3202. Sandi R NDE 12/3/12  We were driving home from my grandmother's after a visit.  It was a rainy afternoon.  I was in the back seat with my two younger sisters. Two young men were racing and one lost control and hit our car head on. I remember hearing my mother yelling my father's name and then I lifted out of the car.  I remember going through the car's roof and then being held in clouds of amazing color.  The color was very brilliant, but was also very comforting.  I could "see" and "feel" the color at the same time.  It was as if I were being held in someone's arms.  Like a baby is held. I knew God was there and someone else, but I was not for sure who the other "being" was.  I have always assumed it was Jesus who was holding me.  They were not in body form but was part of the cloud-like color.  I felt absolutely no fear.  Only peace and comfort.  I then was back in the back seat of the car.
NDE at age 7 due to auto accident.

3201. Sarah S Possible NDE 12/3/12  I remember being surrounded in love. Feeling my husband loving me all over. I felt as though I was on another level love. Then all of a sudden I saw a big burst of light. The next thing I remember is seeing and hearing my husband say baby come back to me. Then all of a sudden I could see him but could not hear him. It was as though I was fighting with myself to stay. I kept feeling myself slip away. My husband grab me by the face and blew air into my mouth. It was like I could everything, but I could not hear or feel nothing. I saw the light bulb by my bed. I grab the light bulb saying I see this light it is suppose to be hot in my hand. I grab the cover on the bed but could not feel it. My husband kept fading in and out, and I kept begging him to help me not to leave me.
Possible NDE vs. NDE-like experience during sex with her husband.

3200. Roland B NDE 12/3/12   I had my life flash quickly before me. As if I was watching a movie run very fast. I continued through what looked like a tunnel towards a light in the distance. As I approached the light it got brighter and I was enveloped in this unbelievable feeling of love and security. It's Impossible to describe this feeling of contentment. All this time it was completely silent.  Then I was startled out of my ecstasy by a question that suddenly arrived in my mind. I didn't hear a voice yet it was as clear as if someone was standing before me. The question was "WHAT GOOD HAVE YOU DONE WITH YOUR LIFE".
NDE at age 13 due to electrocution.  Shared 53 years later.

3199.  Walter C Experiences 12/3/12 From Canada. 

Spiritual Out-of-Body Experience #1:  
My spirit moved around the suspended shards, admiring them for a few moments, and then I turned to the "task at hand." This body (to which I felt NO emotional attachment) had just been in an accident, and I wasn't sure it was still inhabitable. I know that sounds odd, but that was my question—was this body still intact—could I still "use" it?  My consciousness positioned itself in front of the body to examine it—to scan it—from top to bottom. No damage.  
SOBE at time of auto accident.  Remarkable observation of shattered glass in air as time stood still.  

Spiritual Out-of-Body Experience #2:
The experience of floating was not a sensation. There was no "feeling" of floating, only the fact that I was. I felt empathy and overwhelming compassion for my physical self, but the pain evident within that body was not felt by this part of me. I was within the room, but I wasn't confined to my body; it was as though I was everywhere and anywhere within the room all at once. For a few moments, I oriented myself with this new freedom, moving about the room and observing the environment from various angles.
 Exceptional SOBE that lasted for months following receiving traumatic news.

3198. Poppy Probable NDE 11/30/12  While I was undergoing neurosurgery, I experienced a period of darkness and then I saw grey and pink lights. I remember flying through a very pretty tunnel. I found myself by a waterfall, and saw my father! He stayed with me for a while. It was an amazing place, full of vibrant beautiful colors bright green grass and blue skies. My father looked wonderful. He spoke with me after a bit and told me I had to go back to go back to take care of my sister and my sons. He told me that I was not allowed to see my mom, as they would not let me. I recall watching over my own body, as well.
Probable NDE associated with neurosurgery.

3197. Angel M NDE 11/30/12  I felt a thump; like a punch to my chest and then I felt a pull; a physical, touching-me pull. It was my spirit being pulled out of my body and it was fine by me. In fact, it was a good thing. I saw my body in the hospital bed, I heard what people were saying, I knew I was dying. It was all good. It was a thump, then a letting go and a release of care. It is hard to describe, but I think about it all the time.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

3196. Bon A NDE 11/30/12  from India.  Non-Western NDE. My brother and my mom were standing together near my bed and having a conversation. I do not remember the details of that conversation now, because I did not try to remember it by repeating it to myself over and over when I came back into this life again. They were both talking with serious faces, although the conversation itself was not about anything serious. I lay on the bed listening to them. I remember thinking of myself as a girl child. And I was bored by their ordinary talk. Neither of them were paying attention to me or entertaining me or smiling at me. So I closed my eyes and kept them closed for a long time, hearing their conversation but not paying attention to it. But when I opened my eyes, I was back at the construction site!  When I was living THAT life, I was aware of my entire past of THAT life, just as now I'm aware of my past in this life  - The life I was transported to had me born to a family with modest means. From the room around, it was evident that they were much poorer than I am now, where I stand in this lifetime.
NDE due to unconsciousness from apparent dehydration and subsequent fall from a sixth story window.

3195. Carol M NDE 6496 11/30/12 I couldn't breathe, but I only struggled for a few minutes.  Then I began to drift off, feeling extremely peaceful.  It wasn't just my body that was drifting off, however.  It was my mind.  I was no longer attached to my body (or didn't seem to be), but I was still very much me.  The best way I can describe it is that I went to a different dimension.  It  was totally black there.  But, although I was in complete darkness, I was not afraid.  Instead, I felt a peace that I believe is unattainable here on earth.  The next thing that happened was my whole life flashed before me.  It was as if I was standing there watching a panoramic view of every single thing that had happened in my short life.  It went by very quickly.  In fact, it seemed like it was all at once.  Yet I could totally comprehend every single scene as if I were living it all over again.  And I felt guilty for the selfish things I had done.  After the life review, I turned around, and as I did, I saw a brilliant white light.  Instinctively, I started to move toward it.  But suddenly, I was yanked back into my body
NDE at age 10 due to drowning.  Shared 56 years later.

3194. Sharon M Possible NDE 11/30/12 Apparitions appear some distance before me. All white and translucent, there pale light swallowed by the darkness. As I approach, I recognize them. My friends, my family, all standing in groups, deep in conversation. Someone's missing. Who? As I float onwards, they turn towards me, and stare in silence with emotionless faces. I look upon the image of each in turn, their blank eyes watching me as I slowly float by. I can't help them. I felt numb. I couldn't even say goodbye. Mum was last. I linger on her image for a time. She has Ian. He can help her. I don't know what I can do. I'm dying . I turn away with regret, and let the tide take me.   The darkness beyond is vast. Where am I going? I'm dying...
Probable ICU experience vs. Possible NDE.

3193. Astrid/Eliana NDEs 11/19/12 A few months ago , while taking a shower together Eliana blurts out.
The doctor didn't take my ouwie away , but God did !
I was really , really dood ( dead ) and sick.
The ghost brought me naar jou ( to you)
I was in de hemel ( in heaven) toen ( when ) ik  ( I ) was ziekie ( sick )
I had ouwie on my arm.
She is a nice one ,too. And a bad one.
I ate a blauw ( blue) cookie in de hemel ( in heaven )
You and me and daddy always go in heaven.
Exceptional NDEs.  Infant nearly died at 2 and 9 months.  Now at age 3, and talking, her mother records her stunning discussion about her experiences.  A must read!

3192. Don Possible NDE 11/19/12 As I walked, I noticed how lush and green the grass and the forest were. I was at peace and I felt content. Then, I heard dogs barking and I could understand what they were saying! They were playing, and planning to go somewhere to continue their game. I turned a corner and there was the group of dogs! I became very joyful when I saw that two of my deceased dogs were part of the group! I called out the name of one of my dogs, wanting to hold and pet him. The other dogs took off, racing towards the light. My dog turned, looked right at me and barked. And again, I could understand him. In a very scolding tone he said, "You're not supposed to be here!" He took off and joined the other dogs, and soon they were all engulfed by the light. I could see figures there but I could not move. It was then that I woke up.
Possible NDE under anesthesia during surgery.

3191. R.A. NDE 11/19/12 I lost touch with earthly reality very quickly, but my consciousness continued.  First I experienced a quick, but comprehensive, replay of my life.  It was similar to watching a movie of my life, except that I was "in" the movie, rapidly re-experiencing my life's events. I experienced something like the "traveling through a tunnel" feature, but for me it seemed more as if the tunnel came to me: I saw a circle of light that quickly grew in size until I was inside of it. Once I was inside the light, I was aware that it was much more intense than earthly light and it seemed to be coming from a sun that was so big that it covered most of the sky.  I experienced with certainty being joined by a friend who had died about six months previously.  And we had an interaction that felt really similar to those we used to have on Earth. I think there are some other details of my experience that have slipped my mind after all these years.  Something else I remember clearly, though, was feeling full of acceptance, forgiveness, and love, and that there was a completed lack of negative feelings, such as hatred and revenge.
NDE due to being choked by a jealous girlfriend.

3190. Angela Shared Death Experience 11/19/12  The first shot did not make her relax at all. In a few more minutes the doctor returned and gave her the deadly injection. As he was injecting the needle and delivering the shot I felt Roxy's spirit leave her body and to my surprise I left with her, in no time at all I had traveled so far from where I was standing on earth and had traveled to another galaxy light years away. But, then as if no time at all had passed I was standing back at the exam table with the doctor and my dog's body. Her spirit had just traveled from our world to the next.  Do all dogs go to Heaven? YES guaranteed, that is what I learned. The experience changed my life
Shared death experience with pet dog who was euthanized due to advanced malignancy.

3189. Leonell A NDE 11/15/12  From Venezuela.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon.  While I was lying on the ground, I remember speeding through a layer of clouds. I was dressed in the same clothes I had on, a pair of blue jeans, white T-shirt, sneakers. I was running towards a white light which was very far off, and underneath it I recall a violet light. Suddenly I heard a voice. Turning round, I fell into an abyss, as if I had returned below. First I heard a long sharp whistling noise in my ears, then I saw shadows. As I came to my senses I heard voices and the shadows became clearer, it was the boys looking at me lying face-up on the ground. The Padre asked me if I was OK? I replied yes, then I got up and went home. When I took off my T-shirt at home my back was marked by the stones on the ground.
NDE from going unconscious.

3188. Karen O NDE 11/15/12 At one point during the crisis I "saw" images or pictures of my mom and her sister my aunt. My mom's image was to the far left and my aunt's was right next to her. They were dressed up in dressy clothes and younger than when they died-in 2010. The images were of the head and shoulders. I also saw an image of my sister-who is alive on the West Coast at the far right of my vision. I found out later she was praying continually for me when she heard how ill I had become. During this I thought "I should tell Mom what's happening" then in an instant I realized she already knew what was happening and I didn't need to tell her. The images seemed to "flash" as I came into normal consciousness.
NDE several days later in ICU when she had a brief episode of unconsciousness. Saw deceased mother and Aunt appearing younger than at time of death.

3187. Hannah S NDE 11/10/12 As I scooped up handfuls of the liquefied gold and watched it sparkle I realized that it was alive, just as I was alive...and to my utter and indescribable joy the dawning came upon me that not only was I immersed in the gold and covered with it, but that I WAS the element of gold itself.  The knowledge crept up on me with ever mounting bliss that I could exist as a human being, but also outside of myself as an element in the universe, and that my human state was only a small part of what I really was.  The happiness and joy that came with this knowledge cannot be described other than by saying I felt that I could laugh with delight and never stop laughing about the beauty and blissfulness of the true state of our existence. It was just sheer beauty, love and peace and timeless bliss I was slowly starting to understand that "I" was not just the physical me.  However, maybe I'm a little slow or something because I think the knowledge was being imparted to me in a gentle, gradual fashion, the way you would teach a little kid... maybe so I would not be scared or alarmed.
Anesthesia experience with interesting encounter with liquefied gold.

3186. Jackie F NDE 11/10/12 During this time, I had no idea of what was happening in the real world all I felt and knew was a great peace, a calm. I did not know where I was, but I had never felt such peace and calm in my life. Nothing hurt, and all I wanted to do was rest and not leave that place because what I was feeling was like no feeling I had ever felt before. And I knew Jesus was there with me because I heard myself saying, "Jesus, I don't want to leave." And then I heard my husband, faintly, shouting my name to wake up, and I fought it, I tried to stay where I was with Jesus, but his shouting finally got through to me. At that point I knew that because someone was shouting my name, I had to "go back." My husband was crying and telling me that I had stopped breathing and I had just laid there very still. Back in this reality again, I remained in a peaceful, calm state because of where I had just come from and I was not afraid.
NDE due to a blow to the head after passing out and falling to the pavement subsequent to two months of hospitalizations for debilitating rounds of cancer treatments.

3185. Mark W NDEs 11/10/12  I was now hovering at ceiling level in the living room of the house I grew up in on 8th Avenue in Spokane, Washington. I could not believe the magnitude of the peace I felt, just being out of my body! The clarity of everything around me was like the difference you feel when you wake up from a dream into reality. I had 360 degree vision. The calm, the peace, the joy I felt were indescribable. It wasn't that I was in Heaven I wasn't;  it was that there was so much peace and joy JUST being out of a body that's continually warring to have its way. It is amazing how much we endure just having to live in a body which is subjected to the curse of sin. The colors I saw were so bright! My senses were so keen and sharp! I looked out the front door, across the street, and over to the neighbors' house. The sunlight shimmered in glorious splendor, like liquid gold.
Multiple NDEs and STE.  Recounted here: NDEs from taking someone else's medication, and from fasting for an overly long period. Briefly mentioned but not recounted here, NDEs from a car accident, and while anesthetized during surgery.

3184. Samantha F Probable NDE. 11/5/12 During the actual delivery, I remember a brilliant white light surrounding me, and I knew what God was. It was pure joy! I heard the medical staff, saying, "Bring her back!!" I did not want to return, it was so beautiful. I shared this later on with my mom, who said it meant that I had almost died. This happened during the birth of my third child, my second son, who is age 50 now. After the birth, several nurses were in the elevator with me. They commented that I had had a difficult delivery. It was very real, and the memory of it is still with me today!
Probable NDE associated with a difficult delivery.  Shared 50 years later.

3183. Michael H NDE 6477. 11/5/12  I fell off his back, and as I sank down, I panicked and was screaming and crying. This caused me to inhale water and I drowned. It was terrible. I started to hear bells ringing and everything got dark. Suddenly I was floating up in the air over the pool, watching all of the activity and seeing people working on my body. I wasn't afraid but I remember feeling sad because my uncle Hank was crying. I started to notice a bright light up in the corner of the ceiling and I headed towards it down or through a long tunnel of light and sound. I noticed that the sides of the tunnel were blurred and had all different colors. I heard bells, like phones ringing and large bells gonging. Then I heard a deep voice say, "NO!" and it felt like someone grabbed me by the back of the neck and pulled very hard. It didn't hurt, but I was suddenly being pulled very fast from behind, and I watched the tunnel receding. Then I was awake with all of these people standing around the pool staring at me as I lay there.
NDE at age 5 due to drowning.

3182. Julia B Probable NDE. 11/5/12 From the Germany. Original in German, translated to English by Ingrid.  First I just closed my eyes, but after a while, I heard a voice calling, "What are you doing down there? Get up!" I opened my eyes and saw someone, and he reached out his hand to help me up. When I was on my feet, I noticed that I did not have one scratch. I was OK. And I also noticed that there were other beings, wearing long robes. These beings said to me, "It is wonderful that you are here!" But I couldn't see their faces. Further away I could see the forest, from where I had come. I asked myself, "What is behind that forest?" The being who had helped me onto my feet responded that behind the forest is a wonderful little village. But the being didn't speak, it was like telepathy. When I was near that being, I had a feeling of security and happiness, simply indescribably good. Suddenly all the beings started moving in the direction of the forest. But the being who was helping me paused and asked, "Are you coming with us?" I responded, "Not yet." I knew that if I went with that group, I wouldn't be able to come back. And having made that decision, suddenly I found myself floating high above.
Probable NDE at the age of 3 weeks old.

3181. Lydia LB NDE. 11/4/12 From Mexico. Original in Spanish, translated to English by Sheldon.  I was flying along with Sofi to meet up with my other babies and I remember that white light guided me, but it wasn't a continuous light, it was like a wide path made of thousands of spotlights, and about halfway on this path between the hospital and the house where my children were, a yellow path of light crossed through the other path, a very intense yellow light. I stopped there, before crossing those yellow lights and continuing on the beautiful white path, I reflect for a moment, and I realized that I wasn't going to get to my children and embrace them before Manuel closed up my incision. I decided not to cross the yellow lights. From above I could see my children perfectly. I saw them asleep and peaceful, and that gave me a lot of peace, and I understood it was time to return to my body because if I didn't, I ran the risk of getting stuck outside. I don't know if someone said to me or if I said to myself Go back. I had to hurry to get back into myself.
NDE from labor complications.

3180. Francis J Shared Death Awareness. 11/2/12 They said to me (the body below me) that they were sorry they could not save me. I "think-talked" to them, feeling so peaceful, that it was ok, it was ok, it was ok. Next a wonderful green-yellow-white light drew me to it (still floating in the hospital room). I couldn't resist the light and entered into it. There was an immense and more than beautiful lawn or meadow, and a tree with a man gardening under it. I moved toward the man (who was somewhat ephemeral) and it was my grandfather (my grandmother's deceased husband). He began to welcome me. Then the phone in the bedroom rang and rang...my husband awoke, answered the phone, and called me to it. I was very groggy from the dream, and my voice still "froggy" from all the rasping as I had tried not to breathe the water. It was my dad on the phone, telling me my grandmother had passed away, approximately a two-hour drive from my home.
Remarkable empathic shared death experience dream at moment of her grandmother's death.

3179. Evelyn vH NDE. 11/2/12 Strangely enough I had not given any thought to how I felt while out of my body until I got back in it and had something to compare it to.  While out of my body I felt free; as though I had no boundaries.  It seemed that I was part of everything and everything was part of me; as though we melted together and were one but at the same time I was still a separate entity.  I know that sounds confusing but that is how I felt.  Plus there was this wonderful sense of warmth; not like the warmth of temperature but rather the warm of love.  The closest thing that I can relate to it is when my daughter was four she came in to go to the bathroom.  I was sitting on the sofa at the time.  when she was done, rather than going right back out to play she ran over to me, threw her tiny arms around my neck, and for no reason at all said, "Mommy, I love you."  When she did that the warmest sensation swept down me from my head to my feet.
NDE due to head injury at age 11.  Shared 50 years later.

3178. Mayumi T NDE. 11/2/12  From Japan.  I saw a light that looked like a moon, and it was shining down on me. My body started floating slowly toward the light, high in the air. After I entered the light, I was greeted by a huge garden full of yellow flowers and the sky was colored pink like a sunset. Everything was just so warm and fragrant, I felt very safe. But not only safe I was very deeply moved by the loveliness of the flower garden so beautiful! I felt a gentle wind, and also I felt my feet walking along the stony streets, touching many flowers as I passed. I came to a little country house (Japanese style.) And so I had to go over to it and see what was inside! My two uncles were there, and they welcomed me through the first floor balcony. Then we had some beer together, all laughing with each other. One of them said to me, "You have to go back where you belong. Your dad is waiting for you there." Then I felt like someone was pulling me back by my shoulders. In that same second I found myself back in the hospital, watching myself lying in bed. I saw a nurse and a doctor standing next to my body. They were pumping my chest with an electronic shocker. Then I woke up in the hospital bed.
Our first NDE from Japan!  NDE due to alcohol poisoning and cardiac arrest.

3177. Rynne R Probable NDE. 11/2/12 From the brain injury, I was in a coma. What I remember from the experience: I was in a room, it was all white, I was on a bed that was very soft and warm. My grandmother who I called Mimi was right there with me, she had died in 2002, as were many other people - but they were not as clear. I was aware I knew them and they loved me. There was no ego, nothing but love and warmth. I was aware that I was Rynne but that really didn't matter. I was just outside Heaven and I could see the light on the other side of all these people I knew in the room. I felt like I was in a holding room. But everything was so peaceful and calm and beautiful. Who I was wasn't really who I was. We were all love and that was all. I wanted to stay but my Mimi looked at me and said "Rynne, you have to go back, you have things to do and your Mother needs you." I cried and said I wanted to go with her and stay. Mimi just smiled and said "Everything is going to be OK, but you have to go back. There are things to do."
Probable NDE from brain injury.

3176. Linda C Possible NDE. 11/2/12  It was just a week after a cesarean at age 23.  I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my leg and was sent to bed for a month. Time is fuzzy but I think it was about 10 days into that bed rest that I floated out of my body to the space above. Looking down I could see me in the bed. I remember feeling completely emotionally detached from the situation. Even calling myself "her".  I remember saying - look - there "she" is. (in the bed).  I flew up (out of that room) to find the most unearthly magnificent light. I remember stopping movement to look carefully at the blades of grass. It was down and to my left. They seemed to be lit from the INSIDE.  I was in a giant open space like a field. No pain. No worries. I DID see a tunnel but I decided not to take it. I don't know why.  It was around that time that I got absolutely THREADED THRU with love. it felt like big cables going thru me.  This love that was NOTHING like this earthly love. It was a feeling I will NEVER forget.
Possible NDE associated during bed rest due to blood clot in leg.

3175. Stephen R Probable NDE. 11/2/12  This specific case was I was already having my right hand rebuilt by the V.A. medical hospital San Francisco, CA.  Something happened and my brain suddenly was aware that I was at the last breath of life and then I was looking down at my body.  There was a young student doctor trying to shove a tube down my throat (on the left side of my head) and the elder doctor on the right telling him how to do it.  But I've gotten ahead of myself in the story.  On my first post operative appointment with the surgeon I told him that what ever the young guy was doing really caused damage to by throat.  He asked how I knew it was a young man so I walked him around the room of what I saw and when I said and you (the surgeon) were at the foot of the bed he ran out of his own office.  How could I have known what was going on in the room because there was a curtain between my head and body so I couldn't see the doctor at my feet.
Probable NDE due to unknown illness (I don't know what myocardial syncodrepressoris).

3174. Marsha R NDE. 11/2/12  At some point, I was looking at my body from above as a nurse and a doctor stood by me.  Behind them was a priest who was going to give me the last rites of death.  At a corner was my husband, quietly weeping.  Then I was suddenly in a tunnel that was very dark, but I continued forward because a voice, probably male was saying "come my child".  I was not afraid, but apprehensive.  I then stood in the light, but there was no walls, floor or ceiling,  The voice told me to come with him.  I remembered suddenly that I had just had a baby, and I begged to be sent back because I was afraid of "who" would raise my baby.  I remember telling the voice or being to come back for me when my daughter was grown and did not need me any longer.  Suddenly, I was back to observing my body.
NDE from nurse due to stroke during childbirth.

3173. Cindy B NDE 2155OBE. 11/2/12   During my NDE in which I was basically hovering over the accident, It was very real. And I even watched people run down the hill to the car, saw my friend climb out of car, heard the people talking, and then someone working on my body. I was clinically dead for 3  minutes A first I thought it was like a sun behind clouds. But as the clouds started parting it got brighter and brighter. Different then our sun. I knew that if I stayed and watched the clouds part all the way than I wouldn't be able to come back.
NDE due to auto accident.

3172. Donna G NDE. 11/2/12   As my body lay dying on the operating table, I rose up and surveyed the situation.  The doctors and nurses were in a frenzy; yelling at each other, grabbing white towels, passing metal instruments, and sweating as if their lives were on the line instead of mine. I felt their fear as they tried desperately to save me, but I couldn't understand why they were so upset. Surely they could see I was perfectly fine.  Calm down,I said, laughing a little to ease the tension. But they kept at it, as if they didn't hear me. Maybe I needed to speak a little louder Relax! I shouted. Take it easy!  They continued to ignore me, so I flew into their faces and went nose-to-nose with each one of them. Look at me! I'm all right. There's nothing to worry about.  They acted as if they didn't see me, and I was standing right in front of them! Why wouldn't they acknowledge me?
NDE due to blood loss as a result of surgical complication under general anesthesia.

3171. Kate D NDE 6443. 10/16/12 .  Look at me, his voice was low and gentle. I can't, I squeaked. I was too ashamed and too afraid to move. You can, he said in a soothing voice, engendering so much love and trust to me in that moment. He reached over the bench with his hand and gave me his strength. Look at me ,he urged again. When my shallow and tear-soaked eyes met his, I saw that moment of violation from his view. I saw his heart swell to its brink with torture and pain. I saw the Creator of the Universe cry out with pain. He reached out through time and distance toward me, and took my little hand in his. In that moment of violation, he sent his love and his comfort radiating through my little four year-old body. His giant hand, so full of light and radiance, dwarfed my smallness. We endured that moment together, the Creator and I, both tear-soaked and full of heart wrenching pain. Through my weakness, he gave me His own strength.
NDE due to suicide attempt.  Stunning clash of good and evil in a courtroom.  Epic triumph of hope over tragedy.

3170. Christopher M NDE. 10/16/12 .  The closet was a cabinet (a wardrobe) by the window. It stood away from the wall and was maybe six feet tall with two doors in the front and a drawer in the bottom.  As she was helping me into my shorts, I told her I just remembered that someone had left an L.E.D. sign on the top of the wardrobe. I could tell it shocked her when I said this. She asked, What did it say? I explained that the sign had not been not turned on, so it had been dark. Then she helped me back into bed and said she would be right back. She returned with a doctor who questioned me about the sign. I told him that the sign was twenty-four inches long by four inches wide. It had a dark color (black or gray) plastic face with red L.E.Ds. It was not turned on, so it had no message. The doctor stood on a chair to get the sign and lifted it up so I could see it. It was the same sign that I had just described. Then he explained that it had been left high up in the room to help with a study of Out Of Body Experiences.
NDE due to auto accident.

3169. Nury M Probable NDE. 10/16/12 .  During the fevers for three days my mind was like in parallel worlds I could be here and talk to others and at the same time my mind was like seeing my own in different times or lives all passed so fast.  Passing tunnels of darkness and tunnels of light and finally at the end of the tunnel of light to arrive to a place full of light where I recognized was my great grand parents and grand parents and others persons darling to me that passed away. they were holding me with so much love and welcome me to that place I was full of peace and happiness I came back told to my mother I saw my grand parents death and I slept again and continued to be there with them. My mother got very fear and called a doctor to come home and when he came I was just dying a such peace and happiness and he felt not pulse in me but my mind was with the heaven. So he took me faster to the hospital where they hospitalized me for the 5 days with antibiotics and serum.
Probable NDE from illness.  Originally from Columbia.  College teacher of comparative religion.  Interesting spiritual journey around the world.

3168. Annie P Probable NDE. 10/16/12 .  I was driving down the road on the way to study for an anatomy final, when a woman in another car fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into my car. Right away, I rose up above the accident, where I saw an angelic man floating above me.  He said, "Anlee, come with me now, because you have to go to school here for a while." When he became aware of my concern about my finals, he said, "But don't worry, soon you will return to complete your chiropractic education." We ascended into a wide space of totally accepting Love. It felt completely different from anything I had known during my life.  And arriving there was not at all like merely traveling from one physical location to another. I asked, "Is this what heaven's like?"  He quickly answered, "Yes!" and then his name was transferred to my mind; he was Arch Angel Michael.  He transferred me through a type of "tunnel," (which is how people usually describe it,) that I experienced as being carried by an intense transitional energy into a dimension of refined density. There I was greeted and held by Christ's Pure Love/Light, and He transferred me to the front steps of the school in Nirvana.  The walls, floors, ceilings, furnishings everything involved was of vibrant colors   hues and intensities that I had never seen on Earth. I wound up in a room where I remember studying a system of quantum physics and geometric shapes which would allow us to evolve an ability to quickly attract, and be filled with, only one energy that of Light. 
Probable NDE due to auto accident.

3167. Tammie W NDE. 10/16/12 .  I could see my ambulance stopped on the side of the road while the EMTs were working on me because I had bled out and had no pulse or breathing function. [The Life Flight chopper had been grounded due to fog.] Suddenly I found myself inside the car which my husband and my brother were driving to the hospital. My brother was holding a gun and was telling my husband if I didn't make it that he was going to kill him, as well. I was screaming at my brother, "NO! NO!" but he could not hear me. Then the fog parted over the interstate (only the interstate!) where the ambulance was. The ambulance driver later compared it to the "parting of the Red Sea" in the story of Moses. I was then aware of being whisked away in the arms of a being I could not see. I knew I was being carried by a being and that this being had no physical body nor did I. Below, I saw a beautiful island-like city that was glowing with vivid color. But there was no sun in the sky, the island city just glowed all on its own. I could "hear" a voice inside my head expressing great sorrow.
NDE (first experience) and probable NDE (second experience) due to accidentally shooting self.

3166. Charles P Possible NDE. 10/16/12 .  While breathing a combination of ether and nitrous oxide gas, I began to feel a very uncomfortable vibration developing in my head.  Following that, my consciousness seemed to shoot out into a very starry universe, with a sense of laughter (probably caused by the nitrous oxide, also called "laughing gas.")  While I was in space, I received a very strong, non-verbal, profound, clear and friendly message. It was that what was happening (my surgery) was of no significance whatsoever to my eternal existence.  This OBE and accompanying message was very short, but I remember it well, even though it occurred about 60 years ago.
OBE associated with anesthesia.  Shared 62 years later.

3165. Julia Probable NDE. 10/20/12 Inside this house, I felt enveloped by love and compassion. The feeling was overwhelming. There were people there that I knew, a deceased grandmother I had never met, my paternal grandfather, but I couldn't see them, although I saw other people that I felt some strange, spiritual connection to. I felt a joy like I had never felt in my life. Towards the back of the house was a room where an intense light filtered in around the cracks in the door. Immediately I was attracted to this room and wanted to find out what was on the other side. A nearby spirit opened the door, and the most amazing lightness and joy filled my heart. I was literally enveloped in love, if that can be visualized. I looked, not directly into the intense light, but around it, where beings, human and perhaps not human, were joyfully reunited with each other. I wanted so much to go through this door, but someone there told me that I couldn't, and that it wasn't my time yet.
Probable NDE due to severe Strep infection at age 12.

3164. Wendy M OBE. 10/16/12 .  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Sheldon.  I was seeing everything that was happening from the ceiling. I saw myself sleeping and the doctors operating on me, and I was amazed to see that in the room there was another person who they were operating on. I thought, Wow, the operating room is shared. I was conscious that I was up above without a body, but it was strange sensation. I was not scared at all; it was as if nothing mattered. I could see without eyes.
Verifiable OBE due to being under anesthesia.  The reason it is not a NDE is because the surgery was not life-threatening.

3163. Carl D NDE. 10/16/12 .  Everything there was made up of light, light that was light but wasn't light. I've never found adequate words for what to call it, except for "HOME." I just knew it was HOME, my real HOME. The place I'd been living where I was born and grew up that was no longer "home." It was only where I'd come from, where'd I been. And when I did return back to HERE, I felt totally out of place. This wasn't where I belonged anymore it was only where I'm meant to be, just for a time. THEY promised that when I'm done, or when I've done all I can do, then I could go HOME again. To express what HOME was like has been impossible for me to do. Everything HOME is connected. It is all One. It's Light. And light is love, or what beings here call "love," I think. Peace. It is all at peace, except when they showed me the grey-things, in the "void." I never remember asking, but I must have. It was light and grey, light and shadow or absence of light, or just less light. All creatures / beings are of light, but some have more light, some less. I'm not sure if where I was heaven, but I was at peace I was loved, and I was HOME.
NDE due to smoke inhalation.

3162. Melanie E NDE. 10/16/12 .  I don't remember anything else until I saw myself below, on the ER table, with people working on me.  I was always interested in medicine, so I said, "Oh, a blood transfusion, who is getting that?" And a voice said, "You", I didn't see a face, but my questions were answered, and I wasn't at all concerned about the bloody person on the table being me.  I was thinking what a weight had been taken off my shoulders, and how I had never felt so good or peaceful, when I realized they were trying to put me back INTO the body on the table, and I tried to fight them off.  Then suddenly I was backthe dr. told her I had no pulse or blood pressure when they brought me in, and it was a miracle I was alive.
NDE due to auto accident.

3161. HD NDE. 10/16/12 .  I started freaking out. I was screaming and crying trying to get out of this horrible thing. Then everything stopped and all I saw was a bright light and a man standing there. He said, "This is your last chance, take everything back, take it all back. Think about everything you have done HD, take it all back." It just kept repeating in my head. Then it felt as if I was being shocked. My whole body starting shaking and I couldn't do anything about it. (I was having a seizure.) I kept yelling and thinking in my mind about everything I wanted to do in my life, and all the things I wanted to take back, and why I didn't think this should be the end for me.
NDE at age 14 due to illicit drug reaction.

3160. Zachary G NDE. 10/16/12 .  I woke up in a trauma emergency room as a Level 1 Trauma victim with a free-flow morphine drip in one arm, and a saline solution drip in the other arm. After I was moved to a regular room, I started flushing out the pain killers and would not allow any more morphine. I'm allergic to pain killers. After my mind became sober from the pain killers, I started to remember my NDE. I remember spontaneously appearing with no body in a formless place. Only beings of pure consciousness melding with one another were there along with my consciousness. Those beings directly communicated with me through some kind of intuition, not through thought. It was direct knowledge without a thinking mind. Putting it into words now, what was being communicated to my mind was the understanding that: "I am not suppose to be here yet; I need to leave here and go back." I remember wondering, "Why?" "What is going on?" "I don't understand." Then the beings communicated to me: "Everything will be all right." They let me know that I am needed on Earth to do something, and they showed me by direct knowledge, or intuition, about the next part of my life up until the spring of 2013.
NDE due to criminal attack.  Contributor is Buddhist living in the USA.

3159. Bonnie W NDE. 10/16/12 .  When I came round I asked the doctor how many times I had gone and he held up three fingers and I went again. I found myself in a black void completely at peace. I had no self awareness, no memory of who I was but I somehow knew that I was separate from the void. I cannot describe the feeling of completely peace - no pain, no worries, no sense of self but it was fantastic. I came back to my body with a huge bang. It felt like I had dropped back in from a  great height and said something to the doctor - I don't remember what Heart stopped 5 times over the course of 1.5 hours.
NDE due to cardiac arrest by Buddhist in England.

3158. Kadri M Probable NDE. 10/16/12 .  From Estonia.  And I remember that suddenly I was in Heaven, standing before an angel who was holding the Book of the Lamb. To me, it seemed to be a wonderfully friendly place. Of course I was surprised to be there, but I really liked it from the first moment of my arrival. While I was looking around and getting know the place, suddenly I heard a man's voice saying to me, "You need to go back. Your time has not yet come! I didn't see who was talking to me, but I felt his voice echoing deep down inside my body. Right away I was back on Earth where my body was. And when I saw my body with bubbles coming out of it, I knew what had happened. And then, as I was looking at my body, I was somehow back inside it again.
Probable NDE from near drowning at age 7.