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.

2270.  Roselyne L Possible NDE  English expanded version  7/29/10 From France.  Original in French, translated to English by Kathy.   I was put to sleep ( then, I saw! I was above the operating table! And my body was floating in a tunnel, at the end was a light that was growing bigger, I could see shadows at the end of this light and my body stopped floating, I was content, I felt like continuing on my way! But a voice told me I had to go back, that I was needed.  When I came to a pain, ripped my body, I felt like I was in a vice and that someone was pushing on my stomach, and at every pressure, I heard music, a tango, and with each rhythm of this tango, pain in my stomach and chest! Then nothing!
Possible NDE due to childbirth complications.  Non clear life-threatening event.

2269.  Charlie D NDE  English expanded version  7/25/10  After the motor vehicle accident, I was brought to the hospital via ambulance and have no recall of that. Once I was in the intensive care I went into cardiac arrest. I seemed to drift away and then suddenly, I accelerated not with my body but with my spirit or essence up through the ceiling into a path/tunnel that lead to an all knowing all loving comforting peaceful light. A familiar yet embracing light. The tunnel/path had silhouettes of beings on the other side of some undefined boundary I could hear sounds but not intelligible. This place was free of pain and I felt I was one with all. I had arrived to a place without pain . My vision was 360 it was profoundly beautiful. I remember stopping I don't remember how or why. I did Have a past life review. Then I found my spirit floating at the ceiling of the ICU looking for something. I saw a patient with a very high fever another with all kinds of head bandages. Then I saw all this activity around a bed and came over it and it was ME. At that very second I burst into my body I was back to the awful pain. I realized I had been given a choice life or death.
NDE due to cardiac arrest following car accident.

2268.  Helen D NDE  English expanded version  7/25/10 I had many questions after my initial panic had subsided.  I wanted to know how the world worked, was made, what was our purpose in life, why we are on this earth , how did we come to be here, what was the right religion.  They tried to slow me down, they said they couldn't answer everything for me at this time, they said to try to explain would be difficult/beyond us as what we humans think is only a ant-like piece of what it all is/means.  They did answer the religion question. To me they said there is no right or wrong religion. it is what is in your heart that counts.  They also said Our purpose on this earth is to love.  After my review they told me I had to go back my mission in life was not complete. I had to be convinced and reassured I would come back someday. I did not want to return to my awful life.
NDE at age 9 due to drowning.

2267.  Mary S NDE  English expanded version  7/25/10  I was 10 yr old and swimming in a public pool (couldn't swim well) I got confused and swam into deeper water and started to panic.  Trying to yell "help" I just choked down more water.  It was very scared and exhausted.  Then all of a sudden such peace came over me it was wonderful.  I could see my arms floating in the water...I was above.  A lifeguard finally got to me (I don't remember this part) but when he got me out of the water I could see my body in his arms.  My swimsuit top was pulled up and I saw him pull it down for me.  (Later this was verified).
NDE at age 10 due to drowning.

2266.  Frederick F NDE  English expanded version  7/25/10 I can remember the doctors and nurses that day becoming panicky and someone calling for a crash cart while they worked on me I never felt any pain as I floated out of my body I flipped over on my stomach and watched for awhile an then I noticed this rotating hole in the wall like a tunnel with the most beautiful blue and whitest light that offered so much peace that I followed the white light down the blue crystal tunnel then I entered into the most peaceful green valley surrounded by trees on both sides with the morning dew and fog still present the vegetation was so lush and the air was of a angelic almost dreamy like pleasure to breath it was effortless and then my grandfather met me and I was so happy to see him he had already died, but he was as real when he was alive I am still in shock today…
NDE during surgery.

2265.  Nettie P NDE  English expanded version  7/19/10 I had a terrible childbirth that should have been a c section, but when the doctor arrived and realized it was too late, and both the baby and i were already in danger.  It was too late for a c section so they did a quick forceps delivery and apparently I was 'dead' at the time. I clearly remember floating above and watching them work on my son to get him breathing, cleaning him up and passing him from relative to relative while they worked on me, and I kept asking people to hand me my baby but nobody answered me. The following day they gave me 3 units of blood when they realized they had not given me any transfusions and I could not sit up without fainting. My mother insisted I had not been speaking to anyone and could not have seen anyone doing anything to my son because I had been 'dead' at the time.
NDE at time of delivery.

2264.  Heather M NDE  English expanded version  7/19/10 I was freebasing cocaine and seized. I left my body and saw myself seizing including graphic physical unpleasant visualizations. I was tied up. I was told as I was unconscious to envision a rope and climb up it. I pictured myself at the bottom of a deep pit, or black tunnel with a light at the top. I pictured a rope and physically felt as if I was climbing up it toward the light (life.) I did also feel the general impression it was a choice to do so. When I reached the top, I regained consciousness.
NDE due to cocaine use with seizure.  Atypical content.

2263.  Anne O Probable NDE  English expanded version  7/19/10  From Canada I remember very little since I had a high fever, suddenly I felt my body sinking into the mattress and closing over me.  Then I was looking down on a little girl lying in a fetal position on her right side.  My mother was standing at the bottom of the bed, suddenly I heard the front door opening and footsteps walking down the hall toward my bedroom, it was my father who apparently went to see if he could find a doctor, he told my mother the doctor was unable to visit me and that he should take me to a hospital for contagious diseases , he had a taxi waiting for him.  I didn't feel sad while looking at the scene, no feeling whatsoever.  I then found myself in a very bright place, outdoors, I remember a very blue sky, and a large , bright gold gate with extending fence as far as I could see. There was a table in front of me with two people standing behind it, they looked at me then down at the table and told me I couldn't stay. There was no question about my destiny, I had no choice, and I understood.
Probable NDE at age 6-7 due to scarlet fever.  Shared 75 years later.

2262.  Mark H NDE 4494  English expanded version  7/19/10  I just kept wanting to tell him that "I'm fine... I'm fine.... I'm fine"..."I'm up here", but he never looked up .  It was frustrating that I couldn't tell them, because I thought if they knew I was fine, they wouldn't worry about me down there anymore.  Then as he was slapping me, I started to move slowly towards my body.  I remember like it was today that I said "No.. No.. NO.. many times", but you can't really talk.  I was going back very slowly and all I could think of was "NO".  This may sound crazy, but as I got down to the floor, I actually laid by myself head-to-head and toe-to-toe and 'slid' back inside.  I remember it so well and then I woke up as he was yelling my name.
NDE at approximately age 10 due to apparent head injury.

2261.  Norbeto G NDE  English expanded version  7/19/10  From Columbia.  Original in Spanish, translated by English by Simon. I felt myself immersed in an absolutely unfamiliar space. I recall a great clarity, where there was no light, but where I was the light. I could not hear music, but I was the music. Nor did I perceive harmony and peace, but I was exactly those things. The overall feeling was of being part of a Great Whole, where what existed was the Universe without stars, but where everything was light, joy, and love.
NDE from accident.

2260.  Patrick H NDE  English expanded version  7/17/10  From Luxembourg.  Original in French, translated by English by Kathy. Then, when I told Saint Peter that I hadn’t gone though anything strange, and that my parents had mistreated and neglected me, I still don’t know how I came up with such precise words, he said he understood why I felt like staying, he told me I had to protect my big brother and a little sister yet to be born.  Then he bade me farewell and I went down again at an incredible speed for about a minute then woke up a little later, back in my body.
NDE at age 2 who was blind at the time.

2259.  Josefina M Mother's NDE  English expanded version  6/26/10  From Venezuela.  Original in Spanish, translated by English by Simon.   During an emergency operation for a burst appendix, she suddenly found herself positioned as an outside observer in a corner of the operating-theatre. From there she watched the entire process.
NDE from burst appendix.

2258.  Diane C NDE 4626  English expanded version  6/21/10  From Canada.  Original in French, translated by English by Kathy. At that instant, I felt myself floating in the air, lying horizontally about three-quarters of the way up, that is to say.. a few feet from the ceiling.  I wasn’t moving at all and none of my senses was working.  I was very content and would have wanted to stay there it was so peaceful.  I was in danger but didn’t know it at all.  Also, I saw a big tunnel right in front of me, very near and it was very very brightly lit.  The tunnel was at least ten feet in diameter and was just a few meters away from me.  The light was very, very intense.  It seemed to have a very thin veil in front of the entrance and there was an extremely bright light behind it. 
NDE from allergic reaction to medication.

2257.  Tami C Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  In March 1984, I was six months pregnant, and awoke with severe pain in my leg.  In preparation of going to the ER, I began to feel faint, and felt like I was going to pass out.  I recovered within a few minutes, and my husband quickly drove to the ER.  While in the ER, I was lying down, and began to feel faint again.  The ER staff quickly wheeled me into an ER room where they began to frantically "work" on me.  During this time, I could hear them say, "We're losing her and the baby's heart rate is dropping."  A nurse also apologized to me as she told me that I was going to feel tremendous pain while sticking a needle in my wrist to take blood and measure the oxygen level.  Despite all the frantic comments, and people rushing about, I felt nothing, but pure peace and no pain, and felt like I was floating.   I remember thinking, "I just want to go to sleep."  A voice quickly said, "No, it's not your time." 
Probable NDE due to pulmonary emboli.

2256.  Jean E NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  From New Zealand.  I was bleeding profusely, and the time went very slowly. My BP was being taken often and going down, and I thought when it hits zero I'm dead. I had to wait for blood to be matched before going in for emergency surgery.  They wheeled me out of the birth suite and to the operating theatre, and it was then I left my body and started to float. The ceiling disappeared and I was looking at myself being wheeled along on a trolley from a great height down what seemed to be an endless corridor. I felt extremely calm, and found the whole experience wonderful and life changing. I kinda plopped back into my body when the anesthetist started giving me an injection.
NDE due to bleeding after delivery.  Interesting that her NDE ended when anesthesia for emergency surgery was started.

2255.  Cindy D NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10 Things went dark and I had a sensation of floating but seeing nothing. I was very afraid and then I heard/felt a Presence. This Presence was telling me (not necessarily with words?) that everything was okay and not to be afraid. The level of Peace and Comfort of this Presence is not describable. After lots of this 'support' I realized that I recognized this Presence. IN fact this Presence was closer - more connected to me (and had a history with me) than any 'relationship' in my life. Again - not describable. But I do remember thinking at first when I realized I recognized the Presence - 'Oh...it must be my Grandfather' (who had passed away about 3 years earlier and the only person close to me that had died). But I quickly realized it was not my Grandfather...nor any human being I had had a relationship with. In the first few 'moments' it seemed I was trying to make sense of recognizing this Presence? This Presence continued to comfort me and assure me that everything was okay and that it was going to be wonderful.
NDE due to horseback riding accident with head injury.

2254.  Laura S NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10 After that I was looking down and watching. It was a cold winter day but I was not cold or warm. I could see them take me from the car and put me in an ambulance I watch them but was ok and happy but somehow I know I had to return and I did in the ambulance. I have never shared this experience before, but it has affected my life more then I realized till now.
NDE at age 5 due to auto accident.

2253.  Leigh H Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10 It was the fourth day following the initial infarction and, as I understand it after the event, the plan was to do a balloon angioplasty the following day. I was alone in my room and suddenly there was the appearance of a figure in bright light at the foot of my bed.  It was so bright it awakened me. The figure approached the side of my bed and took my hand, he then said "it will be alright."  After that I next remember being awakened in the cath lab after the procedure was over and, indeed, it was alright.  I never feared anything in this and I never feared it afterward. Since then, I have had five stents implanted and an Implanted Cardio Defibrillator (ICD) placed in my chest. But I have never felt any fear at all. I know that whatever may come there is more than this earthly life.
Probable NDE associated with heart attack from retired minister.

2252.  Jim W NDE 4485  English expanded version  6/20/10 Suddenly, it was like my body was physically lifted out of the water and was now standing on solid soil, and saw my mom and dad playing in the water, not noticing that I had almost drowned. But at some point after this I had a remembrance or a knowledge of being in heaven before I was ever born and being offered a selection of a time to come live on earth. I chose the time after WWII because I thought it would be a great time to live. I had the sense that there was another with me, very close to me that was also given this opportunity and chose an earlier period where that person's life would be during the 50's and 60's, primarily. I clearly remember this occasion of choice and it was not a dream.
NDE at age 6 due to drowning.  Shared 58 years later.  Interesting remembrance of pre-mortal existence.

2251.  Adeline N NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  Coming to after tonsil surgery, I felt sick and vomited blood.  I was taken back to surgery; while being taken back to my room I went through a tunnel with a light at its end and came out to a beautiful scene.  I was suddenly aware of two friends who had passed recently.  They were asking (beckoning) me to come over.  I didn't hear voices but I heard them.  I must have known what that meant because I said I couldn't come now because I had three little kids at home who needed me.  One of these friends was the husband of a girlfriend who died in an accident after 3 months of marriage.  The other was in the Air Force whose plane went down in the English Channel.  He was one of my husband's boyhood buddies.  They were telling me to cross over - no sound (like mind reading).  It was tempting, but I told them I couldn't come now, because I had three kids at home.
NDE due to post-operative complication.  Shared 61 years later.

2250.  Tim B NDE 4479  English expanded version  6/20/10  Next I remember moving, flying very fast, like thru a tunnel. I saw a small light in the distance that quickly became big and enveloping. I felt a sense of peace and love and still no pain. I felt I was enveloped or sitting with something wonderful and it must have been God I guessed. I felt there was another entity, another creature of light nearby who communicated with me somehow, it seemed like wordless telepathy. It asked me if I wanted to go back, I didn't really, not feeling like this. But I did select to return. The being let me know that I could return, but there would be pain all my life. I recall that he asked me again, a second time, and I made the bargain. Immediately I returned to regular consciousness in the hospital bed and was hit by unbelievable pain for the first time. I woke in my body looking up and felt for the first time pieces of broken teeth in my mouth. Pain was back.
NDE due to auto accident.

2249.  Paul F Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  In my private Hospital room after surgery I first saw my room fill with light - then, I felt a Wonderful Love pour over me - I was in ecstasy.  I don't know how long this lasted as time was irrelevant.
Probable NDE following surgery by former minister.

2248.  Tammy F NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  from the UK   I remember my ex partners hands round my neck as I was in a standing position and slowly started to slide down the wall as I lost consciousness. then he was gone and I was stood in my own head although I couldn't actually see my feet in my head I was aware that I was out of my body looking down at my own body but standing not laying prone. my body lay crumpled on the floor. I was wearing all white clothes in my new state. I looked left to the front door trying to get my bearings, not understanding what I was seeing, then looked right to the back door that was open from where my ex partner had run thinking I was dead. I had an unbelievable feeling of warmth and love. I could see the faces of my children and dead parents - everybody that was important to me kind of scrolled in front of me. I felt so calm and I didn't want feeling to end. I was worried about leaving my children behind and that they had no one to care for them - I think I said "my kids". this timeframe was guessing about 1-2 minutes from seeing myself to the end when I suddenly awoke laying on floor where I had collapsed thru lack of oxygen.
NDE due to strangulation.

2247.  John H Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10 I viewed myself (out-of-body), lying on a stone pedestal in a warmly-lit cave. Although not even knowing why I was in this position, having no memory of the accident, I thought to myself, "Do I really want to go back to that crap?" I answered "No", and the voice of my maternal Grandmother, nothing visual, just her very distinctive voice, to whom I was close, responded, "Scott, you've got to go back!" I walked through a void, came to a singular white light, hanging adjacent to a black, seemingly felt-covered garage door...with no windows or handles. My perception is that I spent about a total of 2 minutes at this door, turned perpendicular, walked away...and woke up to Dr. K!
Probable NDE due to auto accident.

2246.  Alison M NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10 At the point of impact it was like everything froze. Almost like someone hit a pause button. I remember looking at the cracked windshield and looking over to my passenger who had a look of horror on his face. I then looked out my side window and remember thinking "I'm going to die now" right before hearing an awful screech. (the metal of the car dislodging before the semi's tires spit me out back across traffic end over end. At the time I had this thought It felt like large hands were laid on both my shoulders from behind, almost in a comforting manner, and I felt the most amazing sense of peace come over me. I knew I was at the end and I was okay with it. I didn't have flash backs or really any time to think of what I was leaving behind. I let out the most relaxed sigh of my life and it was like I slipped out of myself into a comforting darkness. I still tell people to this day that it was the most peaceful moment of my life.
NDE due to auto accident.

2245.  Ray G NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  I kept trying to get oriented and kept trying to get air but I couldn't seem to do either. I had no idea where the others were at this time. Then almost instantly, I entered a state of complete calmness, I realized I was dying and wasn't afraid of it in any way. I started reflecting about my family and that I would miss them and that this was such a silly way to die. I seem to be just entering a peace yet I was thinking clearly and calmly as I was bouncing down the river. I almost didn't want to come back.
NDE due to drowning.

2244.  Jimmy W Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  Then one night the roaring and the sensation of drowning was much worse and then I was above the bed looking down in the dimly lit room at my mother and another lady, with me lying in the bed glistening with sweat and looking very tired.  The next instant I was outside looking down from above at my house.  I slowly started to move higher, away from my house looking back as the house grew smaller.  At some point I stopped ascending and as I hovered there I was aware that I had no physical body and there was no sound.  It was as though only my eyes had left.  I don't remember being afraid and I thought, so this is what my house looks like from high above.
Probable NDE from rheumatic fever.

2243.  Donald W NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  Just after they smashed my face with a rock, I felt myself raising from an horizontal position and slowly rising from the surface to an upright position. Floating so it seemed, completely aware what was happening. Although I could see nothing I could feel every part of my body down to my waist. Although in the dark I seemed to know which way was forward, backward and to my sides. In essence gravity and three dimensions seemed to still be in play. I noticed an utter peace and feeling of non-concern and was of a blissful state I will never forget. I was fully aware what was happening to me and then I thought of my soon to be wife, asleep at Kona Shores waiting for me to come home and I remember asking myself what she would do now.
NDE due to criminal attack.

2242.  Joyce O NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  I was in a state of wonderful peace where there was a very bright light starting out like the top of a huge ice cream cone and ending at a point.  My soul began to move very quickly through the light to the end of the point.  There was a figure at the end of the point with outstretched arms.  All of a sudden there was total blackness… This is my experience.  People that have death or near death experiences may have different opinions.  I only know that I love life in spite of the bumps and that I'm not afraid of death.  I also feel that I'm living proof that there is life after death.
NDE due to suicide attempt with medication overdose.

2241.  Sue E NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10 The next thing I remember I was looking down at myself. It was like I was on the ceiling. I could see them still sticking needles in me to start even more IV's. I saw there were at least 4 bottles of fluids hanging and going wide open. I remember them asking for blood and hanging that. I could not feel any of this and did not have the severe pain in my kidney area. My mother came in the room and I remember thinking how beautiful she was, and how well dressed, but how awful the camel wool dress she was wearing looked on her. I have such a clear memory of the shoes, purse, dress she was wearing. I was devastated at how upset she looked and it was as if I could feel how she felt.
NDE due to gunshot injury.

2240.  Jill C NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  from the UK  I had been taken to an ambulance after struggling to breathe for quite a while- it was getting impossible to breathe and I knew I was dying - I expected everything to go black but suddenly, (and this apparently happened after I had stopped breathing) I was in a place of incredible light - not the sort of light we are used to - wonderful patterns and golden lights enveloped me, and at the same time I was enveloped in the most incredible knowledge of unconditional, benevolent love, which was sentient.  Then things did go black and I woke up in hospital, after being on a ventilator for two days.
NDE due to kidney failure.

2239.  Alex A NDE  English expanded version  6/20/10  Everything I seen from here on was from a birds eye point of view. There where two men I did not know, one told the other the boy is drowning and pointed to my body. And man just jump right in to save me. I just kept floating up towards a blinding white light. The feeling was so amazing. Like I did not have a care in the world.  I felt like I was made out of energy and air. I rised up my arms and hands so I could see them. They had a very slight glow to them. Not flesh, but energy and air like. But not see through. My arms still had hands and fingers. I opened and closed my hands to make fists. At this point they had pulled my body out of the water and laid it against a tree.  Upon seeing my body laying there. I started to hate not being in my body.
NDE at age 11 due to drowning.

2238.  Jennifer W NDEs  English expanded version  6/20/10  I was three years old.  I was sitting in the back seat of my dad's car and he was driving down the road.  I was just sitting there, minding my own business when these hands pulled my soul out of my body.  I was high in the sky and Jesus was there next to me.  Suddenly I heard this very deep, pulsating vibration, it was kind of spooky, but somehow I sensed that God was somewhere out there.  I told Jesus I didn't want to stay and talk, I needed to find the source of the vibration. Jesus wouldn't let me go and explore.  Instead He was telling me things.  Basically He said that the next several years of my life would be horrible.  He was preparing me for what was coming up.  He gave me advice.  I don't remember anything He said, except pretty much that life would be Hell.
NDEs at age 3-5 due to abuse.

2237.  James C NDE 4460  English expanded version  6/20/10  Arriving there I first saw someone that looked a little like me and when I asked who this person was I was told it was my brother. At that time I never knew I had a brother that had died. Soon we were joined by two others that were introduced as another brother and sister, a set of twins that had also died. I met and saw many of my blood line down trough the ages. When I was told why we were writing I demanded to see Jesus. Jesus asked me to return to my body because my family needed me. I argued a while but Jesus promised me an additional 10 years to my life and that he would watch over me all the years of my life if I would return. Still objecting he instructed that I be shown what would happen if I did not return. When I saw the vision of my father being taken to jail and my mother in a casket I was devastated. Then Jesus allowed me to be shown the future of the world. Wars, strife, no rain, death, earthquakes, etc.
NDE due to illness at age 8.  Was declared dead.  Account shared 63 years later.

2236.  Courtney NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  When my son was born, I lost a lot of blood, and I felt my heart stop. It's strange to describe but the closest thing I could think of to it is the sensation of not being able to breathe. I felt my heart stop and I lost consciousness, then I felt myself rise up, and I was looking at myself. I could hear the doctors and nurses calling me and I could see my husband and my new baby. My hubby was looking so helpless. The room looked slightly different, like it was hazy. I keep yelling "I am here, I am right here" but no one could hear me, finally they gave me ephedrine to get my heart going again and I felt myself plunge back into my body and take a breath, like being underwater and coming up for air… I felt my husband's feelings, and it made me realize how much he really loves me. It has made me love him more.
NDE due to blood loss during childbirth.  (JL note: the drug given was most likely epinephrine, not ephedrine).

2235.  Perry D Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  I had a motorcycle accident when I was 19 years old.  I don't remember anything after being struck by a automobile.  I found out later a few details about the accident.  I ended up with a broken femur, torn quad muscle on the other leg, my helmet cracked and I had trauma to the head.  Also sustained amnesia for 10 days. While in the hospital, I had an experience that I couldn't explain at the time.  I thought it was a dream.  It was the only thing I could recall during the amnesia period.  I was on a bed, lying face up, so relaxed, no pain whatsoever.  I started to rise up off the bed, peaceful.  Saw a beautiful light all around me, going up like a tunnel.  I heard music being played by two angels.  Harps were strumming.  Finally I heard a voice asking me "Are you ready"? It was a male voice, pretty deep.  I remember saying "No, I'm not ready".  Right then, I started on a descent back to a bed.  I just remember, no fear, the most peaceful state ever.  Beautiful, calming music.
NDE due to motorcycle accident.  Interesting that experience is the only thing he remembers during a period of amnesia.

2234.  David M NDE 4457  English expanded version  6/19/10  The strangest thing that I recall (as if it happened yesterday), was that although these medical people were suddenly working frantically to revive me that I had no concern at all for my well being as I knew that I was ok throughout the entire episode. I found myself suspended about 4 feet or so above all this activity and immersed in bright light beyond me, but, somewhat equally as bright to my sides as well.  I was very much at peace and was dumbfounded about what all the confusion was on the medical table (upon which I was physically laying), below me. I distinctly recall my thoughts of " well if you doctor's would just do this (or that) that I would in fact be fine. Of course I have no medical background but at that moment it was clear to me what they were doing wrong.
NDE due to illness.

2233.  Gary T NDE 4456  English expanded version  6/19/10  It was 2:30 AM when the heart attack hit me, I was transported to the hospital ER, in there by 3 AM, there were about 6 ER people working on me, I was in an out of consciousness the whole time, all of a sudden everyone was gone and there was this bright, bright light ( all I could think of was from what I heard about the bright light that this was it ) so I said out loud "OH SHIT" than one of the nurses that was standing next to my head said to me WHAT and I came back to consciousness and could see everyone again. They prepared me for a catheterization and ballooned me and inserted a stint. The nurse told me what I said and I remembered the light and told her that's what I was making my remarks about, thinking this was it. We all laughed and she said I might want to rethink my last words.
Probable NDE due to heart attack.

2232.  Shelly NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  I was driving a single cab truck and was rear-ended at 55 mph. My head hit the roof of the truck two times before hitting the back window 3 times, shattering that window completely. I was in and out of consciousness on the way to the hospital and woke up 3 hours after arriving to the hospital.  The only thing I remembered for my NDE was there were 2 or 3 hooded shadows facing me, one was trying to touch me and I kept slapping at whatever he was trying to grab me with. It didn't look like a hand but more like a hooded sleeve.  The weird thing about my NDE is that I was GIGGLING while trying to slap it away, when I think I should have been scared!! I wasn't scared though. I couldn't get it out of my mind afterwards and was very depressed for months that I was met with a hooded creature.
NDE due to truck accident with atypical content.

2231.  Robert S NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  Upon passing out in shower I fell forward and struck  my face between the eyes on a small retaining wall between the shower and bathroom floor.  I experienced a view of myself from outside of the shower on the bathroom floor looking back into the shower at myself laying there.  As I looked up I could see an image of an individual in a glowing gown.  The image was slowly raising upward.  As I panned up further I saw a very bright silver/metallic like button in the middle of the chest of this robe/gown.  The robe/gown was lightly illuminated and the button was laser like in the center of chest.  I noticed that as I panned up further the image had its hands stretched out to the sides with the palms up. The final pan upward I saw myself with a smile on my face. The image continued to rise and was extremely peaceful.  Immediately I experienced being above my prone body looking down at my self laying in the shower.
NDE due to fainting with head injury.

2230.  Winnie S NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10 Then I experienced darkness and then proceeded to the indescribably bright light.  The scene was a pastoral setting with brilliant colors but not distinguishable as flowers or objects.  Approaching me were beings that I can only describe as individual entities that appeared to be bright, not earthy beings, familiar but not identifiable to me.  They welcomed me and the light presence gave a feeling of love and peace and knowing that I have never felt before. The communication was not in words but in thoughts.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2229.  Jeff W NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  I was on the passenger side of a car when it was hit on the freeway in Atlanta Georgia. When I saw the car front end about 2 feet away everything positive in my life ran thru my brain like a high speed camera. The next thing I could remember was that I was an entity in the sky. As the entity I had no thoughts about the actual person who was in the accident. The feelings I had of the entity was that it was powerful and somewhat all knowing. Even though I turned into this entity; I felt no connection between who I am as a human and who the entity was. I came to upside down on the drivers side of the car.
NDE due to auto accident.

2228.  Gay L NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  A routine lump removed from my breast, I had a reaction to the drug and lost blood pressure, I was aware of the doctors and nurses working on me at the time, I had a warm feeling and saw god. it was not a face only a bright, bright light. I asked god if I was dying, and when he only held me and did not answer me I knew that I was not going to die at that time. it was the most comforting time I have ever felt. I was not afraid in the least, I had no desire to go, but on the other hand no desire to stay. I saw one of my children and my dog who were at my home at the time. I was told that it was all caused by a reaction to the drug used to put me under for the operation.
NDE due to allergic reaction.

2227.  Karen A NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  Without warning or anticipation of the automobile accident in which I was a passenger, I found my self in a void; complete darkness. I had no sensory feed back: complete silence, darkness, no smells, no feelings and yet a very strong awareness of only myself...as though I was watching myself from a close distance. My body was perfect, undamaged. I was overwhelmed by the total aloneness and had but one thought: this dark place I am in cannot be heaven and, therefore, I must get out. Since my consciousness and body had been separated I could not move my body. All that was me was this very powerful consciousness that could will things to happen. At that moment I awakened not knowing where I was or what had happened… Panic. This was a place that was foreboding. I wasn't suppose to be there. I had to escape. I had NO sensory feedback… It's life changing and a conformation that God is with us.....all of us and that we have more power over a bad situation than we think we have… I have a personal relationship w/God. I'm not afraid of Him anymore!
NDE due to auto accident.  Interesting understandings from a frightening experience.

2226.  John S Probable NDE 4449  English expanded version  6/19/10  They put me on a ventilator and a medical induced coma. I was near death, but not officially dead. I knew I was dying and was fighting to stay alive. I remember just feeling tired of fighting. I was half out of it all the time I guess do to the medicine to keep me in a coma. All of the sudden my alertness was greatly heightened and I was on an elevator going up. The doors opened and there were some people there. I didn't know them but I had a certainty that one of them was a relative of mine, he was in charge of my entire family line. There was another person there that was a person in charge. I was given the choice to stay on earth and live, or the suffering could end and I could go to a very comfortable, pain free, place. I thought about my children being left without a father and profound sadness settled over me as I knew that I would have to come back if it was up to me.
Probable NDE due to severe illness.

2225.  Linda A's Mother's NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  This is how mom related her experience to me:  She felt like she was in a tunnel.  At the end of a tunnel was a bright light.  She kept moving toward that bright light.  Once she got to the bright light, she felt a presence behind her and knew it was Jesus.  In the light, she saw her father (my grandpa) and his brother (great uncle) sitting at a table.  (They both had preceded her in death in the early 1970's.)  She looked at grandpa and said, "Dad, I want to come with you".  Grandpa turned around and spoke to someone - whom mom knew was God although she could not see him - and when he turned back to her, he said, "It's not time".
Mother’s NDE due to post-surgical complication as told by daughter.

2224.  Gail D NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  During my surgery, I awakened and was floating.  I could see myself near the ceiling of the surgery room.  I was pleased with my appearance and youth.  I entered a tunnel near the side of the surgery room ceiling very cautiously,  but kept one foot at the outside of the opening.  I only wanted to look in.  I looked up and saw a light at the end which was very soft and moved back and forth.  Some electrical currents ran through it and it was somewhat milky in appearance. It was as if some forms of life were in the currents. Something was communicating with me and asked me if I was ready to come all the way in.  I said no.  I wanted to go back and raise my two sons until they did not need me anymore.  I wanted to become a better person.  I made a promise to be a good mother.  The light assured me that I was loved and I was sent  back into my body to fulfill my purpose.
NDE during surgery for tumor- heart stopped during surgery.

2223.  Greg L NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  I remember hearing a loud crack. A bolt of electricity jumped from the loose wires dangling from below the bridge to the lightning rod I was holding in my hands. The massive amount of electricity entered my palms and with full force picked me up and thrust me into the air. The energy of the lift pushed me like a rocket, up thru the atmosphere and into the extremely bright light with eyes wide open. The air felt clean, warm, and light with no downward gravitational pull. The time from the initial electric shock to the bright light was (this may sound crazy) instantaneous but not a a hurried pace. I felt an immediate attraction and curiosity about this state of where I was, and wanted more. The soothing mesmerizing beauty of the light captured my soul and gently I floated higher and higher. I drifted with purity, fully trusting, completely engrossed, full of energy, clear thinking and more alive and aware then at any time in my life.
NDE due to lightning strike.

2222.  Ted S NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  Was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket. I then was trying to find the edge of the deep end when I slipped and went under the water, I tried to grab a woman's swim suit, she felt it but seen nothing. I blacked out.....When I come to I am floating above the pool with a spirit or ghost beside me.  I ask it why no one is helping me ( I can see everyone around my body and hear everything they are saying, still 32 years later like it happened today) the being floating with me tells me with out moving its mouth or saying anything that "the world is not as loving as you think".
NDE at age 10 due to drowning.

2221.  Jeffrie D Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10 I kept watching the huge light over my bed and somehow I slipped off from the bed into warmth, wellness and felt happy and I was not afraid . . . didn't hurt; just drifting away.   Suddenly it was as if something caught me and I opened my eyes and tried to move my left arm and couldn't because it was taped to a board with the needle delivering blood.  I was SHOCKED because I had been away from there! 
Probable NDE as a child.

2220.  Valerie H NDE 4441  English expanded version  6/19/10  I was above everything with absolutely no pain! Total peace -- I couldn't hear the shouting but could see the anesthesiologist covering my face with a mask. I knew that I was dying or dead and that didn't bother me. I saw my son being lifted out of me and then being worked on. The operating room had windows very high toward the ceiling and there was a woman sitting on the tile sill. She was wearing a white drape and very pretty with short dark hair. She was smiling at me and I went over near her, watching what was happening below.
NDE due to complication of caesarian section surgery.

2219.  Nathan I NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  About 7:00 pm, I was about to cross JP Rizal to the other side of the street to take a ride back because I missed my bus stop.  It was drizzling, I had to cover my head with my black jacket.  Suddenly, I heard a loud screech of a braking van and before I could react, the van hit me on my side and I was thrown about 3 meters and was unconscious.  I saw a bright light and had fast flashbacks of the faces of my offices at PNB.  Then I woke up with people helping me go to the hospital just beside our house at Sta. Ana, the St. Anne's Hospital.  I remember that I saw my body on the pavement from above when I was unconscious.
NDE due to being hit by van.  He is an attorney in the Philippines.

2218.  Larry C NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  Suddenly I was in what I call the white room, Found myself above looking down at my mangled self under the collapsed air stair. Non voices, no ghostly forms just a very pleasant experience. Then my name being called by  my landlord who told me later that when he walked into the hanger, saw me mangled under the pile of steel he threw up. Said he hadn't seen any thing like that since WWII.
NDE due to 3000 pounds of material falling on him.

2217.  Joseph L NDE  English expanded version  6/19/10  I was driving a ford station wagon to buy flowers for my wife who had just given birth to my son 2 days earlier when a drunk driver ran a stop sign and hit my car broadside on the drivers side front third of the car. I remember hitting the brake hard. I then felt warm blood running down my face. I thought I was dying and said a prayer asking God for forgiveness. It was at this time that I  noticed that I was floating above my car a few feet. I remember vividly saying to myself this must be what dying is all about. I was feeling EUPHORIC, it was an absolutely incredible feeling. I could see myself in the driver's seat, bloody  hair, floating higher yet, with people gathering around the accident. I was no longer a few feet above the car. I was more like 50 or 60 feet above the car and it was at this point that I noticed that I had no arms or legs and I could not see any other part of my body, but my thinking was very clear and my feeling still EUPHORIC.  It was the greatest feeling I have ever experienced in my entire life.
NDE due to auto accident.

2216.  Louis L Fear Death Experience  English expanded version  6/4/10   The Earth was so beautiful, I remember seeing the large brown areas, the continents and thinking the color was wrong, I expected the land to be green like the mountains where I live, so much was brown, but then realized different climates, not everything was green. The oceans were amazing, so large and the clouds were everywhere in different shapes.  I turned to look around and saw stars, like you would see in the night sky, but there were so many more of them and they were so bright, also so beautiful that for a moment I forgot about the Earth. One of the stars started to become larger and seemed to move towards me. The light from the star was very bright, within the light I could make out a human shape, a staff, possibly a robe. I could not make out the facial features because the light was so bright, but I don’t have a sense that I was looking at a man or a woman, I had a sense of a benevolent intelligence, and gender wasn’t relevant. There was an intense feeling of joy and safety, that this new place was safe for a distressed child.
Fear death experience from a fall that happened as a child.

2215.  Ralph B NDE  English expanded version  6/4/10  Boiler explosion.  I was burned 100 %  40 % first degree, 20 % 2nd degree and 40 % 3rd degree… My mother came to me being held by a man with a plaid colored skull cap. She told me I would marry, have two daughters, and my girl friend (whom we had never met) would break her leg.  When I came to in Johns Hopkins I told my nurse what I saw.  She said not to worry, that my girl friend was coming up with her mother.  The next day she came in the room to inform me my girl friend would not be coming.  She broke her leg… It turns out the man with a red beard was my Great Grand Father, a rabbi who by the touch of his hand could heal the sick.
NDE due to boiler explosion and burns.

2214.  DeeRay G NDE  English expanded version  6/4/10  It was to be like any normal Sunday I guess, in that two things happened. My wife is a traveling nurse and was cancelled that morning. The other I got up to use the bathroom. While standing I suddenly had this feeling come over me like nothing I had ever had. I was it seemed  knocked through my self and it was sweat and swaying.  My wife was at the sing and I told her I felt weird.  I turned to her and she knew that I was having a heart attack.  She set me down.  As she did this, I started to float up.  My mind mind was racing fast as I thought of my mom who passed away 30 yrs ago.
NDE due to heart attack.

2213.  Grace N Probable NDE  English expanded version  6/4/10  Was given sleeping pills and after taking them I awoke and felt much time had past so took more. Felt I was in a room with bright white walls. I saw no walls but felt they were there. There was what I felt to be an authoritative being in the room with me. I didn't see him but felt it was a man. I felt so much love, peace, goodness. It felt I was wrapped in this love. I was raised by loving parents but this was far above anything I had ever known. Suddenly I was jarred by a voice saying "Do you want to stay or go with me?" It was like the voice had spoken a few times but I didn't hear it so now it was a strong voice. I wanted to go so badly; but I was a single mother with 4 small children. I started to try to explain this & how much I wanted to stay in this love.
Probable NDE due to accidental sleeping pill overdose.

2212.  Tony B NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 MY SURROUNDINGS WERE FILLED WITH LIGHT AND I WAS FLOATING LOOKING DOWN ON MY BODY, MY RELATIVES WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT AND THE PARAMEDICS.  I FELT PEACEFUL AND SIMPLY OBSERVED AS IF FROM THE CEILING OF THE ROOM (KITCHEN) WHERE I WAS… I WAS ALWAYS ABLE FROM THE TIME I COULD SPEAK TO EXPLAIN THE ACTIVITIES AROUND ME WHERE THE ACCIDENT TOOK PLACE INCLUSIVE OF THE PARAMEDICS AND FAMILY WHO WERE THERE, BUT I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE I REALIZED THAT THE VIEW OF HAD WAS A VIEW OF ME ON THE FLOOR WITH PEOPLE AROUND MY UNCONSCIOUS BODY.
NDE at age 2 due to burns.  Shared 58 years later.

2211.  Tim D NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 After I passed out at the end of my bed I floated out of my body, up and over my body somewhere near the ceiling. It was light in my room and as I was floating I notice my arms were out stretched and I recall thinking I could feel the oxygen flowing through my body, I thought how cool,  I don't have to breath, the air goes right through me. I also noticed the temperature, it was like summer time, those rare nights when the outside temperature is exactly the same as your body temperature.
NDE due to unconsciousness from multiple illnesses.

2210.  Michael C NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 I was in the middle of a heart attack and the Medics took me to the nearest hospital (Community North) because it was the nearest medical facility. Unfortunately it was not equipped to handle heart surgery. The Doctors were trying to keep me calm, but there was not much they could do. I was in extreme pain from the MI and suddenly, a warmth overcame me and I felt a total calmness. When I was about to open a door at the end of a white hallway, an alarm brought me out of my bliss. I found out later that my blood pressure had bottomed out and the medical team gave me a boost of adrenalin and it brought me back to my pain. This sensation occurred about 8 times over an 8 hour period.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.  Multiple NDEs in short time.

2209.  Hilde B Probable NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 Feelings of  belonging,She was part of all there is.  She was home.
Probable NDE shared in the form of a poem at age 84.

2208.  Steve W Probable NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 At that moment all the pain I felt was gone, the weight of the world lifted. It started like floating in a hot tub and quickly beyond anything I have ever felt or imagined. My body began to float up and I was aware of the angle the color of the room and the now empty bucket. This was and remains today the greatest experience of my life. The absence of weight and pain, pain one doesn't even know is there. I can remember thinking this is where I want to be.
Probable NDE due to motorcycle accident.

2207.  Jerry M NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 I was completely conscious from the moment I found myself 100 feet above my car accident and realized I was looking at myself in the car.  I knew immediately I was dead and several questions came to me and were answered at the same time they were asked.
NDE due to auto accident.

2206.  Kathy W NDE  English expanded version  5/30/10 From Australia All this time I felt like I was accelerating toward the light and as I approached I felt myself unfold like a flower, although I had no body. As I unfolded I felt it, the Love, which was like nothing I have ever experienced before. Even now I cry when I talk about it as my system feels like it's going to overload from just the memory. I was enveloped by this light and felt one with everything, all seeing, all knowing.  It certainly wasn't what I understood of God as an entity, but maybe it was better. It gave new meaning to that saying that God is Love. The love was like an energy that connected every molecule in the universe.
NDE at childbirth.

2205.  Chris W Fear Death Experience  English expanded version  5/30/10 From Canada I'm not sure if time slowed down, or that my thoughts and cognitive processes were so incredibly fast.  As I fell toward the ground in the space of what might have been two minutes, it is as though my whole life was compressed and replayed in the blink of any eye.  I remember two or three distinct images of the whole experience and the rest was just a blur.  It was as if my mind was operating in two spaces, in one part I was trying to control the helicopter, and in the other I was having the playback experience.  In the logical part of my mind I had come to the realization that if the wind shear situation did not abate, I would crash and be killed. In a distant and disembodied way I was wondering if it would be painful. During the event, I was not afraid.
Fear death experience during near helicopter crash.

2204.  Manon L Probable NDE 5/27/10 From the Netherlands.  As a 7 or 8 week old infant I almost died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). My mother told me that she went into the room to feed me and that I had turned blue and felt limp; she felt something heavy fly away through the room. She then called my father who picked me up and patted me and told me to come back.  The next thing I was crying.  They kept me for observation in the hospital for some time, but I was ok after that.  The memory that I have always known, I am almost 35, is that of a bright light; like looking into the sun but not sharp to the eyes, coming from that source: a feeling of encouragement.  To these events and feelings I have always connected my wish to do something that is of real use to other people.  Growing up I didn't have the words to describe that memory, feeling and wish. Until recently, I have never heard people in my surroundings speak about such a thing in their lives. When my mother retold me the story of what happened when I nearly died, I put 1 and 1 together and realized what had probably happened.

2203.  Paul L NDE  English expanded version  5/11/10  I had been having hallucinations and weird dreams during this time. I was mostly unconscious. During the experience I was a spirit floating in a void above my body. I could see my body lying in bed. I was moving toward this Gateway  that had a bright light coming from it. I looked back at my body and then at the Gateway and it became clear to me that if I went into the Gateway I would not go back to my body. I choose life.
NDE from Sepsis.  Interesting distinction between the hallucinations he had been having and this experience.

2202.  Charles D NDE  English expanded version  5/11/10 Then there was no light and I was floating above my body.  It looked like it was an orange or fold color.  I thought for a minute, "oh I am on the other side."  Then I heard the words "leave me." From that moment, I saw my body again.  I said to myself, "Wow, I'm floating and oh I don't hear that stupid ringing in my ears." Then I zoomed back into my body.  "Whoa, was I dead?"  Sara said that my heart stopped, I stopped breathing, and let out a gasp of air.
NDE from low blood-pressure.

2201.  John C NDE 4410  English expanded version  5/11/10 "He can't stay here," I saw the old man say. It was his voice I heard earlier. "He's got to go back." Go back? Back where? It seemed that the woman and old man were engaged in a conversation about me, but all I could think about was where I could be going and where I came from. It seemed all I had to do to be with those people was 'project' or 'wish' myself there. But this 'back' business bothered me to the point of distraction.
NDE from fainting.

2200.  Joke P NDE  English expanded version  5/10/10 From the Netherlands, original in Dutch translated to English by Annelies.   While I have these thoughts I'm being sucked in further, slowly I float upwards into the beam of light which is getting narrower and brighter. My eyes and body are drawn towards it and I let myself go completely. I'm moving in an infinite oasis of peace and safety. I'm floating slowly through a space of intense peacefulness in a soft color of grey/green. It embraces me, I'm part of it, I'm one with it. The voices are fading. I hear them in the background but they don't reach me. About halfway I reach other surroundings where the soft grey/green color becomes bright light grey. It's more beautiful than where I was before. At this point I stop and I see an almost invisible boundary between the spot where I am and where the beautiful bright light begins. I'm at the end and  at the beginning. The doorway looks inviting.
NDE from going unconscious when head hit the concrete.

2199.  Begona VA NDE  English expanded version  5/9/10 From Venezuela, original in Spanish translated to English by Simon. I felt no pain, everything went dark of a sudden and I found myself ascending a tunnel at great speed. At its end there was light, but I never got that far.
Beginnings of a NDE from childhood.

2198.  Etienne NDE  English expanded version  4/24/10 From France, original in French translated to English by Kathy.  I learned what we become after death and of course my life is completely different now. NDE from heart attack.

2197.  Soledad NDE  English expanded version  4/23/10 From Spain, original in Spanish translated to English by Simon. After an endless period of suffering I lost consciousness, then something awakened me. The pain and suffocation seemed to have disappeared. "Someone" was approaching me from behind and I could sense this being on the left side. He or she told me not to be afraid, and explained that they had come to take me away. When I heard this I felt joy, relief. I do not remember anything else.
Child NDE from pneumonia.

2196.  Jacque M NDE  English expanded version  4/23/10 From Canada, original in French translated to English by Kathy.  Suddenly, I’m surprised to find myself fully awake and feel a great joy, blissfulness; I’m in a space/time that in no way resembles life on Earth.  I understand that I’ve died.  I smile with wonder and say to myself, Oh, it’s like this!  I don’t see anything much, and hear nothing either, but I feel an intense well-being, a sense of wonder in an immaterial world, exalting and serene, that seems to function according to superior values, entirely unknown in the Earth world.  It isn’t made up of individuals and I can melt into it, I already belong.
NDE from surgery complications.

2195.  Trevor J Probable NDE  English expanded version  4/23/10  From New Zealand.  It was then that I noticed that behind the three was a door and through the gap at the bottom of this door I could see a most intense light. The light did not spill into the room where I was but was totally contained on the other side of the door except what I could see through the gap. It was the whitest light I had ever seen, much brighter than any light on earth, and yet it did not hurt my eyes. I was still floating at the ceiling all of this time as well. I was fascinated by the presence of this light, it was though it was a 'being' of some sort and it radiated everything that was good and I still experienced the same beautiful feelings.
This book details a probable NDE from cardiac arrest. 

2194.  Gayle V NDE-Like  English expanded version  4/23/10  All I remember from that point of time was traveling at a high rate of speed upward through a darken tunnel. I had not made this decision; I was within the Will of another. This tunnel was a winding spiral of circling ribs, I being propelled upward through. It reminded me of an umbilical cord through which I was being propelled, not touching any of the surrounding membranes but at high speed moving ever upward, leaving the darken world behind and entering a world of a greater light.  The light became even brighter as a moved upward.  Only a moment later, I stopped. Surrounding me was the presence of warm radiant light; it was holding me, comforting me, loving me, enclosing me in perfect rapture, an area of pure soothing brilliant golden white light.  I was totally at peace.
NDE-Like experience from exhaustion.

2193.  Juan M NDE English expanded version  4/8/10  From Spain, original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon.   I remember seeing myself in a place where everything was light. I did not look behind me but I noticed that the light shone on everything around me. I could not differentiate between the floor and the ceiling, that is, everything was light, a very bright light, strange but not uncomfortable. I did not know how I had come to be in this place, but it has always seemed to me that I came there at incredible speed, as if I had been through a tunnel or passageway at immense velocity, and ended up there, but this is just a feeling, as I could not see any passageway or tunnel.
NDE from fainting.  Interesting example of earthly events ‘intruding’ into NDE.

2192.  Cheryelle B NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 I knew the doctor.  While she was attempting to put in the central line I told her to put me in trendelenber because I was going out.  I then felt the most peace I have every felt in my life. My mother was there to meet me and told me I had to come back that I was not through.
The beginnings of an NDE.

2191.  Paul C NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 I was surrounded by a very, very intense white light, and it seemed to crackle, almost "electrically," so to speak. The light encircled my form; it sort of wreathed the contour of my body, as I recall. All this was against an extremely dark background.  It was unclear where I was or what kind of room or space I was in, other than the darkness, then the bright light surrounding my form, sitting up at 90 degrees and screaming loudly. I cannot say with certainty if I was positioned slightly higher than the view of myself on the table, but I think I might have been. I was certainly not below that level, and definitely not "floating" above my body. I was seated comfortably in a chair, simply dispassionately and objectively observing what was taking place. 
NDE from heart attack.

2190.  Fifi T NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 To describe further, I was standing in space, but I did not see a horizon. There was no atmosphere as there is on earth, no limited vision or degradation of colors farther out. There was no sun.  Light was emitted in everything and out of everything.  The city looked something like pictures I have seen of Jerusalem, the city glowed, every molecule was lit, I felt this light in me, part of me, I was part of it. In this light, I felt incredible, indescribable love and forgiveness that only God can give. I love my life, my children and husband, I have by no means at that time, a wish to die or be 'done with life'. But once I have felt the peace and love of that place, if I HAD HAD A CHOICE, I would have not left. 
NDE from sleep apnea.

2189.  Christopher H NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 The horror of trying to breath but having all air squeezed from my chest while wide awake haunted me for years and still does to a lesser degree. But amazingly once I blacked out I remember flying and being so joyful. I was so happy and there were some loving presences there next to me. At the time I thought it might be Jesus but there was no name and the bright white light was the main feature. This was many years ago but as I write this much comes right back to me. I recall definitely NOT wanting to leave this loving place. I felt so happy and wanted.
Child NDE from car accident.

2188.  Florene W NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 What I do remember is that all of a sudden I was floating above my body and looking at myself thinking I don't want to go back there.  I remember as I floated upward a lot of tiny lights that twinkled all around me and I was just "out in space".  I was not afraid or anything like that, looking back now I did not even question anything  All of a sudden I was in the most beautiful place that I have ever seen (and still have not seen) looking down into a beautiful "stream" of flowing water - the water was a blue that I have never seen before, it was coming down off of a small little cliff and the water when it hit sounded like my fine crystal when you "ping" it with you fingernail.
NDE from childbirth complications.

2187.  Viva T NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 Then there was One of incredible dimension, brightness, beauty, majesty.... As I was drawn toward (combined with earnest choice) could see complex shapes and colors (words don't describe-have tried to draw) and dimensions where the colors and shapes were overlaid one on another (like translucent immense precious stones fitted together to form a complex multi-doesn't describe-dimensional impression of a Most Loving Being that drew me to Him, invited me in, and pointed the Way to the Light.  ALL wisdom and love was conveyed via unheard thought transmission from that Being (Jesus?).  That light was a yet far distant point that I immediately (in combination again of will and being drawn) directly my self to with all earnestness with the conscious goal of uniting with that light (or perish?).  As I approached, the light grew larger, brighter, compelling until I was suddenly thrust into it (beyond a sense of boundary) with indescribable speed.
NDE described by Nurse with a PhD.

2186.  Khat H NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 During the time of my son being pulled from my body I was above my body looking down at the surgery. I heard someone calling my name and when I finally focused on where it was coming from I saw a tall white man that looked like the paintings of Jesus.  I walked over to him and he gave me the feeling of calm and serenity the closer I got to him. When I finally reached him he told me that I had to leave. I did not understand why I had to leave. He took my hand and told me " It is not time for you to come to me Khatherine." I began to cry and begged him to let me stay with him, but he refused. As he was comforting me he led me back to the space above the operating table and told me that I still had many things to do before I could see him again.
NDE from childbirth complications.

2185.  Sammy M NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 From Australia.  Left body, felt really warm and comfy, started heading for the Light when my voice said "It is not your time....you have things to do." Knowing that I had to get back into my body, I focused on the pain and suddenly I was back. A nurse said " We lost you for a while." I said, "I know!"
Very brief NDE from an accident.

2184.  Joyce J NDE English expanded version  4/6/10 All of a sudden a very bright, white beam of light came down through the water and lit up the bottom of the pond in front of me, not right in front of me but just at a distance.  A peacefulness came over me and I felt very light as if I were just quietly floating towards it, of course I was in the water with an inner tube around my hips.  I remember being aware that I wasn't panicking (scared) or struggling anymore.  I wasn't afraid of it, it was more that I was curious.  I could see the plants and fish illuminated on the bottom of the pond by it; before the beam of light appeared I couldn't see anything.  
Child NDE age 7 from drowning.

2183.  Mabel G NDE-Like Experience English expanded version  3/27/10 The Dr. returned, induced labor, and the birth pains became so excruciating that there were loud crashing noises and symbols inside my body and head. Then there was a loud scraping noise similar to a pipe being pulled from another tighter pipe.  As unusual as it was, my soul left my body and I flew through space in a tunnel with lights streaking on each side (my soul left my feet and proceeded upward through my head and out).  I flew thousands of miles per second and felt protected from evil and harm by the colorful lights.  At the end of the tunnel was a light which was Jesus’ robe.  Suddenly I was standing in the valley of the shadow of death with a small stream of water running at my feet and on the other side facing me was Jesus!  NDE-like experience from a difficult childbirth where she met Jesus!

2182.  Rebecca M NDE English expanded version  3/9/10 Then, she found herself in a big hall, something said her name, and a "Book of Knowledge" opened to her name.  Images were projecting on to a wall of a time when she was a small girl.  There were conversations with others.  She could feel the emotions of others as they were feeling them.  She saw the effect that she had on other people.  It was like a life review.  She saw the good and the not so good effects that she had on others.  She realized that she had an effect on everything in the world.  Mostly, she learned to be kind and give love to others.

2181.  Marilena R NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 I was shown scenes from my life all at once - past, current, and future. I don't remember the exact details of what I saw, but the entire experience changed my life after that. I made up mind to do all the things I had always dreamt of doing, to forget about religious beliefs, to do good and help others, to not have any regrets when my time to go came, and to be true to myself above all else.
NDE from drowning.

2180.  Holly V NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 I found myself sitting {which I thought was odd as felt I should be standing} in a sort of passage ... I called it an elevator shaft, but really was more like a curved, fast moving tunnel = more like a subway than a shaft.  But it was not very wide and I was comfortable sitting in it. There were no seats, but one could just seeming sit in suspension.  The tunnel was surrounded by darkness which was not surprising for some reason, and the darkness appeared to be infinite.  Then as I flowed quickly through this shaft, I realized there was soft glowing light in the distance ahead.  Maybe like city lights appear long before you can see the city,,, more like a glow reflecting off the darkness.  Then as I looked to the side, I began to see images of my life {guess that is the life review}…
NDE due to infection after miscarriage.

2179.  Tracy M NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  From Canada I felt pulled through the opening. The place I was is a hill in Marysville where my grandmother used to pick sun flowers. The grass so lush and so green the air so perfect moving yet still...colors with intensity I have never known. I could see and know all these things with my entire being.  A dogs tail weaved through the tall grass. A beautiful fuzzy puppy wagged her tail at me.  At first I did not recognize her, I had never seen our dog as a puppy. I was so happy to see her ..we had to put her down two weeks prior to my daughters birth. She had injured her hip. We had given all the surgery we could to keep her but it did not make her quality of life better it had become much worse. We put down on my due date our hearts were so heavy with the loss of dog that generously shared her life with us for 12 years.
NDE due to blood loss during delivery.  Inspiring reunion with her recently deceased pet dog.

2178.  Michael G NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  I was spinning in circles, gasping, and eventually gave up.  I sank and gulped water, seeing my limbs suspended in blue murk.  At this point, I passed out.  Immediately, I snapped awake, but the blue murk was gone.  Instead, the pool was empty, yet I was suspended above the tiled floor.   Arms and legs out before me.  My “life review” began.  It was like watching a film in fast-forward.  Everything, I saw.  Going to the bathroom, eating, sleeping, school, playing, climbing trees…anything.  It flashed so quickly, yet it was all me, and I comprehended it.  Instead of soaring through tunnels, it was as if someone pulled a veil off my head…as if I blinked…and I was no longer suspended above the pool.   I was in the middle of the sky.
NDE due to drowning at age 9.

2177.  Ericka S NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 I remember it was dark, pitch black.. I am terrified of the dark in life but I had absolutely no fear.. It was neither hot nor cold but I was aware of a tingle. I knew I was dead. I knew I had no body. I looked at myself and was there, but not. My son's father was there he had committed suicide a few years before and at that time we had been on terrible terms.. All I felt from him was absolute love all I felt period was complete love and peace and knowledge like I was full. He kept telling me to go back, but it was not in words it was like telepathy or something. I kept begging to not but he kept saying I had too I did not belong here, and our son needed me.. My son was kidnapped years before and I had not seen him since. I kept saying " I wouldn't know him if I saw him and my ex showed me a visual of him.. It did not look like what I remembered. He looked like a perfect mix of his father and I. When he was little he looked exactly like his father, I did not believe him I said that isn't him. He said you will see..
NDE due to alcohol overdose and MDMA poisoning.

2176.  Dan A NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 I had run out of oxygen. I was alone and scared in complete darkness when suddenly I saw a little tiny pin point of light, as I stared at it the light became brighter and larger and closer like I was moving toward it or it was coming to me very rapidly from a far distance away, until it was so large and bright it was like a wall of light. Proceeding into the light I was immediately filled with the light and filled with the most amazing peace, warmth and joy! I have never felt such an amazing feeling ever in my life. My eyes adjusted to the brilliant bright light and I realized that I had entered into a magnificent splendid giant hall or building, the walls emanated this pure bright light and filled everything it touched so that there not a shadow, sad or mean thought could exist, just pure love and joy.
NDE due to being crushed by cement wall.

2175.  Madonna M NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  While ice skating with my sisters on a river approximately 1/4 mile from my childhood home in the countryside of southwester Ontario, on Valentine's Day (a Sunday), February 14, 1965, I fell through a patch of thin ice, and fell deeply into freezing waters with a swiftly moving current.  I felt no sense of needing to breathe, or of cold, but recall initially noticing how dark it was, relative to the bright winter's day outside. Suddenly, I could see from above, myself falling. I will never forget the vision of myself in my yellow ski jacket and extra long striped scarf, my long blonde braids and scarf floating over my head.  I was calm watching myself, no thinking anything strange of feeling anything but completely in control and serene.  I spoke aloud these words: "I'd better get back down there." Immediately I was back in my body, with a plan to allow myself to sink to the bottom and push off from there, looking toward the light. My thought was that the light was the break in the ice.  I did just that, and with little effort made my way to the break in the ice. My sisters swear that I was under water for several minutes.
NDE due to falling thru ice while ice-skating at age 9.

2174.  Esteban M NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  I was admitted to a Katy, Texas hospital with ventricular tachycardia.  at approx.3:45 a.m., I started having symptoms of VT and my blood pressure started dropping.  the last thing I remember was my blood pressure was 60/40.  the next thing I know is that I am standing in a field and the grass was the greenest I have ever seen.  I also saw that the sky was the bluest I have ever seen.  then the clouds were the whitest I have ever seen.  it was so peaceful and the sun was shining brightly. even though I did not see the sun. I could feel the wind against my skin.  I remember that it was very calm and I felt so serene and at peace.  I said. "oh wow!"  suddenly, I felt my body being pulled to the right side and I awoke and saw that they were placing the wooden board under my body in the hospital.  they were preparing to shock me but when I awoke the doctors saw that my heart rate had returned to normal.  I asked the nurse why all the doctors were in my room and she said that I had gone into cardiac arrest and that they had lost me.  I told the nurse about my experience and she said that I surely must have gone to the other side.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2173.  David W NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  The morning after my bypass surgery, when the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting,  I started to hum "Nantucket sleigh ride" by Mountain.  I hadn't heard the song for almost thirty years.  Then I started to remember looking down on an open chest and a heart laying there still.  then I saw two probe like things touching the heart and the memory stopped.   after a week when I went to have half of my staples removed I asked the surgeon if he played Mountain in the operating room.  His response was the question "looking down or the light"  he said that many of his patients have reported these events and yes indeed he did play a mountain CD during the surgery.
NDE at time of open heart surgery- OBE over body and saw his heart restarted during surgery.  Surgeon confirmed a song was played in the operating room that he was aware of.

2172.  Hal R NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 I could remember bicycling, waking up in the ambulance, then going blank. What I remembered next was moving down a "hallway" but not really a hallway and going by "scenes with remembrance" and thinking I remember that, and I should go in there, but I didn't. There were many of these "scenes", one after another, but I did not go into them, as I was coerced to keep going.  I came to the end of this "hallway" it opened up to an infinitely large space.  In this space, there were an infinite amount of from what I could describe would be souls communicating with each other simultaneously. I was in awe at the magnitude of thoughts being communicated between these souls. I could focus in on one area and pick out the "conversation".
NDE due to bicycle accident.

2171.  Michelle H NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 I was driving to work.  Not speeding.  In an instant the truck was on its side ....sliding along the soft dirt shoulder of the road.  My vision simply faded to black like in the old movies.  All sound stopped. There was no feeling in my body.  It was dark.  I was not in a body.  I was AWARE I was in the dark.  I was aware that I was observing and actually thinking.   I thought, "Huh, that's it huh". I experienced only a moment of fear before I faded back into a body full of pain… I feel even now that I am still in the void.  I am still ambivalent about the intent of a God, afterlife and how it has not helped me in this life.
NDE with void experience that left her ambivalent about the intent of God and the afterlife.

2170.  Chamisa H NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  I could see through walls. I read the surgeons mind and instantly "knew" he was having an affair with the attending nurse; that his brother would die of cancer the following year. (and did). My sister had sent me roses, my husband was home chopping wood. My kids were in school A list of details, all  too trivial to write about, but confirmed to me what I saw was real. Unlike dreams, I remembered everything as if it just happened. It changed the direction of my life and the way I took care of my body, my life, my family and patients forever after… I saw what all my family members were doing at the time and was able to verify those activities later, they were astonished that I could see what they were doing, and talking about.
NDE due to accident and severe hemorrhage.  Shared by retired nurse.  Astonishing verified information received during NDE that she could not have otherwise known.

2169.  Tim V NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light .I saw several human forms made of light. In the blink of an eye two of these forms suddenly appeared on either side of me. When I looked at them from close up I could see into their brilliance. I could see their features. One of them was my grandmother and the other was my dad. They were made of light. It was them but much younger and more perfect. I would have not known it was them had I not known it was them. My grandmother preceded to welcome me home, not to worry we will take good care of you were her exact words. This was not speech, it was more like telepathy. I really cant describe the overwhelming feeling of peace, love, joy and RELIEF!!! I was finally back home. It was like my memory of this place was coming back. I knew so much there that I don't remember now. But I do remember feeling like I was away at school and I had finally come home.
NDE due to illness with unconsciousness.

2168.  Maria F Probable NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  I remember seeing the doctor and he was counting numbers.  I felt as I was above them, seeing them working on me.  Next, I remember seeing my husband and 5 year old daughter in the room outside the OR. They seemed upset.  All of a sudden I was going through a dark tunnel, but with flashing speed, and straight ahead was a very bright!!! light.  Then I was in a meadow with beautiful flowers surrounding me.  The colors were so vibrant!  I felt peace and love surround me.  I looked to my left and there was a splendid man in a white robe, with shoulder-length hair, beard and mustache.  Then he was in front of me.  There was a bridge separating us, and he communicated in telepathy.  I understood that I could go no further.  Then I woke up in my hospital room. I don't remember any way back.  However, I laid there feeling so sad and a overwhelming feeling of heartache,  and remorse.  I did not want to be  here, I wanted to be in that other place I had been in.
Probable NDE at childbirth.

2167.  Elizabeth L NDE English expanded version  2/26/10 And space is exactly what it was. It was the color of Montana sky, had no walls, ceiling or any type of perimeters. There were a few of very white clouds here and there and I recall looking around for some kind of tunnel or exit but at the same time hoping I could be in this place forever free of emotional and physical pain, or stress, it was fabulous indeed, but as I thought about be able to stay where I was, I heard a powerful voice, heard isn't exactly the right word. I seemed to feel/hear/sense it in my thinking part of my brain. It said NO, not now, later, you have much yet to do. I was sad to be back in the physical part of me and am still wondering what I should be doing.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2166.  John D NDE 4371 English expanded version  2/26/10  I could feel the tires starting to give way and knew I was going to roll and yelled, "OH GOD!" two or three times then there was a bang. Everything stopped. I was totally conscious, but didn't know where I was, Totally void of light yet I could still see...I was aware of myself and I don't remember having a body, just a consciousness. I looked around or at the darkness, It was right in front of me and far away, then It was like looking at a black canvass with no beginning or end and it was silent, at first. Then sounds I really can't explain, I became aware of presences, coupled with the darkness becoming textured and streaked with ashen grey's and a burning, scraping sound. I heard screaming and crying. I never saw what was causing it but with each streak I became more terrified and knew I wasn't in a good place, And whatever was trying to come "through" the darkness, meant to do me harm.
NDE due to truck accident.  Experience was frightening.

2165.  Matt E Probable NDE English expanded version  2/26/10  woke at 2:10 am to find myself looking at the alarm clock drifting around the room and feeling light and cool (airy) going out to kitchen then back to bedroom  to find myself looking for the first and only time in my life at myself from somewhere else then drifted outside thru the wall to see my dog who was whining and cowering with one paw over his head looking up at me ..as if he could see me (also I was wondering why I could see so clearly at such an early hour  I could hear all  the activities of the surrounding area...as I drifted out to the street I looked at my neighbors porch and laundry line and the home next door with the Chevy parked in the drive figuring randy must of been off from work.. often he worked nights I started to drift down the road but the house at the end was not visible just a lighter area of fog like something out of twilight zone as I got nearer I came to the realization I did not want to go the field seemed stronger as I got closer I fought to change direction and finally tension that ended with a feeling of falling backwards into a hole...
Probable NDE from apparent respiratory arrest from unknown cause.

2164.  Jon B NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  To the best of my knowledge I never lost consciousness. Once everything got black, my need for oxygen dissipated and I began to feel a pulling sensation and I knew my soul was leaving my body. My soul just automatically left my body. Once I was out of my body I could see again and noticed that I was floating upwards and out of the pool to a height of around 10ft above the surface of the water. I remember thinking to myself "This is great!" It was such a huge relief to have the threat of death finally behind me. Even at such a young age the mind is aware of our mortality whether we ourselves know it or not. Once I reached 10ft. above the water I stopped. I didn't have any control over my actions from that point on. I couldn't move, all I could do was observe. I was positioned on my back although not entirely horizontal and I was facing the sky. I looked down and could see my parents frantically trying to fetch my lifeless body from the bottom of the pool.
NDE at age 3 from drowning.

2163.  Joann P NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  She then told me when I was around six months old,' that I had died in my Grandfathers arms". Believe it or not, I remembered this and said to my Mom," Yes! I remembered  him crying and screaming to me saying ," that if I die he would too". Mom was in shock in how could I have known this," because I was around six months old"… I was an infant. I found myself in this pink and purple atmosphere floating slowly through clouds. I was an infant and being carried over the shoulder which I thought was my Grandmother. Following behind us were two Cherubs, very small, short curly hair, naked, neither sex, one solid pink and one solid purple. It was like they were trying to keep me entertained and they did. I was trying to catch or touch them with much laughter and giggles.  They were fluttering around us like humming birds. The scenery changed to a beautiful landscape of green valleys and hills. To the left I could not see," but could hear the laughter of children playing".
NDE at approximately six months old from choking and passing out.  One of the youngest age NDEs ever shared with NDERF.

2162.  Suzanne RP NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 There was a light tunnel of light and I was in the light.  I did not have to go to the light.  I didn't hear anything around me.  I saw at the end of the tunnel of light my maternal grandmother who had passed away in 1976 and I was in my mind reaching up to here to pull me up and she just shook her head.  She didn't say anything.  Then, the tunnel at her end closed and was black.
NDE from criminal attack at age 17.

2161.  Gary S NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  I was walking towards these human shapes, I could not make out faces but everybody was  like sort of waiting to greet me, I felt like I was coming back home and the feeling of happiness coming from the human shapes present was so overwhelming that I have never in my life felt so wanted and love in sort of a  morbid way I was mad that I came back because I felt like I had known and love them all my life it felt like i was coming back  to a place that was a part of me that made complete.
NDE from heart attack.

2160.  Alfred H NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  In the midst of the heart attack, I was talking with the EMT in the ambulance one second, and the next I was somewhere else.  It was completely dark and void of sounds.  I "felt" completely immersed in an emotional cacophony of positive feelings.  I have never felt so good as a living human being.  I am convinced that I was in the presence of the Holy Spirit, even though I don't know the "why" of this.  There was absolutely no concept of time, pain, sorrow, fear, or anything negative that is associated with the human experience.  When I became conscious after my heart had to be restarted three times, I was as secure and happy as any person could be for a few moments; then the reality of being back in the world came crashing down.  In the years since, I feel as though I have become more cognizant of what really happened during that time.  Little pieces of the puzzle have become apparent to me, securing my belief that what I experienced was real and profound.
Three NDEs from cardiac arrests.

2159.  Mark H Possible NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery--a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned. I had the nurses pray for me right before the surgery. I found myself in the presence of a heavenly light, which I was not allowed to enter, but only barely touch and observe. When it touched me, I was bathed in ethereal music. I not only heard this music, I became a part of it. There was life in the music--God was there. It flowed through me and I through it. There was more ecstasy in the music than any one single human could tolerate. I knew at that point that the music we play here on earth is simply a reflection of this "source." I felt more "awake" than I had ever felt, as if this earthly life was but a dream and true consciousness happens after death.
Possible NDE during surgery.  Remarkable description of encounter with unearthly music.

2158.  Robert B Probable NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  When all was seen I was again filled by this Goddess with tenderness until I again nearly burst and was told, "That every act of kindness matters" Before I was sent back I asked how long was I here and is this was it would be like for everyone else. I was told that I was there for 7 years and that each person would see only what they could understand when they came to her. Some would see her as Jesus some their fathers or moms every imaginable deity as well. All that mattered was that they be changed and completed made new. I was shot back thought the tunnel and saw a dark husk beneath me.
Probable NDE due to surgery complication.

2157.  Mike K NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 I was on the flight deck to de-arm the ordinance of one of our planes when it landed during night flight ops.  An F-8 crashed on the fantail (round down) exploding on impact. The airplane broke in half, the cockpit with the pilot went forward off the ship. The debris came flying at us at 110 mph the burning fuel following.  I have lived that moment a million times.  After all these years I can still see the nose of the plane rise up at an awkward angle. At that point I got a sick feeling.  I knew this was going to be bad.  The sound was unreal as the fuel burst and ignited.  I was staring at a wall of burning jet fuel coming right at me.  It was all in slow motion almost frame by frame.  I find this hard to put on paper.  I felt myself looking at myself I was high and to the right of where I was standing.  Then the word “move” came to me loud, very loud and clear.  At this point I moved and so did the guy next to me.  After the initial blast I got up and manned a fire hose.  Thirty years later I found him on a web site and e-mailed him.  He said he pulled me from the fire.  I don’t remember that.
NDE due to debris from nearby plane crash.

2156.  Liv T Probable FDE English expanded version  2/25/10  I heard the most beautiful voice when I was out of my body "YOUR NAME IS LIV NOT DI" Simple and funny I know that was my Angels ways of reassurance as I had things to do still and they sent the man in the car to shield me, as well as allowing me to walk and talk and see the criminal that hit so he could be stopped.  I know The Angels are humorous &  loving and they have guided me though out my life and they tell me always to keep things Light.
Auto accident.  Interesting angelic encounter.

2155.  Mark K NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 My arm was held up in the air while they were working on my arm. one of them said "there's some buckshot" the other said "I'll get it". It was then that I realized I was out of my body about 10' above the table looking down. That freaked me out a little and then my whole life flashed before me. it was like the scales of Justice. The bad things on one side and the good on the other. I could no longer see me on the table, but I was on the bottom of a very beautiful  colorful (Like fire opal) blue, red, yellow translucent wall. As I floated to the top and looked over, there were five people standing on the bottom of the other side, dressed in white gowns. Very thing and young, I don't know why but I believed they were relatives and one was my grandmother from my fathers side. She died years before I was born.
NDE due to complication of surgery to manage shotgun injury.

2154.  Art L Probable NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 As I got closer to this light, I felt at peace, I felt love and knowledge. As I got closer to this bright light I noticed the silhouettes of people with there backs toward me. As I got closer these two silhouettes, they turned to face me. I knew that they were my great uncle and aunt. I drifted past them as I approached this source of light which grew brighter. I also felt like I knew the universe. I had an understanding of everything. Someone approached me from this light. A holy light, a source of all knowledge, love and so much more. A voice said " What have you done with the life I have given you"? "Go back now and live your life. Marry and raise children." As I started to retreat from this person ( GOD, A CREATOR.) I very quickly fell backwards down into my body, witch hurt so bad.
Probable NDE due to accidental overdose at age 17.

2153.  Ellen H NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  I then go to a place that is very beautiful.  People all about the same age, 25 to 30 are walking in different colored robes, all long.  There was a beautiful fountain, and the gate was one I could not get into to.  I wanted someone to let me in. It was as if no one could see me.  It appeared to be a place of learning.  It was very beautiful. Next, I remember a male voice telling me more in my soul than audibly, that I did not belong there yet.  Boom.  I was back in my room.
NDE due to suicide attempt at age 15.

2152.  Michael O NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  I can still remember in detail the look of the sand and gravel road we walked down to get there. When we arrived at the carnival place she told me to wait, that someone wanted to speak with me. Coming out of the carnival, though the entrance was my kid sister Allison. I have never been so happy, I could not stop crying with joy. Allison had passed away in 1992 at the age of 23 from a brain aneurism. She was in med school at the time with a very promising future. It was devastating for us. When Ali, approached me, I really knew I was home. We sat at a little table outside of the carnival talking for what seemed like forever. She was so wise and calm. This is going to sound strange, but at one point she said would you like to get a hot dog. There was a little stand next to the ticket booth. So we got a hot dog. She told me to enjoy it, because I would not be having these anymore. I did not understand at the time, nor did I care. However, I would later come to realize why she said that. With my kidney disease, I have to be on a super low protein diet, which means I am a vegetarian now.
NDE due to kidney failure.

2151.  Joe NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  a beautiful, tranquil light, feeling of total peace and serenity at the time of the accident… no real direct light but a pleasant glowing light in the distance I wanted to go toward.
NDE due to accident, very briefly described.

2150.  Oliver W NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 After getting the image of the EMTs working on me, I was transcending to a grey whitish light and started to travel through the tunnel. I was looking down the tunnel which was transparent.  I saw little black dots which I can only assume that these dots were nothing more than souls...these dots were everywhere and the cross over I can only compare it to the river Jordan when I got through the tunnel.  I saw  one of these dots coming at me and it grew very very large....this huge massive silhouette told me to turn around this is not your time....so I turned around did not ask any more questions looked down again seeing the tiny little black dots which like I stated before where in my opinion souls departed.  Non I did not see any of my dead relatives.... do I have a better understanding and consciousness of our relationships with our psychic nature absolutely....and there is an after life.
NDE due to insulin reaction.

2149.  Larry T NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 I was in a tunnel with a light at the end of it, a very bright white light.  I had always thought of a dark tunnel, but this one was most merely correctly explained in the Kabala, as a geometrical tunnel of multicolored lights, as explained to me by a Rabbi.  (Not my religion)  I now have a sense that nearly anyone can end up in this very nice place.  I have no fear of dying after that experience. It was a very nice place.  Sense then I've had 4 more Cardiac Arrests consisting of another for 13 Seconds, then one of 39, and the final 2 came about 20 minutes apart, and were of duration of 12 and 19 seconds.  Non lights, no tunnels on any of these.
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

2148.  Leonard S NDE 4337 English expanded version  2/25/10  From England.  I was attacked from behind , "jumped upon " I was dead when I hit the ground. I could see myself , from what I was told by the partner I was with,  after the assailants had stopped and were ready to leave. I was floating ten or more feet above the street.  I found myself next to a railroad , it was dark but for a bright light and noise which became a Steam train going by me . It had as passengers some people who in life had been mean to me.  Quickly I ran through my entire life as a series of pictures and sounds.  I could take the train should I wish to , I was able to catch it but did not and started to walk into a tunnel to follow the train. At the end of the tunnel was a great light . My grandmothers voice told me not to go . I was not wanted , she said , this was for others , I had a wife and family to look after.
NDE from criminal attack.

2147.  Paula D Daughter's NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 She spent 3 months in ICU in a comatose state and the Doctors did all they could to dissolve the clots. She died twice. She has no memory of those 3 months, but does vividly remember seeing her grandfather who had died two years earlier. She says she "flowed" through a brightly lit tube. When she saw her grand father and another person she did not recognize, she felt a great deal of love and warmth and a sense of belonging. But her grandfather told her, that it wasn't her time. She felt confused. She told me that he very firmly said "Go Home". Several days later she woke up, and she was improving. She couldn't talk very well nor could she move, but she managed to scrawl on a paper pad, I saw Grandpa. It took a week more before she could speak and she tried to explain her experience. At the present, she doesn't speak of what happened her, but her conception of a "place" that exists after all brain function ceases, has become clear to her.
NDE shared by her mother due to pulmonary embolus.

2146.  Jonathan G NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  That's when for what I believe was a very brief moment I had a strange/unusual experience.  All of those people attending me suddenly vanished and my Mother was sitting on the left side of the bed beside me with my Father standing by her.  I didn't realize who they were at first because they were both very young late teens or early 20s.  There were other people behind them who I couldn't focus on because of a bright light coming from something like a worm hole/cornucopia/horn of plenty shaped object behind them. There were figures of people rushing out of it toward me but I couldn't tell who they were due to the extreme brightness of the light coming from that object. I then became distracted by figures to my right which were all my former pets (dogs and cats that had died) climbing over each other to get to me, they gave me the impression of me just getting home from a long trip as they seemed very excited to see me.
NDE due to heart attack.  Met deceased parents and pets.

2145.  Richard R NDE 4332 English expanded version  2/25/10  I had my Buck Knife just in case) I carefully scanned the bar room for threats as I entered, being conscious not to make any aggressive eye contact and saw the usual ruff looking crowd of seaman, dockworkers and B-girls. Suddenly It hit me that it was Quiet and that everyone was looking at me instead of minding their own business. Then I realized that everyone was smiling, just a little Buddha-like smile and fear swept over me and I tensed and looked around for an attack from behind.  Then I began to feel waves of love and peace flowing thru everything. I felt I wanted to relax and flow with the Waves! Then the fear of the unknown seemed to fill me and I got scared!
NDE due to explosion on ship during Vietnam War.  Interesting variant NDE content.

2144.  Paul O NDE English expanded version  2/25/10  From Ireland.  My perception of motion had speeded up a hundred fold. As I realized I was about to be killed, a sensation as of a swirling vortex began that enveloped my whole body, which then concentrated in my head and I exited my body through the top of my head. I literally flew out of the top of my head. I found myself travelling in an upwards direction in total darkness but with a marvelously wonderful sense of well being. I was cocooned in what I perceived to be a spherical form. My initial thought was, ‘if this is being dead, I like it’. The joy of freedom from my body was as intense as it was immense. I perceived I was travelling at great speed but I had no references by which to measure how fast it was. I was being cared for, looked after, I felt very secure. I was travelling towards some place I was not aware of.
NDE due to car accident.

2143.  Jeff NDE English expanded version  2/25/10 From Canada. I was in the school parking lot, having a cigarette, when my friends where going somewhere in the car, so I sat on the hood of the car, and he pulled out with me on and then revved the car forward resulting in my body flying off the hood of the car onto the side. I then landed on my feet but unfortunately the G-force of the cars speed made me fall on my back very hard and very fast. I then hit my head at a great speed. At this time as soon as impact, my vision went black. Through the seconds of my darkened vision I saw what seemed like multiple bright lights surround my body's shape. The colors where very bright Yellowish white mixed with a neon blue. Seconds later I regained consciousness and was in shock lying on the ground.
NDE due to falling off hood of car at age 16.