Near Death Experience Reports Excerpted

I always told my mother about this when I was a little girl, and at that time I had no idea that this might happen to other people, too. It is strange, but though I was only a baby, I felt as if I separated from my body and had the freedom to go wherever I wished. It felt as if I was flying. I found myself in a wood, full of big trees, and when I looked at the ground, I could see thousands of fallen leaves. I could feel a pleasant breeze through the branches of the big, enormous trees. →	I could see a kind of white light shining, without knowing whether it was sunlight or just a light. But it shone through and lit up all my surroundings. It was not a beautiful garden, rather a place of solitude, forlorn and sad, with only the light for company. I started to move forward and this is the strangest thing, which I have never been able to forget:	I saw a whiter light, which seemed infinite, through a long and completely white tunnel, and I saw two big branches intertwined, as if they bordered a coat-of-arms. They were big branches and they enclosed two large golden keys which were also entwined like swords forming an "x"-shaped cross. I could see clearly, which I don't understand, as I have no memories of when I was a baby! That was all. After two weeks, I started to recover.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Yes, my grandmother [deceased]. I did not see her but I knew it was her for some reason which I cannot explain. There were others who were just calling my name, and I heard murmuring sounds. [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] I was conscious of "being me" throughout. 1a/4028 [Bolivia]	[This was the first report drawn in sample a, 4028 is NDERF's number for it.]
Injured. At first all was black, but then I found myself looking down upon the whole scene. The first thing I noticed, was that I was somehow seeing the events before me from within the top of the wall to this video-game room. I saw a larger and older boy pulling the guy who had been kicking me in the side of the head off of me.	Then I noticed two younger kids, a boy and a girl, run up to the game-room window, under me, and look in. All the while I heard nothing. The terror I felt before everything went black was gone. I felt... well, I want to say relaxed, but I think the better way to describe it is "neutral," like observing without feeling.	As I observed, the skeletal features of my face were not present. Let me explain that: when you look at the world, your whole life, you have obstructions which limit your view. Since you have ALWAYS had these obstructions, you don't really notice them till their gone: eyebrows, nose, eyelashes, cheekbones and so on.	That I believe, is one of the oddest parts about the entire event. Behind me (in the wall itself or the ceiling) was blackness. I could see adults from the billiard-room next door rushing towards the game-room. I then remember going in and out of consciousness on the way to the hospital.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] No emotions. Total neutrality. [Was the experience dream like in any way?] No, I don't think so. I have had some pretty realistic dreams in my time though. 2a/Jon
I blacked out. This is probably the scariest things that ever happened to me, when I fainted, I felt like I was falling in a very very long deep hole and there would be no end. I hit the ground and landed in what seemed to be a pile of bones, but I felt no pain but I was freaked out. I don't know what made me want to keep going, but it felt like I needed to. It was extremely dark. I walked down a stairway into what looked almost like an underground stream with a small walkway on the side.	I exited the flight of stairs and as soon as I did, I heard moaning that made me get cold chills down my spine. I looked at the stream that was a bit lower then me which was to my left and there were dead bodies floating in it. I started to freak out and cried. I wiped my eyes and started walking some more and then I asked, "Where am I?" Not even two seconds after I asked myself that there across the "tunnel of death" (that's what I refer to it as) shone a very bright light, but it didn't seem to hurt my eyes.	In fact, it felt kind of soothing to look at. I turned around to look and behind me were two dogs with thick black coats and they were sitting on the walkway. I knew I couldn't turn back so I turned back around. In front of me was something that's hard to describe, almost like an orb or a spirit of some kind. But I heard someone say, "You're not supposed to be here yet. Come with me and go back to your home, it's not your time."	I asked," Am I dead?" The shiny thing approached me and I almost felt as if I were being pulled into the light, which was still far away. 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 and I heard a booming voice say, "I love you but you haven't experienced my gift to you yet.If you were to go now you would never get to see what it is like to..." and I woke up.	[Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] Yes, its almost like a tunnel made of bricks and was very dark and cold also it was very long but I think it was way deep underground. 3a/2503
I was slowly aware of a light ahead of me. I seemed to be pulled along toward it. There were stairs in front of me but I wasn't aware of using them...they were just there. 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. All things that happened next seemed to happen all at once, or in very fast succession. I came into the light. The light was so brilliant but not warm nor cold. It was almost as if it consumed me. A feeling of Love so powerful and consuming, washed over me.	It was so potent that you could almost reach out and touch it. A group of people came toward me with warm greetings. They spoke to me with thought and I knew they were like me but I could not focus on facial features. They were too consumed by the light and it spread from each of them. As I was aware of them welcoming me, I was also then aware that there seemed to be some confusion that I shouldn't be there and was told it was not my time and that I should return to finish my life's work.	There was no negativity about it but a comforting gesture to return, that I was there by accident. During those moments I had looked into the distance and realized that it was so beautiful, colors were so vibrant, my senses were so alive. I had a sense that all knowledge that was to be had, was there for my knowing if I so chose. Almost as soon as it began it was ending. 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. And the next thing I was aware of was waking from my bed and having that feeling of Love burning in my chest. I was saddened by having to return but knew there was more of my life to live.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] It was as if I could see everything. There were no limits to what I could see if I chose to. 4a/4023
I know I did lose consciousness at some point. Suddenly I awoke and looked down at my feet and realized that I had only managed to put the comforter over one foot. I felt cold and numb over my entire body and I tried to move my arm in order to pull the blanket over my body when I suddenly realized that I was completely incapable of moving my arm. My arm was not responding to my will to move it. My arm felt as if it was a cold slab of meat that had been set beside me and was not connected to my sense of "me."	It was at that moment that I realized I was “dying” and that I had not actually moved my head to look down at my arm or my legs. My body was still lying on its back and had not moved. I felt very confused and somehow moved to the side of my bed and I realized I was completely outside of my body. I just stared at it trying to come to terms that I was looking upon myself. I knew that the body in the bed was me, but I did not look on it with the same sense of self as I was accustomed to when looking in a mirror.	It was lifeless and pale. At that instant the body ceased to be "me" and seemed to be a broken tool that would no longer perform its task. I became aware of my senses at that moment and how much more detailed everything seemed and how it all appeared more focused and more sharp. It was like I was seeing the world for the first time with my own true eyes. It was the equivalent of taking off a pair of foggy ski-goggles or glasses.	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. I also recall hearing cars on the main road a good half mile from my house and also hearing the television upstairs on the other end of the house. I could hear my father and grandfather speaking as if I were in the same room.	This was abnormal in that my room was below ground in the basement and when I shut my door the room was so quiet all I could normally hear was my own breathing. Likewise there were no windows and the room was completely dark.
I felt as though I had been liberated from my body and being outside my body freed me from the limitations imposed by a physical existence. My mind felt cleared and my thoughts seemed quick and decisive. I felt a great sense of freedom and was quite content to be rid of my body.	I felt a connection with everything around me in a way that I cannot describe. I felt as if I was thinking faster or that time had slowed down considerably. 5a/4025
The last thing I remember is making an effort to grab the toilet paper, at which point I fainted. Suddenly I saw myself floating (I never saw my physical body), amazed, asking myself: What's this? Where am I? I was floating, without a body, but still I could move around, in short I had an "I". I spent some time feeling disconcerted, it was like a dream but I still remember it as being too real to be a dream.	Then all of a sudden I found myself in a room, where my mother, and one of my aunts who was not in the hospital at the time, were weeping inconsolably, seated on maroon-coloured, very brightly-coloured, armchairs. At this point I said to myself: "Ah, that means I'm dead!" And I started to feel a peace and wellbeing which is indescribable.	And then I saw myself going through a long, narrow passageway, at whose end I found a door with a glass panel in the top part, through which I could see a coffin, which immediately made me think it was my coffin.	After this I recovered consciousness in my aunt's arms as she put me down on my bed, and my mother and other aunt went out onto the terrace, crying and scared.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] At first, confusion, then a great calm, with much peace and wellbeing. 6a/4013 [Spain]
I was inured playing basketball. This is where my experience began. I was looking down on the whole schoolyard from above, as though floating in the air, and could see my fellow-players weeping and crying out. I was to their right, the teacher had his back to me, kneeling over a girl who was laid out on the ground. Approaching, I asked what was going on, but nobody answered me. The teacher was shaking her and slapping her with the palm of his hand on her face, and at this point I realised that the girl on the ground being slapped was me.	I had my mouth open and my eyes were open too, but vacant. The teacher (at the same time as he tried to revive me) was shouting, Oh my God, Oh my God, wake up... From my position (above and to the right of the whole scene) I could see everything that happened over the whole schoolyard with great clarity, the children and the people by the fence.	(I heard) their comments about what was happening, could see children going in and out of the playground, cars passing by, when suddenly I found myself in darkness where something or someone was drawing me to them, and the closer I got the more comfortable I felt. My "pleasure" intensified to the highest degree the further I drew away from life, I realised, and so I wanted to come back.	[How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?] Normal consciousness and alertness throughout, although I did not know what was happening (why no one spoke to me, why they were crying if I was OK...). Let's say that the moment of greatest consciousness or alertness could have been when I realized that if I allowed myself to be carried along by that pleasurable feeling, life would be ebbing away.	[Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] Yes, everything was dark, rather confined but very comfortable. 7a/4003 [Spain]
I fell, unconscious. I instantly found myself on a pathway like in a gigantic garden, and there was light, much light, all around me. I felt a peace and tranquility that I've never felt, since. I was walking on the path; one could see much vegetation, plants, flowers, trees, etc., etc., etc. Towards the end of the walkway, one saw an enormous central light. And it was as if a superior being	interrogated me and asked me what I was doing there. Like the child that I was, I started to explain what I've just said: that I was at school, that it was a Saturday during the day and that I was at recess, that my playmate.... and etc., etc., etc., and at that moment I awoke and I was stretched out on the ground on my back and all my playmates of the same grade were surrounding me.	[Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?] Today I believe there exists a superior being and I don't believe in the religions invented by man. [Did you have any sense of altered space or time?] It was without a doubt that I passed onto another dimension or another real life which awaits us after this one.	[Did you see a light?] Apart from the normal light that one appreciates in a park during the day, I saw an immense, central light at the end of the path. It was as if a superior being was seated at the end, very luminous. Additionally, he interrogated me about why I was in that place. 8a/3287
About two weeks before he died Dad told us that he would not be here in two weeks. My sister asked him, "Why where are you going Dad?" He said, "I will be dead." The experience bothered Dad, he could not forget what had happened to him. He knew it was not his imagination or an hallucination. It was real to him. Dad being an atheist could not fathom it. One of the angels said to Dad, "We will be back for you in two weeks time. Dad died exactly two weeks to the day.	One day while in the hospital he had a visitation from an Angel who identified himself to Dad as a messenger from God (it was 12 midday) and the Angels' feet did not touch the ground. He told Dad, "I have a message for you from God. In order for you to get to Heaven you have to follow these instructions." Dad did not tell me all the instructions, but one he did tell me was that he had to read the Bible every day till he died, and that if he did not understand it to get a pastor to help him.	I hope this gives comfort to a lot of people out there. Jesus and God are real. Angels are real. I know because my Dad saw them and was saved. God bless all of humanity. I believe that by sharing this NDE concerning my father it may give comfort to other people who have lost loved ones or who do not have any belief in God or Jesus, it shows that a Man who had no belief witnessed that there is life after death and that God and Jesus do exist amen.	[What emotions did your dad feel during the experience?] My father felt at peace and wanted to go into the tunnel and stay there. [Did your dad meet or see any other beings?] A holy man with long brilliant white robe on and long hair could not make out the face.	[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened.] Experience was definitely real Dad explained all he told me was very real: the NDE, then the visitations from Angels. I know he would never say anything like this if it had not been real. 9a/4019
My life did "flash" before me; however this "review" did not stop at my birth. My recollection was going back in time and "space" well before my birth. A time and place best described as Eden-like. I have a "recollection" of landing at the bottom of a significant hill in a "sea" of "people." I then climbed to the crest of the hill passed between two rocks and... "interacted" with two human-like "persons."	They communicated to me in unison... (there are some more details, my wife has written them down and we may share these later)...As I awoke from my coma in my hospital bed, I looked at my wife and said "is it OK if I go back? I am uncertain that I was talking to her; although she did reply emotionally "YES"...	Some of our greatest 20th Century role models for mankind are: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and interestingly enough, a non-Christian, Mahatma Gandhi. There are others…More precisely it is not the type of religion you practice it is how well you emulate our Greatest role-model…	[Did you become aware of future events?] Probably not; however, there is a degree of uncertainty due to the fact of being re-directed and being infused with such profound knowledge and the realization that there is no need to fear death and most importantly that there is no need for any fear or anxiety as we exist here also... 10a/4018
I was laying down. I felt a presence over me and near my face. It felt like something was sucking the air out of my lungs and my own breathe was cold when it came out of my body and my lips became very cold. I sat up because I couldn't breathe. I opened my back door to get air and when I looked outside there was this beautiful blue-white light coming from the sky.	I could see very far as if a nuclear bomb had went off outside. It was 3:30am and I could see for miles it seemed. I couldn't hear anything and it was so peaceful. I wasn't afraid. Which surprises me. A picture of my daughters flashed in my mind I guess.	My oldest first and then my youngest. I said the words GOD I am not ready. The light slowly started to return to the sky and my body took a deep breath. The paramedics arrived a few moments later and my BP was 226/182. After this my body and mind were so tired. I felt drained of all my energy.	[Did you see a light?] It was blue-white, coming closer from the sky. [Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] I feel as if I was given a choice that night whether I wanted to stay or go. 11a/4017
My pants were so water-logged that as much as I tried to stand, the fabric weighed me down and the sand was trying to suck me backwards. At that moment I remember thinking "well, this is it...I'm going to die." What happened next was probably the most confusing and unbelievable experience yet. I was standing IN THE WATER, I had a solid footing under me, and I was looking down the beach to my left.	The sky, although it had been sunny before, was now slightly overcast, but not in an unpleasant way...the clouds had a blue, gray, pink and yellow tinge to them, as though the sun was trying to break through. There were absolutely no people on the beach, which was odd, since before, the beach was packed with people. I wasn't scared at that point - I was actually completely at peace.	I just wanted to remain there, observing the beach, the sea (what I could see of it) and the gorgeous sky above me. No, I didn't hear any voices like you'd expect. And no, Jesus or any other religious figures did not appear to me. I just...stood there in the ocean and continued to review my life.	There was actually no break in my stream of consciousness between reviewing my life before this new landscape, and while I was observing it. You'd think, had I really stood up from a kneeling position to a standing one, that I would be thinking about that and not my life thus far. It just wasn't the case. I kept on THINKING. 12a/4016
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 had no physical body. I was seeing feeling but I had a body that looked like transparent!!!! But my thinking was normal. Through all of this I have felt someone next to me. I think it was a woman because it had woman's voice but she did not speak with her Mouth. This Woman??? showed me things, I do not remember all.	She said to me, "this is what it will be like when you come here." I then saw a Seashore or something like it and the air seemed to be blue. All was blue. I felt as if I was looking from the right upper corner from somewhere and I felt her next to me at all times. She was so calm. I saw people on this Seashore and I seem to know these people even though I have never seen them in this dimension. I felt such love and I felt so much love from them.	There was one woman she seemed to be close to me. I was able to hold her hands and we looked at each other and I felt love yet sadness. Then this Being next to me said that it was time to go now and I will see them again but it was not my time yet. I did not wish to go. 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.	I even cried when I woke up from Surgery. The Nurse told me that I was saying that I do not wish to come back and she had to slap my cheeks several times. Since then I feel sort of Homesick. So much I wished to experience this again. I think I feel less afraid of death now.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes it was as if you were able to touch the air. I was surrounded with blue color and my body was transparent. 13a/4015
I escaped from the hand of my grandfather and ran across the street. A moment later I was about ten meters above the street light. I did not understand where I was, but I felt good and no pain. I was just surprised. After a while I began to understand where I was. I looked around and saw from a distance (approximately 70 meters) a figure on the ground at the edge of the pavement.	It was my mother who held a baby in her arms. I felt a sudden urge such that I had started down toward the scene. A moment later, I was in the arms of my mother who was crying. They were very concerned since I was hit by a car and banged on the side of the road. An ambulance arrived and they told me to walk. I discovered that I was limping and felt pain because of my leg.	But I was happy and continued to repeat that "I had flown" but I thought it was because of the accident. I was too naive to think of other explanations. I insisted in the ambulance, repeating that I had flown and I had seen my mother on the ground with me, and I was still excited for the "flight" and reassured my mother that my pain in my leg was not strong.	[How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. 14a/3998 [Italy]
I blacked out ... . At this time I looked down on myself lying there with my friends around me. I could hear what they were saying and what was going on. I heard the TV and the commercials and show I was watching. I felt myself kinda floating above them near the ceiling.	And I could see down the hallway and was able to see my friends who were in the hallway and see what they were doing. I don't believe I was dead but I could hear my friends discussing their worries that I was unconscious and they were slapping my face.	One friend went to get water to splash on me. We were young and they didn't know what to do to revive me. As soon as I saw them about to splash water on me and then I felt myself being pulled back into my body.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] During I felt peace and I felt no pain and I also understood that my body is like a car my consciousness drives. 15a/2053
Yeah I couldn't breathe but I didn't have the hell related horror. And shortly after the last time I felt Jesus speak to my heart with instructions to handle the situation. I was told to hunch my shoulders the next time I choked, and so I did, and each time it was so much more easier for me. So that's what I did for a while until that night. I was not breathing in the natural yet wondering why my brother was in a panic.	By my fourth attempt at breathing with no success, I realized I might not be breathing in the natural but in my mind. I had enough air for everybody and it was wonderful. It was the complete opposite of the first time; it was like taking a walk through heaven, I had no worries except my brother beating me up in his attempt to save me.	Suddenly the choking stopped and I was completely ecstatic, but I could never really explain all that I felt. I really felt Jesus was breathing for me. I was never aware of any discomfort. Maybe this was God's way of putting my mind at ease concerning the murder victims.	[Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] How I could not get a breath in four separate and very deliberate tries, but realizing that I was completely calm as I realized my head was full of pure air; it was like someone was breathing for me. I was on the verge of unspeakable joy.	[Did you have any sense of altered space or time?] I was definitely in two places at the same time. 16a/2048
I was wheeled into an operating room. That was the last thing I remember alive. The next thing I knew, I was sitting straight up on the bed, and looking at my stomach. I saw my baby being born. I remember he was very, very small, and he looked like a little frog. He was not crying. I looked at the doctor, and she said, "He is sleeping." Then all of a sudden, there was a little nurse running around my bed, really fast. She kept running and handing things to the doctor(s), everyone. I remember in the back of her head.	I could see she had black hair, and she wore glasses. Everything started to speed up, and then it went dark. Then I heard someone calling my name, over and over and over. "Sheri, Sheri, Sheri, can you hear me"? Then I opened my eyes and I was no longer in the operating room. I seemed to be floating. I was going through doors, and after each door I went through, there was a slamming sound, like the door was slamming behind me.	This happened over and over. While in the boat, the person took off his hood and revealed a man I call "Santa Claus." He had a white beard, and a happy face. He was so loving and warm and happy. There was something so wonderful about him, and he resembled "Santa Claus." We talked and talked and talked.	He was telling me what was going to happen. I was going to this island that he pointed at where people where happy and he told me about all the wonderful things there. It was the most wonderful experience. I was filled with so much happiness.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] I think the man with no face, but dark hair, was my husband's spirit. 17a/4010
While being operated on I remember floating in the corner of the room above the operating table looking down at myself wondering what was going on. Then all of a sudden I was pulled through this tunnel to a white light. I found myself standing on this golden brick road leading up to some kind of building that had twelve pillars along the side and front with steps leading up to a personage seated on a throne.	This person got up and came down the stairs and down the road to me. All around me I could see and feel a beautiful peace and tranquility with love and peace. I had no care in the world. Also as far as the eye could see to my left was a beautiful landscape of tulips of every color imaginable. To my right was a wall of a beautiful blue that matched the sky. I could not see beyond these barriers.	When the person reached me we spoke through thought. He told me that it was not my time to enter into my heavenly home but had a mission to fulfill and my life was going to be very hard. I would go through many terrible experiences to the point of wanting to commit suicide, but if I committed suicide I would not be allowed to come home.	He told me that I would be watched over and protected, kept safe. If I would get through this mission I would be allowed to return home. Then he waved his hand and a window in the wall to my right opened. I could see my mother setting in a chair in the hospital hall way crying.	Then another window opened next to it and we stepped through it into the kitchen of my home standing on the kitchen floor behind my mother. She was at the kitchen sink peeling potatoes. 18a/4009
I was pushed back onto my back and started CPR. I became aware that I was in another place, yet I still maintained an awareness of my body on the bed. It was blackness and night sky, a sense that there was ground beneath me. I sensed/felt/saw people all around me and one of them walked up to me and said hello as if I knew him.	Suddenly I did. I had met this man before, when I died when I was four. "Hello," I said, "Jesus?" I asked. He smiled. He explained that he was there as my father of my family tree, that I was his great x many grand daughter. He was not there as Jesus the Messiah, if that makes sense. There was a difference.	I spoke to some of my relatives and agreed to pass messages on for them. I spoke to my animals and agreed to help animals. I laughed, I cried. All the time I was also aware of my body and I was watching what was happening to it. Finally Jesus told me that if I was going back I had to go now or I would be too damaged.	I stepped backwards to re-enter 100%. He asked me if I would do a favor for them by carrying on the Energy work I had been doing. I agreed. Then I was back in my body and I could feel an electric shock through my body. My heart started and my breathing started at once.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Jesus, who is my great+ grandfather. (S------- family, direct descendant) and my nephews, grandparents, aunt and lots of others. 19a/4006 [Australia]
Convinced that I would soon die (I had been terrified of going to sleep, and had not slept for more than two days), I lost all hope, and started to drift off very peacefully. A television suspended from the ceiling was on broadcasting a music show. Dionne Warwick was singing. Without warning, I was suddenly stretched out, supported by nothing, on a level with the television.	I was not at all alarmed, but rather incredulous that such a thing could be happening. I looked to the ends of my feet and arms to view any "tethers". There were none, but instead saw gauzy wisps trailing off from my extremities into space. There was no sensation of binding; I felt weightless, and calm despite my surprise.	I could not hear anything. I happened to glance down to my bed, and I saw myself lying there as from a great distance. This caused such disturbance in my mind, to be in two places that I crashed to earth. I actually bounced when I hit the bed.	Then I could hear Dionne Warwick finishing her song. I would have given anything to go back, and I tried in vain to repeat the experience. 20a/Joe
...and then the airbag blew up in my face and I was in this amazing golden light, and it felt like joy all around me. I felt fabulous, no pain, no worries, complete contentment, and the warm light was "God" or my idea of God. I felt loved and cared for and precious, which was fabulous, and it seemed like everything made sense. "Ahhah" moment.	....this presence didn't tell me it was god - that was my later determination - then suddenly I was watching from above my jeep. I could see all the people moving around and I felt this intense need to tell them that it didn't matter, that I was great, and I even seemed to not really understand what they were trying to accomplish.	Why would you try to revive me? What would be the purpose? It seemed like I could not feel the desire that they felt as if I was removed and so I became entertained by watching them walk around and yell at each other.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] It seemed like finally everything made sense - there was no pain - I had morphine once in the hospital for a torn ligament - and it was a lot like that -	only I was very sharp and aware - and in the presence of an intelligence that adored me - or so it seemed. 21a/4001
Drowning. For a while, I ceased to exist... then darkness, a clear sensation of floating, during which my mind continued to function. I said to myself: "Ah, well, here you are then, this is death for you! It's not so bad as all that, after all. At this point an unknown, but very clear voice, said to me: "No, you're not going to die, it's really not your time yet (with the implication 'you'll live to be very old') and you're going to get out of this."	I think that it was on hearing these words that I came back to "reality", because I suddenly realised that the water was really freezing. [Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] I thought that this "voice" which came from inside was another "self", a kind of personal elfin spirit with the task of protecting me.	I am more and more convinced of this as I get older, as my job as a policeman has often put me in a bad spot; each time the "voice" has spoken to me; I've learned to trust it and listen to it. THE ONLY QUESTION IS: Who is this voice which protects me, is it ANOTHER (unconscious) me? The spirit of a living person close to me? Or of a deceased loved one? GOD in person?	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Different, as my senses seemed to work in an isolated and successive way, not simultaneously. Conscious information therefore seemed more "precise" than usual. 22a/3992 [France]
I woke up for a few seconds seeing somebody telling me to wake up, but I passed out again. Right there I began floating above my body just watching, without any concern, just watching as they put me on the stretcher.	They put me in the ambulance truck and I couldn't see inside. Then I remember just being in a light for a while. I ended up coming back into my body and woke up in the hospital a couple days later.	[How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. I remember it vividly, it's actually the most distinct memory of my early childhood.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] I could float in the air, and watch my body. 23a/3999
I was handing my partner a mug of tea when my teeth began to chatter, and the next thing I knew I was somewhere else. No bright lights, no floating towards the light. I was just in another place, somewhere I'd always been. These people knew me and I knew them.	I had no memory at all of any previous life. It was more real to me than anything else I'd ever experienced, but the most important thing was, that these people were so lovely. Kind, funny, loving, considerate. It was like having happiness running through your veins.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] I knew them, but none of them were people from my life here. They were just people. It was just life, only better.	[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. I was bereft. I wanted to be back there so much I even considered suicide - but because I wasn't sure whether the manner of dying affected what happened to you, I didn't dare.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Happiness. Love. Joy. Every positive emotion you could drag out. 24a/3997 [UK]
I came into a place where children were playing games, it looked like a public square, a very broad space, where the colors were unusually brilliant to see, and everything seemed very calm, with no anxieties. It was a peacefulness which is very difficult to put into words. I was accompanied by someone, I suppose it would have been a woman, because she had a brown skirt on. Suddenly I saw some children near to me, my attention was drawn to a very pretty little girl.	I was very happy and was following her, when suddenly I saw a little boy, and he was sad. He tried to come near me, but the little girl whispered something to him and sent him away from me. I tried to reach him (the little girl was smiling at me). I stretched out my arm and the little boy just turned around, as if asking me for something. The "person" at my side guided me in the other direction. When I woke up, I was in the operating-theater.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes, everything was more brilliant, and each thing was illuminated in a way I never saw before nor since the experience. [How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. Something continues after death. My father communicates with me since his death.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Yes, they were playing and when I came there they approached. I didn't know them, communication was telepathic, I didn't hear them speak, but it was as if I knew what they were telling me. 25a/3991 [Argentina]
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.	As years have passed since that 1984 date, I remember there may have been clouds, but not like normal clouds. They were a solid wall of tight knit clouds that surrounded me. They were neither near nor far, as I had no perception of time, distance or space.	I just enjoyed the most wonderful peace and unconditional love. I think unconditional love doesn't do it justice, but I can't think of better words unless maybe "Awe Inspiring."	I thought everything was normal as I didn't remember my earthly life or ever having a body or ego. I was like a baby wrapped in love. But the love was so intense, I did wonder a little about it I think. It felt new. Like a rebirth.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] An outline of a human form. It brought me back. I was not aware it was of a human form when I was in its presence. 26a/3994
My husband put me in the car and took me to the hospital. I do not remember any of this but I remember waking up with myself sitting in the corner and watching a sheet being pulled over my head. Then my spirit followed the doctor outside into the waiting room and the doctor told my husband that I had two heart attacks in five minutes, and I hadd died.	My spirit then followed my husband outside and he punched the building and screamed no, no, no and he screamed at the sky and said why God why? I remember my uncle, my aunt, and my grandma and grandpa were waiting for me when I went through the white light.	They said you need to go back because your children and your family need you here on earth not in heaven yet. It was a very nice ride through the white light and I did not want to come back but the nurse used something to bring me back and I was flown by helicopter 60 miles away to a hospital.	A week later I woke up and my husband was sitting by my bedside. I do remember looking at him and crying. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] My family who had died severely painful deaths.	[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] Everything I did good in my life. 27a/3582
It was as if I was part of the tides of the ocean. It was just like being swept back into the sea, but in slow motion. But it wasn't the sea, it was like a tunnel, and in just a few seconds a great weight fell from me. I was free- my soul then almost instantly was engulfed in the most beautiful bluish-white light. I was greeted by my aunt and Mary Magdalene (I know that isn't spelled right).	They spoke to me, yet they had no mouths to speak, I just knew what they were saying. It was the most wonderful, loving, peaceful feeling I have ever felt. I had so many regrets that I spoke to my aunt, because I had neglected her so badly--and yet she forgave me and told me how much she loved me. In the next instant, Jesus Christ himself reached down and picked me up.	It was so much like the feeling I had felt when I was oh so small and so scared of a fire truck and my daddy had picked me up. I held him so close around his neck. I wanted to do the same, yet I felt so undeserving. As Jesus held me, I looked into his eyes-I will never forget how wonderful and awesome his eyes were!	The first thing I said to him was, "Do you hate me because I am a drug Addict?" I will never forget what He said to me---"NO"- I only want you to know that I love you." There were other things said and then he started to set me down and I said, "Please don't leave me", and HE said: "I will never give you more than you can handle"---Then I was back in my body. 28a/3989
I instantly shot out of my body, but I was not above myself. It was as if I was some kind of energy, and I was flying away from earth, then it seemed as if I was flying away from the solar system, then I started flying away faster and I saw bunches of stars as if they were galaxies flying away from me, then they seemed to be bunching together into huge packs as if they were separate universes or something like that.	It was as if there was a force or energy out there way bigger than anything we know, and I had an enormous sense of understanding the meaning of life. That's when I seemed to shoot back at a phenomenal speed! I then came round and realized I had been in a coma and must of died. It is very frustrating because I cannot pinpoint my understanding.	As it was happening I remember feeling very excited and thinking to myself, "So that's why we are here!" And it was so real, but my understanding was not explained to me. Due to this experience my view on life after death goes somewhere way beyond planet earth, and our energy possibly passes to another dimension or a different universe.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes, did not feel like I was looking through eyes. 29a/3987
One night, I had a very, very severe asthma attack. Suddenly I was flying, slowly following an angel who was only partly visible down my stairs. It felt very real. I felt wonderful and calm, and I wanted to keep following her for a long time. The light was so bright it was almost white.	But then I realized that I wanted to be with my mom, and that I missed her. I wanted to go back to my normal life. Then, it felt like the angel was pulling me towards her, but at the same time I was being sucked backwards. She released me, and I flew through my house back into my room.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] There was no communication except the feeling that she [angel] wanted me to follow her. [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Very bright, and bright colors. The angel was almost invisible.	[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was probably real. I felt it was probably real because it felt so real, but it just didn't seem possible. 30a/3986
When the paramedics arrived I was not breathing and my heart had stopped. While they were resuscitating me I recall clear as if it had happened yesterday sitting up out of my body and looking at a man who was sitting on the chair close to where my body was. I recall laughing as if I was incredibly happy to see him. I felt like I had known him my entire life.	He was sitting down, he had blondish brown hair and was wearing a white shirt with blue jeans. He had his face covered so I couldn't see it and he was shaking his head from side to side as if he was disappointed in me. The next thing I remember was opening my eyes to see the paramedics and my mom standing over me.	[At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I was looking at him. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I saw a man who seemed about my age at the time (25). I didn't know who he was but I felt as though I did.	There was no communication except my laughter. He was sitting on a chair before me. [Did you become aware of future events?] I have had several dreams dealing with the end of the world. I have felt as though I am being visited in my sleep by spiritual advisors, people who I do not know but feel like I have known them my entire life.	[Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?] Later on I read in the bible about God hiding his face or eyes, it is quoted in several of the scriptures. 31a/3985
I remember being transported to this new world it seemed like. I remember seeing a brightly colored dome, spires, and living a whole life someplace else. I remember being clothed in simple garb. The feeling of love was enveloping all around me. There was no fear or sorrow whatsoever.	I saw colors that seem to mix together in glimmery iridescence. It was pure joy and happiness. It felt more real than anything I've experienced on earth. I did not want to leave and I was thrown back into my body it seemed. I was so upset because I was ready to go.	[Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?] Form seemed human but not of any concern. It didn't matter. It was of no use. It just was. Hard to describe. [Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?] It just felt completely real.	[Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?] I just simply believe more than ever there is life after this existence. It's so simple. 32a/2035
Shaving in bathroom and a thought that I could be running late for an appointment. Suddenly found myself in the bedroom hovered over the bed looking at the clock and thinking, "Well when you are like this you can see perfectly without your glasses."	Had plenty of time and went back to shave, looked in the mirror and knew that I had just had an out of body experience. No question about it. I wish I could do it again, but I can't..... not now.	[Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?] Yes. Experience was cerebral. I did not see my body out of my body. I could see other things but not myself out of my body......	[Was the experience dream like in any way?] No. I was out of body and it was obvious. 33a/2034
I had a fall into a ravine. From where I fell, I could hear my best friend calling to find where I was. I was replying but he could not hear me. I saw him reach the spot and I saw my teacher lifting me in his arms. I also saw the ambulance arrive by road and park at the edge of the forest. I saw the paramedics get out of their vehicles.	I did speak to my teacher, but no one could hear me, and from where I fell it would be impossible to see everything I saw, as I was right inside the forest with my view cut off, and unconscious. [Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?] I am planning my next life.	[Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?] Leaving my body and observing other people. [Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.] My feeling is that the essence that exists out of the body during these episodes is not NOTHING.	If it is SOMETHING, when will we be able to measure it. I would like to see a study where people who die are observed with some super high-tech electro magnetic wave recorder to determine if the brain waves might leave and could be followed to see what happens to them.	To me NOTHING cannot achieve an out of body experience. It has to be SOMETHING, and if it is SOMETHING, it should be capable of being measured !!!! 34a/3980 [France]
I was in a collision with an automobile. At this point I can no longer manage to describe what happened. In hindsight, it seems to me that I was with some people in a fairy-like place. A bit like an enchanted place, with flowers, trees, it felt good but I could not stay there! I also had the feeling I saw myself on the ground next to the bike, but this is also vague.	The only thing I am absolutely certain of, and which I could remember directly after the accident, is the flash, as I have always called it, though I was not dazzled. It was not so much a flash as a reverse flash. Actually, I was in the light, and the world appeared to me as a little black dot.	Then this dot grew larger and larger, until I seemed to pass from one world to another. I was surrounded by light and then little by little the black dot, at first tiny, grew bigger, to finally absorb me. The transition came about at dizzying speed.	Years later, I heard about tunnels of light, and I thought about my flash, and the way I saw the world grow from a little black dot, into the real world. It was the passage between ??? and our world. (I remember particularly coming out of a great tunnel of light.)	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Straight after I came out of the tunnel, I felt as if I was there, but without being there. 35a/3963 [Belgium]
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still. I could clearly feel/see that the wind still blew, the water still lapped around me, the sun continued to shine bright and strong. I could feel these elements but they did not effect the void time/space that was created around me. Then I heard a voice directly in my mind.	I clearly perceived that it came to me from above-left side. This being I did not perceive as being "more" than myself. It was more like a "similar" to myself. A telepathic dialogue took place in which certain questions were asked and I was compelled to answer truthfully.	At the end, I made a decision and at that point, the "void" stopped and, with difficulty, I made it back to the shore. 36a/3982
My near death experience went like this: I was climbing up a long golden ladder up through the clouds, and I was climbing very very high and at the end of the ladder, there was a man, (for me, it was God) who met me. He was of medium build with white shoulder length hair, with a white shiny white beard like angel hair and had on a white robe with sash. He took me by my hand and we walked towards a marble bench where he sat me in his lap. I felt very weak and tired from the long climb.	As he sat me on his lap and laid in his arms, I reached up and touched his beard with my right hand and felt the most immense sense of love and understanding. (Until this day this feeling has never left me.) He stood me up and took me by the hand and as we were walking, we went to a white marble room where there was a huge screen and pictures of my life were flashing very fast. In the screen, were the most surprising images that has never left me, it was of a previous life.	From backward images I saw myself as a young blond-haired young man. I was killed in a car accident and I saw myself leaving the scene with a briefcase walking towards the screen. Before that I saw that I had lived in a suburb in a pale yellow ranch home with a long driveway. Outside the driveway next to the car, I was saying good bye to my wife, my almost 2-year-old daughter, and son about 4 years old. After the kisses and good byes I got in my car with my briefcase to go to work.	After the review, I was led to another marble room where there was a huge open book on a marble table. My guide sat behind the table, and with his index finger pointed in the book, he scanned through the page to see if he found my name on the book. His head lifted up and looked at me, a wave of guilt overwhelmed me. I did something very very wrong, no one had to judge me. I judged myself and knew I did wrong. My guide spoke to me through my mind.	I was shown a picture through a cloud of my mother dead in the center of the floor with my father, brother and sister crying around her. He told me it was not my time and that I had to go back for her. After what was shown to me I went down very quickly and found myself in the hospital room with doctors and nurses working on me. 37a/3977
I had to go under general anesthesia but something went wrong. I found myself floating in above the surgery room and surprised that I seemed to have no weight at all. I was very light and movement was really easy compared to physical movement. I looked down and saw my body and the doctors working on me. I heard them yelling "we are losing him." They struggled to get me back to life and I was so confused thinking, "Wow! Why do they bother? I don't need my body I'm fine, actually better than before."	It sounds funny because for them it was a life-threatening situation, but I was so calm and relaxing up there suspended in the air that I thought "This is death? How can I see if I have no eyes?" I then saw a bright gentle light coming down on me from the ceiling and it filled me with happiness and love that I never felt on earth. I completely became addicted to it, it was so powerful. I let myself involved in it like I was bathing in pure euphoria.	I never thought and cared anymore about my worries or fears about the errors I made in my entire lifetime. But then something was odd I notice the medical team voices getting annoying and more loud and clearer they we're disturbing me keep saying, "Come on kid don't give up on me." I knew that my journey had ended. I needed to go in my body and I was not pleased about it. 38a/3975 [Romania]
As I am drifting off to sleep, my sight had a new angle, and I noticed I was laying on my back, with my arms crossed, like I was in a casket. My realization was that I saw me from a new direction, and I watched myself for a few more moments. Then I floated around the room, in the most calm manner. Now this room was becoming more than I ever could of imagined. This was fun, and something to make even the most analytical person become perplexed. It was time to go outside, and I was headed for the window.	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. The tranquility that was within there is now capturing my entire being, and was enough for this highly anxious girl, want to stay here for a long while. As I am floating toward the light, I felt compelled to continue this uncertain and positive experience.	The light is becoming brighter and larger, and all I could feel is the presence of good, and now am for sure, this is where I need to be. Finally, the end of the tunnel is here, and I am enveloped in that same light, that with out a word spoken, directed me here. Looking at her was my new agenda, Who is she? I don't recognize her, but she seems to know me. I continue to do a checklist of her characteristics. She has shoulder length, strawberry reddish hair, and very pale skin. Her eyes were a stunning blue.	At this point, it did not matter where I knew her from, or who she was. I had a choice to make, and she made me feel that time was of the essence. I wanted to stay, but had remembered her saying that I was young. What did that mean? Does that really have anything to do with my choice? She was about 50 years old, and looked extremely happy! What a decision to make. This is the best vacation ever! I needed more time, but she gave an insistent order to make my choice and said whatever I choose will be fine.	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. I was bolted back into my old body, and I was at that point, a bit shaken up. 39a/3897
He pushed me under water by my shoulders and held me there. I struggled against his hands on my shoulders, but was not able to come to the surface. The perspective of my memory at that point changed from looking up at him to looking down at the top and back of his head and myself from above. I saw my body floating limply under water with my eyes open.	At the same time the visual perspective of my memory changed, I remember the pain in my lungs, my feelings of panic and the urge to breathe stopped as well. I felt peaceful clarity. I was aware of the circumstances and knew I was dying. My face looked peaceful and oddly pretty.	I was aware I had a choice and was happy to move on to the light behind me. The light looked like a very bright full moon. I felt a strange tug as I moved away from my body toward the light. It felt like an involuntary grasp. Then, I realized my little sister needed me so I had to come back.	I came back into my body and it hurt. All the feelings of panic were gone, but my chest was burning. I knew from looking at the scene from above, that he was just pushing me under, not holding onto me.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Peace, absolute clarity, and an absence of pain. 40a/3972
The first thing I remember is being wheeled out to the ambulance and it was raining. But I wasn't actually lying on the trolley. It felt more like I have a vague impression of having looked down at myself on the trolley. Anyway, I don't know exactly when I felt like I was moving, but 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. Gradually I became aware of a light far away in the distance, and realized that's where I was heading. As I got closer, I began to feel as though there were people all around, just outside my "tunnel", but I never saw or spoke to them.	They were loving and welcoming, and it's hard to explain the incredible sense of joy, happiness and acceptance that I was feeling. It's not a sensation I've ever felt on earth. I got closer to the light, to the point where the darkness disappeared and I was preparing to join the light. It felt wonderful. Then a loving, caring voice said quite clearly, without words "It's not your time.	You must go back." It all disappeared, and at some point after that I regained consciousness. [Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] It was dark initially, but although I couldn't see a tunnel, it certainly felt like I was traveling in a set direction within a set framework.	[Did you see a light?] It was blinding, but out of it radiated the most wondrous feelings of love, peace and joy. I couldn't wait to join it. 41a/3292
The doctors were struggling, not knowing what was wrong. I was in spirit outside of my body. I was outside of the hospital immediate care room hallway. A colleague of mine was headed down to see me. He stopped just outside of the immediate care doors to speak with someone. The look on his face was one of a grim reminder, he was shaking his head in a “no” motion. I knew I would not make it.	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. I tried to cry out “poison," but to no avail. I was scared and I felt death. My brief encounter continued on, and 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. I blacked out.	From there I awakened into a blinding light, the light of the sun, like I said, it was so bright it was blinding. I turned and looked down to see mountains, filled with trees, a valley with a beautiful river flowing. As I turned, I saw the river flow into the ocean, untouched by humans.	No bridges, people, utilities, just raw beauty. I felt alive. My night ended in the hospital. I survived the darkest hours. In my mind, I had my walk with God. [Did you see a light?] Saw such a bright light, then coming too with peace with the sun and the landscape.	[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened.] Experience was definitely real. I believed it from the day I awoke to this day, and always will. I was saved by God. No doubt whatsoever. 42a/3970
While in the recovery room attendants and doctors could not awaken me. And so on. During this time I recall looking around the recovery room and eventually, sitting up and moving. Being curious I looked around the room to see what it looked like noticing the medical staff working in another portion of the room. Suddenly, I saw this beautiful white light slowly coming towards me. A man who had a kind gentle face dressed in a white cloth was before me.	He stood to the right side of this ever growing light. While I began to move in his direction, he was so welcoming and only spoke to me it seemed through his eyes. He asked me if I wanted to enter the light. I was overjoyed that he had come for me and loved me so much. I can't really describe the joy or calm I felt. I wanted to go so badly. It felt like home. Somehow it was decided for me not to go with him and I returned to my body.	[Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?] Nurses told my parents I asking them about the white light and man when I came to in recovery. A couple of years later I worked at the hospital where I had the NDE. I had to enter the surgical area and saw the recovery room. It was exactly as I remembered it.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Acceptance, Love, Forgiveness, Hope. [If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain.] It was when I first saw the man and how much love and acceptance was surrounding me. 43a/3968
The M.D. had said that it was over, he was ending the resuscitation attempt (calling the code). I was floating in the air, up in the corner, above some equipment. I was looking down at everything. My vision was extremely clear and intense--as if being in a body was like being in a lens, and now it was clear. I felt wonderful--no body sensations; pain, density.	Everything was light and pure, beyond anything describable. I hung out in that space for a while, and then my parents arrived at the hospital (they had had to travel some distance to reach the hospital). When they were allowed to enter the room to see me, my mother went into hysterics, and fell to the floor.	She was in such extreme emotion, and I was in such a wonderful place, no suffering! I had been aware of the tunnel of light with me for a while, but did not seem compelled to approach it. I was allowed to make the decision whether or not to return.	I've been back in this density, with pain and suffering, ever since (with brief excursions). Bummer. 44a/3966
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 years 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.	I was interested and slightly confused as to why I wouldn't be staying with them. Then I awoke, in pain and very very sad. I wonder how I could've gotten up and walked and talked after suffering the injuries I had and have no recollection of it?	[Did you see a light?] It was glowing all around, was everywhere and felt wonderful. [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.	[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! 45a/3964
The hospital staff kept yelling for me to stay awake. I watched them from around my body more than in it. I felt as though I was hovering around my body, but this was probably due to the drugs. I had no physical sensation even though I was crashing into walls and doors. I sort of watched my body bouncing around.	Two days later, after everything was over, I found contusions on my head and other parts of my body. Throughout this I kept thinking, aren't I supposed to be struggling to stay alive, like in the movies?	Aren't I supposed to have some profound existential revelation as I lie dying? Nothing. It was all very anticlimactic.	[At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I was "in" my body, I didn't know what was going on. When I was "hovering" I had vivid thoughts and hearing that I remember to this day.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Detached, relaxed. 46a/3962
Man wheeling me into the operating room because I started bleeding internally. I remember telling him through difficult breaths, "Don't let me die!" That was the last words I heard. I remember seeing this bright beautiful light that started out in front of me and quickly was all around me. It was so intensely bright and white, but it did not hurt my eyes or make me squint. It was so bright white it had almost a blue hue to it.	There is nothing on Earth I can compare it to, so it is very difficult for me to explain. But it was the most welcoming and beautiful feeling I ever had. I felt so incredibly free and I was intensely happy and felt no need for anything. There was no sense of time during this period. I just knew I never wanted to leave this sense of peace and wellbeing. One thing is for sure, I was NOT dead!	I was more alive than I had ever been before. I saw a figure of light come towards me out of the light. This figure was very tall. I am guessing it was about 8 feet tall or so. I am saying "it" because I could not tell if it was male or female. The "being" spoke to me although the words were not heard with my ears. It was as if someone was speaking in my head, although it was not my voice I heard.	Everything was so crystal clear and seemed to make perfect sense although logically it was impossible. The figure told me "You must go back, we are not ready for you yet." I remember feeling like I did not want to leave. I kept saying, "Why?" "I don't want to go."	But I was already leaving. I started to feel like I was falling from the ceiling back into my body and I remember landing with such a big jolt that I woke up. 47a/3961
I remember having trouble breathing and I knew I was dying, and for some odd reason I was not afraid. I closed my eyes and went with it. 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. I grabbed the hand and was pulled to the other side where I was greeted with the most handsome spirit who guided me through this experience.	I was told it was not my time, but that god wanted me to know to start taking my life more seriously or I would be dead soon. I was told I have to come back and take care of my kids. I was told to be more understanding toward my mother. I also was told he would always be there for me. I cried because I did not want to come back here because I felt so much peace and calmness and love that I never felt before.	It was really beautiful and dying to me is something I do not fear anymore or feel negative towards dying. I feel closer to my god and I share my experience with people who are chronically ill to not fear death. And it's a funny thing that now I have a kidney disease. It’s going on nine years since I been on dialysis and I do not fear dying and I can pass my knowledge of the afterlife to others who need to know it's okay.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] My guide was the most attractive male I have ever seen. I also saw other people who were happy doing things there. [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.	[Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] I feel we are sent here to love one another in this big circle of life. Life to me is a big learning experience for all of us, almost like life is high school where you learn all you need to know and when you are finished you graduate to a higher realm which is heaven. 48a/3959
Car accident. I went for the entire ride till the car finally stopped! I floated above the vehicle. I noticed a crew from a helicopter carrying a gurney on which they loaded my body! I saw me. They had me as dead. They mentioned it. I heard it said, but I felt wonderful where I was. I floated very very peacefully through the air as I watched happily as I was being removed.	It was me that they removed! I saw the helicopter with me in the gurney by the side of the cabin take off into direction Vegas. I lost consciousness immediately afterwards. During this time, I feel me riding as a little boy on a beautiful merry go round, lovely organ music, beautiful white clothes.	I was happy, smiling and laughing with all the other kids. We experienced total bliss. My other little friends were also decked out in white clothing going around and around. A man got up, walked across to the handles of the machine which powered the merry go round and stopped it.	He called out my name and asked me to get off the merry-go-round. I was so very sad. I cried, but I got off. He told me it was time to leave this. I woke up.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Yes, other kids with me on the merry go round. This man who told me to get off, and somehow something or someone who told me that I must go back. 49a/894
I blanked out while driving.. I felt calm at first because I really did not know what was going on. Then I saw this road.. I was going down the same road passing the same sign over and over and over again. I had to think, "Did I turn? Did I go straight? What is this?" I felt confused. After about a minute of recurring the same sign the same road then it became dark. A speck in the middle of sight and I didn't know what this was, then objects moving that I didn't understand. I didn't know who or what I was. I didn't know what I was staring at.	I thought I was a computer or a robot and what I was staring at was some sort of thing I cannot describe. But it was irritating, and I felt afraid that I would be stuck like that forever. I could talk and I cried, and then I remember knowing the purpose of life and why we are all here, as if someone was speaking to me. I felt disgusted and ashamed, but I don't remember what that purpose was. For some reason life doesn't make sense when you're dead, and death doesn't make sense when you're alive.	A lady softly spoke that, "It's okay, everyone goes through this," but that did not calm me down. I was so terrified that I would be stuck like that. Then, I remember seeing people in the past like my father. When I was face to face to my father I felt afraid. "Did you steal this?" he said to me. "No!" I replied, and then he asked it again, about ten times with the same movement as if it was rewound and replayed. When I told the truth I got to go on to the next person I lied to. "Did you do this to this?" "No!" Then when I had lied again I ended up all the way back to my father.	I had to tell the truth no matter how much crap I thought I would be in. I wanted it to end and I wanted it to fast forward so I chose to tell the truth throughout all of the people I have lied to. Then, I remember seeing people in the past like my father. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] I didn't know what I was, who I was. I didn't remember anything about my life or anything in it. I didn't know what I was looking at as if they were just odd shapes.	But I didn't even know was shapes were, just complete confusion and fear. [Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] I knew that the EMT had three daughters and that her husband had passed away. I saw through the eyes of my best friend and his last second before death also. 50a/3957
I saw the doctor beating on my chest, but all I could do was stand there until I saw a light on the wall. It looked like a flashlight that grew bigger and I touched it and was taken into a tunnel with clouds spinning and rolling around. They clouds were grey, white, and smoky somewhat. I was gliding very fast with my arms just dangling. When I got to the end the light turned orange and there very tall man dressed in tan work outfit (shirt & pants). I looked past him and I could see yellow flowers and a large mountain and a blue sky.	His face was the color of light sand and his hair was golden tan. He had the kindest look in his eyes. I could hear the silence and see the trees and I wanted to run in, but he stopped me. He tilted me backwards and sent me back through the tunnel with a gentle push, at which time I heard the doctor say we got her. There was no pain when I was back in my body only a fullness of some sort around my chest and stomach.	[Patient leaves body again.] I could see my body being worked on and there were eight people all trying to help coming in and out. I could hear the doctor saying, "Don't, don't, no, no." The next thing I know I was floating up and through the ceiling and into space. I came into a large room full of light and then my eyes adjusted and I recognized my grandmother and friends and other family members.	There were white marble seats, like a courtroom setting and I could see a large throne. I looked down at my gown and it was a white sack dress and my hair was hanging. I looked at the floor. It was light grey marble which reflected my image. I glided over to a seat next to the throne. I was asked questions by a tall man at least 6ft. tall with dark caramel skin and dark brown hair, he had light brown eyes and a kind face.	He looked similar to the black Indians from India. I looked at the throne and I was light and the face of a bear, eagle, lion and ram all changing every second. When I looked to my right I saw a dark brown man with a black pin-striped suit and a red tie. His eyes were snake eyes and blinked side ways. →
He had roll teeth like piranha, and he had two people with him a women and a man who looked similar. The tall kind man who I knew was Jesus told me with his eyes that everything was going to be okay. The hearing continued for an eternity and I looked over at the witness box and saw my sister who is still alive crying. I looked at Jesus who told me to come to him and I did and he showed me his wrist and there were holes and the witness box clapped and I was sent back. 51a/3956
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 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.	[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 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. 52a/3955
[Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words?] There was a white bright light......very chilly weather.....I lost my conscience. body....felt very very very light....and flying experience. The speed you cannot describe in words....there is no stop for a moment...I travel in a black tunnel...with great speed...forgotten everything....in this world.	Even my name, husband, son, home where I reside...and time, day, month, year...nothing is there in my mind...and the speed really threatened a lot....and a sudden skip and jerk.....got me back in this world again...after this experience...I become a different personality....with no interest in anything in this world...even now...I remain disinterested in life..	[At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] Throughout the period.....the self level of consciousness and alertness was there...with the feeling of threatening and afraidness, again because of the speed in travel through the tunnel. I felt like a lifeless ball speeding down from the sky with force. but the motion was towards the sky...	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect…)?] Yes without the regular eyes...there is a super eye in our consciousness...I believe in this...the clarity of the vision is very much more powerful than the regular one.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Some power was also traveling along with me, beside, I felt. I don't know whom it was. 53a/3957 [India]
My bus had met with an accident. The vision was blurry, the sound dull, and some guy asked me about informing any of the family members. I opened my eyes dying to breathe and saw myself amidst doctors. I made a sign to help me breathe and saw doctors and nurses cutting my clothes. I tried to protect but gave up. Then a bright light appeared having a soft man’s voice that told me: “YOU WILL LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND.	YOUR LOVED ONES, THE HARD EARNED AWARD, MONEY, EVEN YOUR CLOTHES. YOU’LL COME TO ME EMPTY HANDED.” The light also gave me an important message to follow it as much possible. Mom said I was unconscious for three days. My doctor and family told me I was in a very fatal condition due to the head injury.	I feel very homesick and a sense of not belonging to this world. For I know this is not my home. I don’t feel human. But I have to live till He calls me back and obey the message He only had for me. It’s very hard to follow but trying my best to spread the LOVE and PEACE God has for all of us.	[Did you see a light?] Yes, a glow with a soft man's voice talking to me and giving me a very important message. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] Yes, just saw the face of my deceased uncle and a friend who died at a young age. 53a/3951 [India]
I passed out. I remember not feeling anything after that just a dream or visual experience. I remember moving rapidly through the trees and bright sunlight was shining through the trees as I was moving toward something. Then I stopped. There was a big white house that sat under a brilliantly blue sky and there was a nice flower garden and white sheets blowing in the breeze on laundry lines.	I remember looking into what I thought was a laundry basket on the ground but when I looked inside of it, I saw a baby. Then, I could hear someone screaming my name, "JENN JENN!!" It seemed so distant and I felt like I didn't want to answer it, just wanted to keep going wherever this vision was taking me. But, it got louder and I felt like I was catapulted or shot back, whatever, to reality.	[Did you see a light?] There was a big white house that sat under a brilliantly blue sky and there was a nice flower garden and white sheets blowing in the breeze on laundry lines...brilliant sunlight through the trees. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] There was a baby in a laundry basket.	[Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?] I kind of feel that that was me in the laundry basket as a baby, but my mother is passed away and I can't ask her if she used to do that with me. I've heard other peoples lives flash before their eyes, maybe it was the start of mine and I was abruptly "awakened." I stayed there looking at that scene for awhile it seemed to me. It was just beautiful.	[Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?] The garden was significant because I am an avid gardener. 55a/3948
There are doors sliding in front of me, each door representing a stage of my past life since childhood, & one door representing present day. 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.	I also knew that if I entered the wrong door the memories from that stage of my life till today would be erased. I started fearing not death but isolation or never being able to see my two sons & husband again, or even not recognizing them after I wake up.	I feel time is slipping out of my hands and I decide that I'd rather enter the wrong door than stay back in my head. I just think of GOD & put my foot forward to enter the speeding doors and at that very moment I feel the anesthetist slapping my cheeks & calling my name.	The surgeon says SHE IS BACK. I know it was not just a dream because after these few seconds of consciousness I was unconscious again, and when I regained consciousness again I felt the time lapse.	[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] It was like seeing a photo album of my entire life, and even those pictures did not have anyone else other than me in them. I was that alone. 56a/3947 [India]
On both occasions a being of white light appeared to me and took my hand and took me to a door that opened on its own. As a child I remember I had to climb three steps to arrive at the door and in the last experience I didn't see any door. I went directly to the place of light where you don't step or walk--you float.	In the second more recent experience I remember first seeing a dim tunnel where I saw various deceased people I knew, one of whom touched my feet. I left those people behind in order to ascend accompanied by the being of light and go to the place where one floats. I did not see anyone there but I felt caresses on my head.	I also remember that my family members were in the hospital room crying, and I despairing at seeing them suffer. I wanted to return rapidly. I remember on both occasions that the voices of the doctors and nurses resounded in my head, and while I was ascending, the voices faded back but I continued hearing them.	(I don't know how to explain this. It's as if you were a million kilometers away but you carried a microphone in order to hear). In the second experience I remember seeing my husband all upset and praying that I would not die. I also remember a place where there were objects, people who looked like angels, animals and plants...	The strange thing about all this was that EVERYTHING had life and eyes. I also saw beings dressed in black capes who, when they saw the being who was holding my hand, bowed their heads...as though they could not look at his face...or perhaps out of respect... 57a/2143
I was on the operating table. Several beings were coming after me. They were short and upright as a human would be. They were dressed in black hooded robes. They shuffled walked. They were black with round faces. They had pointed teeth and claws on their fingers. They were fighting and snarling at each other. They were fighting over who got me. Each one carried a large butcher knife. They decided to dismember me so each could have a piece.	I was trying to fight them off. All of a sudden they stopped, turned around and walked away. They shuffled off snarling at each other. They entered what appeared to be a dark cave entrance. I heard no one command them to stop. They just stopped and left. The next thing I knew a nurse was telling me it was time to wake up.	[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
I remember feeling very weak when my eyes rolled back into my head. Then suddenly I was standing upright, but not on the ground. It was as if I was floating in a very silent, peaceful space. There was an oval shape of a cloud-like image surrounded in light that became larger and larger in size. I heard a voice saying: "Tina, it is not your time yet, so don't worry or panic." The voice repeated this statement two or three times and then told me to relax, calm my body and concentrate on opening my eyes.	I then remember thinking (knowing) that it was my angel speaking and comforting me. I felt an extreme sense of peace and stillness. During the second experience I also remember thinking that it was really unfortunate that my life was over but if I were to go I wouldn't be alone and that I would be with my mom. But the voice answered my thought with words of comfort and peacefully suggested that it was not my time to go.	I then open my eyes finding a medical team working to revive me. The second time I was woke almost in an upside down position with the ICU physician inserting a central line in my neck. It was at that moment when I had realized that I had just witnessed a near death experience(s).	[At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I heard the voice speaking to me, very clearly. My name was repeated as if the voice was certain of my full attention. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Peaceful with a non-emotional listening state of awareness.	[Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?] The level of stillness and silent-ness was not earthly...it was definitely a soulful level. 59a/3746
C.P.R. began to be administered. And then it happened. It is amazingly hard to describe in earthly words but I will do the best that I can. I felt light as if I were floating and then realized I was standing beside my hospital bed. I could see myself. My eyes were closed and an oxygen tube was in my nose. My arms were at my sides loaded with I.V. equipment. Multiple needles were in both arms and bags of fluids hung above the bed on either side.	I was a very orange-ish gray color and I looked like I was sleeping. I saw no one else in the room and turned toward the door. As I walked out into the hallway I felt an unbelievable warmth. The best way I can describe it is if you put a big soft fuzzy blanket in the dryer and then wrapped it around your bare skin. The warmth enveloped me and it smelled like a spring day. Then to my left the hallway grew intensely bright.	It blocked everything else out and I turned toward it and began to walk. I saw myself from behind. I was dressed in a hospital gown, short sleeved and hanging to mid calf. Although I had lost most of my hair due to the illness, my hair was now long, thick and hanging almost to my waist. The draw toward the light was irresistible. I wanted to go. I kept walking toward it with an overwhelming peace and serenity.	I knew I was dead. There was no sadness, no pain, no regret and no fear. All earthly thoughts were gone. I was going home. Then suddenly the light grew less intense and doorways started to appear like shadows on the sides of the hall. And as I passed by the next one two figures emerged in nurse's clothing. They gently put their arms around my shoulders and started to turn me around. I said, “No. I need to go.” And as she smiled and patted my shoulder	We have to take you back.” I remember an overwhelming feeling of disappointment and sadness and as I approached my hospital room and looked inside. The bed was now empty and waiting for me. I saw the crease and outline of where my body had been laying and then it went dark again. I awoke days later. 60a/3764
I remember being the only car on the road. I dozed off for a moment, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a dark black puff of smoke hit my windshield and then it vanished. Then the next thing I remember was that I was moving in slow motion across an open field of green grass. And it was a sunny day. Bright and sunny day.	(Remember I was on my way to work at 3:30 am in the morning. It was pitch dark and no grass.) And as I was driving through the field, all the tree was right in front of me. So I swerved to miss it. Then I was just there watching myself, bent over holding my stomach, asking for help softly.	Then from there I was in a man's house, blood all over me, sitting on his chair, saying only (help, I hurt) then from there, all I remember was being in the hospital. 61a/3944
I could remember the fall only. It was about 50 feet height. There was a sudden and very bright light. I lost consciousness about the physical body and immersed in the light.	What the mystery is with my experience, I felt that I was immersed in the heavy bright light while falling and remained there only till I got consciousness.	Only light and oneness with all, or noneness with any, prevailed with my thought. The body feeling or physical feeling was not there.	[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. It is a god's gift or self- realization opportunity. 62a/3942
While I was being rushed to the surgery I was telling the Doctor, strangely, things that were going to happen next--and they did happen. After the surgery my doctor explained that I had reached the stage of heightened awareness and so was being able to tell what was going to happen next.	I lifted my arm but suddenly realized my arm was in two places on the operation table and trying to reach the doc. At that point I gave up, but strangely, I was not at all sad. I accepted it almost lay back feeling satisfied with a feeling of a lot of peace and calm around me.	I strangely felt happy that the docs had failed to fit the piece. Then suddenly I felt a gush of cold air filling my body which may have been the ventilator starting. Next I woke up the next day.	[Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?] Yes... Some of the words the doctors had said during the surgery were verified by them later. 63a/3941 India
I hear a voice saying "look up." I looked up, it was bright, and I look back down and back up, and I could see my soul leaving my body going in the air. Right then I began to pray to god to let me live because I wasn't ready.	I just had a baby that May, and had three other small children. They needed me, and I needed them.	[Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?] Yes. Now I have the sixth sense, and I can read people's lives now by their photos--the eyes tells all for me 64a/3940
The doctors told my family I only had a 10% chance of living. At one point I became aware of a light that was with me that I'll refer to as a presence. The presence was communicating with me, and assuring me I was safe, and led me through a beautiful field with flowers and trees and a creek. The presence was telling me I would no longer have any worries or troubles, and was so calming.	We got to a white bridge and I was ready to go over when the presence said it was okay to go over but told me I had three small children on this side. So I remained on this side. 65a/3939
I felt a small amount of pain but when my heart starting going into V-tach a peace came over me. I became fully aware of my surroundings. I could feel the shell of my body and my spirit began to rise. An extreme peace came over me.	As my spirit began to rise the doctor shocked me...and my spirit stopped and went back into my body, and state of mind went back to being sedated. I felt complete peace no worries about anything and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.	[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. I have full memory of the whole experience, not half or partial but I remember it all.	[Did you have any sense of altered space or time?] I felt that my body was separate from my spirit and they where on two different planes of existence. 66a/3938
The next thing I remember was that the doctor telling me not to go to sleep. All of a sudden, his face kind of morphed into my husband's (who was not in the room at the time). 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.	There was a dirt road leading off into the distance and I was at the beginning of it. There a forest on either side of the road and the trees and plants were all bright colors of Autumn. Right in front of me there were two boys, around the ages of 6 and 8, and they were standing there facing me and holding hands.	I couldn't make out their faces because the sun was shining very brightly in the sky above and behind them, but their faces were in dark shadow. 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
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 as 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 then opened my eyes laying in a hospital bed. 68a/3934 [This report arose also in second random sample.]
I lost control of my car, thought I would die, saw my life pass in front of me. And at that same moment, something intervened to redirect my car and I glided safely to the other side.	The next day, I took a walk near the bridge to study the icy effects and discover details. The bridge was closed. Someone else had gone over it after me, lost control and did not survive. Creepy.	[Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?] Yes. [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision...etc.] No. Vision stayed same. This all took place within 10 seconds or less I believe.	[If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain.] When I saw the life flashbacks and recognized myself in a high chair seeing life unfold to present day. 69a/3933
I remember it was precisely at that moment that I felt that I was going to faint. I therefore responded "not really" and "let go." That's when I climbed slowly towards the ceiling, my vision was tunnel vision, pretty clear in the center and blurry on the sides. I climb for a few seconds. I don't hear anything, I don't feel anything. I understand that I am going up and then am violently pulled back down.	That's the only thing I feel for real, the ceiling gets farther away and the descent to the bottom is at an unnatural speed. Once I'm out of that room I regain consciousness, a nurse realizes that my entire body is trembling. The first thing I tell myself is to above all else not forget what I just experienced.	[At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] During the experience I seemed to be perfectly lucid and conscious. I can say the experience lasted around 5 or 6 seconds not longer (surely the time to exit the body, then the defibrillator and the shocking).	I didn't have any thoughts, no feelings, no exaltation, fear, surprise, not the least little feeling of peace or well-being lol nothing except the return to the body which I did feel. 70a/3926 France
Then I heard him make the 911 call. All of the sudden there was a dark tunnel I was getting sucked through towards the light. When I got to the light, there was Jesus. It wasn't visual but there was no disputing who it was. He took me by the hand. The profoundly incredible peace was beyond conception. We walked hand in hand for some time. It was hard to tell because it was like there was no sense of time.	I remember feeling the presence of my deceased Father in the distance. I also remember not wanting to come back. It was bliss. Jesus told me that only he got to choose, and it wasn't time for me. That's all I can recall before I came back into excruciating pain. I didn't tell anyone about it for years because I knew they wouldn't understand and would think I was crazy.	When I was in a waiting room at my husband's doctor's office I picked up a magazine that had an article by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. I read her descriptions of bedside experiences -They were like "my experience" and was so relieved to find out that there were others that knew about this. I know this experience changed my outlook on many things, especially regarding death.	When my grandmother who I was very close to passed away, I realized I felt sad because I'd miss her but happy to know where she would be. Since then I've sat with an aunt, my mother, mother-in-law and father-in-law, my other grandmother while they passed away and was with my brother's family. As we were standing around his bed he was very peaceful and said, "Daddy" and "Don."	[Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?] I have had a whole day at a time of déjà vu. Where I knew what was going to happen before it happened all day. I have had visions & been spiritually tuned as well as psychically tuned. 71a/3931
The undertow pulled me out into the ocean and flipped me all around. I felt a deep sense of peace and a feeling that I was going to drown. There was no panic, only peace. I thought to myself, "I wonder how far this has taken me out into the ocean." I also thought calmly, "I am going to drown."	I also had a panoramic view of my life - there was no sense of time - I didn't know how long this was all taking. There was some sense of God being in control of the situation, however, I did not specifically see any Being.	Then, suddenly, I was "let go" and I came to the top of the water. I was not far from shore. I was with a friend. She was on shore laughing at me. She said it looked "funny."	[Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?] The peace, the calm. Prior to this, I thought drowning would be a most horrible death. Now I think that the death experience is controlled and we are given a peace to enter it. I am not afraid of death.	[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] I could see my whole life before my eyes. I did not feel a judgment regarding my life. It was simply there. Afterwards, I had a sense of the brevity of life. 72a/3929
I don't remember passing out. I do remember suddenly seeing myself, from above. In the middle of the bed, on my side, legs and arms positioned as though I was running. Didn't feel anything in particular about being out of my body nor looking at myself.	I remember, clearly, thinking that it was funny that I looked as though I was running when I was actually "sleeping." Suddenly, I was "sucked backwards" (at warp speed), as though "through the roof." 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. And everything seemed to be happening to quickly, I didn't have time to think. Then, I was Home. Earth and this life were a bad summer camp, in comparison, and I knew I wanted to stay.	I didn't want to go back to camp. That's all I knew. I didn't "see 'God,'" but I felt as though I was sitting in the lap and wrapped in the arms of the most wonderful, loving (giant) "parent." This is where it gets frustrating, because there are not now, and will never be, words to convey how this feels.	I detest using the word "God," because of the great perversion we humans have made of the concept, but I will use it from this point onward, merely for the sake of expedience. →
I was "sitting in God's lap," wrapped in the warmest embrace, and immediately involved in a "conversation." We communicated -- telepathically? Don't know how else to describe it. I didn't want to come back. That was my focus. I was Home, I liked being Home, just let me be Home.	But God was holding me tighter (in the best of ways), and showing me the life to which I must return. My field of vision was akin to being inside a TV screen watching a movie. The movie kept running, the road kept going...so fast...so much "information."	Personal, universal. Mostly about Thought and Love. And, way down the road, late in my life, it seemed the trip would become more enjoyable. God told me (crappy earth translation ahead) to stay true, "follow the clues," and all would be well.	The totality of God's love for me was the predominant feeling/understanding, at all times (luckily, that feeling has stayed with me, though I don't necessarily understand it, any more)... 73a/3928
I started to feel queasy. I felt faint. The next thing I remember was I was FLYING, super fast, head first down a long, dark hallway. It was very dark. There was someone on my right holding my arm taking me. I could tell that this person KNEW where we were going and it was their mission to bring me. I was screaming no, no, no. I did not want to go.	I could see objects going by me on each side. I don't know what they were because we were flying so fast. It felt like we were going down that dark hallway for a long time. I remember just thinking "No. Where am I? Where are we going?" Then we stopped in front of a door on the left.	I don't know what color the door was, all I knew was it was a door and I was not going through it! I kept saying NO! The next thing I remember was my husband telling me I had a seizure. It took me about 1/2 an hr. to finally figure out what happened and where I was and who my husband was.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Uncertain. I could feel someone on my right taking me down the hallway, but I didn't try to look at them. I could just feel them there.	[Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect...?] When I was talking it sounded like it wasn't coming from me. 74a/3923
My sister, who had passed away 21 years before my experience, she was doing some type of work with other beings, who had human form, but I do not remember their faces. This was in a one-level structure, that looked like a long house from the outside. She was giggling and quite happy; she greeted me and told me there was someone she wanted me to meet. Amidst some commotion, through the back came Jesus Christ, and there was no mistake as to who he was.	He looked like the artist's portraits, but not meek and mild, as often portrayed, he was healthy and robust. He put his arm around me, in the area of what would have been my shoulder, looked me straight in the eyes and said, "I have come for you, that you may know that I am real." I was totally awestruck by His presence, yet I felt a love and respect for Him that I have never felt in physical life. I followed Him to an area that I can best describe as a "desert garden."	We sat on large "sitting rocks" and he began to speak. I remembered little of the conversation we had after the experience was over; my memory of the conversation has remained the same throughout the years. He was explaining the different things of life on Earth, why it was that life on earth was not perfect, and why it was that way, and what people on earth had misconstrued about life and living.	He said that there were many different religions on earth, as one faith would not take care of everyone's spiritual needs. This is all I have been able to remember of this conversation. I followed Him back to this long house area, and I asked Him if I could stay, and He said, "No, it's not your time." I then asked Him if I could go back and tell everyone that He was real, and He said, "No, this is for others to come to know."	With that, I found myself looking at the outside of a small building with a short flight of stairs. I walked up the stairs and opened a door, and at that point I woke up from the coma. 75a/3922
Right after the accident I realized I was floating above a car wreck. I had an altered type of vision because even though I was above the car I could "see" inside the car with a sort of "super vision." I saw my body and I saw the body of my friend at the wheel. I had no real emotion to what I was witnessing.	There was a calm sense of detachment and I remember looking at my body as if it were a sweater or a suit I had worn and now had cast off. I remember thinking, "That was cool being Thomas," like it was some fun excursion, this human life. Then I remember being transported up quickly and with light and swiftness that defied all things and I could no longer see the car accident.	I couldn't see anything but it did not matter. Sight suddenly seemed like some primitive tool as I felt enveloped in some kind of "knowing" that surpassed the human senses. I was aware of a presence that was at once familiar and loving and kind and all powerful and so very immense that there will never be any words appropriate to describe this thing.	My first thought was "It knows my name!" I was in awe that this amazing force knew me! It was exciting and exhilarating that something so immense and important took the effort to know little me. I asked was very impertinent. "Why is there so much pain down there?" (meaning on earth). The answer was laughter.	I knew that this presence was all powerful and knew everything and that everything would always be alright no matter what happened ever. I became aware that the presence was prompting me into a dialogue. I remember bits and pieces of a "conversation" without words. →
I remember asking questions and receiving answers. The first question I asked was very impertinent. "Why is there so much pain down there?" (meaning on earth). So much joyful laughter like a mother laughing at the amazing questions only a small child can ask. The laughter was followed with something like: "Don't you know I have the power to take away all the pain?	I can rewind the universe and start all over again with one simple wish. The pain is left behind on earth. It does not travel with us, but the lessons we learn from it are eternal." Suddenly I was given a choice. I could go back to earth and back to the human body that I was living in or I could stay in these realms. I wanted to stay forever and stated just that.	I was shown once more the scene of the accident and I saw my friend with blood pouring out of her nose and she was struggling to breathe and the blood was making bubbles out of her nose as the air was forcing it's way through. For the very first time of this event I experienced anxiety. I felt as if I had to help her.	I was concerned about what was going to happen to her. I turned to the Presence and said that I wanted to return and the Presence said I could return but I had to do something. I had to promise before it would let me return. I promised and swore on my heart with all my might I promised and promised.	The next thing I knew I was back in my body and my body was saying, "Oh God. Oh God. Oh God" uncontrollably. That was the last thing I remember before coming to in the hospital. 76a/3958
Choking. I didn’t feel any pain at all; however I was just struggling to set myself free from this man (the father of my son). I then was in this beautiful glowing place, white glowing background like clouds but illuminating bright clouds, and a man in front of me. A man in a white dressy shirt and white dressy pants, his hair so smooth black and short, beautifully comb to the back (very good looking man). I was begging him to let me stay, but he insisted in telling me I have to go back.	I insisted in not coming back, I wanted to stay in this beautiful place. This Other Side was unexplainable in words. Too peaceful, too overwhelming, I was overpowered with so much love. I felt enamored, whole and complete, nothing to do with this world. It was my best experience in my whole life. The moment I step in the Other Side I felt the immense love all around me.	I knew I belonged there, however I tried hard, and implore, implore, and implore to stay in this beautiful world, forgetting and/or not caring to leave my two daughters and mother behind. I didn’t care for leaving them; however I knew they were going to be alright. The feeling was so out of this planet, world or dimension. Again he insisted in telling me that I have to come back. It was like a little battle between this beautiful being and I.	From that moment on I was and I am not afraid of physical death, because I learned there is life after death, our spirits never die. Isn't that amazing to know? For me it is! That you go to Hell after being a bad boy/girl is not a fact, it is just a political and religious concept to have you under control. Yes there is a purgatory but it is not Hell with fire and torture. Not that you should do evil in this world, instead help one another. That is why we are here for, to assist one another.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] I knew I belonged there. It was a feeling I been there before, but I can't point a finger of when. I felt too much Joy, happiness, whole and complete. I felt perfect. 77a/3920
I did not see myself getting out of my body nor floating above it. 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 if 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.	It is very hard to describe this light. The light I saw does not exist on Earth. I would say LIGHT AND EVEN SHADOW might (?) look like what nuclear physics can produce: light is made of small ultra bright dots, hyper mobiles and DENSE, energy. Colors are very, very vivid, clear, as if PURE, and each light dot that makes up the light seems to be individual, but it participates to the whole that constitutes the light, and it seems to contain the whole color prism.	As for the field of view, it encompasses all. This was (when He talked to me) the most intense moment of my experience (God could read my thoughts), it is thus then that I had the highest level of consciousness and alertness. God’s voice was very clear, I could therefore clearly identify the source. His voice was low and deep, as if it filled all, even myself inside. At the same time, His voice was quiet, pondered and acute, but full of authority and love.	I say authority because at the time when I wanted to speak, I felt that HIS VOICE PREVENTED me from doing so. He read my mind and answered the questions I had in my head. After talking, things went very, very, very fast: I came back into my body at high speed, faster than when coming out, I don’t know how much time later I awakened from coma with the feeling I had come back from the most beautiful journey you could do in a lifetime. 78a/3916
A nurse came who shook me. Then I was alone again, and although I was lying with my back towards the window, I was looking out of that window. And in the distance I saw a glowing point light up. While I was watching it became bigger, like the sun rising and it came through the closed window into the room and embraced me completely.	Then all went quiet inside me and all I felt was a warm love, peace and a feeling of happiness that is difficult to put into words. It seemed I had had a lung embolism and the doctors had saved me from dying. For a long time I have longed for that feeling of love. 79a/3865 [Netherlands]
I slowly sank to the bottom of the pool, where I stayed for five or more minutes with a water filled body. After a short while, I sensed Angels gathering around me; it was peaceful. Then, I was maybe 20 to 30 feet above the pool, looking down at my friend diving into the pool to save me. The Angels took me up to a gathering of clouds.	There were a few Romanesque pillars with green ivy, and an archway in the back. I had seven Angels holding me up, and four in front of me on the landing. Three were very animated and discussing what to do with me, the fourth angel kept me company.	I looked around and saw very large Pure Love Orbs with silhouettes of human souls - like a chalk outline of a dead body. I looked down at our earth and it was brown and moving, and alive with all of the souls it takes to make our planet whole. Our earth is Alive, as you are.	I saw Heaven, a little to my left behind the pillars. It has Gold Wrought Iron Fencing with spikes on top. I saw the pearly gates. My three angels, still perplexed as to how to get me back to my body, did not like my response of, "I don't want to go back down there; it is painful."	"You Must! Your Mission is Not Yet Complete!" We communicated telepathically; no lips or mouth movements; all thoughts. Moment by moment you discover how quickly you are gaining knowledge; and how easy it is to accept. →
My Three Angels sought permission from above to show me something. The clouds above their heads lit up as they cringed in fear, as did I. "Show Him!!" Was the response. The Angels flew me over to the right of these pillars - to what looked like a HUGE 4 Foot Thick Book, of LIFE. MY Life.	Just as my life had passed before my eyes when I was being drowned, I was now being shown my future life, with as much info as I could remember. Imagine a deck of cards - each card has a scene/event from your life -- now, flip those cards in front of your face -- try to remember anything you can from any card you see.	That is what I saw with my Book of Life. I gather that Life is Written; LITERALLY. The Angels, The Book and God showed me several scenes of my life - I am now an inventor of animal products - but, I never invented anything -- My Book of Life had these inventions - and, I just remembered them.	[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] When I was drowning, my life passed before my eyes - - these were ordinary, important and inane events and moments in my life --i.e. - there were moments when I saw myself watching TV - and I wondered, "why am I wasting time watching myself watch TV --	I thought all of these scenes would have been important events in my life -- they were not - or, certainly not all of them. Mundane events also pass before your eyes. 80a/3919
I fell on my back and hit my head on the ground. I immediately lost consciousness. Then I saw my life from the beginning like in a fast-forwarded movie (the feeling I got was that of a dream - compared to full consciousness - so I didn't actually realize that I was unconscious). I woke up before the memories could reach the present with a fade-to-black and then to the gray of the rainy sky of that day.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...?] If I may dare say so, the images I remember most of that recapitulating experience seemed like "filtered" by the feelings I had when I lived them (i.e. peaceful days from really early childhood had warmer-than-natural colors with amplified glows).	[Did you experience a review of past events in your life?] No point in repeating myself here. And no I didn't learn anything I previously didn't "know" but, after all these years (and in the light of philosophical studies and thoughts regarding existence, time and other things) I understand.	I actually got a glimpse at how life SUCKS but it's beautiful anyways because it's OUR life and the feelings we feel are worth the trouble. A little like how Pascal peeked at the existential matters of man 250 years before the actual existentialists understood the actual problems. 81a/3918
I saw a girl in the hospital bed and knew that she was very ill and dying. With this understanding I knew it was me that was this ill girl. I had departed from my physical body and was looking at my hospital room from the corner of the ceiling. I saw my father walking up and down looking now and then at the monitors that my body was attached to. I saw my mother sitting in a large arm chair quietly.	Then they appeared one on my left, one on my right and one behind me. I felt great wisdom coming from them; they talked to me through thought not sound. They asked me if I wished to go with them or stay. I had no questions about going with them but asked many about what will be if I decided to stay. Some of my questions were: 1. If I decided to stay will I get better?	2. Will the pain go away? 3. How will I know that all will be ok after I decide to live? 4. Is there something that I am to do on earth and therefore should decide to live? I was given more or less answers to my questions. I knew when they didn't want to answer and left it at that. The moment I made my decision I was back in my body and fell asleep.	[Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?] Yes they told me that I had knowledge that I was to pass on. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] I felt fantastic free release. 82a/3915 [Israel]
The last thing I remember when I still was awake was that several blankets were put on me because of the shivers I had. Until this very day I remember the meeting with the incredibly kind figure who wore a long cloak or mantle. I think it was a male figure, maybe an angel, but without visible wings. I clearly remember the question he asked me: If I was ready to cross over.	I knew somehow that there wasn’t any return if I did that. I almost felt embarrassed and ungrateful to the friendly figure when I said: “Mom and dad need me, besides we will go back to Sweden in a few days.” I don’t remember if I said that in words or by telepathy. Immediately after that I woke up.	My grandmother was trying to lower the fever by using large rhubarb-looking leaves on my bare body. Six months after this experience there was buzzing in my ears. Eight years later, due to my education, I came in touch with the book “Life After Life” by Raymond Moody.	I can guarantee that the book gave me shiverings of recognition. Finally I realized that I had had an NDE. Unfortunately I can’t remember any tunnel. Just the light that was out of this world, and the meeting with the figure (or angel).	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] A harmony that I never felt before or after the NDE. 83a/3917 [Sweden]
Two nurses rushed to my bedside, one checking me and the other putting the mask back on me once again. Next I wake up in a normal children's hospital room. I am looking towards the corner of the room, when suddenly it seems as if I am getting closer to the ceiling. Eventually I realize I am, and I start to see a glowing light appear right in front of me. It starts of small, but grows bigger and brighter the closer I get.	Before fully submerged in the glowing essence, I could tell something was going on in the room, but I was not sure of what. The white, warm glow surrounds me. It is the purest white light you could ever see, glowing all around you. I felt so comfortable, and so undoubtedly happy. I knew what was going on, I knew it as a fact, not assuming. I was dead. It felt like a long time before I was spoken to.	It was not verbally, nor did I see anyone/anything else around me. I was being spoken from within my own heart. It is hard to describe without sounding like I am making a conversation with myself, but that's what it was. It was like my inner conscience was talking to me. It asked, "Are you ready to come home?" I knew it meant death. I thought about it, I really did.	I thought so hard and for what seemed like hours I contemplated. Do I really want to die? This was the greatest feeling I had ever experienced, do I want this feeling to end? My answer was 'no'. I wanted to live a life. As soon as I answered 'no' (which was not done verbally, I doubt I even had anything like a body at the time) I was immediately hit with, well, intuitions of the future.	Me and my mother would never be as close as we were then, I would find a man I'd truly love and have two kids, but it would be hard and difficult, but eventually, I would be at peace and love and happiness. →
Again, the inner conscience 'spoke', and asked "Are you sure?" Again I contemplated for what seemed like hours, now having this new level of understanding. (Could me and my mother really never stay as close as we were? Would I really get the chance to have kids, despite my heart?).. I chose 'Yes'.	My journey was the same, just backwards. This time I could hear doctors and nurses talking, and machines going crazy. I looked behind and could see my own body laying there cold, with the others cluttered all around me furiously trying to revive me.	I look back up towards the ceiling again, and 'close my eyes' once I reached my body, and never woke up until morning. 84a/3913
I have no memory of the accident but what I do recall is floating outside my body. The backside of my body was to me. I felt (what I know now was an angel) something wrap around my arms and legs. I started being pulled back into my body when I was overwhelmed with the feeling of peace and calm. I knew that I was in an accident, that I was being protected, and that I would survive.	[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] I seemed to be able to see my face although I was facing my back. [At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] When I felt what I call now an angel wrap itself around me.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Total peace and calm. I have never felt such peace. [How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. How I feel, think and things I do now are different from the way I was prior to the accident. 85a/3909
I remember being somewhere where it was very bright. There were others with me, I think like three or four others. We were in a group. There were others. I sensed them but I could not see them. The ones I saw were funny. It seemed like all I saw of them were heads and small wings. We communicated mentally only.	I heard farther away someone saying there is a body available, but you must act quick. I said I'll go, but one of the others close to me said, "No its too soon for you." I said I don't care, I want to go. And they said you must go now or it will be too late. Next thing I remember is being in a crib.	And this person was looking at me and talking and smiling. Later I could remember being somewhere inside a wrapping of sorts I would reach to touch it but I couldn't seem to reach it. It was comfortable. But then I would be scared, like claustrophobic.	Since then many things have happened. I remember three past lives, and since 2003 I've been getting visions etc. 86a/3911
I hyperventilated and stopped breathing. I felt like in the form of 'aliens' but these may have been guardian angels lifting me away from Earth into this amazing bright light that was like a tunnel. I felt so much love and beauty. It was a peaceful experience. I did not want to leave. I was given a choice as I was traveling down this tunnel to live or carry on through the tunnel.	I was going through a negotiation as to what would happen if I died and how badly it would affect my mother, husband, etc. And also saw my future that I had not experienced having children yet, and had a lot more things to accomplish. It was not my time.	I remember thinking we live on Earth and we are humans and saw from a higher level how we exist on Earth. I felt like it wasn't time yet, so held my husband next to me and started breathing again and felt myself go back down to Earth.	[Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?] Yes when I was traveling through a tunnel. Almost like an egg yolk. Bright yellow on the inside but white around the outside. I didn't get to the end though, but mid way went through negotiation. 87a/3908 [Australia]
I rolled a bit and looked behind me and saw a bumper heading right for me. In an instant I did not know who or what I was or where. It was like I was moving very fast and pictures were flashing in front of me one after another and so on. It was kind of confusing. All of a sudden I saw the brightest light but I don't remember seeing clearly just actual beings almost on another side.	I felt this complete happiness and feeling of just everything was lifted and I was to go. As soon as I came back I knew I would be ok but I could not talk or move yet. My body was in shock. As soon as I could talk I felt my fingers and toes and I wasn't paralyzed. I was so thankful. I felt completely protected and at ease almost like I knew.	I remember the entire experience. The most incredible of all is this woman came to me and held my hand and stayed with me the entire time until the paramedics started to treat me. Later people who where witnesses said that she was not there. It was unreal. I felt like she was an angel.	The amazing thing was the guy I was dating said she was by his side too at the same time. That was validation for me. We both saw her, both, no one else did. It was an incredible experience. 88a/3907
I saw myself laying on the ground with people around me. I knew I was going to die. My life did not flash before me like a movie or images. I experienced the following with complete clarity and comprehension. Instantly I was aware of every negative interaction with other human beings in my life. I knew if I remained where I was I would feel and experience every harmful thing I had caused others knowingly or not in my life, as they had.	It was very frightening because the collective emotional pain was overwhelming. I somehow sensed I was given a choice to go back. I prayed sincerely for the first time in my life, it was simple, I promised to be the best person I could be.	[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. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] I felt something or someone was there, it seemed I was given a choice to stay or go back.	[Did you see a light?] Yes it was almost like I felt the light. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] A feeling of sadness because of my total lack of caring how my actions had affected others and the knowledge of complete self centeredness. 89a/3905
I was picking flowers for mum on the way home from school. The nicest ones grew on the edge. I bent over to pick them and fell. Down below was a stream and rugged rocks. No fear, I just thought. Oh I am falling. Then nothing, just blackness. Then I heard the noise and felt like I was being hurtled quickly through the darkness.	Then came the big noise the huge crack like thunder, then the great big blinding light, and bang its like they shocked me to come back, it was not my time. I don't know how I survived my face in the water or how long I was out. My arm was bust and I was badly bruised and suffering shock. Never forgot the light or the noise!	[Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?] Yes. [What emotions did you feel during the experience?] No fear, wonder. I was obedient to the light and noise which told me to wake. 90a/3899 Australia
My car went off the road to a wet grassy shoulder, with a line of trees dead ahead. As soon as my car left the road, everything seemed to slow down. I remember being able to think and figure out what do, figure out all the outcomes. I saw my wife as clear as day standing right before me.	After what seemed like a few moments, I remember pushing my clutch in and jamming the brakes. The car slid to a stop, about three feet from smashing into a tree. Once I had stopped, I got out the car. Had I not stopped the car, it would have smashed into several trees that lined along side a ditch.	[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
Well the tug just kept on coming and I knew it had to stop soon, but by then I realized I couldn't get out if I tried. At first I thought my ribs were going to cave in and then I said goodbye to my family and I thought my head was going to pop off. Then a friend from back home in glen was right beside me, Bruce, and he said, "It's okay, relax, you're welcome." He was guiding me towards the most brilliant light and a roaring tunnel. In my mind I asked what was happening.	A voice came. A male voice just kind of matter-of-factly said, "You are drowning." Instantly, I saw my mother and my two little sisters Mary-Lou and Lorna crying at the kitchen table like I never want to see anybody like that again. I yelled out, "No!" And not knowing where I was just started kicking. I don't know how but when I hit the surface of the water and took my first breath, I still didn't know where I was.	I could make out a bit of light and I dog-paddled toward the light. Getting near the stern of a tugboat, I read the name Flo Cooper. I swam up the side and could hear the engines. I realized I worked on it. Swimming around the bow I heard voices and the chief yelled out, "McRae!" and my name came back to me. A friend of mine, Bruce, just off to my right.	He said, "It's okay, relax, you’re welcome, and was guiding me into the light. I found out on Christmas Eve as we were driving home, and my mother told me that Bruce had drowned a couple of months ago. I couldn't say a word. [Did you see a light?] The most welcoming glow, like going back into the womb.	[How do you currently view the reality of your experience?] Experience was definitely real. There is life after death. But then again there is no such thing as death. I think a part of me is in that light, and I've been only partly here on earth since 1973. 92a/3892 [Canada]
Unable to breathe in or out at all, I struggled for breath until I didn't need to breathe anymore. At that moment, a great peace came over me. My head fell over to the right and down, and my consciousness (soul?) lifted to the right and up to the corner of the room, where I watched what was happening below.	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.	[What emotions did you feel during the experience?] Detachment from family, peace, relief. 93a/3889
I felt perfectly normal. The next thing I remember was that I saw myself crumpled onto the floor. I was floating above my own body and the sensation was euphoric. It was a feeling of perfection in the highest form. I was completely weightless, and hovering over my own body in complete bliss. I watched and listened suspended above my own body. At the same time it was as though all questions of the universe had been answered in that one moment.	The nurse exclaimed “Oh my gosh, doctor, what happened?” The doctor turned as quickly as the nurse had and was checking me. I could see my lifeless body lying there, the eyes were shut and the face was expressionless. The doctor then called to the assistant, “Bring the ammonia inhalant pack." I thought as I was hovering over watching all this, “No, please don’t do that. I don’t want to come back from where I am, let me stay here."	The feeling was so good, so weightless, so careless and oblivious to any problems of the world, it was the most peaceful feeling I’ve ever experienced. Suddenly I saw the nurse come into the room and hand the white gauze tiny bullet-like packet to the doctor. He snapped it open and the sensation in that split second was that I was being sucked back into my body.	The heaviness and confinement of my body came back and I was back in my body in an instant. I never told the doctor of the experience for fear he would think I was insane. At that time, 1971, I had never heard of an “out of body” experience. [Was the experience dream like in any way?] No. It was not the same at all. In dreams you awake at some point and know that it was a dream.	You can recall what felt real in a dream and experience a dream believing that it was real, but I have never "known" and "experienced" anything as real as the out of body experience. It was clearer than conscious life and much more profound. 94a/1970
They asked me if I was OK. I said yes, and immediately lost consciousness, seeing images of my life like snapshots, from early childhood up to the age I was at that time, seeing and understanding the meaning of all these pictures, although they flashed by at remarkable speed. Suddenly I entered a dark tunnel, feeling all the time at peace and in harmony, feeling wonderful, and in a bit a light appeared and there was someone, an entity, in two dimensions, without human features.	I noticed other presences, as if they were accompanying me, but there was no one I knew. I wanted to stay there, but I was told I had to go back; I was urged to leave, I still had things to do, and soon I saw a burst of light, saw myself on the ground and my mother and my friends, the people of that place circled round me, looking at me and asking if I was OK.	And I sure was OK, felt great, full of a sensation of fulfillment, and conscious of what had happened to me. [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes, perception is different.	You are not an observer, things happen within yourself, everything enters into you, vision comes towards you and it is something in a straight line, you are not aware of the sides, there is no lateral vision. 95a/3896 Spain
Immobile, eyes open, no respiration, as confirmed by my girlfriend. And without thought. I'm always thinking, I am a very logical person, yet in that moment I was without thought. All of a sudden I felt so peaceful the way I never felt before, a deep peace, the body no longer existed and it was as though it had never existed; none of my memories ever existed, pain never existed, memory of pain, no recollection of anything, only serenity and a white light all around me, blinding, a light cold in tone but warm.	I don't know if I can succeed in making you understand. It's as though you have your arms wide open on a summer's night, and your eyes closed, and you feel the synchronicity of everything. Then a worry made me turn from where I was. I knew that I would never have been able to return without that worry that made me come back, and I don't know if it was the right thing to come back. In any case it was only in that instant when I returned that I felt the worry.	I was still advancing but at the same time turned towards whence I had come. With the same peace that I described above. Until I found myself there reclining in my seat. And I began to observe, but quietly, peacefully. I watched my girlfriend turn towards me, she was seated. I saw my shoulders and my neck from below. I saw my girlfriend yelling, but I couldn't hear her. But that didn't interest me. I was at peace.	And I was returning. Without walking and without any sensation of movement I was returning to myself until I reached the surface of my body lying on the seat, until I and my body were reunited perfectly, and then I turned to my girlfriend and said why are you screaming. It was her screaming and her terror and her panic that had created the worry.	[Did you see a light?] An immense, very powerful blinding light like a star, but very near as though the light passed through me. 96a/3900 [Italy]
The last thing I remember is struggling to breathe. All of a sudden I found myself floating in a tunnel, proceeding at great speed, floating/flying. There was quite a strong buzzing sound. On either side of the tunnel were very bright images. I recognized myself, as a child. It was like a film. I kept going forward through the luminous tunnel, and it was very pleasant.	The feeling I had was of infinite fulfillment. Then a moment came when I was brought up short by a "wall" of dense light, which gave off an unbelievable goodness, an indescribable love. And I heard a voice filled with tenderness say to me: "It's not time, you must go back, it's much too soon."	That is when I felt myself falling like a stone, condensing, I can't think of a better word, to rejoin my body. The feeling of falling and "condensing" was so painful that I remained uncomfortable for several hours. But, what an experience! What wonderful feelings!	[At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?] The moment when the Light spoke to me. [Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] Yes, I seemed to have a spherical view 360º vertically as well as horizontally.	[Did you meet or see any other beings?] Yes, precisely this light, which was living. 97a/3891 [Canada]
I was drowning and I was desperately trying to breathe. I remember this whole scene was very ugly but at a certain point it became beautiful with many beautiful colors, then after the many different colors there was something that I have not been able to recall. But I do remember perfectly the following. There was someone close by, I can’t say who it was, and I was fascinated by the “sun” that I saw shining overhead, it drew me towards it, it was irresistible.	I wanted to go to the “sun” but someone telepathically told me I couldn’t. I thought that I was awake and that my body was still in this world, so I stopped for a moment and wondered why the “sun” attracted me so, and why I couldn’t go towards it. But at the same time I knew, I don’t know how, that I wasn’t allowed to go to the “sun.”	So I decided to disobey that voice inside of me that told me I couldn’t because the attraction was really too great. Then in a fraction of a second, as I was attempting to go towards that light, I was projected into my body and I heard some people who were telling me to throw up the water.	As soon as I opened my eyes I turned to search for the sun while I asked myself how in the world I had managed to open my eyes before since it was only at this time that I was seeing again. Suddenly the sun seemed so small and colorless, there was no comparison to what I had just seen before I returned to consciousness.	This experience was so beautiful and I will carry it in my heart until I die. 98a/3886 [Italy]
I remember being conscious and wanting to open my eyes and move my body because I heard the monitors going off and the doctor saying that they had lost me. He asked a woman if my husband was outside and told her to go speak with my husband, the aide asked what’s going on and the doctor said, "Sew her up." I wanted to scream and tell them that I was still here but I couldn’t open my eyes. It seemed as though there were fractions of a second in which I saw scenes of my life with my family, my children, my husband and my work colleagues.	And I asked myself why, since there was so much more for me to do, when the most beautiful music surrounded me and I resigned myself to staying. Then I saw my 20 year old son leaning against a wall, my sister-in-law was asking him how my husband was doing and he answered he’s better now, and then I realized that hours had passed and I heard my other son, he was walking and they had already told him about my death.	I was sad thinking about the pain that my death was causing everybody and I said to myself that I needed to go back. It wasn’t fair even if the peace and serenity that I was feeling was so wonderful and unexplainable. I said to myself it doesn’t matter if it hurts I have to go back.	In that moment it was as if the same movie that I had just seen began to go in reverse until I heard them tell the aide that I had returned and a moment later the nurse told me they were taking me to a hospital room. I believe I was conscious throughout the whole event and the most significant part is the cycle of life. 99a/3846 [Venezuela]
I ”died” and all of a sudden I floated, in a diagonal. Everything became immobilized, like a dead calm. In the course of the events, time and space stopped. I could move myself anyway, completely free, free from the body's usual inertia and limits. I looked down at my body - as if it was not mine - and I felt absolutely no sorrow, no regret for it, no pain, or anything else. I just realized that my body was there lying down on the grass. Nothing more, nothing less. It may seem strange now, but at that moment everything appeared to be self-evident.	At the same time that the world stood there under me, in its “frozen” state, I found myself encircled by an absolute warmness, in a state of satisfaction and light heartedness. I still continued to ”float ” (i.e. as if I was “hung “up there in the air). I turned round/my real self/ my consciousness (my whole self was like a sole consciousness – no body, no extension, no beginning and no end in that awareness that was me) and I saw straight ahead, a bit upwards.	I remember I glanced up), an indescribable “light”, like an opening to another dimension, to a completely different world, and, there was a face. I will never forget that face! It was so full of a welcoming, a non-demanding, warm smile of love. In that inviting face, as in the whole experience, there was nothing else than a complete pure and total love, unlimited comprehension, kindness, and real affectionate, sympathetic and warm humour.	There was a silent direct communication, which I am not able to “translate” into written or spoken words, neither specially into an image. I just felt, from that wonderful face, that I was both welcome and expected; exactly as if I had seen that face before, and much more… As if everything was so well-known, so familiar and so self-evident.	Nearly as if I had been away in a long, long journey in a foreign country, and after a time I finally had come back again! Home, where everything was so well-known and safe. 100a/3876 [Sweden]
I was awakened by someone I did not know. He was a white man and he had a suit on. He said his name was Michael and for me to come with him. I looked and there was a tunnel where he was. I looked at myself on the floor where I slept by my sister. I saw her sleeping in the bed. I looked back at him and took his hand. For some reason I trusted him. I had a feeling that he was a good person. We walked through the wall into a tunnel. There was a bright light and he stopped and told me to go through it.	I remember stepping through and it became a bright sunny day. A beautiful place and children playing with lions and everyone was so happy. They all looked at me and told me to go meet them. There was two glowing figures. I could not see their faces, but one was sitting on a throne and one was standing next to the other.	A thunderous voice spoke and the other man said it is not time my son, go back and take care of people. I was awakened by my mother shaking me. She took me to the hospital. The next day I told her god has spoken to me and I went to heaven. I told the doctor and he said I hallucinated. It was not real, I stopped breathing and thought I did.	[Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?] Heaven or a beautiful field that people where there with all kinds of animals. 101a/3888

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