| Case Id | Source Type | Record Type | Source Citation | Source Url | Nde Year | Nde Date | Year Nde Submitted | Subject Age At Nde | Subject Gender | Text Summary | Clinical Death Type Id | Medical Setting | Medical Context Score | Veridical Quality Score | Total Score | Classification | Stated Verification Score | Narrative Quality Score | Medical Context Justification | Veridical Quality Justification | Corroboration Justification | Alternatives Justification | Doc Type | Eeg Documented | Cardiac Monitoring | Anesthesia Records | Eyes Taped | Ears Blocked | Deep Anesthesia | Other Barriers | Records Reviewed By | Review Date | Updated At | Observation Count | Corroboration Count | Primary Observation | Primary Obs Verified | Primary Witness | Biblical Compatibility | Tabatt Total Score | |
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| 3001 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4152 Alain R NDE 8002 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1alain_r_nde.html | 1981 | 2016 | 18 | M |
In 1981, at age 18, Alain experienced a near-death event following a dangerous suffocation game outside a neighborhood bar. A friend compressed his rib cage to induce unconsciousness, similar to the "choking game." When Alain lost consciousness, he found himself in a luminous tunnel with an increasingly bright light at the end. The tunnel was open, not stifling, and filled with a soothing brightness. At the end of the tunnel, Alain saw at least three silhouettes of beings made of light waiting for him. They appeared benevolent and welcoming, with one larger figure standing in front. These beings were distinct from the surrounding light, which was incredibly bright but not blinding. Alain felt he was in a soothing, welcoming, and positive place where he felt completely at peace. The experience was unlike anything in his earthly life. Alain was suddenly brought back to consciousness when a friend slapped him as he lay on the ground. His first words were expressing regret at being awakened, saying he had felt good and should have been left there. When he shared his experience, his friends thought he was dreaming. This experience profoundly changed Alain's life, giving him strength to continue living despite trials and removing his fear of death. He kept the experience mostly private for years until learning about NDEs and realizing others had similar experiences throughout history. The experience continues to help him daily and prevents him from doing harm. |
5 | Other | 3 | 1 | 4 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Suffocation from chest compression causing loss of consciousness | No specific veridical observations reported, only subjective experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3002 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4253 Alan P NDE 8156 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1alan_p_nde_8156.html | 1971 | 2016 | 11 | M |
In May 1971, 11-year-old Alan was playing with three other children on a large sand pile when they decided to dig a tunnel through it. Alan was first to crawl through when the pile collapsed, crushing him and forcing the air from his lungs. Unable to breathe or move except for his legs flailing outside the sand, Alan experienced the most painful and terrifying moments of his life before losing consciousness. As unconsciousness overtook him, Alan heard loud buzzing and sounds, then saw a light as commonly described in NDEs. He experienced a complete life review that was not like watching a movie but rather like viewing a large picture where he could see the whole while also examining details, with complete understanding and recall of his entire life. This review seemed to take only fractions of a second. Alan then found himself outside his body, standing a few feet away and above, watching his feet thrash while feeling relief from the pain and suffocation. During his out-of-body experience, Alan became aware of his mother in the house taking laundry from the dryer and can still describe what she was wearing. He also sensed his grandmother cooking a half-mile away and the workers in the fields on their 80-acre farm. A male presence stood behind him to his left - someone he knew or who knew him, making him feel safe. When his siblings dug him out and he took his first breath, Alan immediately returned to his body, feeling compressed and aware of pain again. Alan initially told his parents about the experience, but his physician father dismissed it as oxygen deprivation. Years later, after reading about NDEs in Reader's Digest, Alan realized he wasn't alone in having such experiences. The event gave him enhanced memory of early childhood and changed his perspective on death. |
5 | Other | 5 | 16 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening suffocation from sand pile collapse, unable to breathe | Aware of mother doing laundry and what she wore, grandmother cooking half-mile away, workers in fields | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sand pile collapsed | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw mother doing laundry inside house | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 3003 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4252 Alena B NDE 8150 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1alena_b_nde.html | 2014 | 2016 | F |
On August 13, 2014, Alena was working in her barn with a young three-year-old breeding horse. After finishing grooming, she passed by the horse's head when the animal spooked, bolted backward, and snapped a cross tie. The horse lost balance and pulled Alena underneath, ripping muscles from her right shoulder. The horse fell on her, crushing her between its hip, the wall, and concrete floor. Alena heard cracking sounds as her bones broke, and when the horse tried to get up, it fell on her again causing more fractures. Suddenly everything went white and clear in Alena's head. She entered a tunnel made of smooth, solid material with nothing to grasp. At the tunnel's end was an extremely bright light exerting a powerful pulling force. Alena knew instinctively that reaching the light would mean the end of her existence - not with negative or positive emotions, but as a matter of fact. She desperately resisted the force, trying to hold onto the smooth tunnel walls, fighting with all her being against being pulled into the light. The battle continued until Alena became utterly exhausted, her grip weakening until she had nothing left to resist with. Suddenly, the pulling force disappeared and she was overwhelmed with eternal peace and love - a love-enlightened feeling that remained with her two years later. She felt that everything would be good and sensed angels were there to help her survive, though she didn't see them. Upon returning to her body, despite her arm hanging by skin alone and terrible pain, Alena knew she would heal well. She felt driven by a mission to maintain control and ensure her body was cared for, believing she was needed for something bigger. The experience left her with lasting feelings of peace, love, and purpose. |
5 | Other | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening trauma with multiple bone fractures from horse crushing accident | No specific veridical observations reported, entirely subjective experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 3004 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4099 Alicia A NDE 7917 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1alicia_a_nde.html | 2001 | 2016 | F |
In June 2001, Alicia had been working as a Dunkin Donuts manager when she felt sick for several days. On the fourth or fifth day, she lost consciousness on her kitchen floor around 8:30 AM and was found by her grandmother. At the hospital emergency room, medical staff squeezed IV fluid into her veins while she felt water drops on her face. Her organs shut down from severe sepsis, and she died, requiring resuscitation with defibrillation paddles. She remained in the ER from 9 AM to 6 PM before being stable enough for ICU, where she spent four days, followed by three days in recovery. During her time in the emergency room, Alicia was taken into the universe, literally in space, hovering over her body watching three EMTs attempting to revive her. She felt confused, as if watching a movie of her death. She then found herself floating high above Earth with thousands of energies, watching the planet turn itself inside out like a black hole with flowing red lava. One larger energy was present with them, though Alicia couldn't confirm if it was God. When Alicia asked where her family was, the large energy replied, "Who is here is who is meant to be here," immediately calming her fear and panic. When she asked why this was happening, the energy answered, "This is what has to be done." She experienced complete peace with no fear or sound, observing Earth's transformation for what seemed like minutes. A flash of light brought her back to the ICU. Alicia awoke with a breathing tube, surrounded by nurses, with her Company Commander standing tearfully in the background. Doctors informed her she was only the second person in the hospital's history to survive such high blood alcohol content (though she had septic shock, not alcohol poisoning), having died in both the ambulance and ER. The experience strengthened her spiritual beliefs and conviction about consciousness continuing after death. |
6 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death from septic shock, died in ambulance and ER, required defibrillation | Observed three EMTs working on her body, but no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Watched EMTs attempting resuscitation | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3005 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4125 Anabela Maria C NDE 7957 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1anabela_maria_c_nde.html | 1989 | 2016 | F |
In January 1989, Anabela's father was cutting an olive tree with a chainsaw when she saw it falling toward her. Unable to escape, she turned and crouched as a branch struck her back, crushing it and causing intense pain. She walked 100 meters home but could barely see or hear. At the closed door, after telling her parents she was thirsty, everything went dark and she began sliding at high speed through a tunnel with dark and colored sections. Instantaneously, Anabela found herself sitting on a perfect, clean grass hill level with the sun, wearing a white robe and barefoot. She saw trees nearby under a deep blue, cloudless sky. She felt enormous well-being - neither hot nor cold - and felt she had returned home after being away too long. She didn't remember living on Earth except for the tree accident, which seemed like a nightmare. She felt completely free, safe, and happy forever in this place where no evil existed. Looking up, Anabela saw a white light beam from the sky entering through her head, feeling literally filled with God's love, being healed and fulfilled with peace, happiness, joy, and life. The happiness was indescribable. She then heard her mother screaming and initially thought she was coming to join her. As the screaming continued, she became anxious, it grew dark, and she flew through fog, seeing a burned, dark place with burned trees below. Upon opening her eyes on her house porch with her parents beside her, Anabela felt both sad to return and happy knowing she had been in heaven. The experience transformed her faith, making her seek to know God better, particularly through Jesus and the Catholic faith. |
5 | Home | 3 | 1 | 4 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe back trauma from tree branch, clinical death mentioned | No specific veridical observations, entirely subjective experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3006 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4237 Andy J NDE 8131 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1andy_j_nde.html | 2002 | 2016 | 22 | M |
In June 2002, Andy was a second-year US Army Infantryman who threw a party in the barracks with friends. Despite knowing his addiction to alcohol and having not eaten all day, he challenged friends to a drinking contest and consumed three large bottles of hard liquor before blacking out. Friends called an ambulance, and Andy died during transport to the hospital from severe alcohol poisoning. During the ambulance ride, Andy hovered over his body watching three EMTs attempting to revive him, feeling confused and unaware, as if watching a movie of his death. He then found himself floating high above Earth, staring at vast oceans and land bodies. He experienced complete peace with no fear or sound, feeling part of the universe while the universe was part of him. The vision of Earth was more detailed and glorious than he could describe. Time seemed distorted - what felt like minutes was actually two days in a coma. Andy saw a flash of bright light before waking in the ICU with a breathing tube, surrounded by nurses trying to calm his panic. His Company Commander stood tearfully in the background. Doctors informed him he was only the second person in hospital history to survive such high blood/alcohol content, having died in the ambulance and again in the emergency room. He remained hospitalized for two more weeks of recovery and therapy. The experience profoundly changed Andy's life. After years of searching through various spiritual paths, he found peace through meditation. Following three combat tours, his PTSD, anxiety, and nightmares disappeared. At 39, he achieved the calm and peace he experienced during his NDE through daily meditation, viewing his experience as a second chance that gave him purpose and removed his fear of death. |
6 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Clinical death from alcohol poisoning, died in ambulance and ER, in coma 2 days | Observed three EMTs working but no specific verifiable details provided | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 1 | Watched EMTs attempting resuscitation | 0.00 | Hospital doctors | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||
| 3007 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4087 Anna BZ NDE 7889 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1anna_bz_nde.html | 2013 | 2016 | F |
On May 22, 2013, Anna underwent laparoscopic gallstone removal at a private clinic. During the operation under general anesthesia, she remained totally conscious, hearing medical staff conversations she could repeat today. She experienced prolonged emergence from anesthesia, hearing the physician's bedside comments while unable to respond except through facial expressions. Eight minutes without breathing resulted in clinical death requiring defibrillation. Anna flew through a black tunnel with elements of hell visible on the walls, resembling paintings of Angel Michael in Rome. She found herself in a roofless glass hall like the Pantheon, observing a dark passage with a table arranged like the Last Supper. Young people aged 30-40 sat at the table dressed in bright colors - green, red, blue, and gold. Her mother, who had died at 88, appeared as a 40-year-old wearing a white dress with red roses instead of the dark blue Anna knew it to be. When a woman approached Anna dreamlike without seeing her, Anna suddenly understood she was dead upon seeing her mother, the light, and the table. She protested, saying she didn't want to be there, mentioning her husband, children, grandchildren, and patients. Her mother rose, took her hand, led her to a corridor and said it wasn't her time yet and she must go back. Anna then observed her own defibrillation from above, initially wondering who the woman on the operating table was before realizing it was herself. Following the experience, Anna's brain underwent neuroplasticity requiring 1.5 years to recover. She experienced overwhelming love for everyone and gained healing abilities and occasional clairvoyance. The experience strengthened her Catholic faith and transformed her life, leading to spiritual growth and career advancement. |
3 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 31 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clinical death during surgery, 8 minutes without breathing, required defibrillation | Heard medical conversations during surgery, observed own defibrillation, awareness under anesthesia | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard medical staff conversations during surgery | 1.00 | Operating doctor | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3008 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4142 Banu U NDE 7985 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1banu_u_nde.html | 1988 | 2016 | 18 | F |
In May 1988, 18-year-old Banu underwent rhinoplasty surgery for a nose broken at age 7. Under general anesthesia in the operating room, she experienced a deep black tunnel with an incredible light at the end. She saw 15-20 shadows of people of varying heights waiting for her at the tunnel's end, appearing to expect her arrival. Her earthly body felt like it was rolling side to side while her consciousness moved toward the light and the waiting figures. Unable to reach the shadow people, Banu suddenly felt her soul vacuum back into her body. She began regaining consciousness, feeling the doctor's hand pressing on her nose while applying bandages. Her entire body was extremely cold. Outside the operating room, her mother had been whispering prayers, and later revealed that after three hours, nurses rushed out carrying oxygen tubes in apparent distress, though they wouldn't answer her questions. Months later, a nurse who attended the surgery revealed that Banu had awakened mid-operation, requiring a second, higher dose of anesthesia. This caused them to lose her heartbeat, pulse, and blood pressure - she had clinically died. The medical team's urgent response with oxygen equipment confirmed the life-threatening emergency her mother had witnessed. Banu described the experience as profoundly peaceful and joyful, with no pain, only complete peace in body and soul. She believes the shadow figures were deceased loved ones and relatives waiting to meet her. The experience removed her fear of death and gave her a sense of receiving a second chance at life, making her more mature and devoted to family. She developed enhanced sixth sense abilities and experienced astral travel afterward. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 1 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Clinical death during surgery, lost heartbeat/pulse/BP, confirmed by nurse | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 1 | Surgery nurse | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3009 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4146 Mario NDE 7966 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mario_nde.html | 2009 | 2016 | M | Mario contracted plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa but was initially misdiagnosed. After returning home, his wife found him unconscious with cardiac arrest. The emergency doctor diagnosed his heart had stopped and administered an injection to his sternum. He was transported to the hospital where he spent several days in a coma. During this time, Mario experienced being enveloped in an indescribable wonderful light filled with love and peace. He found himself in a place of joy with huge, wonderful flowers and intoxicating perfumes. He encountered his deceased parents and nephew who had died in 1994. His mother told him it wasn't his time yet and insisted he return, despite his desire to stay. His nephew also suggested he return. The experience was characterized by overwhelming feelings of unconditional love, peace, and the certainty that death is not the end. After a slow recovery lasting over three months including initial quadriplegia and intubation, Mario eventually returned home. The experience eliminated his fear of death and strengthened his belief in God and the afterlife. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 0 | 10 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest explicitly documented with emergency resuscitation | No veridical observations of earthly events reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3010 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4074 Marisa D NDE 23080 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1marisa_d_nde.html | 1996 | 2016 | F | Marisa had two experiences while in the military. The first occurred in Texas when she was alone and possibly sleeping. She found herself standing in the night sky surrounded by stars when one star enlarged and brightened. A male voice told her she would give birth to a son named Timothy James, raise him alone, and live a long healthy life with him. She was told not to be afraid and that her son would be her angel. Shortly after, she discovered she was pregnant. The second experience happened during childbirth in Washington. She suddenly stopped hearing the medical staff and felt her body rising toward a translucent bright light. A male voice told her it wasn't her time yet and she had a son to raise. She then woke up to learn she had passed out and needed oxygen. Weeks later, doctors discovered she had pregnancy-related cardiomyopathy and thought she needed a heart transplant. After six weeks of medication, her heart miraculously recovered completely, stunning the doctors. Both experiences brought her feelings of love, peace, and bliss, and significantly changed her spiritual outlook from traditional Catholicism to a more universal spiritual perspective. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 0 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | Childbirth with cardiac complications requiring oxygen | Prophetic information about future son, not veridical observation of present events | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 1 | Doctor | Moderately Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3011 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4104 Mary M NDE 7922 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mary_m_nde_7922.html | 1969 | 2016 | 15 | F | At age 15, Mary attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills after enduring abuse from her alcoholic father with PTSD. She was taken to the hospital and spent three days in the ICU. During emergency treatment, she had an out-of-body experience floating above her hospital bed. She saw a tunnel and light, hearing a non-auditory voice telling her to choose between life or going to the light. The light was comforting, full of unconditional love and peace - the first time she felt truly loved and valued as a person. She observed the nurses working on her, heard them discussing ICU (understanding the term despite never hearing it before), and saw her father leave the room and return drunk, being denied entry. She made the conscious choice to return to life. After the experience, she spent over a month in psychiatric care. The NDE transformed her self-perception from feeling worthless to recognizing her value as a human being. She went on to earn a Master's degree, build three successful companies, and maintain a 38-year marriage. The experience eliminated her fear of death and gave her a sense of connection to something greater than herself. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Suicide attempt by overdose, 3 days in ICU | Observed father drunk in hallway, knew meaning of ICU without prior knowledge | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 0 | Understood ICU terminology | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 3012 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4110 Michelle B NDE 7927 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1michelle_b_nde.html | 1980 | 2016 | F | Michelle was swimming in the Missouri River with her two older sisters when she was pulled under by a strong undercurrent. Unable to see or reach the surface, she began drowning. During this time, she experienced passing through a tunnel with a feeling of being drawn toward something greater than life itself. She encountered an unearthly light that seemed to have no beginning or end - it was warm, inviting, loving, all-knowing and complete. She felt pure unadulterated love, completeness, incredible peace and joy, and a sense of unity with the universe. The experience was characterized by a deafening silence after the initial sound of rushing water. She felt no sense of time during the experience. Her sister eventually found her and pulled her out by her hair, which she experienced as being suddenly separated from complete love. After being rescued, she coughed up water while her sisters laughed, leaving her confused and angry about being pulled from that perfect state of love. She never re-entered the water that day. The experience profoundly changed her spiritual perspective, leading her to understand that God is love and exists within everyone and everything. | 5 | Other | 5 | 0 | 5 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning in Missouri River with undercurrent | No veridical observations reported, purely transcendent experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3013 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4119 Michelle H NDE 7951 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1michelle_h_nde_7951.html | 1985 | 2016 | 18 | F | Michelle and friends had run away and were living in a van in Seattle. While sleeping alone under a tree in Greenway Park, she woke to find a man watching her. Though frozen with fear, she tried to stay awake until daylight but fell asleep as the sun rose. She woke to the man strangling and raping her, choking her until her bladder emptied. While being strangled, she prayed "Please don't let me die like this." She was then enveloped in the lightest light imaginable that didn't hurt her eyes despite her sensitivity to bright light. She felt the most intense love and peace she had ever experienced, feeling without body and both within space and as space itself. She felt a deep connection to God's love and peace, becoming one with them. When her eyes opened, the attacker said "I did not mean to kill you," suggesting she appeared dead. Her boyfriend and friend witnessed strange lights in the sky that night - two lights descending then separating horizontally like footballs. At the hospital, the whites of her eyes were completely red from strangulation. The experience completely changed her view of God's existence and led to lasting PTSD but also spiritual transformation, eventually finding healing through therapy and yoga where she occasionally glimpses the same divine love. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Criminal attack with strangulation to point of apparent death | Boyfriend witnessed unusual lights in sky during attack time | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Anomalous lights in sky | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3014 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4130 Miia H NDE 7965 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1miia_h_nde.html | 1992 | 2016 | 11 | F | At age 11, Miia was lying in bed when she felt her body go numb, first on the right side then the left. She managed to shout "help me" before everything went dark. She felt an electric shock through her entire body and felt "ripped off" from her body, initially experiencing strong fear. She then found herself floating above her convulsing body, observing it with calm detachment. Her mother was crying hysterically beside her shouting "don't die!" When her mother went two rooms away to call an ambulance, Miia could still hear her voice clearly as if she were next to her - a fact her mother later confirmed. While floating near the ceiling, Miia looked toward the bedroom door and somehow knew there was an invisible door above it that she could use someday, realizing at that moment she would not die this time. After another electric shock sensation, she woke up with paramedics trying to help her walk downstairs. She was later diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. The experience eliminated her fear of death and strengthened her existing spiritual beliefs, though it created distance from others who didn't believe her account. She developed possible premonition abilities afterward. | 6 | Home | 3 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Seizure with possible respiratory arrest per mother's observation | Heard mother clearly from two rooms away, observed own convulsing body | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard mother from distant room | 1.00 | Mother | Low Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||
| 3015 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4123 Mike R NDE 7959 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mike_r_nde_7959.html | 2016 | 2016 | M | Mike was driving when his vision suddenly blurred. Though he thought he could stop in time, he crashed into another car and was found unconscious by passersby. During the experience, he watched the situation from a higher vantage point beside the car, seeing other cars passing but unable to see himself. He experienced a short series of pictures and heard a pleasant, warm voice speaking to him, though he doesn't recall the conversation details. He then found himself in endless darkness with the awareness of being dead, but without fear. He thought dying happened so fast that there was no need to fear it. He felt infinite lightness, love, happiness, contentment, security, and well-being permeating through him. The darkness was as infinitely intensive and endless as these positive feelings. Everything was absolutely quiet and perfect. He began counting, initially thinking he was counting how long it took to die, but did so calmly without fear, reaching 22 before waking to see the emergency doctor. Medical tests revealed severe abnormalities: CK level above 5000, O2 saturation 50%, pO2 28mm Hg, indicating a serious cardiac or metabolic crisis. The experience eliminated his fear of death and made him want to stand up more for his values and beliefs. | 2 | Other | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Heart attack with critical blood values: CK >5000, O2 sat 50%, pO2 28mm | Observed accident scene from outside perspective, saw cars passing | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed accident scene from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3016 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4140 Ming-Yi H NDE 7980 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1ming_yi_h_nde.html | 1997 | 2016 | F | Ming-Yi fell during school physical education and injured her left elbow badly. Later, when called for dinner, she fell on stairs and hit the semi-healed elbow. While scooping rice, she blacked out with a humming in her ears. She felt sucked upward through a beam of light and found herself standing on clouds surrounded by white misty fog, feeling warm. An elderly woman in a white robe, appearing about 80 but energetic, told her not to be afraid and that she would no longer feel desolate, lonesome, or painful, but be filled with complete love. The woman grew taller and Ming-Yi felt like a child holding her hand. She saw people in white robes standing and smiling, recognizing her deceased paternal and maternal grandfathers on her left, with unknown people on her right. When she heard someone calling her name repeatedly and turned around against instructions, she woke up. Her mother had been calling her name continuously to wake her. Though unconscious for only about two minutes according to her mother, it felt like hours to Ming-Yi. The experience changed her from someone opposed to Western religion due to family influence to someone who believes all religions have validity, strengthening her spiritual life significantly. | 6 | Home | 1 | 0 | 1 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Fainting episode after injury, unconscious for 2 minutes | No veridical observations of physical events reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3017 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4263 Barbara W NDE 8167 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1barbara_w_nde_8167.html | 1983 | 2016 | F | Barbara experienced a near-death experience during a diabetic ketoacidosis emergency in 1983. She was brought to the emergency room by her father while incoherent from extremely high blood sugar and an infection from a foot blister. While doctors worked to revive her, she found herself hovering above her body, observing her crying father praying and holding her hand, her mother sitting in a chair, and the medical staff working on her. She saw a beautiful bright light and was surrounded by a cloud-like presence. From this elevated perspective, she witnessed the entire scene below with remarkable clarity. She then encountered a bright light and a figure she believed to be Jesus, appearing with long hair in the typical depiction. The experience was characterized by an overwhelming sense of peace and the absence of fear. She described feeling like a cloud returning to the table and taking a breath as she came back to her body. Upon awakening the next morning, she noticed the grass outside appeared an impossibly vivid green, unlike any earthly color she had ever seen. Throughout the experience, she felt incredible peace, joy, and love that was stronger than even her parents' love. The medical staff later confirmed they thought they had "lost" her during the emergency, validating the life-threatening nature of the event. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Diabetic ketoacidosis emergency, doctors working to revive patient | Out-of-body observation of medical scene, saw Jesus figure, enhanced perception of colors | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 1 | Hovering above body observing medical scene | 0.00 | Medical staff | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3018 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4138 Becky M NDE 7977 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1becky_m_nde.html | 2013 | 2016 | F | Becky experienced a near-death event during liver resection surgery in April 2013 for a parasitic infection. She died on the operating table and heard the doctor speaking before losing consciousness. During her NDE, she was met by her deceased grandmother, who appeared young, healthy, and walking despite having died at 92 with both legs amputated. They conversed for what seemed like hours, with her grandmother repeatedly urging her to return as it wasn't her time. Becky witnessed a tunnel with bright light at its end but did not fully cross over. The experience was characterized by warmth like a summer day, complete absence of pain, and profound peace. She felt such contentment that she did not want to return to life. After the experience, she awakened three days later on life support with multiple IVs including one in her neck. The medical emergency involved bleeding out and crashing on the operating table, requiring CPR for resuscitation. Since this event, Becky reports having had 23 surgeries since 2006, indicating ongoing serious health challenges. The experience gave her a glimpse of what she describes as Heaven and eliminated her fear of death. She also reports developing empathic abilities afterward, including visions of her sister and uncle passing over. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Died on operating table during surgery, required CPR, on life support for 3 days | Met deceased grandmother who appeared young/healthy, saw tunnel with bright light, specific medical details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw doctors working on her | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3019 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4203 Belinda K NDE 8071 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1belinda_k_nde.html | 1982 | 2016 | 9 | F | At age 9 in 1982, Belinda was severely attacked by a neighbor's dog with rabies. The dog bit her face, neck, and cheek, tearing off pieces of flesh. During the attack, she felt no pain and experienced time in slow motion. She heard an otherworldly voice telling her to kick the dog, which she did with supernatural strength, sending it flying meters through the air. After the attack, she experienced multiple out-of-body episodes. First, she saw herself in a mirror but her face appeared as mist. On the operating table, she floated above her body watching doctors work to revive her, observing their hair sticking out from behind surgical masks. She then appeared above her crying mother in the hospital corridor, unable to make her hear her reassurances. She traveled through a tunnel that started black and became progressively lighter, moving at impossible speed. At the top, she found herself in a cloud-like realm with seven massive golden doors, each the size of Twin Towers, adorned with house-sized precious stones. A loving Light appeared and communicated with her, though she cannot remember the full conversation except being told she must return because her mother needed her. Upon waking, she saw grass in an otherworldly green color that doesn't exist on earth. The experience left her with prophetic dreams, ability to read emotions deeply, and electrical interference abilities. She reports ongoing miracles and supernatural guidance through signs throughout her life. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 18 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 2 | Severe dog attack with rabies, life-threatening injuries, emergency surgery | Multiple specific OBE observations, seven golden doors with detailed description, supernatural strength event | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/15/2025 | 3 | 0 | Floating above operating table | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3020 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4172 Beth P NDE 8032 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1beth_p_nde.html | 1971 | 2016 | 10 | F | At age 10 in June 1971, Beth was hospitalized with a mysterious illness that began at her birthday party. She developed severe breathing problems and extremely high fever, remaining unconscious for most of a week while doctors conducted numerous tests without finding a cause. The hospital warned her parents she could die. During a prayer where she told God she was ready to die, she experienced severe chest pain followed by wonderful relief and golden light. In her hospital room, a bright light appeared in the corner of the ceiling and grew larger, revealing a man in a brown robe with a beard floating in the air - whom she later identified as Jesus. They communicated telepathically. When asked if she was ready to die, she replied she was just a little girl who hadn't lived yet. He then asked "What have you done with your life?" - a question that would guide her entire future. She believes he showed her things she could do if she returned, though she cannot remember specifics. The vision ended with the man receding as the light grew smaller. She awakened standing in her bed, called her mother, and when nurses arrived to investigate the "intruder," they froze upon hearing her account. The next morning, tests finally revealed severe pneumonia that had been invisible before. Her recovery took three months. The experience eliminated her previous terror of darkness and insects. Religious personnel including priests, ministers and nuns came to interview her about the encounter. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Week-long hospitalization with life-threatening mystery illness, later diagnosed as severe pneumonia | Detailed encounter with Jesus figure, telepathic communication, specific question about life purpose | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 2 | Jesus figure in hospital room | 1.00 | Multiple nurses | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3021 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4251 BJ K NDE 8154 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bj_k_nde.html | 2008 | 2016 | M | BJ collapsed from heat stroke while fueling his truck in 110-degree weather in August 2008. He was rushed to a medical center where he experienced the sensation of dying, describing it as peacefully shutting down like lights being turned off in rooms of an old house. After being placed in ICU, he found himself in a dark, quiet realm that he knew was the same world but in a different form. He experienced overwhelming love, acceptance, and forgiveness that encompassed his entire being - a feeling he realized he had been seeking through alcohol. The space felt both vast and intimate, with no time yet all time present. He sensed observing beings in the shadows. A large bearded face appeared, representing an aspect of God he could understand. They communicated telepathically with the being radiating immense love and amusement. BJ was given the choice to stay in eternal bliss or return to finish unfinished business. The being indicated his purpose was to be the best version of himself and help others as opportunities arose. Despite desperately wanting to stay, BJ chose to return, but not before demanding "damn miracles" to make it worthwhile, which was met with loving laughter. He awoke to a flatlined EKG alarm, completely restored. Following the experience, his senses of smell and taste were dramatically enhanced after decades of being burned out from drinking and smoking. He could now taste chemicals in processed food and smell chlorine in city water. He remains conflicted about the experience's reality despite its profound impact. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 33 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Heat stroke causing system shutdown, clinical death in ICU, EKG flatline recorded | Detailed encounter with God figure, telepathic communication, given choice about returning, enhanced senses verified | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 1 | Encounter with God consciousness | 0.00 | Doctor and nurse | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3022 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4158 Bobby R NDE 8010 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bobby_r_nde.html | 2016 | 4 | M | At age 4, Bobby had severe asthma and stopped breathing during an emergency room visit. This was his second NDE, having had one at age 2. When his breathing stopped, all pain ceased and he found himself in a vast place filled with unearthly white light that seemed to expand for eternity. A being of light he knew was God stood near him like a tower of strength, radiating warmth and love. God explained this was Bobby's second time there and apologized for the pain this meeting would cause, saying he would remember more than supposed to. God revealed that Bobby would suffer more than anyone in his family ever had due to the universe's rules about multiple visits. Through a pulsating white light device he understood as the Book of Fate, Bobby experienced his entire 128-year future life. He saw his mother's death from Alzheimer's, his sister's rape in her 20s, his father's death, building a home across the country, and his own death at 128 surrounded by family. He experienced everything from a 4-year-old consciousness while having the memories of his elderly future self. He saw his future wife, daughter's death before him, and the moment of his final death. He then witnessed the consequences of his life - thousands of people impacted, children taught, books written. As an adult teacher, Bobby has worked with 10,000 children and begun writing, with his mother now dying of Alzheimer's and his sister having been raped years ago as foreseen. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 20 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 2 | Severe asthma attack requiring emergency treatment, stopped breathing | Detailed life preview to age 128, multiple specific predictions now verified, saw life consequences | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 0 | Complete life preview to age 128 | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3023 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4127 Bonita E NDE 7962 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bonita_e_nde.html | 1969 | 1969-03-31 | 2016 | 29 | F | On March 31, 1969, Bonita died in recovery following a successful C-section delivery of a 9-pound baby boy. After being told of her son's birth, she suddenly found herself hovering above her body in three dimensions, initially concerned about her weight and blood on her new blouse. She felt perfect warmth and temperature, then traveled feet-first through a tunnel with other silent travelers. She emerged in a beautiful forest where a woman enthusiastically greeted her. When she asked to see Jesus, two passing women commented that's what everyone asks first. She found a hooded figure sitting on a rock whom she instantly knew was Jesus without seeing his face. When asked if she wanted to stay, she declined, explaining she had to care for her baby. Jesus allowed her return and she was shot back through the tunnel at lightning speed, likely from defibrillation. Years later in 1985, the woman from her NDE appeared in a dream, revealing herself as an angel and showing Bonita horrific scenes of children suffering worldwide, telling her "Now you know what you have to do." This led to Bonita's lifelong dedication to helping children. She earned a PhD in Development Studies, lived overseas 23 years, and developed heightened perception of human suffering. Her experience in Africa included a remarkable encounter with a man in white from Nigeria who knew intimate details of her life and claimed to be sent by God during a time of hardship. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Post-C-section cardiac arrest in recovery room, defibrillation used | OBE with 3D self-observation, tunnel travel, forest scene, Jesus encounter | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 0 | Hovering above own body in 3D | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3024 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4175 Bonnie M NDE 8037 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bonnie_m_nde_8037.html | 1969 | 2016 | 9 | F | At age 9 in 1969, Bonnie was playing baseball in the backyard when a pitched ball struck her directly in the forehead, knocking her unconscious. Instantly upon falling, she found herself out of her body and up in the treetops, looking down at the neighbors' mother leaning over her fallen body trying to revive her. She described the experience as delightful and completely familiar, feeling wonderful to be free of her body. The treetops seemed like a friendly, welcoming place. She experienced profound elation, wonder, incredible peace and joy, feeling united with the world. Time seemed suspended during the experience - while events unfolded below, the space she occupied had no time. Her vision was enhanced, able to see clearly all the way to the ground from high in the air. She noted that the neighbor's mother who attended to her never told Bonnie's parents about the incident, which Bonnie found strange since she had witnessed her there. After returning to her body, she has never been concerned with dying. The experience shaped her entire life from childhood, leading to increased devotion to Jesus and greater compassion. She later developed multiple spiritual gifts including healing abilities, mediumship, and clairvoyance, though she's uncertain if these existed before the NDE. Years later during an emotional crisis, she saw Jesus's face in lights outside her window, which restored her completely and continues to provide comfort. | 5 | Other | 3 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Direct head trauma from baseball causing loss of consciousness | Clear OBE viewing scene from treetops, specific observation of neighbor's mother attending | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Viewing from treetops | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 5 | |||||||||
| 3025 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4147 Mo T NDE 7990 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mo_t_nde.html | 2015 | 2015-01-12 | 2016 | M | Mo T had severe pneumonia and collapsed at a restaurant while with his children. He had a history of childhood trauma, PTSD, and recurring severe health issues. During the experience, he lost consciousness and felt himself falling through a veil or doorway into another realm. Instantly, all his life burdens - described as a thousand-pound coat - fell away without effort. He experienced profound relief, lightness, and freedom from all physical and mental anguish. He became aware of a loving, non-directed light and a presence that was neither specifically male nor female. He felt incredible peace, love, and joy, describing it as the most amazing feeling he had ever experienced. He wondered if this was how other people normally felt. As he moved toward the light and presence, he thought of his daughter Joni and couldn't bear the thought of her witnessing her father dying. This thought made him fight to return, though the transition back was violent and wrenching. When he returned to consciousness, people were staring at him, and his severe pain was gone. The experience lasted only about three minutes but contained profound emotional and spiritual content. | 5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Pneumonia-related collapse with loss of consciousness described | General NDE elements present but no specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw body from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3026 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4081 Murielle T NDE 7879 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1murielle_t_nde.html | 1981 | 2016 | F | Murielle T experienced a severe migraine on a Saturday morning while alone in her apartment. The pain intensified dramatically, causing her heart to race while her breathing slowed and eventually stopped. She felt immense pressure on her chest and saw a multicolored iris before losing consciousness. She awakened in absolute blackness with intense cold, then traveled at high speed through an iridescent fog tunnel. She arrived in a large park with diffuse light and groups of conversing people who seemed unsurprised by her presence. She encountered a rounded structure with triangular glass-like facets and entered a large amphitheater with an immense screen. In darkness, surrounded by beings with slim silhouettes and blue skin, she watched her life review and scenes of Earth. The beings laughed at her communist beliefs about inequality, telling her the poor were actually rich spiritually. They revealed Earth would face difficult times through earthquakes, tornadoes, wars and diseases, but would continue serving as a place for evolution and consciousness. She learned about a programming chamber where souls choose their life circumstances with guides. After over three hours, she returned to her body, rigid and cold from feet to knees and hands to elbows. Her husband arrived as she regained movement. The experience transformed her, making her more tolerant, loving, and joyful. | 5 | Home | 5 | 14 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe migraine leading to respiratory arrest and prolonged unconsciousness | Specific future predictions including AIDS and tsunami that later occurred; detailed otherworldly architecture | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 3 | 1 | Future world events shown | 1.00 | Husband | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3027 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4196 Mustafa Y NDE 8065 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mustafa_y_nde.html | 1999 | 2016 | M | Mustafa Y experienced a severe impact to his right ribs from behind in 1999 or 2000. He felt intense pain for only about one second before entering a nearly dark tunnel, traveling upward at great speed before coming to a sudden stop. He found himself in a dark place where a middle-aged man in white clothing stood at a distance, emanating light that was the only brightness in the dark space. The man approached him carrying what appeared to be a letter from which he was reading. After finishing the letter, the man returned it to Mustafa, who then found himself back in the tunnel. He then observed his body lying on the ground with people around it, viewing the scene from the ceiling perspective. He could see the people from behind. After a few moments, he re-entered his body and opened his eyes, now able to see the faces of the same people he had previously viewed from behind. This shift in perspective from ceiling to floor frightened him. When he got up and went outside, his pain was completely gone. The experience transformed his religious practices, making him more committed to not hurting others, loving everyone, and participating in religious and charitable events. He noted that contrary to Islamic teachings about a horrifying angel of death extracting the soul painfully, his experience was peaceful. | 6 | Unknown | 3 | 7 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Blunt trauma impact but unclear medical severity | Out-of-body observation seeing people from behind then recognizing them after return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw body and people from ceiling view | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3028 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4231 Mwila G NDE 8119 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mwila_g_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-01-03 | 2016 | F | Mwila G underwent surgery on January 3, 2016, following a cancer diagnosis. During the surgical intervention at 7:25 AM, she heard a church song in Swahili, then the song stopped and she heard instruments being put down. A voice told her to "live your own experience." She found herself near the morgue facing a Catholic church, where she encountered a physician friend and pleaded with her to tell the surgical team to continue the operation. She saw the city of Lubumbashi from above and could read people's thoughts. She found herself at her church with extraordinary light and four young people, calling out to her pastor but receiving no response. She invoked God saying "Lord remember me, have pity of my daughter" before rising in a cloud of flowers. She returned to the surgery room, passing through the wall, and found her pastor there saying "I told you that this woman must live, go back to work." She saw her surgeon leave and return. Throughout, the same song played repeatedly while she danced in a hall of flowers. She walked through a dark city unable to recognize people, encountering a barrier with a man and child waiting. She was told she wouldn't be allowed through that door. The medical team confirmed she had been reanimated with CPR and the surgery had been interrupted. The experience gave her understanding that we must live in harmony with everyone and that there is an Eternal Supreme Being. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Surgery with cardiac arrest requiring CPR and reanimation confirmed | Observed surgery room events, saw pastor present, heard him speak about her living | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/15/2025 | 3 | 2 | Heard pastor speaking in surgery room | 1.00 | Surgeon/gynecologist | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 3029 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4115 Myriam M NDE 7942 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1myriam_m_nde.html | 2012 | 2012-02-04 | 2016 | F | Myriam M was 7 months pregnant with twins when diagnosed with severe preeclampsia. Two days after hospitalization, she underwent emergency cesarean section at 32 weeks. Due to a fibroid, she experienced massive hemorrhage requiring transfusion of 6 units of red cells and 6 units of plasma plus 2000ml of fluids. She heard her first baby cry and felt it placed on her arm, but couldn't look at the second due to pain from the IV. She heard the medical team panic about bleeding and calling for backup surgical and reanimation teams. After losing consciousness, she felt her body sliding toward an intense light unlike anything she'd seen before - white with all rainbow colors simultaneously, a beneficial light. She slid toward a source of intense happiness and love beyond anything previously experienced. She felt weightless, floating, free of pain, and deeply happy. She felt she deserved this wonderful place and wanted to let go completely. Then she thought of her husband and two babies, seeing them as silhouettes, and realized she would leave them orphaned and widowed. She decided to return, struggling and tearing herself away with immense effort and pain, screaming as she woke. She found herself in a heating plastic wrap in the surgical unit, feeling completely emptied. She spent 48 hours in recovery with high blood pressure and neurological irritability. She felt between two worlds until reunited with her babies. The experience may have contributed to subsequent maternal exhaustion and postpartum depression. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Massive obstetric hemorrhage with documented transfusions and medical emergency | No specific veridical observations reported, only subjective experiences | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3030 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4212 Nathan L NDE 8085 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1nathan_l_nde.html | 2010 | 2016 | M | Nathan L was having drinks with a friend at a bar, then went to the car to leave. After sitting in the car, he lost consciousness and went 26 minutes without a heartbeat. He floated above his body watching as he was carried into his parents' home and given CPR. He observed his mother in tears and complete disarray while family members took turns performing CPR. When paramedics arrived, they cut off his shirt while he was choking out blood and foaming at the mouth. He clearly remembers being shocked four times. From the ambulance, he watched them place tubes in him while feeling peaceful, warm and happy. At the hospital, he floated above as they rolled him onto his side and black liquid came out. He saw what everyone was wearing, where family members stood, and observed them praying in tears. He then saw a bright light in a field and encountered Jesus, who reached out, grabbed his hand, and told him "Don't be afraid." Jesus did the sign of the cross and said it wasn't his time. Nathan woke up on life support. Doctors said it was a miracle - he had less than 1% chance of living with brain death, and 0% chance of waking with nothing wrong. He told his parents detailed observations they confirmed as accurate. His faith was restored, he lost his fear of death, and gained closeness with animals, people and life. The experience brought his family closer and restored their faith. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 17 | 37 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest for 26 minutes with CPR and defibrillation documented | Multiple specific observations: CPR details, being shocked 4 times, shirt cut off, black liquid, family positions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 3 | 2 | Observed CPR being performed | 1.00 | Parents | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3031 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4133 Nathan NDE 7970 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1nathan_nde.html | 1985 | 2016 | 11 | M | Nathan was in 5th grade on a school trip when he and a friend were hit by a car while walking on a sidewalk. He had a sudden urge to push his friend toward the road just as a car came from behind, colliding with them and hitting the school wall. His life scrolled by in a flash while he traveled through a whirl-like tunnel toward a white light. The closer he got to the light, the more well-being he felt. He experienced many emotions and recalled deeply hidden, forgotten memories. Then he heard a woman screaming "My husband will kill me!" and found himself above his body, viewing the scene below - the woman crying beside her car, his friend stretched out on the ground, and himself lying 4-5 meters behind the car in the traffic circle. Feeling exasperated, he instantly returned to his body, took a breath, screamed "WHAT ABOUT US?!" and lost consciousness again. He briefly regained awareness seeing a fireman trying to reanimate him. He woke the next day in the hospital with bruises while his friend had a broken hip. Since his parents were abroad, he stayed with friends and didn't discuss the experience. The NDE gave him prescient abilities, frequent déjà vu, and a philosophical understanding of the universe. He later experienced his deceased father-in-law visiting him the night he died, and has had other out-of-body experiences including during a card game. | 5 | Other | 5 | 7 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Car accident trauma requiring resuscitation | Saw accident scene from above including specific details of positions and woman's reaction | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Accident scene from above | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3032 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4242 Newt J NDE 8137 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1newt_j_nde.html | 2011 | 2011-12-25 | 2016 | 27 | M | Newt J was on a Christmas road trip teaching his girlfriend to drive when they attempted a U-turn near Paradise Point. His car was T-boned by a fast-moving 4WD truck hitting the driver door. Upon impact, he accepted death and lost all sense of identity, time, and physical coordinates. He experienced immediate relief as his 27 years of confusion, struggle and mistakes vanished. His identity became a distant, unremembered trial left behind. He became aware of infinity in its pure, atemporal, undifferentiated state - a swirling luminous color in absence of light, somehow in a vacuum yet paradoxical. He felt enveloped in and indistinct from pure love, experiencing unbelievable beauty. Though curious to explore, having will seemed at odds with this reality, so he observed gratefully, wanting eternity there. The sensation might be called blue or purple, though it wasn't light as perceived through mind but total experience. He returned when hearing his lover's bloodcurdling scream, immediately feeling loss at leaving egoless bliss to return to flawed identity and distorted perception. The other passenger confirmed his pulse and breathing had stopped. The experience eliminated his fear of death, made him more compassionate and patient, led him to quit drugs, become vegetarian, volunteer frequently, and live more sustainably. He now believes in undefined benevolent forces/infinity/love and expects death to be rejoining infinity, more lucid than human awareness. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | T-bone collision with reported cessation of pulse and breathing | No specific veridical observations, entirely subjective mystical experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 0 | 1 | Girlfriend/passenger | Low Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 3033 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4183 Brenda C NDE 8050 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1brenda_c_nde.html | 1997 | 08/13/1997 | 2016 | F |
Brenda experienced severe eclampsia at 30 weeks pregnancy, with feet so swollen she wore her husband's shoes. Hospitalized for extreme blood pressure, she endured a week of painful labor induction attempts before having a seizure. During the seizure, she couldn't breathe and experienced excruciating white pain so intense she stopped caring about her baby or husband, only wanting escape from the agony. Her soul stepped sideways out of her body into the brightest light that felt like a room made of light. She felt overwhelming love and a male presence behind her, seeing a beautiful place with beings she didn't know but felt loved by. She was told she was dying and shown her husband's difficult future without her - raising their child alone while her mother tried to get custody and blamed him for her death. Given the choice to stay or return, she hesitated because the place was so beautiful, but decided she couldn't leave her husband with that burden. The being said "It's ok" and let her turn around to see her crying father kneeling over her. She returned to her body but couldn't wake up immediately. She woke three days later after suffering a stroke. Her baby survived at 3 lbs 2 oz with healthy lungs. Though her thyroid no longer works and her vision took 6 months to recover, both mother and child survived what should have been fatal eclampsia. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Severe eclampsia with stroke documented, life-threatening condition | Saw future scenario of husband's life if she died, made conscious choice to return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw future scenario of husband without her | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3034 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4082 Brigitte B NDE 7883 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1brigitte_b_nde.html | 1988 | 17/12/1988 | 2016 | 14 | F |
Fourteen-year-old Brigitte was upset when her brother broke a promise to take her shopping on her birthday to meet a girl instead. In retaliation, she hid his shampoo while he washed his hair. When she refused to return it and turned to run, he instinctively grabbed her neck, pressing on her carotid artery. She felt no pain initially as her brain lost oxygen and her heart stopped from the combination of carotid pressure and cardiac malfunction. She was seized by an indescribable force and pushed into a tunnel of stars moving at light speed. Suddenly everything stood still in absolute, dense darkness where she could see 360 degrees simultaneously. The darkness transformed into warm, comforting gray. Looking down, she saw her body appeared different - a candid sphere of white light emanating rays from chest height. Questions about God, creation, and existence flooded her mind and were simultaneously answered, filling her virgin mind with amazing knowledge. She experienced the highest potency of all positive emotions and incredible freedom without her body's burden. The energy and oneness she felt were beyond earthly experience. Time seemed to have no meaning in this state of expanded consciousness where she gained understanding of humanity's deepest questions. When it ended, she awoke to unbearable pain like needles piercing every inch of her body. She saw paramedics trying to revive her, heard them asking if she could hear them, but couldn't initially respond. She later woke in the hospital with bruises from unsuccessful resuscitation attempts. The experience left her changed, seeking solitude and meditation, though initially resentful before eventually remembering it with pleasure. |
2 | Other | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Clear cardiac arrest from carotid pressure and cardiac malfunction | 360-degree vision, spontaneous knowledge of existence questions, light being transformation | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | 360-degree vision and knowledge download | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3035 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4181 Bub D NDE 8046 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bub_d_nde.html | 1968 | 2016 | 8 | F |
Eight-year-old Bub developed severe headache, nausea, and dizziness while driving with her father and brother to a wrestling match. Despite her symptoms, they attended the event for 2-3 hours. On the return trip, she and her brother fell asleep in the car. Both children were suffering from severe carbon monoxide poisoning from the vehicle's exhaust leak, though the father was unaware of the danger. She found herself outside her body, watching from above as her father and his girlfriend frantically pulled their unconscious bodies from the car and tried to revive them. She attempted to communicate but her father couldn't hear her. She felt no fear, only observation. A beautiful bright light appeared as a dot and expanded, filling her with overwhelming love - a love she has never felt since. As the light grew larger, her father's voice became more distant. The light consumed her, pushing away darkness until only a speck remained where her father worked on her body. Beings she didn't know but felt loved by surrounded her, with one main male figure waiting for her. Behind him was an indescribably beautiful place. When told she was dying, she initially didn't understand until comparing it to animals that don't return. She asked to go back to her father and the being said it was okay to turn around. She returned to her body, feeling her father holding her, but couldn't wake up immediately. It took several minutes of struggle to open her eyes. Her father kept both children awake all night, afraid they wouldn't wake again. Despite the severity of poisoning that should have killed them, both children miraculously survived without hospitalization. |
5 | Other | 5 | 15 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Severe carbon monoxide poisoning, life-threatening without treatment | Out-of-body observation of father and girlfriend trying revival, saw beautiful realm and beings | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 0 | Watched rescue attempts from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3036 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4241 Carlos Manuel V NDE 8136 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1carlos_manuel_v_nde.html | 2009 | 15/09/2009 | 2016 | M |
Carlos Manuel suffered a stroke on September 13, 2009, while in Costa Rica with family. It began with loss of balance and right-side paralysis. In the ambulance, he signaled to his wife that if he died, it must be serious. As he lost consciousness, he felt strange peace and could sense the palm trees moving by the roadside with incredible serenity. The stroke was caused by left carotid artery thrombosis, threatening his life and inducing a week-long coma. During the coma, he felt gently pulled from his body and far from Earth. The universe expanded infinitely with light, while Earth became a tiny point, giving him perspective on humanity's simultaneous greatness and insignificance. He entered a place full of light with many souls present as light beings, experiencing extraordinary peace and happiness. There was a border like a great open door that he knew meant no return if crossed. His deceased father-in-law approached him through direct mental communication, saying "Carlos, it is not yet time." Despite Carlos wanting to stay in this beautiful place, his father-in-law insisted he return, mentioning a mission. His cousin Mario was also present. The father-in-law had been dead two years at this time. Time seemed non-linear, with everything happening simultaneously rather than chronologically. Upon waking in the hospital, Carlos was confused and couldn't recognize anyone, speak, or move his right side. The cerebral ischemia caused permanent damage including hemiplegia, dyslexia, and speech difficulties. His experience dramatically increased his spirituality and faith in God, giving him certainty about life after death and making him more compassionate toward others with disabilities. |
4 | Hospital | 7 | 18 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Week-long coma from thrombotic stroke, life-threatening | Encountered father-in-law dead 2 years, cousin Mario deceased, universe expansion vision | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 3 | 1 | Sensed palm trees while unconscious | 0.00 | Carlos Manuel | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3037 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4186 Cathy A NDE 8054 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1cathy_a_nde.html | 1964 | 07/04/1964 | 2016 | 5 | F |
Five-year-old Cathy disobeyed her mother's instruction to stay in the kiddy pool at a city pool on July 4th. Finding the kiddy pool disgusting with warm yellowish water, she held onto the sides of the big pool's shallow end. When boys began cannonballing nearby, she lost her grip and floated into deeper water. Unable to swim, she struggled to keep her head above water until exhaustion, then began drowning, sucking in water while hearing muffled splashes and laughter. On her back at the pool bottom, she watched swimmers' legs and sunlight shafts through the water. Being pulled deeper under the rope separating shallow from deep end, she entered a drug-like state of complete acceptance without pain or distress. She then found herself above the pool, about five feet over the water, feeling fully herself at peace without understanding or caring what happened below. From this elevated position, she felt a light breeze and saw a red-headed teenage boy yell "Hey!" as he dove under. She knew this shout was about her. Her next memory was being held upside down by adults with water streaming like fire from her lungs. Years later, her mother confirmed a red-headed teenage boy had pulled her from the bottom - a detail she couldn't have known from her underwater vantage point. The experience remained unchanged in her memory until her late teens when she understood it as out-of-body. She asked her mother years later about the red-headed rescuer and received confirmation. The event became formative, giving her belief in life purpose, prophetic dreams, unusual animal attraction, and requiring careful anger management due to observed patterns of misfortune befalling those she harbors unresolved anger toward. |
5 | Other | 10 | 15 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clear drowning with cessation of breathing | Saw red-headed teenage rescuer from above water, later confirmed by mother | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw rescuer from above pool | 1.00 | Mother | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | |||||||
| 3038 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4165 Celso NDE 8022 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1celso_nde.html | 1996 | 10/15/1996 | 2016 | 39 | M |
Celso, 39, went snorkeling in Aruba without a life vest despite the captain's recommendation. Powerful waves dragged him 100 meters from shore where he began drowning, losing a fin and swallowing seawater. Unable to stay afloat, he saw his watch reflecting sunlight while floating face-down, then perceived himself inside the watch mechanism observing cogwheels with infrared kinetic energy and ultraviolet potential energy. Looking to the ocean floor, he saw overwhelming darkness that transformed to complete peace. Ten feet underwater, he witnessed a macabre parade of natives, pirates, sailors, women and children drowning across centuries in that location, experiencing each one's fear of death as if connected to them. One pregnant woman in 1900s dress stood out, concerned only for her baby, not herself. When their eyes met, she questioned why he was observing. He began recalling his life moments, traveling to the past as both participant and observer, learning unknown things about himself. Surrounded by luminous warm water that moved darkness away, he felt immense love and had a mystical encounter with the Life force. Time collapsed as drowned souls and living family surrounded him. He found himself at home in Asuncion watching his daughters play, then at his mother's store worrying about her reaction. He conversed at length with his friend Andres, killed years earlier as a police officer, who requested financial help for his family and spoke of working as a security guard, refusing to accept his death. Jorge's voice calling brought him back, grasping rocks and walking to shore. His colleagues joked about his 15-minute absence while he experienced hours and thousands of miles. He later verified his visions matched exactly what his mother and daughters were doing that Wednesday afternoon, and Andres's family indeed needed financial emergency assistance as described. |
2 | Other | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clear drowning, loss of consciousness, apparent cardiac arrest | Verified daughters/mother activities miles away, deceased friend's family situation confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 3 | 2 | Inside watch mechanism | 0.00 | Daughters and mother | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||
| 3039 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4076 Cheryl G NDE 7893 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1cheryl_g_nde.html | 2015 | 09/02/2015 | 2016 | F |
Cheryl experienced anaphylactic shock after eating raw seaweed salad and sushi at a casino restaurant. After just five bites of salad and two pieces of sushi, she felt uncomfortably full and disoriented. Her partner's voice distorted, the restaurant appeared slanted and elongated. Overwhelming nausea and explosive fullness made her release the third sushi piece. Her head became heavy and dropped. Managing to say "I think I need help" then "I need 911!" before her head fell for the last time. The disorientation vanished as she began floating in absolute comfort, surrounded by warmth and brilliant yet gentle light that soothed her eyes. She was surrounded by love, peace, and all of time simultaneously - yesterday, tomorrow, today, everything and nothing. Recognizing this place from when she was three years old, she thought "I am home!" but noticed a golden dome of fine mist threads wasn't present this time. Children's voices chanted "Stay with us!" from an unknown realm. She was immersed in shimmering mist. Hovering at the edge of no return, she could choose to stay or go back. Time doesn't exist there - all humanity calls time is present in the oneness. Remembering her recent words to her partner "I have no intention of abandoning you," she chose to keep her word and returned. She moved back into her paralyzed body in a neutral black void, hearing distant voices through a tunnel. After struggling through thick viscous gel to respond, she was in and out of consciousness. The experience gave her understanding that consciousness opens to a new reality always present but previously invisible. She gained certainty that everyone needs at least one NDE for world peace and paradigm shifts, through practices like meditation or nature contemplation. Since this second NDE (first at age 3), she can meditate much deeper with enlightening experiences. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Anaphylactic shock requiring emergency response | Recognized realm from age 3 NDE, heard children's voices, oneness experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard distant voices after return | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3040 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4076 Cheryl G NDE 7873 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1cheryl_g_nde.html | 1969 | 2016 | 3 | F |
Three-year-old Cheryl was held underwater in an upstairs bathtub by her mother in what she describes as a criminal attack. She fought physically as hard as her little body could, with her head opposite the faucet. Looking up through rippling water, she saw the bathroom light creating beautiful asymmetrical patterns through the waves overhead. The light shifted into an endless expanse of comforting, soothing light that was both warm and cool simultaneously. The light engulfed her with sublime peace and love. Time lost all meaning - all of time existed exactly now with no beginning or ending. She gained infinite knowledge that nothing is impossible. There was a sound of beautiful silence, and for years afterward she heard beautiful symphonies in her head that she'd never heard before or since. She felt united with the world in incredible peace and joy, suddenly understanding everything about the universe. She knew she was no longer on physical earth, though couldn't explain how she knew everyone while knowing no one. She sensed presences and became aware of all beings - past, present and future. Not scenes but knowledge and sensations about her future came to her. She encountered the collective conscious or "oneness" where all have been and will be, describing it as mystical presences rather than individual beings. She was brought back unexpectedly through excruciatingly painful contractions as her mother, suddenly coming to her senses about what she'd done, tried to revive her. Three convulsive squeezes expelled water from her lungs while she gagged, choked and coughed desperately for air between contractions. This early NDE at age 3, before any religious instruction, gave her permanent understanding that everything is as it should be. |
5 | Home | 10 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Criminal drowning attack by mother, near-death | Universal consciousness experience, future knowledge, sensory phenomena | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Universal understanding and future knowledge | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3041 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4179 Chris H NDE 8041 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1chris_h_nde.html | 2016 | 03/24/2016 | 2016 | M |
Chris was stabbed in the chest by a disturbed woman he'd offered a ride after she said he had no eyes. The blade slid across his sternum into his right lung. Knowing he was drowning in blood, he recited Psalms he didn't know he knew, said the Lord's Prayer, asked forgiveness, and called for his deceased father's help. He died once at the scene and twice on the operating table. His father appeared holding him, looking about 25 years old, telling him everything was alright. Chris could breathe again and wasn't in the parking lot anymore. Surrounded by young-looking people who had known and loved him in life, his dad introduced him to King David from the Bible. They recited the Lord's Prayer together. Chris talked with over a hundred people over what seemed like days, recognizing some immediately and knowing others despite only seeing them as a baby. Jesus stood nearby watching the whole time, making the decision whether to take him or send him back. When Chris asked his father what Jesus would decide, his dad didn't know. Eventually his father said "You have to go back now." Though Chris wanted to stay, he knew better than to protest. The experience made him realize how loved he had been and still is. King David told him to "fight." Waking briefly in the ambulance before dying twice more on the operating table, Chris experienced a separate out-of-body event. The encounter removed his fear of death, increased his faith dramatically, made him more compassionate (praying for bad drivers instead of cursing them), and gave him absolute certainty that God exists, heaven exists, and hell exists. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 0 | Stabbed in lung, clinical death three times documented | Met deceased father, biblical King David, Jesus present, extended conversations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 0 | Met deceased father and biblical figures | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3042 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4170 Norman R NDE 8030 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1norman_r_nde.html | 2005 | 2005-07-25 | 2016 | M | Norman had Hypertropic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy and underwent an Alcohol Septal Ablation procedure. While adjusting his position in the ICU bed, the temporary pacing lead became dislodged causing his heart to stop. A Code Blue was called and after eight attempts at cardioversion, his heart restarted. During the cardiac arrest, Norman found himself in a wide hallway with people moving toward a bright room. He was surrounded by loving beings who reassured him. A supervisory figure told him he was not expected yet and could choose to stay or return. He thought of his children, particularly his youngest daughter preparing for college. He was sent back against his will. Norman developed serious complications including septicemia, pneumonia, and kidney failure, requiring two weeks in an induced coma. The experience left him certain that death is just a transition and more opposed to religious interpretations of such experiences. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Documented cardiac arrest requiring 8 cardioversion attempts with CPR | Projected vision of children in church at funeral - specific but not verified | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw projected scene of children at funeral | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3043 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4254 Pat S NDE 8157 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1pat_s_nde.html | 2014 | 2014-12-10 | 2016 | F | Pat was scheduled for gallbladder surgery when she suddenly vomited blood and collapsed. She arrived at the emergency room with no vital signs. During the experience, she felt an indescribable peace and saw herself from above, observing her glasses in the wheelchair and her husband crying. She found herself in an intense blue space with a male presence who communicated telepathically that everything would be okay. She gained understanding that we are here to help and love one another, that free will creates suffering, and there is no judgment after death. She saw and spoke with her recently deceased ex-husband who said they had a date, to which she replied "Hell No!" causing her return. Her husband confirmed she was without life signs for 15-30 minutes. The experience eliminated her fear of death and gave her knowledge that the afterlife is better than earthly existence. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Gastrointestinal hemorrhage with loss of vital signs | Observed glasses in wheelchair, husband crying, encountered deceased ex-husband | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw glasses in wheelchair | 0.00 | Husband | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 3044 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4111 Paul D NDE 7930 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1paul_d_nde.html | 1981 | 2016 | 10 | M | At age 10-11, Paul had a roller-skating accident in Central Park when he collided with a cyclist. The accident occurred in slow motion. He found himself in a grayish-maroon tunnel moving upward at a slight angle, seeing 8-10 black and white photographs of himself hanging like in a museum. Two revelations came: everything is pre-written and we execute a script, and nearly everyone (98%) goes to heaven including criminals. At the tunnel's end was a circular door with a tall figure of light who greeted him by name and said it wasn't his time. Paul begged to stay, and the figure consulted with 3-5 other light beings before returning to say it wasn't possible as people still depended on him. He returned suddenly, waking 10 meters above his body, seeing the ambulance and 40-50 people surrounding him. He glided down like a falling leaf. The experience convinced him death is just a passage. | 5 | Other | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Roller-skating accident with clinical death requiring CPR | Observed scene from above - ambulance, 40-50 people, paramedics working | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed accident scene from above | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3045 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4255 Paul G NDE 8159 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1paul_g_nde_8159.html | 1984 | 1984-12-31 | 2016 | 31 | M | Paul was hit by a truck on New Year's Eve 1984 while walking after a restaurant argument with his fiancée. He landed 60 feet from impact. He experienced leaving his body shell and dropping through seven planes, each providing different information about life, Earth, space and larger realities. He reached a revolving window where he observed masses of souls moving toward something very big. A male with goatee welcomed him and a woman with dark hair was focused ahead. He was told at the revolving window that he had reached the point of no return. The decision was made for him to return, feeling like swimming upstream through the planes. Upon return he wrote extensively about the experience to prevent forgetting it. Later painted the scene which resembled the Universal Pictures globe. The experience gave him complete understanding during the journey through absolute knowledge that was partially retained. | 5 | Other | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Hit by truck, thrown 60 feet, life-threatening trauma | No specific verifiable observations, only general descriptions of other realm | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3046 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4217 Pearler NDE 8098 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1pearler_nde.html | 1982 | 1982-01-23 | 2016 | M | Pearler was hit head-on by a drunk driver while riding his motorcycle on January 23, 1982. He experienced clinical death with cessation of breathing and heart function. During the experience, he traveled faster than light with light behind him and darkness ahead. He saw a dot of light that became a doorway where Jesus appeared as light. Jesus communicated telepathically expressing sorrow for his suffering and said he had not done what he promised to do and must go back. Pearler begged to stay but was told he would return eventually but not yet. He heard "We got him, he's awake" and returned to intensive care. After recovery he became a chaplain with healing abilities but was asked to leave most churches. When asked to be a deacon, he agreed only if they would turn the locks around on the doors. He reports being able to heal people and animals, sometimes without their knowledge. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Head-on motorcycle collision with clinical death | No specific verifiable observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3047 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4177 Pedro Z NDE 8039 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1pedro_z_nde.html | 2009 | 2009-01-18 | 2016 | M | Pedro drowned in a pool during a taekwondo video shoot when he couldn't swim to the surface. Others thought he was joking and didn't help initially. After accepting death, he found himself standing in a wheat field on a cloudy day with strong wind. He felt the wheat moving against his body and experienced total absolute peace. There were no sounds, just observation of the landscape. He stood still, not walking forward or back, in complete peace. Upon return, he experienced chaos like being in a twister and initially fought the lifeguards, not knowing who or where he was until recognizing a friend's face. He felt frustrated to realize he had returned. Since the experience, he has developed precognitive abilities, seeing events 5-10 seconds before they happen, and has recurring suicidal thoughts though not extremely strong. He constantly feels he doesn't belong here. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Drowning with loss of consciousness, not breathing for minutes | No verifiable observations, only wheat field experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3048 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4219 Preeti B NDE 8095 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1preeti_b_nde.html | 1998 | 2016 | F | Preeti hit her head on a cupboard corner in Sydney, Australia and experienced clinical death with heart stopping. Her friend performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. During the experience, she left her body and saw herself in a white wedding gown with lace, veil, and flowers in her hair. She floated toward beautiful white light through curtains of light netting in slow motion. She felt unconditional love and cool breeze that repaired her body. Someone pulled her veil backward repeatedly until she was pulled back into her body. She became hysterical asking why she was brought back. Following the experience, she received mysterious phone calls: a plumber with a Shakespearean message saying she had work to do and couldn't be a nun, and an elderly woman telling her rose petals would fall from the sky. She healed her mother-in-law's depression in 6 days through prayer. She developed intuitive abilities and can feel emotions of humans and animals. | 5 | Home | 7 | 2 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Head injury causing heart to stop, requiring resuscitation | No verifiable earthly observations, only spiritual visions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 1 | Friend | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3049 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4132 Christophe D NDE 7968 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1christophe_d_nde.html | 1976 | 2016 | 3 | M | At age 3, Christophe was playing on the sidewalk when he was hit by a car while crossing the street. He lost consciousness and experienced what appeared to be clinical death with CPR administered by ambulance staff. During this time, he had an out-of-body experience where he floated above his body, stuck to the ceiling like being in water without weight. He observed the medical team working on him, saw his parents crying, and heard conversations. A mysterious voice spoke to him, telling him to return to his parents who would be happy. He experienced heightened awareness and could pay attention to multiple conversations simultaneously. He awoke in the hospital with no memory of how much time had passed. The experience left him with lasting changes in values, increased compassion, and an understanding that life and death are merely stages. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe trauma from car accident, clinical death with CPR described | Out-of-body experience with observations of medical team and parents, but limited specific details provided | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed medical team and parents from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3050 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4266 Craig P NDE 8172 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1craig_p_nde.html | 2008 | 2016 | M | Craig experienced a sudden heart attack and was flat-lined in the emergency room. He left his body and floated above it, observing the fruitless efforts of medical staff trying to revive him. As his earthly senses disappeared, he saw images of deceased people and passed through a parabolic wormhole in space, emerging into vast darkness with many points of light representing individual entities. Each point of light was an individual consciousness with no connection to their human life. A brighter light appeared in the distance, and when drawn to it, images of his family appeared, presenting him with a choice. He was suddenly transported back into his body as they revived him. He underwent coronary artery catheterization with two stents placed for a complete blockage of his right coronary artery. Upon awakening in ICU, he had no memories of his past human life and took three years to begin understanding he was in a human body again. The experience fundamentally changed his perspective on existence. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death with flat-line in emergency room, cardiac arrest requiring resuscitation | Clear out-of-body observation of emergency room and medical efforts, but limited specific verifiable details provided | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed emergency room resuscitation efforts from above | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3051 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4106 Dale B NDE 7924 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dale_b_nde.html | 1992 | 2016 | M | Dale experienced lethal arrhythmias after a widow-maker heart blockage while getting settings for his AICD device. Medical staff induced ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation but couldn't get him out of the deadly rhythm. During this time on the crash cart, he had an out-of-body experience where he looked down and saw everyone talking loudly and scurrying around. He felt no pain and experienced time as encompassing all time - past, present, and future simultaneously. He felt he was part of everything yet still a singular entity, with access to all knowledge and abundant love. There was no hate, confusion, or fear, only incredible joy and peace. He felt he could be anywhere at any time he wanted. Though not alone, no specific beings were with him. When he returned to his body, he was upset and noticed burn scabs on his chest from the resuscitation efforts. The experience completely erased his fear of death. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Induced cardiac arrest with V-tac/V-fib on crash cart, clinical death during AICD procedure | Out-of-body observation of medical team response, awareness of resuscitation efforts | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed medical team from above during resuscitation | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3052 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4234 Dale H NDE 8121 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dale_h_nde.html | 2016 | 2016 | M | Dale awoke with severe chest pain and asked his wife to call 911. He passed out on the toilet and was unconscious for about a minute according to his wife. During this time, he experienced the presence of unrecognized comforting beings without physical contact. He found himself lying in a warm, well-lit place he couldn't identify. He felt ineffable, infinite peace and well-being with a sense of being totally loved and accepted. Remarkably, he experienced no fear despite having chronic anxiety disorder. The experience seemed to last only seconds but left a profound impact. After regaining consciousness, he was taken to the emergency room where he underwent coronary catheterization revealing a complete blockage of his right coronary artery requiring two stents. The experience has remained constantly in his mind since, creating deep nostalgia for that state of being. He reports becoming more spiritual, certain that he is loved, and much less fearful in daily life. | 2 | Home | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Heart attack with syncope lasting about one minute, complete coronary blockage found | No specific veridical observations, only subjective experiences of peace and presence | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3053 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4097 Debbie NDE 7913 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1debbie_nde_7913.html | 2006 | 2016 | F | Debbie experienced a winter virus with projectile vomiting that led to respiratory failure when she couldn't breathe. After passing out outside her home, she had an out-of-body experience where she felt wrapped in stifling cotton bandages that she fought to remove. Upon leaving her body, she found herself on a bridge overlooking a beautiful golden harbor city. Two guides were with her who showed her two books - one reviewing her life and another about the cosmos. During her life review, she discovered that acts done with pure love and empathy mattered most, not external recognition. She became aware that the light around her was conscious and made of pure love, understanding that we all belong to this light. Her deceased mother-in-law appeared with an unknown young boy with dark curly hair, telling her firmly to go back. She immediately returned to her body, struggling to breathe with a swollen throat. The experience profoundly impacted her understanding of love and purpose. | 5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening respiratory failure from choking on vomit | Life review experience and deceased relative encounter, but no verifiable earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 3054 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4214 Destiny C NDE 8087 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1destiny_c_nde_8087.html | 2016 | 2016 | F | Destiny, an ICU nurse, collapsed in the hospital break room from sudden cardiac death. She was found in cardiac arrest with purple-black skin from lack of oxygen. During the 10+ minutes of CPR, she had an out-of-body experience watching every medical procedure from the ceiling. She observed specific details including the doctor intubating her while lying on his stomach, staff cutting off her Victoria's Secret bra, blood splashing on the doctor during central line insertion, fixed and dilated pupils, her expensive diamond ring being removed, and heard her CPR beeper going off. She encountered her two deceased sisters, mother, and husband's grandmother (appearing decades younger). They joked about burial clothes while the grandmother insisted she return for her husband. After arguing about returning to her damaged body, she was forced back when seeing IV pumps showing 20mcg of levophed with BP of 50. Upon revival, she could repeat word-for-word what coworkers said during resuscitation, confirming her observations. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest in ICU, 10+ minutes without heartbeat or breathing, clinical death | Multiple specific verified observations: intubation position, clothing details, medical procedures, medication doses, word-for-word conversations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 5 | 1 | Observed intubation procedure | 1.00 | ICU coworkers, doctor | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3055 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4174 Diana H NDE 8034 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1diana_h_nde_8034.html | 1983 | 2016 | F | Diana, 8.5 months pregnant, suddenly developed toxemia poisoning during her fifth pregnancy. Rushed to the ER with dangerously high blood pressure and severe swelling, she lost consciousness and stopped breathing. During clinical death, she had an out-of-body experience watching medical staff frantically working to save her. She heard everything including "We are losing her" and understood all medical terminology despite no medical education. She became aware of each person's relationships and secrets with unconditional love and no judgment. She experienced God's presence as conscious light full of love, understanding that we all belong to this light. She was told without words that she had to return to be a mother to her sons. After being rushed to delivery and giving birth, she wanted her Bible in recovery to maintain the connection to that love and light. The recovery nurse confirmed they "lost her for a little while." The experience gave her lasting abilities to perceive truth about people's relationships and provide unconditional love to others. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Toxemia with clinical death, cessation of breathing, life-threatening childbirth emergency | Heard specific medical phrases, understood medical terminology, nurse confirmed being "lost," awareness of relationships | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard medical staff discussions during resuscitation | 1.00 | Recovery room nurse | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3056 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4227 Dixie NDE 8113 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dixie_nde_8113.html | 1959 | 2016 | 7 | F | At age 7, Dixie was taking swimming lessons in Lake Michigan when she swam too far out during the final lesson. The instructor had told them to swim out as far as they could, then return. When she stopped to turn around, she sank in the deep, dark water and her lungs filled. She kept sinking in the darkness until suddenly she was enveloped in a warm, loving golden light that felt like caring arms around her. The light filled the entire dark lake and surrounded her with utter joy, incredible peace, and unity with the world. She felt the light was a loving being, later believing it was Jesus whom she had seen as a child despite her atheist father's objections. She awoke with the lifeguard performing resuscitation, who begged her not to tell her mother. The experience helped her endure childhood abuse and gave her lasting psychic abilities. She never feared death afterward and felt meant to be alive. The profound love she experienced was unlike anything in her difficult family life. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Clinical death from drowning, required resuscitation | No specific veridical observations, only subjective experience of light and presence | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3057 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4093 Rachel S NDE 7903 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1rachel_s_nde.html | 1987 | 2016 | F |
Rachel experienced an internal hemorrhage from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy in 1987. She was in terrible pain for two days before going to the doctor's surgery. While waiting with her mother, she told her mother "I love you" for the first time, sensing something serious was happening. The pain suddenly stopped completely and Rachel found herself above her body, looking down at herself and her mother. She could see a kidney-shaped medical tray with scissors on top of a wall cupboard - a detail she would later verify. She felt no body or sense of physical form, just consciousness at a decision-making crossroads. She thought about her husband of only two months and decided she couldn't die because he needed her. Rachel saw no tunnel, lights, or beings, but felt she was in a blank white space of nothingness. She experienced incredible peace and felt she had control over whether to stay or return. She made a conscious decision to return to life. She was then in an ambulance with acute pain again. She had lost 7 pints of blood and her veins had collapsed. Emergency surgery saved her life. Later, she asked her mother about the kidney dish on the cabinet, confirming it was really there. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Other life-threatening condition - internal hemorrhage from ruptured ectopic pregnancy with 7 pints blood loss | Specific observation of kidney-shaped tray with scissors on cabinet top, later verified. Awareness of events while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw kidney-shaped tray with scissors on cabinet | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3058 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4159 Raed A NDE 8012 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1raed_a_nde.html | 2008 | 2016 | M |
Raed was driving to Dubai when he had a premonition of danger after reading from the Quran. The road was empty so he was driving fast when a flat trailer suddenly appeared in front of him. Before crashing into the trailer, he found himself flying through a lovely white tunnel. He experienced an incredibly fast life review, seeing his entire life from birth up to the moment of the accident. During the experience, he felt amazing freedom, peace, and joy while flying through the tunnel of bright white light. Time seemed to stop or lose meaning, and his thoughts were incredibly fast. He sensed the presence of deceased beings but did not see them directly. The tunnel was filled with a beautiful tonal white light that created feelings of incredible peace and freedom from conflict with nature. He suddenly woke up inside the crushed vehicle, finding it hard to breathe. An ambulance took him to the hospital. Three hours later, he called his mother in Iraq and described details about his birth that she had never told him, surprising her greatly. The experience eliminated his fear of death and increased his religious devotion. He feels more at peace in life and more compassionate toward others. Years later, he still remembers the experience vividly and many people he has told wish they could experience an NDE too. |
5 | Unknown | 3 | 15 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Other life-threatening condition - serious car accident with crushed vehicle | Life review showing entire life from birth. Verified birth details with mother that were previously unknown to him | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 1 | Gained knowledge of birth details | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3059 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4236 Rafa SR NDE 8129 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1rafa_sr_nde.html | 1982 | 2016 | M |
Rafa was skiing and racing downhill in 1982, sizing up a course without wearing a helmet. The course went through a forest and out onto a jump. When he took the jump, he collided head-to-head with someone standing in the middle of the gate. Both lost consciousness from the impact. Rafa broke his teeth and was unconscious for 20 minutes. He immediately left his physical body and saw himself lying in the white snow, surrounded by the contrasting red color of blood. He went into a tunnel and experienced a once-in-a-lifetime feeling of peace with the world, feeling no pain. He saw the brightest light and faced a big choice about whether to let go. He was fully aware and lucid throughout the experience, with heightened vividness and consciousness. Rafa made the conscious decision to return to his body. Upon returning, he felt intense pain from the broken teeth and headache. He woke up in a helicopter being transported to the hospital. The experience clearly changed his life with full certainty of having gone through the afterlife passage and returning. He has never felt similar peacefulness since that time. He went on to build a wonderful family with a loving wife, four children, and a grandson. He waited 33 years to share his story, inspired by reading Anita Moorjani's account. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Other life-threatening - severe head trauma with 20 minutes unconsciousness | Out-of-body observation of self in snow with blood. Clear visual details of scene | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self lying in snow with blood | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3060 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4195 Randy G NDE 8064 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1randy_g_nde.html | 1997 | 2016 | 7 | M |
Seven-year-old Randy was on hyperactive medication and had just woken from a nap in September 1997. While going to pick up his aunt for karate lessons, he rode his bike down a hill and hit the front brake. He flew over the handlebars, became entangled in the bike, and slid over 20 feet. The handlebars injured his upper torso causing a bruised liver, and he suffered a 6-inch gash covering a crack in his skull, splitting his helmet completely in half. Randy had an out-of-body experience where he could see everyone in the room including himself lying on the couch. He saw his friend's mom crying over his body and witnessed his mom and grandmother coming up the road and across the yard. He could hear them discussing calling the rescue squad and complaining about how long it was taking. After a deep breath, he returned to his body on the couch. Later at the hospital, Randy lost consciousness again and entered a very dark room where he couldn't see anything. Suddenly it became brilliantly bright with the whitest light imaginable. He heard a deep, soothing, powerful voice tell him it wasn't his time and he had to go back. When he asked why, the voice said "It's just not your time, son. You have to go back." Randy spent over two weeks in the hospital with cracked skull, broken ribs, bruised liver, and injured knees. His mother reported that a glowing lady in white scrubs with red hair touched his stomach and said everything would be fine. The next morning, tests showed the 6-inch gash had shrunk to razor-blade size, leading to full recovery. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Other life-threatening - severe trauma with cracked skull and organ damage | Out-of-body observation of people and events, saw mom and grandmother arriving from distance | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw people in room and mother arriving | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3061 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4176 Renata W NDE 7996 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1renata_w_nde.html | 2007 | 2016 | F |
Renata, a diabetic, was transferred to the hospital after three days of vomiting. Upon arrival, she was left sitting in the hallway before being taken to a room. Her blood glucose had dropped to around 5, and by evening it reached 56. Laboratory results showed her blood contained no minerals and had blood density like syrup. She experienced three heart attacks, but was only successfully resuscitated after the third one, with resuscitation lasting about five minutes. She remained in a coma for nearly two weeks. During her out-of-body experience, Renata observed everything happening in the room. She was sitting on the header of a metal bed as if it were very high, near the ceiling, looking down over her feet. She watched doctors shouting over each other and at nurses while observing everything calmly, wondering why they were so agitated when she felt fine. She saw both her limp dead body and what she perceived as her soul. She was fascinated by everything around her dead body and noted that the soul was not clear glass as she had expected. Renata experienced no tunnel, lights, deceased relatives, or other typical NDE elements. She felt peace and tranquility as if on a cloud, then was told it was not yet her time. Her heart began beating again and she was "sucked back" into her body. After waking, another patient began telling her what had happened to her medically, and Renata surprised her by saying she had seen it all. After the coma, she lost many memories but developed an even sharper photographic memory. She no longer fears death and accepts it as natural. A fortune teller had previously told her she would die twice but return both times. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest explicitly stated - heart stopped three times, resuscitated after 5 minutes | Observed resuscitation efforts from above, saw specific medical procedures and staff behavior. Patient later described what happened to her | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed resuscitation efforts from above | 1.00 | Fellow patient | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 3062 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4228 Richy R NDE 8115 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1richy_r_nde.html | 1984 | 2016 | M |
Richy was leaving a learning center for adults when he was hit by a bus, approximately 40 kilometers from his home. Instantly, at unbelievable speed, he found himself at his father's place. He was floating while roaming through the rooms of the house, then returned to his body within a few seconds. The entire experience occurred in a state of abundance that he found impossible to describe with words. During the out-of-body experience, his consciousness traveled the 40-kilometer distance instantaneously. His thoughts were incredibly fast, and his senses were incomparably more vivid than normal. Time seemed to move at a different speed, with the impression of covering the distance in record time. He sensed the presence of beings, possibly including his mother who had died when he was three years old. Richy experienced indescribable peace and relaxation during the event. He heard a voice telling him to go back at a certain moment. The experience left him feeling good and relaxed in an indescribable peace. When he returned to his body, he spent several months in the hospital recovering from his injuries. Since the experience, Richy has lost all fear of death and gained a heightened sense of observation of human beings that he didn't have before. He developed the gift to understand people better. His religious practices changed from being non-practicing to praying every night and speaking to his deceased mother. He became more tolerant, more believing, and more compassionate toward others. |
5 | Hospital | 3 | 10 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Other life-threatening condition - hit by bus with loss of consciousness | Traveled 40km instantly to father's house, floated through rooms observing | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Traveled to father's house 40km away | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3063 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4128 Rick I NDE 7963 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1rick_i_nde.html | 1982 | 1982-04-15 | 2016 | M |
Rick suffered a severe motorcycle accident in April 1982. In the emergency room, he was in shock and intense pain, begging for pain medication which was denied until "real doctors" arrived. When they came, he passed out from the pain. Believing his time had come after many previous injuries, Rick accepted he was dying and didn't resist, wanting to go wherever the Lord felt he should be. Upon accepting death, Rick left his body and viewed the scene from above, seeing his father, brother, doctor, and sister-in-law below. He couldn't see behind him - it was black like having blinders on. He felt presences of people who had come to greet him, some familiar though uncertain who they were. He felt overwhelming love and complete acceptance, understanding, and the feeling of finally being "HOME." Rick sensed his grandmother's presence reaching out to touch him and felt another presence of overwhelming love he identified as Jesus. He experienced love beyond expression and believed he encountered God himself. His grandmother told him "Ricky, you have things to do still," and he returned to his body feeling no pain initially. During surgery, Rick's heart stopped for about 30 seconds before being revived. He spent 10 days in recovery with jaws wired shut for 6 weeks. The experience eliminated his fear of death, strengthened his belief in God and afterlife, and led him to keep family very close. He gained enhanced intuition and feels things before they happen. |
2 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Cardiac arrest without monitoring mentioned - heart stopped 30 seconds during surgery | Out-of-body view of family and medical staff in room. Sensed specific deceased relative | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw family and medical staff from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3064 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4079 Dr. Rick U NDE 7880 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1rick_u_nde.html | 2015 | 2015-07-01 | 2016 | M |
Dr. Rick, a neuroscientist specializing in brain trauma, had a heart attack and died five times within 60 minutes on July 1, 2015. He experienced brain anoxia and was in a coma for four days, placed under a cool thermal blanket to preserve brain neurons. Each time he was shocked back to life corresponded with a distinct visit to heaven. During his experiences, Rick found himself climbing a beautiful green grassy hill under a brilliant golden blue sky that opened onto an ancient Bethlehem-like village extending as far as the eye could see. The village contained hundreds to thousands of people engaged in various activities: teaching, caring for animals and children, preaching, cleaning, and other common jobs. He encountered his grandfather who had been deceased since 1987 and sensed the presence of Jesus as a bright light in the left side of the valley. Rick experienced incredible peacefulness and profound reluctance to leave. Each of the five times he died, he felt a beautiful and gentle hand on his forehead pushing him gently down the lush grassy hill away from the glorious valley of heaven. He wanted to stay because he never felt such complete love and total acceptance on earth. His wife confirmed he was shocked back five times, validating his five distinct heavenly experiences. As a neuroscientist with brain anoxia, Rick retired to write a book about his NDE and devote his life to helping veterans with post-traumatic head injuries. The experience confirmed his Christian faith and eliminated his fear of death. He loves his family deeply but would give it all up to live in God's presence. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest with monitoring - died 5 times in 60 minutes, coma 4 days | Five distinct heaven experiences corresponding to five resuscitations. Saw deceased grandfather | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | cool thermal blanket | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw heavenly village with many people | 0.00 | Wife | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 3065 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4091 Donna C NDE 7896 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1donna_c_nde.html | 1997 | 2016 | F |
Donna C, a young woman, experienced a near-death event in 1997 after feeling unwell in a hot bathroom following the application of a homemade face mask. The medical crisis began when she felt dizzy and faint while showering, prompting her to wrap herself in a towel and call for help before collapsing outside the bathroom. During her unconscious state, Donna experienced a profound out-of-body experience where she observed herself floating approximately four meters above her body. She witnessed her mother discovering her collapsed form and desperately trying to revive her with multiple slaps that produced no response. She saw herself floating through a white tunnel of light, dressed in white clothing and barefoot, experiencing tremendous peace and love that she had never felt before. From her elevated perspective, she could hear her mother's distressed crying from a distance, which created a pull that drew her back to her body. The most remarkable veridical aspect of her experience was her ability to observe the scene from above, witnessing her mother's unsuccessful attempts to wake her and her emotional distress. She saw her own pale, unresponsive body and observed the exact sequence of events, including her mother administering multiple slaps to try to revive her. When she heard her mother crying, the emotional connection created a powerful force that pulled her back into her physical form. Upon returning to consciousness, Donna found herself in bed with her mother crying beside her. Her mother confirmed she had been unresponsive for an unknown period and couldn't be awakened despite forceful attempts. This experience profoundly changed Donna's perspective on death, eliminating her fear and giving her certainty about the continuation of consciousness after death. |
5 | Home | 5 | 10 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Other life-threatening condition - collapsed and unresponsive at home | Clear out-of-body observation of mother trying to revive her, floating sensation, tunnel experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw mother trying to revive her | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3066 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4199 Francis A NDE 8068 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1francis_a_nde.html | 1992 | 2016 | 26 | M |
Francis A, a 26-year-old man, experienced a near-death event on June 26, 1992, during a period of extreme emotional stress related to calling off his wedding. While at his mother's house for dinner, he suffered a grand mal seizure with loss of bladder and bowel control, becoming completely unconscious for several minutes. During his unconscious state, Francis had a vivid out-of-body experience where he observed his body lying on the floor from approximately four meters above. He watched multiple people attempting to revive him, throwing buckets of water on his convulsing body and trying to drag him to his feet. He observed his loss of bowel control and watched as his father transported him to the emergency room. Throughout this experience, he felt completely detached from his physical form, experiencing profound happiness, contentment, and freedom from pain. He followed his body to the hospital, observing medical staff placing something into his arm. The most notable aspect was his complete awareness of events while unconscious, including seeing specific medical interventions at the hospital. He felt no desire to return to his body until fate intervened, drawing him back through a sensation of "ebbing, whirling water and sounds." The peaceful, painless state contrasted sharply with the intense pain he experienced upon re-entering his body. Upon returning to consciousness, Francis faced the reality of his medical condition, subsequently being diagnosed with epilepsy. Despite experiencing numerous seizures since then, this was the only occurrence accompanied by an out-of-body experience and the beautiful sensations he described. The experience left him with a transformed understanding of consciousness and death. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Grand mal seizure with loss of consciousness and bowel control | Clear OBE with observations of resuscitation attempts and hospital procedures | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed resuscitation attempts and hospital procedures | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3067 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4088 Francine B NDE 7892 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1francine_b_nde.html | 1973 | 2016 | F |
Francine B experienced a harrowing near-death event in 1973 following a drug overdose involving multiple substances including LSD, depressants, and stimulants. After a chaotic series of events where friends abandoned her at a busy intersection, she was picked up by police and taken to a hospital where she experienced clinical death. The medical crisis was severe enough that hospital staff struggled to revive her while attempting to contact her family. During her clinical death, Francine initially had an out-of-body experience where she floated above the hospital scene, observing medical staff trying to revive her body. She then encountered what she described as "dark angels" - horrific creatures with claws that spoke in rhymes and physically tore her apart while flying through the hospital halls. She experienced a hellish realm where she lay flat with bars pressing down on her, hearing the anguished cries of other souls. An evil presence interrogated her about her spiritual beliefs for what seemed like an eternity. When she defiantly proclaimed belief in Jesus, she was suddenly released from hell. Following the hellish experience, Francine underwent an extensive life review where beings showed her every mistake in detail, including how her behavior had hurt others. She experienced thousands of cycles of birth, death, and rebirth, living countless lives in what felt like an eternal loop. The experience included being in a womb and being born, where she could hear the delivering doctor's negative thoughts about her. Francine awakened tied down in a hospital room with her father praying beside her. When she shared her experience with her doctor, he acknowledged having heard of similar accounts. This intensely distressing NDE profoundly impacted her spiritual understanding, though she later moved away from traditional Christian beliefs toward Eastern philosophies. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Clinical death from drug overdose, cessation of breathing requiring resuscitation | Out-of-body observation of hospital scene, detailed hellish experience with verification claimed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed hospital resuscitation efforts | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3068 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4122 Gabriela A NDE 7955 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gabriela_a_nde.html | 1977 | 2016 | F |
Gabriela A experienced a near-death event in 1977 during childbirth surgery when she suffered respiratory arrest immediately after receiving spinal anesthesia. The medical crisis occurred in an operating room with full monitoring equipment, and medical staff had to perform resuscitation including intubation to restore her breathing. The event left medical professionals shocked by her subsequent detailed observations. At the moment of anesthesia administration, Gabriela felt a strong blow to the back of her head and found herself floating through a misty tunnel toward an intense white light. She experienced complete emotional neutrality - no fear, happiness, or anxiety - simply floating "like a piece of paper." From an elevated perspective near the operating room ceiling, she observed specific details invisible from her position on the table, including the green tunic worn by the doctor and a blue surgical cap behind her head that she had never seen placed there. Multiple hands appeared in the tunnel trying unsuccessfully to grab her as she advanced toward the light. The most remarkable veridical element was her ability to describe the resuscitation scene from the vantage point of a large clock on the wall, observing the medical team's efforts to revive her. She witnessed the entire scene as if suspended from the ceiling, seeing details of clothing and equipment placement that would have been impossible to observe from the operating table. Just before reaching the light, one of the hands successfully pulled her back to her body. Upon awakening, the lead surgeon immediately asked "Where were you?" and was astonished by her accurate descriptions of the green surgical tunic, blue cap placement, and the resuscitation efforts viewed from above. The medical team conducted extensive neurological testing to check for brain damage from oxygen deprivation. This experience profoundly changed Gabriela's understanding of human fragility and the mysterious forces that determine life and death. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Respiratory arrest during surgery with monitoring, requiring intubation | Multiple specific verified observations including clothing colors and perspective from ceiling | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw surgical team clothing and resuscitation from ceiling perspective | 1.00 | Lead surgeon and medical team | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3069 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4240 George M NDE 8133 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1georg_m_nde.html | 1970 | 2016 | 17 | M |
George M, a 17-year-old traveling with friends in France in 1971, experienced a near-death event after taking old, incorrect medication for illness during their cramped journey to Spain. The pills caused severe poisoning, leading to vomiting, disorientation, and collapse in a grain field where he lost consciousness. His friends found him unconscious and carried him against his expressed wishes to the nearest hospital for emergency treatment. Upon losing consciousness, George immediately left his body and experienced a profound heavenly calm with complete cessation of pain. He witnessed an extraordinarily detailed and rapid life review where every person he had ever met appeared and waved kindly to him. From approximately 10 meters above, he observed his body lying in the cornfield with his friends standing around helplessly making sorrowful comments. He simultaneously perceived a mystical white light, distinct from and far more significant than the sun, appearing as a massive disk drawing him closer with magnetic force. This light represented eternal calm and heavenly peace, and he felt ready to merge with it completely. The most remarkable aspect was his elevated perspective observing the scene below while experiencing unlimited understanding and cosmic awareness. He heard himself telling his friends to leave him and continue their journey, expressing complete acceptance of death. He witnessed his friends carrying his unconscious body to the hospital against his will, observing the medical intervention and hearing other patients in what may have been a chest clinic. George's experience profoundly transformed his worldview, leading him to leave the Catholic Church and embrace cosmic, universal thinking and eventually Buddhism. The clarity of consciousness during clinical unconsciousness, combined with the life review and encounter with transcendent light, fundamentally altered his understanding of death and existence. Even 45 years later, he retains crystal-clear memory of the experience. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Medicine poisoning causing unconsciousness and life-threatening condition | Clear OBE viewing body from above, life review, mystical light experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed body in field and friends' reactions | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3070 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4230 Georgina C NDE 8117 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1georgina_c_nde.html | 2013 | 2016 | F |
Georgina C experienced a catastrophic medical emergency on October 16, 2013, fifteen days after giving birth by C-section. While sitting with her newborn and older daughter, she suffered a sudden, intense headache that rapidly progressed to inability to breathe and loss of consciousness. Her father, a Kundalini Yoga master, provided Reiki while emergency services were called. She experienced multiple brain bleeds requiring emergency craniotomy decompression surgery and remained in a coma for three weeks, during which doctors declared her brain dead with no hope of recovery. During her coma, Georgina had extensive out-of-body experiences where she witnessed events throughout the hospital. She saw her mother crying while caring for the baby in another room, her eldest daughter in bed with her mother, and her father calling the ambulance. She observed her arrival at the hospital, watched doctors declaring no pulse, and witnessed her teenage brother's arrival two days later. Throughout her three-week coma, she maintained consciousness outside her body, desperately trying to communicate with family members who couldn't hear her, repeatedly asking about her children without receiving any response. The most profound aspect was her spiritual journey with her father and husband to various known and unknown locations while her body remained comatose. At the moment of return, they were in an extremely cold place wearing winter gear when she asked for coffee. They embraced her and told her it was time to return, which coincided with her awakening from the coma. She also experienced a brilliant white light that approached her, which her father asked if she wanted to enter, to which she refused by closing her eyes. Upon awakening, Georgina's first word to her brother was "Geo," confirming her cognitive function. Her father's background in energy work and her heightened sensitivity following the experience validated her belief in the separation of consciousness from the physical body. This experience fundamentally transformed her perception of reality and deepened her understanding of love as the force that moves everything. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Brain bleeds, clinical death declared, brain dead status, three-week coma | Multiple OBE observations of family in different locations, awareness during coma | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw family members in different rooms | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3071 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4200 Gloria S NDE 23143 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gloria_s_nde.html | 1975 | 2016 | F |
Gloria S experienced a near-death event in 1975 during a severe vehicle accident where the truck she was driving rolled over. According to witnesses, she was ejected through the windshield and found with her head buried in sand, not breathing. Her ex-husband had to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive her. She has no memory of these traumatic physical events but retains a vivid recollection of her out-of-body experience during the incident. During the experience, Gloria found herself floating above her body, looking directly down at herself lying face-up with her three children leaning over her head area. From this elevated perspective, she could observe specific details about what everyone was wearing, including her own clothing. She experienced a complete absence of pain while floating, in stark contrast to the excruciating pain she felt upon awakening in the medical center. The floating sensation was peaceful and without distress. The most significant veridical aspect was her ability to accurately describe the positioning of her body and her children from an impossible vantage point above the scene. She saw herself face-up with her children gathered around her head area, observing clothing and positioning details that she later verified. Her past also flashed before her during the experience, though she provides limited detail about this life review component. Gloria awakened in severe pain at a medical center with no memory of how she arrived there. The experience left her with the conviction that there is no pain in death, fundamentally changing her beliefs about the dying process. Despite the traumatic nature of the accident, her out-of-body experience was neither pleasant nor distressing, but rather neutral and observational. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Severe vehicle accident, not breathing, required resuscitation | Clear OBE with specific observations of body position and people | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed self and children from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3072 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4092 Helen C NDE 7901 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1helen_c_nde.html | 2014 | 2016 | F |
Helen C experienced a life-threatening event on May 30, 2014, following a traumatic emergency C-section for her second child. After severe fetal distress requiring emergency surgery with profuse bleeding and blood transfusions, she suffered an allergic reaction approximately 90 minutes post-surgery, possibly from the transfusion or anesthetic. Her body temperature soared and she entered shock, with medical staff surrounding her bed as she experienced an out-of-body event in her hospital room. During the crisis, Helen found herself standing at the far end of the hospital room next to a distinctive leather sofa, with her partner beside her and their hospital belongings on the sofa. From this impossible vantage point across the long room, she observed her own body lying in the bed with an IV drip beside it. She noted specific details including the unusual presence of a leather sofa in a hospital setting and the arrangement of their numerous bags. The experience was characterized by extreme clarity and calmness, contrasting sharply with the hazy memories of the surrounding medical emergency. The most remarkable veridical element was her accurate observation of room details from a physical location she never occupied. She saw herself in the bed from across the room while simultaneously standing by the sofa - a perspective impossible from her actual position. Months later, she verified these specific details with her partner, confirming the leather sofa's presence and the arrangement of their belongings. She realized the impossibility of this memory only after considerable reflection. Upon returning to her body, Helen complained about the room's heat while surrounded by medical staff, with a midwife staying at her bedside throughout the night. The clarity of the out-of-body experience stands in stark contrast to her foggy memories of the medical crisis. As a scientifically-minded person, she views this experience as evidence supporting the existence of a soul separate from the body. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Post-surgical shock/allergic reaction, life-threatening emergency | Verified impossible perspective of room, leather sofa, belongings arrangement | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw room from impossible vantage point | 1.00 | Partner | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3073 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4169 Robert N NDE 8029 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1robert_n_nde_8029.html | 2014 | 2014-12-12 | 2016 | M | Robert was hospitalized with Legionnaires Disease and his condition rapidly deteriorated. Unable to breathe, he was placed on a ventilator and slipped into a coma. His wife fought to have him transferred to another hospital. During his coma, Robert found himself standing in a beautiful meadow with tall grass and calming sunlight. His deceased paternal grandparents emerged from a stand of trees, holding hands and looking as he remembered them from childhood. They communicated telepathically that it was not his time and he could not come with them. They walked backwards into the trees and disappeared. Robert woke briefly as nurses worked on his ventilator, then woke again at the second hospital where he had been airlifted while in a coma. After his recovery, a blood technician told him privately that God sometimes takes people down to prove His love and give them a second chance. Robert experienced profound life changes, including instant release from cigarette and alcohol addictions with no withdrawal symptoms. | 4 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Coma mentioned during severe respiratory illness | Observation of deceased grandparents but no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw deceased grandparents in meadow | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3074 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4210 Robin L NDE 8083 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1robin_l_nde.html | 1977 | 2016 | 8 | F | Eight-year-old Robin was abducted from the US and taken to Africa during the Rhodesian Bush War in 1977. After being separated from her kidnapper, she was taken in by a local tribe who cared for her as family. During a guerrilla attack near the village, Robin was shot in the head while playing. The bullet grazed the top of her head causing severe blood loss and shock. As she began dying, she separated from her body and saw her African adoptive mother holding her and trying to stop the bleeding. Robin passed through a dark cave and tunnel with living walls, encountering five different beings who helped purify her trauma and guide her toward acceptance and love. She met a Jesus-like figure who showed her the interconnection of all living things through a web of light. She experienced a profound understanding of universal connection and divine love. Her African mother's singing called her back from the other side, reminding her of her purpose to sing her medicine song to others. Robin chose to return despite the difficulty, coming back through veils of light into her body. | 5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Gunshot wound with blood loss and shock in war zone | Saw adoptive mother holding body and stopping bleeding, experienced vast otherworldly realms | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw African mother holding her body | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3075 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4151 Sabrina V NDE 8000 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sabrina_v_nde.html | 2003 | 2003-03-07 | 2016 | F | Sabrina experienced a severe hemorrhage at home due to placental abruption in 2003. Emergency services were called immediately, with doctors, paramedics, and fire brigade arriving at her home. As she lost consciousness, she heard medical personnel saying "We are losing her, we are losing her!" She found herself floating above the scene at ceiling level, watching everything happening below. After an indeterminate time observing from above, she felt herself leaving the scene and being drawn into a warm, welcoming light that enveloped her. She was pulled into a tunnel and felt wonderful, but sensed that if she went too far, she would not be able to return. She made a conscious decision to come back. The experience left her more detached from earthly concerns but more compassionate toward others. Interestingly, her religious beliefs changed from probable belief in God to atheism after the experience, though she reported sensing danger more acutely afterward. | 5 | Home | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening hemorrhage from placental abruption | Heard "losing her" and saw scene from above, but no specific verified details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 1 | 0 | Floating above emergency scene | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 3076 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4134 Sara S NDE 7975 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sara_s_nde.html | 1989 | 2016 | F | Sara tripped entering her house, fell and banged her knees. When her father helped her stand quickly, she felt buzzing in her ears and everything went dark. She found herself outside her body watching her parents try to revive her - her mother attempting to wake her and father shouting her name. She then traveled at tremendous speed through the walls of their house and neighboring houses, able to see into each room. Upon reaching the street, she observed a friend passing by with his dog. She arrived at a park, then felt herself traveling at high speed into nothingness and emptiness. Frightened, she shouted "NOOOO!" but heard a reverberating voice command her to "Go back." She returned to her body screaming for her parents not to let her go. Her mother reported she had been unconscious for over 30 minutes. On the way to the hospital, when they turned the corner, Sara saw the same friend with his dog dressed exactly as she had seen during her OBE, including a new shirt she could not have known about. The experience led to precognitive dreams and increased belief in an afterlife. | 5 | Home | 3 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Fainting episode with extended unconsciousness | Verified seeing friend with dog in new shirt, heard mother's thoughts | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw parents trying to revive her | 0.00 | Friend with dog | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3077 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4094 Shabs NDEs 7906 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1shabs_ndes.html | 1993 | 1993-03-10 | 2016 | 32 | F | Shabs experienced multiple NDEs throughout childhood related to fainting episodes triggered by pain or medical procedures. She had always been fearful of injections and medical tools. During one hospital visit for high fever, after receiving an injection, she immediately felt herself passing through a black, hollow tube at tremendous speed without feeling her body. The experience was frightening with thick darkness. She regained consciousness to find her mother and doctor at her bedside. Another incident occurred when removing a bandaid from a bleeding knee caused severe pain and fainting. She experienced the same hollow, dark tunnel. Her mother reported her body shook as if having epilepsy. These experiences occurred multiple times until age 20. During the tunnel experiences, she felt no body, moved at light speed, and experienced time distortion. She was terrified throughout and feared the experiences would recur. Her 9-year-old nephew later reported a similar tunnel experience when fainting, though he saw light at the tunnel's end which Shabs never experienced. | 5 | Hospital | 3 | 1 | 4 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Fainting episodes, some in medical settings | Only tunnel experience, no verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3078 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4108 Sharon D NDE 7936 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sharon_d_nde_7936.html | 2008 | 2008-12-24 | 2016 | F | Sharon was hospitalized on Christmas Eve 2008 with severe illness from a kidney stone causing septic shock. After surgery to insert a stent, she would not wake from anesthesia and was placed on life support with less than 50% chance of survival. During her coma, Sharon found herself out of body at her workplace, seeing everything through an orange color with expanded 360-degree vision. She was gliding, not walking, through the empty plant (closed for holidays). She traveled to her late husband's former warehouse, drawn to a door marked EXIT, feeling what she wanted was beyond it. As she reached for the door, she heard her daughter calling "MOM! MOM!" and was slammed back into her body. While comatose, she could hear and see her daughter arguing with her boyfriend about needing rest, which all three later confirmed occurred. Her daughter said she could tell when Sharon was present versus absent. Sharon spent two weeks mostly in coma, requiring two months of therapy before release. The experience left her knowing there is life after death and feeling her deceased husband was waiting beyond the door. | 4 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Septic shock, coma, life support with 50% survival chance | Verified daughter argument while comatose, specific OBE details at workplace | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/16/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw workplace during holiday shutdown | 0.00 | Daughter, boyfriend, son | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3079 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4107 Sharon M NDE 7925 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sharon_m_nde_7925.html | 2005 | 2016 | F | Sharon was struck by lightning while talking on a cordless phone during a storm in 2005. The bolt hit her right arm, passed through her body leaving char marks, traveled under the house and blew out the transformer. She left her body and entered her house where everything appeared in burnt yellow tones with 1920s-30s era furniture. She then found herself in magnificent pink and gold clouds feeling complete love and peace. Two young men with blonde hair in cream linen appeared - her brothers who died as babies. They led her to a garden beside a glorious city where she received a life review without judgment. She met Jesus who declared His eternal love. God appeared as a man on a log and taught her about divine presence in all creation. She learned God's 100th name from the Koran despite never studying Islam. Angels showed her future events including 9/11 aftermath, natural disasters, and economic collapse - many of which have occurred. Her African mother's ancestral singing called her back to fulfill her purpose of singing healing songs. The experience gave her empathic abilities and she was struck by lightning three more times. | 5 | Home | 5 | 15 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Lightning strike with cardiac damage documented | Extensive otherworldly observations, predicted future events that occurred | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/16/2025 | 3 | 0 | House interior transformed to 1920s-30s era | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3080 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4124 Sheila B NDE 7958 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sheila_b_nde_7958.html | 2000 | 2000-07-20 | 2016 | F | Sheila, an ICU registered nurse, underwent surgery during which her aorta was lacerated. Her blood pressure dropped to 40/14 in recovery. She heard the surgeon ordering a CT scan and a nurse saying it would kill her. A central line was placed and she heard someone say "I don't have a pulse." She moved her arm to indicate consciousness and avoid CPR. She floated above her body briefly, seeing the anesthesiologist rushing and calling for a surgeon, then her vision disappeared. She floated through soft clouds feeling no pain or gravity. Her deceased sister escorted her, reminding her that her children needed her and it wasn't her time. She saw her deceased grandparents and remarkably, a former patient whose hand she had held as he died. This patient told her she had more to do and must return to continue touching lives as she had for him. Reentering her body felt like falling from a high building onto concrete. The surgeon, who was also a friend, later said he wouldn't have continued past 20 minutes for anyone else. She received 60 units of blood. The experience left her with psychic abilities and reduced fear of death. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest with monitoring, aortic laceration, 60 units blood | Heard "no pulse", saw team working, met deceased patient | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw medical team during cardiac arrest | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3081 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4129 Irene Z NDE 23112 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1irene_z_nde.html | 2008 | 2016 | F |
Irene was undergoing an angioplasty procedure in 2008 when she suddenly told the doctor she didn't feel well. She felt her upper body being flung back as if the bed was being laid flat, though she was unsure if this was a physical movement or part of her experience. Suddenly, Irene found herself at the ceiling, looking down at her own body on the bed. She immediately recognized the medical team - the doctor and two nurses standing alongside the bed - and knew with certainty that the body below was hers. The medical staff appeared to be standing in what looked like a sea of black ink, creating a striking visual contrast. What amazed her most was the brilliance of the colors of their uniforms, which appeared outstandingly vivid and bright from her elevated perspective. She felt wonderful during this experience, with no fear whatsoever, though she was stunned by the intensity and brilliance of the colors she perceived. From her position near the ceiling, Irene had a clear view of the entire operating room scene. She could see her body lying on the bed while maintaining awareness that she was floating at ceiling level. The visual perception was enhanced, with a heightened sense of colors that seemed more vivid than normal vision. When Irene regained consciousness, she was in the intensive care unit with staff asking her typical NDE questions - whether she saw a light, a tunnel, or anyone she knew. She kept dozing off after repeatedly asking for tea but falling asleep before she could drink it, likely due to medication she had been given. The staff's immediate questions about classic NDE elements suggest they recognized she had experienced something during the procedure, and she later learned her condition had been serious enough to require intensive care monitoring. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Angioplasty procedure with apparent complications requiring ICU admission | Clear OBE with specific observations of medical team and enhanced color perception | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw medical team from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3082 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4184 Jaime NDE 8051 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jaime_nde.html | 1978 | 2016 | F |
Jaime was experiencing irregular heartbeats that resulted in her heart stopping during the summer of 1978. When her heart stopped, she fainted and fell, striking her head on a cement walkway. The combination of cardiac arrest and head trauma created a life-threatening situation that led to her near-death experience. While unconscious from the fall and cardiac arrest, Jaime found herself in a unique state that was both dark yet not dark. There was no tunnel or bright light typically reported in NDEs. Instead, she became aware of female voices having a discussion about her fate. These voices were asking whether it was time to take her, as if deliberating about whether she should cross over permanently. She lay in complete comfort and peace while waiting for their answer, feeling no distress despite the serious nature of what was being discussed. The auditory perception was remarkably clear - Jaime could hear the voices distinctly even though they were whispering. She felt very alert and aware of what was happening, with her consciousness seeming more acute than normal. The beings she heard appeared to be waiting for an answer from a higher authority about whether it was her time to die. When Jaime regained consciousness, she experienced a grand mal seizure, indicating the severity of her medical condition. She felt very disappointed to be back in her body, not wanting to return from the peaceful state she had experienced. The experience profoundly affected her beliefs, convincing her that angels were present during her crisis and that death is not the end but rather a return home. She did not share this experience for about ten years, fearing people would think her crazy. |
2 | Other | 10 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Clear cardiac arrest with heart stopping, followed by fall and head trauma | Heard female voices discussing whether to take her, heightened awareness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard female voices discussing her fate | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3083 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4154 James Y NDE 8007 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1james_y_nde.html | 1962 | 2016 | M |
James was at a beach in Japan during the summer of 1962 when a typhoon off the coast created dangerous surf conditions with five rows of breakers. He decided to attempt diving through all five rows and then body surf back to shore. After successfully navigating the first two breakers, he became trapped in a spot where waves repeatedly crashed down on him, driving him to the bottom. This cycle continued until he was too exhausted to fight to the surface, and he felt certain he was going to drown. His last earthly thoughts were of how heartbroken his mother would be upon learning of his death. As James accepted his fate, he experienced an overwhelming sense of peace unlike anything he had ever felt before. This peaceful feeling was the most profound he had ever experienced, completely replacing his panic and fear. At this moment, he noticed an oval opening about five feet wide appearing before him, with three female spirit beings looking out from within it. He could feel unconditional love emanating from these beings, and he understood with absolute certainty that his true home was with them. The attraction was so powerful that he wanted to go with them, no longer caring if he died. His vision seemed to expand to 360 degrees, and he felt he was perceiving without using his physical eyes. From these spirit beings, James received knowledge about the nature of existence. He understood that he had experienced similar situations before and had lived other lives, suggesting a form of pre-mortal existence or reincarnation. The beings communicated that Earth is not our true home and that after this life, we return to our real home with them. At the moment when James fully surrendered to joining the beings, he suddenly floated to the surface where, remarkably, no waves were crashing down on him. He was able to catch his breath, and each subsequent wave gently washed him toward shore. His friend ran up shouting that he thought James had drowned. James lay in the surf for several minutes before he could stand. He kept this experience secret for many years, initially feeling ashamed that he had wanted to die, viewing it as weakness rather than understanding it as a spiritual calling. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Near drowning with exhaustion, unable to fight to surface | Saw three female spirit beings in oval opening, felt unconditional love, gained knowledge of pre-existence | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw three female spirit beings in oval opening | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3084 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4167 Jeffrey C NDE 8024 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeffrey_c_nde_8024.html | 1989 | 2016 | 19 | M |
Jeffrey, at age 19, attempted suicide by taking several bottles of drugs with rum after discovering his girlfriend was cheating with his best friend. His mother called an ambulance, and he lost consciousness before reaching the hospital. He was clinically dead for six minutes during the emergency room resuscitation attempts. During his death, Jeffrey experienced one of the most extensive and detailed NDEs on record, involving multiple realms and beings. Jeffrey's experience began with an out-of-body experience where he witnessed the medical team trying to resuscitate him. He saw the doctor performing chest compressions and remarkably jumped into the doctor's consciousness, experiencing the doctor's panic and seeing visions of the doctor's wife, children, and car. He observed his mother standing in the doorway with her arms crossed. Blue and green angelic beings then pulled him into a column of light and transported him through a tunnel to heaven's gate. He was placed in a room with cloud walls where he encountered his deceased grandmother and other spirits. A young girl spirit took him on journeys showing him his past, the people affected by his death, and potential futures. The experience included visits to hell, where Jeffrey witnessed customized torments for souls and encountered demonic beings with jackal faces. He was shown a platform in space with cube-shaped personal hells for each soul. He experienced purgatory as a dark cave where souls waited in terror. Throughout these experiences, he gained specific knowledge about cosmic arrangements, soul contracts made before birth, and his own pre-birth planning. He encountered Jesus, Mary, and other religious figures who explained the nature of existence and his purpose. Jeffrey returned to his body after Jesus asked him to give Him a chance to make things right. He was in a coma for three days following the resuscitation. During this time, he felt a warm hand holding his and saw a young girl with long brown hair, though nurses confirmed no young visitors had been allowed in the ICU. The experience included prophetic visions of his future that later came true, including breaking his back at a specific age. The transformation was profound, changing him from an alcoholic drug dealer to someone who worked in security and developed psychic sensitivities. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death for 6 minutes with CPR in emergency room | Saw doctor doing CPR, entered doctor's consciousness seeing his family, saw mother in doorway, prophetic visions came true | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw doctor performing CPR | 1.00 | ICU nurses | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3085 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4247 Jeremy NDE 8151 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeremy_nde.html | 1981 | 2016 | 4 | M |
Jeremy, approximately 4-5 years old, was vacationing in Florida with his family when he nearly drowned in a hotel pool. His father was sitting on the patio with another person while Jeremy wanted to swim in the pool where the water was over his head even in the shallow end. His father instructed him to stay on the steps and hold onto the handrail. Being a curious child who liked to test boundaries, Jeremy swung on the rail until it slipped through his wet fingers, plunging him underwater where waves repeatedly drove him to the bottom. As Jeremy held his breath underwater following his father's earlier safety instructions, time began to slow down dramatically. Everything seemed to creep along as if coming to a halt. Suddenly it became dark, and Jeremy found himself about twenty feet in the air looking down at the scene below. From this elevated perspective, he could see his own body submerged in the water, his father and the other person sitting on the nearby patio, and the entire pool area. This out-of-body state felt perfectly normal to him. He was aware his mother was nearby but unaware of what was happening. He experienced overwhelming peace and serenity, with a complete absence of worry, fear, or anxiety. The view had a milky, misty quality with enhanced awareness - he could see everything at once with a broader perspective than normal vision. From his elevated viewpoint, Jeremy witnessed his father suddenly get up and run to the pool edge. Though he could observe these events, he had no real awareness of time passing. The rescue seemed predetermined or planned, though not in the sense of prior human planning. He watched as his father jumped into the pool and rescued him. The experience included feelings of love and compassion for himself as he viewed his body from above, without any fear despite the life-threatening situation. When Jeremy returned to his body and stood at the pool's edge with his father, he retained vivid memories of the experience. As an adult who became a minister, he reflects that the peace he experienced was unlike anything before or since. The experience strengthened his existing faith, confirming his belief in God's presence and the reality of consciousness beyond the physical body. The clarity of this memory from age 4-5 stands out compared to his other vague childhood memories. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Near drowning as young child, trapped underwater by waves | OBE viewing self underwater, saw father on patio then rescue him, 20 feet above scene | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw self underwater from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3086 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4194 Jim Martin 8062 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jim_m_nde.html | 1955 | 1955-11-15 | 2016 | 10 | M |
Jim Martin, age 10, was suffering from severe croup on November 15, 1955, with very labored breathing throughout the afternoon and evening. After his parents called their family doctor twice and tried steam treatment without success, the doctor came to their house around 10 PM to treat him directly. She attempted to insert a metal breathing tube into his trachea but quickly determined he needed emergency surgery. Declaring there was no time to wait for an ambulance, she drove him at high speed to the hospital 40 blocks away, running red lights. Jim lost consciousness during the drive and has no memory of arriving at the hospital. After an unknown period of unconsciousness, Jim found himself at the end of a short tunnel with an intensely brilliant light. The light was brighter than any he had ever experienced, yet his eyes had no trouble adjusting to it. His entire life's experiences passed before him in what seemed like seconds, though he now only recalls seeing his deceased cocker spaniel Ginger, who had been killed by a car several weeks before his NDE. The tunnel experience felt open, clean, and bright, with no sense of walking on ground or pavement. He moved through it without any sense of distance or energy expenditure, simply arriving at the end without understanding how. The otherworldly environment Jim entered was clearly mystical, with qualities unlike earthly existence. He felt part of something he didn't understand, experiencing quiet, clean brightness and openness. Everything had more intensity - more brightness, more color, and more awareness of his surroundings than normal consciousness. He experienced relief, calmness, and happiness, feeling united with the world around him. The entire decade of his life experiences flashed through his mind in what he perceived as only a few seconds. Jim's next memory was waking up to a bright examination room light with his own blood dripping on his face from the overhead surgical light. The vividness of this 1955 experience remains remarkably clear over 60 years later, standing out with unusual clarity compared to other childhood memories. The experience transformed his religious understanding, leading him to become active in his church and serve as a deacon of finance, as he now works on understanding the correlation between NDEs and proof of God's existence. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Clinical death from severe croup/respiratory failure requiring emergency surgery | Tunnel with brilliant light, complete life review, saw deceased pet | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw brilliant light at end of tunnel | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 3087 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4085 Joan K NDE 7888 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1joan_k_nde_7888.html | 1993 | 2016 | F |
Joan underwent surgery in 1993 under general anesthesia when she experienced respiratory failure requiring intubation. She stopped breathing during the procedure, creating a life-threatening situation that triggered her near-death experience. The medical team had to insert a breathing tube down her throat to maintain her airway, and she later woke up in the recovery room with a very sore throat from the emergency intubation. During her NDE, Joan suddenly found herself above everything with an immediate and amazing feeling of peace unlike anything she had ever experienced. All fear, anger, sadness, and negative emotions completely vanished, replaced by an incredible sense of wellbeing. From her out-of-body position, she could clearly see herself and the medical team - the doctors, nurses, and medical staff working on her body below. She observed them merely as a neutral observation without any feeling or judgment about them. When she looked at herself, she discovered she had transformed into pure light, having the shape of a person but composed entirely of yellow light. Rather than being frightened by this transformation, she felt curious about her light-form existence. Joan experienced a profound shift in perception and understanding during her NDE. She saw that her own light shone brighter than the people below, whose light she could not perceive. She developed an understanding that oneness can exist without judgment, that all beings are fundamentally the same with no one being less or more than another. She received the insight that to return to the peace she experienced, she would need to love all people including herself and God, and stop judging herself and others as good or bad. She felt she should go somewhere else and began to fly upward before the experience ended. When Joan woke in recovery, she initially dismissed it as a dream until a nurse explained that her throat hurt because they had to intubate her when she stopped breathing. The experience profoundly transformed her spiritual understanding, leading her to reject guilt-based religious teachings while maintaining faith in God and the spiritual realm. She developed heightened intuitive abilities and found she could sometimes see into the past and send messages of hope to others. The overwhelming peace from her NDE remains unique in her life experience. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Surgery under general anesthesia with respiratory failure requiring intubation | OBE viewing medical team, saw self as yellow light being, gained spiritual knowledge | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw medical team from above | 0.00 | Recovery room nurse | Moderately Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3088 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4166 John M NDE 8023 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_m_nde_8023.html | 1998 | 2016 | M |
John was undergoing a bronchoscopy procedure in 1998 when he was given codeine, to which he was allergic. The procedure initially went well, but upon waking, he couldn't breathe and pushed the emergency button to summon the nurse. After telling her "I can't breathe," everything went black and a major panic ensued among the medical staff. John was clinically dead for what he estimates was at least 8 minutes, during which the medical team tried everything to resuscitate him without success because, as he states, he did not want to come back. During his clinical death, John floated in a sea of very dark blackness where he experienced total love without any judgment or negativity. He felt completely calm with no pain, describing it as wonderful and amazing, like graduation day when he was finally free and ready to move on. The darkness was completely flat black, yet he had no fear of any kind. He could hear the doctor talking to interns about what to do, using him as a teaching tool as if his death was no big deal. The doctor asked what should be done to bring him back, and a female voice suggested putting pressure on the nerves at the points of the jaw, which successfully resuscitated him. John perceived a small, fuzzy dot of light in the distance during his experience, though not clearly defined. He was curled up in the darkness like a baby in the womb, feeling totally safe and loved in a way he had never experienced before or since. Before the procedure, he had told the nurse that if anything went wrong, not to bring him back, as if he somehow knew they would make an error and he would pass over. The experience gave him a sense of transition, as if being held in the womb of the universe. When John was finally resuscitated, he was extremely angry about being brought back against his will. The experience transformed his life significantly - he went from being an alcoholic drug dealer to working for a nationwide security company and installing security systems. He developed heightened psychic sensitivities, including the ability to scan people's aura fields and detect illness, and experienced episodes of involuntarily "blurting out" psychically received information about people. The experience eliminated his fear of death and left him certain of an afterlife. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clinical death during bronchoscopy from allergic reaction to codeine | Heard doctor teaching interns and female voice suggesting jaw pressure technique while clinically dead | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard medical team discussions while dead | 1.00 | Doctor and medical team | Low Compatibility | 5 | |||||||||
| 3089 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4083 Sonya N NDE 7885 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sonya_n_nde.html | 1999 | 1999-02-18 | 2016 | F | During a criminal attack in February 1999, Sonya had a gun pointed at her forehead and the trigger pulled, but miraculously the bullet stopped on her forehead and dropped to the floor. This began hours of violent assault including being stabbed multiple times, though she was unaware of the stabbing at the time as she was communicating with Jesus. She experienced being surrounded by bright white light that didn't hurt her eyes and heard Jesus speak to her in a clear voice, telling her "It is ok if you want to die now or you can choose to live." They had a long conversation that seemed to last much longer than the split second of earth time. Jesus appeared loving and kind with eyes that "oozed with love," though he also showed anger she understood but doesn't explain. During the experience, she was in both realms simultaneously - the physical and spiritual. She had heightened awareness and could hear conversations in other rooms. A friend with her reported seeing 5 attackers while she only saw 4, with one standing watching over her the whole time - she believes this was her guardian angel. She chose to live and was given knowledge about her future, knowing it would be hard. The experience left her knowing God exists, that Jesus is love incarnate, and gave her enhanced empathic abilities including feeling the emotions of animals. | 5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening criminal attack with gun to head, extensive stabbing | Friend witnessed additional being (guardian angel) that experiencer couldn't see physically | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Criminal attack context | 6/17/2025 | 0 | 1 | Friend present during attack | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3090 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4131 Stephanie A NDE 7971 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1stephanie_a_nde.html | 2013 | 2013-05-30 | 2016 | F | Stephanie experienced detailed premonitions months before giving birth, seeing she would hemorrhage, need a hysterectomy, die, and have organ failure. Despite all medical tests being negative, she warned everyone including posting on Facebook and writing goodbye letters. An anesthesiologist took her warnings seriously and prepared extra safety measures. During delivery at 36 weeks, she delivered a healthy baby then suffered an amniotic fluid embolism and flatlined for 37 seconds. She experienced an out-of-body state where she observed everything in the operating room after her eyes were taped shut, including which nurse did CPR, that the first crash cart didn't work, and even what the doctor was thinking but not saying ("this can't be happening"). She saw deceased relatives including her grandmother and uncle, and hundreds of spirits in a heavenly beach-like setting with warm sand and clouds. She downloaded vast amounts of information in those 37 seconds, understanding her entire life's purpose and seeing how all her past experiences led to this moment. She was shown that her television production career was preparation for spreading this message. She received 60 units of blood, had a hysterectomy, kidney failure, lung collapse, cardiac arrest, and bladder collapse - all her premonitions came true. Through regression therapy, she recovered memories of the death experience which doctors confirmed were 100% accurate. She now experiences enhanced psychic abilities, sees deceased people regularly, and understands she had help from the other side during her pregnancy. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest during surgery with monitoring, clinical death for 37 seconds, required 60 units blood | Accurately described operating room events while eyes taped shut, including unspoken thoughts of doctor | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Doctors and husband | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed resuscitation efforts while clinically dead | 1.00 | Doctors, nurses, anesthesiologist | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||
| 3091 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4141 Steven D NDE 7981 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1steven_d_nde.html | 2001 | 2016 | M | Steven, a former lion trainer driving a semi-truck with baby monkeys, experienced his deceased mother appearing in the passenger seat acting nervous and directing him to a hospital. She had committed suicide in 1981. She urgently guided him through town to a hospital away from the freeway, insisting he get to the emergency room. After writing notes about contacts and the monkeys, he walked toward the ER but felt like he was in a tunnel with the doors getting farther away. He felt hands grab his shoulders to keep him walking. He then found himself trying to stand on a dark hillside with loose shale, looking up at three crosses. The man on the center cross had a slash of light illuminating his beaten face, but his eyes conveyed complete love, compassion and caring. Jesus asked him repeatedly "Do you understand?" while showing him rapid successions of his life events with associated emotions. When asked about his idea of heaven, he found himself floating above the planet like in a womb with complete knowledge of everything - answers came before questions were finished. He was told to "seek out Thomas" to know Jesus/God better. He witnessed his friend John arriving at the hospital in his wife's Mercedes (which she never let him drive) with a Thanksgiving dinner plate, getting upset upon learning Steven was comatose, and throwing the plate away. Steven visited many friends' homes during his out-of-body state. He had cardiac arrest, received CPR, was defibrillated 4 times, and remained in a coma for over 17 days. After recovery, his friend confirmed driving the Mercedes to the hospital, shocking both John and his wife when Steven described it. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest, CPR, defibrillated 4 times, coma 17+ days | Saw friend driving wife's Mercedes which she never allowed, saw him throw away dinner plate - both confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw friend John driving wife's Mercedes | 1.00 | John and his wife | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3092 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4086 Steven L NDE 7890 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1steven_l_nde.html | 2000 | 2016 | M | Steven was in a severe car accident where another driver hit him at 65-75 mph, wrapping his car around a telephone pole. A mysterious young man in blue coveralls appeared, pulled the locked lap belt away from Steven's body (which was cutting into him), cut it with a knife and removed it - this should have been impossible with a locked belt. After being extracted with jaws of life, Steven left his body in the ambulance and saw the entire accident scene from above, including the other driver being treated for road rash from his airbag. He was then transported at "warp speed" into the light where he entered a room with no dimensions but a 360-degree movie screen showing his entire life review. Light beings approached him, with one asking him four times "Who are you?" As he watched himself hurting others in his life review, their faces morphed into his own, showing him he was hurting himself. Initially angry about dying, he finally answered "I don't know who I am" to which the being replied "You are love. That's all you are. You are nothing more than love." His anger completely washed away and though he wanted to stay, he was told he had a mission only he could do - to share his story and tell everyone they are love too. He returned feeling cold metal on his back as they stapled his scalp. He spent 8 hours in trauma but felt he spent 2.5 hours in the light. In 2011 during meditation, he heard a voice saying "Hello. It is time. Your mission is now" and he remembered everything, beginning to share his experience. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Life-threatening car accident with severe trauma requiring jaws of life extraction | Mysterious helper did impossible action with locked seatbelt, saw accident scene from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw accident scene from above ambulance | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3093 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4084 Susan M NDE 7887 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1susan_m_nde.html | 2013 | 2013-05-19 | 2016 | F | Susan arrived for a CT scan for stomach problems and when injected with contrast dye, began sneezing uncontrollably. Unable to breathe or speak, she passed out and the nurse called a code blue. By the time the team arrived she was clinically dead. From an out-of-body perspective, she observed what she initially thought was another person lying next to her, not realizing it was her own body. She felt very calm and watched as the code blue team struggled to revive her body with intubation, chest compressions, team rotations, and catheterization. She observed everything in detail during the 45 minutes before her heart began beating on its own, at which point she was pulled back into her body. When she later related her observations to the code blue team members, they verified that everything she saw had really happened exactly as she described. The experience left her more open to believing in God than before (she was agnostic), knowing there is something after death that is very peaceful, feeling closer to people with tremendously more empathy, and developing new empathic abilities. She went from believing life was not meaningful to finding it meaningful and significant. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Anaphylaxis from contrast dye causing clinical death for 45 minutes with code blue response | Detailed observations of intubation, chest compressions, team rotations, catheterization - all verified by code blue team | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Code blue team members | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw complete resuscitation process | 1.00 | Code blue team members | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||
| 3094 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4164 Tomasz M NDE 8001 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1tomasz_m_nde.html | 2016 | 2016 | M | Tomasz was found unconscious by his sister with saliva blocking his esophagus and lungs, unable to be awakened. He remained comatose for 3-4 days in the hospital, possibly due to an ophthalmic migraine causing lung hypoxia. During this time, he experienced being in a wonderful, extremely bright white light that was everywhere yet not dazzling. The light was described as "good" and full of love and happiness. There was no sense of time or dimension in this realm. He felt everything needed for happiness existed there - no pain, no depression, just emotional wellbeing and awe. The experience felt completely natural, like he belonged there. When he returned to his body, he experienced intense disappointment and pain. Every heartbeat hurt, his brain ached with ophthalmic migraine, and everything felt small and limited compared to where he had been. Initially upon waking, he told the nurse she could ask him anything as he had complete knowledge, but it faded quickly like a dream. The experience transformed his life dramatically - he stopped smoking cigarettes completely despite being a heavy smoker, his depression lifted significantly, he became more forgiving and accepting of others, his prayer life changed to asking not to suffer rather than for protection, and he no longer fears death knowing the happiness that awaits. He emphasizes this was absolutely not a dream but a real experience of being "there." | 4 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Found unconscious with breathing obstruction, comatose 3-4 days, life-threatening hypoxia | No specific veridical observations, only subjective experience of light realm | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3095 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4171 Tracy R NDE 8031 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1tracy_r_nde.html | 2004 | 2016 | M | Tracy, severely depressed, attempted suicide by drug overdose after saying the Lord's Prayer. He experienced complete blackness that gradually filled with bright white light from the edges. Initially silent, he then heard someone calling his name, growing louder. The light expanded and he could make out three figures with arms stretched out as if to embrace him, floating closer. They had no faces, hands, or feet. He reached out but never made contact before waking in the emergency room, where paramedics and doctors had performed CPR on him twice that day. The experience seemed to be happening at normal speed with time having no meaning. The darkness followed by light appeared tunnel-like with rounded edges at the top that grew larger. He felt calm then confused once realizing it wasn't normal, but remained at peace throughout. Growing up Southern Baptist but having become atheist, the experience made him more open-minded about the afterlife though he still questions religion. His uncle had previously mentioned having an NDE with similar elements. The experience left him knowing it definitely happened, taking things more seriously, unable to relate to people who aren't real and compassionate, and thinking about it daily while keeping quiet due to fear of ridicule. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Drug overdose causing clinical death requiring CPR twice | General experience of darkness, light, and beings but no specific verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3096 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4213 Tricia B NDE 8086 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1tricia_b_nde.html | 1994 | 2016 | 22 | F | Tricia had a head-on collision en route to a 10K run, breaking her back in multiple places with internal injuries. During surgery after 17 hours without painkillers, she popped out of her body feeling excited and electrified, her spirit dancing with joy at discovering existence beyond the physical. From a 360-degree vantage point, she observed the surgery appearing brutal and bloody. Two large angels, approximately 8-9 feet tall with shoulder-length hair and composed more of light than solid form, appeared and beamed light into her spirit body allowing instant information transfer. They told her to "Watch this!" and sent healing light through the doctors' backs, through their hands, into her body, demonstrating they could work through her in the future. When her heart stopped, she sped through hospital walls and saw her stepdad at a vending machine getting a Snickers bar, which was later verified. She experienced oneness with everyone she'd known, spent time with her deceased grandfather who drove her toward the light in his blue Chevy truck through intensely green grass, then found herself near overwhelming love and light she still misses. She heard prayers as wind, especially from a great-aunt who had lost a daughter begging God not to let Tricia's mother suffer the same loss. The main message was that love is all that matters - every interaction, prayer, sermon, or religion is meaningless without love. She was shown her future teaching campus and told to become a teacher. After teaching English for 20 years, she was recently told her mission was complete. The experience transformed her from shy and introverted to extroverted, optimistic, intuitive, and deeply connected to others with premonition abilities. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Died on operating table during back surgery, bled to death with multiple organ failures | Saw stepdad at vending machine with Snickers - verified; angels working through surgeons | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Featured on A&E Bio channel | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw stepdad at vending machine | 1.00 | Stepdad | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||
| 3097 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4121 Jolie B NDE 7953 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jolie_b_nde.html | 2014 | 2016 | F | Jolie had just ended an abusive relationship and was deeply depressed. Feeling hopeless and ashamed, she impulsively decided to end her life by taking a bottle of mood stabilizer pills while driving. She veered off the road and called her father in panic. Everything went black, and she realized she was dead but felt completely calm. Through the darkness appeared a brilliant light that filled her with hope and joy. She believed it was God comforting her, letting her know she wasn't alone and it wasn't her time to die. She awakened in an ambulance, learning that two men had found her unconscious by the roadside and saved her life. The doctor said she was lucky to wake up given the amount of pills she had taken. She now devotes her life to God, believing He gave her a second chance. | 5 | Other | 3 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Suicide attempt with overdose, life-threatening event confirmed | Experienced bright light and divine presence, sense of being told it wasn't her time | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw bright light through darkness | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3098 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4102 Jonathan J NDE 7918 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jonathan_j_nde.html | 1979 | 2016 | 9 | M |
Nine-year-old Jonathan was riding his bike down a hill when he hit a mulch pile at full speed, launching himself much higher than expected. His jaw hit the pavement in slow motion, and he lost consciousness. He found himself in an unearthly realm filled with brilliant yellow light and many beings frantically flying about. The beings were making loud singing or chorus-like sounds and seemed urgently busy with something important, not focused on him. He felt stuck and unable to move, desperately trying to communicate telepathically that he needed help getting back to his body. After some time, one being (seeming female) came to help raise him up. He experienced seeing gaseous nebulae-like formations in intense yellow colors, with beings moving as points of light. They appeared to be helping humanity or working on something of great importance with urgency but without fear. When the being helped him, he was raised back up rather than put into his body. Upon returning to consciousness, he was on the pavement surrounded by concerned friends. He had chipped his front teeth which later died and required extensive dental work. The experience left him confused rather than transformed initially, but years later he recognized it as a near-death experience. |
5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Direct head injury from bicycle accident, loss of consciousness | Vivid otherworldly realm with beings, unusual yellow light, telepathic communication | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw unearthly yellow realm | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3099 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4150 Juana dB NDE 7999 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1juana_db_nde.html | 1984 | 2016 | F |
During a caesarean section under general anesthesia for her first child, Juana experienced complications with her breathing tube. She suddenly found herself in a place filled with indescribable light where everything made complete sense. She realized all her earthly life had been lived to reach this place - she was finally home. The light was beyond description, brilliant without shadows, as everything was made of light itself. She felt complete happiness, love, and understanding. Time didn't exist in this dimension; there was only knowing, being, loving, and felicity. Other beings of light were present, all loving her, with one special being closest to her who smiled and seemed to be there specifically for her, possibly wearing a tunic. She understood everything was connected and ONE. Then she was pulled back to the surgery room where staff were slapping her face. She felt profound sadness returning to this dark place full of shadows, despite all the operating room lights. The doctors explained her windpipe had contracted around the breathing tube and she had been without oxygen for "some time." The experience permanently strengthened her faith, giving her absolute knowledge that God exists and that death is simply returning home. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | C-section under general anesthesia with breathing complications, prolonged oxygen deprivation | Vivid light realm, beings present, sense of universal understanding, timelessness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Realm of pure light without shadows | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3100 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4244 Karen M NDE 8141 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1karen_m_nde_8141.html | 1974 | 2016 | 14 | F |
Karen's appendix had ruptured weeks before proper diagnosis, causing gangrene. During emergency surgery, she bled out and her heart stopped on the operating table. After going under anesthesia, she came out of her body, floating toward the ceiling and operating room lights. She looked down at her body surrounded by medical staff but felt no attachment, only mild curiosity. She felt free of all pain and ready to leave. She floated out of the hospital, seeing the city below, then Earth growing smaller. She experienced complete connection to everyone and everything, understanding how all are part of each other and God. She stopped in a cloud, becoming smaller until she was like a water particle then an atom, seeing the beauty of existence at the tiniest level. She became pure energy and love while remaining herself. Entering the light, she existed there perhaps forever as time ceased. Three golden light beings appeared, calling her their beloved daughter, offering her the choice to stay in the light or return as Margaret. They said her lessons weren't complete and she was needed to learn and teach about love. She reluctantly chose to return out of love and responsibility. After the experience, she found herself able to counsel her mother's addiction clients with unusual wisdom despite being only fourteen. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 7 | Cardiac arrest during surgery for ruptured appendix with gangrene, heart stopped on operating table | Detailed OBE over hospital and Earth, encountered three beings, complete universal connection, atomic-level perception | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw operating room from above | 1.00 | Medical staff | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 3101 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4136 Karen R NDE 23117 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1karen_r_nde_23117.html | 1962 | 1962-03-17 | 2016 | 19 | F |
During the birth of her third child, Karen experienced complications and was clinically dead for three minutes. She came out of her body and watched the doctors becoming very upset, with one saying "We are losing her" and another dropping something. She rose up through the bright surgical lights to the windows and found herself laughing, able to see everywhere despite having no head. She felt no pain or hunger, experiencing complete freedom. In the distance, she saw a figure approaching surrounded by lights - she knew it was Jesus Christ though she couldn't see his face. He held out his arms to her, but she told him "Please not now, I must stay with my children. There is no one else to care for them." His arms went down and she moved back to her body. A young doctor was by her side with tears in his eyes, asking if she remembered what she saw. She told him about the experience. This doctor later became head of the hospital. The experience was particularly significant as she wasn't religious and had only attended church a couple times as a child. She later developed precognitive abilities, including warning her daughter about a flood that occurred exactly as foreseen. The experience transformed her faith and eliminated her fear of death. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Childbirth complications, clinically dead for 3 minutes per doctors | Observed doctors' reactions and dropped object, encountered Jesus with specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard doctor's statement | 1.00 | Young doctor | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||
| 3102 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4261 Kari W NDE 8163 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kari_w_nde.html | 1976 | 2016 | F |
At a church friend's pool party, Kari was repeatedly dunked by boys who pushed her underwater before she could catch her breath. After being dunked three times and becoming panicked, she tried to swim away underwater. Suddenly, she realized she could breathe underwater, feeling astonished and relieved that no one had told her this was possible. She felt excited and giddy, completely at peace with no fear of drowning. She began swimming toward a warm, glowing bright white light that seemed to beckon her. Her next memory was sitting on a picnic table bench with friends around her. One boy said he had seen her under the pool steps and pulled her out. She had no memory of being pulled from the pool and experienced a gap in time. The experience left her with no fear of death and absolute confidence in the afterlife. She didn't speak about it for nearly 40 years, not wanting anyone to get in trouble or for people to think she was crazy. The memory remained crystal clear over the decades, and learning about NDEs helped her understand what had happened. |
5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Near-drowning at pool party, unconscious underwater | Experienced breathing underwater, saw beckoning light, missing time/memory gap | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Could breathe underwater | 0.00 | Boy at party | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3103 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4105 Kasia B NDE 7923 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kasia_b_nde.html | 1953 | 2016 | 5 | F |
Five-year-old Kasia was at the movies with her family when she began choking on a Life Saver candy. Her father frantically carried her upside down up the aisle, trying to dislodge the candy. At the water fountain in the lobby, she couldn't drink despite her father's desperate attempts to help. She then found herself standing about 25 feet away from the scene, watching her father shaking her body while her mother screamed and her sister stood confused. She felt great wonder and confusion, thinking "What are they doing and why am I over there and here too?" Despite being a nervous child, she felt completely calm and unafraid. Behind her was darkness with two shadowy figures that weren't threatening. She woke up in the emergency room under a large silver light fixture. The experience helped her throughout life as family members passed away - she would stay with dying relatives to help them transition, telling them not to be afraid because there is something afterward. The clarity of the memory persisted throughout her life, and she believes she helps ease others' passing. Though young, the experience left her with lasting peace about death and the ability to comfort others facing mortality. |
2 | Other | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Choking to death on candy, clinical death stated, resuscitated in ER | Detailed OBE watching family from 25 feet away, saw shadowy figures, complete calm | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Watched family from distance | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3104 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4248 Kathryn Y NDE 8147 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kathryn_y_nde.html | 2014 | 2014-03-01 | 2016 | F |
Kathryn has a rare congenital arrhythmia (Long QT Syndrome Type 2) with an implanted defibrillator. On March 1, 2014, while sleeping, her heart went into V-Tach and she experienced sudden cardiac arrest for over two minutes. Her device delivered three shocks (65, 75, and 90 joules) before her heart returned to normal rhythm. She awoke knowing something profound had happened. She experienced being in a different place with encompassing blackness filled with electrifying colors of light. She became part of the Divine Higher Consciousness Energy, experiencing intense joy and complete unconditional love. The conversation was knowledge untranslatable by words. She didn't see God's face or blinding white light, but experienced blackness with brilliant colored lights like gaseous nebulae. She felt raised up rather than put into her body when returning. The device data confirmed the cardiac arrest lasting over two minutes with three shocks required for resuscitation. Since the NDE, she struggles with feeling she doesn't fit in anywhere and values alone time for replenishment. She has overcome dysfunction and trauma, dedicating herself to self-love and helping others connect to their intuitive wisdom. She teaches people through her work in creating order and runs an empathy-driven business focused on helping people feel, express, and connect to divine energy. |
1 | Home | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest lasting 2+ minutes, required three ICD shocks, device data available | Experienced divine consciousness, blackness with colored lights, unconditional love, timelessness | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ICD device data | Physician | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 1 | Blackness with colored lights | 0.00 | Physician | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||
| 3105 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4114 Uran P NDE 7902 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1uran_p_nde.html | 1996 | 2016 | M |
Uran was returning from a party as a passenger when their car crashed around 4 AM. He was sleeping behind the driver and does not remember the crash itself. He woke up at 7 PM that day in the hospital. During his unconscious period, Uran experienced profound peace surrounded by darkness. He saw his body somehow in that darkness, then felt a powerful and rapid plunge through what seemed like overcast clouds. He suddenly found himself surrounded by a non-blinding yellowish light that made him feel uncomfortable in an indescribable way. He passed through what felt like a tunnel during this journey. When he opened his eyes, he realized he was in a hospital, naked under a sheet with an IV in his arm. A nurse brought him pajamas and took him to a hospital room. Uran reported normal consciousness throughout the experience, with no distortion of time perception. He felt separated from his body and clearly existed outside it. The experience was neither particularly pleasant nor distressing, but left him with a moderate fear of death afterward and a belief that an afterlife definitely exists. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Car accident with direct head injury, unconscious for approximately 15 hours | Basic OBE with tunnel and light but no specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3106 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4229 Valéria ABP NDE 8097 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1valeria_abp_nde.html | 1991 | 2016 | F |
Valéria was a passenger in a car driven by her boyfriend on a rainy night returning from the beach to São Paulo. The last thing she remembers is taking her bag to get a comb. She woke briefly hearing people outside shouting to remove her bag. Her feet were broken and trapped, with her boyfriend's body pressing down on her. She heard a voice saying "Oh, I'm dying" and felt total peace, wanting her family to know she was going in peace. She experienced sliding into a radiant tunnel of white light, not exactly cylindrical but with a spotlight projection. She became pure consciousness, integrating with a greater awareness - a return to life in its pure state. She felt deep peace, beauty, and lightness, breathing the light itself. She experienced a fusion with the cosmos, understanding that with physical death we return to the light which is our origin. Images of her family members appeared during a life review. Initially thinking she had died when waking in the hospital, she saw her foot hanging and a doctor repositioning it, causing her to scream and pass out. She woke hours later with clear memories despite her injuries including pneumothorax. The experience profoundly changed her spiritual life. She became interested in various religious traditions, developed psychic abilities including ESP and mediumship, and now works in palliative care helping dying patients and their families, drawing on her lack of fear of death. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening car accident with pneumothorax and multiple fractures | Heard people outside car giving instructions while unconscious, awareness of boyfriend's condition | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard people outside car giving instructions | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3107 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4249 Vincent H NDE 8148 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1vincent_h_nde.html | 1999 | 2016 | M |
Vincent underwent mitral valve reconstruction surgery on October 3, 1999, being the first European patient for this new technique. The operation was observed by surgeons from across Europe. During clinical death, Vincent had an extensive NDE beginning with observing his body from above and the medical team working on him. He could see through walls and perceive thoughts of those present. He was drawn through an energetic blue tunnel with swirling walls at dizzying speed, accompanied by harmonious sounds. Emerging into light composed of luminescent colors, he felt immense love and entered an otherworldly realm with magnificent landscapes of impossible geometry. A luminous female presence guided him to rest under a majestic tree where he received universal knowledge. He visited lower spiritual realms witnessing souls trapped by wickedness, and higher realms of divine light. Vincent met a friend who had died 35 years earlier and encountered highly luminous beings he felt were religious figures. He gained understanding about reincarnation, spiritual evolution, universe structure, and humanity's future including specific world events. The experience included visions of both heavenly and hellish realms, with detailed cosmological teachings about vibratory states and soul progression. Post-NDE, Vincent developed clairvoyance, clairaudience, precognition, and devoted himself to helping dying patients. He wrote two books detailing his extensive experience and the spiritual knowledge received. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death during cardiac surgery with full monitoring, experimental procedure observed by multiple surgeons | Saw surgery from above, perceived thoughts, saw through walls, extensive otherworldly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 0 | Observed surgery from above | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3108 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4139 Violette S NDE 7979 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1violette_s_nde.html | 1976 | 2016 | F |
In August 1976, recently divorced, Violette had left her four-year-old daughter with her parents and was driving to visit a friend. While making a left turn at the town entrance, she was struck by a white car she hadn't seen coming down a sharp descent. The impact spun her car 180 degrees into a wall. Without a seatbelt, she collided with the steering wheel hitting her stomach and chin. When a Red Cross doctor arrived and checked her with a stethoscope, she heard him say "She's done, I don't feel anything." During her clinical death, Violette saw herself and the people around her while already "gone." She experienced floating and entering a lighted tunnel, feeling no weight and being irresistibly drawn forward. A voice told her "No we cannot keep you. You have to experience terrible and painful moments. You have to get back down. We can't do anything for you." Despite her protests and desire to stay, she was sent back with powerful impact between her eyes at the third eye chakra point. She then heard the doctor say "She's coming back" and felt all her fractures and pain. The experience left her certain of life after death. She was told she had experienced difficult times as predicted by the voice. Following the NDE, Violette developed psychic abilities including premonitory dreams and the ability to perceive hidden things, diseases, deaths, and future joy or success. She later had a visitation from her deceased father who appeared to comfort her about her life choices. |
2 | Other | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clinical death confirmed by Red Cross doctor who detected no vital signs | Heard doctor say "She's done" while clinically dead, then "She's coming back" upon return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard doctor pronounce her dead | 0.00 | Red Cross doctor | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 3109 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4209 Kohn A NDE 8078 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kohn_a_nde.html | 2016 | April 26th 2016 | 2016 | M | Kohn attempted suicide after his girlfriend died of an overdose, taking a bottle of over-the-counter drugs. Discovered by employers who called 911, he lost consciousness and was taken to the ICU. During treatment, he became extremely agitated requiring multiple staff to control him. Given medication to calm him, his heart stopped immediately for about 2 minutes. During this clinical death, he found himself in the same room but darker, with time stopped at 9:10pm. He observed a man pacing in the hallway who he felt strong resentment toward, feeling the sliding door represented a boundary. Pictures flashed before him showing himself as a happy person with incomplete tasks, and he felt the presence of a wise Holy Spirit he believed was God. He chose to return to life after seeing these visions of his future purpose. Upon waking the next morning, he felt transformed with no fear of death and a commitment to helping others. Medical records confirmed he had been on life support that night. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Clear cardiac arrest documented, heart stopped for 2 minutes after medication | Observed medical team during resuscitation, specific time on clock (9:10pm), boundary awareness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw medical team performing CPR | 1.00 | Nurse | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 3110 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4095 Kylie A NDE 7910 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kylie_a_nde.html | 2002 | 16/2/2002 | 2016 | F | During cesarean childbirth, Kylie received too much spinal anesthesia that went too high, causing breathing difficulties. After losing consciousness in the operating room, she found herself walking with a female figure she initially thought was a nurse through a long white corridor. The woman said she would take her to another place and assured her not to be scared. At the end of the corridor through a door, she encountered her deceased maternal and paternal grandfathers, plus her great-grandfather whom she had never met. Her life flashed before her eyes, showing forgotten childhood memories. A Being at a gate asked if she wanted to enter, warning her about her new baby who needed her. When she insisted on entering, saying her husband would be a good father, the Being asked if she wanted to see her girls. She saw two dark-haired daughters in summer dresses on a swing set from behind. Her desire to see their faces resulted in her return to her body. Subsequently, she had two daughters with dark hair, the second born 18 months after the first, confirming the vision she received during her NDE. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 16 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Surgery with spinal anesthesia that went too high causing life-threatening situation | Saw future daughters - two dark-haired girls, which was later verified when she had two daughters with dark hair | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw deceased relatives including never-met great-grandfather | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3111 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4118 Larisa NDE 7940 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1larisa_nde.html | 1997 | 22.07.1997 | 2016 | F | During general anesthesia for a cesarean section, Larisa's heart stopped. After blacking out, she suddenly awoke in a rotating tunnel with metallic clanking sounds. The tunnel walls were light gray or pearl colored, divided into sections by darker round ribs. At the tunnel's end was a round exit with brighter white light visible beyond. She remained stationary while geometrical figures, mostly spheres, passed around her going into the distance. Unable to remember who or what she was initially, she had no awareness of having a body. Her thoughts became rapid and crystal-clear, feeling as if she knew everything and could receive answers to any questions. She felt she understood how life was arranged in the same fascinating way as this realm. Then she heard two voices - one asking "Well, is that enough?" and another objecting "But she's thrashing about." With tremendous speed, she was pulled back into her body and woke up. For about two weeks afterward, she perceived the real world as if through a dusty window with a persistent feeling that physical reality wasn't real. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death with heart stopping during cesarean section surgery | Heard medical staff voices discussing her physical thrashing while out of body | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard voices discussing her physical condition | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3112 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4215 Laura B NDE 8090 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1laura_b_nde_8090.html | 2016 | August 9, 2016 | 2016 | F | Laura underwent minor surgery under general anesthesia when her larynx began to spasm after intubation, causing acute hypoxia. She arrived at the emergency room with oxygen saturation of 80 and blood pressure of 50/40, where her heart stopped briefly. During this clinical death, she experienced looking down at herself watching the resuscitation efforts. She felt warm, happy, and safe during the experience. A deceased person she was very close to appeared with her, looking at her lovingly. She wanted to stay with him and resisted being pulled back toward her body. Each time she resisted, he looked upset and told her not to resist while continuing to smile. The pull eventually became irresistible and she returned to her body. She awoke later in the ICU with no memory of being intubated or on life support, but retained vivid memories of the out-of-body experience. She later confirmed that doctors had indeed worked on her during the code. The experience left her with clear vision during the NDE despite normally having poor vision, and extremely acute hearing during the event. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Heart stopped briefly in emergency room with documented vitals (O2 sat 80, BP 50/40) | Observed doctors working on her during resuscitation, vision clarity despite poor normal vision | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw doctors working on her during resuscitation | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3113 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4258 Laurent C NDE 8158 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1laurent_c_nde.html | 2008 | 28 février 2008 | 2016 | M | Laurent was in a motorcycle accident in Paris where a car hit his stomach, fracturing his liver, spleen, and solar plexus. He suffered for three hours before getting an x-ray. When a nurse insisted he stand for the lung x-ray despite his exhaustion, he tried to comply but collapsed. In that moment, he found himself far away in a white, luminous, infinite, and peaceful immensity, floating and serene with a sense of omniscience. He had never felt as happy as during that experience. The sensation included having infinite knowledge - philosophical, scientific, and wisdom. He felt he understood everything about how life and the universe were arranged. An unknown duration later, he returned when an elderly nurse was slapping him awake with deep concern on her face. Upon return, his breathing normalized, trembling stopped, and the shock symptoms disappeared. The experience left him with lasting serenity and enhanced intuitive abilities. Since then, he senses things that didn't manifest before - sensations, intuitions, and an inner voice. He also feels the permanent presence of three deceased loved ones near him and has developed a conviction about the existence of an afterlife dimension. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe internal injuries to liver, spleen, solar plexus from accident | General transcendent experience without specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3114 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4286 A NDE 8204 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1a_nde.html | 2002 | 2017 | M | The experiencer was in a severe motorcycle accident with traumatic brain injury, broken ribs, back and pelvis injuries. He had no memory of the accident itself. During his unconscious state, he saw a glowing figure that he initially thought was himself. His primary concern was for his wife's wellbeing, thinking that if she died, he had no reason to stay. He heard a reassuring voice, which he believed was his wife's deceased mother, telling him "Honey, she is going to be alright let them take care of you." This reassurance made him happy and willing to accept care. He became conscious four weeks later and immediately shared with his wife that her mother had spoken to him. The experience has stayed vividly with him for fifteen years, though he sometimes questions its reality. The veridical element was hearing the voice of his wife's deceased mother providing reassurance about his wife's condition. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe trauma from motorcycle accident with traumatic brain injury | Heard voice identified as deceased mother-in-law but no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard voice of deceased mother-in-law | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 3 | ||||||||||
| 3115 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4379 Aaron M NDE 8350 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1aaron_m_nde.html | 2015 | 2017 | M | After hours of illness with confusion and disorientation, Aaron experienced severe stabbing chest pains and was led to bed. He saw a swirling portal with deep blue colors and crystals that grew until he was inside it, traveling through endless space filled with shooting star-like colors, planets, and galaxies. He crossed into a creamy white realm beyond the universe where time ceased to exist and he gained universal knowledge. He then fell into a dark void where he encountered a massive bull made of fire who gestured for him to follow. A voice said "Don't follow him" and he was lifted back to the white realm where thousands of voices explained he was energy returning home. They showed him his brain's workings, past lives as insects, and taught that the universe creates itself to learn through observation. Despite being told to let go and merge with the energy, he insisted on returning to his human life. He encountered a recently deceased woman he knew who confirmed the teachings. He jolted awake coughing up vomit. The experience profoundly changed his worldview from atheist to spiritual. | 5 | Other | 3 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Drug-related incident with severe chest pain suggesting life-threatening event | Encountered recently deceased person known to him, gained knowledge about universe | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 5 | 1 | Saw portal and traveled through universe | 0.00 | Friend | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3116 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4356 Adrian W NDEs 8316 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1adrian_w_nde.html | 1982 | 2017 | M |
Adrian experienced two NDEs. The first occurred at age 13 when he attempted suicide by hanging in 1965. During this experience, he felt himself floating out of his body in darkness. He heard a beautiful, loving voice calling his name. The voice showed him a vision of his own funeral with his parents and deceased grandmother mourning. When asked if this was what he wanted, he chose to return. His second NDE occurred in May 1982 when he was shot during a confrontation. After emergency surgery, he found himself walking in a beautiful landscape with a river to his left and desert to his right. He saw an incredible forest across the river and wanted to cross. A voice warned him not to drink from or enter the river. He eventually encountered a group of people listening to someone speaking. When the speaker turned around, Adrian recognized him as the source of the voice from both experiences. The being told him it wasn't his time, that his son wasn't born yet, and there were many things to do. Both experiences featured the same loving voice/being guiding him. In the first, he saw his deceased grandmother at his funeral vision. In the second, he experienced heightened consciousness and could differentiate individual leaves on trees half a mile away. The being explained how to return to his body slowly to minimize pain. After these experiences, Adrian developed psychic abilities including prophetic dreams that often came true, including deaths of family members. He changed from atheist to believer, attending both Catholic and Baptist churches. The experiences gave him peace and eliminated his fear of death. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Two separate life-threatening events: suicide attempt and gunshot wound requiring emergency surgery | Saw deceased grandmother, encountered consistent being across both NDEs, developed verifiable psychic abilities | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw funeral scene with deceased grandmother present | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3117 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4386 Alejandra S NDE 8357 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1alejandra_s_nde.html | 2000 | 2017 | F |
Alejandra was hospitalized at 34 weeks pregnant with preclampsia. On the third day, she became critically ill and required an emergency C-section. During the ultrasound preparation, she began seeing an intense, brilliant light and called out about it. The doctor asked her to open her eyes, but she had already begun passing through the light. In the light, Alejandra experienced extreme happiness unlike anything she had felt before, along with unmatched peace and a feeling of universal love. She remained in this state for approximately 45 minutes while the medical team delivered her baby and sutured her with minimal anesthesia. She felt no awareness of her physical body during this time, only the overwhelming positive emotions and the brilliant light. The experience was purely one of emotion and light without seeing specific beings or locations, though she felt completely trusting and at peace knowing she had to go into this light. When she returned to consciousness, her daughter had been delivered and she was being sutured. The medical team called her experience a "loss of consciousness." Later, she learned from her ex-husband that the doctor had indeed been calling her name and asking her to open her eyes when she first mentioned the light. A year later, a remarkable validation occurred. A patient's daughter called to inform Alejandra that her father had died. When Alejandra shared her NDE to comfort the daughter, the woman began crying and revealed that her deceased father had appeared in her dreams saying "Talk to Alejandra who has something to tell you." This provided unexpected corroboration of the experience's spiritual significance. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Preclampsia requiring emergency C-section, life-threatening pregnancy complication | Doctor confirmed calling her name, remarkable post-death dream validation from patient | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard doctor calling her name during experience | 1.00 | Ex-husband | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3118 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4455 Alicia M NDE 8469 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1alicia_m_nde.html | 1999 | 2017 | F |
Alicia underwent surgery for a tumor located between the vaginal mesh and intestines. The tumor appeared suddenly and was thought to be encapsulated, but the surgeon discovered it had branched around lower organs and was eating into the uterine wall. During the complex surgery to remove the branches, Alicia suddenly died. The medical team resuscitated her for 7 minutes. During her death, Alicia found herself in a place devoid of light but paradoxically full of love and peace. She was accompanied by invisible Beings whose presence she could sense. She felt something fantastic was happening. One Being with a masculine, sweet, and loving voice spoke to her mind, telling her that her earthly life had ended. Because she had lived her life well, they were giving her a choice to stay with them or return. When memories of her three daughters came to mind, she said she wanted to return as they needed her. The Being responded "Well! We are going to explain to you how to do it." She experienced her energy body as liquid, draining toward and penetrating her physical body through her head. The Beings continued communicating telepathically, showing her how to enter slowly to minimize pain. They later told her they couldn't give her a new body as time was short, but she should re-energize the same body. Upon awakening in recovery, doctors were shocked and immediately tested her cognitive function. She initially didn't recognize her husband, seeing him as her brother, though she recognized her daughters and mother. After returning home, she struggled with the fading of the peaceful feelings and made major life changes including divorce, moving, studying Reiki, and eventually becoming a Reiki master. She learned to channel and connect with the Beings who had received her when she died. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death for 7 minutes during surgery, successful resuscitation | Specific dialogue with beings, given choice to return, detailed return process described | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/17/2025 | 2 | 0 | Given choice to return or stay | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3119 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4322 Amy C NDE 8259 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1amy_c_nde_8259.html | 2016 | 2017 | F |
Amy experienced a severe asthma attack that didn't respond to breathing treatments. When the ambulance arrived, her oxygen levels were critically low at 23%. In the ambulance, she was strapped down and struggling to breathe. The technician told her to relax. After one more gasp, she laid back and stopped breathing completely, experiencing first respiratory arrest, then full cardiac arrest. She was air-flighted to another hospital. During her cardiac arrest, Amy found herself in a vanilla-pink colored, misty tunnel that was slowly swirling around her. She could hear the prayers of many people - some she knew like her youngest son, many she didn't know. These prayers appeared as silver audio play-button files that she could reach out and touch to hear individually, while also hearing them collectively. The experience filled her with an overwhelming feeling of love and caring. After passing through the tunnel, she entered a wooden-paneled waiting room with a small two-foot square window through which an indescribably bright white light was shining. Three bright-light spirits resembling the brightest starlight accompanied her in the waiting room. They appeared as four-pointed stars of brilliant white light that didn't hurt her eyes. She understood she wasn't staying and would be returned, with the three spirits keeping her company until then. She felt extreme calm and wanted to go with the spirits into the light. She could verify specific prayers that people had said during her unconsciousness. Amy awoke about twelve hours later in an icy hospital bed with a tube in her throat and bandaged hands. When she returned to consciousness, she was able to recount specific prayers that had been said for her. Her family confirmed that prayer requests had gone out over the Internet, radio, and phone lines, with many strangers praying for her. She drew pictures of the star-like spirits immediately upon awakening. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Respiratory then cardiac arrest, oxygen at 23%, air-flighted to hospital | Heard specific prayers verified later, saw spirits, detailed tunnel and waiting room | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/17/2025 | 3 | 1 | Heard multiple people praying | 1.00 | Son and boyfriend | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3120 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4305 Angela G NDE 8232 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1angela_g_nde.html | 2016 | 2017 | F |
Angela became dizzy while in a hot tub with five other women and got out to reach for her pants. While standing up, she went into what she described as a dream state. Her friends later reported that she was unresponsive, they couldn't feel her pulse, and her eyes remained open the entire time. During her experience, Angela found herself in the presence of a beautiful woman who made her feel happy. They were moving forward together through a landscape with a solid blue sky and green trees, though she couldn't see the tree trunks. They were moving toward what appeared to be the sun - a beautiful, bright, warm light. Music played in the background like from a speaker, specifically the song "Let's Hear It for the Boys." She and the woman were happy and laughing together. The entire scene felt peaceful and joyful. From behind, Angela heard her best friend Shelly calling her name. She turned and asked the woman, "Why is Shelly looking for me?" The woman turned toward her and smiled. This seemed to trigger her return. She then heard Shelly's voice two more times, each time drawing her back toward her body. Angela woke up wet with throbbing head pain on the floor. The pipe she had apparently hit had broken, explaining her wet state and head injury. Her friends confirmed she had been completely unresponsive with no detectable pulse while her eyes remained open throughout the experience. The woman she encountered during her NDE was later identified as her best friend's aunt, though this connection wasn't immediately apparent. |
5 | Other | 3 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Lost consciousness, no pulse detected, unresponsive state | Specific song heard, identified deceased person, friends confirmed physical state | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard specific song and friend calling | 1.00 | Five women in hot tub | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3121 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4331 Anke E NDE 8276 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1anke_e_nde.html | 2009 | 2017 | F |
In September 2009, Anke's jogging pants caught fire while starting a fireplace. The synthetic clothing quickly became engulfed in flames that climbed upward, eventually reaching her face and igniting her long hair. She couldn't breathe as the fire consumed the oxygen. Remarkably, she felt no fear or pain during this life-threatening moment, only observing it as a "silent observer." When she realized she couldn't control the fire and was going to die, she made a conscious decision to "let go" and accept death. Her 14-year-old son found her, pulled her to the floor, and extinguished the flames with a carpet. She was airlifted to the hospital in a coma. During her coma, Anke separated from her body and observed from a "watcher's perspective" with complete neutrality. She watched her son call for help, the emergency doctors arrive, and the helicopter landing. Her consciousness followed her body to the hospital, observing the emergency room procedures and surgery. In the ICU, a warm, soft voice addressed her, and she encountered a tall, glowing male figure of light who filled the room with his presence. He told her she wasn't dead and offered to show her things. This began an extensive journey where she was taught about consciousness, soul integration, energy fields, and spiritual connections. She learned to consciously reconnect with her physical body. The spiritual teacher showed her multiple realms and gave her experiences of everything she learned. He eventually asked her to tune into her physical body in the hospital, helping her understand it as a vessel for consciousness. She was given a conscious choice to return or leave. She chose to return, consciously flowing back into her body's cells. After eight years, Anke reports that everything in her life has changed. She no longer searches but only finds, feeling an unconditional "YES" to herself and her world. She developed clairvoyance and leads others through hypnosis into spiritual realms. Her body healed faster than doctors expected, and she now helps others access similar spiritual experiences. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Severe burns, couldn't breathe, coma, helicopter evacuation | Extensive spiritual teachings, observed medical procedures, conscious return to body | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed medical procedures from outside body | 0.00 | Incompatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3122 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4421 Barbara D NDE 8419 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1barbara_d_nde.html | 1967 | 2017 | 8 | F |
Barbara experienced drowning at age 8 in 1967 when jumping off a dam into the Russian River. She made too short a jump and was caught in the cascading water, pinned to the river bottom by water pressure. Unable to break free, she held her breath until finally drawing water into her lungs. At that moment, she thought "Dying is so easy, only one breath-span between here and there." Her life flashed before her eyes in rapid sequence like flashcards, showing all moments including inconsequential ones. She was pulled by filaments from the center of her chest forward through a tunnel toward a bright light at extreme speed. She then found herself standing barefoot on river sand at the edge of a great river about two miles wide. Behind her were stabilized dunes with willows and alders. She looked for a sun but found none despite daylight conditions. Across the river she saw an amazing world of mountains, trees, waterfalls, and exotic flowers - "our natural world but on steroids" with overwhelming life, colors, and textures in absolute perfection. She felt pulled back through the wormhole by filaments between her shoulder blades and was resuscitated by teenage boys who had pulled her out. In 1989, Barbara had a shared death experience with her grandmother. While lying with swollen eyes from a chemical reaction, images of her grandmother's life began flowing through her mind. At 11:26 am, she was pulled through the same wormhole to the exact same riverside location. She found her grandmother crumpled on the ground, terrified of the water. A young man appeared - her grandfather as a youth - who helped her grandmother cross. Barbara was pulled back and later learned her grandmother had died at exactly 11:26 am. Barbara became a botanist, wildlife biologist, and wetland ecologist, believing she'll be "a botanist/herbalist in heaven." She describes herself as an empath who can read emotional states and alleviate suffering in others. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Drowning, pinned underwater, water in lungs | Extremely detailed landscape description, verified time of grandmother's death | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw otherworldly landscape in extreme detail | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3123 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4321 Bene P NDE 8254 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bene_p_nde.html | 1998 | 2017 | F |
Bene was staying at her in-laws' home when she went to take a shower in a bathroom with a leaking gas boiler. Her in-laws had previously fainted from the gas leak but hadn't warned her about it. While in the bathroom, she suddenly felt strong pain in her belly, thought it might be her period, then passed out. Her spouse found her lifeless in the shower and attempted resuscitation with his father's help. They performed heart massage and her spouse slapped her face trying to wake her, but she was gone. He was preparing to tell her parents she had died. During her cardiac arrest, Bene opened her eyes in a different place. She was lying on her left side in what resembled a cave with soft, subdued light. She wondered if it might have been a tunnel. She felt no pain, heat, or cold, but was aware of her environment and experienced a strange atmosphere. The place provided a sense of calm and relief, with no fear present. From very far away, she heard a voice calling her first name. The voice got closer and closer while she was simultaneously being forcefully but painlessly sucked back into her body. The suction was primarily at the level of her brain. When she opened her eyes, she saw her spouse slapping her and calling her name, confirming she was back in her body. Since the experience, Bene has no fear of death. She knows there is something after death and feels this knowledge is a gift. Two years after the NDE, she moved, changed her work, and experienced significant life changes. She reports increased compassion toward others and a belief that earthly lives are probably meaningful and significant. |
2 | Home | 10 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Cardiac arrest from gas poisoning, no pulse, required CPR | Heard spouse calling her name which was confirmed, experienced cave/tunnel with light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard spouse calling her name | 1.00 | Spouse and father-in-law | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3124 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4329 Bernard A NDE 8274 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bernard_a_nde.html | 1997 | 2017 | M |
On Thanksgiving night 1997, Bernard was walking to a party when a car pulled up and a masked man got out with a gun. The man held the gun to Bernard's head for about thirty seconds. Bernard told him, "If you're gonna shoot, go ahead. What you waiting for?" He then saw only the fire from the gun barrel and didn't feel his body hit the ground. The attacker continued shooting him while he was down, then ran to the car, looked back, and shot once more before driving off. During the shooting, Bernard found himself back at his house standing on the porch. It was dark and extremely quiet - quieter than he had ever experienced. From across the street, he heard a little girl's voice in his head saying "Daddy let's go home now." He responded "No." She repeated the request two more times, and each time he said "No." After the third exchange, he was suddenly back in his body with the gunman still standing above him shooting. He was able to raise up and look at the attacker as the final shot was fired. Bernard believes divine intervention saved him. The doctors couldn't understand how the bullets curved around his neck, missing his throat, spine, and head. He describes the little girl as having no relationship to him, but her voice seemed to offer him a choice between staying or returning. He felt like he was given the option to go or come back. Since the experience, Bernard reports having psychic abilities, specifically being able to see and hear spirits. He has no fear of death and feels at peace with himself. While he was atheist before and remains atheist, he now acknowledges something gave him a choice and believes an afterlife definitely exists. He considers earthly life less meaningful than before but maintains his compassion toward others. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Shot multiple times, bullets miraculously missed vital areas | Heard specific dialogue from mysterious girl, doctors confirmed unusual bullet paths | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard little girl's voice calling him | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3125 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4324 C NDE 8268 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1c_nde_8268.html | 1982 | 2017 | M |
In Spring 1982, C was camping with his friend Dave and they were hiking along a river. Despite the water being too cold for swimming, when Dave jokingly said "Jump!" while C stood on a huge boulder 20 feet above the water, C jumped. Halfway down, he realized he didn't know the water depth or bottom conditions. He flattened to land on his back, and the cold immediately took his breath away. He was pulled down the river with Dave frantically running along the banks screaming. C got caught in an undertow and was bashed along the bottom, thrown into boulders. He was out of breath with lungs burning, unable to reach the surface. He knew he was drowning and pictured his parents reading headlines about his death. Everything went dark as he got caught under a huge boulder, feeling the slime on its bottom while searching for a way out. His chest was pumping, lungs bursting, feeling darkness and pain throughout his body. Then everything changed. Bright light surrounded him from an unknown source. The tumbling stopped and he could focus straight ahead. Warmth enveloped him with no cold, pain, or need to breathe. He felt safe, warm, and calm - a calm he had never experienced before. He saw figures of people in the bright light but couldn't identify them, feeling familiar with them nonetheless. He knew he was dying but found it pleasant and looked forward to it. He felt love all around him and a connection to God and the figures. C suddenly popped out of the water over a hundred yards downstream. Dave frantically tried to reach him. He was covered in bruises but had no broken bones. The experience eliminated his fear of death, greatly reduced his fear of living, and strengthened his spirituality. He changed from uncertainty about God to definitely believing God exists, and from fearing death greatly to having no death fear. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Caught in undertow, couldn't breathe, trapped under boulder drowning | Saw bright light and figures, felt unprecedented peace and love, connection to God | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw bright light and figures | 0.00 | Dave | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3126 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4327 Caren J NDE 8270 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1caren_j_nde.html | 2014 | 2017 | F |
During a cardiac catheterization procedure under local anesthesia, Caren experienced no complications initially and was scheduled for discharge after a 3-hour observation period. Upon attempting to use the restroom before discharge, she became lightheaded and lost consciousness while being helped back to her room. Her mother witnessed the medical emergency as nurses detected dropping blood pressure and loss of vital signs, prompting a code blue with crash cart deployment. Caren had no vital signs for approximately 30 seconds before recovering. During the experience, everything went black followed by a bright light where she saw Jesus sitting in a green lawn chair. He appeared exactly as she expected with a white robe and glowing light surrounding him. Jesus simply smiled at her without speaking any words, and then she regained consciousness. Upon awakening, she immediately told her mother about seeing Jesus in the green lawn chair, specifically noting it was the type of chair her grandfather used when fishing. Though she did not see her grandfather directly, she intuitively knew Jesus was fishing with him. The veridical aspect centers on her out-of-body observation of Jesus in a specific green lawn chair, which she knew details about despite not directly seeing all elements. She maintained clear awareness of the chair's color and style matching her grandfather's fishing chair. This observation occurred while she had no vital signs according to medical staff. After the experience, Caren felt peace and calmness, gaining validation that Jesus exists and that her deceased grandfather is happy. The experience eliminated her fear of death and provided assurance of an afterlife. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Cardiac arrest with code blue called, crash cart deployed, no vital signs for ~30 seconds | Specific observation of Jesus in green lawn chair, intuitive knowledge of grandfather fishing | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw Jesus sitting in green lawn chair | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3127 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4438 Chris B NDE 8449 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1chris_b_nde_8449.html | 2012 | 2017 | M |
During a suicide attempt, Chris jumped from a moving car and landed head-first on the ground, resulting in clinical death. Upon entering another state of consciousness, he experienced direct communication with God who told him that He and the angels were real, loved humanity, and that angels were a gift from God. Chris received what he described as the greatest hug he had ever experienced from God. After realizing he had separated from his physical body, Chris found himself in mid-air observing two guardian angels on either side of him, each approximately 8 feet 6 inches tall with wings spanning 5 to 6 feet across. The angels communicated telepathically with Chris about the number of people he needed to help on Earth and directed him to look down at his body being attended to by paramedics. This out-of-body observation of emergency responders working on his physical form, complete with ambulance and police car lights, provided veridical confirmation of the scene below. The angels expressed happiness that Chris chose to return to Earth to complete his assigned work. God's final message before Chris returned was to tell everyone that God loves them, emphasizing divine long-suffering and willingness to go to the ends of the earth for human salvation. The primary veridical observation involved seeing his body from above with paramedics attending to him, observing the emergency vehicle lights and first responders at the scene. Chris clearly viewed this from an elevated perspective while separated from his physical body. The detailed description of the angels' appearance and their communication about his earthly mission provided additional observational elements. Following the experience, Chris underwent significant life changes including the development of spiritual gifts such as discernment of spirits, knowledge, wisdom, interpretation, and thought pattern recognition. He lost some friendships but grew closer to the spiritual realm, living each day with purpose to help others as instructed. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Suicide attempt with clinical death, head-first impact from moving vehicle | Out-of-body observation of paramedics and emergency scene from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw body from above with paramedics | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3128 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4391 Chris DA NDE 8369 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1chris_da_nde.html | 2003 | 2017 | M |
Chris lost control of his car on icy roads while traveling approximately 40 mph, causing the vehicle to veer into the oncoming traffic lane around a blind turn. He immediately lost consciousness upon losing control. During his unconscious state, Chris experienced an out-of-body perspective from which he observed his car violently impact the guard rail head-on at an estimated 35-40 mph. The collision was severe enough to snap the rear axle and tear chunks from the stainless alloy front wheels. From his elevated vantage point, he watched his vehicle strike the barrier and then skid back across the highway like an air hockey puck on the icy surface. Following the out-of-body observation of the crash, Chris underwent a life review that occurred at hyperspeed. The review specifically featured memories from his elementary school playground and playing on his grandmother's porch during childhood. He recognized his younger self through the relative size comparison with furniture and the porch banister. After the life review concluded, Chris regained consciousness to find his car on its side in a ditch on the original side of the road, having skidded back across the highway after impact. The veridical observation centered on watching the violent crash sequence from an external perspective while unconscious, including specific details about the head-on guard rail impact, the damage pattern to the vehicle, and the subsequent skidding motion across the icy highway. Chris retained vivid recall of all details immediately following consciousness, even remembering the specific song playing when he awakened. Medical staff later informed him that being unconscious during impact likely saved his life given the crash severity and airbag failure. The experience profoundly transformed Chris's worldview, converting him from religious skepticism to firm belief in God and the afterlife. He developed heightened spiritual sensitivity, experiencing both blissful and challenging spiritual encounters, and learned to channel these experiences into creative art. His fear of death disappeared entirely while paradoxically increasing his apprehension about earthly life. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Life-threatening car accident, unconscious during violent impact at 35-40 mph | OBE observation of crash details from above while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Watched car crash from above | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3129 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4345 Cortney P NDE 8295 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1cortney_p_nde.html | 2014 | 2017 | F |
Cortney experienced a near-death event during a domestic violence incident where her husband strangled her, causing unconsciousness for what he reported as fifteen minutes, though she later mentioned possibly forty-five minutes. This was the second strangulation incident in their violent relationship. Unlike the first terrifying experience, this second event produced an unexplainable transcendent experience. During the period of unconsciousness, Cortney found herself in an enclosed space resembling a room with perfect, glowing light emanating from the wall approximately five inches from the ceiling. In this otherworldly environment, Cortney encountered four tall entities with blonde hair wearing robe-like outfits. She experienced overwhelming feelings of love, protection, and ecstasy - emotions she had never encountered before in her troubled life. The beings communicated messages about saving humanity before it destroys itself and the planet through warfare. They indicated she had important work to do on Earth but would eventually return to this peaceful realm. The experience felt extensive despite the relatively brief unconsciousness period. The primary observations included the specific architectural detail of light placement on the wall five inches from ceiling, the appearance of four distinct beings with blonde hair in robes, and the communication about preventing global destruction. While unconscious from strangulation, she maintained awareness of these environmental and entity details. Her husband confirmed the extended period of unconsciousness, providing external validation of the life-threatening nature of the event. Following the experience, Cortney embarked on a spiritual journey seeking answers about life after death and consciousness. She began experiencing synchronicities and paranormal awareness including UFO sightings and sensing non-human beings. The experience fundamentally altered her worldview from Christian orthodoxy to New Age spirituality, believing organized religion conceals truth for control purposes. She developed a mission to spread awareness about preventing World War III and nuclear destruction. |
5 | Home | 5 | 7 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Strangulation causing 15-45 minutes unconsciousness | Specific room details, four beings with described appearance | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Room with light and four beings | 0.00 | Incompatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3130 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4273 Curtis S NDE 8182 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1curtis_s_nde.html | 1975 | 2017 | 5 | M |
In the summer of 1975, five-year-old Curtis was playing with other children near an irrigation ditch in a Colorado alfalfa field when he fell backwards into the water. The ditch was full and had a metal grate covering a culvert entrance under the street to prevent debris from clogging it. Upon hitting the water, Curtis heard everyone screaming his name and could see sunlight through the murky water before beginning to swallow and breathe in water. The powerful current quickly sucked him under the grate and into the dark culvert where he drowned and experienced clinical death. During his death state, Curtis found himself floating upward into the sky, observing the scene below from an elevated perspective. He watched all the children running back to the house to get help, could see all the houses on the street, and observed the family car parked in front. He experienced complete peace with no fear whatsoever. While looking up into the sky during this out-of-body state, he heard his father calling his name, which drew him back to consciousness. He awakened floating on his stomach in chest-deep water approximately 30 feet inside the culvert. The veridical observation consisted of watching from above as the other children ran to get help, seeing the neighborhood layout including houses and the parked family car, all while his physical body was trapped underwater in a dark culvert. These observations would have been impossible from his physical location. His father confirmed finding him deep inside the culvert and having to pull him out from under the grate while Curtis held his breath. Despite this traumatic near-drowning, Curtis never developed a fear of water and even served seven years in the U.S. Navy. The experience left him with the most vivid memory of his childhood and occasional precognitive dreams. Interestingly, the experience did not lead to religious belief; Curtis identifies as an atheist, viewing the experience as significant but not divine. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Drowning with clinical death, cessation of breathing | OBE observation of children running, houses, and car from above while trapped in culvert | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw scene from above while drowning | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 5 | |||||||||
| 3131 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4316 Dana M NDE 8249 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dana_m_nde.html | 1957 | 2017 | 7 | F |
Seven-year-old Dana experienced a severe illness with measles in February 1957, reaching a critical state with a temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. While her alcoholic father inadequately supervised her and her sister, Dana felt disconnected from her body and extremely ill. She then perceived a keyhole with light emanating through it, surrounded by darkness. Moving toward and through this keyhole portal, she found herself on a beautiful beach with gently lapping waves and blue water - remarkable since she lived in the desert and had never seen a beach. The environment featured muted sunshine and induced profound calm. On this transcendent beach, Dana encountered two tall beings without distinguishable features who communicated telepathically. These beings expressed joy at seeing her and conveyed that this place would always be special to her. For the first time in her difficult childhood marked by narcissistic maternal abuse and punishment for illness, Dana felt genuine love and acceptance. The beings insisted she must return to her family temporarily but could come back "later" to stay as long as desired. Despite her desperate wish to remain, they lovingly convinced her to return. She then rushed back through the keyhole at great speed, awakening to her mother's anger at her father and emergency medical intervention including an ice bath. The primary observations included the detailed beach environment impossible for a desert child to imagine, the keyhole portal structure, and the specific appearance and telepathic communication of two beings. These perceptions occurred while critically ill with documented high fever. Her mother later confirmed the 104-degree temperature and emergency treatment, though she dismissed Dana's experience as lies and threatened institutionalization if she persisted in discussing it. This experience profoundly shaped Dana's entire life, providing an unshakeable certainty of a loving afterlife that sustained her through numerous tragedies including parental abuse, five miscarriages, her sister's murder, her father's suicide, and eventual caregiving for her estranged mother. The experience was validated decades later during a 2007 regression session where she returned to the same beach with multiple loving beings. |
5 | Home | 5 | 7 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Critical measles illness with 104°F fever documented by mother | Detailed beach never seen before, keyhole portal, two communicating beings | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Beach environment and two beings | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3132 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4385 David L NDE 8356 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1david_l_nde_8356.html | 2015 | 2017 | M |
David experienced a heart attack that led to loss of consciousness and clinical death with cessation of heart function, followed by immediate surgery. During the period of clinical death, David found himself in an extraordinary state of consciousness characterized by extreme euphoria, happiness, and relaxation. Everything appeared with remarkable clarity as he found himself walking through a tunnel lined with white, illuminated tiles on all sides. The tunnel led toward a bright pink rectangular light at its end, which appeared translucent and oddly illuminated - simultaneously soft yet bright and pleasant. David was calmly walking toward this unusual pink light when he was suddenly brought back to consciousness by the extreme pain of a defibrillator burning on his chest. The transition from the peaceful tunnel experience to the painful resuscitation was jarring. Immediately upon regaining consciousness, while still in the emergency room with staff present, David described his experience to the attending physician. The doctor's response was notable and suggestive of familiarity with such experiences: "Don't go into the light." The primary veridical elements include the specific architectural details of the white-tiled tunnel and the unique characteristics of the pink rectangular light - unusual in color and shape compared to typical NDE accounts of white circular lights. David's immediate reporting to medical staff who witnessed his clinical death and resuscitation provides temporal verification. The experience occurred during documented cardiac arrest with defibrillator use, confirming the life-threatening nature of the event. The experience produced lasting changes in David's life, particularly increased peacefulness and reduced fear of death. While not religious before or after, David gained certainty about consciousness surviving bodily death. The memory remains vivid years later, described as "hyper-real" and more accurate than other memories from that time period. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Heart attack with clinical death, defibrillator resuscitation, immediate surgery | Specific tunnel architecture with white tiles, unique pink rectangular light | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 1 | Tunnel with white tiles and pink light | 1.00 | Emergency room doctor | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3133 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4380 Dean B NDE 8346 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dean_b_nde.html | 2003 | 2017 | M |
On May 10, 2003, Dean was driving at 130 km/h on highway D1 when rain caused his vehicle to hydroplane on the changing road surface. Despite attempting to control the car by pressing the clutch and brakes while gripping the steering wheel, he continued sliding toward the center barrier. Approximately 2-3 meters before impact, Dean experienced the first of 15-20 flashes of light resembling camera flashes. Each flash accompanied a memory progressing backwards through time - from recent experiences through childhood to infancy, including a memory of someone standing over his stroller. He saw friends, family, nature scenes, and moments of happiness and love. Following the life review flashes, Dean entered a tunnel of complete darkness that felt like floating in a bathtub full of water with a sweet strawberry smell. He experienced total relief and release in this dark space. At the tunnel's end appeared a sharp white light that didn't cause eye pain despite its intensity, with myriad glittering rainbow colors at its center, resembling xenon phone camera light. Suddenly, a strong force pushed him away from this light, ending the beautiful feelings. Dean felt deep disappointment at being pushed back. Upon opening his eyes, Dean found himself sitting in his car facing the opposite direction on the highway while other vehicles swerved to avoid the crash scene. His 1993 Honda Civic was severely damaged but its design saved his legs. The primary veridical elements include the systematic life review with specific memories and the unique sensory details of strawberry scent in the darkness. The observation of rainbow colors within white light provides unusual detail. The experience profoundly affected Dean, causing six months of insomnia and graying hair. He now drives more carefully in rain and shares his story to reassure others that death is not an end but transition to another dimension of only good qualities where time doesn't matter. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | High-speed car crash into barrier at 130km/h | Life review with 15-20 specific memories, unique strawberry scent detail | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review and tunnel with light | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3134 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4398 MaErija NDE 8384 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1maerija_nde.html | 1978 | 1978-12-08 | 2017 | 7 | F | In December 1978, seven-year-old MaErija experienced carbon monoxide poisoning when her mother, in an emotional state, lit a charcoal brasero in their bedroom with doors and windows sealed. As toxic smoke filled the room, MaErija lost consciousness. She then saw a golden figure radiating light above her bed who extended its arm and pulled her up. Following this beautiful beam of light, she found herself floating and unable to open the locked door. The figure, whom she recognized as Jesus with a shining face and loving eyes, passed through the door. After pleading to save her family, she witnessed Jesus knock three times on their neighbor's door. The neighbor, though not seeing anyone, was compelled to investigate and discovered the smoke, breaking the window to rescue the family. During recovery, MaErija saw the figure touch the door handle, enabling the rescue. After regaining consciousness, she encountered an angel with a bright sword who instructed her in acts of penance and told her she would see things others cannot. The experience marked the beginning of numerous spiritual encounters throughout her life, including visions of the Blessed Mother Mary and messages about future events. Physical evidence included unexplained stigmata-like wounds. The miraculous rescue, with the neighbor hearing knocks from an invisible source, provided external validation of the supernatural intervention. | 5 | Home | 7 | 18 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Carbon monoxide poisoning, loss of consciousness, life-threatening situation | Witnessed Jesus knocking on door, neighbor heard knocks but saw no one, accurate observation of rescue while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw Jesus knock on neighbor's door three times | 1.00 | 60-year-old neighbor woman | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 3135 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4437 Majid A NDE 8448 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1majid_a_nde.html | 1986 | 2017 | M | In 1986 in Canada, after 19 hours of non-stop work, Majid went to a bar with friends. While walking to their car around 3 AM in extremely cold winter weather (about -15°C), he suddenly stopped feeling the cold and instead felt a pleasant warm breeze on his face. The sky appeared brilliantly clear with stars looking very close. He experienced a strange feeling of being released from a tight, pressing casting of his body - a sensation more pleasant than anything he had ever felt before. Suddenly, he found himself floating in the air, looking down at his own body lying on the ground with his friends circled around him. One friend was supporting his head in his lap and shaking him to wake up. After observing this scene briefly, Majid suddenly returned to his body. His friends told him he had suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed. This experience permanently removed Majid's fear of death, and he never forgot the indescribable feeling of peace and freedom he experienced at what he perceived as the moment of death. The out-of-body observation of his unconscious form surrounded by concerned friends was the defining veridical element of his near-death experience. | 5 | Other | 3 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Sudden collapse and loss of consciousness, possibly from exhaustion and cold | Clear out-of-body experience observing friends around his collapsed body | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw self from above with friends around body | 1.00 | Friends (unnamed) | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3136 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4447 Marica NDE 8453 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1marica_nde.html | 2011 | 2011-11-11 | 2017 | F | On November 11, 2011, the morning after experiencing a miscarriage, Marica fainted twice consecutively. During the second fainting episode, she found herself within a tunnel of warm, welcoming yellow light that wasn't blinding. She felt she was part of this light that transmitted happiness to her. The tunnel extended about 50-60 centimeters above her. At the end of the tunnel, she sensed the presence of her children who had died in the miscarriage the previous day. She began running to reach them but felt held back, as if being sucked backward like in a syringe plunger vacuum. She was then cast into blackness and returned to her body. Upon regaining consciousness, she heard voices and learned her blood pressure had spiked to 180 bpm during the experience, likely when she was running in the tunnel. For about two hours afterward, she retained feelings of serenity, well-being, and happiness. The experience left her yearning to return to that dimension beyond the tunnel threshold. She now has certainty about life after death and feels her deceased children were awaiting her. The experience has led to increased meditation, energetic realignment practices, and deeper spiritual understanding within her Buddhist faith. | 5 | Unknown | 5 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Fainting episodes following miscarriage, blood pressure spike to 180 | Tunnel of light experience, sensing deceased children, unique details about light and movement | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 1 | Sensed presence of miscarried children at tunnel end | 0.00 | Medical staff (unnamed) | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||
| 3137 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4297 Marie DB NDE 8219 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1marie_db_nde.html | 2012 | 2012-12-13 | 2017 | F | On December 13, 2012, Marie was hit by a motor scooter while crossing a street and fell into a coma. In the ICU, she experienced leaving her body through the top of her head, observing herself from about two meters above the hospital bed. She saw her body connected to machines with multiple lines. After briefly reviewing pleasant moments from her life, she traveled at incredible speed through a dark, round tunnel toward an immensely beautiful light filled with love and serenity. Upon entering the light, she became the light itself - an energy filled with love, protection, and knowledge. She was surrounded by hierarchies of angels sending infinite love and protection. Ancient consciousnesses taught her universal knowledge. Her deceased great-grandparents appeared holding hands, transmitting even more love. When she asked about her sister who had committed suicide 27 years earlier, they briefly left and returned, revealing her sister as a distant sparkling light with wings, surrounded by angelic beings. They indicated her sister had needed to go through a dark circle but was now ready to help family members. Marie then grew immensely large with huge wings like a phoenix before rapidly retracting and returning to her body in the ICU. Medical staff had believed her cranial trauma was too severe for recovery. The experience gave her certainty that death leads to a world of love. She later received messages about future religious unity and continues to experience visions. | 4 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 0 | Coma from traumatic brain injury, in ICU with life support | Detailed OBE observations, encounters with deceased relatives, specific details about sister's status | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw self from above in ICU | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3138 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4442 Marina A NDE 8444 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1marina_a_nde.html | 1976 | 1976-05-26 | 2017 | 16 | F | Four days before her 16th birthday in May 1976, Marina suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in her bathroom when workers had removed the exhaust pipe from the water heater without warning the family. After becoming dizzy while washing her hair, she lost consciousness. She found herself in a long tunnel, moving forward without a body, and realized she was dying. An intense battle ensued between Marina and death, which she visualized as pulling a rope with a flag in the middle. She fought with extraordinary strength that surprised her, especially given her normally weak hands. The struggle continued until a bright light appeared and asked, "Marina, are you ready to die?" She responded, "No, no. I'm only 16 years old and I still haven't done anything good." She then felt herself returning to life as death gave up on her. Upon regaining consciousness, she found medical staff trying to remove her clothes, which she initially misinterpreted as an assault attempt due to her confused state. The ambulance had arrived and, according to her mother, Marina was pronounced clinically dead in the ambulance. The experience eliminated her fear of death and led to expanded religious exploration beyond her Protestant upbringing, particularly into Hindu and Buddhist concepts including reincarnation, though she maintained her belief in Jesus. | 2 | Home | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Carbon monoxide poisoning leading to clinical death pronounced in ambulance | Tunnel experience, encounter with light being asking about readiness to die, unique life-death struggle | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Battle with death visualized as rope pulling | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||
| 3139 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4293 Mark B NDE 8211 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mark_b_nde.html | 1980 | 2017 | 6 | M | In September 1980, six-year-old Mark was visiting his father and family at a lake. While running on a long pier to join his sisters, he slipped on the wet surface, slid under the side railing, and fell into deep water. Unable to swim, he sank, came up once, then sank again and never resurfaced on his own. He remembers standing flat-footed on the lake bottom in complete peace, looking around in awe at the beautiful underwater scene - plants swaying with the current and fish swimming past. From a distance, he saw a bright light approaching closer and closer. Just as the light was about to consume him, he woke up choking on water with someone performing CPR. His sister had dove in to find and rescue him. What seemed like a long time underwater was actually brief. The experience brought profound peace and joy, with extremely vivid vision showing the underwater world in high definition clarity. Mark felt united with the world and understood that death shouldn't be feared. Following the NDE, he experienced visits from spirits or beings (usually three at a time), recurring dreams, and developed the ability to feel spirits' presence and sense evil in strangers. Remarkably, he experiences uncontrollable crying and overwhelming spiritual feelings specifically when entering Catholic churches, despite not being raised Catholic. When visiting aquariums, he feels a strong desire to return to his NDE experience. | 5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Near-drowning incident, unconscious underwater, required CPR | Bright approaching light, extraordinarily vivid underwater vision, peaceful otherworldly experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 1 | Extraordinarily vivid underwater scene while drowning | 0.00 | Sister | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||
| 3140 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4325 Derek L NDE 8266 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1derek_l_nde.html | 2009 | 2009-03-15 | 2017 | M | Derek experienced cardiac arrest in March 2009 following a heart attack months earlier. While sitting in his garage, he stood up, felt lightheaded, sat down, and lost consciousness. During the event, he found himself in a place of extraordinary light, different from normal light, where he encountered his deceased mother (d. 1980), grandmother, and grandfather (d. 2007/2008). Derek was lying on a floor-like surface when his relatives expressed shock at seeing him there. His grandfather approached and asked "What about the kids?" prompting Derek to think about his children. He realized he could exist consciously without breathing and felt he was given a choice to return. When he chose to come back for his children's sake, he immediately regained consciousness on the garage floor with a split and bleeding wound over his right eye. Derek, who lost his mother at age 11, interpreted his grandfather's reminder about his children as relating to his own experience growing up without a parent. The experience left him certain of an afterlife and eliminated his fear of death. | 2 | Home | 7 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest explicitly mentioned following prior heart attack | Multiple deceased relatives identified with specific death dates, coherent interaction | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw deceased relatives in light-filled place | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3141 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4349 Martin W NDE 8303 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1martin_w_nde.html | 1986 | 2017 | M | Martin was riding his bicycle home from work in October 1986 when a car came toward him at high speed, taking a curve wide on his side of the road. The collision was unavoidable, and Martin was declared dead for 8 minutes. During his experience, he found himself in an indescribably light environment, floating in a warm sea of vibrating colored crystals. He saw his transparent body glowing like a light-tube and observed the accident scene from above, feeling the emotions of those helping him. He encountered five light-beings who identified themselves as his guides and traveled through a tunnel toward a radiating light source. He met a light Being who showed him how life was meant to function on earth through unconditional love and unity. Martin could see energies connecting all people, animals, plants, and matter through beams of light. He was eventually sent back against his will but gained profound insights about the nature of consciousness and our interconnected existence. | 1 | Other | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death with CPR given, cardiac arrest documented | Out-of-body observation of accident scene, seeing through solid matter, feeling others' emotions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed accident scene from above | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3142 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4311 Marty D NDE 8243 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1marty_d_nde.html | 1972 | 2017 | 12 | M | Marty was 12 years old on his first day of secondary school when he was strangled by an older student as a prank in the school toilets. After being released, he walked toward the wash basins then collapsed, hitting his head twice. During his unconscious state, he experienced a peaceful scene sitting on a grass hill overlooking a shallow stream with an old stone bridge. He observed Victorian-dressed children playing around the bridge and felt complete peace and tranquility. When he suddenly remembered he was supposed to be in school, he immediately awakened on the floor surrounded by schoolchildren, with one slapping his face. They told him they thought he was dead. The experience left him with a lasting memory of profound peace. | 5 | Other | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Criminal attack resulting in unconsciousness | Saw peaceful scene with Victorian children, stone bridge, specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw peaceful scene with children | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3143 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4441 Matteo C NDE 8447 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1matteo_c_nde.html | 2004 | 2017 | M | Matteo could not swim and went into a lake to please his girlfriend. He lost his footing in deeper water and began drowning. After struggling and breathing in water, he had the thought "I can breathe water?" before accepting his fate. He then found himself floating several meters above the water, looking down at what he believed was his body. He experienced profound silence and felt connected to nature as part of a greater wholeness. He saw a woman with long curly red hair in a white robe kneeling at the shore, reaching toward the water to help him. In an instant, he was back in his body with renewed survival instinct, escaped the water, and vomited the water from his lungs. When he looked for the woman, no one was there, though he could see yellow pebbles exactly as viewed from above. He believes the woman may have been his deceased grandmother who saved him. | 5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Drowning in lake, breathing water | Saw scene from above, woman in white reaching to save him, yellow pebbles later verified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw scene from above water | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3144 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4276 Maureen H NDE 8188 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1maureen_h_nde.html | 1964 | 2017 | F | Maureen was riding her bicycle and hit a rock, flying over the handlebars and landing on her head. She lost consciousness and experienced total blackness before feeling lifted straight up by her elbows at super-fast speed with a loud deafening wind sound. She found herself standing on a bridge before an elderly, well-dressed couple in black with an old black car behind them. The woman said "We weren't sure you were going to make it" and directed her attention to her neighbor who had fallen nearby. After being told to go home, Maureen returned to her body with incredible head pain. She had amnesia afterward and a permanent bald spot from the injury. Years later, her sister confirmed she almost died and described the exact clothing Maureen had seen. | 5 | Other | 5 | 7 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Direct head injury with unconsciousness and amnesia | Saw elderly couple, specific clothing details later confirmed by sister | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw elderly couple and old car | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3145 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4408 Merrideth H NDE 8401 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1merrideth_h_nde.html | 1991 | 2017 | F | During childbirth, Merrideth experienced such intense pain that she came out of her body and stopped breathing for several minutes. She found herself floating at the ceiling, feeling weightless and completely at peace - a feeling she had never experienced before. She observed the medical scene below: a nurse running for equipment, the doctor screaming at her to breathe, and her mother crying while holding her hand. She saw only darkness except where her body was. A divine being (possibly Jesus or an angel) entered and told her telepathically she had to return as it wasn't her time. She argued, not wanting to return to a world of pain and meanness. The being said if she didn't return, her daughter would be raised without parents. She agreed to return for her unborn child's sake and was promised no one would hurt her like before and she would have a good life. She was guided back into her body and had to relearn how to breathe. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Stopped breathing during childbirth for several minutes | Saw nurse running, doctor screaming, mother crying and saying "Breath Merri, breath" | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw medical emergency scene from ceiling | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3146 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4353 Miguel DR NDE 8309 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1miguel_dr_nde.html | 2014 | 2017 | M | Miguel was being evaluated for a hernia when he had a heart attack in the hospital. He began reciting Psalm 23 as the crash-cart team arrived. He was sucked out of his body into a dark tube and found himself in a gray space with static-like small black points, experiencing great tranquility. He concluded he had died and waited in complete silence and unimaginable calm. After being pulled back through the tube, he opened his eyes to medical staff working on him. The doctor said the resuscitator showed no heartbeat and he seemed to be coming back to life. Miguel said "Help me doctor" before losing consciousness and waking three days later in the ICU. The experience left him with greater faith and significant life changes including stopping smoking and drinking. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Heart attack with cardiac arrest, resuscitator showed no heartbeat | Experienced gray space with static, complete silence and calm | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Gray space experience | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3147 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4396 Missy M NDE 8380 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1missy_m_nde.html | 2016 | 2017 | F | During neck surgery under general anesthesia, Missy went hypothermic and believes she died. She suddenly found herself fully aware, standing in a golden, hazy desert-type area at the edge of heaven. She saw walls like those surrounding an earthly city and experienced indescribable gold and turquoise-blue colors. She felt no pain, worry, or fear, and had no thoughts of her children - only peace and beauty. She saw Jesus/God in the distance yet felt their presence all around her, enveloping her in love. Her deceased father and grandmother told her in one voice it wasn't her time. She saw Christ's eyes briefly as He instilled the thought that everything would be okay. She awoke on the operating table crying, wanting to return. A nurse believed her and comforted her, asking if she had children, which made her remember why she needed to stay. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Hypothermia during surgery under general anesthesia | Detailed description of heavenly realm with golden light, specific colors, deceased relatives | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw heavenly realm | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3148 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 3738 Olivia E NDE 7342 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1olivia_e_nde.html | 1956 | 2017 | 0 | F | At 6 weeks old, Olivia had severe flu with high fever and dehydration. Being driven to the hospital by her father with her sister holding her, she experienced leaving her body with a "whoosh" sensation and floated at the car ceiling behind her father's head. She saw the bright dashboard lights and through the car seats to see herself as a bundle on her sister's lap. She could feel everyone's emotions - her father's tremendous fear and her sister's concern. When her sister said "Dad!! I think she's GONE!!" her father pulled over and leaned to check her. She then felt another whoosh and was back in her body, opening her eyes to see her father's upside-down face. Years later, her sister confirmed all details including wearing a white babushka with black polka dots, exactly as Olivia had seen. Doctors said it was a miracle she survived. | 5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe flu with fever over 103, severe dehydration at 6 weeks old | Saw sister's clothing (babushka with dots), dashboard lights, felt emotions, all confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw car interior from ceiling | 1.00 | Older sister | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 3149 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4426 Doug F NDE 8422 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1doug_f_nde.html | 1979 | 2017 | M |
In December 1979, after four months in India, Doug became severely ill with amoebic dysentery, hepatitis A, and dengue fever. His body weakened to the point where death was imminent. As he lay dying in his hotel room, he experienced a profound shift in consciousness, observing his body from outside while feeling expansive awareness that reached to the edge of the universe. He watched his roommate, a nurse, take his pulse and drop his wrist in despair when she found no signs of life. From his elevated perspective, he observed her unsuccessful attempts to measure his blood pressure and check for breath with a mirror. Throughout this, he felt no pain or distress, only a sense of perfect peace and the realization that everything in his life, despite its suffering, had been perfect. His experience included a remarkable life review where not just his current life, but many previous lives appeared in visual bubbles, each showing an entire lifetime from birth to death in an instant. He became aware that reincarnation is part of the human experience but is optional. After recognizing the addictive pull toward rebirth, he shifted into what he described as a fifth dimension bathed in golden light, where he was greeted with overwhelming joy by beings he knew intimately. A being identifying himself as George Gurdjieff appeared and requested Doug return to his body. After negotiating to retain his memories of the experience, Doug agreed to return with the promise that this would be his last required incarnation. Upon re-entering his cold, dense body, his roommate was shocked by his reanimation, and an Indian doctor mysteriously appeared to provide medical assistance without being called. |
2 | Other | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death confirmed by nurse roommate checking pulse and finding no vital signs | Multiple specific observations including viewing body from above, observing roommate's actions with mirror and blood pressure device, life review with past lives, encounter with identified being (Gurdjieff) | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed roommate checking vital signs | 1.00 | Roommate (nurse) | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3150 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4335 Dy-Wen L 16088 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dy_wen_l_nde.html | 1973 | 2017 | F |
In 1973, Dy-Wen experienced a near-death experience resulting from carbon monoxide poisoning while taking a shower. The gas cylinder tank had insufficient oxygen, causing partial combustion and gas leakage into the shower room. She lost consciousness and was clinically dead for approximately 10 minutes. Immediately after death, she found herself in pitch-black darkness, perceiving herself as having no body, existing only as an atom-like consciousness. She could move at varying speeds, from slow movement to lightning-fast flight, gliding over treetops and mountains in the darkness. She discovered she had sharpened vision without needing her glasses and could differentiate trees and dirt without restriction. The experience of flying eventually became heavy and tiring, and when she wanted to sit down, she realized she had no physical form. Upon wondering where she was, the thought "I have a God" suddenly appeared in her mind. Simultaneously, Jesus emerged in the light and quickly walked toward her. She observed him in detail: about 7 feet tall, wearing a long white robe down to his feet with long sleeves, thick black hair cut just below his ears in a contemporary style, and a long face with short bushy eyebrows. He appeared serious without smiling and gestured for her to come forward with his left hand. When she prepared to move toward him, he read her mind and turned around, the light surrounding him going off. She then saw an illuminated window that she interpreted as "the window of the soul" and felt powerfully that this was her home. The moment she thought about returning to her body, she was instantly back, experiencing re-entry as entering into a dense object. |
5 | Home | 7 | 12 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Carbon monoxide poisoning with stated clinical death for 10 minutes | Specific visual details of Jesus figure including height, clothing, hair style, facial features; experienced enhanced vision without glasses | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Enhanced vision without glasses | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3151 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4389 Dyan K NDE 8362 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dyan_k_nde.html | 1998 | 2017 | F |
In June 1998, Dyan experienced a near-death event following complications from a burst appendix with ensuing peritonitis. After a second surgery, she developed severe complications and spent five weeks in the critical care unit, ultimately requiring three surgeries total. Her experience occurred during this critical period when her life was in serious danger. During her NDE, she was initially enveloped in a gray mist before being surrounded by a brilliant light that she could not adequately describe - neither white nor blue, but brilliant and beautiful. She experienced an overwhelming feeling that all was good and that she was going home to "Father," though she was uncertain who Father was at the time. She felt held in the arms of Father with a love she couldn't comprehend, describing it as awesome and all-encompassing. She received a substantial amount of information during the experience, including reminders about personal flaws that needed correction and a significant message that "Judgment is not mine." While in this state of perfect peace and love, she heard her children's voices - first her oldest daughter asking her to stay, which didn't concern her as she felt her daughters would be okay without her. However, when she heard her young son say "Mom please stay," she felt he wouldn't be okay without her due to his young age, which influenced her return. The aftermath included lasting effects where living things that were alive glowed for weeks afterward, with trees, plants, and eyes appearing to "hop" with life. Her doctor, who was also her running partner, later confirmed how close to death she had been, becoming emotional when telling her "You are so lucky, you know you almost died!" The experience left her with certainty about God's existence and removed her fear of death. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Burst appendix with peritonitis, multiple surgeries, 5 weeks critical care | Heard children's voices asking her to stay; received specific information about judgment and personal growth | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard children's voices | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3152 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4358 Eddie NDE 8319 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1eddie_nde.html | 2004 | 2017 | M |
In 2004, Eddie was working on rebuilding a guitar amplifier when he was electrocuted by a high-voltage capacitor inside the amp. The electrical shock caused him to black out, experiencing clinical death with cessation of breathing and heart function. His neighbor found him and performed CPR, successfully resuscitating him while paramedics were called to the scene. During his clinical death, Eddie initially experienced absolute nothingness and sensed nothing at all. Then, with what sounded like a flutter of wings and a whoosh of air above him, he saw a brilliant blue-white light that appeared as a circle that kept growing larger. The circle continued expanding until it opened up completely, allowing him to see clearly into it with enhanced clarity that he described as "high-definition and magnified by billions." Standing within this circle of light were his musician idols, Leo Fender and Les Paul, both deceased guitar innovators. The clarity of vision and hearing was incredibly enhanced, with voices sounding super-rich and clear. He felt intense peace and a sense of being welcome that he had never experienced on earth. Leo and Les told him how pleased they were that he played their guitars so well, but that it wasn't his time to pass yet. They said he still had much more to give on earth. Despite his reluctance to leave such a beautiful place filled with incredible happiness and joy, he suddenly felt a vacuum pull him down hard. He awoke in his workshop surrounded by paramedics, his neighbor, and two police officers, feeling disoriented with a throbbing chest. Initially angry about leaving the beautiful realm, he later became deeply grateful to his neighbor for saving his life. As a lifelong atheist, the experience left him still not believing in God but open to the possibility of an afterlife. |
2 | Home | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Electrocution causing clinical death, CPR given, successful resuscitation | Specific encounter with identified deceased musicians Leo Fender and Les Paul; enhanced visual and auditory perception | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Enhanced visual perception | 0.00 | Neighbor | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3153 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4271 Eric M NDE 8177 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1eric_m_nde.html | 2017 | 21 | M |
Eric and two friends were sailing off the coast of Brittany, France, when they encountered a sudden severe storm. The weather changed dramatically with darkening skies and mounting waves of several meters height. Their 420 boat was hit by an enormous wave from the side while surfing down another wave, causing it to capsize. Eric, wearing only jeans, sneakers and a pullover, was ejected from the boat while his friend in a wetsuit remained with the overturned hull. They were separated by several hundred meters in freezing water of 10-12 degrees Celsius. Eric remained in the freezing water for over an hour, unable to swim to his friend, constantly being crashed upon by waves. He tried to stay afloat and grabbed pieces of the boat floating past him, but eventually had to let them go. After swallowing large amounts of salt water, he lost consciousness and experienced what he believes was drowning. During his near-death state, his past life scrolled backwards from the present to childhood in precise detail, showing both good and bad moments, people, and memories in a sorting process. He then experienced a feeling of plenitude with no physical sensations, only peace and quiet. He saw a long black tunnel with a luminous point at the end that grew as he advanced through it, becoming an intense, radiating but non-blinding light that felt beautiful, good, and soft. Eric was rescued by crab fishermen who pulled him aboard with a slip knot after he was unable to climb aboard himself. They also rescued his friend who initially refused to abandon his boat. The fishermen risked their own safety in the enormous swells to save both young men. Eric was treated for hypothermia with survival blankets. He never spoke about the NDE experience until 2016 when a friend identified it as such, having previously thought he might be "crazy" for having such an experience. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Near drowning in freezing water for over an hour, hypothermia | Life review scrolling backwards with precise details, tunnel with growing light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Life review in reverse chronological order | 0.00 | Three crab fishermen | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3154 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4413 Fonz A NDE 8411 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1fonz_a_nde.html | 1989 | 1989-10-15 | 2017 | 16 | M |
On October 15, 1989, at age 16, Fonz experienced a near-death event during a dangerous childhood game involving chest compression that caused severe lack of oxygen. His friend was squeezing his chest strongly after he had breathed deeply and held his breath, leading to life-threatening oxygen deprivation. He passed out and his friend laid him on the ground as he lost consciousness. During the experience, Fonz suddenly found himself viewing the scene from above, looking down at his body lying on the bed in their living room. His perspective was from an impossible height of about 4 meters, well above the actual 2.5-meter ceiling. He observed his body lying parallel below with his friend standing by his head. He could see his friend moving and heard terrible breathing sounds coming from his body as it struggled for oxygen in vain. He realized he didn't need to breathe to stay conscious and had become a semi-transparent light form, free of physical constraints. He experimented with movement, discovering he could move instantly to any location just by thinking about it. While playing with this ability, two balls of light appeared. One spoke in a serious voice, asking what he was doing there and warning he should return to his body immediately or he would never be able to do so again. He was then carried through a luminous tunnel back to his body, and the asthma attack ended. In subsequent similar experiences, he encountered many more light beings who spoke to him familiarly, discussing whether he should stay or return, with one saying he had much to live through and would be happy. After returning, Fonz verified his out-of-body observations by climbing a ladder to check the viewing angle. He also discovered a dust-covered document on top of the closet that he had observed during his OBE, exactly where he had seen it from his elevated perspective. He has since had ongoing contact with these entities in dreams, receiving guidance at important life stages. |
5 | Home | 3 | 15 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening lack of oxygen from chest compression game | Impossible viewing angle verified by ladder; found dust-covered document on closet top exactly as seen during OBE; specific details of friend's position and movements | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 3 | 0 | Impossible viewing angle from above ceiling height | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||
| 3155 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4412 Francie C NDE 8408 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1francie_c_nde.html | 1972 | 2017 | 18 | F |
In August 1972, at age 18, Francie experienced respiratory arrest following surgery for a car accident. She had undergone surgery for internal bleeding and splenectomy, with multiple pelvic fractures and pneumothorax. Post-surgery, she was given morphine for pain and had an adverse reaction, likely due to dosage, causing respiratory arrest. The head nurse later stated they thought she was gone even after CPR was initiated. Her father witnessed the event and she later told him what she observed. During the experience, Francie found herself aware but outside her body with her father present but unable to hear her repeated attempts to communicate that she was okay. She watched him use various methods to check for life signs - measuring blood pressure multiple times with no reading, using a mirror at her nose and mouth with no vapor appearing. She was puzzled why these devices showed no signs of life when she felt fine. She observed everything from an elevated position and with expanded 360-degree vision that seemed impossible. The experience had two distinct phases. In the first "Bright Light Phase," she moved through what wasn't literally a tunnel but more like having no peripheral vision with a magnetic pull toward a warm, all-encompassing light. She felt it was the clearest purpose she'd ever had in life. In the second "Bodyless Existence" phase, she was acutely aware of her father's anxiety and fear, feeling his emotions as if they were her own while remaining calm herself, assuming a role of reassurance though he couldn't hear her. When she opened her eyes, she immediately said "Wow, what a trip!" - words she had chosen before opening her eyes, somehow knowing exactly what to say to reassure her father. Her father confirmed she stayed up all night talking after the experience. Green living things glowed for weeks afterward as if trees, plants and eyes "hopped" with life. Her doctor, also her running partner, was emotional when he later confirmed how close to death she had been. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Respiratory arrest from morphine reaction, clinical death with CPR, confirmed by head nurse | Multiple specific observations of father's actions with medical devices; 360-degree impossible vision; feeling father's emotions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 1 | Father checking vital signs | 1.00 | Head nurse | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3156 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4312 Francisco D NDEs 8241 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1francisco_d_ndes.html | 1973 | 2017 | 6 | M |
Francisco experienced multiple near-death episodes during childhood, beginning at age 6 in 1973, due to severe asthma attacks. During his first experience, he suffered extreme suffocation to the point where he couldn't articulate words to ask for help. After anxious moments that seemed eternal, he suddenly became free of all suffering and realized he could breathe, though when he looked down, his body was still lying on the bed making terrible breathing sounds while trying unsuccessfully to get oxygen. He realized he had become a type of semi-transparent light, free of breathing equipment or body, observing his brother sleeping beside him unaware of what was happening. He could move instantly to any location just by thinking about it. Two balls of light appeared, one speaking in a serious voice asking what he was doing there and warning he should return to his body immediately or he would never be able to do so. He was then carried through a luminous tunnel back to his body, ending the asthma attack. In subsequent experiences, many more beings of light appeared in the room, talking to him with familiarity as if they had known him all his life. They debated whether he should stay or return, with one saying he should stay to stop suffering, while another argued he had much to live through and would be happy. Since these experiences, Francisco has maintained contact with these entities through dreams, receiving guidance at various important life stages. He has also encountered recently deceased people, including a pregnant nurse who told him about her fatal accident and asked him to help save her baby, though he couldn't determine the accident location. Francisco's grandmother, after death, gave him precise instructions to help his ill grandfather, telling him to "go where the pink shark is" - a meaningless phrase until he discovered a pink Citroën (which means shark in French) parked at the entrance to a forest trail that led him safely to his grandfather when other routes were blocked. These ongoing experiences have convinced him that consciousness survives death. |
5 | Home | 5 | 15 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Severe asthma attack causing life-threatening suffocation | Verified precognitive information about pink Citroën location; specific details about deceased nurse's accident; guidance to grandfather | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 2 | 0 | Grandmother's guidance to pink shark | 1.00 | Incompatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3157 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4285 Gerardo NDE 8202 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gerardo_nde.html | 2010 | 2010-06-10 | 2017 | M |
On June 10, 2010, while living in Australia, Gerardo attempted suicide by strangulation while home alone. His wife had gone to buy him a diet coke from a store 300 meters away, and he estimated she would return in about 15 minutes. Using a long string, he strangled himself, experiencing terrible pain with bulging eyes from blood congestion and neck bleeding from the string's hold. His passing over was immediate. He found himself in a place of light and brightness, submerged in white light, seeing himself from different angles. When he arrived in that place, he found himself with hands open down along his legs, amazed by where he was. He encountered a stairway with walls lit by white light. The stairway felt narrow, and he immediately refused to climb it, thinking "Here is GOD. The stair is narrow. Therefore my Lord, I'm a sinner. I don't feel the strength with me. I'm afraid of you." He began to climb the first two steps, surrounded by brightness. He could feel his consciousness returning and found himself lying on the bedroom floor. He removed the string and started breathing again with great difficulty. After a while, he could breathe better, and about half an hour later, his eyes began returning to their sockets as he psychologically relaxed. The experience transformed him, leaving him feeling more tranquil with no more disagreement. He now feels increased sensibility and carefulness toward others, living with a sense that nothing on earth compares to what he experienced during his passing over. He gained a certainty about the afterlife and lost his fear of death. |
5 | Home | 3 | 6 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Suicide attempt by strangulation | Vision of light, stairs, spiritual interpretation of narrow stairway | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Stairway with white light | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3158 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4332 Graça P NDE 8260 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1graca_p_nde.html | 1982 | 2017 | F |
In 1982, Graça experienced cardiac and respiratory arrest due to an allergic reaction to aspirin. She had taken aspirin for a severe headache, and seconds later couldn't breathe as an invisible claw seemed to pluck out her heart. Despite opening her mouth wide, she couldn't get enough air to her lungs, experiencing excessive chest pain before everything stopped. Her husband, Manuel, was present and attempted to revive her using blood pressure monitoring and a mirror to check for breathing, finding no signs of life. During her clinical death, Graça observed the scene from near the ceiling at an impossible height. She watched her husband's desperate attempts to help, seeing him cry and repeatedly check for vital signs. From this elevated position, she noticed a dust-covered blue document with 25 lines on top of the closet - a certificate she had been searching for. After feeling "sucked" from this position, she entered total darkness where she heard multiple voices telling her not to be afraid and that they were there to help. Though she couldn't see them, she felt their presence as energy like static electricity or magnetism. The beings guided her through the darkness toward a point of light that grew as they advanced. She traveled at incredible speed through space, seeing Earth and Moon receding, passing through cosmic dust and stars in parallel, infinite planes. She witnessed colors that don't exist in Earth's palette, layered like transparent, superimposed plaques. Upon reaching the source light, she experienced waves of love so profound that all the love she had known on Earth couldn't compare to even a grain of sand to the desert. The light communicated mentally, ordering her return because her husband and son needed her, stating she had duties to fulfill and her mission hadn't ended. Upon return, her husband confirmed all her observations and retrieved the dust-covered document from the closet top exactly as she had described. A doctor later confirmed she had experienced cardiac and respiratory arrest due to aspirin allergy and was lucky to have survived, noting she would never have arrived at the hospital alive had they attempted to go. |
2 | Home | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac and respiratory arrest from allergic reaction, confirmed by doctor | Found dust-covered document on closet verified by husband; observed husband's specific actions with devices; cosmic journey with specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 3 | 2 | Document on top of closet | 1.00 | Husband Manuel | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3159 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4418 Patrick M NDE 8416 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1patrick_m_nde_8416.html | 2001 | 2017 | M | Patrick was receiving a blood transfusion as part of his leukemia treatment when the nurses improperly filtered the blood, causing a severe allergic reaction. His skin became suddenly hot and itchy all over, and then his heart stopped. During this cardiac arrest, Patrick experienced an out-of-body experience where he found himself awake and sitting in the transfusion chair. He got up from the seat, turned around 180 degrees, and saw his body still in the chair. Everything appeared brighter with increased colors but less definition, as if someone had turned up the brightness while reducing clarity. He observed the nurses rush in to revive him and saw one nurse run in with adrenaline and inject it into his IV. The whole experience lasted several seconds to a minute from his perspective, though the actual cardiac arrest was approximately 60 seconds. When the adrenaline was administered, he suddenly found himself back in his body, confused about where he was. Since this experience, Patrick reports having almost no dreams or nightmares when he sleeps, a marked change from before the NDE. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clear cardiac arrest with medical intervention documented | Observed specific medical procedures including adrenaline injection into IV | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/18/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw nurses rush in and administer adrenaline | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3160 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4392 Patricia G NDE 8371 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1patricia_g_nde.html | 1980 | 2017 | F |
Patricia experienced a life-threatening hemorrhage from an ectopic pregnancy in the emergency room. After the tube burst, she was taken to a small treatment room where numerous responders worked to save her. During this medical crisis, she was pronounced dead after losing all vital signs, with the attending doctor stating "She's gone" and calling for someone with signing authority for the death certificate. During her out-of-body experience, Patricia found herself high up in the rafters looking down at the medical team working on her body. She observed them poking, prodding, and examining her body while she felt no pain. She listened as they declared her dead and watched as they began preparing her body, wiping off some of the blood while waiting for the authorized person to sign the death certificate. She noticed about 15 minutes passed while everyone stood quietly waiting. Then she observed a woman with red hair enter the room, take up the chart, and say "She is too young. Let's try something else." Patricia experienced being in a dark corridor and feeling overwhelming peace, acceptance, and calm. She sensed a presence with her who appeared to be smiling and possibly male. The most remarkable veridical observation was Patricia seeing and identifying the red-haired woman who decided to continue resuscitation efforts. When Patricia later asked about this woman, the medical staff became very anxious and insisted she couldn't have seen her because Patricia was dead at that time. Patricia also accurately observed the layout of the treatment room from above and the specific activities of the medical team. After the red-haired woman's intervention, Patricia remembers nothing except extreme cold. She woke up four days later in the hospital. The experience left her without fear of death and with an absolute acceptance of life circumstances. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 33 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Pronounced dead with death certificate being prepared | Specific identification of red-haired woman and medical procedures while clinically dead | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sheet placed over body | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw red-haired woman enter and review chart | 1.00 | Medical staff | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3161 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4411 Philip S NDE 8407 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1philip_s_nde_8407.html | 2017 | M |
Philip received a flu shot at a doctor's office and subsequently passed out in the waiting room for several minutes. He felt a buzz in his head before losing consciousness and later woke up in a sweat on an examining table with two doctors standing over him with an IV, though he doesn't know how he got there or the exact duration of his unconsciousness. During his out-of-body experience, Philip remembers passing through a window with abundant light and looking down on what was happening below. He followed what he described as a light beam path or possibly a tunnel of light that brought him both away from and back toward the table. From his elevated perspective, he observed himself on the table with an unusually focused view, noting that while he normally takes in all his surroundings, during the experience he was specifically focused on seeing his body on the table. The visual experience included unusually bright light and more vivid sensory perception than normal. Philip observed himself on the examining table from above during the medical emergency. He described the experience as having more focused consciousness due to the centralization of his view of himself on the table. He followed a tunnel of light that seemed to guide him both away from and back to his body. After returning to his body, Philip felt very weak and rested for a while before leaving under his own power and driving home. The experience left him without fear of death and with a sense that things may be revealed at the time of death, though his religious views remained unchanged. |
5 | Hospital | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Passed out for several minutes with medical intervention | General observation of self on table, no specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw himself on examining table from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3162 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4372 PJ P NDE 8342 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1pj_p_nde.html | 1970 | 2017 | 7 | F |
Seven-year-old PJ had her tonsils removed and was discharged despite severe pain. That night at home, she hemorrhaged severely from the surgical site, waking in a puddle of blood too weak to move. Her grandparents drove her 138 miles back to the hospital where she had no detectable blood pressure. The doctor pronounced her dead, saying "I am sorry, we've lost her. She's gone." A sheet was placed over her head and her arms were folded in death position. During her death experience, PJ found herself free from pain and swimming in what she called "plasma love light" that was intensely real and loving. She traveled to what she perceived as the center of the Milky Way galaxy, playing in the black hole at its center. She saw Earth as a tiny ball and had complete freedom of movement without pain. From this cosmic perspective, she observed her grandfather praying over her body and was asked by the Plasma Love Light Beings if she wanted to return to him. She initially declined, saying he would join her soon anyway. The beings then forcefully returned her to her body against her will, with the Creator blowing the breath of life back into her. They told her telepathically, "We are sorry, but you haven't finished your job." PJ observed her grandfather leaning over her body crying and praying, with two morgue attendants at either end of the gurney. She saw the sheet over her head and her arms folded in death position. When she returned to her body and sat up, the sheet fell off, startling everyone present. She told her grandfather to get off her because he weighed a ton. The experience left PJ with enhanced intuition, past life memories, and a mission to teach love. She no longer fears death and understands that physical life is like a hologram for experiencing everything, while true existence is in the plasma love light. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 7 | Pronounced dead with no blood pressure detected | Observed grandfather praying, morgue attendants, cosmic perspective of Earth | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sheet over head | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw grandfather praying over body with morgue attendants | 1.00 | Grandfather | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||
| 3163 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4388 Poelen NDE 8362 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1poelen_nde.html | 1992 | 1992-05-12 | 2017 | M |
Poelen suffered a severe bicycle accident while training for a cross-country race, flying head over heels and hitting his chin on sandy ground. According to the neurologist, he would likely have died if the ground had been harder. During the fall, everything went dark as he flew up high. During his out-of-body experience, Poelen found himself in the cosmos where he could see Earth as a huge ball. He described the experience as spectacular and hard to explain in words. When he realized this was impossible since he should be on the ground after falling, he immediately flew at incredible speed toward Earth in a fraction of a second. However, instead of returning directly to his body, he lingered in the air between the trees above his body. He then thought he needed to go lower and shot toward his body. He re-entered his body head first, then slower through the rest of his body, with his left leg taking several minutes to fully reintegrate. The primary observation was seeing Earth from a cosmic perspective as a huge ball while his body lay injured below. He also observed his body from above, hovering between the trees before deliberately descending to re-enter it. The re-entry process was gradual, taking several minutes for complete reintegration. Upon attempting to stand, Poelen discovered he couldn't move, with total numbness in his hands, arms, feet and legs. One year later, he had another out-of-body experience where two entities showed him how to travel on "that side" and how thoughts function. He has since used this knowledge to help others with problems. The experience made him more spiritual than religious, more compassionate and sensitive. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe head injury from bicycle accident, potentially fatal | Cosmic view of Earth, observation from trees, detailed re-entry process | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw Earth from cosmos and body from above trees | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3164 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4291 Raina R NDE 8207 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1raina_r_nde.html | 2004 | 2017 | F |
Raina underwent emergency surgery for endometriosis with infection and hemorrhage, receiving a hysterectomy. Following the operation, she fell into a coma and was placed in the recovery room under supervision of two nurses. She experienced moments of consciousness but couldn't talk or communicate. She heard noises in the nurses' room and smelled a strong smell of fresh paint. After the nurses opened her window, she felt intense cold and entered a great void. She suffered cardiac arrest around 5:00 AM. During her out-of-body experience, Raina found herself floating above her body, describing the sensation as extremely pleasant with no pain. From her elevated position, she could see a group of people desperately performing resuscitation on her - two women and one or two men doing massage. She specifically observed the cardiac monitor device connected to her heart showing a flat red line and heard the alarm ringing. She experienced an intense sight of colors that were more radiating than normal, with sharper hearing and amplified sounds. She passed through what she uncertainly described as a tunnel and saw unusually bright daylight with intense sun. Raina observed the resuscitation team of two women and one or two men desperately performing cardiac massage on her body. She saw the specific detail of the cardiac monitor showing a flat red line with the alarm sounding. She noted the intense colors and daylight despite it being early morning. Upon returning to her body, she experienced painful reintegration of her physical form and its associated pain. The experience eliminated her fear of death and strengthened her belief in life after death. Two years later, she was able to endure the brutal death of her 29-year-old daughter and accompany friends toward death with love and tenderness. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Cardiac arrest in recovery room with monitoring | Observed resuscitation team, flat-line monitor, alarm | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw resuscitation team performing cardiac massage | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3165 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4382 Raúl ACG NDE 8353 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1raul_acg_nde.html | 1988 | 1988-08-26 | 2017 | M |
Raúl was a flight instructor in Peru who experienced a catastrophic accident during training. The plane went out of control in an inverted spin, dropping below 10,000 feet. He ordered the cadet to eject, but when Raúl ejected, his right leg was caught and severed his femur. The parachute became tangled with the ejection seat, causing him to plunge into the sea and sink to the bottom, trapped in the parachute cords. He began drowning and losing consciousness as everything went black. During his near-death experience, Raúl felt a state of ecstasy and relaxation as he came out of his body and went through an illuminated tunnel. He experienced his existence in milliseconds and felt his family very close, sensing their sadness. Time became confused with everything happening at once. He passed through what he described as a time tunnel similar to film depictions, surrounded by darkness and brilliant light. He experienced incredible peace, ecstasy, and tranquility after an initial silence. His vision was amazed and astonished by everything happening from this brilliant tunnel, describing it as a chord uniting his soul with the body. From outside his body, Raúl observed the brilliant tunnel and experienced a review of his life passing before him in milliseconds. He mentally called out to God for strength for his children, and felt a strong impact when his soul returned to his body. He was then freed from the parachute cords and reached the surface. After swimming for 3.5 hours with a broken leg to reach shore, Raúl was rescued by helicopter. His recovery took a year with three additional operations. The experience eliminated his fear of death and made him more spiritual, compassionate, and sensitive. He believes he was allowed to return because of his responsibility to raise his children. |
5 | Other | 7 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Near drowning with severed femur from ejection accident | Life review in milliseconds, brilliant tunnel experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review and family awareness | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3166 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4407 Richard L NDE 8403 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1richard_l_nde_8403.html | 2017 | 2017-08-06 | 2017 | M |
Richard fell off a ladder and went to the emergency room where he was given pain medication despite warning staff about his Gilbert's Syndrome (fatty liver disease). The injection caused a severe reaction, and 90 minutes later he was experiencing nausea, light-headedness, profuse sweating, and drooling. At his family farm, he went into full seizure mode for 20-30 seconds and was clinically dead for 10-15 seconds with no breathing and very faint or no pulse. His sister slapped his face hard enough to leave a mark, bringing him back. During his death experience, Richard felt himself flying and saw his body surrounded by an electrical blue force. When he tried to touch his thumb and index finger, they appeared to touch but were actually an inch apart. He told his sister he was floating away. He saw the locust tree tops along the north fence line, then took one last breath and was gone. He went from seeing the trees to total darkness - a complete black void where he was floating. His sisters' voices became fainter as he floated away. Then he transitioned from total darkness to a bright white light, surrounded by clouds that seemed to unfold from the center of the light. He felt no pain, unending love, and perfect peace while floating toward the light. A voice said "It's not your time!" and he was pushed back into the darkness. Richard observed the locust tree tops along the north fence line before leaving his body. He also had enhanced vision during the experience, seeing perfectly without his glasses (which he had worn since 1974). He heard his sisters' voices growing faint then loud again as he returned. The experience left Richard without fear of death, with sensory overload to smells (especially spices), sensitivity to bright LED lights, and frequent dreams of deceased relatives warning of future events. He knows he was sent back for an unfinished purpose. |
2 | Home | 10 | 12 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Clinical death for 10-15 seconds with seizure | Saw specific tree tops, perfect vision without glasses, heard voice | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw locust tree tops along fence line | 0.00 | Sisters | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3167 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4448 Robyn C NDE 8454 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1robyn_c_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-05-19 | 2017 | F |
Robyn choked on food at lunch, completely blocking her airway. Unable to breathe, speak, or cough, she tried unsuccessfully to clear the obstruction. She attempted to reach her boss in the next office but collapsed, falling backwards and hitting her head on a filing cabinet. Her boss found her on her back with her face red and bluish, and performed the Heimlich maneuver four times before the obstruction came up. During her experience, Robyn floated up into a horizontal tunnel with a high-pitched buzzing sound that didn't bother her. She felt overwhelming bliss and contentment, comparing it to the complete sensory involvement of diving into water. She slowly floated forward without any sense of time or urgency, drawn to the light ahead. She turned back and saw where she had "popped up" into the tunnel. She became aware of something happening to her right and observed what seemed to be the back of herself looking at something intently - a strange sensation of being separate from another version of herself in the tunnel, as an observer of another her. She continued floating toward the light with increasing anticipation and happiness. As she neared the end of the tunnel, she suddenly felt a sucking sensation and was pulled back into her body. Robyn observed herself in the tunnel as if split into two beings - one with feeling and one with thinking. She saw the tunnel entrance where she had entered and the light at the end she was approaching. She experienced everything with heightened brightness and visual awareness. The experience left Robyn profoundly changed. She no longer fears death and experiences emotional detachment from life, viewing it as possibly a simulation. She developed a brain injury from the hypoxia and concussion, affecting her work and cognitive processing. She feels she returned for an unknown purpose and longs daily for the bliss she experienced in the tunnel. |
5 | Other | 7 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Complete airway obstruction with loss of consciousness | Horizontal tunnel, split consciousness observation, anticipation at tunnel end | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed self split in tunnel | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 3168 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4282 Romy NDE 8198 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1romy_nde_8198.html | 2003 | 2017 | F | Romy was kidnapped and held for 48 hours by an aggressor who raped her multiple times, drugged her, forced her to drink alcohol, injected air into her veins, and sliced her arms in a bathtub attempting to kill her. During what appears to be clinical death, she experienced an out-of-body view of both herself and her attacker below. She then found herself barefoot in a white dress on grass, following a path to a castle where two hooded monks with swords awaited. Inside, she descended a spiral staircase to a chapel filled with light and more monks. A figure at the back held a crown on a violet cushion with a white dove, asking if she wanted to return to her body as she had a mission to accomplish. Upon agreeing, the crown was placed on her head. She saw the inscription "Lux veritas, Lux omniscium, Lux Dei" above the chapel door before returning to consciousness in the bathroom and crawling to call for help. The experience profoundly changed her life path, leading her to join the army and pursue spiritual studies. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Clinical death from criminal attack with multiple life-threatening injuries | Out-of-body observation of scene below, detailed otherworldly journey | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw her own body and attacker from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3169 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4435 Gwen B NDE 8441 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gwen_b_nde.html | 1966 | 1966-12-20 | 2017 | 16 | F |
At age 16, Gwen was kicked in the head by a horse and lost consciousness. The impact caused severe injuries including a partially detached retina, multiple chips to the right zygomatic arch, and a bone-deep laceration. She was unconscious for 5-10 minutes after experiencing severe head trauma from the horse's hoof. During the experience, Gwen found herself floating about 8 feet above her body, watching as her friend Gene crossed her arms over her chest and pulled her body out of the stall. She observed the horse nuzzling her body and saw Gene directing Steve to call for help. She experienced herself as a translucent gray cloud without physical form. When she turned around, she found herself in a limitless gray fog with a multiple presence that communicated telepathically, offering her the choice to stay or return, mentioning there were things they wanted her to accomplish. Her predominant sensation was overwhelming contentment and well-being within this gray cloud realm. The communication had an impartial, almost detached quality. When she chose to return, a roaring whirlpool/tunnel opened beside her, pulling her back with rushing sounds. She anticipated pain upon re-entry. Upon regaining consciousness, she found her arms crossed over her chest exactly as she had observed from above, with the horse still nuzzling her vigorously. The medical injuries confirmed the severity of the trauma, requiring significant recovery time. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Severe head trauma from horse kick documented, loss of consciousness confirmed | Out-of-body observation of specific verifiable details like arms being crossed over chest, verified upon awakening | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw friend crossing her arms over chest and pulling body from stall | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3170 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4337 Halil T NDE 8284 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1halil_t_nde.html | 2017 | 2017-03-26 | 2017 | M |
Halil suffered a heart attack while walking to pick up his daughter from school, collapsing in a populous area. Despite many people passing by, no one initially helped except a young girl who noticed him and went to get help. He was without assistance for nearly an hour, with paramedics later stating he had no chance of survival and was likely already dead. During the experience, Halil lifted from his bed and floated to the ceiling, observing the panic-stricken nurses and hearing paramedics discuss his poor prognosis. He then traveled to his wife's workplace where he observed her computer screen showing Istanbul real estate listings. He continued ascending until he could see the entire city of Samsun, the Black Sea, Ukraine, and eventually the entire Earth from space. After experiencing total darkness and calling out to a higher power, he saw immense light and was pulled through a dark tunnel toward a brilliant yellowish-white light at the end. Halil experienced a complete life review from the womb to present, then found himself in a meadow with incredibly green grass and indescribable flowers. He met his grandfather, who appeared young and walking despite having been wheelchair-bound in life, and his deceased father. They walked toward a beautiful mosque, but as Halil approached, walking became increasingly difficult. An authoritative voice told him he could not enter as he had not finished his life. Upon recovery, his wife confirmed she had been looking at Istanbul real estate that day because her boss had offered her a job there - information Halil couldn't have known normally, validating his out-of-body observations. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest explicitly documented, approximately one hour without help | Verified observation of wife's computer screen showing Istanbul real estate, distant observation of Earth from space | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 3 | 1 | Heard paramedics discussing his condition | 0.00 | Wife | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 3171 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4288 Heather V NDE 23192 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1heather_v_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-03 | 2017 | F |
Heather experienced cardiac arrest when an IV drip kinked for 40 minutes then suddenly unkinked, causing all the anesthesia drugs to rush into her system at once. Her heart went into extreme tachycardia and then stopped functioning for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. She yelled about her heart as nurses came running, with one scrambling through cabinets pulling things onto the floor. During the experience, she found herself flying about 8 feet over her body, watching the scene below as medical staff worked frantically. She observed the nurse searching through cabinets, the nurse assistant running to get the doctor, and staff arguing about whether to inject medication into her chest or IV line. Seeing the flatlined EKG with alarms going off, she realized she was dying. She fell backward through what initially seemed a dark tunnel at thousands of miles per hour, then realized it contained countless lights and colors she had never seen before. Heather arrived in another dimension where she experienced seeing everyone in the hospital through "the eyes of God," feeling divine love for all people and seeing their entire lives, hearts, and souls. She received an information download communicating that all humans are deeply important to God, that life is meant to be hard as a proving ground, and that human love expands the universe. She recognized soul family members including her deceased great-uncle Steve and sensed her still-living grandmother's presence through prayer. She returned to her body squeezing the crying doctor's hand, begging him not to let her go. The experience gave her lasting empathic abilities and precognitive dreams that have proven accurate. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest with documented heart stoppage for 2:45, confirmed in medical records | Observed specific medical procedures including nurse searching cabinets, staff arguments about injection site | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw nurse searching through cabinet | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3172 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4383 Heidi C NDE 8354 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1heidi_c_nde.html | 2004 | 2004-05-29 | 2017 | F |
On Memorial Day 2004, Heidi went into labor with her third child but experienced unusual pain that intensified when sitting or lying down. After delivery, the placenta would not detach despite multiple attempts by the nurse pulling on the umbilical cord. When the doctor arrived and pulled, the umbilical cord detached from the placenta still inside her. After multiple painful attempts to manually remove the placenta, she was taken to surgery as she was bleeding out. Her heart stopped in the operating room due to complications from Mitral Valve Prolapse. During the experience, Heidi woke up in what she calls "home" - heaven. She had no body but was herself, surrounded by angels, loved ones, Jesus, Mother Mary, and God within a radiant, beautiful light. All were connected as one in this warm, golden-white light described as bubbly and effervescent like champagne. Communication occurred through thought without words, with questions answered before she could finish thinking them. She received three repeated messages: she was unconditionally loved; everything is always as it's supposed to be; and everything would always be alright. She understood that if she didn't return, her children and family would be okay. Though she wanted to stay, she was not given the option. The doctor woke her by yelling, and she felt angry at being back in her cold body and the physical world. Medical records obtained ten years later confirmed her heart had stopped during surgery. Her husband initially dismissed the experience as crazy, leading her to remain silent about it for 6-7 years. The experience transformed her life, helping her develop self-love and eventually leave her abusive marriage. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest during surgery, bleeding out from retained placenta | No specific verifiable observations reported, focus on spiritual/otherworldly experience | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||
| 3173 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4373 Heikki A NDE 8337 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1heikki_a_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-04-22 | 2017 | M |
Heikki's stomach ruptured due to internal pressure from a previous fundoplication surgery that prevented gas from escaping, combined with air from his sleep apnea machine and intestinal blockage. After being taken to the emergency room on April 21, 2016, attempts to insert a naso-gastric tube failed due to excessive stomach pressure. He lost consciousness during an MRI scan where his heart and breathing stopped. He received CPR for 65 minutes, followed by emergency surgery to release the pressure from his stomach. During the experience, Heikki had a strong sensation of motherly love he had never experienced before. He has a lingering memory of a giant white circle with his deceased mother and brother standing behind it. He could not cross to the other side of the circle, experiencing what appeared to be a boundary between life and death. After the surgical operation took about 2 hours, he was placed in an artificial coma in the ICU. When brought back to consciousness, the overwhelming feeling of motherly love persisted. His spouse was told by doctors that they had had significant problems with him during the procedure. He remained in ICU until the next day, then spent 10 more days in a regular unit before going home. The experience left him with a changed perspective on life and death, feeling that deceased loved ones exist in the spirit world. He mentioned similarities to Anita Moorjani's NDE experience, particularly regarding the feelings upon awakening from coma. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Cardiac arrest during MRI, CPR for 65 minutes documented, emergency surgery | Saw deceased mother and brother behind white circle boundary | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw deceased relatives behind white circle | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3174 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4434 Ingrid H NDE 8440 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1ingrid_h_nde.html | 1973 | 1973-09 | 2017 | 3 | F |
In September 1973, nearly three-year-old Ingrid fell into a 900-gallon cement water reservoir while playing catch with her sister. The tank was five feet deep with frigid water below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. After losing balance trying to grab a yellow ball, she fell in and sank to the bottom. Her body became unresponsive in the shocking cold, and she was submerged for several minutes before her mother, sensing dread, ran home and pulled her lifeless body out. She had no pulse, blue lips, and was clinically dead until her mother performed CPR. During the experience, Ingrid felt total relief and peace as her body became insubstantial. She saw her own lifeless body suspended in the water from an outside perspective. Beautiful flowers bloomed from nowhere and lifted her away. She found herself observing the maid lounging on her bed listening to radio, then saw her mother walking down the street several blocks away, who suddenly turned and ran back home. She experienced being pure bright light without individual form, communicating with everything as part of the Wholeness. Following the NDE, Ingrid experienced frequent out-of-body experiences and began seeing Beings of Light at age four. These beings appeared as star-like figures in white, silver, and gold, with the golden ones taking human form. They communicated telepathically, telling her she was special and had things to accomplish. She developed numerous psychic abilities including seeing auras, accessing past lives, future visions, and extrasensory perception. The experience gave her permanent awareness that death doesn't exist, we are eternal beings of light, and she had existed before this incarnation. Her subsequent spiritual experiences and abilities profoundly shaped her life path, leading her to become a scientist while maintaining her spiritual awareness. |
5 | Home | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Drowning with clinical death, no pulse, CPR given by mother documented | Verified observations of maid in bedroom and mother walking then running back, telepathic communications | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw maid in bedroom | 1.00 | Mother | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||
| 3175 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4397 James C NDE 8383 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1james_c_nde_8383.html | 1983 | 1983-05-22 | 2017 | M |
On May 22, 1983, James was in a head-on collision with both cars traveling approximately 45 mph. He went through the windshield, was propelled through the air, and landed unconscious on the ground. Glass embedded in his face and the windshield was completely missing from the impact. He suffered severe head trauma and concussion from the accident. During his unconscious state, James experienced seeing the brightest white cloud imaginable. In the center of this brilliant cloud was the face of Jesus, who spoke to him saying, "It's not time yet." This divine encounter was brief but profoundly impactful. James woke up immediately after receiving this message to chaos and confusion with ambulances and police cars at the scene. His head hurt tremendously and he couldn't see straight due to the concussion. The experience remained vivid in his memory and was validated by learning that others had received similar "it's not your time yet" messages in their near-death experiences. Though raised Catholic and only attending church on Easter and Christmas at the time, this experience eventually led to significant spiritual transformation. Years later, he became a born-again believer, finding God in a more meaningful way. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Head trauma with loss of consciousness from severe accident | Saw Jesus in bright cloud, received specific message | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw Jesus in bright cloud | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3176 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4374 James NDE 8344 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1james_nde_8344.html | 1955 | 2017 | 10 | M |
Around age 10 in 1955, James was swimming at a state park lake without knowing how to swim properly. While playing in the water, he kept venturing into deeper areas, intending to stop when the water reached his chin. Unaware of an immediate drop-off just past the buoyed area, he suddenly went under and began thrashing desperately to reach the surface. After struggling briefly, James experienced a tremendous jerk within his body, which he describes as a natural part of the dying process. Suddenly, he was outside his body floating in a semi-conscious state, completely content and no longer struggling. He felt unbelievably happy, enveloped by a loving presence, with no sense of time - just the experience of the present moment with no future or past. His father noticed the situation and came into the lake fully clothed to rescue him, dragging him from the deep end to shore. James remembers being disappointed at being pulled back because he didn't want to leave that peaceful place. His father later dried money from his wallet on the sand, saying "you were just about a goner." The experience left James with lasting impressions about consciousness beyond the body and universal connection. He felt there was no individuality in that state - the personal didn't exist since we are everything. The memory remains vivid even after decades, feeling more real than other childhood memories. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Near-drowning with loss of consciousness, rescued by father | Out-of-body experience with universal consciousness awareness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Experienced universal consciousness | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3177 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4323 Jean-Marc B NDE 8262 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jean_marc_b_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-03 | 2017 | M |
Jean-Marc had suffered a stroke two days earlier with two recurrences and was in the intensive care unit. On the morning of his NDE, he felt dazed as he lifted from his bed, rising to the ceiling where he saw himself lying below. He observed two panic-stricken nurses caring for him but couldn't hear their conversation. His wife was later contacted to come quickly to the hospital. He entered rapidly into a white tunnel, advancing toward an intense light with a floating sensation and sense of well-being. The experience lasted from 9:00 AM until he woke at 6:00 PM, though he didn't perceive this time passing. He didn't see anyone in the tunnel or hear anything, but experienced intense happiness throughout. After waking with his wife crying at his bedside, Jean-Marc sometimes regrets coming back due to ongoing serious health issues. He continues thinking about the experience and wishes he could have gone to the end of the tunnel. The tunnel was immaculately white with a very bright white light at the end. The experience has made him more tolerant toward others and changed how he looks at life. When sharing the experience, he receives mixed reactions - some people laugh while others take it seriously. |
4 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Stroke patient in ICU, apparent cardiac event requiring emergency response | Basic OBE with tunnel and light, no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self from ceiling and panic-stricken nurses | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3178 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4281 Jeannine H NDE 8197 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeannine_h_nde.html | 1962 | 2017 | 5 | F | Jeannine was five years old when she underwent tonsil removal surgery in 1962. Following the procedure, she experienced severe hemorrhaging in the recovery ward, creating a life-threatening situation. During this medical crisis, she had an out-of-body experience where she floated above her physical body and observed medical staff working frantically to save her. She watched doctors and nurses attempting resuscitation and notably saw a policeman with his motorcycle helmet enter from behind a curtain to speak with the doctor about contacting her mother. The experience was characterized by a sense of calm detachment as she observed the scene from above. Upon returning to her body and regaining consciousness, her mother was crying beside her. When Jeannine described what she had witnessed during the emergency, her mother was shocked at the accurate details, confirming that everything Jeannine saw actually happened, including the policeman's presence and his specific role in contacting the family. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 16 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening hemorrhage following surgery documented | Multiple specific observations verified including policeman with helmet, medical procedures | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 3 | 1 | Floating above body watching medical staff | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 3179 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4428 Jeeshma NDE 8427 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeeshma_nde.html | 2002 | 2002-02-01 | 2017 | F | Jeeshma experienced a severe bus accident fifteen years ago that resulted in multiple fractures to her right leg and arm, along with minor head injuries. After a week of inadequate hospital care due to corruption and political influence, she underwent surgery on New Year's Day. Post-surgery complications arose when the ventilator tube became stuck, causing respiratory failure and lung compression. During this medical crisis where she stopped breathing and had no pulse, she experienced herself rapidly moving through a track-like space with white lines on both sides, with white gloves waving from the edges. The movement had an unexplained speed as she traveled toward what she perceived as eternity. Suddenly the rapid movement stopped, and she heard an elderly doctor's voice saying "Now she is perfectly all right" as she returned to consciousness. Medical staff confirmed she had experienced respiratory arrest requiring extensive resuscitation efforts. Jeeshma interprets this as traveling to another world and being pushed back, with the white gloves representing souls that were not allowing her to enter. The experience left her with lasting questions and a strong sense of purpose in living. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death with respiratory failure and pulse cessation documented | Movement through space with specific visual details but limited verification | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Speedy track-road with white lines | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3180 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4334 Jennifer B NDE 8282 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jennifer_b_nde_8282.html | 1981 | 1981-09-05 | 2017 | 11 | F | Jennifer was eleven years old when she fell off her bike, resulting in a skull fracture and traumatic brain injury. She died several times on the way to the hospital and remained in a coma for a week. During her death experiences, she describes an ineffable state that transcends ordinary language and consciousness. She experienced a profound sense of completeness and understanding of everything, where all questions were answered on a different level of existence. She likened the experience to being both a molecule of water in the sea while simultaneously being the entire ocean. There was a complete absence of the restrictions and limitations of physical embodiment. She passed through a living, pulsating tunnel that felt like a birthing canal, leading to an incredibly bright but loving light that felt maternal. The experience was characterized by overwhelming peace, all-knowing awareness, and unity with the universe. Time became irrelevant as all time was known simultaneously. Upon awakening from her coma, despite poor short-term memory, she clearly remembered being angry with her mother, blaming her for making her return to physical life. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Multiple clinical deaths and week-long coma from skull fracture | Profound otherworldly experience but no specific verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Passage through living tunnel to bright light | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||
| 3181 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4452 Jeri W NDE 8460 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeri_w_nde.html | 1976 | 2017 | F | Jeri underwent a dental procedure for jaw and tooth realignment, receiving laughing gas followed by pain-killer combinations that led to an anesthesia overdose. She stopped breathing for several minutes and required resuscitation. During this crisis, she found herself standing barefoot in a vast, bright place surrounded by a dry mist that blocked distant vision. She experienced being outdoors with pale-green grass underfoot and strongly remembered the smell of wildflowers and fruit blossoms with a light breeze. The environment was perfectly comfortable with no sense of temperature difference. Two non-physical entities communicated telepathically, telling her about her unborn child and confirming reincarnation. An internal voice told her she had to go back "for now" as it wasn't her time yet. She experienced intense peace, joy, and unconditional love that made her feel almost unworthy. As she became aware of medical staff shouting "Breathe!" she felt irritated and certain she didn't want to start breathing again. Upon return, she was shaking uncontrollably with joy. The experience included premonitive abilities lasting several months where she could know who would call or enter rooms before it happened. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 14 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Anesthesia overdose with cessation of breathing requiring resuscitation | Vivid otherworldly experience with specific sensory details and temporary psychic abilities | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard staff shouting to breathe | 1.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3182 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4363 John D NDE 8328 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_d_nde_8328.html | 1972 | 2017 | M | John was a water-meter reader who fell off a car after a coworker popped the clutch while he was sitting on the front fender. He fell face-first onto blacktop, fracturing his skull and suffering severe facial injuries. His supervisor reported he hadn't been breathing for several minutes. During this time, John experienced hovering about 10 feet above his body, observing his supervisor holding his head in his lap and screaming for the ambulance to hurry. He then found himself in a foggy but not foggy place with no defined borders or colors, experiencing profound peace without pain and no panic despite not breathing. He heard an EMT saying he couldn't stabilize him in the ambulance. Later in the emergency room, he heard someone ask "Do we know the next of kin?" while he was on a gurney with a sheet over his head. He sat up, startling a nurse who screamed and dropped her tray. He provided his wife and father's contact information before passing out again, waking two days later with extensive injuries. The experience transformed his view of death, removing his fear and providing certainty that something exists after death. | 5 | Other | 10 | 16 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Clinical death with cessation of breathing for several minutes after head trauma | Multiple specific observations including OBE view of supervisor, EMT comment, and dramatic return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Hovering above body seeing supervisor | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3183 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4283 John L NDE 8199 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_l_nde_8199.html | 1988 | 2017 | 17 | M | Seventeen-year-old John was hit by a car while riding his bike to the library. In the seconds before impact, knowing death was imminent, he experienced unprecedented peace, contentment, fearlessness, and infinite happiness with overwhelming unconditional love. His brain operated on multiple levels simultaneously with countless thoughts about people in his life. After the impact, he suffered a subdural hematoma with loss of consciousness and grand mal seizure requiring emergency brain surgery. During unconsciousness, he vividly experienced a perfect terrarium-like realm with extraordinarily vivid green trees and grass, streams with perfect sounds, and beings both human and non-human coexisting peacefully. The temperature was always perfect, with people running barefoot and playing joyfully without need for shelter or concern for food. He interpreted this as a perfect Eden where all were content. In later dreams and fever states, he has seen his deceased mother in this realm. The experience profoundly impacted him, particularly as a gay youth in 1980s Indiana, providing him with lasting certainty about continuation after death. Recently, these visions have intensified, returning with rich detail and refusing to leave his mind. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Subdural hematoma with seizure and brain surgery indicates life-threatening event | Vivid otherworldly realm experience but no verifiable earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Perfect terrarium-like realm | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3184 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4351 Juan F NDE 8307 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1juan_f_nde.html | 1980 | 2017 | 7 | M | Seven-year-old Juan was in a classroom when he suddenly fainted and stopped breathing. He found himself floating at the front of the classroom a few centimeters above the floor, then observed everyone crowded around his physical body trying to resuscitate him. He floated higher, above everyone watching the resuscitation efforts. He felt himself rising above the roof with a sensation of heat, passed through the roof, and then everything became just light - a white light that enfolded him completely. When this total light experience ended and he felt his eyes closing, he opened them again to find himself back at his desk with everyone around him confirming he had fainted and stopped breathing. The experience left him with profound feelings of peace, tranquility, unity with others, and empathy. He felt united with everyone in the classroom with love toward them. The experience sparked a lifelong quest for knowledge about life after death and spiritual matters, transforming his worldview from uncertainty to conviction about God's existence and the continuation of consciousness after death. | 6 | Other | 3 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Fainting with breathing cessation but unclear duration or severity | OBE with observation of resuscitation and passage through roof to light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Floating view of resuscitation | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3185 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4364 Judy G NDE 8329 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1judy_g_nde_8329.html | 1967 | 1967-12-16 | 2017 | F | Judy was in a head-on auto collision while seven and a half months pregnant, going through the windshield and requiring complete blood transfusion. During traumatic premature labor, she heard a doctor say "Look at her! Give her oxygen!" and entered a dark tunnel or void clutching the stretcher sides. Two beings communicated telepathically about her unborn child, saying "It is his time to be born again. If not to you, then to someone else," instantly revealing reincarnation's reality. They answered her questions instantaneously, and she was asked whether to continue life or die. When shown what death meant - not an ending but a wonderful opening to real life with unconditional completeness, love, and knowledge - she felt almost unworthy of such love. She chose to return thinking "I have not been in this life that long and have not shared very much love yet." Upon return, she was shaking uncontrollably with joy. The experience granted her lasting abilities to know who would call before the phone rang and what people would say or do before they did it for several months. She gained absolute conviction about God as complete unconditional love and pure light, larger than religion or Earth's culture. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 7 | Clinical death during traumatic childbirth after severe accident | Telepathic communication about unborn child, reincarnation knowledge, premonitive abilities | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard doctor's emergency command | 0.00 | Husband, Mother | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 3186 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4369 Karen H NDE 8336 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1karen_h_nde_8336.html | 2014 | 2014-02-12 | 2017 | F | Karen had been drinking rum all day with her new husband when she consumed too much alcohol and ended up on the floor of her garage, believing she stopped breathing. During this life-threatening event, she suddenly found herself very far away in a swirling tunnel of darkness that felt fitting for her. She observed a bright light far in the distance and turned to see her body lying on the garage floor with her husband crying and repeatedly calling her name. She felt extremely distant from her physical form, remaining stationary in the tunnel rather than floating upward. The experience lasted several minutes before she suddenly returned to her body. Upon returning, she experienced an overwhelming desire to go back to where she had been. The experience left her with no fear of death and the knowledge that the veil between life and death is extremely thin. | 5 | Home | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening alcohol overdose described | General out-of-body observation of self and husband | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self on garage floor and husband crying | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3187 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4317 Karen T NDE 8250 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1karen_t_nde.html | 1982 | 1982-07-07 | 2017 | F | During back surgery in 1982, Karen's surgeon accidentally cut a major artery, causing severe hemorrhaging. She found herself near the ceiling observing the doctor swearing angrily and ordering blood while her body was flipped on the table. She moved through walls and witnessed a surgeon rushing to help, noting his brown jacket and anxious demeanor. Rising through hospital floors and over the city, she entered a dark tunnel leading to intense light. A guide led her to meet deceased relatives across a river, then to a Greek-style building for a life review on a screen-like device. She re-experienced life events from multiple perspectives with loving spiritual beings. Shown future possibilities, she saw her family's prayers linking to reach her, especially her daughter's final prayer. This reconnected her emotionally to her earthly life, and she chose to return for her children. Upon recovery, she confirmed details with the surgeon who saved her life, including his arrival in street clothes from his office. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 45 | Exceptional Evidence | 15 | Major arterial bleeding during surgery causing life-threatening hemorrhage | Multiple specific observations verified including surgeon in street clothes, swearing in OR, family in waiting room | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 3 | 2 | Heard surgeon swearing in OR | 1.00 | Emergency surgeon | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3188 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4294 Katherine L NDE 8213 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1katherine_l_nde.html | 2001 | 2001-02-19 | 2017 | F | During emergency surgery for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, Katherine experienced life-threatening complications when the pregnancy sack ruptured. She left her body and heard surgeons discussing the excessive bleeding. Floating toward light, she arrived at a place with beautiful wildlife and buildings where she was greeted by beings including her deceased childhood pet dog. Using a touch-screen device unknown to her at the time, she conducted a detailed life review examining events from multiple perspectives. She met with wise beings who showed her unconditional love and discussed areas for improvement, concluding that her greatest challenges were times of inaction rather than wrong choices. She stayed in vivid gardens where she could access all knowledge and felt weightless without pain. An ascended master she called Jesus spent extensive time discussing special knowledge with her. The experience emphasized choosing loving action over inaction. She returned understanding she had future opportunities to impact humanity positively. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Emergency surgery for ruptured ectopic pregnancy with life-threatening bleeding | Detailed otherworldly experiences including technology unknown at the time (touchscreen) | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard surgical team discussing complications | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3189 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4393 Katie J NDE 8374 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1katie_j_nde.html | 2010 | 2010-02-01 | 2017 | 21 | F | Katie died from a suicide attempt and experienced clinical death with cessation of breathing and heart function. She watched medical staff wheel her body past her in the hospital hallway and observed them working on her body. A man accompanied her during the experience, turning her back to watch as they worked on her body, telling her she had done this so must watch. When she tried to walk away, the man said it was his time to go, not hers, that she was not finished in this life. She then heard a beep, took a breath, and was looking up at the doctor who called nurses to announce her return. The experience led to significant changes in her religious beliefs, moving away from Christian views and no longer believing in heaven as traditionally taught. She now believes the afterlife is actually a next life and that what she learned in Sunday school was false. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death from suicide attempt with cessation of breathing/heart function | Observed body being wheeled past and medical staff working on her | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Watched body being wheeled in hallway | 0.00 | Incompatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 3190 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4304 Katie V NDE 8231 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1katie_v_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-04-14 | 2017 | F | After laparoscopic surgery, Katie crashed in recovery with dropping blood pressure and internal bleeding into her abdominal cavity. Her husband saw her grayish corpse-like color as she experienced tunnel vision. At the OR threshold, despite blurry vision without contacts, she clearly saw a figure in white with neck-length hair and beard whom staff said was not the surgeon. During her experience, she felt timeless, pain-free, calm and at peace, surrounded by darkness but unafraid. She felt a presence ensuring she was not alone and pressed forward knowing she was leaving her husband and two young children. She knew she had to fight for them and awoke with a jolt on a ventilator in ICU, having received 5 units of blood during surgery and 2 more after. She had nearly bled to death. The experience eliminated her fear of death and she now knows the afterlife exists. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Rapid internal bleeding requiring 7 units blood transfusion, nearly bled to death | Saw mysterious figure in white that staff said was not surgeon, despite no contacts | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw figure in white near operating room | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3191 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4432 Keith R NDE 8435 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1keith_r_nde_8435.html | 1981 | 2017 | 17 | M | Keith was hospitalized after possible LSD use led to severe symptoms including blindness and continuous vomiting. In ICU with blood pressure reaching 180/210, he flatlined while staff frantically tried to lower his BP. He left his body, rising to the ceiling and watching his flatlined heart monitor and resuscitation efforts. He entered a winding tunnel experiencing complete calm while his entire life passed before him, showing everyone he helped and hurt with some moments slowed down. A pinhole light appeared and grew into brilliant white light emanating warm love. As he approached, Jesus Christ emerged and stopped him at the tunnel's end, saying "It's not your time" and pushing him back to Earth. He returned to his body with beating heart and relieved doctors. His sight returned on day three. The experience strengthened his belief in God and he never touched hard drugs again. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Flatlined in ICU with BP 210/180, cardiac arrest during resuscitation | Specific details of OR scene, life review, tunnel, Jesus figure saying specific words | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Originally blind from condition | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw resuscitation efforts from ceiling | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3192 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4295 Kustav K NDE 8216 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kustav_k_nde.html | 2013 | 2013-12-05 | 2017 | M | Kustav was shot in the head during a robbery attempt in Estonia. He hovered over his body watching youths kick his head as they walked away. He floated quickly to his childhood farm and found his cat Elmar's grave with his messy handwriting. The sky went completely black, then he saw bright white light going upward. Rising through the light stream, he felt very cold seeing snowflakes, then reached a floating snow-covered island with one pine tree. His deceased white Persian cat Elmar was there with green eyes and luscious fur. Holding Elmar, he felt warm and the energy of love, crying with happiness and smelling him exactly as before. A powerful voice said "Kustav, it is not your time to die! Elmar will be here waiting for you when you get back!" He was pulled back, floating past Elmar's grave to the hospital, entering his unconscious body and waking unable to talk but feeling warmth from the experience. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Shot in head during criminal attack, unconscious and near death | Detailed memories of deceased pet including specific appearance and sensations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw attackers kick his head | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3193 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4370 Laetitia V NDE 8339 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1laetitia_v_nde.html | 2003 | 2017 | 21 | F | During 13-hour emergency gallbladder surgery, Laetitia couldn't breathe and felt her strength leaving. She left her body and entered a dark tunnel with wandering souls, seeing beautiful luminous light at the end bringing relief and intense love. A humanoid silhouette blocked the tunnel, showing her entire life scrolling past, telling her she could change things and help many people as her soul was pure and needed on earth. She thought of her 4-month-old son and moved backward through a vortex. In a defibrillation room, she watched a doctor pronounce her dead while checking his watch, but a nurse begged him to try once more as she was only 21. The doctor shocked her one last time and she returned to her body. Her roommate later confirmed something strange happened as staff said "She's coming back from far, the young one." The experience gave her psychic abilities, magnetism, and communication with ascended masters. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clinical death during surgery requiring defibrillation to restart heart | Specific scene of doctor pronouncing death, nurse's plea, final shock attempt | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Witnessed resuscitation scene | 1.00 | Hospital roommate | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3194 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 4453 Lynn Z NDE 8466 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1lynn_z_nde.html | 1994 | 2017 | F | Lynn underwent surgery for a spinal pump for her rare Moersch-Woltman syndrome. She didn't wake for days due to medication overdose and/or anesthesia reaction, gasping for breath four times per minute with visitors told she would die. She found herself in a transparent tube running at light-speed past stars despite being wheelchair-bound, experiencing amazing freedom. Rising through hospital ceilings to the sky, she entered a dark cave-like area emerging into intense light. Following a guide up rocky incline to gorgeous pastoral scene with vibrant flowers and shade trees, she met deceased relatives across a river including father, brother, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents she'd never met. A person made entirely of love held her, feeding her calm peaceful love, healing her deepest grief and loneliness, communicating she was deeply valued without words. This three-week "sign" of God's love and peace stayed with her intensely before gradually fading. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Surgery complications with severe respiratory compromise, expected to die | Detailed otherworldly journey and encounter with being of pure love | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Rare disease affecting anesthesia | 6/19/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3195 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF Ronald M NDE 8312 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1ronald_m_nde_8312.html | 2010 | 2017 | M | Ronald was driving home from work during a snowstorm at 3 AM when he experienced severe chest pain. Despite praying to make it home safely, his chest pain suddenly stopped about halfway home, followed by a feeling that he was not going to survive. Before he could fully stop his car, he found himself standing before a brilliant and awesome light in a dark space. He felt pure love emanating from this light but could not move, hear clearly, or speak. Three figures appeared in front of the light, with two appearing to converse while a third approached Ronald. This figure had a glowing aura, beard, and mustache, and attempted to communicate with him, though Ronald could not hear the words. Suddenly, a figure appeared within the brilliant light itself, visible only as a shadow due to the light intensity. This being raised its right hand and spoke the only words Ronald could hear: Now is not your time. The primary observation was Ronald perceiving specific beings and their actions while his heart had stopped. He observed detailed features of the approaching figure, including the beard and glowing aura. Most significantly, he witnessed the central figure within the light making a specific gesture of raising the right hand and heard the exact words spoken. These detailed perceptions occurred while he was experiencing cardiac arrest in his vehicle. Ronald instantly returned to his body in the car, which had gone into a ditch. He jumped out, praised the Lord, and miraculously managed to get out of the ditch and drive home safely. The experience transformed his faith from belief to absolute knowledge of God existence. | 2 | Other | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Heart attack with cardiac arrest while driving | Detailed observations of beings and specific words heard during arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw beings and heard words during cardiac arrest | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3196 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF Ruei H NDEs 8208 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1ruei_h_ndes.html | 2015 | 2017 | F | Ruei experienced two cardiac arrests within six months, both occurring during medical procedures. The first happened during a tilt table test when her heart went from racing to vibrating before arresting. She received emergency CPR but had no memory of the resuscitation. Instead, she found herself under a veranda in what looked like Da Dao Cheng square in Taipei, encountering anxious smoking men and a guide who seemed to be her deceased grandfather negotiating with a gatekeeper from another realm. She fell into a long dark tunnel that was cylindrical and elastic, changing size continuously. The darkness was unique - very dark yet bright, illuminated by distant light. She experienced herself as a ball or dot without body form, urgently wanting to reach the light where she felt all answers awaited. A loud mixed male-female voice called her to come back, and she was forcefully pushed, feeling her soul sucked back through her neck. The second arrest during an electrophysiology test showed six seconds of ventricular fibrillation on the monitor. The veridical elements include her awareness during the first arrest that medical staff said they pulled her back finally and a nurse grabbing her arm. During the second event, she heard specific numbers being called out before losing consciousness and was aware of the electric shock burns on her chest from defibrillation, later confirmed by doctors. Both experiences resulted in significant life changes, including a complete reversal of her moral values and ethical understanding. She developed enhanced intuitive abilities and could predict future events accurately. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Two documented cardiac arrests during monitored medical procedures | Awareness of medical staff statements and procedures during arrests | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard medical staff during first arrest | 1.00 | Medical staff | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3197 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF Sergio G NDE 8375 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sergio_g_nde.html | 1994 | 2017 | M | Sergio was driving back to Nazca, south of Lima, when he fell asleep and crashed almost head-on with a passenger bus. At the moment of impact, a white light consumed his entire field of vision, and he lost all sense of time. He awoke standing in what appeared to be a giant garden or cemetery with marble buildings, steps, and embankments. The light was warm like sunset, and the vegetation was short and reddish-brown without any green. While puzzling over this strange scene, an enormous presence appeared to his right, resembling a giant tower or bishop chess piece. Despite its solid nature, Sergio found it impossible to focus on clearly - it appeared as an out-of-focus image with no defined borders, like a silent swirl. This presence communicated telepathically, inviting him to stay. When Sergio angrily refused, the presence punched him, causing him to fall through three horrific realms: a battlefield of shredded bodies and blood, an ice desert with a violet sun, and an erupting volcano. After falling through darkness, Sergio saw a growing light in the background and surrendered to what he thought was death. Instead, he found himself back in his car seat with his face covered in broken glass and blood. The passengers from the bus he hit were screaming He is alive indicating they had believed him dead. The experience occurred during a severe car accident that appeared fatal to witnesses. The experience left Sergio with a moderate fear of death and increased compassion, though he remains agnostic about its ultimate meaning. | 5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Severe car crash, potentially fatal | Limited veridical content, mainly subjective experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard passengers after returning | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3198 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF Seth C NDE 8325 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1seth_c_nde.html | 2016 | 2017 | M | Seth experienced a widow-maker heart attack on Friday the 13th of May 2016, the worst type with only 10 percent survival rate. After calling 911 and meeting paramedics at the bottom of his apartment stairs, he went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance. He coded for 20 minutes while the paramedic attempted resuscitation. During this time, Seth was suddenly surrounded by beautiful white light and immediately wondered about his beloved dog Blue who had died 10 days earlier. Blue communicated telepathically in English, providing comfort about his wellbeing. Seth experienced an instant download of information about all his loved ones and much more than he could fully remember. He then met his best friend whom he recognized as Jesus, though neither spoke names aloud. They had known each other forever, and Seth felt overwhelming love. All communication was telepathic and instantaneous. At the end, Seth argued about not wanting to return, but Jesus audibly spoke - the only verbal communication - saying No, not yet. The veridical observations include Seth awareness during cardiac arrest of the paramedic asking questions he tried but could not answer, hearing the paramedic say Code 3 and tell the driver to Punch it. These emergency communications occurred while Seth was in the light. The paramedic later validated Seth death status and 20-minute resuscitation. The experience completely transformed Seth life, converting him from drug dealing to ministry. His entire family shunned him, but he remained steadfast in his new faith. | 1 | Ambulance | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Widow-maker heart attack, coded 20 minutes in ambulance | Heard specific paramedic communications during arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard paramedic communications | 1.00 | Paramedic | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3199 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF Sharon W NDE 8345 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sharon_w_nde.html | 2012 | 2017 | F | Sharon was driving through a curve when her car made a breaking noise and began to slide. The vehicle rolled four times and hit a tree, with witnesses later photographing her lying under the car. She was not wearing a seatbelt and found herself twisted and jammed between the gear shifter and radio. After freeing herself and lying on the ground, she felt no cold despite winter conditions, no pain despite severe injuries including a crushed arm and head wounds. As she lay on the ground fading away, the real world was replaced by a distant glowing light. Moving closer, she saw three black shapes that lightened in color, revealing her deceased mother, grandmother, and dog Diamond. They exchanged telepathic greetings, and Sharon felt sheer joy and excitement, wanting to hug them. However, they backed away twice when she tried to touch them, explaining she could not stay because it was not her time yet. Despite her protests and desire to remain, they said goodbye and slid backward toward the brightest part of the light until fading away. The primary veridical observation was Sharon awareness of medical personnel talking while she could not see them, followed by her vision returning in the ambulance where she saw the female technician working on her. The experience completely eliminated Sharon fear of death and gave her certainty about the afterlife. She became significantly more compassionate toward strangers, believing good deeds help one reach heaven. | 5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe car accident, rolled 4 times, life-threatening | Limited veridical content, heard medical personnel | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/19/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard medical personnel | 0.00 | Witness | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 3200 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF Stacy K NDE 8341 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1stacy_k_nde.html | 2015 | 2017 | 47 | F | Stacy, a special education teacher and cantorial soloist, was on her solo summer sabbatical in Portland when she experienced a stroke while driving through Oregon wine country. The right side of her body failed - arm, leg, tongue, and face went weak and numb. She managed to reach a Kaiser Permanente Hospital emergency room where she announced her stroke. While in the ER cubicle, she felt a shift and called out Something is happening I am going south before popping out of her body and watching from the ceiling as a nurse quickly hurried out the door. She then found herself in what appeared to be outer space - vast, dark but not black, crackling with energy. God was by her right side, and waves of overwhelming, warm, unconditional love and acceptance enveloped her. She understood that every moment of life is governed by free will, and while outside her body, she had a choice: turn left to return to her body or right to join the delicious field of love energy. Over her right shoulder, she saw a shimmering starry path curving up into the distance, emanating pure welcoming love that made her audibly gasp in awe. The primary veridical observation was seeing from ceiling level as the nurse opened the door and exited her room when she called for help. With her gasp, air filled her lungs and brought her back to the hospital gurney. The experience gave her greater self-worth, understanding herself as an instrument for God, and transformed her approach to leading religious services. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Stroke with emergency room treatment | OBE observation of nurse leaving room | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6/20/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw nurse leave from ceiling | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||