478. William H Probable NDE English expanded version  11/2/10  I became conscious of waves of energy washing over me. It was a feeling of total comfort. I feared nothing. I didn't know if I was alive or dead. This was first person as though I were still in my body.  Time was muted, there was no sense of it at all.  Next I see my body lying in a pool of light like a spotlight shining on it, darkness is all around it, but still no fear, only comfort. I get the feeling I must return to it, but I don't want to.  I look closer and see myself in white with an identification tag on my left wrist. I know my body is in a hospital. I still don't want to return. I become aware of a light but I don't go toward it, rather it seems to come to me. I am taken through time it seems, I see myself as an old man in my sixties dying with lung cancer. Something tells me I can change that and the white light comes over me.
Probable NDE from attempted suicide.

2477. Bobby T NDE English expanded version  11/2/10  Around 4:30 am I apparently woke for former wife and she came to my bedside. I am in a state darkness and clarity fading in and out of kind of a sleepiness. Cathy touched my forehead and called for a nurse explaining that I was burning up. The nurse came in  took my temperature and ran out of the room  giving orders for Ice and ICU. During this time I entered into a state I have never experienced before. First I saw myself lying in bed at home. Then I was lying in bed with the nurses around me and Cathy was arguing with the neighbors about the DOG BARKING (key words) During this event Cathy asked me where I was and I told her the hospital.
NDE from sepsis.

2476. Robert H NDE OBE2351 English expanded version  11/2/10 I saw that it was me in the hospital bed in an emergency room. I ran out of the room, through the double doors, and found myself walking down the hallway of my house.  I went into my bedroom and saw my wife asleep in bed. I went to the foot of the bed and grabbed her legs. She then setup and called out my name "Robert."  Before I could say anything.  The phone rang in the Kitchen.  She got out of bed and I stood off to one side as she went by me to go and answer the phone.  I walked behind her and said "I have to go."  But she could not hear me.  I then turned and went out the front door of our house.  I then found myself lying in the hospital bed with doctors all over me.
NDE from motorcycle accident.

2475. Michel B NDE English expanded version  11/1/10  From France.  Original in French, translated to English by Kathy.  Anyway I was very very comfortable in this extended position.  I was watching as a stranger (dispassionately) the scene unfolding about 50 meters away from my.  At no time did I sense fear about what was going on outside.  I was at peace, totally inaccessible a simple observer, up high but not ‘flying’ I could see both my body and the outdoors.  I could see myself ‘seeing’ (very difficult to explain+++)  I could feel no pain.  I was very  very comfortable, totally relaxed, bathed in softness and light.
Physician NDE from hemorrhagic stroke. 

2474. Harry L Probable NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  It started with me flying through the sky and was very pleasant. All of a sudden, I dove downward and entered into the water. I kept getting deeper and began seeing my entire life flash before me. I remember seeing details of my childhood and later life that I had completely forgotten. Watching the births of my children and seeing them grow up again had deep meaning for me. At the time my children were 17,19,and 21. At the end of the dive, I entered what seemed to be like a cave and I was surrounded by people or beings of some kind. I can't describe them because I never saw them. I just felt their presence and could hear them talking about me. They were trying to decide where I should go next. At that point I was frightened and began making a case why I should go back.
Probable NDE during a coma after surgery.

2473.  Shane P NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  The next memory I have is I am laying on the side of the highway and my cousin is on top of me beating on my chest.  Then, I am conscious of the fact that I stop breathing.  I am not panicking.  I am not scared.  I don't know how to explain it.  It's like I knew I wasn't breathing anymore but I didn't need to.  It was peaceful.  I was calm.  The next thing I knew I was looking down at my body and my cousin is slapping me on the face and beating me on the chest.  I was viewing this from about 10ft above the ground.  I could also see a police officer standing to the side, not doing anything by the way, and my cousin would yell at him to do something and he would just stand there.  I could see everything.  At that point reality hit me and the exact thought I had believe it or not was "I have to get back down there" and my next memory is me taking a deep breath and seeing my cousin and paramedics. 
NDE from seizure.

2472.  Rose D NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  I was having an asthma attack but this one seemed much worse than any I'd had before. I passed out and stopped breathing. My body completely shut down and the next thing I knew I was in a dark place. It didn't seem like a room because I didn't feel my feet standing on anything solid. I didn't find it strange either that I was floating. I felt a kind of normal-ness, like I knew why i was there and it was okay. In front of me was a podium with an open book on it with a little writing on one of the pages. Beside it as an inkwell with a quill in it. There was no one else in the room but I felt a presence telling me to look at the book, so I did and I didn't understand anything that was written there but I remember thinking, "My name isn't here" so I assumed I wasn't meant to be there. I awoke with my mum and dad standing over me and I remember saying "I saw the book, that means I'll be going back".
NDE due to asthma attack at age 9.

2471.  Dianne H Probable NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  I was feverish and uncomfortable with all the lines going in and out of my body.  All of a sudden I was in a very beautiful place with soft green grass and a blue, blue sky.  There was a perfect refreshing temperature (it was summer in Phoenix and hot in the hospital).  There was a light , but no sun to be seen.  I was standing barefooted on a slight downward slope with a clear brook not too deep and about two or three feet wide at the bottom of the incline.  The other side of the brook/river was a slight incline, but a little higher than the one I was on...the slope was not uncomfortable on which to stand.  I  was walking slowly towards the water( I am not sue why I was drawn to the water) and was surprised to be able to breathe well and felt no pain. I was barefooted, but do not remember what I was wearing.  I looked up towards the opposite bank and saw my Aunt Margaret coming rapidly towards me.
Probable NDE due to illness.

2470.  Michael W NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  My NDE experience started the moment the car hit me!  As soon as I was hit I remember going to a dark place, darker than a room without windows and no door or light. Darker than I could have ever imagined.  Then I remember coming to in the ICU for a moment.  The next NDE experience I remember was looking down on my body and seeing several hospital staff personnel rushing in to work on me, at that point I remember leaving the building and heading up into the sky, and I remember looking back at the hospital, and then the next thing that happened was I was heading into the light.  When I came out of my comma I remember telling people that the light was as bright as the Sun but it did not harm my eyes. While I was heading in the direction of the light I was told that it was not my time and I returned to my body.  The voice that told me that I had to return to my body I just new was Jesus Christ.  I did not see him I just new.
NDE at age 10 due to being run over by a car.

2469.  Anne M NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  I had been riding with friends and we had crossed a main boulevard and were approaching a gravel side road.  I recall riding down the gravel road and looking up to see a large beautiful tree with a brilliant light behind it.  I remember being amazed at the beauty of the tree and turned to my friends and shouted "Look at that tree!", but then saw my friends had stopped and were leaning over someone on the ground.  I told myself to go back, that someone had been hurt.  After this, I can only recall waking up in an ambulance.  I later asked my friends if they had seen the tree, as I wondered if I'd seen it just as I had been hit, but they hadn't.  At the time, I thought that there had been a tree up ahead and the sun behind it had made it appear so radiant.  I did return to that area, but no such tree could be found.
NDE from bicycle accident at age 16.

2468.  Michael H Probable NDE English expanded version  10/24/10  It's about that time that I realized that if I see where I'm headed  I'm lost...... By the way if your lucky, you learn a lot of things very quickly...... I terrible thing I was told ( not in words) was hell is being cut off, knowing you were -something - but   you   can't  remember what that is, and there is more but you can't remember that means....It's on the tip of your, wait ,what's a tip, what am I again....? over and over, trying to sink your teeth into it, just as you bite....nothing, like a face full of  Novocain.  That voice again, It was so calm, It said it is not your time to choose, this is a gift, life. You have been selfish, so many things  were being told in me, when I saw my room light like a far off star I thought and felt so ashamed  and naked to everything, I just thought ,"I'm so sorry, I didn't know, please"
Probable NDE due to suicide attempt at age 16.

2467.  Sabine E Possible NDE English expanded version  10/23/10 From France.  Original in French, translated to English by Jacqueline. Suddenly my body was lifted and I saw myself in bed with all those tubes, I was floating above it. I was in a state of complete bliss, everything was beautiful, and, especially, I was not suffering any more, the pain was gone and  I felt really good. Then, I saw a tunnel with a white dot at the end, that attracted me. I moved toward it, and as I was moving on,  the white dot was getting bigger an bigger, and I kept going.
Possible NDE after surgery.

2466.  Silvia F NDE English expanded version  10/23/10 From Italy.  Original in Italian, translated to English by Maurizio B.  At a sharp bend I left off the road.  I do not remember if it was a stroke of sleep caused by medications which I was taking (for asthma) or speed (I remember I was in the third gear) ... I just know I went straight!  Suddenly I saw myself enveloped by a huge white light ... At first I did not understand where I was ...
NDE from car accident.

2465.  Verschelde NDE English expanded version  10/22/10 From France.  Original in French, translated to English by Jacqueline. I was watching  myself over my body,  in a state of total serenity and  complete detachment  from what was  happening below. I saw the nurse  slapping me, asking me not to fall asleep  and stay awake.  I felt nothing... and I did not understand why everybody panicked because I felt really good, calm,  and I did not want to "return", I felt so good, it was like if my body had nothing to do with me.
NDE from child birth complications.

2464.  Deedee Probable NDE English expanded version  10/17/10 From Canada.  So I decided to hop off my 3 foot high bed, until I noticed my feet never landed on the floor; Instead, I literally just floated. I felt light as air. Then sensed  a tugging feeling coming from my belly button and I started to slowly move toward my window; which was glowing a bright white light. As I looked down I noticed a cord; delicate, see through and sparkling, making it's way from me, towards the light, passing  forever into the non visible distance ...''
Probable NDE from sleep apnea.

2463.  Giancarlo N NDE English expanded version  10/17/10 From Italy.  Original in Italian, translated to English by Maurizio B.  Then a huge bright light but not blinding indeed very nice, a kind of obstacle and then the return at a speed rate that you can not describe I was shouting my dissent while I was running through a tunnel and finally the revival. 
NDE from accident.

2462.  Anna-Cristina S Probable NDE English expanded version  10/17/10 From Germany.  Original in German, translated to English by Claire.  It was beautiful, indescribable really. I floated to a light from which a kind of goodness emanated.  The light was bright but not blinding.  I saw the shadow of a being; I think the outline was female.  She smiled at me and I felt happy and somehow comforted and protected.  I was not afraid.  I was happy to immersed myself in this beautiful light.
Probable NDE from illness.

2461.  Kelly T NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I then remember seeing a bright light and suddenly being up in the sky just above my parents' apartment building.  I didn't feel alone.  I felt the presence of a light, angelic being who was with me to my right.  It felt very peaceful!  We hovered in the sky watching my father in sheer panic carrying my lifeless body out of the apartment building with my mother and little brother following.  I saw my father place my body in the backseat of the car and saw them rush to the hospital.  I then remember hearing my family's voices (parents, aunts, uncles) all calling out my name, asking me to wake up.  I sense the being that was with me giving me the okay to return to my body.  I then remember darkness, hearing their voices a little louder, then waking up in a hospital bed with my family surrounding me in tears.  I woke up in complete peace, turned to my mom and said, "Mommy!  I saw an angel!" 
NDE due to bacterial meningitis and seizure at age 7-8.

2460.  Shannon NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  To me, as soon as I hit, I opened the door and stepped onto the road. No pain. Holding my face. I stood under what I thought was a street lamp. 3 women came and said they heard the crash. They laid me down and one kneeled at hip level, the other at about knee level, and the third at my feet facing me. At some point one of the women told me she was going to go get a pillow and another woman was going to call for help. Not sure what happened to the other woman. I came to, on the ground, my boyfriend screaming my name… I'm not sure how many days had passed since the accident, but when I told my version of what happened, no one knew what I was talking about or who the ladies were. My mother said I was late for curfew that night and she just didn't feel right. She called my boyfriends home and he and his grandmother went looking, and found me approx a mile from their home, out cold on the ground.
NDE following auto accident at age 16.

2459.  Marnie A NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I had a feeling as if I was not meant to be there even though no words were said or his body language didn't imply that I shouldn't be there.  It was almost as if it was just understood. At that moment, I felt like I was going back.  That place was disappearing which I can't explain.  Just disappearing.  At that point I started to hear a man's voice.  I started to hear the sirens.  The sirens got louder and realized I was in an ambulance and a man was sitting next to me telling me that "Everything is okay.  You'll be okay."  I passed out again and wasn't conscious until much later.
NDE at age 5 due to auto accident.

2458.  Kathleen W Probable NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  In front of me, a distance of about 10 - 12 feet, a micro thin line appeared.  It was a white, luminous line that was brighter and more beautiful than any crystal like prism casting light; a white that made the whitest white I know of to be dull and off-colored.  As the line widened just a fraction - the light became shards.  Sharp, razor edged shards of light.  It was so beautiful that I knew the only thing that I wanted was to go towards that opening, sure that beautiful would be an inadequate word to describe what must lay beyond that light.  I could not propel myself, I felt that I no longer had limbs to walk with, to pull myself forward with, no hands - nothing.  I thought in my mind "Move forward, move yourself towards that light" and at that moment, I felt two hands pushing downward on my shoulders.  The voice was masculine, it came from behind, it said:  "It's not time yet".
Probable NDE due to attempted suicide at age 17.

2457.  Raven W NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  This is where there seems to be a skip in time or.. something because the next thing I knew, I could suddenly breathe again. And while I remember sitting up, I don't remember seeing anyone or anything around me. I was sitting cross legged on what felt like a solid platform though I couldn't see anything above, bellow or around me except a solid endless white with several floating mini televisions that had nothing but static on them. There was some white noise from the televisions but it wasn't overly loud or annoying, just there. I felt like the platform I was sitting on was rising (like a slow moving elevator) and I was going up though there didn't really seem to be anywhere to go to. I felt nothing. Not happy or sad or confused, just... ease. As if everything was fine and this was all perfectly normal even though I knew it was all very wrong. As if consciously I was aware that something wasn't right but I didn't care.
NDE at age 6 due to choking on candy.

2456.  Maggie V NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  From Canada.  I had been transported from my hometown to a big city hospital, as I was having a massive heart attack, when I got there. I was taken into a room with many Doctors, I had been laying there on a stretcher when I looked up and said ok something is happening here ..I don't feel so good...when next thing I know I was in this dark room, no else was in there with me, but felt a peacefulness and calmness, that I had never encountered or experienced in my life...once brought back out of this dark room...I knew that I had been somewhere ..where I had never been before, and know that I should never be scared in my life again to cross over. This room was just black didn't have corners...didn't see anyone or anything in the room. Just remembered it's was such a beautiful warm room, and once awake was kind of disappointed that I was no longer there.
NDE due to heart attack.  Experience occurred just a few weeks ago.

2455.  Perry D Probable NDE 4842 English expanded version  10/16/10  I was in an ambulance and everything was black, I felt like my soul was being lifted out of my body. All the pain was subdued and I felt like everyone around me was in a different world. I saw a very bright light, the light was beckoning me, it wasn't like it was speaking to me but rather I knew what it was saying in my guts. It said "let go, relax, everything is going to be okay" There was just love everywhere, there was nothing to worry about. Then I heard my fathers voice (in the ambulance at the time) talking, and I started to pray to God, I said I didn't want to die yet etc. I tried really hard to catch that first breath. I don't remember anything after that I just awoke in the hospital.
Probable NDE due to illness.  Experience happened within the last several weeks.  Contributor is 15 years old.

2454.  Cheryl B NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I was in a tunnel but there were no walls as we know them. I was surrounded by beautiful lights of every color in the rainbow. It was like a childhood kaleidoscope. I felt like I was moving somehow and was floating on air. I was surrounded by feelings of warmth and peace. I didn't see or hear anyone, but did feel the presence of others. I was not afraid and felt tremendous peace. That is my NDE. When I woke up in the hospital 8 days later I could not stop talking about the beautiful colored lights in the tunnel. I wanted everyone to understand what I had seen.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2453.  Lily E NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I remember thinking how there was only very small ripples on the surface of the water-how smooth and funny the water looked from that angle. Next, I was in a dark tunnel. I did not like being in this dark place. I could see light at the end. I wanted to go to the end toward the light. I experienced moving very fast, not walking or running on foot but flying almost on a current of air head first going toward the end of the tunnel. I got to the end and I could not see anyone but "felt" people were there. I was not afraid but felt happy and secure. I felt that I somehow knew the people, they knew me and that they cared about me. I did not walk out of the tunnel because it was so bright that I could not see anything.
NDE due to drowning at age 5.  Shared 50 years later.

2452.  John D Probable NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  My mother said that she was concerned by this answer. and asked what I remembered.  I told her that during my operation I went to live with God.  She asked more.... what happened when I went to live with God? I told her that God said I was supposed to go back and live with my Mom and Dad for a long time, before I would come back to live with him.  My Mom asked if I was scared, and my response was something like... "how could I be scared of God?".  I wish I remembered the experience myself, but my Mom's memory of the way I described things is still very clear.
Probable NDE at 7 months during open heart surgery.  Remarkable apparent remembrance of NDE several years later.

2451.  Lorri B NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  From Canada.  My dad (he passed away April 2008) and I were standing by an orange cap in the trauma room.  But its not like our brains think.  I did not see his face but it was more like a "knowing".  I didn't have the identity Lorri but I was the essence of who I am.  We stood..."stood" is a wrong word makes you think like we had feet, or we were a solid matter, but we didn't hover either.  My dad and I "just were" beside some orange cap which felt like it was up high and we could see (again not with our eyes, just "know" that there were a lot of people in the trauma room and you could feel the tension, pressure, excitement, fear, animosity, frustration amongst all those people.  It was not pleasant to feel so my dad and I left the trauma room.
NDE due to heart attack.  Experience happened one week prior to being shared.

2450.  Walter W FDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I really felt that I was going to die! During this brief interval I experienced the panoramic life review phenomenon--a horizontal series of TV- or movie-like screens of what I believe were past events in my life. Though I couldn't remember the content of any of these scenes afterward, I recall that they were very detailed. The strip of pictures seemed to move past quite rapidly.
Fear-death experience during auto accident.

2449.  Aharon N NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I was in a transparent, luminescent balloon of bliss, floating inside like a baby in a mother's womb. However I saw my self what I was. I experienced wonderful feeling of bodilessness, no burden of weight, no measure of time, distance and space. In that transcendent balloon, I was fully conscious of my being and could feel what's beyond this transparent balloon. What I saw and felt is beyond my expression. During this state, I again pleaded God: " I am so near you, please take me to you!". After this plea, all of a sudden, images of my wife and children started coming to me. I can't explain what my thoughts were, when I saw them. I only know that I slipped from this luminescent balloon, like a baby slipped from mother's womb to take birth. I suddenly found the doctor and a medic waking me up. They said, " Aaron, we saved you......".
NDE due to heart attack.  Contributor is originally from India.

2448.  Raymond H NDE English expanded version  10/16/10 I first went to the misty place.  The sense of beauty, love, peace, and most of all completion still makes me cry whenever I remember it.  I somehow felt that I was "allowed" to say goodbye to those still on earth.  I envisioned my kids and was instantly in a void.  My kids were there, but without seeing, hearing, or touching.  I could sense them and I knew they could sense me.  I wanted to tell them that I loved them and say goodbye, but couldn't.  Then I knew they understood and I turned back to the mist.  Back in the mist I was ready to let go, but suddenly the mist was retreating.  I was back in the void. Then I was in pain.
NDE due to heat stroke.

2447.  Sylvia S NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  From that I recall going up...like in a tube with bright, white light not describable as any light on earth.  I heard music that was so divine and had a feeling of total peace and happiness.  It was a spiritual feeling like none I had ever experienced in my life.  Nothing I had done on earth so far ever gave me that sense of happiness or peacefulness.   I only could go up so far and then came to an abrupt stop and a strong male voice said my name.  I could not see this person.  He said, "You cannot come with me, you must go back."  I pleaded saying, "Oh please, it is so wonderful, let me stay."  He said, "You must go back, you have babies to care for."
NDE associated with childbirth.

2446.  Paul V NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  After 2-3 minutes the pain went away. I remember thinking about my family, wondering what they were going to do without me. That's the last thing I remember before I started going out of it. At first everything went dark and I felt myself leaving out of my body. At first everything was total black. I don't remember going through any kind of tunnel or anything. I did come out of the darkness however. The next thing I remember is opening my eyes up and seeing the brightest light you could ever believe. It was all around me. 10 times brighter than the sun, but it did not hurt my eyes to look at it. It was the most peaceful and serene feeling a human could ever experience. Words cannot express what I felt like at that moment! I knew I was in a good place. It was a lot better than where I have been in life. What I was feeling at that moment was just overwhelming.
NDE due to electrocution.

2445.  Dee H NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I remember that I was floating like-because it seemed as if I was walking but yet not. I said there was this kind of bridge or walkway and I started towards it because I was drawn towards it. As I got towards the middle, I could see this beautiful park like setting and there were people standing around and talking and it was a very bright yet not in a blinding sunlight type way, day and the closer I got to this park type area the more wonderful I felt. I felt so over-whelmed with love and kindness and like I was going into the most loving home-like setting. It was such a comforting and embracing type of feeling you didn't ever want to leave it. I thought I couldn't get there on the other side fast enough. Just as I was about to reach the grass two nuns in their black and white habits approached me, they never actually touched me, but they told me I had to go back…
NDE due to allergic reaction during surgery.

2444.  Lawanda N NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  The third event was when I went in to early labor with my daughter. I remember her being born.  I remember watching it happen, and as she was born, my partner was rushed out of the delivery room, and I followed him in to the lobby.  When I got out there his mother and sister and father had arrived. I could see them as if I was looking down on them. I even watched my partner faint and remember laughing at him because I thought he fainted from watching our daughter being born.  Later I found out it was because he was told I had died.  To this day they say there is no way I could have known that because I never left the delivery room, and that my heart had stopped three times during the birth.
NDEs.  Clinical death at age 3 weeks (recovered in a morgue) and two remembered NDEs at age 9 and 23.  Contributor is Native American.

2443.  Matthew B NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I went to rest my head on the table but my head slammed down. My arms and hands locked up, my body stiffened. My friend’s wife was a RN, and she was scared. They said I was trying to talk, but my jaw was clenched shut, I was trying to mutter words through my teeth: moaning like. My eyes rolled back, when they were trying to lift my head up. My friend, who is strong, could not pry my hands open or un-bend my arm. They were about to call 911. What I saw and felt was pure ecstasy. That is the only word I know of to explain it by definition. Immediately I saw the blackest black; black like space. I felt as if I had no body. I was weightless. There was no temperature. I was just conscious. The only way I have been able to explain it to friends was as if a doctor numbed your body and put you in a pool and blindfolded you with the lights off. What I felt was an enormous amount of ecstasy at first, and then I realized I was going nowhere, I was stuck, I got scarred. I was looking around in a panic. I saw a pin prick of light at the top right of the darkness. I immediately felt ecstasy again.
NDE due to passing out and likely seizure.

2442.  Tony G NDE English expanded version  10/16/10   I was taken to the hospital whilst laying on the trolley.  The person with me heard a mayday alert and saw the medical team rush to me.  They hurried me off to a resuscitation room.  I believe it was at that time I was moving in a dark tunnel.  I do not remember leaving my body but just seemed to be floating. I remember hearing a quiet rushing sound, as I progressed in the tunnel. I saw my paternal grandmother holding a little boy's hand that was standing next to her. I believe the little boy was my son who was born and lived only for two days but showed himself to me as about three years old the age he would have been had he lived.
NDE due to accidental overdose of alcohol and medication.

2441.  James C Probable NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  The lasting impression that I have is the feeling that I experienced when I saw the light.  The feeling was that all would be OK.  Up until I saw the light I was in great turmoil because I knew I was going to die, and I did not want to die.  Seeing the light somehow gave me great comfort.  The light came into my view gradually, and the brighter it became, the more I lost my fear of dying.  The light at first appeared to be far off in the distance. I remember looking at it with curiosity.  It seemed to get brighter and closer to me, but I do not think there was a tunnel.  By the time the light became so close that I felt it was becoming a part of me, I was no longer afraid. Just when my fear was gone, the light faded and I started to become aware of being in the hospital.  The doctors told me that I had been resuscitated in the Recovery Room.
Probable NDE due to accident and blood loss.

2440.  John J Probable NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  I AM TRYING TO DOCUMENT AS MUCH AS I CAN IN A POEM FORMAT, THIS IS THE BEGINNING AS BY MY TIME IN THE OTHER REALM I SPENT SEVERAL YEARS AND THERE IS MUCH TO TELL. I SHALL CONTINUE AS I HAVE TIME, BUT IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE AS REAL AS ANY IN LIFE I HAVE HAD THUS FAR.
NDE associated with surgery and spontaneous perforation of colon.  Remarkable two years of experiences in unearthly realms.

2439.  Helen W NDE English expanded version  10/16/10  from New Zealand  I was living in an industrial building with some friends at the time. I felt like I was going to faint (hot and clammy, dizzy, nauseous) but I couldn't talk or yell out so I stumbled out to get my friends attention. I might have grunted before I collapsed in front of them. I felt myself being sucked away from my body and when I opened my eyes I was in an amazing place with lots of greenery - trees, rolling hills, etc. I felt an overwhelming joy and freedom. I noticed a trail of sorts - sort of like a dirt track - so I started to follow it. I wasn't walking it was more of a floating sensation. I was full of wonderment - Everything looked so amazing it was like I was experiencing everything for the first time as if I had never seen an old oak tree or green fields before. I came across a crossroads where an old man was waiting - he had a wizard-like appearance with a long beard but no hat and he had an ordinary looking cane.
NDE from passing out.

2438.  Zack J Probable NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  from Australia  I then came into the pyramid age and was approximately 20 to 30 years of age and was employed to assist in the building of the pyramids. At the time of the pyramids the area was not a desert, it seemed very lush, I saw in detail how the pyramids were built. Again I saw my life in a moment to moment manner and was aware of eating dinner with other  workers. There was no sense that we were slaves or in the situation under duress. I left this at approximately 40 years of age From this point I flashed to ltaly as a young boy and experienced each moment of my life once again to the current point of my life. I experienced each moment over again in every detail.
Probable NDE due to illness associated with high blood pressure.

2437.  Shelley R NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  I was 4 and had a shallow, brief near death experience.  I was drowning in a pool, I felt a burst of panic as I want under the water.  I remember (like it was yesterday) sinking to the bottom, looking up at the surface above me, then everything got very bright and peaceful, and next thing I knew I was above the indoor pool near the roof, watching my uncle wade through the water to where I was.  He had a look of almost panic on his face, and I watched as he picked me out of the water and put me on the side of the pool.  I then went back into my body and choked and gasped as my parents stood over me arguing about who was supposed to be watching me.
Multiple ADCs and an NDE.

2436.  Renee W NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  I was pulled backwards out of the water...but I did not feel cold or wet...I felt like I was one with the world...just energy or air... I could see the boats...and the water getting smaller and smaller... I was amazed because I had never seen things from the sky looking down before. I felt so light and had such a wonderful sense of union and belonging. 
NDE at age 5 due to drowning.

2435.  Tatyana R NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 The further I went, the faster I went, until I saw the light. The light was ultra white and bright.  It made my fear go away. At some point I entered the light.  I saw myself from above. But most important, I knew what had happened; it seemed I knew everything.  In a profound way, I had no body weight, no emotional attachments, only the ultimate Peace. I had no questions, no wonders, NO FEARS, no regrets; I was home.
NDE due to complication during abortion.

2434.  Hazel L NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  Sometime during surgery, I remember having the feeling of rapidly moving forward. I was not aware of any bright light until I seemed to emerge from what I thought was a long hallway. It was then I saw incredibly brilliant light. I hesitantly moved slightly forward and was standing in front of a person.  It took my eyes a few moments to adjust and I've never felt my heart beat so wildly.  The person in front of me was my mother (she ad passed away less than 6 months before).  I don't know how to describe her except to say she was glowing, not just her outward appearance, but from within.  She had the most beautiful smile on her face and I couldn't believe it.  Just as suddenly as I recognized her, I felt enveloped in the most comforting warmth of love.  I don't know of any words to describe it, other than it was all-encompassing.  To her left were three other people also glowing. Their faces were not visible but I know from their outline that two of the three were my maternal grandmother and grandfather, the third I'm not sure of.
NDE due to complications of surgery.

2433.  Cara A NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 Then, I realized I was in darkness - fully aware and conscious, but no longer where I had been.  The darkness was not scary or frightening.  I only felt surprised, and I remember thinking, "Oh, this is how I die."  No bad feelings, just surprise.  I then consciously let go of the struggle for life and was immediately with the Light.  Outside of the physical world entirely; outside of time and space.  Seeing not with eyes but ? sensing?  Enveloped in the Light.  I felt unconditional love, peace and joy to an extent that can never be felt or experienced here.  I was one with the Light.  I was whole.  I was home.  No bad or evil exist there.  There is no pain, no hunger, no thirst, no suffering, no struggle, no baggage, no illness, etc.  I sensed there were many and that we were all one, one with each other and one with the Light in perfect holy communion with the Light.
NDE due to criminal attack.

2432.  Randy M NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  While scuba diving, ran out of air, stopped breathing for approx. 5+ Min. during which time I saw and spoke to my dead grandfather in a very bright light, after holding his hand and walking he let me go and said he would see me again in the future, I came to, with the beating on my chest by a person on the dive boat, he had brought me up.
NDE due to scuba diving accident with loss of air.

2431.  Don NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 I was 12 years old.  I died and left my body.  While floating above my body, I looked at my hands and they were there. I had a body.  I could hear the men in the room saying "he sure is young to have die." I tried to tell them I'm not dead.  But they could not hear me.  Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a small light coming at me or I was going to it.  As the light got closer to me,  I began to feel love. As the light got closer, in the light was a man.  He said, "What are you doing here?"  He called me by my name.  The light was around him and me; it was a pure feeling of love. I ask him, "Who are you?"  He said, "I'm your brother."  It looked like he was surprised that I was there and of the question. 
NDE due to illness at age 12.

2430.  Rob S NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  While in this out-of-life 'experience,' I found myself at once in what seemed to be Heaven. It was infinite, as though there was no limit. It was a VERY light bluish in its unlimited scope, and there were a gathering of spirits on my left and a few in front, including one in particular who I surprisingly recognized as my father who appeared healthier and sans souci and younger than I even had known him to be. He was , as were the others, totally spirits, without body form, as though 'friendly ghosts..' They showed no emotion or expression, as though awaiting the outcome of my presence. I had the opportunity to look and recognize others but chose not to, holding up my hands, and telepathically firmly conveying that I was not ready to stay, feeling that if I chose to look at the others I would be a part of them and remain there, and backed away, and, I presume, went back to my body and life.
NDE due to cardiac arrest after surgery.

2429.  Angel NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 I felt no pain. I felt as though I was a part of this experience physically and at the same time not a part of it. Like I was in it AND I was watching it or something. It's super hard to explain. Apparently it all happened quite fast but to me it felt like it happened over hours. I was calm and then after they gave both doses of Narcan with no response somehow I suddenly realized I wasn't "done" here and I begged "God" to let me stay. I told "Him" that if "He" let me stay that I would do something really good with my life and that I would fight to survive my Lyme disease. I felt like I was "hugged" at this point and then suddenly I was fully in my body alert and aware and kicking and screaming and in a massive amount of pain.
NDE from ICU Nurse due to illness.

2428.  Charles T NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 I sensed evil around me and even though I thought I could move about, I froze because of fear. I thought I was alone until I saw three demon like figures standing by my feet and talking in three different languages. I was laying on a cold slab in a dark chamber of what I found out later to be Hell. While the demons were talking and looking down at me, there was a tiny light coming from behind them and I could see their silhouettes. They were about three to four feet high with skinny bodies, arms, and legs. The light behind them was getting bigger and closer so I quit looking at the demons and concentrated on the light. Because of an earlier experience in my life I knew the light to be Jesus Christ. He engulfed me in His light and took my spirit and soul out of Hell and replaced them in my physical body in order to live again.
NDE due to cardiac arrest with a frightening visit to hell.

2427.  Michael F Probable NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 I looked around and the doctors were getting pretty busy but none of that mattered and I took one more look towards my mother and father before I went up through the ceiling. They were crying yet still I didn't care especially now that the pain was gone. There were no bright lights like you see in the movies and in fact once I moved through the ceiling I was immediately standing inside a huge room with a very high ceiling facing what appeared to be a dozen or so very hard wooden pews/podiums and behind each pew there was a man in a hooded garment and the faces although discernible were not well lit kind of like a monk in the monastery. A voice explained to me not to be afraid which wouldn't have mattered because I wasn't afraid anyway. In a conversational voice it asked me if I knew why I was there? Apparently I was dead for all intent and purposes.
Probable NDE due to stabbing at age 15.

2426.  Randall C NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 The nurse practitioner was new and during the evaluation she apparently did not realize that since my most recent A-V ablation surgery that my heart is 100 percent dependant upon my device to keep beating. I guess a common test for patients that are not totally dependant upon the device is to turn off the pacing to monitor how the heart functions without assistance. Well at the instant she turned off my device my heart stopped beating. At that same instant I went into a dark place, I had a feeling of complete peace and contentment and a kind of mild euphoria. Just as I began to feel that something else was beginning to occur I was brought back, as the nurse had realized her mistake and turned my pacing device back on. When I first came back the first thing I saw was my regular nurse standing there asking me over and over, are you OK?
NDE due to accidental stoppage of pacemaker that was necessary to keep his heart beating.

2425.  Ben F FDE English expanded version  10/11/10  Just to give you an example of how strange time became during the accident... during the first roll of the car the windows blew out and the safety glass in car windows shatter into little cubes that fly everywhere.  During my experience time went so slow that I could follow the individual cubes of glass as they traveled through the air. The car was spinning wildly at 100 km an hour or more but it was like a scene in the movie "the matrix"...(gave me chills when I first saw this movie because the scenes where time slows down reminded me of the experience I had during the accident.)...   During the accident I felt like I could have stopped time at will and plucked one of those glass cubes out of the air and put it in my pocket, it was extremely bizarre...
Fear-death experience during auto accident.

2424.  Lawrence B NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  I looked on in amazement a cinema like screen appeared in front of me and I saw myself in a film of myself.  It started when I was about 5 yrs old onwards and showing all the details from childhood right through to old age. . . .Then after a while the screen vanished and I floated back down to the floor. The two beings said again in unison " do you want to go through the gate Lawrence?  Because if you do you won't be able to go back."
NDE due to apparent medication error.

2423.  Nathan B NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  During my experience it started as an outer body one , I was sat on the bad next to the one I was lying on watching my self being resuscitated , then I was being pulled by my shoulders from behind I turned my head to look and all I could see was darkness as if I was being taken into a dark cave, then I remember as if I was roaming in this dark place with some small almost flash memories of other  things , not people but  ( don't know hard to explain ) I remember that it felt as if I was there for a very long time I remember calling out and screaming in this place and remember not being heard , the more I think about it , it seems as if I was there for a life time.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2422.  Fanny P Probable NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 It was certain time after, while I was in the ICU I remember my body lying, left "to die" like if it was my funeral. It was dark all around I actually thought " now they are waiting for me to die" But at the same time I was looking at myself, and I looked like my father when he died. I remember realizing this similarity, and being aware of the situation, thinking about it. "this is my funeral" I thought, I was floating in the air and , far to the right I could see thousands of beings coming towards me, each one carrying a little light. These beings were coming from different parts of the world to like pray for me, for my life. And I could feel the energy, the love? and I was attending to what was happening.
Probable NDEs following accident and ICU hospitalization.

2421.  Jackie D NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  On the fourth night after major surgery, I had a cardiac arrest. One minute I was telling a nurse I had chest pain, and the next my father was in my room and we were alone. he stood at the left side of the end of my bed, and I must have been talking too much (as I do), because he interrupted me in a slightly impatient voice, by saying " Jackie, you have to make up your mind, are you coming or not??" He used a "tone" that he always used when I wouldn't get up at 5am in the middle of winter to attend swimming training, after begging him the night before to wake me!....lol This was in my primary school age. I ummed and arhed and finally said "I better not"!, and  before I could tell him why, he was gone and I was surrounded by Doctors and nurses, with one Doctor yelling my name.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2420.  Sandra V NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  I awoke and I was looking down over my body. I remember thinking, "I don't see a white light like I had heard that people saw." But I was at peace. It was as though I was in the clouds and floating away. The higher I got I felt the same peaceful feeling. Then I looked back at my body and was desperately trying to make one limb move; my hand first.
NDE due to overdose of aspirin.

2419.  Scott S NDE 4772 English expanded version  10/11/10  I found myself in front of a house--it appeared to be a country house, if not a farm house--and I saw maybe a dozen at least, two dozen at most (hard to recall), people at the porch/patio area waiting for me. At first I couldn't recognize them, as they were far away. But then, one by one, they started coming down the steps, walking towards me, and shaking my hand. When they would come close enough, I would be able to "know" them; however, I could not tell you now who they were. All I can say is that they were familiar--but yet, more than familiar. They were loved by me: I knew that I loved them and that they loved me. I try so hard every day to try and figure out who they were, but I can't. They made me feel so welcome. It was an indescribable feeling. It was love, par excellence--and I didn't even know, exactly, who they were.
NDE due to strangulation.

2418.  Jane C NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  I gave birth to my first son. On the 6th day after delivery I hemorrhaged and was admitted to hospital. While waiting for cross match (blood) to be completed, I began to feel lightheaded. My hands to my ears the last thing I remember saying was that I had a terrible ringing in my ears. My physician told me later, that I had no pulse and no respiration. I remember being in the most beautiful white light.  It was all encompassing and warm.  In the white light with me was a holy being that seemed to me to be God or Christ.  We communicated telepathically and even though I wanted to remain where I was, I cried out to this being that I must go, I had a baby that needed me.  With this, I feel I was allowed to come back into my body in what seemed to be an instant and I was back in my hospital bed.
NDE due to hemorrhage after childbirth.

2417.  Ben M NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  All around me was light that cannot be described properly with words. it was good and warm but not like heat. it was thick and textured but not like fog or smoke. I started to understand and my mind was clearing when I began to move forward toward what seemed to be an outline of something ahead very hard to describe; not really clear.  Then I found myself back lying down with a male nurse slapping my cheek and asking me if I was ok.  He then asked "did you see anything?" I was overwhelmed with the experience and answered with "I just had a dream."
NDE due to cardiac arrest during cardiac angiography.

2416.  Mary NDE 4766 English expanded version  10/11/10  This sight was from up above me next to the high-ceiling bathroom light. Anyhow, I realized in a snap that without breathing, or unless I breathed, I was going to die. I thought of one of my sisters and my mom and the other sister.. which is my collective family but they went in that order for some reason. I had to breath. As I was realizing this time seemed extensive. I looked down at myself for a long time, but I don't think it was that long in real world-time. I have no idea how long I was out. I was up next to the light, and although from the dark place my home was down diagonally, my tube-vision from next to the light was straight down. ok, where was I... so once I knew I had to breath I very quickly decided I wasn't ready to go. It was decided instantly like a 'yes or no' question, like a 'let's go team' as a sports game begins.. and I was in my body again, down below. I forced myself to breath and couldn't yet feel my body.
NDE due to illness and passing out.

2415.  Molly M NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  I saw so many people I knew throughout my life.  My grandmother was the one who greeted me.  She said "Hello Molly" and I felt love from her.  She said for me to put this little Angel costume on and I'll show you around to everyone.  So we went flying.
NDE due to cardiac arrest during surgery.

2414.  Todd I NDE English expanded version  10/11/10 & 8/6/11  I remember seeing myself on the gurney, or table where there were people working on trying to get me back. It wasn't like I was floating overhead or anything, but that I was nearby, and knew I wasn't "in there. I remember there were people in the room, dressed up like it was a huge rich, party. The men in tuxes, and the women in sequined gowns, that were so white, they almost glowed. I remember seeing them moving around with no sound, and that they went around the corner, where I should not have been able to see around. But I was with them. Not walking or floating, but just there. I have come to realize they were angels. Nothing was said, but you knew what needed to be said, or needed to be understood.
NDE due to heart attack, delayed memory.

2413.  Jon L NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  Next, I saw that I was standing beside my bed and looking at myself lying there. I was several feet away. Then, I heard a Nurse screaming repeatedly, "Hey! I'm not getting a breath here!" She keep yelling loudly and repeating the statement. Even though I seemed to know it was going to hurt, I decided just to take one breath just to get her to be quiet. When I did, I immediately returned to life experiencing a lot of pain and being angry at the Nurse for making me come back to pain and earthly problems and experiences. There should be absolutely no fear of death.
Heart attack.  Likely hallucinatory experience followed by NDE.

2412.  Carmen M NDE English expanded version  10/11/10  For a long time I felt like I was walking in a black tunnel and no way out. The next thing I remember is looking up into a face of a man...he's trying to talk to me. I don't feel like I am in my body but hovering or disconnected from it somehow...I felt nothing...no pain, nothing...just peace. I looked past him and saw my car a few yards away and there was lots of people standing around looking at me or looking at the car. than I went back into the tunnel...pit black.
NDE due to auto accident.

2411.  Stacy S NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  The scene below me is bright and vivid with lots of activity.  It is like I am looking through a transparent  and translucent membrane at live theater, but I am not emotionally connected to it other than I am curious and interested.  All around and above me is black, a void,  I look over to my right and see a long dark tunnel leading off into infinity.  In the farthest reaches of this tunnel I see a small, singular bright light.  In the front of the tunnel are two figures, my grandparents, both dead for many years.  A Voice asks me a question.  The voice comes from everywhere, inside me, around me, back in time, forward in time, everywhere.  It says:  "ARE YOU FINISHED?" 
NDE due to seizure.

2410.  Jeff Probable NDE English expanded version  10/10/10 As the light got closer I could see people around me, I didn't recognize them and they didn't seem to know I was there. The light got close to me, It was just a ball of light but it seemed intelligent I asked it, "am I dead?" and it responded "yes." I asked where I was and it said you created all this darkness with your depression and anger. I asked if I was dead where are my grandparents and the light responded they are around you they are always around you. I remember being aware that I had to go back to my body and I asked questions to almost stall this I didn't want to leave. I told the light I didn't want to go back and it said I have things to finish. it showed me things on what I can only describe as a projector but with out the screen. I saw myself as a young boy and learned that I died when I was 4 years old I fell off a swing set and hit my head on the cement that hold the legs in the ground.( I asked my mother of this and she said that I did fall off the swing I was unconscious when she found me and she rushed me to the hospital, she said I was not dead though).
Probable NDE due to overdose of alcohol and pain medication.

2409.  Pamela B NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  We went through a light tunnel together - Gabriel on one side and Raphael on the other. I can't describe how we were traveling.  It wasn't like we see movies depict people flying.  It was an energy travel - like we set our intention and away we went.  The feeling of lightness was truly incredible.  It was such a relief to be outside my body. We came to a place that I can only describe as pure love.  It wasn't said or verbally expressed.  It just WAS.  The energy could be seen everywhere - glowing, ethereal beauty.  Seeing was very different there.  Things were vividly alive with energy.  I was told that I had a choice - I could stay or I could go back, but if I went back, I had to promise to help others understand and reclaim their spiritual selves.  It's funny...I saw NO religion there.  There was no separation based on religion.
NDE due to brain hemorrhage due to trauma.

2408.  Mandy C FDE English expanded version  10/10/10 I was traveling through a great black void, like outer space, at a tremendous speed.  I had no sense of body, just the essence of my being hurling through this velvety void.  In the very far distance I could see a single speck of light, like a very bright star.  There was no other light in this void.  I was speeding towards that light, through the deep blackness of this void.  This blackness was enfolding me, comforting me, offering me complete safety as I hurled through it.  And I knew that the light I was speeding towards contained every good, beautiful and pure thing.  I had nothing to fear, I was safe and cared for.  The light, although it looked only like a star in the night sky, was beautiful and I knew that was where I belonged and longed to be.
Fear-death experience due to criminal attack.

2407.  Hollie M Probable NDE English expanded version  10/10/10 I was in a filed and this place was the most beautiful, peaceful place I had ever been. There really wasn't anything spectacular about it it was a filed but there was a hill with one tree on it and this tree was beautiful the leaves where swaying and all I wanted to do was walk to the tree. There was no sound but there was sound a singing like I have never heard before. The closest sound came after I was finally home and seen a boy on TV they claimed he had the voice of an Angel and he really did, I cried!  While in this place I began walking toward this tree and my guardian Angel came to me she spoke not with her mouth but clearly in my head and she said you need to stop and wait and I kept looking past her and moved around her to get to this tree, her voice came more forceful and she said remember and held up her hand and on each one of her fingers there was a moving photo of my 4 children and she said remember them you have to wait.
Probable NDE due to surgical complication.

2406.  Janine P NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  From Canada An ex tried to kill me because he had to go back to jail. My daughters we in the apartment and walked into the bedroom were I lay blue! If it was not for them...I WOULD NOT BE HERE!!!... You know when you look in the clear bright blue sky and see some fluffy white clouds....I was in those clouds. The peace and serenity I felt is something I will never forget!! I saw a dark figure in the distance { I believe it was my dad} and the voice said..."It's not your time you have things to do, it's not your time you have  to go back".
NDE due to criminal assault with ‘overdose’ from ex.

2405.  Kathy K NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  I REMEMBER FLOATING ABOVE THE BODY AND TURNING MY HEAD SIDEWAYS AS IF I WAS CONFUSED AND THINKING "IT'S ME". I SAW A CLOCK ON THE WALL AND IT SAID 12:02. I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN MY BODY ON THE OPERATING TABLE BECAUSE I HAD NO CLOTHES ON BUT I HAD NO FEAR. JUST PEACE. SUCH PEACE AND NO PAIN, NO WORRIES JUST PEACE. I KNOW I WAS FLOATING ABOVE MY BODY.  I DID NOT WANT TO GO BACK. I WANTED TO STAY BUT SOMETHING SAID "REMEMBER YOUR CHILDREN" AND "YOUR TIME IS NOT FINISHED, YOU MUST GO BACK." TIME WAS NOT A PART OF THIS; JUST FLOATING AND PEACE. 
NDE due to infection after surgery.

2404.  MS NDE English expanded version  10/10/10 I felt a pull that I couldn't break from.  I was moving fast. I was going thru a dark hallway, I could hear other voices of people, I didn't know who they were, I was frightened.  The voices of the people sounded like they were confused and didn't understand what was happening to them.  I didn't get to travel very far, but I remember it being dark and feeling afraid.  I looked at myself but there was nothing physical to see, but I knew I was look at myself.  As I was traveling I heard my mother sobbing and I turned around and a few feet away, I saw my little self laying on the floor, lifeless and my mother crying over me.  Suddenly a voice said to me, a voice that I could hear only in my head, said if you continue you can never return.
NDE at age 5 due to faint.

2403.  Rachel P NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  I could see the top of my shoulders.  It was as if I had been jolted out of my body (but not entirely removed from it).  I said a quick prayer "forgive me for my sins" and felt a wisp of air go by my face that seemed to signify (as my mind interpreted it then) the sum of my life.  I had always thought people had "video replays" of certain moments in their life before or during dying... but all I felt was a very quick sensation. Then I experienced a very strong feeling of curiosity... that within the next few moments I was going to find out what happened to a person after they died.
NDE due to auto accident.

2402.  Karen P NDE English expanded version  10/10/10   I seemed to be sitting up or standing and I was surrounded by a brilliant white fog. I felt a gentle breeze blowing on me. At that time I felt the most wonderful peace that I have ever felt and I didn't have any fear. There wasn't any tunnel and I wasn't aware of my deceased relatives or anyone else, just the peace and euphoria. Then, suddenly, I was back in my body and the pain and low light of the hospital room came back as before.
NDE due to hemorrhage after emergency caesarian section.

2401.  Cheryl N NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  There was a warm glow or ambience around me that was so peaceful, so full of awe and love. I was surrounded by, apart of this warmth. It was bright, but did not hurt me eyes. I don't actually recall having eyes since I knew who I was but had no form. I felt I was contained in something, but I could not see walls. It was the most wonderful feeling of bliss and euphoria, something of which I have a hard time explaining with words. I felt I was connected to a whole, that I was home again. It seemed to be some sort of energy is the best way I can describe it. Then I seemed to be traveling, souring over snow-capped mountain tops as an eagle would do. I got this distinct impression. It was magnificent and beautiful.
NDE from pneumonia.

2400.  Marianne D's Mother's NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  She said she recalled that all of the pain disappeared, and that she was floating above her body, as if at the ceiling, and watching as her husband, my dad, held her hand and tried to talk to her and cried. But, despite the disturbing scene, she said she felt serene. She felt sorry for him, but felt so peaceful and detached. She then turned and saw a very brilliant brightness, and a path that wound, sort of side to side, upward. Red rose bushes lined the path. The colors were more brilliant than normal, she said. She said she was told she had to go back, but did not really want to go back. She just wanted to keep going up that path.
Daughter shares her mother’s NDE that happened 46 years ago.  Mother died three weeks ago.

2399.  Ben NDE English expanded version  9/13/2009  & 7/17/10 Then I had another heart attack in December of 2007.  That's when I had the out of body experience when I was on the operating table. I watched them take off my socks and my pants. Then I saw my wife (she has gray hair now) but when I saw her, she had black hair like she had when we met.  Then I saw the white light.  It was the brightest light I ever saw.
Probable NDE after heart attack during surgery to place cardiac stents.

2398.  Sid M Probable NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  From Canada I knew I was before God in total darkness and that God was blocking my entrance into heaven.  I desperately wanted into heaven but on an intuitive rather than rational level.  At this time, I was happily married with two very small children and a family very dependent on my career yet the "pull" of heaven was very powerful.  I pleaded for entrance but the voice of God said "no, not yet!".  Later, when I spoke to an acquaintance, who had investigated and found me, he said, "it was freaky, you were awake and talking.  When I saw the blood coming from your ears, I got nervous and left to get help."  I was shocked because I had no memory of talking with him or of the accident itself.  In hind-sight, he did not say that I was talking to him.
Probable NDE due to auto accident.

2397.  Mat Y NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  When I 'came around' it was just like waking up in a completely pitch black room, except it felt like I was, but wasn't there. I couldn't really feel anything, like I had no body, and as a result not have any sensory input for a sense of touch. After a minute a man spoke to me, but it sounded like an amplified thought in my head. It was very prominent, but not overpowering, and sounded like a polite grandfather. He said "you know why you're here?"
Motorcycle crash.

2396.  Aaron E NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  As my soul was leaving my body I felt at peace . Than I saw my self kneeling in front of a light . I wasn't scared, I was just asking for mercy . This was after my body was at a cold still. I had heard a voice calling to me and it is still stuck in my head . The voice had said to me " not your time". 
NDE due to head trauma with broken neck vertebrate at age 13.

2395.  Deborah G NDE English expanded version  10/10/10 In the hospital I remember leaving my body and seeing doctors and nurses around me and my parents in the hall. I seen and heard the doctor talk to my parents and tell them your one daughter we were able to pump her stomach; but your other daughter we could not and she has passed.  While this was happen I left my body and there was Jesus; he puts out his hand and I grab and we start walking to this light.  All communication between us was not speaking with our mouth but our minds.  He said my child you have a choice you may come with me into the light and go home or you may return.
NDE at age 3 from overdose of aspirin.

2394.  Scott C NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  I talked to a person in which whom I did not know , I can't be sure but it seems that I had a choice , to stay or come back , I wasn't scared even though at the time I didn't believe in god or anything of that nature I was sure at the time this life wasn't the only thing we have . It seemed like about 30 to 40 minutes but I was only 3-4 . I felt no fear , no pain , I was in total calm , its hard to describe its like being out of air but not having to gasp for a breath that's the feeling I kind of remember having its not a bad feeling but a little strange at the time . I was shown not to be afraid but I kept looking down at my wife . I have been married since 17 yrs old had 2 boys almost out of high school I didn't want to leave so I said no , I know now I have nothing to fear I want to go back and spent time with them
NDE due to seizures.

2393.  Mickiel B NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  As time went on I became very happy, filled with joy.  It was extremely dark, no sound no senses, nothing except my mind.  I was not concerned about my family or anything.  My thoughts were, I have died, I will be the first in my extended family to find out what comes after death. I was so happy.  I began to leave my body when slam I was back in my body with pain, and hurt and worry. 
NDE due to heart attack.

2392.  Scott S NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  At the hospital, I went into vtach and passed out. Immediately I went through a tunnel. It looked like I was flying a million miles an hour through fireworks. I felt no fear, only peace. I then remember being resuscitated and waking up from a very peaceful infinite void. Once I was stabilized and in my room I received a message that I did not meet the being of light because "I needed to figure out some things for myself, and the answers would not be just handed to me.”
NDE due to heart attack.

2391.  Thea Relative's NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  From India.  I would like to share the NDE of my father’s aunt. She was very ill and at that time she was in a coma. My grandma was taking care of her and one night she was sleeping with her. My grandma had a dream and in her dream she saw aunt sleeping on her side. Aunt was sleeping on her back from many months as she was in coma so her dream indicated that she came out of coma. The next morning Aunt came back from coma and told my grandma that it was very nice up there and she met with her husband. Her husband was so mad because it was not her time and asked her to come back. After few days when my grandma asked her again, she didn’t remember anything. She lived a long life after that.
Experience Second person NDE vs other.

2390.  Mary M NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  ....I am laughing without a body...I am still here!!! Then I was in a black place of no light, a void. I was concerned but not scared. Then a rushing feeling...and into the brightest most beautiful, loving light. Words can not describe the love I felt. I said I want to stay here forever. I felt several presences in front of me, but I all I saw was light...I was the light...They said "You cannot stay here" I said "please please I don't want to return. They said" You have a child" I said " My Mom will take care of him and so will his Father!" They said "He needs you!!!"
NDE due to unconsciousness following delivery.

2389.  Richard W NDE English expanded version  10/10/10  From the UK.  Unlike the previous four months, my mind was suddenly at peace. There was no anxiety. There was no confusion, just peace. I was floating about 15ft above my house looking around. I could whatever I wanted to, I didn't have to turn to look at something, I just had to be curious about it. I remember looking at the window I had climbed out of and hearing people inside talking about me. They couldn't find me. They did not think I had climbed out of the window because the window was shut. I could hear every word they said. I did not see or care about my own body on the ground. It did not feel it was part of me.
NDE due to suicide attempt related to mental illness.  Remarkable account of healing.

2388.  Sara NDE 4723 English expanded version  10/10/10  My body felt very light, and I realized that I was moving upwards with no effort or intent on my part.  I didn't feel scared, merely intensely curious as to where this was going. I remember feeling so good.  So light.  I felt euphoric and playful.  I had energy that I hadn't ever had, but not in my normal, hyperactive way.  Normally, excess energy made me feel antsy, anxious, irritated, silly, and out of control.  I was totally in control, and this energy felt good and right.  I wasn't feeling ADHD energy. This was something else.  When I looked back down, I could see my own naked body on the hospital gurney, and the medical staff running around, working on me in what looked like a panic.  One nurse called code, and within a few seconds, two more nurses ran into the room pushing a red tool box on wheels.  The crash cart. The room was brightly lit, and had a high ceiling, but it looked to me like I was watching from far higher than the height of the ceiling, as if it had vanished completely or stretched far higher than it should be.
NDE at age 4 during spinal tap to diagnose meningitis.

2387.  Fred G NDE English expanded version  10/10/10   I experienced nothing but pure love from God. Finally God started telling me that I had to go back and I moved back away from God when He said the word "back." I started pleading with God to stay. God told me that I could not come into heaven in the condition which I was in. For I was strung out on drugs and alcohol. God said again that I must go back, and I moved further away, still pleading to stay.
NDE due to unconsciousness from unknown cause.

2386.  Amy C NDE 4720 English expanded version  10/9/10  I did not have an experience of seeing 'God' as an "old man in a big white robe, sitting on a throne," although, that was the most prominent image I might have held in my mind, formerly.  At NDE, 'God' was the Mind, or maybe I'd say, "The Order" in all things.. 'God' felt to be the Supreme Highest Vibration and Frequency, that felt like more of an ESSENCE than an old man, to me.  It was all around and in everything.  And 'God' no longer felt male to me.  I didn't sense a gender, if there was one.  The idea of that just seemed silly to from the Other Side.  God was just all that is beautiful and peaceful and One, and all that is Good. 
NDE due to allergic reaction.  Among the most profound NDEs ever shared with NDERF.  This one is recommended to be read by everyone!

2385.  Paul B Probable NDE English expanded version  10/9/10 From the UK  I kind of slipped out , that is I wasn't connected to my body , the discomfort in my throat [ it was never painful] was gone.... My first thought was , that's it I'm dead , only I'm not dead , I feel ok , I can see , I still cant breathe , just then a voice that seemed to come from my head  ... [ it wasn't a voice more like a thought that didn't seem to be mine] said , 'You don't need to breathe , you're body needs to breathe , you don't ! ' . That makes sense I thought .. When this event occurred I was never frightened but I was in a state of shock , that I would think would be normal ...... Then I thought what have I got left ... that is I had better try and move something , believe me I hadn't even blinked , maybe it was the shock . I was just figuring out what part of me I should try and move when I was back in my body , all the discomfort returned to my throat and Grippers arms were squeezing me and then WHOOOOOOOOOSH ... my throat opened and I could breathe .... I couldn't talk for several minutes , but I could breathe .
Probable NDE from respiratory distress due to allergic reaction.

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