| I passed out from the rush of air
(I think). I was standing on a beach naked, approx. 20 feet in
front of me was another naked person, in front of him/her at the
same distance another and so forth. I couldn't move my body,
however I could move my eyes. I could not speak either. I couldn't
move my lips. Beside me in both directions at about 20 feet were
other people, and beside them others. → |
We were all naked and unmoving, unable to speak--only hear and see. The beach was endless. The most captivating part of this was that there was an ocean with waves crashing in over people who were unable to move, and then receding to show that person was still there. The ocean was not water but fire in the shape and appearance of water. It seemed to me that this tide was coming in. | I stared at this in bewilderment hence finding out I could not speak let alone cry out. My mind was frantic. Then to my right I noticed that there was someone moving freely, not walking but just appearing in front of some of the people there. I had noticed this person from a long way off as he seemed very small, just an silhouette. Then he was in front of me. | He had a kind face, grey robes, and
a grey head scarf the like worn by Muslims. Also a whitish grey
beard. He uttered no words for I did not see his mouth move. He
said, "You do not belong here," and the next instant I was flying
at quite some height over the fire sea and then I awoke to find
the whole school surrounding me. 1b/947 |
[This was the first report drawn in sample b, 947 is NDERF's number for it.] |
| 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. I
feel that I have since that day been living on 'borrowed time' and
have strove to enjoy each and every day. 2b/2629 |
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| Flat lined. Went to a place that was beautifully lit, like the sunshine, but much prettier and more golden (kind of like sepia tones). Seemed like a neighborhood, and I was shown around to all the people I loved and missed and they were all so happy. I remember being surprised like: "Oh! Hi....wow you're here, how nice," and smiling very broadly. | I remember my Dad sitting on a
stoop of sorts with his hand outstretched to me. He was many years
younger than he was when he died, and I was just a toddler
reaching up to him. I know I saw lots of people, but can't remember who they were specifically, except for my Dad. |
Next thing I know the EMT is saying "you died and we brought you back," and I said I saw my Dad and that I couldn't die now because it was Christmas time, and that would be too difficult a memory for my daughter to bear every Christmas. | [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I was gone, moving around the neighborhood or whatever it was. | I seem to think I was able to go
vast distances very quickly to see what I needed to see or they
wanted me to see. 3b/3840 |
| I kept asking the doctors in the ER if I was going to die, and all they could tell me is, "We're doing our best." I also remember holding the nurse's hand and telling her to pray for me. I've never been more terrified in my life. The next thing I hear is, "We're losing him." Then the doctors' and nurses' voices started fading off in the distance. | Physically I felt no pain or discomfort as I felt myself floating up towards the brightest pure white light that I've ever seen--almost indescribable how bright it was, but it was by no means blinding. If I was to put a time frame on how long this lasted, I'd say several minutes. | It was several minutes of complete
peace. There was nothing but the light. The next thing I remember
is waking up two days later in ICU. 4b/3320 |
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| I only remember that when we were at the emergency room, that I was floating above my body. My body was on a stretcher or gurney and my mom was next to me crying. I remember seeing someone come up and feel my arm for a pulse (I assume this) and turning to my mother and shaking his head. | The next thing I saw a another individual being talked to by the first one and that individual checking on me. He said something to my mother and then I was wheeled into a treatment area. This is all I saw. The next thing was that I awakened a day or so later. | [Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?] Only the checking of my pulse and the nodding to my mother. She told me when I was better that a medical assistant had checked my pulse and told her I was dead. | [Did you
experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?]
I was like whole, but floating above everything. I did not seem to
be solid. 5b/3840 |
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| I kept myself tightened to the cliff wall. There was nothing under of me, only the empty. I continuously said to myself not to watch down, not to watch down, not to watch down and don’t panic but I felt only my breath. I try to come down, not to go up. I move with imperceptible movements, slowly. Very slowly. 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 thought very fast. I saw me at two years old, then at four in the sea, etc. Suddenly my life it’s over and then I saw three slides of my probable future. | In that moment I was very sad because I was dead and I knew it clearly, and I wanted to return to live a life of 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. | [At what time
during the experience were you at your highest level of
consciousness and alertness?] I was conscious during this
time, but I cannot control my thoughts. 6b/3472 |
| I didn't see a light or deceased loved ones, but I recall looking at (although I had no eyes or a body) a bluish green almost translucent membrane. This membrane dominated an entire side of wherever I was. I could not see through this membrane, but I could see shadow movement going on behind it and hear sounds and could feel the presence of many somethings behind it. I not only had very enhanced senses but my sense of taste and smell were so enhanced that I could taste and smell this membrane. | Each time they stopped my heart I saw this with perfect clarity. I wasn't afraid but looking at it but I could sense great energy behind this membrane and it did not seem entirely benign. Nor did it seem evil. It was like there were a great many different personalities interacting with each other behind it. | [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] I did not experience brightness but I did experience awareness and clarity on a scale that I cannot begin to explain. My senses are two dimensional now, but not during this experience. The best way to describe it would be that I could sense an added depth to things. This life seems flat compared to the other. | [Did you have
any sense of altered space or time?] No question about it.
What we call time here is not accurate. It works for our world but
it does not have the depth (for lack of a better word) for the
other. I don't think time
really exists there, at least not in the way that we know it here. 7b/3857 |
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| I remember being taken to the hospital and wondering why. At the time it seemed like I was sleeping because I was on top of the ceiling looking down at myself. Mind you, I was only three years old and all this was really cool. My mother, who had died only a short time before this, was explaining to me what was going on and had told me that I was going to be just fine. She said this had to be done so she could properly explain to me what had happened to her. | We then left the hospital and ended up in my old neighborhood, and all I could remember was this was cool because I was flying like "superman." Nevertheless, my uncle who was really distraught over the recent events, was threatening to jump out of our three story building in Chicago. |
My mom was trying to talk some sense into him but he couldn't hear. But, I think he heard, for he did not jump. She then explained to me that I would not see her for a while, but that she would always be with me. To take care of my older sister and my grandmother and to always be respectful to women (in general). | She then gave me a big hug and kiss and the brightest light I ever seen (without squinting not one bit) appeared and she walked to it and before she disappeared she said, "I love you and be a good boy." Next thing I know I was back in my hospital room starting to come out of it. | [Did you have
any sense of altered space or time?] Jumped from one place to
another really fast.
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| I reached over and grabbed the metal bar from the unit. It shocked me, and I started vibrating, and I couldn't let go. During this time, really probably only a matter of seconds, I left my body. I do not remember a tunnel or light, (I wish I could be hypnotized now to see if I did experience something like this), but I did experience a "life review." I was in a room and there was like a giant wheel, or TV screen, and it showed every second of my life, the good and the bad things. | I don't remember much of
anything else. Then my friend touched me, and when she did it
broke the electric shock. My arm was numb and sore for a few days.
This was the entire experience. The unusual thing about this was I didn't know what had happened to me and had not even heard of this until college. |
I've been reading on and off
about near-death experiences ever since. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I'm not sure, seems as if there was somebody in the big room with me. 9b/2068 |
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| My first experience happened very fast, but was very significant. What happened was that I fell. 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. 10b/2591 |
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| 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. 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! Anyway I was taken home and slept through that night, but this incident was on my mind. And the next day, when I was perfectly conscious, I asked my friends and sister whether I had shouted anything while I was being sewed. They said I had been absolutely quiet! | I explained what had happened but all of us were very young then and the incident was forgotten but not by me since I knew for sure it must have been a supernatural experience. Quite soon after, I chanced upon a book on 'out of body experiences' and I knew for sure then that what I had experienced had been a near-death experience. | [Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] No. The experience was so vivid, I re-live it the way it was every time I remember it. 11b/3555 |
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| When I arrived at the hospital I was taken straight into the acute section. I remember getting into a gown, I remember knowing that my mother was holding my hand, but I don't remember physically feeling her hand. I remember the sensation of being pulled backwards, not lying down, I was in a sitting position. | Everything around me was a hazy grey, like thick grey fog but with a bright white light in the distance, at the top ('top' being the only way I can describe it) shinning down and through the fog. There were no sounds. There was also no more fear, no more pain, I wasn't terrified anymore. | It was peace, it was my nirvana and I was happy to be there. I have never felt anything like it. I can still feel that feeling today. | [How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?] My life will never be the same. I cannot do, feel, look, think, taste, live anything ever in the same light. I feel so lucky but at the same time very alone. | I don't know anyone who has had the
same experience, felt what I've felt. I feel in a way different
from everyone. I keep asking myself why I was bought back. What is
my purpose now? 12b/775 |
| I quit breathing and my heart stopped. My mom and dad called the doctor because they were scared. By the time he got there I was setting up in the corner of my bedroom seeing all that was going on. Behind me was a dark tunnel with a light at the end. I was so engrossed in what was going on in the room that I kind of ignored the light and all. As the doctor let my folks know that I was gone they started to cry. | It was very hard to see for me at the time, so I prayed to go to them so they would stop crying. All of a sudden there I was on the bed looking up at them. It was so strange that I didn't tell any one for a long time. Even when I did no one had ever heard of this before. Years later I started to hear about NDEs. |
[Have you
shared this experience with others?] No. Years, did not
believe. [How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. 13b/3199 |
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| I collapsed...drove me to the
nearest hospital. I was able to hear them, but I couldn't move or
talk. I felt as though I were floating up toward the rather high ceiling. I felt a breeze on my left side, and turned to look toward that direction. I rolled over and could look down on myself, or my body, lying on the table. I remember thinking, "Wow! Nancy was right. I AM really skinny!" I weighed about 130 at the time. With my height and structure, I should weigh 145-150 or so. While I was looking down at my body, I heard a doctor say, "We're losing him!" Everything seemed to be in slow motion. I saw him pound on my chest -- I suppose to re-start my heart. |
I tried to say, "No! Don't hurt him. Leave him alone." I realized it seemed a bit strange to refer to myself as "him," but at that time, I felt that I was the entity looking down on a man who looked a lot like I used to look--but that it wasn't really me. I floated. I turned over so that I was lying (floating) on my back. The intense brightness of the hospital room started fading away and became a gentle "fog." I remember thinking it was a pale green and wondered how I knew that because I knew I had my eyes closed. | I felt that I was near something wonderful and exciting but I didn't know what it was. But I was gently drifting toward it. The "nice place" whatever or wherever it was, was down and to the right. That is, if I had been lying with my head to the north and feet to the south, the place would have been southwest, or maybe south-southwest. It wasn't really "down" but toward my feet. I sensed that whatever that place was -- it was brighter than the green mist. | Not uncomfortably bright as the hospital had been, but comfortably bright. I wanted to go there. I did have the flash review of life. While I felt that everything was moving extremely slowly, the review was incredibly fast. I remembered a lot of incidents from the past . . . re-performed roles . . . held "conversations" with people. | I remembered my entire life, almost as if I were
re-living life on multiple levels simultaneously. I felt this
incredible power to devote my total concentration on several
different things at the same time. Suddenly I "slammed" back into my body. 14b/397 |
| I said repeatedly, I'm dying while I could still hear and see my surroundings. "I'm dying. Born in 1962, died in 1997." Then everything got dark. I saw my whole family in front of me, except my beloved Nana. I didn't know why she wasn't there. I kept telling my family, "But I'm dying." I saw mom's head, and I was relaxing on the sofa. I kept saying that, "But, I'm dying," while talking to mom. | I wanted her to tell my boss that I wouldn't be coming back to work because, "But I'm dying" and to say good by to everyone in my family for me. Then, mom was gone, and God came. I couldn't see him. But, I knew he was there. He kept telling me how I was special and that I shouldn't think so lowly about myself. | I felt this being infused in me and
I felt very loved. I had low self-esteem at the time, but God made
me feel good. I saw I little light, but I never went there. I
thought it was the street lamp. Then, I wanted to go back to my
family. 15b/4198 |
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| I'm in a "tunnel" that's ox-blood red. It's narrow or sort of "close." I kind of float ahead through windings and curves, but I never hit anything. It feels warm, peaceful and pleasant, and it's just like "everything runs smoothly." There's someone there with me, a presence I can only feel. Suddenly I know and understand everything. I know what everything is like, and I know I'm in the realm of death. The "journey" continues and I'm a small child and my "current" self all at the same time. I just AM, it's impossible to describe. | We get to this enormous light and I feel that my companion gets there before me, and I just know it's a boy my age: 17 years. We are greeted by a "being" that is light, it's like a glow coming from it. I don't know if it's a she or a he. But it radiates so much love and safety it's indescribable. The boy "disappears" into the light, but for some reason I'm not allowed to come along. I so much want to come too, it's so wonderfully comfortable. | I feel so absolutely great. I stay by the light being, I can't get past it. I'm told it's not my time yet. Then everything goes black. When I woke up later I felt such an enormous sense of loss and disappointment because I couldn't go too. I'm almost angry about it. I'm aware that for a while I "knew everything," but can't get hold of that knowledge again in my "waking" state. | [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] At first wonder, then an instant realization that this was death, then curiosity and an enormous "feeling of love" (I felt I was endlessly loved.) | [Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] It's hard to describe feelings that are so strong, and the "knowledge" that all of a sudden you KNOW EVERYTHING. 16b/2795 |
| Just like all other children I had fireworks and I picked a very thick illegal rotje of the street. This rotje had a quick fuse but I did not know better at that time. When I aanstak, I was suddenly in a tunnel roteerde (type cloud) and inside were millions of lights. I looked around astonished and did not understand what happened. I heard a beautiful music that classical music seemed. I remember the day what I was feeling, peaceful and quiet with all amenities. At the end of the tunnel was a great light appeared on the Sunday but I could see it. | I remember that I said (or at least spoke with telepathic words, not with me as foot here) Wowww what is this mooooi. Where am I? Suddenly I was in the speed of a flash back in my body. I cried and looked at my hand. If a miracle I had not a little blood but not a finger that I missed. I think that while I was in the tunnel of return was (as I call it) my body and hands are protected by God or an angel? When my mother told me I said eight years. Mom, I was Zoti 'God' in Albanian. But they told me me that I had imagined. | Often I remembered the event and I always had an image of God and understood things better than other children. When I do a year or 18 was me and deepened in religious matters, I was three years depressed. I was afraid of the teachings of Islam and Christian doctrines. I did not know what I was doing and was almost insane. When I saw a broadcast about NDE's, I thought to myself 'Hey this is me over' since floor I only NDE matter and gives rest and peace. The true God and his character comes back here. | [Was your
vision different in any way from your normal everyday vision (in
any aspect...)?] Yes, I saw many lights that I had never
before seen, and the fierce "supreme light" at the end of the
tunnel. Here you cannot see the sun there. 17b/2707 |
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| I was unconscious according to the others, and became conscious lying on a stretcher in the ambulance. Before it happened I heard a female voice or voices in my head that said, "It is almost time," and I remember putting my head down to sleep. I had not heard voices before this except maybe once when I heard someone call my name years before that. | After I arrived at emergency, I could not sit up. I had a dent in my head (a concussion) and I could not read a newspaper or a watch. I could not figure out what the symbols meant. I could read a watch again after about three or four days. | [Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] It was hard to believe by others as I saw myself or felt I was walking around outside of the car, but also experienced being highly conscious in a dark void, but I was not afraid. Although it was dark, I felt I could see. There was no up, down or sideways... no sense of direction. I was alone, Apparently the Buddhists call this Bardo. | [Did you
experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?]
Yes. [Did you see a light?] I saw light when I experienced being outside of the car and darkness, pitch black darkness in the void. 18b/2995 |
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| [Took overdose.] After the tunnel experience, I woke up in the hospital and knew exactly that it was two days later. I even knew the day of the week. The Dr. came in and told me that by all rights I should not be here, that I had taken enough medication to kill ten grown men. He said I had been "dead" for 45 minutes and in a coma for two days. |
What was it about the experience that makes it hard to communicate? I can not find the right words to describe very much after the tunnel. It was just so beautiful, feelings of peace and love and the "fullness of moisture" of everything (not the right words). | [Was the
experience dream like in any way?] No way at all. No one
can ever convince me it was a dream. [Did you experience a separation of consciousness from your body?] Yes. |
[Did you meet or see any other beings? Describe.] They were at the end of the tunnel. I did not know him. He had long white hair and a long white beard. I can not remember a lot of the conversation. I have thought of being hypnotized so that I could remember, but mainly he said "You HAVE to go back". As soon as he said it, I regained consciousness. | [Did you see
or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels
or dimensions? Describe.] Yes. It was a "scene" with trees
and flowers and it was full of "moisture". So peaceful. 19b/1457 |
| I was unconscious for three weeks, in which I lived another full life. I was 14 again, briefly. (Talk about scary!) The rest was a journey of my TRUE? way. Somehow I got to experience love at first sight and have it returned. I met my husband, Keirin, and we got married in my 'altered' state. My wedding was beautiful, even if it was somewhat rushed. I was not pregnant. Although I recall, we made love and planned to get caught, so that the family would agree to our wedding. | The sisters and brothers and
the rest of his family were there. My ring was his mother’s
wedding ring. He asked me, if his mother’s ring was acceptable. I
knew it meant so much to him, so of course, I said, “Yes.” We had calla
lilies and white roses everywhere.
I'd like to say he wore an afternoon dove-colored tux that would have been time appropriate. |
But it was a very deep grey/black? I've never seen a man look more wonderful. The most important thing was the feel of his lips right after the ceremony. Loving and hungry, and full of promise. I 'knew' what to expect, but I never ever suspected a man to convey the hope and trust and eagerness of then the present and the future in a breath, in a small moment of time. | It was all there: He and I, whatever would be. I have to say that I have never loved, nor given or been loved in that way. In this plane I know of no such person. As a matter of fact, I'm widowed 15 years this year and a second marriage is not on my to-do list. | After I returned to this
state I went through a quite normal grieving process at having to
leave him behind. I still have a sensation that it wouldn't be
unusual at all to turn a street corner and there he'd be. → |
| Now that I am here, in this reality, sometimes he is sooooo present here, that I have to turn around to make sure it's here and not there. Considering world events, it feels like I've entered a third reality sometimes. The temptation to return was nearly overwhelming at first. That is not the end of my journey, but what woman in her right mind WOULDN'T want a love such as that. There have been times when the desire is so strong in this life I think my heart will break. | [Was the
experience dream like in any way?] NO. No dream-like
quality. It was a contiguous, sequential, and highly
understandable life that made sense. I had no reason to doubt that
reality as I was not aware that it was unreal. It is close to two
years since the incident and still it is more like memory than a
dream. 20b/1460 |
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| The bus driver lost control. When I was able to open my eyes I saw a very intense blue light. After I saw it far away, I started to pass through a tunnel. At the same time I was walking, I was remembering all the moments I lived with my brother. When I reached again the light I went through it again and I saw my brother (he died 4 years ago). I hugged him and after crying for some minutes he looked at me and told me that I had not to cry for his death. | That he died because it was his time and I had to live without laments. That he was fine there and that he was always taking care of me from that place. Suddenly, all started to back down and I was able to open my eyes. I was in the hospital with some doctors looking at me with amazed faces. | [Did you meet
or see any other beings?] Yes. They were at the end of the
tunnel. I knew one but I did not see the others clearly. The one I
knew was my brother. He told me to do not cry any more for him,
that he died because it was his time and that he was taking care
of me from that dimension. 21b/3086 |
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| I was fighting very hard to get air, then after so many breaths of water, my body just went down and my spirit just snapped out of my body (I felt a definite jolt out). Then I was on my way out drifting upwards at a 45 degree angle. I felt that I was wearing a long pale blue robe/dress, so long it covered my feet. The next thing I knew I was at the pool side coughing & hacking & my mother was freaking out... | For the brief time I left I didn't have any thoughts of lifetimes or who I was leaving behind, just me leaving. Until then I considered myself agnostic. I grew up Catholic, but a reluctant one. It didn't make me religious or anything, but it did make me believe that there really is something after death. | [Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?] Just that I believed for sure in body & spirit being separate after death. 22b/885 |
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| I just recall being drawn towards a big bright light to the point where I was in the light, only to have it communicated (somehow) that it was time to leave and back I came. The coming back part was the most impressionable and requires very little digging into the memory, as it seems suspended somewhere time. | As for an “out of body experience” I don't think I knew what a body was (laughs), however one thing I do remember is that at no stage did I feel grounded during the experience. Another quirky thing which followed was an assumption that I’d be able to look directly at the sun with no problems (laughs). | [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I don't remember coming into contact with anyone/thing else, but I remember a grand presence which seemed to transcend anything (or anybody's) presence I've felt since. |
[Was the kind
of experience difficult to express in words?] It is rather
difficult to express in words, it's one of the few glimpses
I've had of my higher self. 23b/2978 |
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| I was in a dark void or
space like in the universe without the stars. In the distance was
a light, no definite shape, similar to a puddle of spilled water. The light was pulsating as if alive. I began to move toward the light, was being drawn, all of a sudden it was like I was moving at the speed of light. The light was like a boundary, but it was transparent. I passed through into the light. It is hard for me to find the words to describe the feelings one encounters. |
I was blinded by the light unable to see anything but the light did not hurt your eyes. It was like looking into the sun a million times over a pure white light. I felt warm, safe, peaceful, and in the presence of pure unconditional love. | It was like the light was absorbing me, my life was being shown before me. I got emotional, maybe I cried. I was ashamed, but I felt the love and knew everything was alright. I know I was in the presence of God. | [If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain.] I was viewing my life in the twinkling of an eye, I mean everything. I was asking questions but knew the answers instantly. Heard no voices but there was communication, knowledge and understanding. | [Was the kind
of experience difficult to express in words?] Only in the
sense that people have a hard time believing. I know that it was
real. Told son at hospital in recovery room that things went bad,
that they had killed me and I had went into the light and did not
want to return, I would have stayed. 24b/2764 |
| I worked as an assistant to the head physician. We were just reading the reports on the laboratory values when she [patient] suddenly turned toward me and said: “The letter you wrote to your mother yesterday was beautiful." At first I did not understand what she was talking about. Then I recalled the letter. All the people who were present witnessed her words as well and looked at me in surprise. I was very embarrassed because of this remark for the doctors and nurses could have easily thought I used to show my private letters to the patients. | I asked her what she meant by this and she replied: “Well, the letter you wrote to your mother yesterday." I asked her how she could know about this and she responded that she just knew. I would not continue this conversation in front of the other people in the room and told her that I would come back after the ward round. Afterwards a colleague asked me what she had talked about. I just did not know. | 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. She died three days later. I do not know why she “picked” me. | We had only exchanged a few words before. Maybe she had built an
emotional relationship. That may be possible. Concerning myself,
this was not the case, at least not before our conversation. She
was just a patient among others. It is unusual in hospitals to
allow for close relationships to patients for otherwise one risks
to suffer and thus, losing one’s objectivity and capacities. 25b/41508 |
As I stood in the light I thought, "This must be a dream," and next I found myself flying down a road, like 90 miles per hour. My peripheral vision was wider and I could see energy patterns around the trees as I passed, kind of like those optic fiber flowers you can buy. I was fully conscious of everything, feeling and thinking very clearly. I came to a Y fork in road and saw a brown panel station wagon pass in front of me. Then I went to my home. I stood on front step and looked at ground and saw frost on grass and thought, "How funny, I don't feel cold?" I closed my eyes and opened them and I was on my bed, I could feel the channel bedspread. |
And I was very thankful it had all been a dream, but then I heard people talking downstairs and I got up to see who it was. As I confronted them all hanging out on couch and kitchen table. They started saying hello and talking to me. I knew by the southern accent they must be relatives but I didn't know who... but as I looked around I started thinking they looked like people I knew that were dead. They kept visiting. I was talking to a lady that said she had to go, but please tell my mother hello for her and that she still thinks of her. | I walked her to front door and instead of going out door, she just vanished in front of me. I stood there thinking this isn't a dream ...nothing is out of place but this woman just disappeared in front of me! Then the main lady talking to me said, "It's not your time yet you have to go back." Then she said, "Think about it, you remember," then it was clear at that moment, I said to her, "I'm dead aren't I?" She said, "Yes, but it's not your time yet, you have to go back. You are our go-between." I didn't want to and I proceeded to argue about it. | [What was it about the experience that makes it hard to communicate?] ...it all went black....just for a couple of seconds then this awesome light exploded in front of me and I stood in that light and I felt wonderful. It seemed to heal everything and I can't remember all of what it said, but if you asked a question in it it would answer you before you could think of it. But that knowledge was forgotten when I came back. | [Did you
experience a review of past events in your life?] Life is
like school.. be good to others, let others know life exists on
other side...extend faith in God. And we are part of a bigger
plan. [Describe your appearance or form apart from your body.] I also had astral travel after like I left a door open to come and go. Saw body then. 26b/N. P. |
| All of a sudden this warm, cozy, comfortable feeling came over me and I wasn't afraid anymore. I thought, "OH! this is what is supposed to happen," and it felt good. I told the doctor who was talking to me as he was running beside my bed on wheels, "Your voice sounds funny, It sounds almost like an echo." "Don't you leave us!" he said. The first thing that happened was that after they put me out, I was floating over my body watching them in panic, the doctor saying, "I can't see anything, too much blood. He cut me one way across and then the other, up and down. My next thought and feeling is of being in total darkness, while feeling my body but on looking down not seeing anything. | I was petrified, and remember saying "Please God don't let me be alone, where are you?" The next thing that I saw was the most brilliant, intense light that I have ever seen. It was so bright that I could barely look into it. In front of the light was like a huge cathedral-like doorway, and by that was my mother who had died when I was around eight years old. There were some others there, but didn't recognize who they were. The feeling that I experienced is somewhat hard to explain, but I will try my best. | All and any abuse or pain that I experienced in my life, whether it be physical, emotional, or mental, was completely gone and in its place, an intense love, acceptance, devotion, and sense of well-being was put. For one second...I understood it all, so simple, but then it was gone ...as if we are not meant to understand "ALL". My mother then looked at me and said, but not in words only in thought, "You have been given a second chance. I can take you the rest of the way, or you can go back." I remember feeling soooooo good there and wanting to stay. | But then I thought of my young children and said to my mother, "I have to go back, my children still need me, and you know how hard it was for you to leave us when we were young." All of the sudden I felt like I had been on a huge rubber band stretched to the max, and they brought back again with a jolt so strong, it almost hurt and felt awkward to be back in there. I opened my eyes to a nurse. | [Did you see
a light?] A bright, intense light that felt so warm and
good, so loving and full of wisdom. My personal feeling is that we
are all "sparks" that come from the "Big Light." When our physical
bodies die, our soul, spirit, essence, feelings and thoughts, go
back to the source....the "LIGHT." 27b/151 |
| During surgery, heart stopped, heart massage was performed three times - this is when I had my experience. It was totally dark & a soft light began to materialize. I suddenly felt the presence of intense comfort and love, then my grandmother and her mother (I had never met), both Native Americans. | They told me that it was not my
time. (I didn't hear them I just knew it.) They were there to give
me strength. Then I blacked out. I was in intensive care for a
month, then on the reg floor for a month. From that moment on I
have NEVER feared death, it is only a passing to join with all our
love ones and the creator. |
[Did you
experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?]
Yes because I no longer could feel the pain of the surgery. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] My grandmother & great-grandmother. |
[Did you have
any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?]
To accept life & know that we go to a wonderful place after this
one, appreciate what I have now. 28b/710 |
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| Numbness began to spread through my body. At the same time there was a feeling of being an observer at the event. I knew I was dying and I remember looking around and thinking, "This is it," and a feeling of sadness for the separation from my children. I felt so foolish to be dying in a parking lot out side a grocery store. There was no dignity to dying on the street. I heard the security guard say, "There she goes," and my body fell to the ground. | The ambulance pulled up and I could see them putting me in the back. I was seeing it from the same vantage of standing by the car. As they pulled away I began to dissolve and went off into energy fragments which no longer had thought. I awoke at the hospital. | [What was
your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?]
I was totally alert until sometime after my body separated from my
consciousness.
[Was the experience dream like in any way?] Only in that as the synapses shut down. It seemed I was no longer a part of or relevant to this world. |
[What was it
about the experience that makes it hard to communicate?]
After separating from my body there was a dissolution of
consciousness in which I ceased to be. There was no reward or
punishment, just non being. 29b/438 |
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| I had a diabetic coma. I remember talking to people in a room. I felt relaxed, at peace, the conversation and the people "this sounds strange" I remember nothing that I can describe. The room appeared surreal, brighter than normal. It was a different place and so real. I remember confusion and movement. I was yelling "Don't send me back, I don't want to go back." I awoke in the casualty department of the hospital. | [If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain.] Everything seemed fresh & effortless. I was free, the world of pain had disappeared, I was more focused. | [Did you
experience a review of past events in your life?] The
strange thing about this event is I was not near death, or I don't
think so. [Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?] On the return I felt a transition rather than movement. |
[Were there
one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or
significant to you?] That feeling of peace was so strong. I
am a fairly highly strung person. 30b/2317 |
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| I wanted to see my daughter, who had gone out, so she could know that I was dying. All of a sudden, I felt something coming out of my body, something from myself was coming off me. I didn’t want this to carry on before I could see my daughter. Something was pushing me to leave the chair where I was sitting. My mind was telling me that I didn’t want to go before I could see my daughter and tell her about the beautiful experience I was going through. | I closed my eyes and saw a virgin; something wanted to take me but when I insisted on wanting to see my daughter, it left me alone and I felt my body back on the chair again. I think that if I hadn’t refused, I would have died. I don’t know, but when I refused, the force that I was feeling left me alone. | In spite of everything I didn’t feel frightened at all, but a pleasant sensation; it was something nice of which I wasn’t afraid of. It was like saying: "You stay on earth or you leave." Something like that. | [Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] Yes, I feel that when death comes close, this one, death, allows you to choose whether you want to go or stay. If you let yourself go by the extremely nice sensation you are feeling, you will not think of coming back to earth. | But if you think of the
ties you have in this world (in my own case, I wanted to see my
daughter) you are given another chance to stay. Something like
that. [Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?] Yes. 31b/3655 |
| I was no longer breathing, my abdomen was sunken in, and I was purple. ... But I only remember being drawn upwards in the tunnel, and that wonderful feeling of peace, and the light that was at the end of the tunnel. Then when I returned, I remember arguing with my husband before I understood what was happening. | He called to me and I yelled at him that I didn't want to return, and I asked that he let me go until he made me understand what was happening. The sensation when I returned was as if I had been pushed rapidly back down again, drawn back down very rapidly. | [Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] It's difficult to explain to someone who has never had such an experience, and it's difficult to make them understand. The tunnel that everybody talks about isn't horizontal, but vertical, as if you were in a dark well and then you begin to go upwards as if you were being drawn from above. | And at the apex of the tunnel, you are filled with a very bright light... a sensation of peace, a peace that is inexplicable to someone who has never felt it before. It isn't what people normally THINK peace is, but a far greater fullness of peace. | [If your
highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience
was different from your normal every day consciousness and
alertness, please explain.] I saw and felt with great
clarity. The sensation of peace very strong within me. 32b/2253 |
| Without transition, and without pain, I was suddenly standing in a beautiful green woods. It was like jumping right into the middle of a vivid, colorful dream. There was lots of light and sunshine all around, light breezes rustling the leaves. Profound feelings of joy and well being and happiness and comfort and love. Before me, a sort of glade in the the woods beckoned me towards lighter woods further on. It seemed there was more sunshine down there. The light was not blinding, nor was it white. | It was more yellow, like sunshine really is, and the color of the leaves was spring green. There was nobody there, just me. I was curious about going further down the path, but suddenly had a feeling the I had better get out of there. With that feeling, I was back in the Emergency Room. They had coded me, and I had been clinically dead for just a couple minutes. | [Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.] I suspect each person has an experience commensurate with their belief system. For me, (perceiving God as intelligent and loving Energy). |
[Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?] Certainly I have more reverence for the privilege of life, and the love of my family and friends. But I am not sure what I am supposed to do with my life now. 33b/1035 |
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| This is what is extraordinary: when the lifeguards were saying that I should be taken to the morgue I could hear them but could not tell them I was alive. I couldn’t move or make a signal. I suddenly saw a beautiful, bright light which lighted the place where I was. I looked like a boy eight or nine years old. I was standing in a white robe. Then, two groups of persons appeared dressed as roman wrestlers; one group was red and the other was blue. They were fighting over me. Both groups wanted to take me and said to each other, “He belongs to us.” “No, he belongs here." | It looked like they were going to fight with their swords and during that moment of discussion I take the opportunity to run and escape. This is where I get back my consciousness and started coughing. I immediately got medical attention and am alive to tell you about my Near Death Experience. Lifeguards said it was a miracle: “We thought you were dead and we were taking you to the morgue." | [How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened.] Experience was definitely real. I understood that when a person clings to something he gets it and that is real. I clung to life and that is why I am alive; I fought for living and did not accept death, and told myself: this is a second opportunity to live. I value life. | [If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain.] I decided to run and escape due to the fear to be taken to an unknown destiny. |
[What emotions did you feel during the experience?]
Desperation and sorrow to be dying so young. [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] Yes. It looked like mine cave; it even had two exits, I took the one to the left to escape. 34b/2491 |
| I guess I lost consciousness at this time I began to feel very light and a little dizzy. The next thing I saw was my body below me. It was very pale looking and not moving, face down in the pillow. But to me it wasn't me because I was here above this body that was mine. I guess about five feet above it and then I got this pulling feeling like the way the current pulls you at the beach when the tide goes out. And then I started to rotate till I was facing the corner of the ceiling. At this time there was an explosion of white very very bright light. Then the room started to fade away and this light took the shape of a tunnel that surrounded me. | At this time I was being pulled at a high rate of speed and there was somebody with me and I felt safe and loved and at peace. This person was transparent but I could still see him smiling at me and saying to me, but not talking with his mouth but his mind, telling me, "Every thing is fine." Then at that moment we were in this place of beautiful warm light and millions and millions of people all saying, "The time is near." "Be ready for the day." | It was like a loud roar, but very loving the way it was said, and the music was like nothing I ever heard to this day. It went right through you, and you were the music as well. Then I saw this being of light very bright so bright that you could not look at this being. I tried to look but it was much too bright. And this voice said to me, "It's not your time. You have much to learn. Go learn. Don't worry you shall be with me someday. Go from me now." I didn't want to go but I had no choice in the matter. | I started to get turned and pulled back towards the light of the tunnel except it was much faster than before. And the next thing you know I was going back though the light and into my room. Then I saw my body and I didn't want to go back at all. I fought with every thing I had, but I just got slammed right into my body, and it was cold stiff heavy, and then I felt this cold air rushing in my lungs and I heard a voice say "Breathe." | [Was the
experience dream like in any way?] I've never had a dream
like that ever, and I take great insult to the suggestion. [Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?] Light like air, but I also felt like I was in a compact form or compression of some type but free at the same time. 35b/698 |
| I remember closing my eyes and seeing a void. Everything was black inside. And then in the distance, if I concentrated there, I would see a tiny white dot a way off in the distance. Slowly it came toward me, finally rushing at me with a roaring wind sound. Then, everything I saw inside was brilliant, blinding white light. The brightest light I'd ever experienced. And then I'd see a tiny black dot way off in the distance, and that would come rushing toward me getting bigger and bigger until everything was all black again. This same pattern kept repeating over and over endlessly for months. | But the only relief from the agony was when the black and white dots would start up again, and I'd escape the pain. One night the dots started up again and I found myself out of my body, completely pain free and floating above my body in the corner of my bedroom. I remember thinking that I was going to leave now. I felt glad about that, to leave the pain behind. I didn't want to stay. Just as I was about to set off away from there I saw my mother come into the room. | She knelt by my bed and prayed and
cried. Her beseeching tears touched me deeply. She prayed that I
should be healed. I realized that she really did love me. I guess
I'd not been sure of that before that moment. I remember deciding
to return and give it a go. [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] I think the dots were symbolically similar to the tunnel experience. They were like the like at the end of a tunnel in their action. |
[Did you see a light?] I've described
above about the brilliant light. It came before I was fully
conscious of being outside my body. It would come and go for days
on end during the illness. 36b/3186 |
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| Everything went into slow motion as my car flew in the air and landed in a field. Slowly I started floating backwards off the emergency room table. I could see the big clock on the wall and all the doctors and nurses around me. There was frantic activity. Every detail of the emergency room was crystal clear. But I didn't see it for more than a few seconds because, as I was floating backwards, I was also heading diagonally up; I went through the wall where it joined the ceiling. Instead of being outside in the cold or ending up on another floor of the hospital. | After going through the wall, I was enveloped in a tunnel and kept swiftly but with no sense of motion going backwards. I was in a horizontal position on my back. This is where it gets very difficult to describe what happened, because I can't find words that fit the experience. I was calm and filled with utter and total peace. There was a light that defies description. It was so beautiful and seemed to be in complete harmony with sound and other sensory input that also defy description. | It was not of this world. I felt content and loved, but this feeling was not separate from the light or sound or floating. Everything was all one experience. Nothing was separate from anything else. Then I heard encouraging voices behind my head saying so gently and lovingly, "Come on; it's OK." I thought the voices belonged to my dead grandparents, but at the same time they seemed other-worldly. Then, without warning, I was slammed into my body on the emergency room table. | [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] While lifting from the table, even though there was a slight yellow cast, everything seemed crystal clear and bright and then in the tunnel my vision was not separate from my other senses. | [Did you pass
into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] Normally the
thought of a tunnel would scare me, because I'm highly
claustrophobic, but this tunnel was part of me and I was happy.
Nothing was separate. 37b/3285 |
| I did move through a black, velvety tunnel, a color black I had never seen nor can I describe, toward a very distant pinpoint of light. I had spiritual guides who gave me what I call "a tour of the universe," and that was a sense of the vastness of the universe, of being there at its creation, of being a part of the universe from its beginnings, and I was part of all that has occurred, and all that will occur. It was like I had no sense of self, that I was everything and everything was me, including God. It was a very reassuring feeling and I felt very safe and protected. I felt unconditional love, joy and profound peacefulness. | I had no sense of linear time and even now have a problem sometimes operating within parameters of "time." I was told everything that ever occurred and everything that will occur. I was given reasons for what was, what is, and what will be. For instance, I was told that part of the reason the global changes as it relates to weather is occurring is that the planet is beginning to take back it's original shape, to undo what man thought was his right to harness her power. | For instance, the rivers are taking back their beds. I remember questioning these beings, why does this occur and what has that, and learned it is to be. I was also told, as a flip side of the coin, that humans have free will and some of the things that occur are because of choice. I remember getting real deep into the cause and effect and ying and yang of things. Some of it I didn't like and while it's a struggle for me to sometimes understand, realize it happens because of choices. This was in the realm of good and evil. | I heard sounds I never heard, and while I never saw a human form, knew there were "vibrations" all around me, guiding and helping me along. So as I drifted along, I suddenly came to a stop. I didn't want to go back into my body. I encountered a form who I knew was God who told me it was time to now go back. I started arguing with God in my own little obnoxious way, and God said I needed to go back because my mission here wasn't complete. | [What was the
best and worst part of your experience?] There are a lot of
bests. Realizing we all have a purpose in life and what we do with
it is up to us. Realizing there really really is a God and spirit
beings that are with us all the time. Realizing there is more to
life way beyond the physical. 38b/186 |
| I was in the hospital. The pain was extreme. All of a sudden, the pain disappeared. I was told all my thoughts were in the past; that none of that mattered anymore. It was so peaceful. I felt the presence of others. They were close but so far away. I did not recognize them, but I knew they were familiar. I survived. I was in a coma for two weeks. I, in no way whatsoever, am afraid to die at this point. I know we continue to exist after death. It's a very different place. However, I am afraid of how I will die. The pain is extreme until it goes away and death is close. | [Did you see
a light?] I felt it was going to be next. It was like I was
in a holding place; between life and death. I felt certain the
light would be next. [How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. I KNOW what happened to me was real. |
[Did your
hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in
any aspect...)?] Even though time slowed I was able to hear
those around me. It's like I could have 20 thoughts in between
each word someone else spoke. A nurse was saying my pressure was
falling. I heard another say they need to intubate now. I heard
someone say "dopamine drip." 39b/3684 |
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| I was transferred to another hospital because I was in critical condition. This is when I had my experience. I don’t know the exact date. I first saw myself as some sort of big smoke. That time I did not go out of my body; it was me but not in my body. I tried to see my arms, my legs, nothing. I could only see myself as smoke. I turned around in some sort of concrete swimming pool, and I was not alone there. Somebody else turned around with me. But I did not talk to him. I did not even try to. We turned around clockwise. | I don’t know how I came back into my body. (Later I was told that I was in ICU and the person in the room next to mine was in a coma, maybe that was him, I don’t know.) After that, or around the same time (I can’t measure time during this period) I heard a very stressful noise next to me. It was the machine connected to my heart and I opened my eyes. The ceiling turned into a very bulgy cloud, and I climbed into it. | There I felt fine but I knew there was something wrong. All of a sudden somebody appeared in front of me. He was young with a beard. I asked him, “When do I go back down to earth???” And he said, “But you are already on earth.” I did not believe him and I asked the same question again, he replied the same answer and I got back down into my body.... Then, and again, much after or after or before, I don’t know. | I found myself in a tunnel, but this tunnel was half full of water, there was a light in the end, the water brought me there and indeed I did not want to go. I don’t know why I thought that. I saw some kind of opening on my left, I would say another tunnel. But on my left I heard my dog barking, calling me. Effortlessly I went to my left and I exited the tunnel. | I was stranded on some sort
of embankment, my dog was there, and after that I don’t
remember...... [Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect...)?] I heard a lot of things but I could not answer. I was there but I was not there... 40b/4043 |
| [Collision with truck.] Even though I knew death was inevitable I remained remarkably calm and time seemed to almost stop, as though everything was happening in slow motion. The next thing I knew I was in darkness watching a detailed review of my life up to that point in my life. It was like watching a huge cinema screen in 3D, and it was incredibly detailed in that it literally covered every event in my life. I remembered events, people and places that I had long forgotten. It was as if I was effectively reliving my entire life although it was done at high speed. | I sensed there were beings around me (although I did not actually see them), and they made it clear that they were not judging any part of my life. I got the impression that this was my life, that I should observe it and then consider any aspects that I wished to discuss. Once I absorbed this information I was then informed that it was not my time and that I should return. I was loathe to do so as I had a feeling of such absolute calm, love and peace which is simply not possible to describe. | The next thing I knew I was back in the car driving along as if nothing had happened and saying to myself that this was not possible. It seemed the passengers in the car were totally unaware of what had happened. It was as if any memory had been erased from their minds. Although this 'incident' occurred over 43 years ago, every detail is as fresh in my mind as it was seconds after I returned to the car. | [Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] A very detailed review took place. Made me remember events that I had long forgotten about. It was as though I was reliving my life. The whole experience was non-judgmental. It made me realize that we survive physical death and that far from being a terrifying experience, it was actually an amazing experience that I will never forget. | [Did your
hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in
any aspect...)?] There was no hearing as such, more
like telepathy. [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I was watching the review of my life. 41b/3123 |
| I started to notice a ringing tone in my ears which eventually got so loud I couldn't hear anything else. I've heard of other people who were definitely near death speak of hearing a tone or ringing in their ears so that makes me think I was actually close to death. I crawled over to the bed and collapsed in a heap. Some time passed and eventually I found myself in a bright tunnel traveling very fast. I was at least vaguely aware of the NDE phenomenon so I realized I must be dying. At first I was upset, realizing that I had succeeded and starting worrying about the people left behind. | As I traveled down the tunnel I felt these fears stripped away from me one by one. Eventually the tunnel let out onto a platform with a marble floor. There were various people milling about in grey hooded robes. One of them came up to me and introduced himself as my guide. The architecture of the place was very Greek in style with columns and such. I don't believe it was heaven OR hell. | Around this point my emotional situation took a turn for the worst. I felt a very strong feeling of depression or failure or something along those lines. This persisted throughout the experience. This is just an interpretation based on subsequent studies of NDEs, but I think it probably had to do with the way I got there (suicide attempt) and the fact that I hadn't completed my mission. | I don't really remember a lot of what happened next, but I know at one point I visited a site of some special significance. There was a large circle of some type, and I stepped inside it I could feel the love of God radiating into my body. It was somewhat impersonal in that I had no actual communication with God, just the feeling of warm love. | There was only a small event after
that, that I can remember, which involved contact with a deceased
family member which I will not recount here. I don't remember returning to my body. I woke up the next
morning feeling like I had been hit by a train. 42b/922 |
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I was in an auto on an icy road. I went through frozen, unable to move trauma that showed me my younger life through my own death. I was accompanied by a voice that repeated my own words and others in my past. I felt the car move under me and saw it from the sky, looking down. I saw and heard a strange vector of air and sound that wasn't from the event unfolding before my eyes, and right before I was put back in my auto with my friend who was riding in the passenger seat, I was asked by a person who's image was blurred, "Do you want to return?" |
I remember looking out the window next, then turning to my friend who said, "We should be dead and our auto should be trashed to oblivion," but we were facing the opposite way we were traveling and back on the road. The car's gas gauge read almost empty though we had filled it not more than 10 previous miles before the event. There was no sign of leaking gas anywhere. | But there were Douglass fir tree limbs under my car, stuck in the frame. And the road was blocked from the cliff we had just went off by a guard-rail. And the rail was completely in-tact. My friend remembers nothing. The next day I lost all my hair and it felt like someone had bleached my skin with oil or acid. I have since regained all my hair and have had no adverse effects since.?????? | [Was the kind
of experience difficult to express in words?] The
mind-altering effect of moving without moving, seeing without
opening my eyes, and hearing sounds without leaving the car, and
the passenger heard nothing out of the normal. [Was the experience dream like in any way?] Yes, but it was too real to put off as a dream or alarm-state. I saw it all so real, and the voice was not in my head, but out loud. |
[Did you hear
any unusual sounds or noises?] Yes, steady vector, air
sounds like loud jet engines without the hurting effect on my
ears, and a voice of people, my dead grandparents, friends, and
past historians, and then my own voice at the end, which I
remember answering and saying "yes" I wanted to "return." 43b/731 |
| I had collapsed on the floor. I remember being in a dark grey void. A voice said to me: "Richard, why are you here?" I said: "I want to come home." The voice replied: "It's not time yet. You have more work to do. You have a family that loves you and that you need to take care of." That's when the manager brought me around the first time. I guess I went out a second time and returned to the grey void. I said: "I want to stay." | The voice said: "What is your problem?" I said: "I don't know." The voice replied: "You have to go back. You have to take care of your family." That's the point I 'came to' the second time. I really didn't want to go back. It was so relaxing, restful and peaceful in the void, but I reluctantly obeyed the voice and returned. | Ambulance came to take me to the hospital. They did the standard testing but really found nothing. In the days that followed, including today, I had developed a full blown case of the flu. I don't know if that's what knocked me out but I had always basically scoffed at NDE's up until this point. | [How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. I believe it was a directive from a higher source to let me know my importance to my family. |
[What
emotions did you feel during the experience?] I felt I was
home where I belonged. I was incredibly sad when I had to leave. 44b/2236 |
| The last I remember was the nurse telling me to keep looking at her and focus on her, not to close my eyes and stay with her. Then the room started to go all white, not bright but just white in color. When I was able to see anything again I saw my Dad all in white and what looked like a soft robe on. My Mother was next to him, and my Mother's parents were next to her. I was not fearful of where I was but more like I wanted to be there with them. My Dad then asked me if I could forgive him for his wrongs in his raising us kids (two older brother's and a younger sister). | I went to reach for him then he backed away and said your time is not now for you are not done where I was. He then said that I have been in great pain for a long time and I must be with the one who loves me and be with her. (I have been separated from my wife of 29 years and living with a woman I met in 1999 at this time.) I then started to drift back to reality and came to with the nurse... | [What was the
best and worst part of your experience?] The best was to
see my parents and listen to my Father for he talked in a kind
voice which made me feel needed and wanted. 45b/156 |
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| First I heard and saw nothing anymore, then I seemed to be looking from the top of the room at my own body. I saw the doctors and the nurses fighting for my life. I heard what they said and I saw myself. I had a warm feeling and then I entered a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel was a bright warm white vibrating light it was beautiful and it gave me a very calm and reassuring feeling. | I wanted to go to the light and I floated towards it. The warm feeling became more and more pleasant as I came closer to the light. Suddenly I felt again the pain of the accident. I was furious that the doctors had brought me back. |
[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Happy and Joyful. [Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?] I heard what they said in the operating room, and in the tunnel I heard a reassuring humming noise. 46b/940 |
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I was above the pool about five
or six feet up. I remember saying to my self, "I am all right," out loud
to my self. I felt amazing, a feeling of total joy no pain. I was
looking down and could see people around some body on the sidewalk
beside the pool. I did not know who anyone was. I was me looking
down but was not Bob. I did not even know Bob, but
 I was still me
as I was before I drowned. I do not know how to explain this any
other way. |
I believe that our bodies die but we do live on. I could see and hear every thing. How is that possible? The whole thing lasted about six or seven minutes. Just before I came back into my body there was a lot of pain, but some how I knew that it was just the pain of life. I don't know what to make of it. | [Was the
experience dream like in any way?] No not at all. The girl
that gave me mouth to mouth was Nancy and I know that with out
being told. [How has the experience affected your relationships?] Not at all. My wife thinks I made it up. And jokes about it from time to time. |
[Has your
life changed specifically as a result of your experience?]
In the sense that I do believe there is something after death. 47b/703 |
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| I saw myself lying on the table and heard the nervous yelling of the doctors and assistants. They brought me into intensive care. The funny part is that I can remember everything that happened at the intensive care. I know my parents came to visit, that my father had to throw up when he saw me, that my mother did not know what to do and could not stop crying. | When I told the nurse what she was studying for and how far she had progressed, she was incredulous. Afterwards she avoided me as if I were some sort of pariah. Another nurse I told of the medication patients were getting and she also reacted very strangely. After this, I did not mention it again. | [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such aspect...)?] Do you know how big the letters on the label of a medicine bottle are? From the glass room I was in to the other end of the intensive care, it was about 15 meters (45 feet). Either I was standing next to them when a patient was administered medication, or I watched from my room. | [What
emotions did you feel during the experience?] I remember
quite clearly I had a choice to pass over or to stay. I chose to
stay, because I thought myself too young to die. 48b/2819 |
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| Blackness and then I was looking at someone laying on the ground in the parking lot ... . And I thought, "Hey what's going on? That's me down there?" I was rising above the buildings and trees. Just then A Large Hand came and held my hand, and then I saw HIM. He was bright and had beautiful features: long silver hair and beard along with bright never-ending gown. He didn't say a word but I heard, "It's OK we are going home." | Next there was a field on the right with people working in it harvesting some kind of grain. Next to the left there were shops and a street that was beautiful and bright. I saw benches like bus stop benches--that was weird. Then I heard the most calming and peaceful voice saying to me, "It's Not My Time!" | [At what time
during the experience were you at your highest level of
consciousness and alertness?] It was the minute I left my
body--I guess. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Pain at first, then afraid of being left alone, then love and anger. |
[How do you
currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience
was definitely real. It was my experience and only mine. I am a
unique person. 49b/2735 |
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| I had already gone for about three weeks without food, just on water and prayer. I knew that it was very intense, spiritual activity. Both my sister and myself, both spiritual people, she being a seasoned missionary, and I a young Bible-practicing student, in hot pursuit of Jesus my LORD. I remembered that moment, it was a sensation of the veins stretching, and bursting. I felt the blood fill my head. Instant silence, numbness, and then stopping of everything. I can describe its content (nothing moved, lived, breathed). | Instantly I was outside my body, surrounded by a landscape of natural beauty. I seemed to be flying without the aide of anything, or anyone. I was aware of my state, I was surely going somewhere, but where I did not know. I was passing over hills and valleys, there were all of these green trees, and shrub. I was taken up by its total beauty, but I knew that was not what it was all about. Then suddenly I saw direct into my room. | There on her knees my sister was praying to GOD on my behalf, I heard her say, "LORD you call her to be your prophet, your messenger. She can't go like this. Bring her back." I heard a voice say, "Your time is not yet, go back." At the sound of the words. I arrived back into my room. On the bed lay my body, and in the ceiling was my spirit. There I was able to hear everything very clear. Engulfed by his love, wrapped into perfection, torn between these two worlds. | I mediated for my sister, I spoke to her, she could
not hear. I told her that I was very happy where I was and that I
did not want to return. She continued in urgent desperation in prayer for me to come back. She was not aware that I was already in the room, she had interrupted my journey with her crying to GOD. Like there was a bargaining as to go back into my body, it was not instant. |
I hung out there on the
ceiling for what seems to be timeless, listening to the
conversation. Then it happened. I was just pushed into my body. I felt a force a reality, a sudden movement, and I opened my eyes. 50b/1944 |
| I traveled through space at great speed, once I had lost the fear of going with it. I saw a light and I went into it. It was wondrous light that engulfed everything, there was total knowledge and love. I saw my life from my addiction point of view flash before my eyes, repeated behaviors etc. ... I went back and saw myself in the womb. I was then told to "Remember." I was then flicked thru future decisions and happenings. I was then given a chance to view the universe and given the opportunity to be one with it and have the knowledge of the truth. | This went into stuff like time is simultaneous, everything happens at the same time, there is no then and future. The universe is not just one but infinite, wondrous and continuing to evolve. We are just one dimension, there are many planes if you like. Just like ants are not aware of us, we are not aware of higher, evolved states of being. The greatest part was the full feeling and knowledge that in the end all there is is love. | We become one with everything and everything becomes one with us. We are here to experience this life to the fullest and must be in the NOW to do that, get rid of distractions, being addictions, destructive behaviors etc... We are here to be our best selves which includes being what we can for others. I no longer fear, in comparison I look forward to death. I was not wanting to come back. |
However I had two young children that I could not leave with my husband, and I would have killed my unborn child. I have never written this down before, I suppose I should, I hope that this gives you an idea. This all happened during childbirth. I was sucking on the gas continuously overnight unsupervised, with the laughing stuff turned up to max. |
I had some visions at this time,
but the last time I did it I went out......the nurse looked
at me with fear and asked me if I was alright, I knew I had to
answer correctly ......... the answer was no!!!! They lost my
baby's heartbeat during the last two of these episodes, the last
one was when I had my experience. 51b/831 |
| As I was being electrocuted I left my body and floated above the scene. I was surrounded in by a warm diffuse light but could see everything clearly. I could see my body shaking and convulsing with the electrical current, my eyes were open, my mouth was open but I couldn't speak. I seemed to know that I was going to die unless something changed. I don't remember being scared or frightened at all-- very matter of factly. While floating I went over to where my dad was working at the other end of the garage. | He had his back to my body and wasn't aware of what was going on. I went over to him and then he looked up from his work on the floor, turned to see my body being electrocuted. He picked up a hammer and threw it across the room and knocked the extension cord/drop light out of my hand. After that the light went out, the scene collapsed. And the next thing I was aware of was being awakened by mother in our family room. | Apparently I had collapsed on the garage floor and then my dad had carried me into the family room. I remember feeling tingling all over, especially in my mouth (I had braces at the time). But I had no immediate recollection of the events. Likewise it was [not] scary or unsettling in the least. I don't think I realized that I had nearly died physically and certainly didn't realize I had left my body. | [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Peace--as if everything was fine and nothing bad or harmful could ever happen. With Peace came contentment and happiness--not smiling, gleeful happiness but placid happiness and well being. And warmth, although warmth isn't an emotion that is what I felt and remember. | [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] While floating above the scene and seeing everything as if it were transparent. 52b/3710 |
| I was given anesthesia and it seems I lost consciousness, and then I felt like a fight within my body and then an escape towards a black tunnel, which had bronze color stripes, at an ever increasing speed. There were unexpected bifurcations inside the tunnel; I turned to the right, went straight for some time and then changed directions again. I felt as if I was disintegrating inside the tunnel, i.e., my body lost consistency and I felt that the tunnel completely wrapped around me. I felt dizziness and was moving in spirals inside the tunnel. It is something indescribable. After a blow, I found myself in a viscous sea of mud. | There were a lot of people with me and we were trying to escape from it but could not. I was completely desperate; these people were suffering a lot, they were in torment (while I remember this, my skin goes bristled and my body recalls the horrible sensation). I then thought that this was HELL, and I thought, "Oh My! This looks like Dante’s hell and also remember thinking, “He must have done this trip,” and also, “Why do I deserve hell?” This horror looked like it was going to last forever. | Then, I felt tiredness and thought only about losing myself off; to abandon my body, quitting. But at the same time, I knew, with certainty, that if I did I would stay there forever. From this I took renewed strength and thought about my 5-month old baby and my boyfriend, two people I love so and visualized my son growing up without me. I said, "No. I don't want to stay." I also felt that I had a purpose, a mission that was not yet fulfilled in this life. This was not a work I had to finish, but rather a stage that I had to complete in this life, a form of spiritual growth. | At that moment I escaped from the mud pool; that indescribably horrible substance. A that same moment, at an incredible speed, I went up and found a White Light. It was not that “I” was in the white light but that I was part of the white light. For a second I was part of the white light and then it seems it bounced me back. I hit it and there was like a wall; an energetic wall; an energy that I compare with what I felt the first time I touched my boyfriend; it was the same substance. | When I was bounced back I went back to the tunnel at the same speed but it was not the same tunnel; it was like another exit. When I came back, I was not in the surgery room but in a hospital room and my vision was blurry . . . Afterwards, my perception of reality turned normal. 53b/2377 |
| I stood at the top of the stairs at work looking downward and felt lightheaded. I could not see anything around me. The only sense which I was experiencing was one of lightening. I could not taste, smell or feel anything. What felt like a few seconds later was a visual effect of all the great things that happened in my life. It was as though I was watching a video of my life...starting out slowly and increasing in speed toward the end. Then all of a sudden it felt as though I was standing in the middle of a football field in total darkness. | It was a feeling of open space for at least a few hundred feet around me. As I looked upward I could see a rim of light at the very top of where I was at. Air brushed behind my neck and though someone was behind me. Then all of a sudden I heard a voice coming toward me. A man's voice which was in a different language. It was more of a whisper that turned into English, telling me "It's almost time." | I saw quick pictures of myself aging from childhood to adulthood and more forward. All of a sudden a jerk came across my body and it automatically shifted 180-degrees. I had then opened my eyes laying in a hospital bed wondering what the heck had just happened. | [Did your
vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any
aspect...)?] The top of everything that I saw was clear as
day. The further downward I looked, the fuzzier it got. [Did you see a light?] I could physically see light at the rim of the top of wherever I was at. |
[Did you
observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your
experience that could be verified later?] I started to hear voices
about one year later while sitting in a room alone. I realized
that I heard these voices before but couldn't remember when. Then
when I was alone writing a memo...it hit me....I remembered where
I heard the voices from. 54b/3934 [This report appeared also in first random sample as 68a.] |
| [Accident] Minutes later I crawled through the passenger window and walked across the lanes of traffic. I remember being drawn toward a warm and lighted place, and thoughts and ideas were being imparted to me as though people were talking to me, yet there were no faces. I felt safe and secure as I progressed toward the light. Then, as though I was being yanked back on a bungee cord, I was pulled backwards into total darkness, and I knew that I was scared, naked, and cold. I ran, but I did not know what I was running from. I ran off the end of a cliff or precipice of some sort. | I fell. It became more light and I began to develop panoramic eyesight like a raptor. As I fell further, I finally took flight, and I saw far below me the body of a Native American woman lying face down in the dirt. I flew down to her, rolled her over, and a great white bird rose out of her body and flew away, and I then went to ashes, much like the Phoenix. | For years (every night), this experience manifested itself as a dream, and I was forced to relive it over and over again to the point where I was afraid to sleep. Years later, as I was about to begin a new college class, the professor walked in--looked at me--I looked at her--and she motioned for me to follow her into the hallway. I recognized her and she recognized me. | She then began to recount to me the details of my experience when I died in vivid detail. As it turns out, she is Native American (Mohawk), and is known as Snowy Owl Woman (great white bird). Since then, she has been my mentor, my shaman teacher, and my connection to the Shadow World. | I have
mixed my blood with hers, and I am known in the clan as Kahrhokon:
ha (Old Hawk)~ I now follow the ways of the ancients, walk the
Medicine Circle, and journey often to the Shadow World in behalf
of others-- → |
| helping them to understand the
journey of death, and to dispel in others the linear nature of
fear of death, and instill the faith that what lies ahead is a
Sacred Path for all. [Was the experience difficult to express in words?] No human language can express the essence of the experience. 55b/214 |
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| A doctor gave me an injection of serum but when he gave it to me my pulse accelerated and my body convulsed and I became immobilized. The next thing I remember was seeing my body lying on around me. I then found myself in a dark place without borders on the sides, and I noticed that the pain had disappeared. I felt so light that I couldn't even feel myself walking. I noticed some shadowy figures that came towards me and behind them was the reflection of a light. | There were 10 or 12 figures and I noticed a glow around them. My family later confirmed that I was without vital signs during this time. |
[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] I learned that life continues after we die. It is only like another stage. |
Did your
vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any
aspect...)?] In the degree of my perception. 56b/2460 |
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| I was floating, I felt like I was floating very high, but I realized I was looking down at my mother standing over me in a bed. My mother was trying to wake me up, but I did not understand why. Everything was so peaceful floating there. I felt very safe and happy. Then everything went white, not exactly white, but colorless. When I was about seven years old I dreamt that my Uncle Tony was carrying the crucifix on his back, like Jesus did. The next day my mother informed me that my uncle had been killed. I had later learned in life that my uncle was murdered. But I had always been in tune to my uncle. | He would visit me at night. I informed my mother, and she would tell me I was dreaming. I insisted to my mother that my uncle would wake me up to ask me where my aunt had moved to. And when Uncle Tony would wake me up, I was always at peace and not scared. Now I am in the hospital and floating above myself looking down at my mother not knowing why she wanted me to wake up when everything is so peaceful and wonderful. | Then the brightness faded and I was looking down a tunnel toward a point of light. In this point of light was floating my Uncle Tony with a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and I remember telling him how beautiful they were. He held them out to me. As I floated toward my uncle I held my arms out to him. And then I remember pain, like being beaten. My mother told me the next day I went into kidney and liver failure and was near death. | That the doctor told my mother I was talking to my uncle is a good sign, but my mother told the doctor my uncle was dead, and the doctor told my mother to do what ever she had to get me out of that situation or I would not come back. I remember not wanting to come back, it was so peaceful there I wanted to stay. | What was your level of
consciousness and alertness during the experience?] I was in a
coma, but knew what was going on around me
[Was the experience dream like in any way?] During the time I thought I was dreaming, but the next day I knew it really happened. 57b/949 |
| [Suicide Attempt] That is when I remember my body falling away. I didn't leave my body it just fell away and I had the feeling I had lost a friend. It was a terrible feeling of loss and I realized I was dead. But I'm still aware! I was very aware. I remember thinking, "I should be seeing a tunnel and some light," but I was more like thought in space, completely alone in nothingness. So I waited and waited. Then the reality of what I'd just done hit me." | Am I going to be here in this place forever! This abyss! What have I done! The fear was off the charts. We are not supposed to take our own life. I was fully aware of what I had done and the thought of being alone in that nothing forever was unbearable but what could I do? It was too late. Suddenly in the void I heard a voice, a male voice, and He said, "It's o.k. It's all right. It's all good." | I went from total terror to total peace and acceptance of my life and responsibility. I was no longer worried about heaven or hell or my death. This voice accepted me, and did not judge me. I in a way had judged myself and clearly had an instant understanding of my life. And how important it is to play our lives out to the end regardless of how hard it is. | And to get off of ourselves and to be in the company of each other to help each other. That abyss was total separation from all. I was in the I AM. After hearing the voice and receiving the understanding, I saw a green laser light down low to the right, in the nothing. It was flat and wide in front of me heading to the upper left. | It's hard to describe. But as it got
closer it accelerated and I was on the beam of light going to the
upper left.
I came to in the ambulance, and I can't tell you how surprised I was to be back. 58b/3444 |
| The dream where I felt like I was in a deep sleep then I was floating toward a woman. There was something familiar about her. I couldn’t see her clearly, but she looked like an angel. My attention was drawn to the room below me. The curtain was pulled around the one bed. The nurses and doctors were trying to revive the body in the bed. Linda was sitting on the edge of her bed biting her nails. Then the spirit and I were gliding down the hall toward the emergency room. People were walking in the hallways. Doors were closed, but I could see into rooms. | Unnoticed by the people in the hospital, there were spirits or angels all around. I wondered, “Are these God’s messengers at work?” Before I could think about it, we were back in the semi-private room. The doctors and nurses were still busy working on the woman in the bed. I remember as I looked down at them, I said to the angel, “Why don’t they just let her die?” | I did not realize, at that time, the body that I was looking at was mine. “She must live,” she said in a soft calming voice. “She has a son to raise.” Then in a commanding voice, she said, “You must go back now.” I turned to look at her. It was my mother. Since her death, I always dreamed of her pale with bed sores and bandages, but this time it was different. | It was the first time I had seen her looking so young and healthy. Mother looked like a beautiful twenty-two-year-old woman with a perfect body. Just then, before I could say a word, I was pulled into the lifeless body below. I felt pain. | [Did you meet
or see any other beings?] I saw my body, but didn't think
it was me, and I spoke to my mother who had passed away. [Did you have any sense of altered space or time?] I was at the top of the room where a ceiling was. I didn't go in or out of doors or walk, but I was all over that hospital. 59b/2875 |
| I remained half-conscious after a heart attack that occurred while being in the recovery room. I made a breath-taking dive into a tunnel. I saw motionless people. I saw old colleagues deceased since many years, making signs: “Come along with us." I also saw my parents, deceased in 1979, making signs in order to invite me to follow them. I saw my mother-in-law making signs in order to stop me from following the others that were making these signs. I was still diving faster and faster and deeper and deeper toward a bluish white light that was attracting me. | For how long? No idea. At one point, I thought I was flying. Under me: a bed with a form, instruments, people dressed in green with yellow faces. All around the bed, devices to which the form on the bed was linked. I was hearing voices and wanted to answer but not a sound would come out of my mouth. And the dive was continuing, always toward this light. | At one point I was seeing people between the light and me: my wife, my two daughters and their husbands, and in the middle, surrounded by a soft light, my grand-daughter (two years old) who was moving her head and saying, “No, grandfather." After that everything dissolved into the light. | [Has the
experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious
practices etc.? Career choices?] I have detached from
certain worldly affairs. 60b/128 |
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| I had heard the doctor say she had lost me. Immediately after leaving my body a shaft of very white light came down in the room and a beautiful woman with long black hair in a white robe trimmed in gold came down through the Light. She extended her hands toward me and gave me the choice of either going up in the Light with her or staying on earth in my body. At first I wanted to go with her in the Light as the experience was so beautiful and peaceful. I was also totally out of pain as the Light surrounded me. | The next memory I have was standing again outside the light in the delivery room and saying, "I choose to live," which I presume was a decision to come back on earth for my mission was unfinished. I have no actual memory of the time between wanting to go up in the Light with the beautiful Lady, and then making the other choice of returning to my body because of the children. | After I had spoken the words "I choose to live," meaning come back and live my life in this body, there was an explosion of Light in the room and I also spoke to them simultaneously from my body. This caused a great stir among the medics there and they rushed to my side. |
God was not finished with using my life and that is why I am alive today. I am here because God, Christ and His Holy Angels have taken care of me, protected me and kept me. For this I am truly thankful. 61b/33 |
[This person gave her website in her report: angel-light.com] |
| I kept myself tightened to the
cliff wall. Suddenly I slid 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 thought very fast. I saw myself at two years old, then at four in the sea, etc. Suddenly my life it’s over and then I saw three slides of my probable future. In that moment I was very sad because I was dead and I knew 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 dead. 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. [Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] I saw myself in my house as a baby. I saw a moment of peace in my house, I saw it from a different point of view. |
I remembered myself at three years old, and I remembered the dress I wore. Then, when I was at house, I watched photos and I found myself with the same dress I saw in this experience. I saw three shots of my future. One was my house when I moved in the next months. In the other two, I was old. | [Did you have
a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or
purpose?] I had the impression I understood all in the
universe, all the laws that regulate the universal life. All was
obvious and simple, and all was connected. 62b/3472
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| My heart stopped for the third time. I started to feel little "shakes" inside of me, and before I knew, I saw myself lying on the operation table. After a few seconds, I saw the doctors panic. One of them shouted that I lost too much blood. Suddenly, all I saw was light. Not bright light, but soft, comforting light. I don't know how to explain it, like I said, it is too big for words: there was a peace coming over me. Rest, peace in it's greatest form. No worries, no problems, no bad feelings, no black thoughts. Only peace. Bigger than when you're in love, greater than when you hold your child for the first time, more beautiful than anyone can imagine. | Only peace and rest and happiness. Nothing else. And I saw a woman. Beautiful, with a light blue long dress. Charming. At that time, I realized I was dead, or out of my body anyway. All I could think was: "Okay, I saw my daughter. She is great, she's beautiful. She is healthy. I am gone now. She will be all right". It sounds egocentric, but I did not feel bad about this at the time. Strange. I was happy I have seen her, that was all that mattered at the time. | I kept looking at the light, at the woman. I was extremely happy. There was not a real face. She was blond, with a blue dress. She smiled. The white soft light changed into a landscape. Grass of the greenest green, with red roses, as far as the eye can reach. I knew the woman was beside me. I did not really see her, but I knew she was there. It was so beautiful. I cried from happiness. From one moment to the other, I felt like someone or something was pulling me away. |
The landscape faded and I was back on the operation table. It sounds strange, but I felt like being born. Air came into my longs, with a lot of pain, and I shouted like hell. After a few seconds, I realized I was back and all I did was begging to let me go. Go back where I came from. |
[What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?] I was very conscious. I realized I was gone. [Was the experience dream like in any way?] No. I am sure, for 100%, that was not a dream. I saw myself lying there. Knew what was happening. 63b/200 |
| I was informed that I had the choice to die or continue living. I was also told that there would be no turning back upon my decision. Afraid at first, I was hesitant to leave my body. A spirit guide told me to breathe deeply. A sweet perfume scent filled the air, which made it easier to relax and let go. We went through a powder blue-white light. I was shown a glimpse of my future. I continued on to a library of sorts. (I've since been to this library three times). There were small groups of people or spirits(?) in individual rooms called "pods." In these rooms the spirits or people, were planning their next life or reincarnation. | I continued on with a (person, spirit, being?) who was dressed in a monk gown. We went into the library where he proceeded to show me where the volumes of books were located that contained information on my various lives. He started to open a huge book called "The Book of Knowledge," when a higher up in the chain of beings came forth. He informed the individual with whom I was with, that I knew too much. And that he was to stop, and not open this book. | The monk said that he wanted to show me where I
came from, as well as three other members of my family. The
picture was of a galaxy. And, he did point out where we came from.
All different locations in fact. The elder monk told him to stop
at once.
I've since returned to the library, and the grounds around it. In fact, I did not want to return back into my body on my last visit. I've never known such a wonderful and loving feeling. Nothing like here on earth. I so look forward to returning. |
[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] I did not experience a review, although I was shown volumes of books containing my lives. [Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?] Yes, I was told that my life (this life) would have great sadness, and that all was worth the pain. 64b/3206 |
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| I could not avoid swallowing seawater. Then all of a sudden I could see myself floating within the water, in an incredible calmness and physical and psychological relaxation. I could see this body, very calm, drifting slowly, and also saw bubbles coming out of its mouth. The scene was very real, but with an intense luminosity. I could see everything under the water, as if I had a diving mask on. | I noticed small details: pebbles which were ochre-colored (like fragments of house-tiles), also light-colored and striped pebbles, on the seabed, seaweed floating beneath the surface. The rest was sand. There were also small, almost translucent fish just under the surface, which were moving, then disappeared with a sudden flick of the tail. | Then suddenly the arms of the guy I was looking at beat the water with open-handed strokes of unbelievable force, and the body literally left the water to waist-level. This is when I saw the beach with its people and especially my brother and my cousin swimming rapidly towards me. | I fell back into the water, and just as at the beginning, I saw this body floating beneath the surface, sinking without any struggle. This lasted a short time, before the two arms began beating the water again, and the body came back out of the water, but not so far this time. That is when my brother got hold of me. | [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] My field of vision was enormous. I could see what was in front of me as well as part of what was behind me. |
| Luminosity was very great. It was
like being in a swimming-pool with searchlights at the bottom. I saw the different colors of the
pebbles, seaweed and fish, even though I was without a mask. 65b/4038 |
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| Wheeled into the hospital casualty ward. Suddenly I had a strange sense of complete weightlessness and began floating upward, I wasn't at all alarmed by the experience. I continued upward until I reached the ceiling about nine feet from the floor then stopped. For the first time in several days I actually got to see myself, not in a mirror but my body laying motionless on the hospital bed below me. What a sad and pathetic sight it was, a grey deathly gaunt color with deeply sunken eye sockets and cheek bones, and yet in spite of that ghastly sight there was a beautiful feeling of a tranquil peace and wellbeing. | I was almost immediately aware of a high sense of alertness and it seemed that I could see and hear everything and everyone within the large ward. Then I gradually became aware that I wasn't alone, and I'm not talking about the other people in the ward. There was an unseen 'someone' approaching me. An indescribable overwhelming love began to completely envelope me and with it came a sense of joy that defies words. I noticed there was a soft blue aura all round me (I later realized the blue aura was me). | Then a gentle yet all powerful voice spoke softly to me "Malcolm...Malcolm, it's not your time. Go back now." The best way I know how to describe the voice is - think of a million electric power stations all working together at the same time and this wouldn't even come close to the energy that his voice produced (I say 'his' because it was definitely a man's voice). The next thing I recall was waking up two days later in a different bed, in a different ward, being attended to by a young nurse. | [If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain.] I felt that I was able to zero in on any thing or anyone simply by drawing my attention to them regardless of the distance. | [How do you
currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience
was definitely real Prior to my NDE I was an atheist and didn't
believe in any afterlife, but after the NDE I had to reconsider
everything I believed. If this 'Being of love' wasn't God then who
or what was he? Why was I out of my physical body but still very
much alive? 66b/2359 |
| My heart stopped during an operation. I suddenly saw a clear light in a tunnel. As I entered further into the tunnel I became quite calm and relaxed. The clear light kept attracting me until I heard a voice mention my name. I then retraced my steps back through the tunnel and I lived again. | [Did you see
a light?] Yes a clear light that does not exist on earth. [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] Yes the light was at the end of the tunnel. |
[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was probably real. I could not really understand this until the doctors told me that I was really dead. | [What
emotions did you feel during the experience?] A glorious
warmth and relaxation. 67b/2243 |
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| Car behind me now shining in my rear passenger window. That was the last thing I remember. I then was above my car in euphoria. Everything was beautiful, the sun was out, I was smiling and felt warm and joyful. I looked at my car and could see it veering to the other side of the freeway as there was no divider. It was headed into the westbound lanes. I saw the car that hit me behind my car and it had stopped. The driver had gotten out and was looking at his front bumper. I looked again at my car traveling to the other side of the freeway. | I puzzled why it was moving. Suddenly a man's voice in my right ear stated, "If you don't go back, someone will die." I remember not wanting that to happen. I woke up with my hands on the steering wheel and trying to gain control of the car and trying to turn it away from the oncoming traffic. I eventually came to a stop. I am searching for a purpose in life. There has to be a reason that a man whispered in my ear that someone would die. | If he had said that it would be me that died, at that time in my life I would have embraced that happily. Even now trying to make a life until God is ready for me is a struggle, but I struggle looking forward to the day I can once again experience the euphoria of life after death. There is nothing like it and I want to search how to get it in this life. | [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] I halfway left my car. My body was stuck in the middle. My feet were in the car but my waist up was outside of the car. I was not confined but could turn around to see in every direction. I felt I could have gone further out but it happened so quickly I had not time. I had to get back into my car before it hit someone and killed them. | [What
emotions did you feel during the experience?] Joy and
peace, like a weight had lifted from me. Everything was in its
place and right action was happening. I was disappointed that I
had to go back to save a life. 68b/3385 |
| I was rear-ended and confused, seeing my car drifting toward the stopped car in front of me when my foot was completely on the brake and I had been fully stopped just seconds prior. I felt as though I was spinning as I bumped the car in front of me, and then looking ahead I saw them. Two semi's coming at me full force, I could hear the jake brakes, they were about 50 feet from me, one in each lane. I knew I was going to die in the next few moments. And I was fully ok with this revelation. Then my world stopped. I saw a bright flash of light brighter than the sun, there was complete silence. Diamonds were in the light shining and falling all around me. | I was spinning, flying, floating. It
was warm, and pleasant feeling.
I came to and realized my car was hanging off the side of an
overpass, the airbag was deployed and I was cut from the glass of
the windows. I was ok. My head hurt from hitting it. My car was on fire, and I couldn't get out of the door because my car was leaning sideways. A man who was about 5'4" and 140lbs came running to my side. He had a cleanly trimmed beard, a soft voice and strong hands. |
He lifted me out of the window as
though I were a child and carried me away from the fire. He sat me
down and said I would be alright now. Everything was going to be
ok. He reminded me of my grandfather in a strange way. One I
cannot describe. When the firemen and police arrived the man
disappeared and I have never seen him since. There is no account
of this man, no one saw him, and I don't even know if he was real.
But to me he was very real. He pulled me from a burning wreckage, he saved my life. |
[Did your vision differ in any way from your
normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such aspect...)?]
Bright and shining, full of light. Everything slowed down
that I saw, but my thoughts sped up simultaneously. 69b/3837 |
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| After a car accident I had an out of body experience. It wasn't during an operation, it was while I was in traction. I floated out of my body to the top of the room and then I floated into the hallway down to over the nurses' station and I could hear them speaking. I was very, very scared and yelling at the top of my lungs HELP! HELP! but they couldn't hear me. The next thing I know, I was back in my body. | [Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] The spirit does live outside the body and continues on. We can't see x-Rays, radio waves, gamma rays, but we know they exist. At the moment of death the body gets lighter. It is my belief at that exact moment, the physical body is dead, but the spirit exits. | At the same moment of death, the four candlepower of light we generate goes out and a fine mist leaves the body. That to me is the spirit moving into another dimension. I just finished a book titled God's Spirit Children having a Human Experience. Would you like to receive a free copy? It's based on my experience. | [Did your
vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any
aspect...)?] Normally I would wear glasses. During this
experience, I could see clearly without them. 70b/3335 |
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| I felt my body shutting down and then I had a flash of my entire life including pre birth. Then I was up and looking down at my back and I wasn't scared. I just kept thinking that any minute he'd go away and then I'll start to breathe again. I was ok with my body dying. Then I remember looking up and getting pulled/ sucked toward a great white light. When I got closer to the light I saw the outline of an adult's. | I was only there for a moment before I was sucked back and then I was breathing again. I looked around and it was now dark out with no sign of that man. I lay for a while just breathing and listening for any sign of him. I get up and RUN for home. I felt really weird after. | [Did you see
a light?] Very bright but soft and doesn't hurt the eyes to
stare right at it. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I saw the black outline of someone, adult. No communication. |
[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] I could see my life thru others' eyes, and see how my actions affected them. 71b/3732 |
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| Made it to the emergency room. Then, as I was signing the "consent" form, I "left"... My first recollection was at the top of the emergency room. I could see myself on the table, several doctors and two policemen. I heard the doctor tell the cop to take my personal belongings to "property," cuz "He won't be here in the morning". Then, (and there was no relative "time" frame)...my next vision was above the hospital looking down.. The next 'moment', I was in a space of light. No tunnel of light...just a space. | I "learned" later that time and space only exist in the third dimension, and once one leaves it; there is none. There was no "here" or "there". There was no definitive source of the light.. The "space" just WAS light. Then...here's where it gets kinda weird.... Three beings appeared to me. (Now it must be said that up until that time I had no understanding or knowledge of E.T.'s...afterlife stuff..NDE's...any of it..) | ... Soooooooo, There "I" was, in this "space" of light, with these three "beings" appearing in front of me. We had a "conversation," and later (*15 years), when all of this came "clear".. I was given a choice, AS IS ALWAYS DONE, to stay "gone" or to go back. "They" told me that they wanted my "form," (the physical form holds the cellular memories of all of one's experiences) and "they" wanted to send me back with a "new" spirit. | A "healing" and "teaching" one. But
that "they" wanted it in a "form" that had the ability to survive
until the "time" was "right." I must have agreed. The next thing I
remember was waking up in ICU. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] It needs to be known to ALL...that on the "other" side...there is no HELL, or "bad" place. If there were, I definitely would have gone there. |
There is NO PAIN...NO LOSS...NO PHYSICAL SENSES AT
ALL. Only peace, calm, connectedness to the "all-that-is"...a true
feeling of JOY...of "HOME". That's the only way I've ever been
able to describe it. 72b/3254 |
| I was given "less than a 2% chance of living." Although I was in a coma, I was very aware that I was in surgery. At the beginning I was lying on the table looking up. I saw the Indian Doctor to the left of me and a nurse with brown curly hair to the right of me They were both speaking to me and telling me if I want to live then it is up to me. The doctor asked me if I believe in God and if I do to keep thinking about that. I was then looking from above at my body and the doctor and nurses. I thought I was in heart surgery because my heart was pounding out of my chest erratically. | I remember being in a space, floating almost. I didn't feel my legs. It was dark but there was a green light in the background. It wasn't a brilliant bright light it was a soft green. I saw three silhouettes, I didn't recognize who or what they were but they spoke to me and said, "You can come with us or you can stay." I remember getting really mad because I was so young and there was no way I was going to let myself die. | I remember thinking of all things I didn't want to give up like the sound of ocean waves and thunderstorms, even the taste of hose water when I was a kid. I thought about my family and the smell of campfires. I wasn't ready to give that up. | [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] I was alert on a physical level where I knew what was going on with my body at the very beginning. Then I was in a space where I left my body and was encountered by three spirits, so at that moment I was I guess you would say spiritually aware. | [Did you meet
or see any other beings?] I did not know them. There were
three
silhouettes. They weren't male or female. They were asking me if I
want to stay or go with them. When I made the decision to stay I
was told by somebody else just to roll with the punches and live
with compassion. It will all make sense in the end. 73b/2432 |
| The doctor had nearly finished one half of the procedure when all of a sudden everything went gray. I began to experience the most wonderful sensation that I had ever felt. I was floating through what seemed to be a red tunnel of some sort. At the end of the tunnel was a bright light that did not bother my eyes at all. The light gave me a sense of strength and joy that is indescribable. Once I arrived at the end of the tunnel I saw a black table and seven people all dressed in white clothing standing on the other side of the table. | Six to my right and one to my left. I did not recognize any of the people standing before me. However, I do remember the table. The table top was made of gold and the table legs were thin, tall and square. On top of the table was a book in front of the person that was directly to my left. I remember wanting to go further towards the light. | I had no other thoughts other than wanting to go on towards the light. I know one or two of the people behind the table had said something to me but I can not remember what. But then, almost as quickly as everything had gone to gray, I was brought back. | [Describe your appearance or form apart from your body.] I do not remember seeing any physical part of my body during the experience. I did not notice my arms or my nose before my face. 74b/118 |
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| I started to turn blue. While I was out I saw my funeral. I saw myself in a casket, and I saw my friends and family crying. And then the vision faded out. And that was when I woke up on the ground. I feel this was a NDE. | [Do you think this was a NDE or a drug hallucination?] Did you ever hear of anything like this before? When I saw myself dead it was my 15 year old body and all my friends and family looked like they were when I was 15. | [Did your
vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any
aspect...)?] I was not in my body. It was as if I was
looking down at my funeral. 75b/3215 |
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| They were trying to save me...but I still died. Death was not bad. Jesus was really there. He and I were looking over the edge of the pit, sort of looking at where hell was. It reminded me of when I was little, looking over the edge of a bridge to the water below....it wasn't scary, just looking. He put His Arm around me. He loved me. Perhaps we were looking back at earth, I don't know. | I want more recollection of it all, because it is so important. But as I said above, they were giving me medicines, and I just can't remember everything. But I know I was There!! And I know I died. And I know that I woke up again in my own body, and I was SO SAD. Sad beyond words. I had been to Freedom with God...now I was trapped back here. | [Was the experience difficult to express in words?] Absolutely no one can understand where I have been, unless they have been there too. I have tried to explain this to my family members....but to no avail. I feel alone. I feel like no one really understands where I have been. Impossible to communicate?? That's an understatement! There aren't any words that I can find to describe what happened. | [Describe your appearance or form apart from your body.] I was just "Myself" for whatever that means. I know the doctors and Nurses were doing their best to help me, I know they wanted to save me...but I was already far away by then. And it was much better there than here. I thank them for their hard work, and their concern, but where I was, was still better than here. | [Did you meet
or see any other beings?] Jesus was there. He was kind,
warm, gentle, loving, and he cared about me. He received me. He is
REAL. I always believed in Him before, but now I can promise that
he is REAL. 76b/40 |
| I lay near death. My parents were brought into the room, and I remember floating high above my body so that I could touch the exposed pipes on the ceiling. I was surrounded by a great, ubiquitous light. I heard the nurse and doctor say to my parents, "She won't live through the night." My mother fell over the table, sobbing. My father, with whom I have always had a close bond, said that he would donate his blood to me directly from a table nearby. This was done and I survived. | [Describe
your appearance or form apart from your body.] I was not
concerned with my appearance, just with what was going on below
me. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Upset that I might be leaving my parents in great despair. I wanted to reassure them. |
[Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?] I wish I had been older at the time of this event. It has helped me to accept the real presence of Our Lord and know that He is all powerful and that my life is in His hands. I feel that He still has a job for me to do before I depart this earth. Now that I have raised my family, I am ready to go to the task. | My husband and I are ready to begin a
new chapter together. To whom much has been given, much is
expected and we are both such fortunate people to be able to
realize how blessed we have been with the most wonderful parents
God could have given us. 77b/85 |
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| I heard the doctor say, "He's gone." Then I was aware that I was floating above the bed at ceiling level. My first response was to wonder why my mother was crying because I felt very serene and peaceful. It did not occur to me that my position above the bed was unusual. I observed the doctor inject something into my left arm and I awoke the next morning. | [How do you
currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience
was definitely real. I am convinced that it was not drug induced
or a dream. 78b/3212 |
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| My grandfather said that there was nothing else he could do and pronounced me “dead.” When I died, I rose above my body and saw my grandfather working on my body. My body was of no interest to me; instead I moved out of the room towards a presence I felt in the living room area. I went towards this presence, which was within a brilliant, sun-light bright, light space - not a tunnel, but an area. The presence was unbelievable peace, love, acceptance, calm, and joy. The presence enveloped me and my joy was indescribable. | As I write this I am brought back to this emotion and it delights me still. The feeling is spectacular. I did not experience this presence as God (I was too young to understand the concept) but I did experience this presence as that which made me. I knew, with out a doubt that I was a made creature, a being that owed its existence to this presence. I do not remember reentering my body. | [How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. I was a child - I processed the experience by asking questions about dieing and eternity and the nature of God to just about anyone who would listen. Because my mother was the only one who responded to these questions, I ended up by just asking her my many questions. | [Was the kind
of experience difficult to express in words?] The emotional
part of the experience was unlike anything I have known on earth. [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I was with the presence. 79b/3183 |
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| In a frantic way I asked for help. Several minutes passed. At this time I was out of my body because I could see all the efforts neighbors were trying to revive me. I could see the paramedics, policeman, firemen and neighbors all gathering around that body laying there. The funny thing was I was watching the body, but like other spectators. My recollection is that I could move freely everywhere. | I felt very calm. I remembered looking down to my body. There was a very dark room. There I found two deceased neighbors which I appreciate and love them very much. I was so happy to find them there that I tried to hug them, but they dispersed like happens with smoke in the air. Few more attempts and the same happens. | They communicated with me with their minds, never spoke one word. Time and language don't exist there. I received many messages and have a recount of all the damage people who I care for inflicted on me. This was repeated over and over like when it happen. I was not aware or attentive. | [Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] Experienced lots of moments of people taking advantage of my kindness. I am very confused because I don't know if the information was for me to take revenge or to know. | [How did you
view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after
it happened?] Experience was definitely real. Why it
happens I'm still confused, but one thing I am certain is that
your behavior in this earth is related to your next experience. 80b/2854 |
| I went into respiratory arrest. There was this most amazing bright light. All of a sudden I was in the most beautiful place. The sky was so blue. The weather was so perfect. I was outside. It was just this huge big open lawn. Every member of my family and friends who had died was there. Even my dogs. I felt calmer than at any time in my life. I have never felt so at peace or happy. | Then my brother came over to me and hugged me and smiled and said it wasn't my time yet. And then all of a sudden I was awake and gasping for breath and surrounded by a whole lot of doctors and nurses. |
[Did you meet or see any other beings?] I knew them, and yes my brother communicated. Strangely though
it seemed like I didn't need to hear words. I could just feel what
they were saying. [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] I could see everything. Distance didn't matter. Everything was so much more real. |
[Did you become aware of future events?] I seem to be
able to predict stuff. It is so weird. I have heightened sense when
it comes to reading people. I don't know why. I was never like this
before. I know who did it on CSI Miami before the actors playing the
parts even do.
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| I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off. I was staring at my hand, and I saw myself draw away from my body. Then, something or someone 'pushed' me back into the world. I stood up quickly because I was startled by the whole thing. |
[Describe your appearance or form apart from your body.] I'm not sure what you mean by this. Did I feel a separation of mind and body? Yes. |
[Was the experience dream like in any way?] Yes, in that it did not seem entirely real. I still wonder if it actually did happen, although I'm virtually positive it did. | [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I didn't see or meet anyone or anything, but there was definitely someone else 'there'. 82b/163 |
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| I don't remember how I got into the ambulance, but once in I fell into a deep sleep, no pain. Suddenly, I was out of my body looking down at the EMT trying to get my pulse and saying, "We're losing her." I could see every detail of the ambulance, my body position, my friend's posture, the EMT's movements and instruments he was using to try to get my pulse back, even the color of the blanket that was wrapped around me. And even though I could see myself, I knew it wasn't me. | I had no feeling of panic or fear, just a passing interest of what was occurring. Within seconds of observing my lifeless body, I found myself traveling through a tunnel of sorts at lightening speed, sort of like the Star Wars movie "time warp." It was as though all energy of the universe was passing by me, and soon there were specks of bright white light converging into a glaring white light. | It felt like a rocket-propelled orgasm. This feeling was like no other I had experienced, and like no other I have experienced since then- it was as if providence was holding me. Then, I heard the voice of God in my head, and all at once he asked me, "Have you loved enough? Have you learned enough? | And have you experienced enough?" I suddenly realized that I had not done the things he had asked of me, and I screamed "No" I need to do more time. And just like that, boom! I was back in my body. | [What
emotions did you feel during the experience?] At first I
felt calm, then while traveling through the "tunnel" I felt
orgasmic. [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] It was more like the "tunnel" passed around me. 83b/3217 |
| I laid on the bed and noted that the clock read 1:50. My next memory was being in the corner of my bedroom watching people come and go. It was eerily quiet. In an instant I found myself near the ceiling in our entryway. I was watching and listening to a gentleman standing there directing people where to go: the wife was in the kitchen being questioned; the victim was in the bedroom. | [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] I have no recollection of being able to understand what was happening. I vividly remember being in the corner of the bedroom watching people come and go; then, I remember being overhead in the entryway watching and listening to a gentleman "direct traffic." | Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] It was like watching High Definition TV, as compared to normal: all people and things were vivid; there was no darkness or shadows. | [What
emotions did you feel during the experience?] I felt a
calmness and serenity I had never experienced before. 84b/2176 |
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| I first fall in a kind of waterhole with my feet forward. Then I decide to take the a path towards death, with the light at the end. I think of my life and my family. My son of five years old appears. He is an angel that smiles to me. How will he be doing without his father? | I have to climb up, I cannot.
But a hand grabs me. I don’t see a face. He helps me to turn my
head upwards where life is and I climb up and get out. 85b/959 |
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| I was almost to the door when I got the overwhelming feeling of spinning vibrations running up my body. It felt like my insides were spinning. As the spinning was going on, I could see all around the room though my body was stationary. The vibrations got stronger and stronger, and I felt as though I was lifting (all the while spinning as I was lifting) out of my body, exiting through the top of my head. Then all of a sudden everything was black. | As I was coming back into “sight” and out of the black darkness, to my surprise, I was floating on the ceiling looking down at my body watching my three friends and boyfriend over my body trying to shake me and slapping me lightly on the face trying to revive me. My body was limp and they could get no response from me. I watched the whole thing. | As I watched, I was scared. I didn’t understand any of this and thought I was dead. I was so scared because I thought, “Omg, I’m dead and they are going to bury me, but I’m not dead. I can see them and myself!” My next thought was, “I’m too young to die!” At that point I felt the spinning vibrations again, everything went black and I was back in my body. | [How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?] In the beginning, you get more spiritual, but I find as these occurrences happened more through the years and the more educated I get on the topic, I don't get all "wigged out" on a path to knowledge kind of thing and pretty much live a normal suburban house wife life. I don't follow any "religion" but believe in god. | [Did you
notice how your five senses were working, and if so, how were they
different?] One sense I recall was my sight zooming in
closer. It was like it targeted right into the scene below with my
body with a zoom in and out quality. As though just thinking about
wanting a better view would "zoom" my sight in closer even though
I was still on the ceiling level. 86b/633 |
| I have no recall of the accident or how I got to my parents' house. What I do recall is, I was with my biological mother who passed 12 yrs earlier and countless others who loved me and were so happy to see me and I them. I felt as though they were caring for me and began wondering why they had to care for me and that is when I was told it was to keep me safe and that I would have to leave soon. | And oh I so didn't want to go since I felt a very powerful all loving, content, sensation that I was Home! I was surrounded with a powerful energy source and was a source of positive energy myself and was interested and slightly confused as to why I wouldn't be staying with them. Then I awoke, in pain and very very sad. | [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] I was taken to a beautiful meadow with the most gorgeous plant life and colors so vibrant that I've never seen anywhere. It was amazing! | [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I started wondering why I was with loved ones who have passed on and began asking them questions. | [Did you meet
or see any other beings?] My mom and other loved ones that
had passed on, I didn't know all of them, they were greeting me
telepathically. 87b/3964 [Also in sample a.] |
| I was, I want to say "floating," but it felt more like I was being pulled backwards through space. I was not scared, I felt very peaceful. I could see the earth and it was getting further away. I could see the planets going by me, and I could see the stars. At this point is when I was told but I didn't hear a voice why everything was and especially a lot about the earth which I cannot remember today. I just remember having this knowing of all things. | And I looked at the earth smiled and said to myself, almost like a light bulb going off, "Oh I get it." I understood and it was very beautiful and there was no sense of time as I was moving through space. Also as I got to a certain point my body turned although I was not aware of my body and never actually looked down so I don't know. | As my body turned I felt like there was someone there but didn't see anything but something was communicating with me telepathically and every thought was instant. What the conversation was I don't remember. I looked ahead and there was a vast almost panoramic line of light stretched across space. I could see blackness above it and blackness below. | As I got closer to this light which sort of looked like the sun shining through a thick opaque type of glass. It was very comforting and not painful to look at like the sun. As I got further is when the overwhelming sense of my body absorbing all of this light it engulfed me. It washed me, it filled me up with such love I cannot explain. | There is no word stronger than love
here on earth to describe it. I know now that this was god. As I
got closer I could see silhouette shapes of people all lined up
along the vastness of this light and that was it. I woke up in the
morning. 88b/4066 |
| My friend lost the control on the car. Then I saw something like a fantasy. I looked behind and I saw the lamb of the street and I was going to it very quickly. I entered the car quickly, then the story began. I felt that I am so tall, with no weight, out of control. I saw everything of my past life, since my birth. I saw it as if I watched it, then everything disappeared. I was walking, but the step in a length of ten steps. When I turn my face to left or right, I see persons; some of them observing me, the others were looking at me as if they are waiting something from me. Others looking at each other. | I saw many people whom I mistreated
them or hurt them. They were looking at me as if they want to take
revenge. Then I stopped without my wish, as if there is a sign of
compulsory (STOP), though there is a long road or other world in
front of me (the end). I didn’t reach it yet. I was so frightened without heart beating! Then I felt that my body is so cold, I don’t know why at that time. Then I felt as if I was falling from a high cliff. I didn’t feel the crash in the ground, everything was dark. |
Then I felt that I have a body. I stood up, then I feel that my body turning and hit on hard thing in the left and right. Then I fell on the ground. It was very cold. Then I stood up and I saw a light and a face of some man. The man looked at me and escaped, like there was a lion running after him. Do you know who that man was? He was the man who is responsible for burying the dead. I was out of the fridge. The time? It was timeless, some hours finished as if minutes, and minutes ran as hour. | [Was the
experience dream like in any way?] Near to it, but it’s
events were so real. [Did you see a light?] Yes, as any light, but it is similar to the moon light, not as sun light. [Did you have any sense of altered space or time?] Yes. The time has no measurement, and the place has no existence! 89b/964 |
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| I felt that I was losing consciousness. Suddenly I saw my body from outside – it was standing vertically and from the front of it, along the center line, I saw several rays of a bright light bursting from a few spots on the body. I thought those were chakras (after I awakened, I asked my friend of what he was doing, and he replied that he was healing me using a method based on "flushing the chakras," possibly that is what I saw; before the experience I did not know what he would be doing). I looked at my body from a side, without any amazement or feeling sorry. | Suddenly I was in a huge "funnel". It was a pipe, very large in diameter, going far so much that it looked that its walls narrow into a point (that's why I say "funnel"). The funnel was colored and brightly lit. The walls of the funnel were colored along a helix, all colors were bright and clean; I only recognized red and yellow, about other colors I thought I had never seen them before. I had a feeling of a complete reality of the experience! | I flew through the funnel along a spiral at a great speed, very loud noise in my ears, like a very strong wind. On the walls of the funnel, not sure how attached, there were some unusual objects; at that moment I knew what they were, but forgot later. I have a vague feeling that they were toys. While flying, I heard voices talking to me. They were a bit with an echo, with unusual timbre, I think now that they were muffled as by cotton. | Then I clearly understood what they were telling me and knew that they belong to three apostles, but when I returned, I forgot what they were saying. Being in the "funnel" I felt happy, free, joyfully amazed like a child. I had a feeling, that in my earthly life I saw everything through a very dusty glass. Than I felt that somebody caught me in an extremely rude way and threw me back. I was back in the room. | [Did you pass
into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] I flew through a
huge pipe. Flight trajectory was a helix. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Pure joy, clear mind, freedom, excitement, amazement. 90b/3702 |
| I could see the doctors and nurses because I was looking down on them and myself. At this point things started to happen very fast and I was drawn through a tunnel toward a bright light. There were other lights along the tunnel that were people. I was very excited because when I got to the end of the tunnel I would know everything! | I was moving very fast!! I never did make it to the end of the tunnel. I think I saw some things about my family's move to Anacortes that would take place in a year and I also saw a woman who might be me grown up. I woke up in the hospital bed. | [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] It was a tunnel that was dark with lights that were people...at the end was an incredible bright light. | [Did you meet or
see any other beings?] The lights along the tunnel were
people, but I did not know them. They were encouraging. 91b/2014 |
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| Hospitalized as a newborn with pneumonia. The first part of my experience wasn't quite dream-like, it was different. I wasn't what I am now. I don't think I can define what I was. But I was led by other entities to a this strange machine. I remember it making a low hum, but I couldn't hear it. I could still sense the vibration it made though. The tone of this was something that had to be done--very solemn. Then I seemed to enter or become one, or passed through this machine thing and entered into a tunnel, and as I had described elsewhere, I had none of my earthly senses. | I felt I was infinitely small, conducted through this tunnel, yet squeezed through it, or perhaps fitting through it perfectly, as if the tunnel and I were of the same. The length of time I was in the tunnel seemed instantaneous and infinite, simultaneously. It's a feeling that I just cannot describe in words.. The next thing I recalled after that is that I was, for lack of any other words, alive. I can't remember anything else past or before that point. | [Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] The feeling I felt when I was in the tunnel.. Time ceased to exist, or hadn't existed for me yet. The trip through the tunnel was both instantaneous and eternal simultaneously. The feeling of not being yet formed. I had no human senses. I felt as if I was infinitely small in size, immaterial. And moving at an indefinite speed, faster than the cognitive mind could comprehend. It's obvious that I have never felt that since. | [Was the
experience dream like in any way?] not really.. I have
never had and I don't think I could have a dream like that. It
wasn't my mind creating this. [Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?] A low hum.. I couldn't really hear it, but I could feel it's vibration.. [Did you recognize any familiar locations...?] The place I remember it seemed Enormous, yet at the same time immaterial, undoubtedly not of this dimension. |
[Did you see
a light?] It seemed the farther down the tunnel I went the
further from the light I got, until it was void of light and
reached the end. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I was being led by them, at least two that were just slightly more powerful than myself, as I recall. There was a third entity that I couldn't see, but was with me, everywhere. I could only assume it had to be God. 92b/641 |
| I remember being rolled on my side so they could place the tube into my mouth and then I blacked out. All of a sudden there was no pain and I remember distinctly a humming noise like the sound of very powerful electrical current that was the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. It is so hard to explain but it is like a hummmmm, but as if it was played by the most perfect orchestra in the world. You probably won't understand that part but it was very distinctive. | The next I remember was seeming to become part of everything but moving with huge fluorescent light structures that formed waves and were perfect in size and movement and the light was perfect. For some reason everything seemed to all of a sudden make sense: the world, myself, everything was answered in an instant, and it seemed I knew everything. | There were no beings but energy like myself that was part of everything, and there was no coolness or heat or wind or anything, just perfect fluorescent lights that controlled all the structure and gently everything moved in waves. | I then just remember coming back and the doctor and everyone was standing over me, and the pain started to come back again. 93b/2851 |
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| While I was being off-loaded from the medical helicopter at the hospital, I had the out of body near death experience. I was in an atmosphere of absolute white that had no ending anywhere. It was an unending white void. Suddenly, my late parents came to greet me but I do not recall them speaking to me. Other people were there suddenly and I did not recognize any of them. I was at total peace and comfort. As I was being treated in the emergency room, I again passed out and went into a coma for two days. By GOD's own hand, I was able to pull through and recovered as much as possible. | [How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. I was a deeply religious man and the experience has caused me to become even more close to God and Jesus. I was deemed to be too damaged to revive and was left to die. GOD explained to the surgeons that I needed the help and that HE had other plans for me. I know that death is a passage, and now I look forward to the day that I join GOD in Heaven. | Death does not frighten me at all,
and in the past it had. [Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body? Yes. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] My late parents and strangers. No communication. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Calm and relief from life. 94b/3853 |
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| I became dizzy. Two people were present, one known and one unknown to me. They both said they would walk with me a bit. At that moment I collapsed. I felt comfortable and warm, and saw myself lying on the pavement at the street. However the street was not made of asphalt but of glass, with a bright light underneath. Actually, the whole street was light. | Lateral to the street were bows of light, behind me. Before
me new bows of light came up. Then it was as if someone woke me
up. I thought, “Please let me sleep.” A doctor was resuscitating
me. 95b/2806 |
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I was in extreme pain when I heard nurse yell at doctor. 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 can't fit thru that hole. That worried me. I finally realized I wasn't in my body. About that time they zapped me with defibrillator. I woke up. |
[Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. I went to church and entered into family faith: Catholic. |
[Did you see a light?] Yes it was very small at first, getting larger as I went. When they zapped me it sill wasn't big enough for me to go through. | [How do you
currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience
was definitely real. God was giving me a new chance to redeem
myself. 96b/2648 |
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| I became weaker and began to stumble around eventually collapsing. I looked at the trees and the neighbor's house. The colors begin to pixel into solid square blocks of colors. Like if you slowly move closer and closer to your monitor screen until you're nose touches the screen. Then I saw black color still fully conscious but no longer in my backyard. I never really thought that I could be passing over never occurred to me. I had no more body, could not feel hot or cold. I didn't need to breathe, I didn't hear any sounds. I was pure consciousness. | As I looked around, but not through my eyes, I just had vision and consciousness. I saw a black void endless in depth. I remember just thinking, "Hmm, okay, big black void?" As I was floating in the void I turned to see what was pulling me forward slowly. I didn't feel any force on me just the sensation of being pulled towards something. I looked forward if you call it forward and saw a light in the void. | I would say it was about 400 yards ahead of me and I would be there in about two minutes, at my constant speed. As I drifted towards the white light that twinkled like a star, it didn't hurt to look at it. After the year I finally realized the passage in the Bible, I believe it goes: "As I enter into the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil." | Suddenly and quickly faster than I enter the void, everything went into reverse and I moved away from the white light. Colors that were blocks of color began to focus again and I saw the trees and house clearly again. I was back in my body in the backyard. | [Describe your appearance or form apart from your body.] As I entered the black void I realized my body was no longer with me. I could see but only with my mind's eye like dreaming, but everything was clear. I was pure consciousness having/retaining all knowledge of my life and memories. I was not any smarter. 97b/281 |
| We hit another car. After this happened I remember walking into a grey zone, another plane that was like a duplicate of this Earth. I wondered where my friend was because, although I couldn't see him I knew he definitely was not on this plane...it was just a knowing from somewhere I can't explain. I felt lost and confused it was hazy and I was walking through bush, trees...just wandering. It was misty grey, foggy almost. I was not afraid but neither joyful, just confused and dreamy. | All of a sudden a firm father-like voice told me "You must go back, you cannot stay here." It was not an evil voice just firm, as I was the type of person that would likely not listen to a softer tone. This voice I listened to and remember almost instantly becoming present again in my body, but it was only my head, near were some would call the third eye area that I was present, like my soul wanted to just sit there because my injuries were so bad. | I was looking down with no knowledge of time, space or identity, it was just nothing, no feeling and looking at someone else's body. My body made a weak moan and my soul I think it must have been was wondering were it came from because it was so loud in the head area were I or we sat, very strange experience. | [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I or my soul was in my forehead/third eye area. | [Did you meet
or see any other beings?] I did not see the being who I
believe to have been God, but I definitely heard him, that's for
sure! He told me in a stern voice that I must go back. 98b/3740 |
| I became dizzy and collapsed. I can remember floating up into a tube-like area with a very bright light at the end. Everything was turning around much like a tornado as I elevated up toward the light. I was soooo relaxed and very comfortable, more than I had ever felt before. I did not want to be disturbed as I could hear my Father's voice trying to bring me around. I just wanted to keep going. | [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes, the light was so bright I couldn't see anything else. The walls around me seemed like air spinning. | [How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. I didn't give it much thought as to whether it was real or not. I knew it was real. | They were asking me to their house
to do readings on a regular basis. It became so draining I had to
stop. I no longer do this, but I still can sense events with good
accuracy. 99b/2002 |
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| I can remember the doctor applying ether. After a few seconds I saw my body floating in the air and moving to the right side of the room. I was amazed at what I saw. (I could remember every detail of the operation and I told the doctors about it when I was being moved to my room after the operation.) I went further to the right and I suddenly found myself in a grey desert. And heard a voice coming from underground saying “There is GOD. There is GOD. There is GOD.” | (I still can’t remember if the voice spoke Polish or English.) The word ‘ecstasy’ describes the feeling best. Apart from ecstasy I also felt great awe for God. I went further till I reached a tunnel and rays of sunlight. I knelt down and I felt God. I must say that as a five year old I was fascinated by the Sun and I tried hard to reach for it and touch it. | I don’t know if this fact means anything but I know that I’ve changed a lot since this experience. I’m not the person I used to be. I like people the way they are. In silence, I like talking to my God. |
[Describe your appearance or form apart from your body.] My conscience was connected to a translucent body. 100b/1002 |
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| I can’t remember the accident itself. I regained my consciousness when I was back in my apartment (that’s what I thought). The only difference was that there were cases and cupboards with drugs and medicines everywhere. After some time, a woman appeared. I can’t remember if we talked. At one point, a light door appeared in the wall and the woman asked me to come with her through it. We were to be back soon. I agreed because I trusted her. We went through the door. On the other side, she was no longer there. | Everything looked like an underground factory (I cannot describe that place, but I guess a factory is what it felt like). There were a lot of people there. They were running naked in all directions. I just sat and observed them. They couldn’t see me or they just didn’t pay attention to my presence. Some time passed and I wanted to find exit. I wasted a lot of time and didn’t find anything. | I was getting upset and angry and lost consciousness. When I regained it, I was still In that factory, but there were no people this time, just the woman that took me there. She said I would stay there (I think the communication was telepathic, we didn’t talk in the usual way). I felt deceived. She had said we were going to come back. She asked me what I didn’t like about the place. | I didn’t answer, but I felt she understood my situation. All the people that I would leave on earth came to my mind instantly. I was very sad, for the first time in my life the feeling of sadness was so strong. I then felt sucked into this world and started to regain consciousness. | [What was
your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?]
I was fully aware of who I am, I paid attention to details.
[Was the experience dream like in any way?] It was similar to a dream, but this dream was so realistic, that even after six years I remember it vividly. 101b/1089 |
