1620. Juan Carlos NDE  English expanded version  5/7/2008  From Columbia, Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio. I could only think: "It's over," and I began entering into a tunnel of light, with a much greater and brighter light towards the back.  As I went into the tunnel, I didn't want to go back.  This could have been a phenomenon associated with the lack of oxygen, but the most astonishing thing is that at a certain point I saw myself on top of the water and I could swim toward the riverbank, leaving more than 200 companions who were with me astonished.  I thought someone had pushed me towards the surface but nobody knew who it was, nobody had an explanation.  The only sure thing is that I felt frustrated because I didn't want them to take me from there.  It was a marvelous and unforgettable experience.
Teenage drowning NDE.

1619. George T NDE  English expanded version  5/6/2008  From Romania, Original in Romanian translated to English by Mariana.  I saw next to me two sturdy men who took me in their arms in order to transport me to the ambulance, they looked very tall and very bright – afterwards I found out that I had been walking to the ambulance on the arm of this nurse who helped me, also I was told that I had been laying at the back of the ambulance all the way to the hospital, but I remember being in front, next to the driver, I even felt the breeze on my face, at the same time I could not understand why he did not answer me – after some time we arrived at the hospital, and I saw everything they did in order to resuscitate me, at the same time I went down the hallway to speak with this man who was covered in blood and was trying to get up from the floor, I helped him and I asked him what had happened to him, he told me he overdosed in order to take his own life, but now he couldn’t move and no one was helping him, I think once in a while I was back in my body for a second or so and I could see everything around me but did not understand. This is a short description of what happened to me during my first NDE.
NDE from Suicide Attempt.

1618. Christine A NDE  English expanded version  5/3/2008  The first scene I remember was that I was in my apartment bedroom (where my body lay).  My ceiling light was on and my body lie near the right side of my bed.  I was on the left side of my bed, not up in the air, yet not on the ground either.  I saw several people knelt down around my body, so I couldn't really even see myself.  The people wore dark clothing, so I'm assuming they were police.  I think I saw one person with a white shirt (EMT?).  While I was watching the 'event' I was with two of my deceased relatives: my grandfather's cousin, Aunt Kate (who was more like a grandmother to me); and my Uncle Harry.  In life, these were really the only two members of my family (besides my mother) that I was close to.  I loved them very, very much.  I don't remember ANY strong emotion at all during the NDE.  In fact, I felt almost emotionally detached from what was going on.  I was not elated, I was not frightened nor angry, etc. Just peaceful, calm, and almost like accepting.  But I 'knew' why Kate and Harry were there.  I knew that they were going to take me somewhere. 
NDE due to heart arrhythmia as a result of chemotherapy for leukemia.

1616.  Carol M NDE & Possible NDE English expanded version  4/29/2008 From Saudi Arabia Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio.  I began seeing everything white around me, like this blank page to write on.  At the same time I felt a presence as if someone was with me and began explaining to me about  some doubts I had at one time.  Not with words, but with images and perhaps telepathy since I do not remember hearing a voice.  But I could understand everything he said and it was all so clear and obvious that I wondered how I could not have understood this before and that my mother would also be happy to know it.  I understood that everything good and bad happened for a purpose.  That God hopes the devil will understand that God is so good that notwithstanding all the bad the devil does God is unable to cause harm to him.  When the devil understands such great love, this whole world system will come to an end and all will know this other world that people such as I try  to describe so poorly. I understood that God is everywhere because the material world hides what scientists so earnestly seek, even the smallest part of material creation is God.
Experiencer has a masters degree, born in Bolivia, and living in Saudi Arabia where the experience occurred.  The experience during child birth is a possible NDE, but the drowning experience when she was 16 is a NDE.

1615.  DW Experience English expanded version  4/27/2008 I loved it, but it had loved me first and I loved it for loving me. I wish that I could explain how precious that was to me; To be wanted when I didn't even want myself. I had just killed me. To be told I was not only desired as one to love, but that it wanted me to love it. That I was sought out in such a way by one so loving was more than I could understand. What greater love is there than a love that reaches out to you and says, "I will always love you", then shows you all they are, not knowing if, in the telling, something will make you judge them someone you can't love. It made itself vulnerable to my rejection. How could I not love a being that trusted me with all of it's true self? That being already KNEW me before I arrived there. It chose to love me and wanted me to love it, KNOWING all of it. I wasn't asked to love blindly. I was showed the self that wanted me to love it. It wanted to be chosen by me as one that I would love. It had loved me before I was human, it loved me before I was born, it loved me being back with it, but most of all, it loved that I loved it, too. It was joy filled that I loved it. I was in a state of bliss from the love we shared. So was my new friend, the Divine Loving Being. Our perfect understanding in complete Love was, and could only be, Divine. I was HOME. That is what it felt like, the ultimate homecoming. I was where I was meant to be. I fit perfectly there. I was so glad to be there, loving with that being. "It was where I was meant to be" is as close as I can put it. To be together with that other, loving self was the perfect place for me to exist.
NDE due to suicide attempt.  Note From Dr. Jeff: "This is among the most profound NDEs ever shared.  I encourage EVERYONE to read this."

1614.  Bonnie J Experience English expanded version  4/27/2008 The next thing I sensed was a surreal feeling of floating high, high in the sky.  I had all of my senses though I felt I no longer had a body. All around me was bright, bright light and I sensed so much love I felt as if I'd never ever felt before - quiet, peace, serene contentment, no pain, now worry, just a tremendous sense of BEING - of me BEING.  I hear (sensed) love, joy, peace, contentment. I floated without seeing anyone (relatives that had passed away).  But, if this makes sense, I FELT God's presence. Then I sensed (heard - I hesitate to describe the event with our human terms because I never HEARD anything yet I know I was asked) a question. The question was:  'Are you ready Joyce?'.  I struggled with the answer and then I was shown my graveside.  The grass around my burial plot was vivid, vivid green, the sky was blue, there was a gentle breeze - I even heard a bird sing. People were leaving the coffin for their cars.  The only 3 people left by my coffin were my husband, my daughter then aged 3 and my son then aged 17 months. AT THAT MOMENT I KNEW I could not leave my children - I telepathed my answer, "NO".
NDE due to boating accident.

1613.  Sylvia P Experience English expanded version  4/27/2008  I believe this occurred during the emergency, exploratory surgery to save my life.  I later found out that during the surgery my body started to 'shut down.'  My experience was that I was in the dark, lying down, but I felt very comfortable.  I was experiencing total comfort and not afraid in any way.  A figure walked in ( although dark, I could see him).  He was someone that I had know as an acquaintace all my life and about the age my father would have been.  This person had passed away several years ago.  He sat down beside me, not facing me, and reached for and held my hand.  After some period of time he tugged on my hand and I said, "I am not ready to go with you." He very gently paced my hand back by my side, and walked into the darkness very slowly.  He never said a word nor did he turn his face to me, but I knew him.  After he left, I remember nothing until I woke up the next day on the ventilator.
NDE associated with surgery.

1612.  Kathleen S Experience English expanded version  4/24/2008  TOOK AN OVERDOSE OF INSULIN. I THEN PASSED OUT AND LLOYD PUT ME IN THE CAR AND TOOK ME TO THE HOSPITAL. I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS BUT I REMEMBER WAKING UP WITH MYSELF SITTING IN THE CORNER AND WATCHING A SHEET BEING PULLED OVER MY HEAD AND THEN MY SPIRIT FOLLOWED THE DOCTOR OUTSIDE INTO THE WAITING ROOM AND THE   DOCTOR TOLD MY HUSBAND THAT I HAD 2 HEART ATTACKS IN 5 MINUTES AND I DIED. MY SPIRIT THEN FOLLOWED MY HUSBAND OUTSIDE AND HE PUNCHED THE BUILDING AND SCREAMED NO, NO, NO AND HE SCREAMED AT THE SKY AND SAID WHY GOD WHY? I REMEMBER MY UNCLE RICHARD MY AUNT MARY AND MY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA WERE WAITING FOR ME WHEN I WENT THROUGH THE WHITE LIGHT. THEY SAID YOU NEED TO GO BACK BECAUSE YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR FAMILY NEED YOU HERE ON EARTH NOT IN HEAVEN YET. IT WAS A VERY NICE RIDE THROUGH THE WHITE LIGHT AND I DID NOT WANT TO COME BACK
NDE due to insulin overdose.

1611.  Sandra H Experience English expanded version  4/24/2008  I was then floating down the river on my back but I was watching myself from above rather than actually experiencing what I saw.  I could see myself gurgling and coughing up water but it was immediately being replaced by new waves of water and I looked as though I was choking while trying to breathe.  Watching the water fill and float across my open mouth looked odd to me from my aerial view but I couldn’t quite figure out why; it was like watching a movie in slow motion.  I remember telling myself to try to calm down and take calm breaths.  I knew I was supposed to turn my body so that my feet were pointing down stream and to use my arms as ballast but I didn't maneuver and I couldn’t really figure out why I wasn’t doing what I had been taught.  I could see my toes sticking above the water but my arms were completely at the mercy of the rapids as they hung at my sides quite a bit under the water.  Although I was being bumped around a lot, I couldn't see anything from my physical body and it seemed to be very quiet as I was floating head first down the river.
NDE due to drowning.

1610.  Jenny E Experience English expanded version  4/24/2008 While in the throes of a bad car accident, my deceased grandfather (that I was extremely close to) came to me.  At the time, I was 22 years old and working in Manhattan. I was just about to rent my first apartment away from my family.  As the impact was happening, all of the events surrounding my life at the time went through my head (mainly the rental of a new apartment). My beloved grandfather came to me with his arms and took me out of the wreckage.  I had no seat belt on and at the time, many of my friend who had see the car thought that I had died in the wreckage (It was that bad!). I survived by the grace of my grandfather and I'll never forget it… I was looking down upon the wreckage.
NDE due to auto accident.

1609.  Hafur Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008  From Mexico Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio.  The figure on my right, who was guiding me, stopped and I could not see his face and as though we were at a small, enclosed beach, there was a hill that served as a place for projecting my life from beginning to end several times.  At first rapidly and afterwards more slowly.  It was amazing how my life was shown with events I had completely forgotten about and others that were so insignificant that it felt like I was seeing each frame of the  personal movie of my life on earth. I realized that I understood everything with a great clarity and super-lucidity I had never experienced before.  I discovered that I had personally chosen to take on a physical body and have the life experiences I was having.  I realized I had wasted time in suffering and what I should have been doing was using my freedom to choose true love, and not pain, in all that came into my life.
Exceptional NDE!  She met her twin flame too!

1608.  Ryland D Fear Death Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008  From Australia  When I got sucked into the drainpipe, the instant I knew I was in trouble, my life flashed before my eyes not like a movie with scenes in it.  It all happened in an instant - you remember your whole life and what you have done.  It is a very peaceful feeling, (besides from the trauma of almost drowning) everything was very relaxed and calm.  It felt like I was underwater at least 10 minutes before I blacked out, but only 2 minutes had actually passed.  Then I could feel nothing; like my brain wasn't working at all, for I don't how long.  Then suddenly with a flash of white light, I came to as I was being pulled out of the water but I could not see anything but white light for 5 minutes.  Afterwards everything just looked new to me, like the trees and grass and everything looked so much brighter and vibrant for a day at least.  Now I feel so much better about life like the event changed the way I feel.
Near drowning.  Life review apparently began prior to loss of consciousness.  Age 16. 

1607.  Matthew L Probable NDE English expanded version  4/19/2008 There was no sound. No movement. I was frozen in time, in the moment. I had no pain, just a feeling of astonishment. It felt as if someone was holding me up in that river, keeping me afloat. I felt love, and friendship. Then there was this booming, loud voice. It said," you can sit up and fight to live, or you can lay back and die." There was no judgment in the voice, no right or wrong answer. For me, I know what the answer was immediately, because I was young, and there were things left for me to do in life. So I chose to live, and at that moment, I was thrown back forcibly into life, violently. I had no breath in my lung, for the other one was punctured. I struggled to breath. I struggled for well over a minute to get air into my lungs, and when I was about to pass out, breath came flowing into my lung. Then I knew that I had a fighting chance to live.
Definitely NDE-like, but not sure if there was a clear separation of consciousness.

1606.  Donna S Probable NDE English expanded version  4/19/2008 When I flat lined at first there was nothing.  Then there was an extraordinary bright (white) light.  Very, very, bright.  Then it started to change to a beautiful blue.  An indescribable blue.  Then suddenly I was back.  The Dr.'s had to shock me back to life.  The first thing the nurse to my left said to me was did I see the light. When I came back I was very emotional and crying.  I didn't even know what had happened.  They had to remind where I was and why I was there.  The word children was in my head right away and I couldn't stop thinking about the word children for weeks.  I was also depressed. When I was at home recovering my dreams at night were about angels.  I was really seeing them a lot in my dreams when I slept. The experience put question toward my beliefs.
She had an experience during cardiac arrest, but did not experience a separation of consciousness.

1605.  Kimberly F Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008 I was promptly told "You can not come home yet." I continued to try and go forward and it kept telling me "No, not yet, it is not your time."  I then felt compelled to turn and look back at the tunnel and that was when I was transported back through and out the other side of it.  I looked down and that's when I saw them bringing that paddle machine over to my body.  I saw the doctor grab the paddles, say something to the person standing next to it, they turned some knobs, the Dr. put them on my chest and hit me once with the shock.  I saw my body jump but I felt nothing.  I then saw the Dr. say something to them again, they moved the knobs again and he hit me a second time....nothing.  Then, I saw the Dr. put the paddles together for a moment (as if saying a prayer) and then said something to the person again....the person shook their head in disagreement but went ahead at the Dr's insistence and moved the knobs again. When he hit me the third time I awoke in ICU. My parents were told by the Dr. that I had died, I was what they call "sheet-faced" and he took a chance by hitting me with the paddles a third time. He admitted to not being a really religious man but he said he felt he was being told not to quit...so he didn't. 
NDE due to being shot in chest with shotgun at age 12.

1604.  Karen H Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008 In the last couple of years before Christmas 2006, I'd lost my husband, home, horses, dogs, and my car. The last two days before Christmas 2006, I lost my job.  I was fired about 10:00am.  I gathered my things from my desk, marched to my car and drove to the house where I'd rented a room.  I swallowed sleeping pills and klonopin.  After vomiting once or twice, I wrote a note and lay down to die… During the time I was out, I remember being in a pitch black void, with me glowing softly within it.  I felt complete relief, love, warmth, security, acceptance and lots of other things that I can't really describe.  I was able to surrender to this darkness without fear.  Since I don't have family or children, I had a feeling that it was OK that I stay in that void forever; everything would have gone on without me just fine… I have very, very bad eyes (almost legally blind) and I could see myself and my "glow" very clearly.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

1603.  Lesley B Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008  From Australia  As a family we had gone for a swim the pool. I was left in there and although I had floaties on my face was under the water. My Uncle said that I had been there for 6 minutes. He pulled me out and could not feel a pulse.  The walls of the swimming pool were peeling away. I was standing on the bottom of the pool and stamping my feet alternately in excitement. It felt like I was at the door of a birthday party (I was 3) and the door was about to be opened and inside were all the children having fun and enjoying themselves with all the presents and party food and games.  I saw lovely green grass like a field and big trees. I couldn't hear the birds though. I wanted to go in but my relatives said to me that it was not time yet and to go back and behave myself. I was disappointed as I wanted to stay.
NDE due to drowning at age 3.

1602.  Chad Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008  Then it got all warm and I realized I was dying.  It was me there.  All of the horrific pain was gone. I felt better than I had ever felt before like a peaceful deep sleep feels.  Disconnected. I felt happy.  All of the sound started to get further and further away. The next series of events happened in what felt like about 2 or three months, but was actually about 15 minutes.  No one came to me or anything like that, but more like a movie of what I wanted in life.  The girl I liked at the time was my wife which came true 2 years later.  Kind of like if I had complete control of the future, I got to build the perfect life.  Then what felt like a ton of bricks fell from the highest building onto my chest like three times in a row about 10 seconds apart. 
NDE due to his car being hit by a truck.

1601.  Selina Experience English expanded version  4/19/2008  From Australia  On passing out, I felt a sudden rush past many peoples faces. the were taking at me but couldn't understand what was being said. Finally reached end of light to be kissed and sent back…. As I reached the white light I received a kiss - distinct sound… My mother had passed the day before and I believe it was her that kissed me.
NDE during childbirth when she passed out.

1600.  Bonnie G Experience English expanded version  4/18/2008  From Canada  I put on the brakes, but the van went sideways, fishtailed and then rolled about 4-6 times, landing upside down.  I was aware that I was on the roof of the van, by the sun roof, green foliage was visible.  Slowly I felt my body lifting away and in that moment, travelled through a starry tunnel/portal quickly, there I stopped floating, in what was a kind of a void. I felt not one Presence but several, maybe 3 or 4 and a feeling that in the void there, even my brother, Terry, who died one year prior at age 29 was there somehow. It was so peaceful, as if floating, like in that space just before falling asleep, tranquil, yet aware at the same time. These Presences said in a language that had no words, it wasn't my time yet, there was still much for me to do. My brother had said that when he died he did choose to go when asked, but for me I wasn't going yet. It just was not my time.
NDE due to auto accident.

1599.  Sanz Probable NDE English expanded version  4/18/2008 From France  It was in the course of the surgical operation after the anesthesia, normally I shouldn't have felt anything (Previously I already had 4 surgeries) but suddenly I felt a very strong pain in the chest, as if my heart was taken off from my body and at the same time, a continuous sharp sound like a buzzer. Then the pain stopped as well as the sound, and I was sliding down a kind of black hall with a light at the bottom looking as a cotton material or steam appearance (difficult to describe) I didn't see any presence but heard voices as if several people were whispering together (male and female): here she is coming, she is coming...and suddenly another voice, a male voice, much louder and with an authoritarian tone said : no it's too early. That's it.
Not sure this was lucid. She says she had less consciousness and alertness than normal. They did heart studies on her, but uncertain if she had a cardiac arrest.

1598.  Harriet K Experience English expanded version  4/18/2008 I clearly remember watching the angiogram as it was taking place--a person was holding my hand, there was a large square machine above me, and several people at the foot of the bed on the right-hand side.  I was still comatose, and I was watching it from the left upper corner of the room.  When I described it to my father several years later, he went white--I had exactly described the angiogram: the description of the machinery was accurate, the people at the foot of the bed were doctors, and my father was the one holding my hand.  The angiogram was intended to pinpoint the abscess--I had been in a coma for 4 weeks, and an EEG the night before had shown a somewhat fuzzy outline of the abscess.  My parents had been told that without surgery, I would either die or be left a vegetable--if the abscess opened, it would open quickly and overwhelm my system.  But overnight, the abscess literally disappeared--when the results of the angiogram came back, the abscess was gone.  Needless to say, I survived, and I went on to graduate from law school.
NDE at age 7 while in coma during angiogram for brain abscess.

1597.  Minerva Experience English expanded version  4/18/2008  I kept telling the ER nurse that I couldn't breath.  All of a sudden, it was very bright in the room.  I was floating over my body.  The nurse went to the doorway and shouted "code blue".  The equipment was making a horrible screeching sound.  The light outside my ER room was flashing.  My mom was standing by the door holding my son (who was 6 months old at the time)  A male nurse jumped on top of me and started CPR, as a couple other medical staff started rolling me out of the room and down the hall.  I stayed with my mom as my body was being wheeled down the hall. When I left my body, it felt as if a hook from the center of my back pulled my soul back and up out of my body. I wanted to stay with my mom and my son, but the angel (I didn't see the face told me I must go)  I went through a bright tunnel up to the most beautiful place I had ever seen.  My grandma was there, although I don't remember seeing her face I feel she was there.  There were many angels there.  No one was talking using words, it was like all the talking was done through our thoughts.
ADC from deceased father.  NDE from assault by former husband.

1596.  Cyndi G Experience English expanded version  4/18/2008 I was above myself drifting upwards and away. I felt very calm and wanted to go towards this beautiful space.  That I still have trouble relating to. The dr. told me that they could not get my heart going and kept me open for almost 4 hours ..They had lost me several times... I saw them working on me but what was so strange or beautiful was that there were people all around the operating table standing behind the Operation Room crew and doctors working on me.  They had these very long  very white robes on to the floor and all had hoods coming almost over their heads. the robes were pointed at the top of the hood. I could not see there faces except for ONE ...He stood at my head as I was floating above them going farther and farther away, he raised his head and looked up to me it was The face of my Father...He had died 10 months earlier…
NDE while under general anesthesia for heart surgery at Mayo Clinic.

1595.  Roseann Experience English expanded version  4/17/2008  Original in German, Translated into English by Iris. About two hours later, after the ward round, I asked her what she meant by referring to the letter. She responded that she sensed from what I had written how much I liked my mother and she described me in detail what I had written. I insisted on the question how she could know about all this and she told me that she had watched me from above, from the ceiling. I had written the letter at a desk and worn a green bath robe. I wanted to know if she could speak Spanish. She said that she did not speak Spanish but she again accurately described what I had written. She described my pen, how everything was arranged on my desk, the writing pad which all exactly matched how it really was. She even could describe the Roman style of my chair. I asked quite desperately: “How can this be possible?” “I do not know, I have never experienced anything like that”, she answered. I could not find an explanation and finished the conversation. 
This is a second-hand report, but what a REPORT!

1594.  Jaqueline NDE English expanded version  4/17/2008 Original in Spanish, translated to English by Eva.  I answered, "Wow, if you knew how lovely it was to be there with my Mama; well, I didn't feel pain,  or anything but yes it scared me very much, not being able to breathe but later I felt a relief and nothing hurt; it was a peace and an immense love that I felt in my heart and my soul, knowing I had that experience and that even 'though the interval during which I couldn't breathe was horrible, after that was the most marvelous experience I'd had in my life; before, I was scared of death and now I don't feel the same; I give an infinity of thanksgiving to God for placing you and Linda as my angels who fought and fought even when it looked like there was no hope." 

1593.  Maria N Fear Death Experience English expanded version  4/4/2008 From Mexico, translated to English by Eva.  Towards me came a truck that would take my life. In that moment  I saw myself enveloped in an invisible bubble.  I floated. I felt as if I'd entered another realm of time.  There was a tranquility, a peace, beautiful music in the environment. I felt, at that moment, that I was in a wonderful place, full of peace and love. There was no time--nothing. Only that peace, that love, that music. Something protected me. I felt as if I'd always been there. Suddenly, I felt a tug on my hand. It was my daughter who had removed me from the path of the truck that would irremediably have killed me if she hadn't reacted in that manner.  At that moment I left the bubble and returned to reality.
Fear Death Experience.

1592.  Carolyn H NDE English expanded version  4/4/2008  I was looking into a huge kaleidoscope.  There were colors of soft blue .pink and yellows. They were all spinning around and then there was a big pop.  Then it went black . All of a sudden a bright soft light appeared in the distance. I could see a figure in the light but it was too far away to make it out at first. Standing right in front of me was my mother, father and brother.  MY parents looked 30 years old and my brother about 16.  The figure in the back ground started to come closer.  As It did I then realized it was God.  He told me I am not ready to come home.
Short, but a nice NDE.

1591.  Yvette P NDE English expanded version  3/21/2008 From India  I must have cut a blood vessel since I was bleeding profusely.  It was right next door to a clinic and when my head was being sewed up under local anesthesia, I must have lost consciousness.  I remember a loud roaring in my ears and rushing through a long, dark tunnel at the end of which was a very bright light.  I cried out loudly (or so it seemed to me) 'Not now, not now' and peed.  Fortunately I was having my periods then and was safely padded !  With that shout, I came round and saw all the faces around me i.e. doctors, nurses, my friends who were with me in the accident and my sister, all looking very normal - and I was puzzled as I expected to have been asked what I meant by 'not now'.  Of course I myself would not have been able to answer that question at the time !
NDE due to unconsciousness while being sutured following injury.  Relatively rare non-Western NDE. 

1590.  Sandra E NDE English expanded version  3/21/2008  The doctor said that I folded in half across it and then the back of my head touched the back of my feet at which time I broke the ligaments in my back landing on the floor on my back.  The next thing that I remember is standing and the back of the house not being there anymore.  It was replaced by a very bright light that I could sort of see through.  I walked out of what was the back of the house taking three steps thru the light.  It felt like I was walking down a few steps.  Beyond the bright light was a intensely bright meadow with mountains beyond the meadow.  Everything was very beautiful and green and bright.  There was a single large tree offering a bit of shade and a lovely stream flowing a few yards from the tree. I think it may have been an apple tree because it had bright red "spots" in the foliage.  Around the stream were animals drinking water.  I remember a deer and a squirrel on the other side of the stream and a rabbit on my side. I sat down by the rabbit and gently put it in my lap petting it.
NDE at age 11 due to fall.

1589.  Sara H NDE English expanded version  3/21/2008  When Dr. F  pulled the line, blood started spurting out and that is when he called Code Blue.  I remember seeing the Light and how warm and beautiful it was.  I wasn't sure if it were coming to me or I was going to it.  But the warm wonderful feeling I had, I knew everything was alright.  I loved the feeling. When I did come back this doctor that was not my doctor, was there holding my hand.  They were sending my to ICU.  This doctor was sent to be with me.  I know that the divine intervention was there.  He took my family to the side and told them, that he had seen Jesus at the foot of my bed and Jesus said "it is not her time" that's when your grandmother squeezed my hand.  All the nurses in the hospital said how spiritual this guardian angel doctor was and how if anyone seen Jesus it would be him.  I know I was going to the other side.
NDE due to complication of medical procedure.

1588.  Fanny L Probable Life-Threatening Event English expanded version  3/16/2008 I thought, I am having a heart attack, but that can't happen. Not now. I got up and crushed and swallowed some aspirin. I laid down and propped my legs up in order to have better circulation. I kept feeling different things happening to my body, but I kept fighting to hold on. Everything seemed to be going in slow motion. I kept doing things to stay in my body like flexing my fingers and toes, trying to do deep breathing, which was hard because I was struggling with that, and most important, I would feel my son's face and hair, just to keep that connection. He kept me going. I should have called 911, but I was afraid that if I left my son's side, I would die. I was scared and I prayed to God. I told Him that I knew He could save me, and that I needed to be alive to take care of my son. There was a point when I left my body. I didn't exactly see, but was given the knowledge that if I left now, my son would never recover from the experience. I was uncertain of what was going to happen, but I knew that I wanted to stay alive. I heard a familiar voice, although I can't quite remember who, saying; "You must return now."
Probable heart attack. Felt strong emotion. OBE.

1587.  Jennifer H Probable NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008 From France As soon as I was under the anesthetic I seemed to travel at speed along a dark tunnel, vortex. I reached the end on a sort of moving staircase. I was surrounded by night stars (although the operation was taking place in the daytime) but it appeared quite light. I was greeted at the top of the staircase by 7 or 8 people. They appeared silver. I knew that I knew and loved them, although I did not recognize them. They were very happy to see me and I felt as though I had come home. I do not know how long I was with them. What I did have was a very strong knowledge that I understood EVERYTHING in the world. I knew the reason for every mortal thing and felt a deep sense of peace. Finally I was embraced by all but told I had to go back. I was devastated and didn't want to go. I had no thought for my family on earth (although I had two small children and husband, mother and sisters). They didn't enter my head. I was deeply upset at leaving. I was told by one person. "It isn't the right time yet". Then I stepped back on the staircase and started rushing back into my body. As I returned I was conscious of losing the feeling of understanding everything and was desperate to try and remember it - but it vanished. I came back into the world screaming. I heard the doctors saying I was very distressed and then nothing more.
Emergency surgery after poorly done hysterectomy. After anesthesia started, OBE into starry sky. Not clear she nearly died, and a little unsure of timing of experience.

1586.  Kevin P NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  From Germany Then I felt like slowing down and being stopped in what seemed absolutely like space near the earth to me. At least that was what I would imagine from movies. Somewhere near earth, but at least a little farther out than the moon, because earth was not bigger than the moon usually is. I remember seeing Europe, Asia, Africa, parts of North America and the northern Ice shelf through the clouds. I remember being totally absorbed with that sight and wondering what is happening here to me. While wondering about that I more felt than heard something like a voice which sounded in me, asking something like: "Was machst/willst Du denn schon hier? / What are you looking for/What do you want already here?"
Suicide attempt, and was hit by train.  Relatively rare OBE state where what he saw of his injured body was not verified by his observations after the NDE (unless he had an inexplicable partial healing).

1585.  Tammy R NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  I know it's hard to believe at 3 yrs old going on 4 i can remember this but I was in a severe car accident and next thing I know I'm going down this beautiful "Golden Tunnel" at it felt like 100mph then I came to a sudden stop and this beautiful "Golden Light" and that is when God spoke to me and told me my life would not be easy but he would always be there for me and send many angels and at 16yrs old the same thing happened but remember no words were ever spoken I just knew but he told me I'm not ready and he's sending me back and not to ever try to take my life again that is his decision to make and not mine and told me how much my parents love me and to stop being selfish but I wanted to stay so bad.
Two NDEs described.  First age 3 due to accident.  Second probable NDE at age 16 due to suicide attempt.

1584.  Susan R NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  But any ways, this nurse, pumped one bag of blood and started a new one.  I had turned back to go to my brothers, and it was then I heard another voice - a voice I had never heard, so warm, it surrounded you, it touched you, it was love.  He was telling me it was not my time.  I was on my knees and touching his robe.  If love had a scent that was it, so pure.  I did not look up.  It was like I could not look up.  I said, "I do not want to go back!" I begged.  At this time I began to understand my brother's words.  They said, "Come here sister."  I remember that I did not want to let go of God's hem.  My oldest brother took my hand. I looked down at myself on that bed.  I looked back at my other brother, my twin, and he said, "They need you, go."
NDE from blood loss due to miscarriage.  Declared dead.

1583.  Timothy M Possible NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  I was walking down a path in an obvious direction away from a starting point. To my left and up about shoulder height were people and scenes I recognized from events that had happened in my life prior to were I was at the time. when I reached the point of the accident that spawned this coma. When I reached the point of the accident I turned and walked back past the events I had just witnessed. when I reached the last event I entered a stone cottage and in the cottage were two very old beings they reminded me of "Yoda" in the movie "Star Wars.  These beings were to my right and in front of me was a big picture window or opening. I could see a large green meadow and there was a church down at the bottom of a hill. I wanted to go out into it but the two beings said I could not. When I asked why they said "you are not ready" I walked back down the path to the accident. This experience stays fresh in my mind while I can't remember any thing else. I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury and have a really bad memory. I am no longer afraid of dying I am sure there is more for us after this life.
Was in coma. Walking down path, saw past scenes from his life. Can’t correlate time of life-threatening event with experience. Could be ICU experience.

1582.  Matthew M Possible NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  the next thing I remember was that I was on an airplane, or something similar, and  there were 2 people with me a man and  woman.. the man didn't say much, but the woman talked w/ me, I forget about what, then I remember being in a doctors office,  my hand was paralyzed, and e injected me we/ something, and immediately it was back to normal!! I know  this sounds bad but I had sexual relations w/ 1 of the "flight attendants", then I remember the girl who was with the guy came up to me and said I couldn't go with them yet, but she will see me in the future. I didn't know I was in a coma, which lasted 2 or 3 weeks. My question is, how  did I know my hand was paralyzed BEFORE I woke up from the coma! impossible, I now suffer immense pain in my leg because my ankle is paralyzed, and the rest of the muscles are compensating for the paralyzed part. Anyhow I KNOW there is an afterlife, I caught a glimpse of it, remember it everyone DIES so this cant be all there is. My experience was so real it took my dad 3 months to convince me otherwise!!
Coma for several weeks. Can’t correlate time of experience to time of injury. Could be ICU experience.

1581.  Bonnie C Probable NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  I see the three maple trees in our yard adorned in leaves of every shade of the rainbow.  Yellow, golden, orange, rust, brown, reds, burgundy, greens, purple.  So beautiful the sight feels like music could burst forth.  I'm moving "upward" now, like a helium filled balloon, rising.  Now I see the entire valley we live in.  Main street, church steeples, my school, the old Paper Mill, Blum's Shoe Factory, F.A. Owen Publishing company, Kelly Brothers Nursery, the airport, Foster Wheeler Corporation, Bernard McFadden's Hotel on East Hill.  And most striking of all, "the flats"....at the North end of town.  This is a 10 acre parcel of land that is pitch black with fine, silt-like soil and the site of an old Indian Reservation long since abandoned.  I'm looking at our village and I feel like I'm a part of all of this.  I belong here.  I feel love rising from the very ground.  I'm struck by the beauty of this place.  There is harmony, purpose, reason for living here. 
This is almost certainly a NDE.  Clinical death at three months of age due to illness.  At age 3 years recalled highly detailed experience consistent with a NDE.  First shared experience with mother about 42 years later who collaborated some details.  Shared 59 years after clinical death.  Contributor is a nurse.

1580.  Robert I NDE English expanded version  3/16/2008  The image of a city started to appear as I got closer. The houses and lots were terraced, and translucently outlined in a beautiful warm blue light. There were children running and playing in the yards. As my feet landed firmly on the ground, people started coming out or the dwellings toward me. The closer the people came, I recognized my father first, who had passed away in 1969!!  Then my Grandfather, Grandmother, Aunts, and Uncles that had passed on. We formed a huddle arms over shoulders, and the feeling of complete weightlessness.....No gravity I felt my soul melding with the huddle. Without mouths moving, I relate it to mental telepathy, a voice asked me if there was anything that I needed. I was at TOTAL peace so there was nothing I needed.
NDE due to “too deep” anesthesia.  Collaborating this is the fact that anesthesiologists generally do not wait in the recovery room for their patients after surgery is complete.

1579.  Elisa P NDE English expanded version  3/15/2008 From Italy.  Original in Italian, translated to English by Barbara. Suddenly I slide from the wall and then all was dark around me, deep dark. I didn’t have a body, I was immaterial. I had only my thought and stop, nothing all. I forgot my body. The time moved  fast and I thinked very fast. I saw me at 2 years old, then at 4 in the sea, etc. suddenly my life it’s over and then I saw 3 slide of my probable future. In that moment I was very sad because I was death and I know it clearly and I wanted to return at life to live a life plenty of things. Slowly I saw a bright light around me, per instinct I know that was ‘the line’, the ‘passage’ and if I passed through it I was death. I decided not to pass into it because I wanted to live in my world and enjoy all things in it. In this time I know all the energy into world, I know all. I began to pray… Suddenly it was dark but a different dark and I began to feel my own body again and then I open my eyes and saw the blue sky and I was ecstatic because I returned in life. I was completely changed.
NDE from a fall into a ravine.

1578.  Jaime M NDE English expanded version  3/11/2008 From Columbia.  Original in Spanish, translated to English by Eva. In an instant, I found myself in a patio of a two-story house and at the bottom at about 30 meters there were many people; there must have been 50; all were very happy.  They were listening to party music and all of them chanted my name:  "Jaime, Jaime".  It seemed to be a "welcome" party; the place was very beautiful with much light.  I was imbued with a sense of fortune and happiness that I'd never before felt with such intensity; without doubt the most pleasant sensation of my life, as was the feeling of being welcomed--the strongest of my life.  I was able to recognize my deceased mother among all those persons. 
NDE from surgery complications.

1577.  Lynn R Probable NDE English expanded version  3/9/2008 From the UK. I had no recollection of "time" as in the conscious state so I am unclear when this event took place. I am uncertain if it was while I had no pulse or remained in ICU.  I could not see my physical body and felt like I was more of a spiritual being.  I could see an illumine cent white/blue light that was a distance away from me.  I did not travel towards the light, but it was there.  The only thing I could do was rely on the feelings I was having.  There were no spoken words and was just an unspoken knowledge of what was occurring.  I felt overwhelmingly calm, at peace and very much reassured that I was okay and going to be okay.  I remember wondering why I was not travelling towards the light. I just knew that it was not yet my time and I was experiencing what I was for comfort?  Reassurance?  Or maybe just the knowledge of faith and a taste of what is expected at death?  I still don't know.  I do not talk about this experience to many, nor have I told many people.  I still have many questions myself.
Respiratory arrest due to asthma and 10 days in ICU. Not sure this experience occurred at the time of imminent life-threatening event.

1576.  Lucinda T Fear Death Experience English expanded version  3/9/2008 From the UK.  I naturally assumed I was surely to die.  At this stage I saw five amazingly spiritually beautiful people coming towards me, full of vigor, with a lift in the stride, and the light played around them which was emanating from them. They were in white and pale clothes, and one lady had a white dress with material with a blue floral pattern inset. The man slightly in front had fair hair, parted. He already knew exactly how I had come to be there; I was relieved by this. They were amazingly friendly and warm, and I was so pleased to meet them, and still feel really fond of them. I had never seen any of them before. They were warmer, kinder, more gracious and more alive, at one with their purpose, than anyone I have ever met on earth.  But I said to God that I had four children, and that this didn't seem the right time.
At risk of drowning, but not clearly unconscious due to drowning.