I was conscious of "being me" throughout.  1a/4028  [This was the first report drawn in sample a, 4028 is NDERF's number for it.]

My mind felt cleared and my thoughts seemed quick and decisive.  5a/4025

I could move around, in short I had an "I".  6a/4013

There was actually no break in my stream of consciousness between reviewing my life before this new landscape, and while I was observing it. ... I kept on THINKING.  12a/4016

I was seeing, feeling, but I had a body that looked like transparent! But my thinking was normal.  13a/4015

I also understood that my body is like a car my consciousness drives.  15a/2053

All the time I was also aware of my body and I was watching what was happening to it.  19a/4006

For a while I ceased to exist, then darkness, a clear sensation of floating during which my mind continued to function.  22a/3992

I was so confused thinking, "Wow why do they bother? I don't need my body. I'm fine, actually better than before."  38a/3975

When I was "in" my body, I didn't know what was going on. When I was "hovering" I had vivid thoughts.  46a/3962

I was more alive than I had ever been before.  47a/3961

Throughout the period the self level of consciousness and alertness was there.  53a/3957

I felt that my body was separate from my spirit and they were on two different planes of existence.  66a/3938

During the experience I seemed to be perfectly lucid and conscious.  70a/3926

I remember just thinking: "No. Where am I? Where are we going?"  74a/3923

I knew what was going on. I knew it as a fact, not assuming. I was dead.  84a/3913

I remember being able to think and figure out what do, figure out all the outcomes.  91a/3893

In my mind I asked what was happening.  92a/3892

I thought about my two grown sons, neither of whom I had told about the surgery. It was an indifferent, wondering feeling to think how surprised they would be to learn I was dead.  93a/3889

And I sure was OK, felt great, full of a sensation of fulfillment, and conscious of what had happened to me.  95a/3896

I believe I was conscious throughout the whole event.  99a/3846

My whole self was like a sole consciousness – no body, no extension, no beginning and no end in that awareness that was me.  100a/3876

I remember thinking that I was not prepared to die...too young.  2b/2629

I didn’t have a body, I was immaterial. I had only my thought and stop, nothing all.  6b/3472

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.  14b/397

I was fully conscious of everything, feeling and thinking very clearly.  26b/N. P.

I was free, the world of pain had disappeared, I was more focused.  30b/2317

I saw and felt with great clarity.  32b/2253

It was me but not in my body.  40b/4043

I remember saying to my self, "I am all right," out loud to my self. ... 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.  47b/703

I thought, "Hey what's going on? That's me down there?"  49b/2735

I was aware of my state. I was surely going somewhere, but where I did not know.  50b/1944

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?”  53b/2377

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 was more like thought in space, completely alone in nothingness.  58b/3444

I realized I was dead. But I was still aware! I was very aware. ... I was more like thought in space. ... I was in the I AM.  58b/3444

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.  62b/3472

[What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?] I was very conscious. I realized I was gone.  63b/200

Why was I out of my physical body but still very much alive?  66b/2359

Everything slowed down that I saw, but my thoughts sped up simultaneously.  69b/3837

I had no other thoughts other than wanting to go on towards the light.  74b/118

I was just "Myself" for whatever that means..  76b/40

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!”  86b/633

I was so frightened without heart beating!  89b/964

I was pure consciousness having/retaining all knowledge of my life and memories. I was not any smarter.  97b/281

My conscience was connected to a translucent body.  100b/1002

I was fully aware of who I am, I paid attention to details.  101b/1089

I was one hundred percent aware of my mind in the situation.  1c/2866

I asked myself a couple of times in succession, "How can I be doing this?" The answer was too obvious. "I must be dead!" I told myself.  3d/Jan. 23, 2002

I remember thinking it was nice to have no worries, no pain, fear etc.  9d/Feb. 25, 2002

It was death and knowing I was dead. I was wondering why I died. What happened? And thinking it must have been a fast death.  17d/June 16, 2002

I am thinking, "Where am I?" At first I tell myself I must be dreaming. ... But

then I realize or I am thinking I have died.  29d/Dec. 19, 2002

I was seeing different pictures of my life and they would just pass in my mind.  30d/Jan. 2, 2003

My mind was somewhere outside the body. ... You are very much awake after you die, and very much alert.  36d/March 25, 2003

In my mind, I thought for sure I was dying.  41d/May 18, 2003

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.  47b/703

Suddenly I was thinking: "What does it all matter? I want to go there now, experience something else..."  54d/Sept. 2, 2003

I thought to myself, "I am supposed to be dead right this very instant." I felt as if I was looking down to my left, in my mind's eye that is. I had no tangible body that I could see.  59d/Nov. 11, 2003

Just as I realized that was my lifeless body in the bed below, my thoughts were abruptly distracted.  69d/March 4, 2004

I found myself outside my body as a transparent and weightless me.  81d/Aug. 20, 2004

I was aware in this place, but there was nothing except a profound feeling of peace, calmness, serenity.  87d/Oct. 26, 2004

Was cussing myself out, thinking I must of OD'd; now I'm dead.  88d/Oct. 26, 2004

I was pulled into a tunnel. I remember thinking, "I'm dying, I'm dying!”  90d/Nov. 5, 2004

While being in this void I also knew(?) that I was dead and needed to look for 'the light'.  92d/Jan. 3, 2005

I remember thinking that I didn't want to die yet.  93d/Jan. 3, 2005

I began to drift and realize I was not inside of my body.  94d/Lift Your Head

I just slid out of my body and rose above the bed and said to myself, "I thought this one was supposed to be longer."  97d/Defender

My thinking process was also different, more lucidly and rapidly than in physical existence. My mind and attention span were so amazingly clear that I could easily understand what I was told.  1e/Lucid