These NDEs, as all others we share, will be presented to fully protect the confidentiality of the experiencer, if requested. We do not believe these changes will diminish our understanding of NDE. We do believe these changes are necessary for the integrity of NDERF.

 

Copyright1999 by Jody Long & 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.

2126.  Desmond F NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 From France, Original in French, translated by Jacqueline.  I have the sensation of having my mouth full, I can not articulate, and then everything changes...I am now fine, I am feeling intensely, immensely well, lying (I think so, for I am both spectator and actor of the stage, I am both inside and outside, so... am I lying ? I don't know.) Bathing in a soft light around (or in front?) of me; some familiar and extremely caring presences lean on me. I have no concept of time passing. I have the feeling that they tell me something although I hear nothing, I am sure there is a communication, though unable to mention any content or formal expression of it. As for what I feel...everything is serenity, benevolence, love ... I bathe in the fullness, I dare say perfect happiness.
NDE from heart attack.

2125.  Jorge V NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 From Mexico, Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon A.  As soon as I was under anaesthesia, I started seeing images of my life, right back to childhood. I saw my parents, my 6 brothers, my children and their mothers. I went back over many stages of my life, until I came to a stage when I began to see the things I had done wrong, but passing before me in a very rapid succession.
Surgery-related NDE.

2124.  Connie T NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 I found myself in a field of brightly colored flowers, with the sensation of a river flowing just beyond the flowers.  The whole area was enveloped in a very bright yellowish light.  Just on the other side of the river was a huge crowd of beings with no discernable faces or other body characteristics.  I had an overwhelming sense of welcome with the impression that they were beckoning to me to join them. Although I didn't actually see her, I was aware that one of them was my grandmother who had passed away about 10 years before.  I can recall vaguely wondering if my father was in the crowd (he died when I was 11).  I didn't actually speak to anyone, nor did I hear any words spoken to me.  It was more, just a very brightly colored vision, with sensations of joy and welcome.
NDE due to faint following surgery.

2123.  George W Possible NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 Once I was out for the count I started seeing strange beings and my life on another planet with all my friends and family. They told me that we live forever but we had to go through death after every life. I was told our death provides light and energy to the universe and after we provided the light and energy for a bit we come back. I saw so many things and it was like they all happened at once. In the beginning I was very afraid bad things kept happening but as I progressed through the experience it became more and more peaceful.
Possible NDE due to seizure and pneumonia.

2122.  Janice H NDE 4306 English expanded version  2/4/10 I was thrown out of the car and landed between two large boulders and the car then landed on top of me.  The two other passengers in the car were not injured.  As I was being crushed by the car, I felt myself being squeezed so hard that my breath was leaving me and I thought to myself, Oh God, I am going to die..... About this time, I was being levitated to the sky.  I looked down where my body was lying and my right leg was all twisted.  I saw the two people that was traveling with me crying and were very upset over my injuries.  The ambulance had arrived and the attendant was administering help to me.  I watched them do what they could but I could not understand why everyone was so upset.  I was feeling wonderful and happy. I knew that this was a wonderful thing that was happening to me.
NDE due to auto accident.  Shared 58 years later.

2121.  Al G NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 From Croatia.  Strangely, I did not feel any danger, even though I could hear thunder and see big waves hit the ship. The only thing I could feel was peace and satisfaction, pleasantness. I was happy, first moment of happiness after a couple of years. I felt divine. I felt like I'm the nature itself. It felt like I'm floating in air for hours and hours, and then suddenly I heard a voice of the woman I love (even though she left me two months before that I still love her) telling me to be strong, to make it through. That voice told me to get up, open my eyes and to live; because it is not my time yet to leave this life.
NDE due to head injury.  Heard former lover tell him that it was not his time.

2120.  Gary T NDE 4304 English expanded version  2/1/10 My brother who is 2 years older than me was out on a second floor balcony that did not have bars to protect anyone from falling, I would grab the handrail and swing out over the concrete ally below, I missed the handrail and feel head first as if diving into a pool. I then remember looking down on my body and my brother standing over me crying and pulling my hair to get back up the stairs. I saw my mother run down and pick me up crying and blowing air in my mouth, I remember thinking why is she doing that im ok, then the next thing I was in my body looking up at my mom and then I was unconscious in a coma for 2 weeks. I woke up in a hospital and never spoke of my experience until I was 11 and mom  turned white when I told her about the details of my brother crying and dragging me up the stairs, she confirmed it.
NDE due to fall with head injury at age 4 who is now an RN.

2119.  Joe A NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 I was running track at my high school. I was a fast runner and was ahead of everyone, when I turned my head to look back at the other runners. When I turned back around, I ran into a steel pole (Light pole for the baseball field) I was knocked out. I remember seeing myself from above as I lay there. I saw myself laying there and the other boys gathered around me. It seems like it only lasted a few seconds. I remember having a strange feeling of seeing myself laying there.  When I came to, all the boys that were running with me and the boys practicing on the other baseball field were standing around me. The coach had them carry me to the gymnasium where the high school principle met us.
NDE due to head injury.

2118.  Sandy M Probable NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 They said they were going to rush me into surgery as soon as the doctor arrived whom they had already called. They told me they would have to perform a D&C and would put me out. In the Recovery Room I was speaking to a being that I had the understanding was the Lord Jesus Christ but he didn't say he was but I just "knew" who he was because of the comfort and peace I was in. I was conversing with the "Lord" and I said what I thought was out loud, "thank you for being with me during this" and I just had such a warm and cozy feeling, really calm and at peace. I then realized that I was awakening and I saw a nurse in the room and I said was I just talking and she said no. And I said you didn't hear me talking and she said no you weren't talking.
Probable NDE following miscarriage.

2117.  Bonnie VB NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 Then I looked up and I thought the little light up above came on (the refrigerator was not plugged in so there actually was no light).  It was very tiny and then I felt myself leaving my body, going up through the grates, and into the light.  I was being pulled up through a tunnel that opened into the most beautiful white light that I could ever describe.  When I was fully into the light I realized it was the most incredibly beautiful light that I had ever seen.  It seemed to have a personality that was beyond belief loving.  I was happy just being in the light.  I remember then that I heard a voice that I thought was the light that surrounded me.  Without having a body some how I talked to the voice.  I was shown that the white light was really made up of all the colors.  I was shown the zillions of colors in the light, more than I have seen on earth.  They were all beautiful.… If it isn't real I'm not sure how I learned about the colors and all things in the universe coming from an original light when I was technically not breathing.
NDE from asphyxiation at age 4.  Shared by retired college professor 63 years later.

2116.  Nostra J NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 I felt exhausted and deeply relieved to sit down.  Then it seemed I was in some other place.  There was a lot of wind there and the wind made a lot of noise. I saw that I was in a tunnel.  I seemed to be floating through the air, propelled by the wind. I was very calm.  There was no sense of worry or fear.  I was willing to go where this wind would take me… Experience was definitely real.  It has been 19 years since this experience.  Plus I know I have a poor memory that has plagued me since a child.  But I have never forgotten anything that happened to me that day.
NDE due to apparent faint.

2115.  Patricia M Probable NDE English expanded version  2/4/10 while I laid on my death bed knowing nothing  of this world, I was on the beach with my  mother holding her hand and walking on the sand with a dolphin in the water near by. The water seemed white and all else was this grey sort of color, but transparent too. My father was standing on a hill by this big building with lots of windows but I couldn't see in the windows because they were blacked out. My mother and father look the same, but different too. This place was so peaceful and wonderfully beautiful I never wanted to leave.
Probable NDE in ICU after emergency surgery for colon rupture.

2114.  Kathleen B NELE English expanded version  2/2/10 I began telling my grandfather that it was okay to let go and God would take care of him and to go toward God when I felt like I was being pulled toward a great bright light.  Not a harsh light but a light filled with warmth and peace.  I remember feeling and seeing my grandfather's had in mine and him telling me he was scared and he needed me with him.  It was bizarre as I was not dead or dying but I was having this feeling as if my spirit/body was being pulled toward the light at the same time as my grandfather was.  The light got brighter and then enveloped us. We were standing in a place that was illuminated but not with regular light or lamps or candles and there were other people there but I could not make out who they were nor was I frightened or surprised to see them.  My grandfather was on my left and we were still holding hands.
Exceptional experience of transitioning with her dying grandfather into the afterlife.  These types of experiences, along with shared NDEs, are among the strongest evidence that what happens in NDEs is what happens at the time of permanent, irreversible death.

2113.  Elizabeth S NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 Then as I gazed at the sun it kept coming closer to the window, getting larger and speeding up and getting brighter. My thought was that the earth and the sun were about to collide and I was witnessing the end of the world. The ball of light came through the window with the sound of a swift wind, and I saw that it was an awesome image of illuminating white light that was Jesus. I was afraid because I felt unprepared to be judged. I wanted to speak but was unable to do so. I noticed his youthful appearance and thought him to be near my age. I saw his sandals were old and worn and wondered why he would not have newer ones to wear. He took steps suspended in mid-air.  His arms were reaching out to me, and then he spoke. He said "You are not ready to die, you still have work to do." He hesitated, and then said "And don't be afraid, I will be with you."  I watched him back up toward the window and leave just as he had entered. The bright light then returned to the sky.
NDE due to complications of delivery.

2112.  Jennifer B NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 I was completely relaxed and pain free.  I felt filled with love and peace, as if I was exactly where I was supposed to be.  I also noticed that my thoughts were extremely clear, very unlike my usual self.  I wasn't floating long before I noticed a field of stars below me.  They formed a sort of curtain that divided where I was from someplace else.  I knew I would be able to go to them if I just thought about doing it, but right after I had that thought, a male voice spoke to me in my head.  He told me that if I went past the stars I wouldn't be able to come back.  I remember thinking, "I'm not sure I want to go back, it's so wonderful here."  And that was it.
NDE due to hypotension, fainting, and blow to head.

2111.  Bobbie K NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 From Canada. 
Eyes wide open, guided by the Light,
So familiar, so loved, so free.
Far from illusion, heading toward the sea.
I reach a tunnel, the water is gone,
my body no longer in sight.
My spirit soars lightning speed ahead.
Much to my delight,
I am on other side of life!
NDE at age 4-5 from drowning.  Much of it shared as a beautiful poem.

2110.  David A NDE 4284 English expanded version  2/2/10 I was on a hospital table after losing almost all of my blood.  Doctors were working on me.  I floated out of my body.  I glanced back. The doctors had stopped working and were walking away. A nurse was filling out a report.  I entered into a tunnel of swirling lights of many colors.  Two beings met me, apparently as guides.  As we started to continue the journey, the two beings (angels?) stopped and told me that it was not yet my time.  They released me and I suddenly re-entered my body.  I looked at the nurse and told her that I was thirsty.  She jumped back in shock and dropped her clipboard, and then began calling for doctors.  The doctors hooked up various bottles through IV tubes, and I went to sleep.  I woke up the next day in a hospital ward.
NDE associated with combat in Vietnam.

2109.  Ray S NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 …watched as my mother came to the porch and yelled for father my brother and sister crying ... as for me? ... just calm it was just after Christmas and I got the sheep skin coat that I bugged my parents for I only bring this up because my brother bought me a purple slush while he was in the store earlier and I could see my Dad trying to revive me and the slush staining my coat!  So here I am dead and I am upset over a coat! LOL  Don't know how long this was all taking I just know I was slowly rising higher floating in the tree looking down next thing I remember was waking up in the Union Hospital in Freetown MA with everyone around me asking if I was going to be OK now. I looked at my Mother and said Mom is my coat ruined now will the purple come out?
NDE due to carbon monoxide poisoning at age 7.  OBE observations later confirmed.

2108.  Dea M NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 The colors got more intense and more detailed, turning into patterns and textures and weaving of both color and sound.  While I knew that this was not of our world, it all seemed natural and without need for explanation.  At some point I understood the essence of creativity and was given the "joy stick" of my own imagination so to speak, to create my own visions.  It was amazing what ever I thought became vision, and swirled around me in its own reality.  I realized my unlimited potential as a human, I realized the unlimited ability to feel love, I knew that I was being held in that "love" and I knew that this was the forever-ness of that love. I knew what it was like to LOVE the way that God loves, and when that happened my "heart" opened and I could feel my soul touching that of the unseen creator, I knew that "God" does exist and we are a part of it all.
Exceptional NDE due to car accident.  Perhaps the most dramatic description of colors ever.

2107.  Debbie P NDE 4280 English expanded version  2/2/10 I was in a very black and vast void illuminated only by a glowing, pulsating enormous Cosmic Question Mark, the space filling sound of joyous laughter, and absolute understanding of what is important in our lives - love, and love alone.  I had no awareness of anything other than my own unique cosmic connection to my Creator - it was an intensely personal experience, and there was no awareness of anyone or anything else, other than this divine connection - being caught up in something far beyond my normal awareness or understanding.
NDE due to cardiac arrest while under general anesthesia.

2106.  Sue H NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 I thought that I would never have the experience of being near an angel again, when one day swimming in the river I got on a beaver barge, I panicked and couldn't pull myself out of the water, I was submerged with just inches from the surface, no air, starting to fade out,  when I looked up through the water and saw a person standing upon the barge "where no one could be supported" she put her hand through the water, over my face, pushed me HARD under the barge and through the other side, I jumped up to see if anyone was on the barge, and no one...."I do believe in guardian angels".
NDE due to burn injuries at age 6, and life-saving encounter with an angel.  NDE happened 52 years ago.

2105.  Sylvia D NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 …this was an extreme threat to my life, I was not expected to live. As soon as the aneurysm ruptured, I knew something was terribly wrong. The pain was so severe, and my condition worsened very rapidly. I was at first aware of the seriousness of my condition until I lost consciousness. Then, I was in this very intense, bright light. I am uncertain of the timeline and order of events, but at some point, I was with my deceased grandmother. She was in a field picking green beans, and I was with her. The light almost felt like a very hot summer day, but I felt drawn into this light, a part of the light. There was no pain, no fear, only a feeling of warmth, peace, love, and serenity. It was so wonderful that I wanted to remain in that light. Then, I was aware of others with me, but only recognized my recently deceased mother. She was in a gown of white, I could see her and I reached to touch her but she remained out of my reach. I was told I could not stay, that it was not my time…
NDE due to ruptured brain aneurysm.

2104.  Beth B NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 The entire experience felt like I was in a higher level of awareness than I had ever been.  This event is crystal clear in my memory and has always been… Experience was definitely real           When my Grandmother visited and I told her about the man I thought was my grandfather, she listened and then pulled out this picture of him (he was 65 when he died). It was the same man I had visited, but much younger.  He didn't say this to me, but I said something to my Grandmother that convinced her that I had seen him -- it was strange, but I remembered to tell her that the key was behind the stove.  She had lost her clock key, and that's where she found it.
NDE due to drowning at age 7 ½.  Shared 53 ½ years later.

2103.  Grady R NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 JUST BEFORE I HIT THE VAN, I SAW EVERY THING IN MY LIFE, FROM MAJOR TO SOMETHING AS SMALL AS PUTTING MY SHOES ON, EVERY LITTLE DETAIL BIG AND SMALL WITHIN A MILL-A-SEC… AT THE TIME CADILLAC-WAGONS WHERE USE FOR AMBULANCES, AT KNOW TIME WAS I ABLE TO SEE THE ROOF BUT IT HAD THE #69 IN RED ON THE ROOF.
NDE due to motorcycle accident.

2102.  KB NDE English expanded version  2/2/10 The river bottom changes constantly so in playing on what had previously been a sandbar, I step off and was over my head in the water. I struggled to gain my footing but began to sink in the water. Eventually I stopped struggling and a feeling of calm came over me. I saw my life (as brief as it was) flash before me. I experienced feeling very peaceful and happy to go toward the bright light ahead. The next thing I recall was someone grabbing me. My sister says she looked over and saw my hair floating on top of the water (my hair was waist length at the time). She rushed over and pulled me out by my hair.
NDE at age 8 due to near drowning.

2101.  Frank P NDE 4272 English expanded version  2/2/10 I suddenly fell back and was fully surrounded by a energy of a white light. I have NEVER seen this color white here on earth. It did not hurt my eyes to see it. I felt relaxed with no thoughts of my family or my past. I somehow knew I was in the place I have seen others talk about. I do not know how I knew this. I then had a male voice say to me "Frank, do you want to go with me or go back" With out hesitation I said "go back". As soon as I said back, I felt the shock of the paddles come in on my right chest and cross to the left.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2100.  Bobby H NDE English expanded version  2/1/10 I was free of the body...free of the daily stress of a physical existence.  I no longer felt fear or loneliness, or emotional pain.  There are no human words available to describe this.  It was a total immersion in God's love, in his light...as if I was in the presence of Christ himself...immersed in the Holy Spirit.  I could see, but not with my eyes, hear but not with my ears and so on.  It was the most beautiful thing that I have ever experienced in my life, before or since...it was not physical.  It was 100% spiritual.  As this was going on I had no sadness or did I miss anyone or anything I was leaving behind.  It was as if I was also immersed in total understanding and knowledge of all things...there was no concept of time and space...only pure love and infinite wisdom, untold forgiveness and acceptance.
NDE due to falling accident.  Also shares remarkable ADC that happened at the time of his son’s death.

2099.  William M NDE English expanded version  2/1/10 I went to sleep while driving. Then I was aware that we were out of our bodies & quickly flying up toward space, holding hands. we flew straight up for a minute or so when we started to see a park or countryside-like landscape. It seemed to be in twilight, sort of dark, but we could see trees, bushes, etc. Suddenly, we were intercepted  by 4 creatures. They seemed about ten feet in height & were invisible, but we could see a vague humanoid outline (my best description would be like the invisibility effect in the movie "predator" which I saw some years later. Two flanked each of us and began to gently separate us. They overwhelmed us with a feeling of the highest love & compassion that was well beyond anything we could experience on earth.
Rare ‘shared NDE’ account.  Auto accident with his girlfriend.  The two of them shared part of the experience.  He was sent back, she was not.

2098.  Silvia B Possible NDE English expanded version  1/30/10 From Argentina. Original in Spanish translated to English by David.  In that moment my whole life with every single scene that it was composed of passed by very quickly.  I couldn't remain in any scene for more than a fraction of a second.   My attention was directed towards a very white and brilliant light.  I wanted to go toward that place.  I felt attracted to it... I felt a strong attraction to the peace and light.   It was an experience that the years haven't allowed me to forget.  It was extraordinary.
Possible NDE during childbirth.

2097.  Dorie's Mom's NDE English expanded version  1/30/10 My mother said she remembered the beautiful light and the "men" waiting for her. She was asked whether she wanted to stay or go back. She said she had 6 children and, of course, me on the way, and that my father could not handle all the work alone so she thought she should finish her job on earth and go back. My father, over the years, being an Irish immigrant with a big ego, always talked about that time when the doctors told him she was going to die and he "cried like a baby." My relatives have told me that my mom was very ill when carrying me with a bad case of pneumonia.

2096.  Amy D ADC English expanded version  1/29/10 Next thing I know, I am standing outside the nursing home where Josie lived. The most beautiful golden light was shining above and I was in amazement as I looked at the trees the light emitting from every leaf and it was Autumn; the colors had a vibrancy and brilliance never seen on earth. Next I heard my grandmother's voice "This place is not-ting but corridors!"  My heart again felt so heavy and I told her I understand and I am so sorry!  I did not see her physically, but felt her next to me. She then told me she was" leaving" and wanted to tell me how much she loved me.  Instantly, I felt what she meant and understood the Light.  I stood in awe. Everything conveyed was telepathic and was felt in emotion more than the words. The love exuded was felt full bodied and consuming
Shared Death Experience (NELE/ADC)

2095.  Jack A NDE English expanded version  1/26/10  It will probably be no surprise whatsoever that during the two hours and fifty-four minutes I remained clinically dead in the hospital and later in the morgue, I spent 155 active and healthful years creating art and architecture on "the other side." The paradise I found myself in was intimately familiar. I also immediately recognized my deceased grandmother who was there, although she had transitioned from life as we know it some thirteen years before I was born.
Amazing NDE art as a result of his experience on the other side!

2094.  Marta Y NDE English expanded version  1/26/10 From Mexico. Original in Spanish translated to English by Simon.  After this I saw myself floating in the void, and little by little tiny spheres of many colors became manifest, not moving at first, then suddenly starting to vibrate while smoothly approaching me and incorporating themselves with my essence, which made me feel something I can't manage to describe, it was as if I was being tickled. I asked what this was, and a voice said, "This is the knowledge you have accumulated in previous lives, it was kept from you, but now it will be of use to you."
Very detailed NDE where she met her second son who had not been born yet!

2093.  Ludmila NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 From the Ukraine.  Original in Ukrainian, translated to English by Yulia. But they did not interested me at all, because I knew everything and I did not have a necessity to use all that information … I was overflowed with the feeling of pleasure, and the feeling that at last I was coming back to the place that was so dear to me. My movement was guided by my interest. There were no words in my consciousness. In my mind I used only concept, logic and intuition.   I moved permanently upwards, my consciousness revealed more and more, and I can describe a condition of my consciousness as an allegorical symbol of a flower of a lotus, which opens its 1000 petals. 
NDE from anaemia and a cure after she came back!

2092.  Alejandra M NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 From Argentina.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Jacqueline. Suddenly, I was standing in front of a black swirl, and moving ahead to cross it, to reach out a bright light that was getting larger as I moved toward it. I quickly entered in that light and they were bright, faceless people with human form, which I did not know, but I felt they knew me because of the friendly way they received me; I had the felling that one of them was my late uncle that I loved so much; these entities received me with great joy and greeted me by my name, but all this dialogue  was by telepathy. I was not talking, and they did not have voices either. I also remember feeling a sensation of peace, welfare and happiness beyond description, it was like if I belonged to that place. Suddenly, the voice of my conscience told me that it was not my time yet, and that I had to return, but I did not want to...I was so comfortable; I resisted, and I felt like if someone was pulling me from somewhere else, and I pulled in the opposite direction, but this force was stronger than me.
NDE from fainting prior to blood draw. Was aware she needed to return, but did not want to.

2091.  Gail C NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 Suddenly, a black car appeared and .....I just remember the car was spinning and....after I remember a beautiful peace that I can not describe with words. I did not remember anything. I was not aware of what happened. I did not remember anything at all. I just saw a light like the sun...so bright and clear. I saw the threes like if I was lying down looking the sky...but it was not the sun for sure....how could I being looking at the sun without hurting my eyes. I start listening children laughs...like if they were playing and having fun. But that peace, that peace was awesome.
NDE due to car accident.  From Mexico.

2090.  Judy G NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 The doctors now tell me that my skin was grey, my heart rate was 20, my blood sugar was too high to read and that they needed to put an IV in my neck with a temporary pacemaker or I would die.  I told them do whatever they needed to do.  That's when every got really far off in a distance.  I could hear voices, but they were so far away.  There wasn't just one light.  There was a black tunnel-shaped hole with hundreds of white lights literally flying from the tunnel and coming at me, trying to pull me in.  The pull was extremely strong.  I started going toward the lights.  Then something went off in my brain and I mentally blinked my eyes to see if the lights and tunnel would go away.  They didn't go, the pull got stronger.  I was terrified.  I yelled "NO......I'm not ready.... Go away". 
NDE from viral illness and severe hyperglycemia.

2089.  Carole C NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 I had taken a potpourri of downers. Since I worked at a local pharmacy, I was well aware of the meds I consumed. I went to bed that night, hoping to never wake up again. SURPRISE! In the meantime, I saw my body laying there on the bed, from the corner ceiling of my bedroom behind my bedroom door. I remember my friends dragging me off the bed, trying to get me to walk. There were two others with me in the ceiling (so to speak) We were discussing my life. I can remember bickering with them. I did not want to go back to my life. I suppose they were displaying to me all the reasons why I should.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

2088.  Bill C NDE-Like English expanded version  1/23/10 I was not yet sleeping but had my eyes closed. I saw a bright flash. I next remember a dark tunnel and two figures on both sides of me guiding me towards a very bright light. I remember instantly of reading or hearing of people talking about this type of experience when I was younger. I instinctively look to my right to see if I was in a dark tunnel. It was surprised to see stars, but made a point to note this for some reason. There was no fear at all in me. I just glided along with the two figures, one holding each arm. The light was getting brighter ahead of me. Finally we were near what look like a four tier Golden Arch. Beyond this Arch I can see all my relatives who passed away, especially my Mother. All looked very happy and were all smiles. We could communicate but not by talking.
NDE-like experience at time of going to bed, not associated with a life-threatening event.

2087.  Carol L NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 When I had left the planet, I was an entity, sitting on the bottom of a thick black line (as if sitting on the floor in a hallway leaning against the wall) which had beautiful bright white light running the length of either side. I did not have a body and had no awareness of being "Carol" or having a husband and children, a home and a job. I was waiting and was aware of that. I was patient and not bored at all. Not like me. I get antsy and bored, especially without visual stimuli. I was are of my essence. That I ember as being very much me. I was just kind of hanging out waiting for a decision. I had no worries or cares and i was so FREE and RELAXED and CONTENT.
NDE due to complication after surgery.

2086.  J.H. NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 I was aware that there was no linearity to my experience, no attachment almost as though the forces that operated inside it were free floating. In our framework for understanding it I could say this intense softness wanted me and loved me, like it was pulling itself to itself with joy, smiling peace, and the most intense softness. Then there appeared in the bottom left corner of my mind's eye a luminescence. Gosh this is so clichéd, but it is absolutely true. The luminescence came towards me and I towards it. I knew with a kind of transcendent knowing what it was, and it was communicating the very fullness of itself and I was aware of the magnitude of it. It was infinite, and boundless and perfect. But I resisted it. It was overwhelmingly attractive.
NDE due to bleeding after delivery.

2085.  S.L. NDE English expanded version  1/23/10 Every time I (we) went on a journey, my guardian would say you must go back to your body.  I would say, "No it is to nice here." This happened several times. Then on our last trip away from my room my guardian said "it is not you time" "we have other things for you to do" " we will come and get you at the right time" I found myself back in the with my guardian in a corner. I said I don't want to go back it is to peaceful here. The guardian in a calm voice,  "It is not your time we, will come when it is your time."
NDE due to unspecified accident at age 8.  Shared 48 years later.

2084.  Miguel RP NDE English expanded version  1/14/10 From Columbia. Original in Spanish translated to English by Simon.    I returned to the black tunnel, I don't know for how long, as everything seemed to happen instantaneously. I came again to the light, but this time it was brighter and stronger than the previous times. I got used to the light and saw a clear sky, without sun or clouds, neither hot nor cold. I looked at my chest and could see no damage, and I began to praise God, I was well and I was saying: "Thanks to Christ for saving me, nothing happened to me". I was feeling myself and could not believe what I was seeing. I looked up and there was no one there. The floor was brilliant like crystal, and then I saw a person dressed in something like a white nightgown, who came near me but without my being able to see his face and hands, which were shining light. When he was near me I told him I was working with explosives and they had blown-up on me, but without harming me. He told me to calm myself. I asked him who he was and he replied that he was the Angel Gabriel.
Apocalyptic NDE with Angel Gabriel.  

2083.  Eric SV NDE English expanded version  1/14/10 From France. Original in French translated to English by Jacqueline.    First, I started to see everything turning around me ... then, suddenly, everything disappeared ! ... I was in total darkness ... everything went black ... there were only darkness and nothing else ... but I was not scared, I felt good, quiet ... I was moving fast and straight ...I knew where I was heading to...It was like going back home...I had the feeling that I already knew the place where I was going to ... and I  had an only wish: to get there fast!... and I moved straight into the darkness ... Then, I heard someone calling me... the voice came from behind me... I stopped to listen better, because the voice was far away...then, I hesitated  if  to keep on my way ¨out there¨ or going to the voice that kept on calling me, again and again...
Beginnings of an OBE from a fainting experience.

2082.  Louise S NDE English expanded version  1/14/10 From Scotland.  I felt very light and floating and the pain suddenly stopped and the stress that I had been feeling stopped and I felt very relaxed and at ease with the world.  I had no worries any more.  I felt at peace but aware of my surroundings at the same time. I knew that I was out of my body and I was floating just above near the ceiling of the room, I was aware of the doctors and nurses panicking over my lifeless body, I 'looked down' and could 'see' my still body, it looked a very blue color.  I felt so comfortable and serene, floating above, no worries, no pain, I felt wonderful.  I remember thinking, "Wow, this is GREAT!!"., "What a feeling!"
NDE due to blood loss following miscarriage.

2081.  Debbie NDE English expanded version  1/14/10 I wasn't afraid at the scene but instead felt an overwhelming feeling of peace and some more curiosity. I felt something and looked up beyond the rope. That's when I saw the fuzzy white circle of white light in the distance. it wasn't the sun I remember seeing that to. I thought at the light oh no not yet please I like this one im not ready yet. at the same time I felt as though I knew everything I had ever wanted to know and more at that young age. I knew that whatever happened in this life it was all ok. it was all just experiences. good or bad. The feeling of complete unconditional love was so very strong I almost didn't want to leave it. but I knew I belonged with it and I would be back with it. so I chose to go back to my body. just then everything went black.
NDE due to drowning at age 5.

2080.  Amber Y FDE English expanded version  1/14/10 For the brief seconds before it occurred. Yes, it seemed like everything was in slow motion then I felt like if I was going to die it would be fine… Experience was definitely real            I thought about it and I have never felt so loved in my life.
Fear-death experience seconds before car crash.  Experience happened about seven weeks ago.

2079.  Sylvia R NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I was out of my body observing my body laying in the hospital bed, and I could hear everything that my sisters were saying as well as the nurse who came into the room.  I tried to talk to my sisters to let them know I was alright but they didn't hear me.  Immediately after this my spirit went thru this darkened tunnel extremely fast and looking upwards I could see this white light at the end of the tunnel.  Your spirit goes through this tunnel like "Whoosh" and you are there standing in the brightest white light you have ever known.  The noonday sun cannot compare to it's brightness or stark whiteness.  You instantly feel this bright white light raining down upon your spirit and you feel an intense love all over your body like soft rain falling on your skin.  You know you are loved beyond all shadow of a doubt by this Bright Whiteness surrounding your spirit. 
NDE during unconsciousness after surgery.

2078.  Mark B Probable NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 When I reached my last and final shelter, I felt as though I could go no deeper as I locked the door behind me and waited within the security of my refuge. Somehow I ""knew"" that there I would remain and had reached the end of my journey. This last refuge became a fortress different than those before it. It seemed more calm and tranquil there than that of my previous shelters. The pain which I had desperately sought to elude was never able to penetrate the walls of this refuge as it had been able to before. I left all contacts with my physical body far behind and above me where they would remain. There I left all physical ties behind, leaving only my inner ""self,"" the core of my ""being,"" then separated from the external world far above and outside the new world of my ""self."" Before I entered this refuge, which was a fortress stronger than those before it, I shed all contacts with my physical body, leaving only my inner ""self"" to pass through the walls of this fortress.
ICU Experience and Probable NDE.  Lengthy description of severe injury, and epic struggle for recovery. 

2077.  James S NDE 4247 English expanded version  1/2/10 Just as I took her weight everything switched off and I was in total darkness.  Then my life memories including ones I knew nothing about flashed through my brain, then it all faded slowly away into total darkness again.  Next I knew was I was standing on what seemed like terracotta sand.  Even though all around me was total darkness, I knew I was in a large circular cavern or hall of sorts that had arched doorways again in darkness and above me was water with gentle ripples flowing across it , the water was about twenty foot above and through it I could see what I took at the time to be a bright moon that was acting as a type of spotlight upon me.  I had no pain or discomfort of any kind and my thinking and senses where normal. I felt warm and very comfortable and very emotional with an overwhelming feeling of love and happiness.
NDE due to heart attack.

2076.  Dan B NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I began reliving my life. while I was seeing it from my perspective, I was also experiencing my every action as everyone affected by my actions. I could literally feel the concentric circles of "emotion" going out from me, as they were experienced by each person in turn: I affect john, john affects ray, ray affects sam, etc. and I experienced all of it. I was still frightened and sad about my life.  After the life review, I was shown (I don't remember a guide) how every person, every thought, every action and every word are connected. it looked like a vast web of stars that existed in many dimensions.
NDE due to episode of unconsciousness and stated heart attack.

2075.  Victoria NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I fell in the bath tub it was full to the top, I had already hit my head twice.  My reflexes where impaired,  I swallowed water, remember could not get out I was so slippery, my head was hurting immensely, blood was coming out of my nose, but at one moment I just laid with my eyes open at peace….  I saw myself with my eyes completely submerged in the  bathtub, lifeless...as I watch it out body experience there was nothing I could do…  when  I  was taken to  the hospital I heard them pounding on my chest, saying how young I look, what a time to die just before the holidays.
NDE due to drowning that occurred less than four days prior to sharing experience.

2074.  Laurie C NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I thought to myself, I'm dead, so this is death, I wasn't at all frightened and when I thought about how I should be a wave of pure love washed through my being , I felt totally at peace and very safe and love was in me around everywhere, I was calm and had no thought of the accident, no pain just absolute peace, I remember thinking that I could still think, and how alert I was, then a voice said to me do you want to stay or do you want to go back, the clarity of that sentence was amazing, and as clear as it was I didn't know if it was male or female, I said I've just had a baby, [4 1/2 months old], the next thing I knew was I was on the side of the road with someone holding me and I was gasping for breath.
NDE due to car accident.

2073.  Stephen P NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 After laying down for a bit. I started to feel really strange.. my body felt like it was sort of preparing for something. My limbs started to stretch and kind of just settle back in a certain position, my whole body followed suit. Then I felt myself just drift away and leave my body. I remember that it was a most pleasant feeling. I then felt enveloped in a warm loving peaceful light. At this time I was told that it was not time for me yet, and I felt like I was kind of "slammed" back into my physical body.
NDE due to a seizure.

2072.  Robert C NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I said "I'm going into the light " . They said "I is not your time " .  I tried to assure them I was going into the light but they denied my passage.  They were adamant it was not my time . The I noticed I was a ball of light . I no longer had the shape of a human being . My consciousness was spherical in all directions at once and I had a god like knowing . Then all at once I saw my entire life  pass before me in minute detail. In fact I saw much more than words and deeds but how they effected those around me .. It was like energy radiating from me that rippled out like a pebble tossed into still water eventually touching every thing around it . I saw how my actions hurt others even indirectly . I was devastated .
Remarkably deep NDE at age 6 due to drowning.

2071.  Marian F Probable NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I moved back into the chair but then the light was still there and I saw it and I wondered about my mother's face and I saw the light move closer to me and it wasn't a pinpoint anymore.  It was big and squarer.  It was coming to me and it was okay.  I had this sudden thought "He'll be okay."   Some sense of him being cared for and I could just let go.  I thought, " I go alone."  and I relaxed.  I felt myself move forward and meld into light.  My shoulders moved back and I had a last second of choice and I thought NO. I pulled back away, turned completely away, the dentist hit my hand and called my name and said we would have to stop.  He said he was turning off the gas and up the oxygen because I was passing out.
Probable NDE due to nitrous oxide administration for dental procedure.

2070.  Harold B NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I remember the doctor saying I was dangerously dehydrated but could not hold fluids down.  The doctor came in and said to my brother "he's gone." I rose out of my body, saw the doctor, my brother, and a friend. Everything in the room was very vivid. I seemed to float into a blinding light and a hand reached out and took my hand.  I felt, I guess a rapture-like feeling of peace and serenity.  I saw a man in shadows who said, "you can go back if you want or you can continue this journey."  I wanted to come back.  He let go of my hand. I floated back in to my body, opened my eyes, stood up, I felt great, and to the disbelief of everyone walked to the ocean with a feeling of pure joy.
NDE due to malaria and other illness.  Happened in India, though he is not a native of India.

2069.  Laura J NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I remember falling asleep, and then I looked down and saw myself on the surgery  bed, the doctors and nurse frantically doing something to me. I thought that was very strange and was very curious. I remember seeing me as being very small in a white gown and they were doing something to my mouth. I did not know what they were doing. I was distracted by something over my right shoulder and it was warm and I wanted to go there. It was like sunshine (I really remember the warmth, but a comfortable warmth-like comforting warmth).
NDE due to anesthesia complication at age 6.

2068.  Sandra B NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 The doctor was yelling for me to answer him. I could not even move a finger. I did not know that my heart was gone. I struggled to answer him but I could not nor move could I mover any part of my body to signal I heard him. After a short time I left my body and I was looking down at my body , I would say I was about 6 feet up over my body. I thought to myself," I must be dead as I am looking at my dead body down there." I was very calm and began to move very slowly upwards and it was more and more beautiful into an infinity of light and peace, happiness, I knew I was going to heaven or somewhere very beautiful. I did not want to come back at this point as it was the most happy I had ever been in my life. I felt so loved...
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2067.  Roxana M Probable NDE English expanded version  1/2/10 I remember I got out of the bathroom feeling sick and couldn't see in front of my eyes, when I have arrived into the room, crushing by all the walls surrounding me, I fell down, slowly like a feather and I put my hands down to prevent the fall. Then I just remember that I saw myself from somewhere up sitting down and watching up, and then I went, I went with an enormous speed heading to a white shinning light on a channel. I remember I could see where I was going to, I could see the end of that tunnel, brightly sparkling. When I got there it was extremely white and I remember seeing somebody but I do not know who it was, an old person, I'm sure of that and we had a long long chat. After that I remember coming back with a bigger speed than before, could see myself down waiting for me.
Probable NDE due to apparent unconsciousness of unknown cause.

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