2.    It was extremely dark. I walked down a stairway into what looked almost like an underground stream with a small walkway on the side. ... As I got closer to the light, everything started getting dark. Soon I was in complete darkness and felt as if I were falling up.  3a/2503

3.    Along the sides of me were other people who were in the darkness that were trying to climb up but couldn't and seemed stuck in a huge mass of themselves. ... Those that had welcomed me were gently moving me back toward the darkness. I was told that in time I would visit again and to be vigilant in my life. I went backward into the darkness and saw the people on either side of me pulling at each other and trying to find the light.  4a/4023

4.     The colors seemed flat and muted, but considering the lights were off in my normally pitch-black room, I was astonished to be seeing everything with such clarity. ... Likewise there were no windows and the room was completely dark.  5a/4025

5.    Suddenly I found myself in darkness where something or someone was drawing me to them.  7a/4003

6.    I felt as if I was squeezed through a dark tube of some kind. I imagine birth could be like it. It felt heavy and hard to squeeze through. When I was out of this dark tube I felt great. ... I begged to stay and then I felt this dark tight tube around me again and at this moment I heard the nurse call my name.  13a/4015

7.    Everything started to speed up, and then it went dark.  17a/4010

8.    Then all of a sudden I was pulled through this tunnel to a white light.  18a/4009

9.     It was blackness and night sky, a sense that there was ground beneath me.  19a/4006

10.    For a while, I ceased to exist... then darkness, a clear sensation of floating, during which my mind continued to function.  19a/4006

11.    Every thing went dark, but then immediately it turned in to a vast place with no dimensions, time or sound. I was alone in this place, or I thought I was at the time. I could still see and looked in all directions, even under myself and saw only light gray.  26a/3994

12.    However, as I turned slowly, there was darkness, and a small light at the apparent end. In this tunnel, I could see glimpses of dark blue, purple and gold specks, illuminating the walls of this long, and very quiet tunnel. ... At that time, I turned around, back to the direction I had so calmly came from, and was immediately pulled back through the dark tunnel. It was so fast, that I didn't see any of the magical colors within the dark travel.  39a/3897

13.    I became aware that I was traveling rapidly through darkness. It wasn't quite a tunnel, but it did seem to have a form and direction, even though it was dark. ... I got closer to the light, to the point where the darkness disappeared and I was preparing to join the light.  41a/3292

14.    I then was in a dark meeting room with doctors sitting around with one standing facilitating over the others with charts and information on my case. ... Then it was dark, hot, extremely hot, the surroundings were rocky, dusty, like a canyon underground, and I was being led downward with the heat intensifying.  42a/3970

15.    Next thing I remember was complete darkness and feeling very confused. Then I realized I was in a tunnel and did not know how to get out. I started to feel scared and it was then that I saw a glow of light and a hand reach out to me. [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] The tunnel was the only thing I did not like. It was very dark and you are just walking until you see the light.  48a/3959

16.    I travel in a black tunnel...with great speed...forgotten everything....in this world.  53a/3957

17.    Somehow I knew I had to enter the right door in the limited time I had as after that all the doors would close never to open again leaving me all alone in the dark void forever.  56a/3947

18.    [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes. There was no light. Everything was black and yet I could see clearly.  58a/2021

19.    Then everything went black and I totally relaxed. It was a very, very peaceful, calm feeling. There was no pain, no stress, no worries. The next thing I remember was I was standing at the door of a very dark space looking out at a beautiful fall day. ... I believe it was because the place behind me was so dark and the sun had nothing to reflect off of to light up their faces. I could see the hair on their heads and arms very well because the sun was highlighting it. It was kind of like the boys were in silhouette. That was all I remember before I woke up.  67a/3935

20.    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.  68a/3934

21.    Then the blackest black...nothingness...I saw no tunnel, no light. Just blackness. It didn't inspire fear. I felt perfectly fine, and somewhat like a detached observer.  73a/3928

22.    I was FLYING, super fast, head first down a long, dark hallway. It was very dark. ... It felt like we were going down that dark hallway for a long time. I remember just thinking "No. Where am I?"  74a/3923

23.    I just remember going into a wide and long tunnel, like entering a train tunnel. At the beginning there was still earthly light, then I entered darkness which was not complete even as it was getting denser and denser, and it filled the whole arch, darkness was indeed not black but rather dark grey and thick in its outlines, dense, in the center the void was clear. At the end of this tunnel, I saw this beautiful, extremely attractive light, and to which I came closer very fast.  78a/3916

24.    [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] It seemed I was in a dark place but within a close proximity there was something or someone and a light.  89a/3905

25.    I felt like I was being hurtled quickly through the darkness.  90a/3899

26.    [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] I could see further, and almost a night-vision type look sight. I could see the trees perfectly clear, even though my headlights weren't showing them, and there were no street lights.  91a/3893

27.    Suddenly I entered a dark tunnel, feeling all the time at peace and in harmony, feeling wonderful ... .  95a/3896

The above were selected from the first random sample.

The following were selected from the second random sample.

1.     Suddenly I slide from the wall and then all was dark around me, deep dark. ... Suddenly it was dark, but a different dark, and I began to feel my own body again.  6b/3472

2.    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.  11b/3555

3.    Behind me was a dark tunnel with a light at the end.  13b/3199

4.    Then everything got dark.  15b/4198

5.    Then everything goes black.  16b/2795

6.    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 see a light?] I saw light when I experienced being outside of the car and darkness, pitch black darkness in the void.  18b/2995

7.    I was in a dark void or space like in the universe without the stars.  24b/2764

8.    It all went black....just for a couple of seconds then this awesome light exploded in front of me.  26b/N. P.

9.    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.  27b/151

10.    It was totally dark and a soft light began to materialize.  28b/710

11.    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...  32b/2253

12.    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.  36b/3186

13.    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

14.    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.  38b/186

15.    The next thing I knew I was in darkness watching a detailed review of my life up to that point in my life.  41b/3123

16.    I remember being in a dark grey void.  44b/2236

17.    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. ... 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.  53b/2377

18.     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.  54b/3934 [This report arose also in first random sample.]

19.    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.  55b/214

20.    Suddenly I slid from the wall and then all was dark around me, deep dark. ... 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.  62b/3472

21.    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.  73b/2432

22.    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 ... .  86b/633

23.     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.  88b/4066

24.    ... everything was dark.  89b/964

25.    [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.  91b/2014

26.    [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.  92b/641

27.    Went into tunnel. It was black.  96b/2648

28.    I saw a black void endless in depth. I remember just thinking humm ok 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. ... 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.  97b/281

The above were selected from the second random sample.

The following were selected  from the fourth random sample.

1.    I also remember wandering around in a charcoal-colored fog.  6d/Feb. 25, 2002

2.    After a bit the ceiling dissolved into darkness and opened up. I was drawn upward into a sort of tunnel although I could not see the walls. ... I was escorted back to the dark cave and I returned down the tunnel, with air rushing by, as on the way up.  5d/Feb. 26, 2002

3.    Everything became dark and suddenly I was falling through a tunnel. It looked very futuristic, like something out of Star Wars, with lights zooming by me at warp speed.  10d/March 26, 2002

4.    I went to a gray void area and was looking around into the darkness.  12d/April 4, 2002

5.    It was dark and I saw the light.  17d/June 16, 2002

6.    Suddenly, I was falling down this pitch black pit. My stomach felt as if I was on a roller coaster, the speed I was traveling at had to be tremendous. It sounded very echoey.  22d/Sept. 8, 2002 

7.    I was speeding through a black tunnel with reddish colors--so fast. I felt scared. I had no control, and the experience was horrible. It ended and I find myself in a place of black. A void. Time went on forever, but there was no time. Space went on forever, but there was no space. Time and space were one. Time and space did not exist.  26d/Oct. 27, 2002

8.    It was completely black. I had no sense of a body. I was very confused. I explain it as the feeling you get if you’re very little and you lose your mom in a crowd. It was total fear and aloneness. For a second I thought I might be in hell, it was so empty. Then a PEACE came over me. I felt like I was totally loved, totally happy. I had no fears or worries or pains. It was wonderful. I started hearing music. Beautiful music and, I started seeing a mirage of colors.  28d/Nov. 19, 2002

9.    In the beginning I was walking somewhere and it was dark, it looks like a different town or city. ... It is so dark I can see nothing.  29d/Dec. 19, 2002

10.    I soared down the hall into a darkened kitchen that filled me with fear. Still my spirit went there.  31d/Jan. 7, 2003

11.    I do still have a very unsettling feeling of darkness, such ungodly bitter cold, like a large void and an utter feeling of hopelessness.  33d/Feb. 2, 2003

12.    I could see a small white light surrounded by darkness.  37d/April 23, 2003

13a.    Suddenly I would be "sucked" into a black tunnel. Each time I was in a sitting position and traveling backwards at what seemed to be incredible speed.  38d/April 23, 2003

13b.    3. The "Void" Experiences. I fell into an altered state and found myself traveling into a dark Void. Within this Void, there was only me and I was God. There was no "other."  The darkness surrounding me was absolute, and yet it was not empty. The Void seemed pregnant with probability as if every event that ever was or ever will be was contained within it. I found the experience to be completely acceptable while I was in the Void. I had no emotion or fear. Only being and knowing. Afterwards, however, when I emerged, I was overwhelmed. I cried for three days because there was no other, and I desperately wanted there to be other.  38d/April 23, 2003

14.    Felt as though I was emerging from an eternity of black nothingness.  46d/June 4, 2003

15.    Next thing...we were in a dark eerie place. I was standing in a pew with a few people.  51d/Aug. 11, 2003

16.    That's when everything turned black and I felt myself floating. I was able to open my eyes to see but couldn’t make out what was in front of me.  53d/August 29, 2003

17.    I had the feeling that there was darkness and a void behind me.  55d/Sept. 16, 2003

18.    All went calm, soft and dark and I felt more than fine. I felt at peace.  60d/Nov. 11, 2003

19.    Then everything went black.  61d/Nov. 11, 2003

20.    At first everything went black and it got very cold.  68d/March 4, 2004

21.    Suddenly, I was pulled into complete darkness. Amidst the total darkness, I smelled an indescribable odor. ... Then I began to feel myself moving upward. As I was being pulled upward, I began to feel as if I was in a tunnel, an endless, pitch-black tunnel.  69d/March 4, 2004

22.    It was like being alone in the dark with nothing around that "exists."  71d/March 4, 2004

23.    I was floating on my back, feet first through a dark void. ... There was no fear associated with this void, in fact I was unnaturally calm. Delightfully at peace. (endorphins?) During the 'void-journey' phase the medical staff must have been resuscitating me, because it all ended abruptly ... .  78d/April 30, 2004

24.    It was the sensation of speeding (through space?) and hearing or thinking the words "At last." Felt as though I was emerging from an eternity of black nothingness.  79d/June 4, 2004

25.    I was in space, darkness and I became aware I had no body but was floating and yet I could still feel the pain. How could this be? ... Then I was in total darkness with gray mist around me, floating. Who was I? Where was I?  82d/Aug. 20, 2004

26.    Then everything went slowly to a deep blackness. I was aware in this place, but there was nothing except a profound feeling of peace, calmness, serenity. Like finding your favorite hidey hole in the dark. This went on for what seemed an eternity, just the pleasant darkness.  87d/Oct. 26, 2004

27.     My hands went limp, my body slumped over. My soul fell, fell, fell, fell, fell into darkness, the pit, nothingness ... .  88d/Oct. 26, 2004

28.    I was (suddenly... some time after going to bed?) plunged into a very black dark void. While being in this void I also knew (?) that I was dead and needed to look for 'the light'. It felt very natural, as if this was the next logical thing to do.  I was not at all worried about the fact that I was dead. Knowing that I have died seemed totally irrelevant and unimportant. I was not even slightly curious or interested in the body or life I had left behind. While looking for 'the light' within this extremely dark void a voice said to me: 'Go back, it is not your time yet'.  92d/Jan. 3, 2005

29.    I felt like I was going down a tunnel. It was dark at first and then it was very light, bright sun light.  95d/Under the Surface

30.    I felt distinctness in the tunnel with the outer darkness being a void.  101d/Change in Thought

1.    I saw a spherical long dark tunnel before my eyes, spinning around me, full of what seemed to be dark clouds.  1e/Lucid

2.     I was then inside some sort of dark place that was getting darker and darker. It started whirling around me, and I was feeling intense vibration inside my body. It was so powerful that I thought I was going to be dissolved. Just when it got so powerful I thought I was a goner. I was out of the “tunnel,” if that is what you can call it. I was in a place of total darkness. I raised my hand and looked at it. I thought, “Almost too dark to see your hand in front of your face. What is this place?” I looked around, and I seemed to be standing on something solid, but I couldn’t see it. I felt my body, and I was wearing clothes, but they seemed to be of a much finer fabric than my tee shirt and blue jeans. ... It was bright and light, but I could see past this a dark blackness. I knew it was infinity out there.  3e/Communication

3.    I remember a black tunnel and being totally out. ... This place had no planets or stars; there was darkness and the only light source was the light humanoid beings.  5e/Billions

4.    Next, I found myself in a very dark, cold place. I did not want to stay in the cold, dark area. ... the angel informed me that it was "not my time." Instantly, I was back in the cold, dark place.  6e/Precognition

5.    She and the wolf led me down a long dark tunnel. ... The woman and the wolf were there and walked me back through the tunnel.  7e/Guidewolf

6.    The next thing I was sitting cross-legged (supported mid air) in the middle of a great void. It wasn't dark. It wasn't light. It was NOTHING. I was in the middle of absolutely nothing. I can't express how empty it was. I felt no emotion. Not even calm. I seemed to be there an eternity, as if there was no such thing as time. I had been there for the whole of existence, in both directions.  15e/Non-existence

7.    I was in a dark tunnel with space on each side of me. I could tell I was moving and I didn't know how.  16e/Hurried

8.    I began a terrifying journey down a black spiral tunnel to an amazingly bright light, the likes I have never seen before or since. ... The journey back was the same, but this time into darkness.  17e/Mother

9.    I entered a dark channel, a corridor, a tunnel, a canal... I remember thinking, "Yes, this is the birth canal." I thought with a big sigh, "I don't want to be born again." I realized with relief that wasn't happening.  23e/All One

10.    I was standing in a dimly lit long tunnel and began walking toward the source of the light.  24e/Source

32.    I was somewhere really dark. I'm me the way I was a moment before, no change. I'm whole and I can move in any direction I want without any effort whatsoever, but at the same time it's as if I'm all eyes. I can see even behind me and darkness is all there is to see. There is nothing to be afraid of though. I feel comfortable in that nothingness and a little as if I'm waiting for something to happen. As I'm floating in slow circles I notice a white dot and I decide to go toward it.  85e/Home

33.    I suddenly found myself in a black void. I felt very comfortable but very surprised. There was no sense of vision, including no colour or light (not even a hint of visual stimuli as one may see even when eyelids shut in a dark room), complete silence - except for the hint of a memory of a "click" having come from the left side just some moments previously, no sense of temperature or pain or touch or smell/taste whatsoever. There was a sense of enclosed space, like this black void was within a container that was not very large. There may have been a sense of being suspended - of floating but not moving - or there may have been complete stillness - at this stage of writing I cannot be sure which. There were full powers of logical reasoning and language. I found myself thinking, "Where am I? What's happened? What was I doing?...  87e/Lucid

34.    I immediately looked down toward my body. I could see a cord connecting me to my body, hanging down from me and softly swaying. It looked like shimmering, softly glowing, grey silk. We were still connected. My body was far away, downward, in a very dark place. The space between us looked dark and foggy or smoky, very dismal.  89e/Self-Evident

35.    I felt myself standing alone. The atmosphere changed it became dark and I started to panic. At home my mother had always left the hall light on at night, as she knew I feared the dark. I started to cry and call out for her. She wasn't there! I thought I was all alone, as nobody was shouting back to me; however, I didn't feel alone. For some reason I didn't even feel frightened. I felt a warmth inside me as though I was in my mother's arms but I knew she wasn't there.  90e/Shed Body

36.    I began to move in what I'll call a tunnel through dark space slowly, on an angle, not straight up. I was not happy with this and afraid! As I ascended in this tunnel, it became warmer and I began to relax.  100e/Peace