Copyright1999 by Dr. Jeff & Jody Long
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.
 

903. Theodore R's NDE. English expanded version  6/25/06  I remember floating above my body I could see the Dr.'s and nurses in my room. I continued to float away, the farther I went the calmer things felt around me.  I remember hearing soft gentle sounds around me but couldn't make out any particular sound or song.  Also the further I went I could here voices of people calling to me to continue coming.  I felt total love and acceptance from the voices.  I started seeing shapes of people but couldn't make out any faces or sexes all were the same.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

902. Joe D's NDE 2708. English expanded version  6/25/06  At first, there was total darkness, the blackest black I had ever seen.  So black, in fact, I could not see anything even one inch in front of me.  Then, there was a flash of brilliant light, extremely radiant and bright, white, blue and yellow in color.  Then, very quickly, I was floating over a vast field of flowers.  These flowers seemed to encompass acres and acres of land, and they were extremely beautiful, ranging in various colors, many of which I had never seen before.  I seemed to be in spirit form as I hovered over these beautiful beds of flowers, and I was only a few feet above them as I floated over them.  I could smell them also and their odor was a wonderful scent.
NDE due to heart attack.

901. Debra J's NDE. English expanded version  6/25/06  THIS IS VERY VIOLENT/GRAPHIC AND COULD BE DISTURBING TO SENSITIVE PEOPLE  Next thing I knew, I was standing in front of a council of 13 beings with the One in the middle twice as big as the 6 on either side of him. They were all sitting in chairs, big chairs at a sizeable distance in front of me. I was naked and felt totally revealed and tried to use my hands to cover myself up. The main one in the middle began to speak to me through the mist that was everywhere. I remember opening my mouth but he told me I did not have to talk, to just use my mind. I recall it was hard for me not to open my mouth to speak but I did what he told me. The questions they were asking me were about my life and how I had lived it. I got the feeling they were not pleased with me.
NDE due to vicious criminal attack.

900. Louise's NDE. English expanded version  6/25/06 I COULD HEAR THE NURSE SCREAMING TO THE DOCTOR TO GET HIS ATTENTION THAT I WAS LOSING MY BLOOD PRESSURE RAPIDLY, THE DOCTOR DIDN'T RESPOND TO THE NURSE RIGHT AWAY, AND SHE SCREAMED TWO MORE TIMES TO HIM. FINALLY HE SAID GET THAT BED IN SHOCK POSITION. BY THIS TIME I WAS FLOATING OUT OF MY BODY AND I COULD LOOK DOWN AND SEE MY BODY IN THE BED. THE NURSING STAFF AND DOCTOR WAS STANDING BESIDE THE BED. I REMEMBER BEGGING GOD NOT TO LET ME DIE AS I HAD TOW YOUNG CHILDREN AND I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THEM.
NDE due to surgical complication.

899. Peter J's NDE. English expanded version  6/25/06 From Spain Original in Spanish translated to English by Estela. After I reached a wider zone of the tunnel I turned around and saw the light (very small). I continued praying. When I finally could stand up I started to run; I was now near the light and did not see the person that was guiding me at the beginning – there was no one.  When I reached the light I was HAPPY, comfortable and then far away I saw the person (that greeted me first) saying good bye; the person was happy and joyful and so was I.  The person made me understand that I was to stay there and not to go towards him or towards the darkness.

898. Denise's NDE. English expanded version  6/18/06  I heard one of the fireman ,he said I was gone! I started floating, I could see the fireman trying to save me, I was all bloody . I was above my body  watching  everything! But I started floating higher, I had never felt so PEACEFUL!!!!! , it is the best PEACE you could ever wish for! I was floating into some clouds, I seen my family and others I didn't know, but somehow I did? there was a bright light, and a lot of people, everybody was standing in the clouds and smiling, I felt peace, The place was so pretty and peaceful. I was floating into a light, But my father, who had passed away when I was 14 years old, He told me it wasn't my time yet and he loved me, but for me to go back!
NDE due to car accident.

897. Margaret B's NDE. English expanded version  6/18/06  The next thing I remember is still being in the doorway of the bathroom watching my husband running back and forth from the bedroom to the living room. I heard everything he said, and saw everything he did. My husband tried giving me CPR until the ambulance came my b/p was 60/40 and they said I was coming back. I never saw my body but I felt the sensation of falling when I re-entered my body and that wonder peace, which I felt was gone.
Muslim NDE from a Heart attack.

896. Peter M's NDE. English expanded version  6/18/06 At any rate, I convinced myself to remain on the table, closed my eyes and experienced a rushing sensation - as if on a roller coaster ride in a dark tunnel.  (i.e., wind rushing by my ears, sensation of rapid movement.)  Movement stopped and amazing - unable to really describe completely - clear light which reflected no shadows - white light was everywhere that essentially appeared as if muted through gauze but all encompassing.  I recall noting that no shadows were cast from this omni-directional light.  I saw no beings, nothing other than the all pervasive light.  I did, however, feel (know intuitively?) that I was safe, happy, loved - LOVED in a way I'm unable to put into words yet.  I was also aware of being allowed to comprehend that it was important for me to "go back."
NDE due to cardiac arrest which occurred this year.  Contributor has a doctorate education level and is a prominent executive.

895. Kane D's NDE. English expanded version  6/18/06  I could see 360 degrees around my body in every direct any place at the same time I had instant knowing I thought of my child and I was there at her home with her yet at the same time here in the hospital looking at myself I watched a trail of visitors around the bed panicking
NDE due to brain hemorrhage.

894. Richard S's NDE 2694. English expanded version  6/18/06  It is my recollection that I again began to sink towards the ocean bottom. It was at this time I an had an out of body experience. First, I felt myself witnessing my empty seat in my classroom at school the next day, while my teacher Mrs. Hall was telling the class that Dick would not be coming to school because he had drowned the day before. Next, I recall the sound of beautiful music and noticing the fish around me and seeing a bright light. 
NDE due to drowning 64 years prior to submission.

893. Pietro B's NDE. English expanded version  6/18/06 From Peru Original in Italian translated to English by Werner.  I felt like having been thrown into space with a perfect vision of moving away from the earth and entering into a very bright light. At the same time I had a clear vision of my life on earth like being in a two dimensional screen; it is very difficult to express this in words. I was conscious of everything and thought about what I was feeling. There was so much happiness and endless peace, which increased while I was about to enter the light. I knew that I was part of the light. I didn’t know why I did so but I knew it and I also knew that we’re all part of it; at the climax of my experience there was something that transcended everything and I knew that entering that light would mean I wouldn’t be able to return. I don’t know why this was the case but I knew it for sure and that’s something I can hardly explain but I’m not looking for an explanation, I accept what I have experienced as such.
NDE from surgery

892. Maria S's NDE. English expanded version  6/18/06 From Spain Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio.  I left the car by the roof, floating--which seemed normal to me--and I paused looking at the countryside.  It was dusk, the fields were in bloom, the rosemary and thyme and even the rocks were surrounded by an aura of pastel colored light.  It had rained a few days before and the earth was wet and renewed.  Everything emanated beauty and light and I was enthralled contemplating the earth.   Of a sudden the sun, which was a golden color, began growing bigger and bigger and I "felt" that I could return home that way, to my place of origin, to the place I had come from.  At the moment I tried to put myself into that enormous ball of light I heard and perceived a voice that said, "NO!"  I couldn't continue forward.  That voice kept me back.  It had power and authority over what happened.  It said to me sweetly, "You have to return."
NDE when she was 5 months old from an Emergency Room Nurse

891. Jackie H's NDE. English expanded version  6/6/06  I was playing in my high chair and it tipped over causing me to hit my head on the floor my parents said that I stopped breathing, turned blue and was completely lifeless for about 5 minutes (I don't remember that part)  I remember seeing from above, my mother holding me and my father slapped me really hard as they were rushing out the door to take me to the hospital.  While I was "out" I remember being surrounded by dancing angels who were taking me into the most beautiful glowing light and I really wanted to go with them.  I felt very secure and loved and wanted to feel that way always.  When my father slapped me and I came "back" I was extremely unhappy about being taken away from the light.
NDE at age age 2, 52 years ago, from head injury.

890. Louis B's NDE 2684. English expanded version  6/6/06 From Canada Original in French translated to English by Jean Peter.    I see myself above my body. I am overcome by a feeling of fullness. It has such an intensity that I don’t manage to describe it. I see myself in the bed, there is a being dressed in white on my right, he is moving air with his robe because my body is hot. As for myself above, I don’t feel anything. I also see around my bed people who came to see me during those two weeks. I hear what they tell me, I can accurately tell what they wore and where they were around my bed. These are facts I could check with them afterwards. I see all this in a state of peace and serenity.

889. Esteban FR's NDE. English expanded version  6/6/06  From Spain Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio.  Yes, in that state I discovered that the only important thing is LOVE.  From that moment on I love people much more intensely (since the experience I created a charitable institution which is now a foundation) and I also love my self very much, something I had completely forgotten to do during my intensive professional life because the only luggage we can take with us from this life is what we do out of love for ourselves and others.  Our soul is made for LOVE, and from that realization I understand we are happy here when we love and unhappy when we practice "unlove" (hate, rancor, envy, etc.)  

888. Miguel's NDE 2667. English expanded version  6/6/06   From Spain Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio. I was as if in the country.  Everything was green, the sun shining, like in Spring.  The temperature was very agreeable and the surroundings pure (referring to the air), there was no pollution which is why I think the colors were so alive, everything very clear, as if viewing a very sharply focused and clear movie in Technicolor.  There were people, children I believe, but I'm not exactly sure.  There was a group of people and I was with them, out in nature as if at a picnic.  Everything was peaceful, without any kind of problem, only living in that moment.  I don't know how long the dream (or whatever it was) lasted.  I do know I felt really great, very good.  All of a sudden it felt like I was being taken out of the dream, not by anyone in particular, as if I just came too once again.  I didn't want to leave, it was a very pleasant dream. 

886. Jenner A's Near NDE. English expanded version  6/3/06 All I can get out is a whisper, "Ma'am, I'm sorry, I'm dying now."... My vision had started to tunnel, I hadn't started to pass thru it yet when the epi started working.  My thoughts are that had I gone any further, then I would have left the body and started "walking" thru the tunnel.  Maybe I was just so aware at the beginning that I noticed it with my eyes before my soul separated from my body and started walking.  I know this is scientific and you only want what I DID experience, but I will say that had I walked I KNOW I would have saw Him.
Life-threatening event from allergic reaction just a few days prior to submission and came close to having a NDE.

885. Jim W's NDE. English expanded version  6/3/06 I had open heart surgery in June of 1960 but in 1959 in June they gave me a catheterizations. They took me to the upper floor of the hospital. I was put on a flat steel round table and the pain was awful. All at once I was above the building with no pain . I realized that someone was with me.  The feeling was just wonderful and I wanted  just wanted to stay forever the love to was just great. I was told that I had to go back. I heard the Doctor say,  "folks we are losing him. Let's bring him back." I was above the building and daylight was coming up.
NDE at age 16 due to cardiac catheterization 46 years ago.

884. Lennie B's NDE. English expanded version  6/3/06 From Sweden Original in Swedish translated to English by Sara.    A totally different world opened up, I saw myself laying on the bed but I myself was on my way towards a light. I turned around and looked at myself, but then kept on walking or rather floating towards this wonderful light. This warmth and this joyful place was lovely. Here there were no stress, no high demands and no evil. It was so full of love that it cannot be described, everything was beauty. A place to be longed for, such a wonderful verdure and warmth. Here there was only joy, everyone were wonderful. No one was superior of one another, there I stood and all I wanted was to climb over.
NDE from a heart attack.

883. Maria C's Possible NDE. English expanded version  6/3/06 From Chile Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio.    I still don't know whether it was caused by the anesthesia or if I was truly dying.  When I was 16 they operated on both my legs.  They put me under general anesthesia .  The only thing I remember was seeing colors: rose, yellows, and distant voices as if in conversation.  Suddenly I was in the corner of a room and saw a little girl.  I don't know if it was me who was being taken by two nurses and put in a bed from where it seemed I was looking at the scene from the ceiling.  I saw the girl lying down.  Then I woke up and and found that my two legs had been put into plaster casts.  My mother told me that I had lost a lot of blood during the operation and they had given me a hemorrhage.
Possible NDE as a child.

882. Bobby's NDE. English expanded version  5/27/06  According to the witness I had been hit, pushed and then thrown about 70 feet down the street before I made heavy contact with the ground. It was the actual speed that the driver was traveling and the exact moment that she swerved to the left that actually caused me to be thrown clear of the car, otherwise the car would have driven over top of me. I am not aware of when I blacked out but I do remember seeing the rooftop of the City Hall that is right in front of the intersection, which is a tall building and the rooftop of the office building that is a fair distance down the street from where I was hit, plus the local Library which is behind a copse of trees that should have been hidden from my view from where I was. I remember after I woke up that I was curious how I had seen these images when I was on the ground.
NDE from being hit by a car as a pedestrian.

881. Hillary H's NDE. English expanded version  5/27/06  Eventually my throat closed over completely and I lost consciousness. I saw all black; I remember going through my life, each important event that ever happened to me, I relived it, from my first birthday to the last birthday I had. I remember saying I am only 17 in my head and trying to tell everyone that I was only 17 and I was too young to die. I felt extremely frightened and scared. Eventually I heard a voice in the blackness it belonged to my deceased grandfather whom I was very close to. He told me not to be scared and that I was going to be fine, and that I was getting a second chance. Suddenly I woke up on the ambulance.
NDE due to allergic reaction.  Contributor is 17 years old, and NDE happened within the last year.

880. Missy B's NDE. English expanded version  5/27/06  What I experienced, near death experience was when I first saw a small white fluffy spot in distance as it grew bigger and closer like some “tunnel”, but yet it was white and bright. The feeling during the near death experience is where remarkable and is hard to describe. I only could tell in words, but it is not how it is to be felt while on earth... As Teena was approaching me and started to talk. The funny thing is that she signed to me the whole time. I was in awe because she never knew ASL and she died before I became Deaf at the age of 18 months old due to spinal meningitis. It is amazing that how “they” really do know how to communicate when they never knew any other language while living on the earth.
NDE due to car accident.  Remarkable in that she encountered deceased sister who died at age five when contributor was age 1.  At age 18 months, contributor became totally deaf.  All communication with the deceased sister was in sign language.

879. Kim C's NDE. English expanded version  5/27/06  At that point a unearthly white bright light appeared and although I couldn't hear a voice with ears I "heard" in my head a voice answer my question that I was dead and on my way to heaven but I was not there yet.  I felt such peace and love in that moment.  Then the "voice" told me that my time on earth wasn't done yet and I needed to go back.  I pleaded to stay that I was fine with being dead and that I didn't want to go back now.  The voice just said "No, you must go."  In that instant I started moving out of this void faster and faster, the light dimming as I rushed through a narrow tunnel and I felt so sad.
NDE due to motorcycle accident.

878. Naomi F's Probable NDE. English expanded version  5/27/06 I felt no fear or surprise. It was as if I didn't care that the body on the table was mine. I looked around the room for 'something' but, I had no idea what I was looking for. It was more of an easy feeling that I needed to go somewhere. Suddenly my deceased father was beside me! He died when I was nine years old but, he looked young and happy. We talked about family and I told him I never to leave me again. He said we would be together again soon and for me not to worry about him. He said I had to return to my body and that everything would be alright.
Probable NDE associated with surgery.

877. Brian H's NDE. English expanded version  5/27/06  I always carried a buck knife and he took it from me.  That's all I can remember about the assault.  The next thing that happened all of a sudden I was on a beach sitting on a drift log with a little girl that was about 15-16 years old. She was wearing dark blue shorts and a white sleeveless shirt. She was tan, green eyes brown curly hair and a killer smile. I was looking at her, she was looking at me smiling. This was as real as anything you can think of. I could smell the salt air, feel the sun on my skin, wind in my hair. For some reason I knew I was getting the s*** kicked out of me so, I got up from the drift log I was sitting on.  I started to walk away form the girl that was sitting next to me thinking that I had to try to find my self because I was getting the s*** kicked out of me. As I walked away the girl yelled out to me, BRIAN! IF YOU LEAVE NOW YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AND FEEL THINGS YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE AND FEEL!
NDE due to being stabbed several dozen times.

876. Erika FS's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06 From Mexico Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio.  My first experience happened very fast, but was very significant.  What happened was that I fell off a wash basin when I was 6 years old and struck my head on a heater that was inside the bathroom.  At the same time, a full water glass that was on a shelf broke between the floor and my head.  The only thing I remember is that I saw a pathway of stones and I walked along it with someone who took me by my hand.  We went towards a resplendent light.  I wasn't afraid at any time.  I didn't see the face of the person I was walking with, nevertheless he wore a white tunic and I walked on his left.  Suddenly, I heard my mother's voice and turned back and then I woke up. 
Child NDE where she was knocked unconscious.

875. Jawad's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06 From Saudi Arabia Original in Arabic translated to English by Samir.  In short , I was learning how to swim , I  tried to do an exercise at the depth of   4 metres , but I was not successful ,and I sank to the bottom of the swimming pool ,I couldn't hold my breath for long time, I started thinking about the death... I surrendered totally and  raised my hand stretching out my finger in order to  recite the testimony silently in my heart...I saw nothing but a darkness and I felt a strange stillness despite that critical situation....I began to move myself to the surface pressing the bottom with my feet, I made three unsuccessful and consecutive attempts to escape until I was saved by one of the brothers.  Stillness....darkness....understanding the true meaning of the death.

874. Grace C's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I had been rushed to the hospital early one morning hemorrhaging very badly.  My mom did not know what to do to stop it, so phoned an ambulance to take me to the hospital.  When I arrived there, I was taken in almost immediately and some doctors worked on me to get the bleeding to stop.  Some where I was floating out of my body because I could see both my parents in a waiting room, and my mom was crying.  The next thing that I saw was a tunnel with a bright light which I was being pulled into.  I was not afraid because it was all so very peaceful.  After a while I was stopped by a grand-mother that had passed on just about the time that I had this experience.
NDE at age 15.  NDE occurred 61 years ago due to hemorrhage.

873. Denny B's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I was immediately there.  They helped me across a long white bridge. To my left about halfway across the bridge was a large city made of light.  The colors were silver blue, white, and silver.  It looked like crystal light.  I was getting better as we approached the end of the bridge, and entered into a large white dome at the end of the bridge.  I sat there as my two personal or guardian angels communicated with the others seated on the circumference of the interior of the dome.  The communication was telepathic.  I heard the voices, but did not speak.  I knew that they were talking about me.  They were deciding if I should be admitted into the city and then into the heavens, or return to earth.
NDE due to coma from complication of diabetes.

872. Graham M's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  Drawn to a joyous white light and up through a layer of personalities with tails like comets. Came into a space where I was tended to by silver, featureless creatures with with thin limbs and conical (inverted) heads. They communicated telepathically and laid me down. I was told I could stay if I wished. I was tempted as I was ecstatic. When I decided against it, I was sucked down a tunnel. the white light stayed in my peripheral vision for 2 hours after the event. Subjective time span for the event 1/2 hour. 'Objective' 7-10 minutes?  Was left with a sense of mission re spiritual healing.
NDE due to sudden unconsciousness of unknown cause.

871. Thomas R's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  As this was going on I was floating slightly above them then I just thought about moving up and there I was, hovering just above the light fixture. I remember reading the little identification sticker on the upper side of the lamp fixture but I don't remember what it said. For some reason I thought it was really neat to be able to just float there and read such a dumb thing. I did not see any boundaries or objects around myself, just a sort of gray fog. But it was a friendly gray fog - not frightening at all.
NDE due to accident with head injury.

870. Bruna D's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  My brother dived into the shallow end of the big pool and I realized he was struggling, without thinking I dived in and he grabbed my shoulders and clambered on top of me to get air and in so doing I went under and lost consciousness. I remember leaving my body, watching them resuscitating me, I felt the mans lips on me as he breathed into me, I could hear my dead granny calling me in Italian, I was floating not walking but upright, like those conveyor belts at the airports towards a very bright light. I felt an emotional tugging as I kept looking back and watched them resuscitating me, I watched my brother run and hide in the public toilets behind the middle door. I was very calm, no struggling, I read the label on the back of the lifesavers  shirt and remember it distinctly. Then I told my Gran I wanted to go back, there was no disappointment, no turmoil.
Child drowning NDE.

869. Dan's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  Then I remember seeing an image in my head, something told me and imprinted I guess, the know how of what I was seeing, and it was crazy as it is, the universe. Kind of like a giant bluish see threw egg, with millions and billions of light points, different colors, on the out side and inner. All connected by darker blue links, full of different kinds of life, I only saw this for a second or two but knew the “Scientifics” to it, its very hard to explain. The next thing as that I was back in the “tunnel” all different colors now, colors I haven’t see before, maybe not on “OUR” spectrum.
NDE due to allergic reaction at age 16.

868. James B's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I was in extreme pain with chest pains when I heard nurse yell at doctor losing blood pressure went into tunnel it was black .moving at high rate of speed. couldn't understand what was going on. all of a sudden I didn't care I felt so peaceful. saw light at end of tunnel and wondered what that was. it was very small. I thought I cant fit thru that hole. that worried me. I finally realized I wasn't in my body. about that time they zapped me with defibrillator.
NDE due to cardiac stint failure.

867. Hanz J's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  ...heart stopped 2 min and they brought me back... picked me up to put me on stretcher and died again for 2 min. switched paramedic. Firefighter broke ribs. brought me back. they didn't move me for 15 min. ( All according to girl that saved me and neighbor and paramedics) Then off to hospital. I regained consciousness in ambulance.  While out... very short time. silhouette of women in black. remember black patent leather shoes and either holding black lace or black lace around her waist. couldn't see her but knew it was my grandmother that had died before I was born.
NDE due to allergic reaction.

866. Carmie M's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  There seemed to be no time, just a sort-of sequence of events.  I became aware of being in a dark, dark, black (like outer space might be) tunnel.  I was traveling fast towards a warm, bright, beautiful light.  This light I felt was Jesus.  It was anything I could ever need or want.  I wanted to get to the light and stay there.  I remember feeling annoyed at some stage because someone seemed to be pulling me back (though not in a physical sense), I eventually recognized it as being my family doctor calling my name.  I really, really did not want to come to him, I wanted to go to the light.  I felt or 'knew' that I was being told to go back.  I was very sad to go.  I became conscious again...
NDE due to asthma and pneumonia.

865. Roger M's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  All the coldness I was feeling while I lay there bleeding to death was replaced with the warmest feeling I have ever known. Not the heat that could be associated with Hell, but a warmth from within my being. I no longer felt dread or fear or any other emotion I had experienced in a physical realm. I can only describe it as a sense of peace and well being. It's amazing the pressures we feel everyday just by being alive in our mortal bodies. It's only when these pressures are completely lifted from our existence that our souls are able to experience real peace and tranquility. At the same time I felt all these changes occur I also experienced an existence without the burdens of an Earthly body. The senses that replaced sight sound and smell felt like one sense of all inclusive awareness. There was no need for physical interaction as all levels of experience were not felt or spoken, but simply known.
NDE due to fall and serious bleeding.

864. Victor M's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  The record states "respiratory arrest" and that my family had been briefed that my recovery was "unlikely".  I became aware that I was in a very unusual place.  No sense of body, no sense of pain. There was no sense of a "tunnel" though I felt properly oriented.  I certainly felt that I could "go/move" forward toward something.  I would not call it a "light" but I certainly understand why others would so describe it.  At the very first, I thought this was just the most wonderful experience.  There were no normal senses or even a sense of body.  For me the immediate lack of post surgical pain was absolutely wonderful.  My first words(?) or thoughts were that this is a very strange and wonderful place.  I wondered where I was.  There was never any fear.  My next thought was, "Is there time here?"  Then I thought, "Well, I remember just asking that question, so there is at least a "progression of thought" if not actual time.
NDE due to respiratory arrest after surgery.

863. Marsha's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I was talking to people in a parked car while standing on a curb-less street. I could see a car coming & realized in "slow motion" that it was going to hit the parked car, I think I said "oh shit" when it hit.  The bumper of the parked car caught me behind the knees, flipped me on my back.  I bounced on the back of my head until the car stopped, about 3 feet from the railroad tracks.  It was a hit & run, the other driver was never found.  I was seeing my life in reverse, going back to the womb & then it was like a star-burst, a sensation of being almost in space.
NDE due to being struck by car at age 17.

862. Sherry W's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  We soon reached a point were we stopped. My guide stood next to me. This light was brighter than the sun. A wonderful glowing luminous white light. I stood there with a feeling ,and the best way I can describe it is, the gut feeling you have when you are scared but, knowing you are not. I felt scared without being scared or afraid. I was calm. I knew that if I walked through the light I would have the answers to everything I ever wanted to know. This light was love, life, and serenity I could feel all this. I never heard a word spoken. You could feel what you needed to know, and what was being communicated to you. It was with feelings, not words. I had my choice. Without words I decided ,I had a six month old baby I couldn't leave. I woke up a couple of days later in I.C.U.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

861. Dustin M's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  After battling for 1 & 1/2 days with diarrhea and vomiting, I passed out.  While unconscious I stopped breathing and my fiancée could not find a pulse or heartbeat.  She administered CPR and revived me.  During this time I had either a hallucination or some kind of event where I spoke with a group of deceased family members.  They greeted me but quickly told me that it wasn't my time.  Shortly afterwards I was pulled backwards away from them as if I was tied to a tether and after a popping sound, like Eustachian tubes clearing, I returned to consciousness.
NDE due to amoebic dysentery and dehydration.

860. Jeanne's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I saw the cutest little house, all lit up and the yard, with a white picked fence was full of people, all welcoming me. They were so glad to see me. I felt my deceased father's presence, but not clear which person he was in the large group...there was so much love and warmth. a wonderful feeling. the best place I'd ever been/seen. and felt so loved. Then when I heard the voice, and answered NO, the scene was gone. Until I said NO, I felt no pain from my 2 broken femurs, broken hip, fractured ribs, arm partially torn off, cuts to face...from being ejected from my pick-up and thrown over 200ft from the impact. Was hit from behind by car traveling over 100mph with no headlights on.
NDE due to auto accident.

859. Greta J's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I was swimming in a lake with my brothers when I decided to swim out to a stump and then back to shore. I was not a good swimmer and half way there or back I started going under. I was very frightened and then suddenly a peace came over me. I was floating in what felt like a tunnel or tube going up up toward a light. The interesting thing that I still remember is that the light was so white. I felt so at peace and wanted to go to the light. My brother rescued me. I can not today remember the fear that I must have felt from the drowning experience, but I do remember the intense pleasure from the tunnel experience.
NDE due to near drowning at around age 11.

858. Gary A's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  It was the first time the Hong Kong flu hit.  I remember seeing my mother tapping the thermometer, saying 106 degree temperature, this can’t be right and then entering this black void... I was traveling towards an almost globe of light (a bubble) that I knew contained all that was known, it was very intense and attractive, there is nothing more powerful in needing to return back to this, in what I have come to believe is our, before and after life's home, a dimension of energy of all that is, and all that is in are universe.  We are all as one, yet as singular as we are in this physical journey, though without the knowledge of everything and the ability of all conceivable and unconceivable conceptual knowledge.  In other words, man in all of our knowledge we are not even yet infants in what I sensed from seeing into this light.
NDE due to flu and fever to 106 degrees at age 11.

857. Stephen B's Fear Death Experience. English expanded version  5/13/06  I experienced a life review moments before a car that I was driving smashed into a telephone pole. By luck the driver's side door flipped open and I was thrown out of the car. It seemed at the time that my mind was preparing itself for death. In an instant I saw major milestones in my life from being a baby until the present. I do not remember if I saw a white light at the end of the life review but I remember thinking that I was not prepared to die...too young.  From that time on I have always been very aware of how one's life on earth can quickly be gone.
Fear Death Experience involving life review immediately prior to auto accident at age 16.

856. Kristen D's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I saw my nephew who was my age and died tragically. He stayed with me and expressed an interest in needing to let my sister (his mom) and family know he was safe. I also saw my grandparents, and a cousin who passed away. My grandmother was surprised to see me they had been expecting my father (who was dying of cancer). I was taken to an area and left alone. In this area I received an all knowing gift and was told (not in a verbal way) that this is heaven, it does exist and but I needed to go back and spread the news that heaven does exist and that the teachings of Jesus were real. I was to be a messenger of good faith despite all of the destruction that my drug use had caused.
NDE due to coma secondary to endocarditis.  Encounter with a deceased nephew in NDE.  Remarkably, visit by individual matching description of nephew in ICU during her coma.

855. John G's Probable NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I saw my dear late mother Louise to the left, from above, in stirrups, and knocked out, bleeding profusely. To the right of her , was the doctor, he was bald on the top, with curly ringlets going grey. I knew he didn't want to be there, and was disgusted to have to be there, as he pulled off the gloves, to get ready to go scrub up again to sew my mother up. I also was aware that he was a golfer, and a social climber. I didn't like him on any level. He mildly disgusted me. All the way over, to the right , were two nurses, on the right of the two, was one of Scandinavian American heritage. I didn't really relate to her, but she was a kind , rather passive , and uninteresting person to me.  Next to her, was a very large Irish/American nurse. In her arms was the most handsome baby you could imagine....other than he was red and purple, with a dangling umbilical cord. The cord was maybe 10''. As I looked, I realized it was me.
NDE at childbirth (was stillborn).  Recalled experience decades later.

854. Celeste Y's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  I was driving when someone suddenly turned left in front of me and I knew I could not stop my car.  I saw that I was going to hit the other car and knew there was going to be a bad accident.  Suddenly I was removed from my body and found myself standing on the street corner holding my deceased Grandmother's hand and watching myself in the car as the accident happened.  I felt no fear or pain, but I was aware that I was in the car that had just crashed.  Suddenly my Grandmother disappeared and I was put back into my body.  It was after I was placed back in my body that I felt the actual pain.
NDE due to auto accident.

853. Carol W's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06  Twenty minutes out in the ambulance I died, I quit breathing and my heart stopped. The paramedic in back with me was my friend and he freaked and yelled to the driver to stop.  Together they started CPA and got my heart going again slowly 10 beats per minute.  At that time I shot out of my body like a roaring train straight up not stopping to ponder my body down below. I went to the light via a revolving tornado...inside was dark at first and I went through all the negative (bad) things that I had ever done in my life and was stripped of it. forgiven instantly and continued up toward the light. Negative deeds pulled me down and positive pulled me up. There, on a horizon were shadows that turned to shapes of people, my grandmother and aunt Carrie appeared and I realized how young my Aunt looked.
NDE due to poisoning from zinc at workplace.

852. Ann S's NDE. English expanded version  5/13/06