| 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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| 3801 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5354 Vicki G NDE 9862 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1vicki_g_nde.html | 1998 | 2024 | 61 | F | Vicki experienced a life-threatening hemorrhage following a hysterectomy in 1998. After the surgery, she began bleeding internally and her blood pressure dropped critically low, requiring emergency intervention. Medical staff administered four pints of blood simultaneously through both arms and jugular veins to stabilize her condition, while surgeons performed emergency surgery to locate and stop the internal bleeding. During this critical period, Vicki found herself observing the scene from above the operating table, watching the medical team frantically working to save her life. She describes being in a viewing area above the operating room, watching doctors operate on her body below. Upon awakening, she had a large bandage on her abdomen and her face was severely swollen. Family and friends had gathered, believing she was dying. Though the experience was brief, Vicki maintains clear memories of the out-of-body perspective during the emergency surgery. She reports feeling peaceful during the experience despite the medical crisis occurring to her physical body. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Post-surgical hemorrhage requiring emergency intervention and blood transfusion | Out-of-body observation of operating room scene | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed medical team from above operating table | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 3 | |||||||||
| 3802 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5464 Vicki W NDE 13042 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1vicki_w_nde.html | 1989 | 2024 | 27 | F | Vicki experienced clinical death from septicemia and encephalitis following exposure to toxic petrochemical fumes in 1989. She became violently ill at work and was sent home, deteriorating rapidly until her husband called an ambulance. At the hospital, she was placed on antiviral and antibacterial IV drips, but when the antibacterial medication was stopped, she died. She left her body and floated above it, watching panicked doctors saying "She's going down" as monitors flatlined. She was drawn through a blue tunnel with silver and white streaks into brilliant white light filled with unconditional love. She visited a healing temple where colored lights cleansed her, and a garden where flowers sang in perfect harmony. She attended learning sessions including one on plant creation, met beings of light, and believes she encountered Jesus Christ. After extensive conversations with light beings about her life purpose, she was given a choice to return. When asked how many people she would help if she returned, they said "hundreds if not thousands," prompting her decision to come back. She was in intensive care for a week and hospitalized for a month, taking a year to fully recover. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death from septicemia and encephalitis with cardiac monitoring | Multiple specific observations including healing temple, singing garden, plant creation class, and verifiable out-of-body observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 3 | 2 | Observed medical team from above during cardiac arrest | 0.00 | Husband | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3803 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5444 Victor D NDE 13010 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1victor_d_nde.html | 2023 | 2024 | M | Victor experienced a life-threatening blood pressure drop in September 2023, losing consciousness for approximately 15 minutes. His wife screamed "Stay with me!" as he slipped away. He found himself in darkness that transformed into warm, bright blue light and sunshine. He awakened on a bed in another realm, feeling young and healthy, in his 20s and taller. All earthly memories vanished like a forgotten dream. He felt completely at home, knowing his wife was in the next room doing laundry. The experience felt more real than earthly life, with perfect health and no pain. He experienced complete happiness and security, feeling utterly certain of the love between him and his wife. Despite the earthly experience lasting 15 minutes, his time in the other realm felt like only 10 seconds. He was pulled back by his wife's voice, which caused him pain. Upon return, paramedics said they thought they had lost him. Victor was angry about being brought back, knowing he and his wife were happy on the other side. His confusion stems from experiencing his wife as simultaneously present in both realms. | 5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Blood pressure drop with loss of consciousness for 15 minutes | Awareness of other realm details but no specific verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3804 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5381 Violet T NDE 9918 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1violet_t_nde.html | 1990 | 2024 | 6 | F | Violet experienced a drowning incident in a swimming pool during the 1990s when she was 6-7 years old. While swimming at her great aunt and uncle's pool, she slipped off a float and sank underwater. After initial panic, she became extremely calm as time seemed to stop. The pool transformed into a different underwater environment with trees and landscape visible in the background. A lady in white floated above her, surrounded by bright beams of light coming from the sky - one large beam and several smaller ones. Initially everything was quiet, then sounds became loud with yelling, screaming, and underwater noises. Her cousin swam over her and somehow Violet grabbed her waist and was pulled from the pool. She coughed up water but didn't require hospitalization. During the experience, she felt calm, peaceful, comfortable, and a sense of belonging she had never felt before or since. The vivid nature of the experience convinced her it was real, especially given her self-described lack of imagination and inability to daydream or visualize. She had other near-death experiences from drug overdoses that were completely different, more like nightmares cutting to black nothingness. | 5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Drowning incident with life-threatening submersion | Specific visual details of lady in white, light beams, transformed environment | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw lady in white floating above | 0.00 | Cousin | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 3805 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5428 Will S NDE 9986 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1will_s_nde.html | 2024 | 2024-05-16 | 2024 | M | Will experienced clinical death during elective surgery to remove a lipoma on May 16, 2024, when he had an acute allergic reaction to general anesthesia. After being placed on the operating table and beginning sedation, he suddenly found himself at the ceiling watching chaotic efforts to resuscitate him. He was pulled dramatically upward through a dark tunnel 10-15 feet in diameter at high speed, with transparent brownish-black walls through which he could see pale pink orbs traveling the opposite direction. Emerging into a star-studded realm with spherical 360-degree vision, he encountered a brilliant white light with golden tendrils that conveyed overwhelming unconditional love, peace, and acceptance. He then found himself in a magical meadow with vibrant, living vegetation - breathing grass and trees with heartbeats. He saw a glowing celestial city surrounded by a maroon marble wall. During his life review, he simultaneously re-experienced multiple life events on floating screens while feeling the emotions of everyone involved. His deceased grandmother appeared young (30-35 years old) and told him it wasn't his time. He was immediately pulled back through his head with a loud pop. The medical team confirmed they had lost him for over 15 minutes. Will now lives fearlessly, telling everyone he loves them and doing good deeds constantly. | 3 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death during surgery with anesthesia reaction and successful resuscitation | Extremely detailed observations of tunnel, light beings, meadow, city, life review screens, and deceased grandmother | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 4 | 1 | Observed resuscitation efforts from ceiling | 1.00 | Medical team | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3806 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5497 William H NDE 13096 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1william_h_nde_13096.html | 1963 | 1963-11-25 | 2024 | 9 | M | Nine-year-old William experienced clinical death on November 25, 1963, three days after JFK's assassination, when he suffered severe burns over 35% of his body from a campfire accident involving gasoline. Given morphine at the scene and rushed to the hospital, he lost consciousness in the ER and woke in his room seeing his mother. When she screamed for help as his blood drained away, he left his body and floated to a corner above, observing his bandaged form below while feeling sorry for it and enjoying the ability to float. He watched as a surgeon performed a cut-down procedure on his ankle to find a vein, pulling it up and forcefully squeezing blood into his collapsed veins. A force pulled him through the wall where a great light appeared. He floated down a road lined with welcoming black silhouettes of deceased beings. Realizing he was dying, he became distraught and cried, wanting to return to his family and play Little League. God appeared as an 8-foot diameter brilliant light, communicated telepathically, hugged him like a grandfather, and said "It is not your time to die." William awoke the next day initially thinking it was just a dream. His mother later confirmed the medical details he had observed while out of body. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinical death from severe burns with documented cardiac arrest | Observed specific medical procedure (cut-down on ankle) later confirmed, saw surgeon and nurses | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed cut-down procedure on ankle | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 3807 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5353 Zoila V NDE 9861 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1zoila_v_nde.html | 1986 | 1986-05-08 | 2024 | 10 | F | Ten-year-old Zoila suffered a head injury on May 8, 1986, when she crashed her bicycle into a parked car while riding down parking garage ramps without functioning brakes. After hitting the car at high speed, she was unconscious for an unknown period. While unconscious in the hospital, she could hear conversations including a doctor telling her father that if she didn't wake up, more severe injury and testing were indicated. She suddenly saw the room from ceiling level, observing her mother storming out and her father's bald spot as he sat by the bed. She was vacuumed out through brilliant warm light that enveloped her with comfort and peace, traveling at high speed through light that might have been a tunnel. She landed in a realm of pure love, acceptance, and feeling of being home. Two tall beings of radiant light communicated telepathically, asking if she felt God, which she confirmed. They said her grandmother would take her next, but when an elderly woman appeared, Zoila said it wasn't her grandmother as hers were alive. The beings told her to look again, and she recognized this was her grandmother from a past life. Her father's desperate calling pulled her back. The beings said she could return and would come back someday. She verified her observations with her father, including his red polo shirt, but was told not to discuss the experience. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 14 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Head injury from bicycle accident requiring hospitalization | Verified observations of father's clothing and position, heard conversations while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw father from ceiling perspective | 1.00 | Father | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||
| 3808 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5461 Darren R NDE 13035 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1darren_r_nde.html | 2016 | 2024 | M |
Darren was recovering in ICU from double-bypass heart surgery when he went into ventricular fibrillation. He was unconscious and had no memory of the resuscitation efforts. The medical team performed CPR and used a defibrillator at his father's urging because Darren suffered from tachycardia. During his unconscious state, Darren experienced a remarkable life review that occurred all at once, not chronologically. He experienced every event from his entire life simultaneously, but with a unique perspective - he felt everything from the viewpoint of the other person he was interacting with. He experienced how his words and actions affected others, feeling their emotions and reactions. The review was completely dispassionate, neither frightening nor happy, but rather an objective assessment of his life in minute detail. The flood of memories was interrupted partway through and instantly ceased, as if someone had hit an off button. The most significant aspect was experiencing interactions from others' perspectives. Darren initially considered whether this might be cerebral hypoxia, but realized that hypoxia would have shown events from his own viewpoint, not from others'. He could feel exactly what other people felt during his past interactions with them. After regaining consciousness, he couldn't recall specific events despite the incredible detail experienced during the review. The experience led to significant spiritual changes. Darren converted from Buddhism to Christianity, believing the life review indicated God's existence and plan. He became more thoughtful in his relationships, particularly with his wife. The experience taught him that how we treat others is incredibly important, serving as a wake-up call to be less selfish and love others more. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Ventricular fibrillation in ICU with monitoring and defibrillator use documented | Unique perspective shift during life review - experienced events from others' viewpoint rather than his own, which he notes would be inconsistent with hypoxia | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review from others' perspective | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3809 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5446 Emily W NDE 13013 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1emily_w_nde.html | 2013 | 2013-02-02 | 2024 | 40 | F |
Emily was 40 years old and pregnant with her fifth child when she experienced a catastrophic medical emergency during childbirth. After her water broke at home, she was rushed to the hospital with intense pain and bleeding. For 11 hours, she bled internally from a torn cesarean scar while medical staff failed to recognize the severity of her condition. Despite her desperate pleas and her partner's trauma from witnessing her distress, she was left unattended until a surgeon finally recognized she was dying. The surgeon called a code, and Emily was thrown onto a trolley and rushed to surgery within two minutes, where she was given an epidural as general anesthesia was too dangerous given her near-death state. During the emergency surgery, Emily lost consciousness and found herself in an endlessly foggy room with no walls or ceiling, like being in the center of clouds. In this mysterious space, she encountered God who walked up to her with a beautiful smile and embraced her, expressing happiness at seeing her. God's voice was deeply familiar, like every voice she had ever heard molded into one resonance. His skin shone with intensely bright but not glaring light. They walked together and talked, with God conveying profound sadness about how humanity treats each other, emphasizing that love, kindness, forgiveness, and helping one another were what made him happy. God explained that love was like an infection that could consume darkness on earth, and that Emily was part of him as he was part of her and every soul. Four dark figures appeared before the tunnel of bluish-green light that formed a slow-moving vortex. Two radiated motherly love, one seemed deeply concerned (she thought was her father), and the fourth had a protective, authoritative aura. God told her she had to return to take care of two of the figures, though as a child she couldn't understand why she would need to care for adults. The murmuring light grew louder when she focused on it but she could control its volume. Emily awoke in recovery freezing cold and shaking uncontrollably for an hour. The surgeon informed her she could never have more children as the internal damage was severe. Her newborn son's eyes locked with hers with the same recognition she had felt when meeting his father. Years later, she believes God touched her again when a voice told her "BODIES ARE MADE TO HEAL THEMSELVES" before surgery for an infected milk duct, leading to miraculous healing that astounded doctors. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening internal bleeding for 11 hours, emergency surgery with surgeon stating she was dying | Detailed encounter with God including specific messages about love and humanity, four figures with distinct characteristics | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Encounter with God in foggy realm | 0.00 | Surgeon | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||
| 3810 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5310 Errol B NDE 9806 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1errol_b_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-04-13 | 2024 | M |
In 2016, Errol experimented with IV opiates for the first and last time, before widespread fentanyl contamination. After injection, he initially felt fine but then experienced respiratory arrest. His friends threw him in cold water and attempted resuscitation before paramedics arrived. He was not breathing for an estimated 10-15 minutes, turning cyanotic. His friend saved his life by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while waiting for paramedics who administered Narcan. During his clinical death, Errol found himself in a vast darkness that felt like standing in a dark room, though he had no sense of having a body. The space was peaceful with no fear and no memory of what had transpired. He existed in pure consciousness without recollection of his life, feeling as if his eyes were open but without needing to blink. An overwhelming peace pervaded the experience. Suddenly, rainbow-colored lips appeared like someone kissing glass from the other side, glowing with every color of the rainbow. Before each disappearance, a shower of rainbow colors would blow in a swirling pattern from the edges. This apparition appeared 4-5 times, matching the number of rescue breaths his friend gave him. Errol later realized the rainbow lips were his friend's lips pressing against his during resuscitation, with the shower of colors representing each life-saving breath. He could see these colors more vividly than normal vision, comparing all earthly colors to these brilliant rainbow hues even now. The darkness felt familiar and reassuring, described as light despite being dark. He questioned "What is that?" and "Where am I?" before being resuscitated. The experience permanently changed him, eliminating his fear of death and creating an aversion to drug experimentation. He recognized there is something after death and has never forgotten the darkness and the colors of the breath of life. Despite previous experimentation with hallucinogens, he emphasizes this was incomparably real, not a drug-induced hallucination. |
5 | Home | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Respiratory arrest for 10-15 minutes with cyanosis, required CPR and Narcan | Perceived friend's rescue breaths as rainbow-colored lips appearing 4-5 times, matching actual number of breaths given | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 1 | Rainbow lips during resuscitation | 1.00 | Friend who performed CPR | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 3811 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5406 Fabian G NDE 9956 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1fabian_g_nde.html | 1975 | 2024 | 4 | M |
Fabian experienced an NDE at age 4-5 in kindergarten in Quito when another child accidentally collided with him during play, causing a violent head impact. He went home with nausea and severe headache, and his mother's cousin insisted he be taken to the doctor immediately. During the frantic car ride, he was told not to fall asleep. He was diagnosed with a concussion and slept for an entire week at home while recovering, though he has no memory of that recovery period except for his remarkable NDE. Fabian awoke in a pitch-black space much wider than his bedroom, bounded only by darkness like a moonless, starless night. Despite the strange setting, he felt secure, comfortable, and curious rather than afraid. A bluish-greenish light formed a tunnel with a slow-moving, uneven vortex that emitted a murmur of many voices. When he focused on it, the sound intensified almost deafeningly, but he found he could control its volume. The tunnel drew nearer and he felt complete harmony, warmth, and welcome. Four dark silhouetted figures appeared before him, blocking the light. Two radiated motherly love, one seemed deeply caring (possibly his father), and the fourth had a protective, authoritative aura (possibly the doctor). Throughout, he tried interpreting everything through his child's mind while recognizing he was in an eternal, magnificent realm of all-encompassing love that felt unmistakably familiar—it was home. A deep, powerful voice without specific source, perhaps from the light itself, began speaking in a message without words or language that he could understand. The voice told him about life being an opportunity to learn and be kind, to share rather than accumulate wealth, to care for nature, not to fear death or suffering as they are temporary, and that all are part of a compassionate, forgiving unity. He was told to embrace laughter, artistry, travel, and change. He didn't want to return, but the voice said he had to go back to take care of two of the figures. Thinking as a child that adults would take care of him, he agreed to return. Afterward, young Fabian asked his mother about visitors during his sleep and whether his grandfather had come, which made her suspicious. He found no electric lamp in the garden that could explain the light. The experience gave him enhanced sensitivity to emotions, deeper interactions with children, and improved intuition, though it also brought sleeplessness and distress from violence. |
5 | Home | 7 | 15 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Severe concussion requiring immediate medical attention, unconscious for a week | Detailed tunnel experience with four figures, complex philosophical messages about life's purpose | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 0 | Tunnel of light with voice communication | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3812 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5339 Gaby DC NDEs 9840 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gaby_d_ndes.html | 2003 | 2024 | 33 | F |
Gaby experienced two NDEs in her lifetime. The first occurred at age 3 when her brother pushed her from the second story of their house. She tumbled down stairs that turned 90 degrees, landing on her neck with her body on top. She couldn't breathe, turned blue, and died as her mother carried her out to the car. Her mother drove to the military hospital minutes away where an elderly doctor with white hair performed CPR and used a defibrillator at her father's urging due to her tachycardia condition. The second NDE occurred at age 33 in an emergency room during arrhythmic defibrillation when her heart rate spiked to 244 bpm before stopping. During her first NDE, Gaby observed from above as her mother placed her lifeless body in the car and drove to the hospital. She followed, watching her mother scream for help using Gaby's first name. She observed specific details: the elderly tall doctor with short white hair and slight shoulder hunch wearing civilian clothes, pastel army-green walls, a flying saucer-like light above her body, a chair with a duffle bag beneath it, a white metal medicine cabinet, and a metal desk with a right-side drawer. She floated three feet above her body when the defibrillator shocked her heart, at which point a tunnel formed above the doctor's head that absorbed her with urgency toward the light. Once through the tunnel, the light turned to a darkness that paradoxically felt like light—familiar and reassuring, like home. She experienced weightlessness while the universe fed her knowledge needed for her current life. She saw sand and knew she was no longer in Ontario. She met family and friends from previous lives in ancient Egypt (1455 BC during Queen Hatshepsut's reign) and Norman England (1066). The beings communicated that she had to reunite her soul group who had been divided due to her ancient spiritual beliefs about one god. She received visions of her future purpose and was told to return. Both NDEs provided her with detailed past-life memories she later verified through research, including accurate drawings of the Nile and confirmation of historical details about Rochester Cathedral. She has since reunited with nine people from her ancient soul group, three of whom share memories of their past lives together. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Two clinical deaths - childhood trauma and adult cardiac arrest in ER with monitoring showing 244 bpm | Observed specific hospital room details while clinically dead, accurate historical information later verified through research | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 3 | 1 | Hospital room details during first NDE | 0.00 | Rochester Cathedral archaeological team | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 3813 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5499 Gail D NDE 13099 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gail_d_nde_13099.html | 1986 | 2024 | F |
Gail was in an IBM sales class when she experienced sudden heart failure. She heard a distinct "click," her heart stopped, and she collapsed. Having had previous NDEs as a young child, she had resolved to pay attention if it happened again. She was transported to the hospital in a white van rather than waiting for an ambulance, accompanied by two men (one tall, one short). Doctors later told her it took 14 minutes to resuscitate her. After leaving the hospital against medical advice, she drove to Tennessee and learned her grandmother had suffered a stroke and was hospitalized. During her clinical death, Gail traveled to another place that initially felt like a doctor's office with soft light and many seats, then transformed into a meeting place with slightly brighter but still gentle light. Very tall white double-doors appeared to her left that opened without her touching them. She walked into a vast, endless field where beings made of energy rather than physical form were blending into the light. Though she knew these were individuals she had known, she couldn't identify them at that moment, feeling completely comfortable and surrounded by pure love. One energy drew close and she recognized it as her grandmother, which confused her since she knew her grandmother was still alive. They talked for a long time about many things, with her grandmother eventually telling her she had to return to life. Her grandmother showed her a vision of her granddaughter who wouldn't be born for another five years. She then heard another "click" and was suddenly back in her body in the emergency room with someone rubbing her chest bone and others using electric paddles. The verification of this experience came when Gail discovered her grandmother had indeed suffered a stroke at the time of her NDE. Her grandmother's presence during the NDE while simultaneously having a medical crisis provides unusual corroboration. Additionally, the vision of her future granddaughter was fulfilled five years later. There was no tunnel, no bright light in the traditional sense, and no deity figure in her experience. |
2 | Other | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Heart failure with 14 minutes of resuscitation required | Met grandmother during NDE who was simultaneously having stroke, shown vision of granddaughter born 5 years later | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Encounter with living grandmother | 1.00 | Brother/hospital records | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3814 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5470 Gary G NDE 13054 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gary_g_nde.html | 1981 | 2024 | 8 | M |
Gary was 8 years old at a local pool with his mother when tragedy struck. Unable to swim and restricted to the shallow end, he got out and walked toward his mother at the deep end. While looking into the water, other children running around the pool pushed him in. He struggled desperately to call for his mother and grab the edge but couldn't. Someone eventually dove in and pulled him from the bottom of the pool. He was clinically dead and received CPR from paramedics—one doing breaths while another performed chest compressions. He was in a coma for 10 days afterward and should have been brain dead, but miraculously recovered. During his clinical death, Gary floated above his body looking down on everyone—the other kids, his mother, her friend, and the paramedics. He saw his mother and her friend crying and talking, though he couldn't make out their words. He witnessed the paramedics performing CPR with one EMT doing breaths and another pushing on his chest. A yellowish, golden light surrounded him as he floated upward, still observing himself below. He then turned toward a bright white light and began heading toward it through what he describes as a golden/yellow aura followed by a blinding white light tunnel. At the crucial moment, Gary heard a deep voice say "It's not your time." Before he could respond, he was instantly back in his body taking a gasp of air. The experience left him with profound knowledge of the afterlife and eliminated his fear of death. The voice and the phrase "It's not your time" matched what many other NDErs report, validating his experience as genuine rather than imagined. Upon waking from his coma, Gary told his mother he could see she had been upset and described exactly where she was kneeling and where everyone was positioned relative to his body during the resuscitation. His mother dismissed it as silly, and they never discussed it again. He didn't share the experience for 30 years due to fear of being called crazy. |
5 | Other | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Drowning with clinical death, CPR required, 10-day coma | Accurately described positions of mother and others during CPR from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 1 | CPR scene from above | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3815 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5302 George C NDE 9797 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1george_c_nde.html | 2005 | 2024 | M |
George experienced a life-threatening case of mononucleosis with white blood cell counts so dangerously high that doctors said it was almost impossible he was still functioning. When given a shot for the infection at the hospital, he blacked out for an unknown duration. The severity of his condition was extreme, representing a genuine medical crisis that threatened his life. During his unconscious state, George vividly experienced floating as an orb of energy over vast expanses of extremely bright green rolling hills that seemed to extend infinitely. He floated approximately 10 feet off the ground with no physical body, moving freely over the endless landscape. The green color was extraordinarily vivid—super bright but not neon. Coming upon a river or stream, he saw on the opposite bank about 50 or more deceased family members standing together in bodily form, though not fully visible. His great-grandmother and grandfather were recognizable among them, along with family members he had never met. They welcomed him with happiness and excitement through non-verbal communication, ready to guide him to the other side of the river. Children and pets were also present among the gathered family. The most significant aspect was the river boundary—George understood he could not cross it, though he was never given a clear choice to stay or return. He felt absolute freedom, peace, and co-existence with everything at a non-physical level of connection. The happiness of seeing his great-grandmother was particularly meaningful. He existed in a timeless state where he could do anything without time constraints. There was no verbal communication, yet he understood the joy and welcome from his family members. Upon waking in the hospital, George retained the profound sense that this experience was more real than ordinary reality. The encounter led him to become more interested in human connection rather than worship, eventually becoming a born-again Christian student of the Bible. He now believes everyone and everything is connected in ways we cannot normally perceive. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening mononucleosis with nearly impossible white blood cell count | Vivid otherworldly realm with ~50 deceased family members at river boundary | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Deceased family gathering at river | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3816 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5480 Georgiana C NDE 13070 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1georgiana_c_nde.html | 2020 | 2020-03-19 | 2024 | F |
Georgiana, who had experienced other worlds and realms since age one and underwent a spiritual awakening in 2018, woke at 12:30am on March 19, 2020, sensing something wrong physically and a presence with her. In complete surrender and without conscious thought, she drove herself to the emergency room during the first week of COVID lockdown. The surreal scene included white tents and staff in full hazmat gear. She told them "I'm going down" while holding out her ID, then died at the entrance. She suffered an LAD heart attack, was given compressions and an injection, remained flatlined for about 4 minutes, had a stent implanted, and regained consciousness at 8:06am at the start of the Vernal Equinox. During her clinical death, Georgiana was led by her guide in a space of all-encompassing whiteness—not bright white but more like fluorescent light. She experienced indescribable calmness, absence of all fear and confusion, and deep relief. Standing on the threshold of nothing and everything simultaneously, she sensed multiple energetic beings communicating through thought (not quite telepathic as they communicated simultaneously) who were there to receive her choice to return or remain. Though no objects were visible, only the essence of her guide alongside her, she understood she was at a decision point. The experience felt like being temporarily pulled from her body for emotional and spiritual rescue and rebooting during a crisis of confusion and stress. She believes much more happened in the altered state before regaining consciousness that she'd like to explore. The most remarkable aspect was the profound restful sleep, as if she had slept for a thousand years, leaving her content and calm with amusement at knowing what transition felt like. Georgiana's pre-existing spiritual gifts were dramatically enhanced afterward. She developed a business called "Soul Map Navigating" using astrology, finding she could channel energies and deliver messages from an unobstructed source. Her capabilities expanded far beyond her studies to accessing knowledge and wisdom that flows from beyond her learning. She helps clients tap into their energetic paths and potentials, no longer needing to hide her abilities. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | LAD heart attack, flatlined for 4 minutes, stent implanted | Guided to threshold space with multiple beings awaiting her decision | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Threshold with witnessing beings | 0.00 | Incompatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3817 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5315 Grahame G NDE 9812 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1grahame_g_nde.html | 2022 | 2022-07-07 | 2024 | M |
Grahame was doing an intense group cross-fit workout when he experienced cardiac arrest. Unable to catch his breath, he asked trainers to call 911 before collapsing. There was no AED (automated external defibrillator) available in the gym. He received CPR for 7-8 minutes from bystanders before first responders arrived with an AED. The shock from the defibrillator brought him back into his body, after which everything went extremely black. He was later diagnosed with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy deemed idiopathic (of unknown cause). During his cardiac arrest, Grahame felt outside his body and could see people trying to help him and perform CPR. He was not afraid and was fully aware he was outside his body, alert and conscious of his non-physical state. Everything seemed to be happening slowly while he observed from this detached perspective. He saw a distant, far-off light during the experience. The observation felt more real than real life, with heightened senses immediately upon being shocked back into his body. The most profound aspect was the incredible peace and calm he felt during the event, being at one with the world despite the medical crisis. He described experiencing the darkest black he had ever seen after returning to his body. In retrospect, the experience is scary to contemplate, but at the time he felt only peace. Since then, dealing with the emotional journey has been challenging. The experience led to large life changes including becoming far more caring, patient, sympathetic, and emotional. Grahame developed a much stronger appreciation for love, life as a gift, and respect for fellow humans, though also a strong fear of losing his family. He became much more curious about spiritual matters and transitioned from unknown religious views to Protestant Christianity. |
2 | Other | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest during exercise, 7-8 minutes of CPR before defibrillation | Out-of-body observation of people performing CPR, saw distant light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | CPR efforts from outside body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3818 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5526 Haneefa M NDE 13143 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1haneefa_m_nde.html | 1982 | 2024 | 26 | F |
Haneefa experienced a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy requiring emergency surgery. The fetus had grown in her fallopian tube for three months before bursting through, causing massive internal bleeding that required over 7 pints of blood to stabilize her. She was in and out of consciousness before surgery. During the experience, she found herself floating near the ceiling of the hospital room, looking down at the doctor who was leaning over her body, shaking her and calling her name. She had gradually faded away feeling weaker until she relaxed as if going to sleep while remaining aware. The physical pain in her belly and headache completely disappeared. In the darkness that followed, she experienced an incredible sense of peace, love, and acceptance that was overwhelming and unlike anything she had felt before. The most significant veridical observation was her out-of-body perspective from the ceiling, watching the doctor trying to revive her body below. She clearly observed the medical personnel's actions and distress from this elevated vantage point. Upon awakening, she heard a repetitive message in her mind asking "What have I been doing with my life?" She also experienced visions during her recovery that later came true, including a frightening scene where she was being chased. Following the NDE, she experienced profound life changes including loss of materialism, enhanced psychic abilities, and a complete transformation from shy to social. The experience left her with precognitive abilities, telepathy, and animal communication skills. She wasn't told she had died until much later, discovering the NDE literature eight years afterward. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Ectopic pregnancy burst causing massive internal bleeding requiring 7+ pints of blood | Clear OBE with ceiling perspective observing doctor, but lacks specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed doctor from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 3819 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5445 Hildred C NDE 13012 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1hildred_c_nde.html | 1971 | 2024 | F |
Hildred underwent what was supposed to be a simple hysterectomy but experienced a fatal allergic reaction to the anesthetic. Her husband was also hospitalized with a stroke at the same time, creating additional stress. No family members were waiting when she came out of surgery, so no one was informed she had been taken to the ICU. During the experience, she found herself in a small room lying on a cart with a doctor in khakis and a corpsman in whites attending to her. She was floating above them, observing from an elevated perspective while feeling very calm. The doctor was extremely upset and was ordering the corpsman to get him things. She felt sorry for them and kept thinking "Oh, don't worry. It's okay." She witnessed the doctor say he had to give her a shot in the heart, which he apparently did. The most significant observations were seeing the specific medical personnel (doctor in khakis, corpsman in whites), witnessing their emotional distress, and hearing the doctor say he needed to give her a heart injection. She observed all this from above with complete calm while the medical team worked frantically below. After the heart injection, she felt very peaceful and began moving forward toward a light, really wanting to go and not stop. She didn't discuss the experience for years, thinking it was a dream. The doctor only told her she had "a hard time after surgery" and to ensure the medication was marked in red on her chart. The ICU stay was never documented in her medical records. Years later when preparing for bunion surgery, her nurse daughter investigated and discovered the medication is no longer used. The experience eliminated her fear of death. |
3 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Fatal allergic reaction to anesthetic during surgery requiring emergency resuscitation | Specific observations: doctor in khakis, corpsman in whites, heart injection mentioned | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed medical personnel from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3820 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5469 James C NDE 13050 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1james_c_nde_13050.html | 1973 | 2024 | M |
James had recently relocated to Los Angeles when he experienced a severe shower accident. While showering before work, he slipped and threw his arms out to break his fall. His right arm violently struck the sliding glass shower door, shattering it into sharp shards. He fell onto a protruding shard that penetrated under his right armpit, severing his brachial artery. He witnessed his artery pumping blood all over the bathroom in complete panic, screaming to his wife that he was going to die. He managed to grab the pulsing artery with his left hand and apply pressure before losing consciousness from severe blood loss. His wife called an ambulance and EMTs had to rip out the shower doors to reach him. He was rushed to the hospital where he was clinically dead and required resuscitation. During the time he was dead, he experienced a profound NDE that he didn't understand until years later. While clinically dead, he perceived a bright pinhole of light in the distance that gradually grew larger until it seemed to be everywhere. The light created an overwhelming sense that all would be well. The utter panic he had felt watching his blood spurt disappeared completely. The light gave him a wonderful, reassuring sensation that was difficult to describe - a feeling of complete peace and assurance. He heard nothing during the experience, only felt the profound comfort of the light. The accident left him with permanent disability - limited use of his right arm and hand due to severed nerves. He also contracted hepatitis C from blood transfusions (blood wasn't screened in 1973), discovered in 1998. Despite these adversities and feeling singled out for trouble, he believes his NDE gave him the strength to withstand these challenges. The experience showed him that mortal existence isn't the end. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 1 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severed brachial artery causing massive blood loss, clinical death, CPR/resuscitation | Only experienced light and feelings, no specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3821 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5331 James L NDE 9830 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1james_l_nde_9830.html | 1973 | 2024 | 9 | M |
Nine-year-old James was camping with his aunt, uncle, and sisters during a hot Georgia summer. His aunt and uncle were heavy drinkers who didn't adequately supervise the children in the water. Being a fairly good swimmer for his age, James ventured too far out and couldn't touch the bottom. He attempted to conserve energy by going down to bounce up but couldn't reach the bottom and ran out of breath. Despite tremendous struggling to reach the surface, he went under about four feet and couldn't break through even when reaching his right arm up. In his panic and strong feeling of drowning, everything suddenly went completely black. It wasn't a scary darkness but an enveloping blackness that gave him calm and reassurance. His body stopped struggling while his mind remained totally aware of everything. Strangely, he wondered how long it would take them to find his body. He realized he could think perfectly fine despite being unconscious, remaining extremely aware. He felt total peace, calm, and complete acceptance of having drowned. Though only nine years old, he thought it "kinda sucks" but was otherwise unbothered. During what felt like several minutes in this peaceful darkness, he thought about what would happen to his family. He was suddenly brought to the surface, possibly by his oldest sister who always worried he would drown, though she never mentioned it and no one seemed to notice what happened. He immediately left the water, coughing up water and collapsing from exhaustion in the sand. His aunt and uncle knew nothing of the incident. He didn't tell anyone for fear of punishment and not being allowed back in the water. He experienced the same profound peace he would later feel during a childbirth NDE - once struggling stops, remarkable peace and acceptance emerge. |
5 | Other | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning with loss of consciousness, unable to reach surface | No veridical observations, only experienced darkness and peace | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||||
| 3822 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5356 James R NDE 9868 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1james_r_nde_9868.html | 2023 | 2024 | M |
James arrived at the hospital for a medical test to investigate sustained low blood pressure related to hypothyroidism. The test required cortisol injection to monitor levels over time. Immediately after injection while in a comfortable hospital chair, he felt the substance course through his veins and enter his stomach, becoming sick and weak. To cope, he focused his mind outside himself as in meditation. He felt himself going backwards, sinking into and through the chair while blackness closed in from the sides like a dome closing over him. Feeling distressed and aware he was dying, he asked not to die now as he wanted to retire to Thailand and teach English. As darkness enveloped him, his life from birth rapidly shot through his mind with imagery and emotions from family hurt, but also understanding their hurt. He was told clearly he had suffered from them as darkness completely enveloped him. He became aware of receding from his body into vast space, initially going backwards to something behind him while maintaining directional awareness despite having no physical form. Moving back slowly at first with complete awareness of leaving his body, he wanted to return to continue life in peace. He felt arms he didn't physically have grasping to return, then sensation of peace with acceptance. Something on either side held him floating - friendly presences that became swirling light enveloping him from behind. He was directed forward toward many destinations through a tunnel with something indescribable around him. Coming out toward light into the hospital room, he was conscious but confused. Initially emerging in the "wrong place" with Black African staff, his mind said he needed to return to the UK. Darkness came again with rapid backwards movement until halted and guided forward through the right tunnel. A voice said "yes, this way" as he was spun and sent forward, staring into a white female nurse's eye who shouted "yes, now fight!" He slammed back into his body taking an extremely painful breath. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe reaction to cortisol injection causing clinical death during medical test | Heard nurse say "yes this way" and "fight" before returning, experienced two separate returns | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard nurse guidance before returning | 1.00 | White female nurse | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3823 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5323 Jane M NDE 9821 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jane_m_nde_9821.html | 1967 | 2024 | F |
Jane experienced severe childbirth complications with uncontrolled blood pressure, 28 hours of extended labor, exhaustion, and a stuck baby. The doctor told her husband the odds were 60 to 1 against her and/or the baby's survival. During the crisis, she found herself at ceiling level in a corner of the room as a dispassionate onlooker feeling no pain. From her elevated perspective, she watched her husband helping the doctor and two nurses turn her body onto one side to insert a spinal block before rushing her to theatre on a trolley. She felt a serenity she had only experienced once before during a childhood near-drowning. When all hope is gone, the world becomes peaceful, quiet, and vision becomes very clear. She returned to her body when reaching the theatre door. The most significant observation was watching the medical team of four people (husband, doctor, two nurses) working on her body to insert the spinal block and transfer her to the trolley. She observed this as a calm, detached observer from the ceiling corner while her body was in critical condition below. The experience gave her encompassing calmness, serenity, and warmth. She felt incredible peace and happiness with a sense of unity with the world. Jane immediately told her husband upon regaining consciousness two days later, but he gave her a strange look. She had no doubt it was real and kept the knowledge between them. The experience left her grateful for life and without fear of death. She noted this was similar to her childhood drowning experience where struggling ceased and remarkable peace emerged with heightened clarity of vision as light played through the water. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening childbirth with 60:1 odds against survival, blood pressure crisis | Observed medical team and procedures from ceiling but no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed medical procedures from ceiling | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3824 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5437 Jean-Jacques F NDE #1 9998 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeanjacques_f_nde.html | 1959 | 2024 | 7 | M |
Seven-year-old Jean-Jacques underwent tonsillectomy at a low-cost clinic in 1959 Montreal. Due to rheumatic fever and heart valve damage, the surgery was deemed necessary. Upon arrival, many children waited crying, terrified by the ether smell. After being injected with a sedative and wheeled to the operating room alone, a chloroform mask was placed over his face forcing him to breathe the suffocating gas. Suddenly he felt himself floating face down over his body, rising toward the ceiling with unusual peace and well-being. He noticed three masked surgical staff leaning over the table, quite upset and agitated. A humming sound prevented him from hearing their conversation. When a fourth person ran in yelling at the others, he still couldn't hear due to the increasing humming. He floated across the room and saw a child on the table - realizing it was himself without shock, feeling euphoric instead. The humming intensified then stopped when a dark upward tunnel appeared behind him at 45 degrees with bright white light at its end. Without fear, he floated toward the entrance, overwhelmed with happiness, peace, unconditional love and excitement like returning home. He spiraled clockwise through the tunnel with increasing speed, hearing sublime indescribable music comparable to the most beautiful classical compositions. Approaching the brilliant light brought intense unconditional love and peace. He could stare directly at it though it seemed brighter than the sun. He came to a standstill and was suddenly pushed away at dizzying speed, excruciatingly reentering the boy's body. He awoke in recovery with terrible torment, throat on fire, repeatedly vomiting blood. He wished to return to his marvelous "dream." The taxi driver placed newspapers on the floor due to his condition. The experience led him to awareness of his previous life as RAF Commander John Powell who died in 1944. |
3 | Other | 10 | 7 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Chloroform anesthesia overdose causing apparent clinical death during tonsillectomy | Observed 3 then 4 masked surgical staff in distress, saw self on table from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed surgical team in distress | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 3825 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5437 Jean-Jacques F NDE #2 999 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeanjacques_f_nde.html | 1989 | 2024 | 38 | M |
Jean-Jacques, born with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, experienced severe tachyarrhythmia while at work that continued through teaching an evening class. After 18 hours of symptoms with heart rate fluctuating wildly (195-315 BPM), he was admitted to emergency. Three IV bags of Pronestyl failed to restore normal rhythm despite high dosage. The head cardiologist said his heart would have failed if he'd been a smoker and electrical cardioversion was the only remaining option. During cardioversion under sedation, he felt himself floating face down over his body, rising toward the ceiling. The familiar 45-degree tunnel from his childhood NDE opened behind him as he watched several cardioversion attempts below. Without hesitation, he surrendered to the vortex, overwhelmed with happiness, peace, unconditional love and excitement like returning home. Spiraling clockwise through the tunnel approaching the majestic white light, he abruptly stopped. A choice was telepathically proposed - either continue into the light or immediately return to his earthly body. This option wasn't offered in his first NDE at age 7, nor would it be in his third NDE the following year. He believed it was conveyed by a spirit guide, offering the possibility of extending his earthly stay for future tasks or missions. He could hear Lucy's voice urging deep breaths and was immediately hurled back at lightning speed, painfully reentering his body. He awoke to excruciating chest pain with burning sensation like being scorched by flame, smelling roasted chicken. Lucy had been summoned to repeatedly tell him to breathe deeply as his breathing was too shallow. The cardiologist later confirmed several electric shocks were needed to restore normal rhythm. No medication could prevent future episodes in his case. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | 18-hour tachyarrhythmia crisis, heart rate 195-315 BPM, required multiple cardioversions | Observed multiple cardioversion attempts from above, heard wife's voice before return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed cardioversion attempts and heard wife | 1.00 | Head cardiologist, anesthesiologist, nurse | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3826 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5437 Jean-Jacques F NDE #3 10000 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeanjacques_f_nde.html | 1990 | 2024 | 39 | M |
During open-heart surgery for WPW syndrome two days before his 39th birthday, Jean-Jacques experienced his third NDE. The cardiac surgeon had recommended the invasive procedure as antiarrhythmic medications were ineffective and repeated cardioversions would be dangerous. A new catheter ablation procedure was available but still experimental with risk of massive bleeding if the heart envelope was pierced. He chose the traditional surgery. For the third time, he floated face down near the ceiling observing his body with chest cavity wide open. Having left his suffering physical form, he accessed eternal peace and ecstasy without pain or fear - a world of unconditional unlimited love. The familiar 45-degree tunnel opened behind him. After glancing at his lacerated body, he spiraled clockwise at full speed toward the blazing white light but came to an abrupt stop when a large boulder materialized, blocking progression. Three human forms stood at the boulder's base - his deceased father, paternal grandfather, and paternal uncle, all appearing youthful in their early 30s. Overwhelmed and weeping with delight at reuniting, he saw his father raise his right arm with hand open in a stop signal. Without speaking, his father telepathically communicated it was too soon, he had to return as he had other undertakings to accomplish in his lifetime. His father smiled lovingly before he was suddenly repelled through the tunnel at lightning speed. Reentering his body was brutal with unbearable pain. He awoke on his 39th birthday with nurses singing Happy Birthday, bringing cake despite his nausea from bloodied tubes. The surgeon said the procedure lasted longer than expected due to difficulty accessing the pathway in a hard-to-reach area. When asked about complications, the surgeon didn't answer but confirmed the tachyarrhythmia should be resolved. |
3 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Open-heart surgery under general anesthesia for WPW syndrome | Encountered three specific deceased relatives who appeared younger, received telepathic message | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw chest cavity open during surgery | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3827 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5389 Jeff C NDE 9932 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeff_c_nde_9932.html | 2015 | 2024 | M |
Jeff underwent cardiac catheter examination to check previously inserted stents. While awake and alert on the table with catheter inserted via inner thigh, the cardiologist asked if he felt the probe. Jeff closed his eyes to focus internally, feeling his attention going deeper like during meditation. His heart stopped during the procedure requiring CPR and resuscitation. During clinical death, Jeff felt very calm in a soft, comfortable darkness. He could feel the presence of others including someone he believed was his father who had passed in 2011. There was non-verbal communication providing assurances that everything was exactly as it should be. Time seemed to stop or slow dramatically. Upon opening his eyes, he was surprised to see medical staff scrambling around and said "Wow! I must've fallen asleep." Staff replied "Yeah, something like that." Years later during cardiac testing, Jeff recognized a nurse-practitioner from his NDE. When he said "Nice to see you again," the man gave a strange look saying "We've never met." Jeff tried to pin him down but the nurse was clearly uncomfortable and unwilling to talk. Jeff knows he was in that room during the NDE, possibly the one who applied defibrillation, despite the denial. The experience left Jeff with certainty about his spiritual nature and that physical life isn't our ultimate existence. He developed strong interest in understanding spirituality, daily meditation and reflection habits, and regular reading about God, religion, and philosophy. He's more selective about relationships, no longer wasting energy on negative ones while being more appreciative of positive connections. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Heart stopped during catheter exam, CPR and resuscitation required | Later recognized specific nurse from NDE who denied being present in room | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Recognized nurse from NDE years later | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3828 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5449 Jeff F NDE 13016 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jeff_f_nde.html | 2007 | 2024 | M |
Jeff had an implanted cardiac device and was on medication for atrial fibrillation. While sitting home alone, his heart went into ventricular fibrillation and he fell unconscious. The first shock from his implanted device failed to resuscitate him, leading to clinical death. During this time between the first and second shock, he experienced a brief but profound NDE. He found himself floating in a large bubble-like environment, perceiving both light and darkness simultaneously. The light grew increasingly vivid as he moved through what seemed to be a tunnel. At approximately 20 seconds into the experience, he observed beings approaching him. Before any further interaction could occur, his device delivered a second shock that successfully resuscitated him. He was subsequently admitted to the hospital for three days of observation. The experience left him somewhat scared initially, as he moved through the bubble enclosure and tunnel toward an unusually bright, unearthly light. The environment was clearly mystical and otherworldly. Though brief, the encounter was vivid and real, providing him hope for a better afterlife despite not including typical NDE elements like life review or messages of love. Following the experience, Jeff maintained his Jewish faith without changes to religious practices. However, the event gave him certainty that the experience was real and meaningful, providing comfort about what awaits after death. The NDE has always fascinated him as a subject, and this personal experience confirmed his interest and beliefs about consciousness surviving bodily death. |
1 | Home | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Ventricular fibrillation with clinical death between two device shocks | Observed approaching beings and environment but no verifiable specifics | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3829 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5340 Jen W NDEs | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jen_w_ndes.html | 1997 | 2024 | F | During an emergency c-section, Jen experienced a cardiac arrest with no heartbeat for a period. While clinically dead, she found herself in a bright white room filled with intense light that felt like being in a long white room with all lights turned on. She encountered shadows of beings and met someone who identified herself as her grandmother (though all her grandmothers were alive at the time). The grandmother told her "Time is different here" and that she had something important to do and could not stay. Jen was initially holding her baby but noticed the baby was gone when her grandmother spoke. The experience involved moving from darkness to white light to yellow light, with overwhelming feelings of love and peace. Jen had similar NDEs in childhood - once during a car accident at age 7-8 where she floated above the scene observing details she couldn't have known, and another during a severe fever where beings identifying as "sort of" Jesus and Mary gave her messages about everyone having a purpose like ripples in a pond. Upon return, Jen found her daughter had also briefly flatlined but was revived before her. The surgery that should have taken minutes lasted over 4 hours. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Emergency c-section with cardiac arrest and flatline clearly documented | Observed holding baby who was simultaneously being resuscitated elsewhere, awareness of time distortion, childhood OBE with verified observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 0 | Floating above car accident scene as child | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3830 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5319 Jesse S NDE | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jesse_s_nde.html | 2012 | 2024 | M | Jesse was drowning in a rip current when he experienced a profound near-death event. While being pulled under by waves and running out of breath, he suddenly found himself transported to his living room, vividly seeing both parents sitting on the couch in complete silence. The experience was remarkably realistic despite his condition of aphantasia (inability to visualize mental images normally). He described floating above himself in crystal clear blue water with sun rays shining through, experiencing extraordinary peace and quiet unlike anything he'd known before, particularly notable given his ADHD. The experience felt timeless - though drowning for less than 10 minutes, it seemed like hours. He felt a profound sense of unity with the world and incredible peacefulness. The decision to return came from concern for his parents' grief if he died. After being pulled from the water, his vision turned black and white, and he vomited saltwater. The experience produced lasting changes including reduced fear of trying new things and less concern about others' opinions. The vividness of the mental imagery during the NDE stands in stark contrast to his normal inability to visualize, suggesting an altered state of consciousness during the life-threatening event. | 5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Drowning in rip current, life-threatening but not confirmed clinical death | Vivid visualization despite aphantasia, sense of floating outside body, time distortion | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Vivid vision of parents in living room while drowning | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3831 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5347 John B NDE 9853 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_b_nde_9853.html | 1990 | 2024 | M | John experienced cardiac arrest after consuming excessive alcohol and pills at a party. His girlfriend drove him home where he lost consciousness and went into ventricular arrhythmia. Suddenly, he found himself out of body, floating above the city streets, observing cars, people, and stoplights that held no meaning for him. He experienced pure bliss, freedom, and peace with no thoughts or pain - feeling as if he had always existed this way. He perceived being in an invisible gulf or tube-like barrier between himself and Earth, like clear glass that couldn't be seen but was known to be there. He was drawn westward toward a portal of light, knowing instinctively this was his destination but understanding that passing through meant no return. The light was indescribable, beyond human language - not a city but a gulf-like portal to somewhere else. Throughout the experience, he felt no fear, had no thoughts, only a knowing of oneness and that he had always existed. He encountered no beings or voices but knew where to go. As he approached the point of no return, he suddenly returned to his body, surrounded by paramedics who had resuscitated him from cardiac arrest. He spent several days in hospital observation. John kept this experience secret for twenty years, finding it difficult to describe in words and fearing disbelief. | 2 | Home | 10 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Cardiac arrest with resuscitation by paramedics clearly documented | Out of body experience over city, awareness of invisible barrier, drawn to portal of light | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 0 | 1 | Paramedics | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3832 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5424 John B NDE 9982 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_b_nde_9982.html | 2024 | 2024-06-24 | 2024 | M | John, a kitchen worker, experienced a STEMI heart attack (widow-maker) at work. After calling 911, he was rushed to the operating room where he died during the procedure, being clinically dead for 2.5 minutes before being shocked twice to restart his heart. During his death, he found himself above his body in the operating room, calmly accepting his death. Without any tunnel or sense of movement, he was instantly in a unique forest realm made of solid light that he could feel throughout his being. A fox appeared as his guide, later understood to be his grandmother (maiden name Fox). The environment was created specifically for him, filled with overwhelming love and peace. Time was revealed to exist non-linearly - past, present, and future happening simultaneously. He was led to an office-like setting where he met God, who showed him his life "map" with all predetermined choices and paths. He learned that lives are planned before birth with others' help, including selecting parents and experiences, while Higher Ones determine timing and consequences. When shown how prayers feel, he experienced every prayer and thought about him in an overwhelming jolt of unconditional love. Despite wanting to stay, he agreed to return to do "the Lord's work." He was told Earth is a school for experiencing creation, that loving without hurting others is key, and that those who persist in harmful choices must relive lives until learned. John awoke exactly when his wife arrived at 6am, shocking medical staff with his rapid recovery - eating, walking, and going home within hours. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | STEMI heart attack with clinical death for 2.5 minutes, shocked twice, Code Blue called | Observed self in OR from above, met guide who was grandmother Fox, shown life map, experienced all prayers | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed self in operating room from above | 0.00 | Medical staff | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3833 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5436 John F NDE 9997 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_f_nde_9997.html | 2023 | 2023-11-18 | 2024 | 48 | M | John attended a holiday tree lighting ceremony where he had an argument with his adopted son. After leaving, he experienced rapid heartbeat and loss of oxygen while driving. He managed to text his ex-wife about his condition and drive to the hospital, running red lights while punching himself to stay conscious. His last memory was trying not to hit the hospital window before crashing into the wall and losing consciousness. His father found him not breathing and performed CPR. During clinical death from ventricular fibrillation, John experienced his entire life flashing before his eyes. He found himself feeling incredibly good, running around a courtyard like a child again with three other boys and a man watching over them. He then floated through a dark tunnel that felt like space, surrounded by overwhelming love and peace, feeling familiar with the environment. Through telepathic communication with a presence, he expressed concern about his son remembering their last argument and chose to return. The being assured him he would return to his body. He described feeling like a star in space, experiencing more love and peace than ever before. John woke three days later in the hospital after being resuscitated from VFib. The experience eliminated his fear of death and strengthened his purpose to build better relationships with his children. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 8 | VFib cardiac arrest with CPR and clinical death clearly documented | Life review, vision of courtyard with boys, telepathic communication about returning for son | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 1 | Telepathic awareness about need to return for son | 0.00 | Hospital nurse | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||
| 3834 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5414 John S NDE 9969 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_s_nde_9969.html | 2024 | 2024-05-30 | 2024 | M | John had experienced severe diverticular bleeding an hour before being helped into his house by family members. Feeling terrible with very low blood pressure, he urgently needed the bathroom. While holding the door frame, his finger was pinched as someone tried to close the door. He then passed out with another significant blood discharge. During his unconscious state of 1-2 minutes, John found himself above and outside his body in total darkness. He experienced tremendous peace, harmony, and the most warm, loving, pleasant feeling imaginable. He saw a small rectangular porthole above him with dim light, sensing two or three beings looking over him. One being asked "What's he doing here?" Another replied "We have no idea." A third stated "He is not due here until ___" with John hearing something about the number 30, unsure if it meant 2030 or 30 years hence. He then fell quickly back into his body, experiencing a massive injection of energy or soft power before regaining consciousness. He awoke groggy on the floor covered in blood. Within 10 minutes he was on the couch with tea, feeling fine with normal blood pressure. The experience left him with tremendous peace and a sense that everything would be fine. He later reflected on his life purpose and resumed meditation. John kept the experience private initially, feeling it confirmed an afterlife existed as a higher realm filled with peace and happiness. | 5 | Home | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe blood loss with unconsciousness, not confirmed clinical death | Heard specific conversation about not being due, reference to future time (30), observed from above body | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard beings discussing his presence | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3835 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5489 Johnny F NDE | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1johnny_f_nde.html | 2014 | 2014-10-17 | 2024 | 57 | M | Johnny, a psychotherapist with extensive NDE research background, suffered from Twar bacterial lung disease for a year. One October evening, unable to breathe despite medication, he took wrong medicine causing breathing to stop. After his heart stopped, he experienced complete stillness. A giant loving face appeared on the ceiling, smiling warmly, and he floated toward it into a vibrant, bright landscape more real than earthly life. He felt an overwhelming sense of home, happiness million times stronger than any earthly joy. A brilliant light being who knew everything about him asked what he'd done with his life. Johnny experienced a complete life review from age 57, seeing every moment from his and others' perspectives, feeling both the pain of selfishness and liberation from unconditional love. The being said nothing was wrong, everything was perfect as it should be, that being human means learning through love. Johnny asked about war, evil, and environmental destruction, and as answers came, he expanded in understanding until he knew everything was as it should be. The being said he would return and get well. Johnny was pulled back through a narrow tube at extreme speed. He awoke after 3 hours in sunlight, immediately telling his wife "I saw GOD!" Recovery took months with severe physical deterioration. Ten years later, he remains permanently changed, feeling like a "double exposure" - an eternal self that knows and an ordinary person. A later voice experience told him "Don't try to understand, accept" and that love is the only rule. | 5 | Home | 7 | 16 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 12 | Breathing and heart stopped from medication error, severity unclear but prolonged unconsciousness | Complete life review with dual perspective, received answers expanding consciousness, 3-hour time gap, later voice contact | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 3 | 0 | Complete life review with dual perspectives | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3836 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5422 Jonathan S NDE 9980 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jonathan_s_nde_9980.html | 2023 | 2023-05-22 | 2024 | 46 | M | Jonathan, an extremely fit 46-year-old athlete, collapsed in a grocery store and was misdiagnosed twice in the ER with allergic reactions. Over two weeks, he deteriorated severely with symptoms including weakness, dehydration, nausea, constant cold, sleeping 16 hours daily, gray skin, and failing vision. On May 22, 2023, at 4:30am, he woke with strange sensations and placid calm. Unable to walk properly and dragging his right leg, he saw himself in the mirror looking corpse-like with gray sagging skin. Realizing he was dying, he felt pure acceptance without fear or attachment to life. After one last look, he was immersed in darkness - not seeing but feeling in 360 degrees. He found himself in a foggy, dusk environment between green hills with wild grass and smooth rocks, feeling weightless yet grounded. A man sitting on a rock, whom Jonathan recognized as a spiritual guide despite no earthly familiarity, communicated telepathically, providing instant understanding of his life and death status. In an office-like setting designed for comfort, Jonathan reviewed his life paths - one lived and one where he used gifts to help others. God explained this death point was predetermined, showed him a life map, and offered return. Despite difficulty, Jonathan chose to return after understanding the collective nature of human existence. He received teachings about reality, perception, connection, and how prayers feel - experiencing every prayer for him as an overwhelming jolt of love. He was told lives are planned with others beforehand, but timing and consequences are determined by "Higher Ones." His guide (possibly his grandmother Fox) explained that Earth is for experiencing creation, learning through good and bad choices until getting it right. Jonathan died from stage 3 sepsis from a stuck gallstone, surviving 2 weeks without treatment despite 30-40% mortality with treatment, due to a genetic mutation preventing normal pain sensation. | 5 | Home | 10 | 18 | 42 | Exceptional Evidence | 14 | Stage 3 sepsis death at home, survived impossible odds without treatment for 2 weeks | Life review with two paths shown, experienced all prayers simultaneously, taught about pre-life planning | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Shown alternate life path using gifts to help others | 0.00 | Doctor | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||
| 3837 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5309 Jonathon W NDE | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jonathon_w_nde.html | 2022 | 2022-11-11 | 2024 | 41 | M | Jonathon, a firefighter/paramedic, experienced a myocardial infarction during an ice hockey game, resulting in cardiac arrest with 99% LAD occlusion (widow-maker). He has no memory of the event day - from preparing his children for school through playing hockey until waking in the hospital. Colleagues reported he felt unwell, went to the locker room where another player found him with agonal respirations. CPR was started, he was defibrillated 5 times, went pulseless 3 times, and briefly became combative before losing pulse again. Six months later, during EMDR therapy for trauma processing, Jonathon recovered memories of his NDE. Using auditory bilateral stimulation, he progressively recalled: seeing himself on the locker room floor from above his colleagues' shoulders watching CPR being performed; observing firefighters arrive and load him onto a stretcher with defibrillation pads attached; his hands involuntarily clenching into fists as he watched himself combating rescuers while being loaded into the ambulance; then experiencing floating in bright light with air rushing over him for 60 seconds, feeling separated from the therapist's office despite physically remaining in the chair. The experience felt completely real and present, not like normal memory recall. The therapist validated these as legitimate memories being reprocessed by his brain. The vividness and embodied nature of the experience during EMDR - particularly the involuntary physical responses and sensation of floating in light - convinced Jonathon of its reality as an actual NDE rather than imagination. | 1 | Other | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Myocardial infarction with cardiac arrest, 99% LAD occlusion, defibrillated 5 times | Observed self from above during CPR, saw specific medical procedures, experienced floating in light | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed CPR being performed on himself | 1.00 | Fellow firefighter/paramedics | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||
| 3838 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5477 Jordan H NDE | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jordan_h_nde.html | 2020 | 2020-10-10 | 2024 | M | Jordan consumed alcohol and pills, then snorted a pill containing unknown fentanyl, causing him to black out within minutes. His father found him not breathing and called 911 while performing CPR in the living room. During clinical death, Jordan experienced his entire life flashing before his eyes. He was then taken by a Being to a garden - the most peaceful place with flowers everywhere, experiencing no depression, anxiety, or worries. He found himself standing over his body watching firefighters performing resuscitation. A Being of light accompanied him, appearing feminine with the presence of everyone he ever loved inside them. Through telepathic communication, every question was answered instantly. The Being assured him "Everything is going to be okay" and "It wasn't your time yet." Jordan felt the presence of his deceased ex-girlfriend who had hung herself, as well as his deceased grandparents. The Being appeared as pure light in human form. The experience transformed Jordan's beliefs, confirming life after death where all are together, connected as pieces of God/Source. He learned he still had things to do and wasn't meant to leave yet. The experience brought him understanding that loved ones who have passed are okay, providing deep comfort. Jordan now knows there is more after earthly life, feels deeper connections, and has made large life changes since the event. | 5 | Home | 10 | 10 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Clinical death from fentanyl overdose, CPR given, resuscitated by firefighters | Life review, observed resuscitation from above, telepathic communication with light being | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 1 | 1 | Watched firefighters reviving his body | 0.00 | Father, Firefighters | Moderately Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 3839 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5344 Jose VS NDE 9851 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jose_vs_nde.html | 1982 | 2024 | M | Jose was a cadet at the Philippine Military Academy when he was electrocuted by a 3.3 kilovolt high-tension wire that had severed due to high winds in May 1982. After his exam, he was following a fellow cadet when the accident occurred. During his unconscious state, he experienced a vivid journey beginning with ascending a rocky road where a black-hooded faceless being repeatedly asked him to accompany it. Jose refused and challenged the being to a rock-breaking contest, winning his freedom. He then found himself with three other men atop clouds surrounding a hole showing bright blue sky, with a stairway missing its fourth step leading down. When told he must descend or remain there forever, he stepped down and found himself running through a road lined with tall golden-yellow grass toward a big round light. Upon reaching the light, he awoke in the emergency room looking at the round emergency light, with the Commandant asking him what happened. A plumber who had been following him on the walkway had saved his life. The experience left Jose with lasting spiritual changes, initially causing him to lose faith in God due to his injuries, but later experiencing a profound reconciliation with faith on his 20th birthday. | 5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Electrocution by 3.3 kilovolt wire - clear life-threatening event | No specific veridical observations of earthly events during NDE | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/5/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw black-hooded being with no face | 0.00 | Commandant of Cadets, plumber | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3840 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5409 Joseph Y NDE 9962 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1joseph_y_nde.html | 2000 | 2024 | 8 | M | Joseph experienced a life-threatening bicycle accident in September 2000, the summer before third grade. While riding bikes with his friend and doing tricks including "pretending to sleep while riding," he crashed head-first into a parked truck while going downhill. During the traumatic brain injury that resulted in a brain hemorrhage and cracked helmet, Joseph had a profound out-of-body experience. He found himself approximately 20 feet above his body and friend, observing from multiple angles simultaneously as his body cried uncontrollably while his friend helped him walk back to the house. From his elevated perspective, Joseph felt no discomfort and was simply observing, noting bright white light around the edges of his view. He could hear himself crying and his friend consoling him as if hearing it normally, though his sight was from outside his body. His friend later verified this exact scenario of Joseph sobbing while being helped back with their bikes. Joseph woke up on the couch at his friend's house before being taken to the hospital, where doctors confirmed brain trauma with hemorrhage. The experience left him with heightened intuition and sensitivity that he felt protected him throughout life, though recovery took about 7 years with physical therapy and dealing with traumatic brain injury symptoms. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 14 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Brain hemorrhage from head trauma, helmet cracked in half | Observed himself crying and walking with friend from above, friend verified exact scenario | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Helmet cracked in half | 7/6/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw himself and friend from above | 1.00 | Friend | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 3841 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5391 Joy MM NDE 9335 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1joy_mm_nde.html | 2023 | 2024 | 82 | F | Joy, an 82-year-old woman with severe heart problems, underwent emergency knee replacement surgery in January 2023 after shattering her knee in a fall. During the difficult and lengthy surgery, she experienced a profound near-death experience that transformed her lifelong skepticism about God and the afterlife. She found herself in what she knew was heaven, skipping above the universe with a little girl angel who looked like her daughter. She witnessed angels who appeared as regular people working in complete unity to solve the world's problems, with no fighting and total understanding among them. The environment was extraordinarily beautiful with rolling green hills, glowing flowers, and children playing - everything alive and working in unison. Most significantly, the angels unwrapped her daughter Kathy's heart to show Joy the depth of her daughter's love for her, saying "see how much Kathy loves you!" This revelation was profound for Joy, who had struggled with depression and feeling unloved her entire life due to severe abuse and obesity. The experience completely eliminated her fear of death and doubt about God's existence. She felt unconditionally loved for the first time in her 82 years. Joy passed away six months later in July 2023, maintaining her certainty about heaven and the love she experienced there. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 16 | 33 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Emergency knee replacement with severe heart problems, difficult lengthy surgery | Detailed observations of heaven, angels, and specific revelation about daughter's love | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw heavenly realm with angels | 0.00 | Daughter Kathy, brother | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3842 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5478 Julie BB NDE 13067 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1julie_bb_nde.html | 2024 | 2024 | F | Julie, a Christian writer and domestic violence advocate, experienced a severe allergic reaction on August 24, 2024, while home alone. Despite taking oral medications and self-administering an EpiPen, her condition deteriorated rapidly with extreme heart rate, trembling, and loss of consciousness. Throughout the crisis, she heard God's voice directing her to treat it as an allergic reaction and warning her not to sleep. EMTs found her heart rate at 240 bpm and she flatlined briefly in the ambulance after medication was administered. During her clinical death, Julie found herself approaching a gold cloud with movement behind it, when two glass-like barriers snapped into place blocking her view. The barriers appeared as living, glowing glass with kaleidoscope patterns of orange, yellow, pink, and purple, containing shifting flowers with embedded pearls and onyx. Jesus stood to her right, though she couldn't see Him directly, and told her in a rich baritone voice: "You're not ready yet. Go. There is still so much work to be done." She was immediately pulled backward at tremendous speed back to her body. Medical confirmation of flatlining validated her experience. The encounter left her with profound understanding that her work for God is vital and unfinished, enhanced spiritual sensitivity, and complete peace about death while recognizing everything happens according to divine purpose. | 2 | Ambulance | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Flatlined in ambulance, confirmed by medical staff, heart rate 240 bpm | Specific visual details of barriers and conversation with Jesus | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Primary doctor | Later | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 2 | Gold cloud and glass barriers | 0.00 | Romi (EMT) | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||
| 3843 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5368 Justine L NDE 9890 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1justine_l_nde.html | 2019 | 2024 | F | Justine, a mental health professional, was violently attacked in 2019 by a man with dissociative disorder who repeatedly strangled her to the point of death. During the final strangulation when she stopped breathing, she left her body while thinking of her daughters. She transitioned from observing the room from above to entering pure light where she experienced the most profound love and peace possible. She became spread out and part of everything, knowing everything, while being watched by a presence like a big eye. She was everything and everything was her in this state of unity consciousness. Upon returning to her body, she found her attacker on the ground acting childlike, telling her to run. Remarkably, she attended a 5-day mental health training the next day, delivering what attendees called the best training ever despite having post-concussion syndrome and serious injuries. The experience fundamentally changed her, requiring therapy to "learn how to be human again." She now experiences extraordinary abilities including seeing people's memories as they speak, remote viewing, and enhanced intuitive knowledge. She teaches about trauma, perception, and spiritual hypnosis with information flowing effortlessly from universal consciousness. While maintaining her career alongside psychiatrists, she experiences ongoing shifts between ordinary and expanded states of consciousness. | 5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Repeated strangulation until breathing stopped, clear life threat | Profound unity consciousness but no verified earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Hospital staff | Later | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Unity consciousness experience | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 3844 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5336 Kali K NDE 9837 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kali_k_nde.html | 2020 | 2024 | F | Kali, a former devout atheist, experienced a remarkable NDE during a heart attack on September 14, 2020, which was preceded by a detailed premonition dream six months earlier. The dream featured her as a red bird surviving a tsunami, climbing a ladder with 13 rungs while transforming into human form, and encountering a God-like figure with white beard and red robe who stopped her from crossing a rose-covered trellis saying "You're not ready yet." During her actual NDE, she felt weightless as her consciousness ascended, viewing her suffering body with pity before traveling through a tunnel filled with golden light that revealed cosmic secrets. She experienced a comprehensive life review that played simultaneously forward and backward, showing every event from both first and third person perspectives. Most profoundly, she felt every emotion she had ever experienced plus every emotion of those who had hurt her, understanding their complete emotional histories and gaining immense empathy and forgiveness. She understood how her actions affected others and how she could be seen as an enemy in someone else's story. The experience revealed that everything happens for a reason and HAD to unfold exactly as it did. This transformed her from bitter atheism to spiritual openness, eliminating her anger at God and giving her profound gratitude for life's challenges as opportunities for growth. | 2 | Unknown | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Heart attack with chest pains and numbness in extremities | Profound life review with understanding but no verified earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 3845 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5450 Karen O NDE 13017 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1karen_o_nde_13017.html | 2004 | 2024 | 34 | F | Karen, a 34-year-old Combat Medic in the US Army, experienced a catastrophic medical emergency during childbirth on October 23, 2004. After 68 hours of induced labor with severe preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, she underwent an emergency C-section lasting 3.5 hours. Post-surgery, she hemorrhaged nearly four liters of blood in seconds, causing her heart to stop for seven minutes. During clinical death, she "awoke" in a space resembling outer space - a soothing, pulsing blackness that was simultaneously nothing and everything, pure potential and Source. She was both aware of herself and aware that she was inseparably one with this infinite Source. Pinpoints of light around her were other consciousness forms. The emotions she experienced - rapture, bliss, peace, love - exceeded any earthly capacity for description. She began exploring this space, fascinated by her "arm" being a random point in space, when she heard grumbling that became her own snoring, pulling her back to her body. Her lieutenant confirmed she had been dead for seven minutes while they resuscitated her. Recovery took ten days with multiple organ failure requiring her liver, kidneys, and bowels to restart. She refused dialysis, insisting her body needed time to heal. The experience revealed that earth is the playground for experiencing duality, growth, and emotions that don't exist in pure consciousness, while death holds incomparable beauty and unity with Source. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Clinical death for 7 minutes, hemorrhage of 4 liters blood, multiple organ failure | Profound Source/unity consciousness experience, heard own snoring upon return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Multiple organ failure documented | Lieutenant, medical team | Within 24 hours | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard own snoring upon return | 1.00 | Lieutenant, medical team | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||
| 3846 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5507 Kerry A NDE 13112 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kerry_a_nde.html | 2006 | 2024 | 18 | F | Kerry, a college freshman, experienced supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in April 2006 after consuming extra espresso on an empty stomach. Her heart rate reached 240 beats per minute, and EMTs administered medication to restart her heart. She watched the monitor go from 240 to 200 to 100 to 50, then briefly flatlined. During clinical death, Kerry experienced multiple simultaneous perspectives - she was everywhere in the room and aware of everything at all angles, seeing left, right, front, back, and bottom of objects and people simultaneously. She began passing through a tunnel toward a very bright light, feeling she was traveling to heaven. She heard whispers that weren't from people in the physical room while remaining aware of actual conversations. The experience included incredible peace, joy, and unity with the universe. She was moving forward with energy toward the light when the forward movement stopped and she was returned to her body. While unconscious, she accurately heard and later recalled someone on the phone relaying her condition to her mother in South Korea. The experience transformed her from devout Catholic to more broadly spiritual, giving her certainty about souls, afterlife, and a higher power. She recalls a similar experience from infancy, suggesting souls may enter bodies during early life. A few months later, she had successful cardiac ablation to resolve the SVT. | 1 | Other | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Heart rate 240 bpm monitored, medication given to restart heart, flatlined briefly | Accurately heard phone conversation while unconscious, multi-angle simultaneous vision | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Hospital | Later | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard phone conversation with mother | 1.00 | EMTs | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||
| 3847 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5557 John K NDE 16138 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1john_k_nde_16138.html | 2025 | M | John died during his final cancer surgery when complications arose, causing cardiac arrest on the operating table. Despite having his eyes taped shut for the neck/face surgery, he observed specific details about the operating room that he later recounted to his surgeon. He accurately described the exact positions of medical staff around the table, the readings on monitoring equipment, and specific conversations that occurred during his resuscitation. The surgeon initially tried to deny John had died but eventually admitted the accuracy of his observations, stating "There are things in this life that medicine cannot explain." Following this experience, John developed remarkable abilities including seeing when people were injured internally, correctly diagnosing a woman's hairline leg fracture before medical confirmation. He also began receiving messages from deceased individuals, including a soldier named Tim who had been killed in Afghanistan, leading to meaningful contact with Tim's mother. John predicted a 9.2 magnitude earthquake that later struck Sumatra on December 26, 2004. These profound changes persisted until John's death from cancer in 2009. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest during surgery with resuscitation explicitly confirmed | Multiple specific veridical observations while eyes taped: staff positions, equipment readings, conversations. Post-NDE verified predictions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/6/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed operating room details with eyes taped | 1.00 | Operating surgeon | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3848 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5564 Kelly F NDE 13205 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1kelly_f_nde.html | 1978 | 1978-10-07 | 2025 | 17 | M | During a high school football game, Kelly suffered a severe injury that ruptured his spleen when his rib cut it in half. Despite the severity, he remained at the game until the end before his father took him to the emergency room instead of letting him go home. By the time he arrived at the hospital, over two-thirds of his blood had pooled in his stomach cavity, and doctors said he would have died if he had been 30 minutes later. In the operating room before and possibly during surgery, Kelly experienced floating above his body at the ceiling, looking down and trying to communicate with the nurses. He heard them scrambling and yelling "He's in shock!" before finding himself immersed in the whitest, most brilliant light he had ever experienced. Within this light, he felt the most loving, caring, and peaceful feeling he had ever encountered, even to this day. Despite having just turned 17 and initially not wanting to die, once in the light he didn't want to leave and return to his body. The experience fundamentally changed his understanding of death and consciousness, providing him comfort in dealing with the loss of loved ones throughout his life. He describes the love experienced in that realm as something that doesn't exist on Earth in the same form. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening hemorrhage from ruptured spleen, shock state confirmed | OBE with observation of medical staff response, but limited specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 0 | Viewed body from ceiling of operating room | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3849 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5566 Ken D NDE 13208 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1ken_d_nde_13208.html | 1961 | 1961-07-02 | 2025 | 7 | M | Seven-year-old Ken was playing at a forbidden harbor with his friend Peter when he attempted to jump onto a floating raft but fell short, landing in the water. Unable to swim, he sank to the bottom in a vertical position, experiencing complete relaxation despite the danger. When he tried to surface, he hit his head on the bottom of the raft and everything went black. In this state, a luminous being appeared behind him to his right - an "angel of light" who called him by his nickname "Kukke" and showed him his entire life in detail on a film reel. The angel stopped the movie multiple times to review incidents where Ken had done wrong, particularly focusing on lies he had told and explaining their consequences. The being told Ken he had to return to life, stating: "Now you're coming back into the world, and you're going to be someone who heals the sick, and you're also going to do something else that has to do with music." Ken begged to stay but was refused lovingly. His friend Peter had found him underwater and pulled him up by his hair, with help from a man who performed artificial respiration. Ken had been lifeless for so long the man thought he was dead. The experience eliminated Ken's fear of death and gave him certainty about the afterlife, though he struggled with guilt about lying to his parents about the incident to avoid getting in trouble. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Drowning with prolonged unconsciousness, resuscitation required | Life review with specific details, prophetic message about future purpose | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 1 | Received prophecy about future life purpose | 0.00 | Peter (friend), unnamed man | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||
| 3850 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5562 Lalita B NDE 13203 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1lalita_b_nde.html | 1984 | 2025 | F | Lalita was playing with her sisters and friends in a water-filled trench during high tide, using buckets to stay afloat since none of them could swim. When she and a friend ventured to the middle where they couldn't touch bottom, the friend panicked and grabbed Lalita's bucket, causing her to lose her flotation. As she began drowning with her sisters screaming but unable to help, her father heard the commotion and jumped into the water to save her. He searched for half an hour, later describing it as the scariest moment of his life. During this time, Lalita saw an enormous hand bigger than the trench, surrounded by beautiful lights, lifting her from the water. She felt completely safe and began floating through a tunnel of beautiful orange-colored lights that were peaceful and soft. After traveling through the lights, she felt her feet touch sand and thought she could get out of the water. When she opened her eyes, she was on the roadside with her father trying to revive her, though no water came out. She felt embarrassed and walked away. The experience made her a good swimmer who loves the water, while her sisters who witnessed the event remain afraid of swimming. Before her father died, he asked her to explain what she saw, knowing he hadn't been the one to save her. She told him about the light, bringing him peace. | 5 | Other | 10 | 6 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Drowning requiring 30-minute search and rescue, apparent death state | Witnessed large hand with lights, tunnel experience, but limited specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw large luminous hand pulling her from water | 0.00 | Father, sisters, friends | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3851 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5532 Laura C NDE 13159 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1laura_c_nde_13159.html | 1994 | 1994-11-30 | 2025 | F | One week before her NDE, Laura had a prophetic dream of walking by a crystal-clear river with a bridge and glowing city in the distance, where a dwarf-like man on a raft told her they would meet soon. A week later, while driving home after midnight on icy roads, she slid past a stop sign and lost consciousness. She found herself in a mid-century waiting room with windows overlooking clouds and colors. She explored and found rooms with people, including one that seemed like Janis Joplin. Then hundreds of people her age walked from the clouds, including a deceased high school friend who pointed to her grandfather. They walked together by the same river from her dream, with her grandfather telling her about her future sons and life purpose via telepathy. The dwarf-like guide reappeared, confirming he was her guide and conveying important information she couldn't fully recall except understanding she had to return. She awoke in her car with significant blood loss from biting through her lip, having broken through ice into a shallow lake. Despite the severe accident with shattered windows and massive blood loss that should have been fatal, she survived due to sub-zero temperatures. The police officer who met her later cried, unable to believe she lived. A week after the accident, she had the same prophetic dream again. | 5 | Other | 10 | 10 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Severe motor vehicle accident with significant blood loss, clinical death reported by hospital | Precognitive dream verified by repetition, specific details of guide and grandfather | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 0 | Prophetic dream one week before accident | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3852 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5552 Mr. C NDE 13191 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1mr_c_nde.html | 2022 | 2025 | F | In October 2022, Mr. C fell into a coma due to severe, prolonged insomnia that had reached a critical point where she hadn't slept at all for over a week. After calling an ambulance at 7 AM from her Tokyo residence, she lost consciousness, experiencing the world spinning, heart discomfort, breathing difficulty, and stars in her vision. As she fainted, she felt these sensations moving away from her and feared she was dying. She then saw the figure of her father who had passed away more than ten years earlier and heard his voice. When she wondered in her mind if she had to go with him, a strong consciousness came to her saying firmly: "No, you can't leave because you have unfinished work." She later awakened in the hospital emergency room. The experience profoundly impacted her nihilistic worldview, as she understood for the first time the value of her existence through being told by that consciousness that she couldn't leave yet. She now takes medical conditions seriously and has developed a stronger sense of life purpose and meaning. Despite previously having no interest in religion or spirituality, she now feels that life has significance and that she has been confirmed as having value and purpose for continuing to live. | 4 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Coma from severe insomnia, emergency hospitalization | Encountered deceased father, received message about unfinished work | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Encountered deceased father and received message | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3853 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5540 Raimondo NDE 13173 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1raimondo_nde.html | 2020 | 2020-07-08 | 2025 | M | On July 8, 2020, during the pandemic while heading to work, Raimondo suddenly found himself in a tunnel after an accident that led to immediate coma. Initially disoriented and frightened with his feet buried in earth, he felt compelled to move forward in slow motion through a timeless space where minutes could have been days. As he continued, his emotions transformed to serenity, happiness, protection, love, and embrace - feelings beyond what words could express. Deep in the tunnel appeared a marvelous, warm, reassuring light that seemed to draw him with a rope. Instantly transported into the light, he found himself in Paradise surrounded by breathtaking nature with joyfully running animals of all kinds. Butterflies encircled and guided him while painted clouds filled the sky. Among the clouds appeared a gentle face with white beard and hair and an imposing chest that made him feel welcomed and protected - he recognized this as "our Lord, Father of us all." The butterflies led him left where nature exploded in vivid, indescribable colors with waterfalls, mountains, rivers, and distant figures of people, all emanating pure love and serenity. Then he felt a hand on his chest gently pulling him back as he heard: "Raimondo, turn back; it is not your time." This experience transformed him from an atheist to a believing Christian, calling it the most beautiful journey of his life that will forever be part of him. | 4 | Unknown | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Accident leading to coma | Beautiful visions but no specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3854 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5530 Ronnie G NDE 13151 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1ronnie_g_nde.html | 2024 | 2024-06-01 | 2025 | M | On May 31, 2024, Ronnie's wife attempted to murder him by punching him in the back of the head, causing a closed head injury diagnosed at the hospital that night. The next morning, while police were attempting to remove his wife from the house (without arresting her despite the assault), Ronnie sat on the lawn in a meditative pose trying to calm himself due to high blood pressure and severe head pain. Facing east at sunrise, he felt his brain start to roll to the right like an engine turning over, then heard a POP as his soul exited his body and floated upward like a hot air balloon. He saw the yellow sun rising in the east and an enormous ball of white, swirling light in the south that was 5-10 times larger than the sun yet didn't add more light to the morning. His soul continued rising until he could see his body below, then his view rotated to see his house with police inside with his wife, step-son, and daughter. He could hear the police telling his wife to gather her belongings, observing everything from about 100 feet up. When he thought "Oh, I am dead" and found it strange his body hadn't fallen over, he suddenly heard "Bloop bloop bloop" and slammed back into his body, inhaling like surfacing from underwater. He suffered lasting injuries including TBI, PTSD, memory issues, and speech problems. Following the NDE, he developed abilities to see auras and colors, stronger empathy and intuition, and can feel when people pray for him. The experience led him to become Catholic despite never being baptized before. | 5 | Home | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Traumatic brain injury from assault, documented closed head injury | Observed inside house while outside, saw divine light, specific details of police interaction | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw and heard inside house from outside | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3855 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5547 André R NDE 13183 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1andre_r_nde.html | 1984 | 2025 | M |
André was working on a spectrometer with his colleague Marc when he was electrocuted by 4000 volts at 5 amps for 20-25 seconds. The highest resistor below his shoulders carried direct current while another at heart level carried alternating current. His body endured muscular contractions equivalent to lifting two tons during the electrocution. Unable to scream or move, he initially resisted death thinking of his three young sons but eventually surrendered. Upon leaving his body, André entered a state of infinite consciousness filled with intense luminosity and omnipresent love. He floated above his convulsing body feeling complete bliss and understanding. In this state, he traveled instantly to observe his children David at nursery school and Alexandre and Christophe at primary school two kilometers away. He perceived them with extraordinary clarity and felt cosmic fusion with their joy. Rising into luminous space, he encountered his children's faces within incandescent light where they telepathically asked him to return. Through telepathic communication, André directed Marc to press the emergency stop button, which Marc did immediately, later confirming he felt something abnormal occurring. André returned to his paralyzed, burned body with difficulty breathing. After losing consciousness again, he had to repeat the journey back through space to re-enter his body. Medical staff confirmed he survived electrocution that should have been fatal. He slept for two days before awakening with retained memories of eternal slumber and permanent life changes. The experience left him with heightened lucidity and deep commitment to living with authentic love, though he struggles with nostalgia for the paradise he experienced. |
5 | Other | 5 | 18 | 33 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe electrocution with 4000 volts for 20-25 seconds, medically documented as should have been fatal | Out-of-body experience with observation of children at schools 2km away, telepathic communication with colleague who confirmed sensing abnormal phenomenon | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Electrocution by 4000V/5A current | 7/6/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed own body being electrocuted from above | 0.00 | Marc | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3856 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5568 Brent D NDE 13210 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1brent_d_nde.html | 1994 | 2025 | M |
Brent was a rear seat passenger in a head-on collision at 60mph where both drivers died at the scene. He sustained a broken femur and severe head injury but remained conscious throughout. He could feel the broken bone ends when trying to move and had glass shards in his eyes from the other vehicle. As emergency personnel arrived, he began going into shock with tingling and shivering, resisting losing consciousness fearing it might be his last breath. During this critical state, Brent found himself standing in an infinite golden sand desert under a clear blue sky with no sun or clouds. The desert extended endlessly in all directions, and he intuitively knew it had no boundaries. He felt overwhelming loneliness, realizing that at death's door he was completely alone - even if others held his hand, death was a journey he must make by himself. The experience had a purgatory-like quality to him. After what felt like minutes in the desert vision, though uncertain of real time duration, Brent returned to awareness in the crashed vehicle. Emergency services transported him to the hospital where he recovered from his injuries. The experience taught him the absolute solitude of death's threshold. Despite others' proximity, dying remains a solitary passage. This vision of infinite desert and complete aloneness left a lasting impression about the fundamental isolation of the death experience, remaining vivid in his memory for 30 years. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Head-on collision at 60mph with fatalities, broken femur, severe head trauma, shock | Vision of infinite desert realm, no specific veridical observations of physical world | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Glass shards in eyes | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Vision of infinite desert realm | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 3857 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5538 Bristol O NDE 13171 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1bristol_o_nde.html | 2024 | 2025 | F |
Bristol experienced severe internal bleeding from a burst ovarian cyst that bled into her abdomen overnight, losing over 3.5 liters of blood. Upon waking and attempting normal routines, she began losing consciousness. Medical staff later confirmed she should have been technically dead from this blood loss. She lost consciousness multiple times before emergency laparoscopic surgery. During her unconscious episodes, Bristol was thrust into the darkness of space where she could perceive nebulae and cosmic structures. She had no memory of her earthly identity but felt immense relief and bliss. An incorporeal being that seemed to occupy all reality communicated with her about the incarnation cycle - spirits wait in stasis between lives, with placement depending on time in stasis and quality of previous lives. Those who committed heinous acts face extended suspension from reincarnation. The being explained that life creates stories that warm the cosmos, with living beings on various planets generating intense emotional energy that sustains spirits. Bristol was given a choice to return or remain in blissful stasis but would go to the back of the reincarnation line if she stayed. Initially unable to remember her earthly life, she felt empathy for whoever she had been and recognized she had been rigid and judgmental. The being helped her locate Earth through space and time, showing her Earth's geological history and civilizations rising and falling. She witnessed continental drift, ancient cultures, wars, and modern development before finding her body via the Columbia River and Willamette River to the Portland hospital. Returning to her body felt like violent rebirth with intense physical sensations. The experience eliminated her fear of death and gave her new purpose in living meaningful stories that inspire other spirits to incarnate. She now feels deep connection to all beings and heightened motivation to live fully. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 16 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Lost over 3.5 liters of blood from burst ovarian cyst, medically should have been dead | Extensive observations of cosmic structures, Earth history, geographic navigation to find body | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/6/2025 | 3 | 0 | Viewed Earth from space and witnessed geological/historical events | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3858 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5565 Caitlin O NDE 13206 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1caitlin_o_nde.html | 2003 | 2025 | 14 | F |
At age 14, Caitlin was severely assaulted by her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend at 3am after breaking up with him due to his violent behavior toward others. He had previously assaulted her best friend and his mother, resulting in jail time. When he came to her house after his release, she was struck in the head and beaten for approximately 10 minutes in a life-threatening attack. After the first blow to her head, Caitlin immediately felt herself slip out of her body and shoot 30 feet into the air. From a position above the street light, she watched her ex-boyfriend continue beating her body below for the remaining 10 minutes of the assault. During this out-of-body state, she experienced neither pleasant nor distressing emotions, instead feeling very present and aware. She consciously thought "This is unfortunate that this had to happen" while observing the violence from above. The experience left her with a changed perspective on human consciousness and connection. She realized humans are souls with personalities rather than just bodies, understanding that something mystical forms the canvas of existence. This revelation internalized into every cell of her being, leaving her with unshakeable knowledge of this truth. Following the experience, Caitlin developed increased body awareness and appreciation for physical existence. She felt more connected to whatever makes humans alive or dead, which she identifies as God. The near-death experience fundamentally altered her understanding of human nature and spirituality, confirming her belief in universal human connection. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe assault with head trauma lasting 10 minutes | Out-of-body observation of ongoing assault from 30 feet above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Watched assault on self from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3859 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5573 Christina G NDE 13215 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1christina_g_nde.html | 2016 | 2025 | F |
Christina experienced a series of severe accidents within one year while enduring domestic violence and raising two children alone. First, a deer crashed through her windshield causing spinal breaks and traumatic brain injury. Months later, while attempting to return to work after spinal fusions, a truck's rear axle detached and struck her car, requiring additional surgeries. In July 2016, she was run off the road, rolling 216 feet, hitting a culvert, then rolling another 216 feet, landing upside down with water entering the vehicle. During the third accident, with her car inverted in the culvert and windshield pressing her face, Christina left her body and observed herself trapped in the wreckage below. Before her appeared an illuminating light being in human form but without features, accompanied by her deceased grandmother and father on either side. A wheel displayed her life events in slow motion like a movie projector while the being repeatedly asked telepathically "Do you see now?" She felt unprecedented peace and warmth, expressing she didn't want to return as this was her first experience of true peace. The being showed her children and revealed her pain had always been purposeful, preparing her to guide others from darkness. When she expressed reluctance to return, she was shown she would never have been alone - God had carried her through her suffering. She was told to return with new sight and trust. Upon awakening, a doctor said he was a man of science but had no explanation for her survival. Christina immediately felt different with heightened intuition and understanding of her greater purpose. Despite permanent disability from incomplete spinal cord injury, she overcame medical predictions. She now sees her lifelong suffering as preparation for helping others, spending her days volunteering and sharing her story to inspire those enduring hardship. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clinical death during rollover accident, medically inexplicable survival | Saw body trapped in wreckage, encountered deceased relatives, life review shown | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw own body trapped in overturned vehicle | 0.00 | Hospital doctor | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3860 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5567 David C NDE 13209 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1david_c_nde.html | 2021 | 2025 | M |
David was walking toward his front door when he tripped on a tree root and fell. He has no memory of the actual fall or how he landed. His next awareness was being in deep space, surrounded by bright stars extending infinitely in all directions. Despite not knowing how he was standing or what supported him, he found himself walking on what felt like solid foundation through this cosmic environment. While traversing this star-filled space, David asked aloud, "So, is this the way that everything ends?" In response, a bank of twelve to fourteen stars appeared before him, with one yellow star among the white ones. This grouping of stars seemed to examine him briefly, appearing to function as a collective presence or decision-making entity. The assessment was quick, suggesting they were evaluating his situation. After this celestial encounter, David found himself back on the ground in front of his home. When he tried to get up, both his hands appeared inflated to three or four times their normal size, like balloons. This surreal physical distortion lasted several minutes before he could drag himself to the staircase and use the railing to stand. The experience left David more convinced that something exists beyond earthly existence. The mysterious star bank that seemed to decide his fate was inconsistent with his previous Catholic-influenced beliefs, introducing him to a form of cosmic consciousness he had never previously considered. He believes the stars made a decision about whether he should return to life. |
6 | Home | 1 | 6 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Fall with possible head injury, unclear if life-threatening | Vision of space with sentient star collective making decision | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Encountered sentient star collective in space | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3861 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5561 Dina A NDE 13202 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1dina_a_nde.html | 1979 | 2025 | 8 | F |
At age 8, Dina was floating down the Yakima River with family friends when their boat stalled near shore. While sitting on the boat's front with another child during an argument, she either slipped or was pushed and fell off while the boat was being pulled to shore. She distinctly remembers hitting her head on the boat's bottom right side four times as it was pulled over her, with her feet unable to touch bottom. Dina then experienced a tunnel of bright white light with memories flashing past her head at warp speed from both sides. The memories whipped by like a movie at incredible velocity, containing far more experiences than her eight years of life would account for. She felt no worry or fear during this experience, instead feeling wonder, confusion, awe, excitement, incredible peace and joy. The experience gave her a sense of unity with the world. After an unknown duration in the memory tunnel, Dina found herself facing shore despite having faced downriver during the experience. She suddenly found footing, stumbled to shore coughing up water while her mother yelled at her. That night or the next day, while sitting on her bed, she had what seemed like a conversation with someone unseen, saying "I don't want this! I don't want to do this anymore!" She desperately tried to remember the amazing memories from the tunnel but slept for hours and woke feeling different, no longer afraid. She didn't understand what happened until the 1980s when NDEs were first described on TV, recognizing "Oh, that's what happened to me." The experience may have included glimpses of her future and past lives, and she wonders if she had a soul exchange due to her emotional state immediately after. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning with head trauma from boat impact | Tunnel of light with life review memories at warp speed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Tunnel of light with memory life review | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3862 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5572 Sally L NDE 13214 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1sally_l_nde.html | 2025 | 2025 | 41 | F |
Sally experienced acute respiratory failure after an opiate overdose, with oxygen levels dropping to 30%. During the medical crisis on March 16, 2025, she lost consciousness while the rapid response team worked on her. She found herself in a control room inside her head where musical notes played with eye movements, experiencing a seizure while being intubated and placed on bypass. She was transported through a portal to a room with spiritual beings she couldn't fully see but whose presence she felt. She experienced a life review showing painful, joyous, happy, and traumatic moments from different timelines. The beings allowed her to fast-forward through painful memories. She was then presented with different pathways she could explore to see potential futures, understanding she had been taking life for granted and had a purpose on earth. She was given the choice to remain with the beings or return to her body, though she's unsure which path she consciously chose. The specific veridical observations included her awareness of being in the hospital room during treatment, feeling the sternum rubs, sensing the nurse's weight shift onto the bed, hearing the doctor call for Ativan, and feeling the breathing bag contracting against her face. She remembered the doctor saying "Don't bite my finger" when placing a sponge in her mouth. These detailed observations occurred while she was unconscious and in respiratory failure. Sally awoke in the ICU with brain monitoring equipment attached. She could recount the activities in the hospital room, surprising the doctors and staff. After discharge, she felt a dark presence watching her for about a week, though not malicious. The experience reinforced her sobriety and gave her understanding that she had chosen life to avoid disappointing the higher powers. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Acute respiratory failure with oxygen at 30%, seizure activity requiring intubation and bypass machine - clear life-threatening medical crisis | Multiple specific observations while unconscious: sternum rubs, nurse weight shift, breathing bag sensation, doctor's voice saying "Don't bite my finger" - specific details impossible to know while in respiratory failure | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 1 | Awareness of medical procedures during respiratory failure | 1.00 | Doctors and medical staff | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3863 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5550 Steve M NDE 13188 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1steve_m_nde_13188.html | 2023 | 2025 | M |
Steve was having lunch with friends and had just finished explaining how his Internal Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) worked when he suddenly experienced cardiac arrest. He lost his sight and then consciousness, later realizing he was dying and thinking how easy it was to slip away. The ICD tracked the event in real-time, showing the progression and delayed response that should have reacted more quickly. During his approximately 10-second unconscious period, Steve found himself sitting alone at an airport gate, hearing all the typical airport noises but seeing no one else. There was no plane at the gate, but he was waiting for a flight to an unknown destination. He experienced himself watching himself sitting in the seat, demonstrating an out-of-body perspective. He heard many voices and announcements he couldn't understand, showing no concern about them. The key veridical element was hearing a woman's voice announce that his flight had been cancelled, which coincided with the ICD activating and shocking his heart back to rhythm. His body jumped from the electric shock, and he immediately awoke on the restaurant floor with friends standing around him. The timing of the flight cancellation announcement with the ICD activation suggests awareness during the cardiac arrest. After the event, the ICD data was retrieved in graph format showing exactly what happened. The device settings were recalibrated to prevent future delays. Steve remains uncertain whether the experience was real or imagination but notes the electrophysiologist specifically asked if he experienced anything unusual, suggesting medical awareness of such phenomena during cardiac events. |
1 | Other | 10 | 6 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Cardiac arrest with ICD documentation and data retrieval showing exact cardiac activity | Airport scene with flight cancellation coinciding with ICD activation suggests possible awareness during arrest, but limited specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard flight cancellation announcement | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3864 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5528 Tasha L NDE 13147 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1tasha_l_nde.html | 2009 | 2025 | 17 | F |
In December 2009, seventeen-year-old Tasha, who had no religious background or knowledge of afterlife concepts, attempted suicide during her junior year of high school. After collapsing in a bathroom stall at a recreation center where her class was taking the ACT, she instantly found herself hovering above her body, which lay curled by the toilet. She noticed she had no physical form and no longer felt the chronic chest pain she had carried throughout her life. She was pulled through a dark tunnel in outer space with specks of light and iridescent colors streaming past. She emerged in a space of pure, brilliant white light radiating unconditional love and acceptance. She saw herself as a semi-figure outline of pure light with pale colors, surrounded by multiple iridescent light beings with more vivid colors who communicated telepathically. The beings guided her to open doors revealing her traumatic memories from new perspectives, showing that she had always been protected by light beings during dangerous moments, including one where they stopped her from being shot. The veridical observations included seeing her body lying on its right side curled in a ball by the toilet from a ceiling perspective while having no physical form herself. Most significantly, she was shown a past event where she had been stopped from running by hitting an invisible wall and hearing "STOP" in her head, just as a bullet passed in front of her. From the spiritual perspective, she saw this was actually a bright light that shot up to stop her - information she couldn't have known from her earthly viewpoint. After understanding she mattered and had purpose, she was taken to endless fields with a river of pure iridescent light where she felt negative energy being washed away and replaced with pure energy. She returned to find herself back in her body without the chronic chest pain or depression. She developed multiple psychic abilities including seeing auras, healing by touch, and having precognitive flashes. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Suicide attempt in bathroom, collapsed and unconscious | Out-of-body view of body position, revelation about past protective intervention showing spiritual perspective of physical event | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw body position from above | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3865 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5559 Thea B NDE 13199 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1thea_b_nde.html | 2021 | 2025 | F |
In July 2021, on the same day her father was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, Thea passed out at 4:30 am and was life-flighted to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer. She had lost half her blood and went through all bodily stages of dying except her heart didn't flatline. During this crisis, she experienced a wave of all earthly stresses washing away followed by the most overwhelming feeling of love she had ever felt, beyond words. The primary purpose of her experience was revealed to her: to let her know that her mother, who had died alone from a head injury in 2020, didn't suffer and was at peace, and that her father would also be at peace when his time came. After her father passed, she struggled with grief until one night a bright pinhole light pierced through her window, expanding toward her. The light was extremely bright but comfortable, and when she reached toward it, her hand melted into it rather than blocking it. She knew she had to turn away because it wasn't her time. The veridical element involves an early childhood out-of-body experience around age one (1972) that she suddenly remembered after her NDE. She had fallen from a car into a deep southern ditch and observed the entire scene from above, seeing her parents searching for her, noting her mother's pretty hair and what they wore. She saw her father frantically calling her name. She was suddenly back in her body in the ditch when a cockroach crawled toward her face, causing her to scream, which alerted her parents to her location. Through these experiences, Thea gained certainty about life after death and the reality of existing outside the physical body. She experienced deep healing from grief and gained expanded religious understanding beyond her previous Christian beliefs. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening bleeding ulcer requiring life-flight, lost half blood volume | Childhood OBE memory with specific details of parents searching, seeing mother's hair and clothing from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Childhood OBE viewing parents searching | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3866 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5533 Todd H NDE 13162 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1todd_h_nde_13162.html | 2025 | 2025 | M |
In January 2025, Todd was beginning his second round of palliative chemotherapy for stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. After steroids and anti-nausea medications were given via IV, Docetaxel chemotherapy was administered. Within 3-4 minutes of the flow commencing, he sensed something was wrong and alerted a nurse who quickly removed the IV. A nursing team of 4-5 people began working on him and administered an antidote for the allergic reaction. During the critical period between IV removal and the antidote taking effect, Todd felt himself being pulled away from his body with an overwhelming sensation. He experienced a physical sensation of being pulled from behind his body by his chest and shoulders. His vision and spatial awareness narrowed to focus only on the small area directly in front of him. Though mentally clear-headed and aware of staff working on him, moving his body to a reclining position, and talking to him, he was physically unable to respond despite his mind telling him to answer. The key veridical observation was his conscious awareness of the medical team's specific actions while unable to physically respond: he observed them performing sternum rubs, moving his body position, and speaking to him. He maintained extreme clarity of sight and hearing of events happening directly in front of him, though his peripheral vision and hearing were limited. He described feeling the weight of someone performing sternum rubs and being aware of the team's movements. When the antidote took hold, his spatial awareness expanded, peripheral vision returned, and he could hear throughout the room. He later described the experience as stepping into the doorway of the other side without venturing further down the path. The experience led him to seek Christian knowledge and contemplate spiritual matters more deeply. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Life-threatening allergic reaction to chemotherapy requiring immediate intervention | Conscious awareness of medical procedures while physically unresponsive, narrowed but clear perception | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Awareness of medical team actions while unresponsive | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3867 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5537 Yi-Ping T NDEs 13168 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1yi_ping_t_ndes.html | 2005 | 2025 | 32 | F |
Yi-Ping experienced three separate NDEs across her life, each with distinct characteristics. At age 21 (1994), her heart stopped for 5 minutes at hot springs, where she saw shadows of her deceased grandparents and an unidentified little girl in complete darkness. At age 28 (2001), excessive coffee consumption triggered a heart attack due to her congenital heart abnormality. She saw bright light, heard beautiful heavenly music, and observed everything shining like gold before waking in the hospital. Her most significant experience occurred at age 32 (2005) when a foal accidentally kicked her chest at a horse ranch, causing cardiac arrest. Her heart stopped for over 10 minutes. She vividly experienced leaving her body and floating in the sky like a balloon, seeing herself lying on the grass while colleagues tried to help. She felt the blue sky, clouds, and breeze with extraordinary clarity, feeling happy and fearless. After about 5 seconds, she fell like a crashing airplane and felt buried underground before pushing through soil to return. The primary veridical observations occurred during the third experience where she watched her colleagues running around trying to help her body on the ground from an aerial perspective. She could see their specific movements and efforts while her physical body lay unresponsive with no heartbeat for over 10 minutes. Remarkably, despite the prolonged cardiac arrest, neither she nor her unborn baby suffered any lasting damage, which the doctor called miraculous. These experiences transformed Yi-Ping from Buddhism to Christianity, eliminated her serious depression, gave her daily happiness, and developed abilities including earthquake prediction, sensing when church friends pass away, and even receiving a party invitation from a deceased Romanian pastor. She can now communicate with horses and has heightened spiritual sensitivity. |
2 | Other | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Multiple cardiac arrests, heart stopped 5 min, 10+ minutes, congenital heart condition | Aerial view of colleagues helping her body, specific movements observed during 10+ minute cardiac arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw deceased grandparents and unknown girl | 0.00 | Colleagues and doctor | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 3868 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5571 Eric R NDE 13213 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1eric_r_nde.html | 2018 | 2018-06-10 | 2025 | M | Eric went for a scheduled sleep study appointment but was sick and dismissed. His girlfriend drove him to the hospital after he told her he was having a stroke. He lost consciousness in the emergency room while filling out paperwork and fell to the floor. He was in a coma for 101 days and coded twice according to medical records. During one code event, Eric found himself observing the medical team working to revive him from an out-of-body perspective. He could walk through walls and felt like he was suffocating. He heard doctors tell his family to take him off life support. Before suddenly waking up in his body, something told him 'You are OK now.' The nurse dropped her cellphone when he tried to get out of bed. He initially had left-side paralysis but recovered after months of intense physical therapy. He now runs a non-profit to help disabled people as part of what he believes is his soul purpose to teach and help others. | 4 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clinical death during coma, coded twice, 101 days in coma | Observed medical team working, heard doctors discussing removing life support | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed medical team trying to revive him | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3869 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5560 Freddy B NDE 13201 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1freddy_b_nde.html | 2025 | 2025-03-14 | 2025 | M | Freddy, who has lived with a spinal cord injury for 20 years, underwent a painful video urodynamic testing procedure at a hospital. The procedure involved catheter insertions without numbing, causing excruciating pain. When the nurse ripped off medical tape and removed the catheter, the overwhelming pain caused him to lose consciousness from neurocardiogenic syncope. As he fainted, he experienced a vivid vision of being in a 1950s-style house with green walls and children playing happily on the floor. He felt peaceful until a white blur grew and he was pulled back to reality. Medical staff were tapping his chest saying "Stay with me" as his heart rate showed 24 bpm on the monitor, slowly rising. The staff mentioned "crash cart" and kept him under observation. The experience felt like being in a simpler, more peaceful time and place. Though distressing in its medical context, the vision itself brought him peace and wonder about what might await at life's end. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Neurocardiogenic syncope with documented bradycardia (24 bpm), crash cart mentioned | Saw heart monitor showing 24 bpm, heard staff say "crash cart" and "five minutes", multiple staff present | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw heart monitor displaying heart rate | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 3870 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5542 Galadriel K NDE 13175 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1galadriel_k_nde.html | 2007 | 2025 | 10 | F | At age 10, Galadriel's heart stopped due to hypothermia. She experienced sitting up out of her body and seeing enhanced colors with increased saturation. She visited her mother cooking and heard her thoughts telepathically, saw her father milking cows with a shadow figure nearby, and noticed auras around family members. She traveled to the moon where she met three large beings made of flowing white light who appeared as skyscraper-sized figures with robes and wings. One being guided her through a life review shown as an ethereal river of experiences where she felt the emotions and impacts of her actions on others. She learned about past lives with her family members, the importance of unconditional love, and how thoughts create reality. The beings helped her plan her return to life with specific purposes. Her father later confirmed feeling her presence when she visited him in spirit. The experience included verifiable elements like learning her dad wasn't her biological father, which was later confirmed. She returned with enhanced spiritual abilities including precognitive dreams and energy perception. | 2 | Home | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest from hypothermia explicitly stated | Father confirmed feeling presence, biological father revelation confirmed, telepathically heard mother's thoughts | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 3 | 1 | Heard mother's thoughts telepathically | 0.00 | Father | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 3871 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5529 Gavin M NDE 13150 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1gavin_m_nde.html | 2016 | 2016-11-25 | 2025 | M | Gavin experienced cardiac arrest with his heart stopped for 46 minutes while receiving CPR. During clinical death, he found himself without physical form, experiencing existence as pure consciousness in darkness. He had no vision but maintained awareness and feeling. Initially thinking about losing his wife and son, he felt only joy and freedom from material concerns. He existed as expansive space without restriction, feeling he would fill an entire room if in one. He sensed his deceased grandmother's presence and communicated telepathically with her. She informed him he wouldn't be staying long, though he wanted to remain free. His next memory was waking from a coma, immediately thinking of his grandmother "Nan" and knowing she still existed somewhere. The experience eliminated his fear of death, giving him complete certainty of an afterlife. He wrote down the experience immediately upon waking to preserve the memory. The profound spiritual encounter transformed his understanding of consciousness and death. | 1 | Unknown | 10 | 7 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Cardiac arrest explicitly stated, heart stopped for 46 minutes with CPR | Telepathic communication with deceased grandmother, awareness during clinical death | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Awareness of grandmother's presence | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3872 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5553 Janna W NDE 13192 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1janna_w_nde.html | 1983 | 2025 | 8 | F | At age eight, Janna was electrocuted in the shower by a malfunctioning water heater, experiencing excruciating pain like burning from inside. After losing consciousness, her life flashed before her like a movie reel. Her father pulled her out, performed CPR, and laid her down. She immediately whooshed to the ceiling, observing her father doing CPR. Moving through the house, she saw her mother crying on the phone and her brother curled up terrified in a chair. She went outside and watched the ambulance arrive. She then entered a dark but peaceful tunnel surrounded by loving familiar spirits, possibly ancestors. An intensely bright, warm light enveloped her, feeling like home full of love. Through telepathic communication, she was told it wasn't her time and to return to figure out how to use her gift with others. Now at 50, she works as a teacher and end-of-life educator, viewing this as her higher calling. The experience taught her that love is the most important thing, stripping away material concerns. | 5 | Home | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Electrocution with clinical death, CPR given | Observed father doing CPR, mother on phone crying, brother in chair, ambulance arrival - all verified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 4 | 1 | Saw father performing CPR | 1.00 | Parents and brother | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 3873 | quantitative | webpage | NDERF 5544 Jason D NDE 13181 | https://nderf.org/Experiences/1jason_d_nde_13181.html | 2020 | 2020-11-26 | 2025 | M | Jason, a heroin addict for over 20 years, overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl. After injecting, he immediately knew something was wrong and could only say "help" to his girlfriend before losing consciousness. He was catapulted down out of his body into what seemed like a cold, dark well with dark water. He experienced a hellish realm with terrible screams and horrible sounds. Entities emerged from the water trying to pull him under, telepathically communicating that he belonged with them there. He struggled to breathe and fought against being pulled under. With one last strong attempt, he broke free and was rocketed back into his body. His girlfriend reported he had been clinically dead for several minutes with no heartbeat or breathing, had turned deep blue with purple lips. She administered 5 doses of Narcan and CPR between doses before the fifth dose finally revived him. The terrifying experience shook him to his foundation and led to his sobriety. He has now been sober for over 4 years and helps others through AA/NA, believing the experience showed him he had been living an evil life that needed to change. | 2 | Home | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Clinical death from overdose, no heartbeat or breathing for several minutes | Described being dead with specific physical signs - blue skin, purple lips, requiring 5 Narcan doses | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 1 | Awareness of clinical death state | 1.00 | Girlfriend | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3874 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1152 Growing up without love | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1152-growing-up-without-love.html | 1977 | 2016 | 5 | F |
A five-year-old girl experienced drowning while swimming in a pond when her brother took her flotation board. She sank to the deepest part of the pond, initially panicking and struggling underwater. The experience transformed when pain ceased and she felt fine, believing she could breathe underwater. She observed fish nudging her and realized she was dead, becoming just an object like a treasure chest in a fishbowl. Her consciousness rose above the pond to treetop height, gaining a panoramic view. She observed her mother and sister sunbathing at the pond entrance, engaged in adult conversation, unaware of her drowning. She saw her brother John on her board at the opposite end. Feeling rage at her family's lack of love, she accepted death and prepared to leave. An angel appeared as white light and told her to wait, that she might return if found soon. The angel later appeared more clearly, acknowledging the family didn't love her but promising she would have abundant love with her own family someday, pointing toward town. She was rescued by John who found her body underwater and carried her over his shoulder. The experience profoundly impacted her life, leading to various spiritual experiences and eventual healing from childhood trauma through sharing her NDEs. |
5 | Other | 5 | 16 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Drowning incident with loss of consciousness described | Multiple specific observations: mother and sister location/activity, brother on board, panoramic view from above pond | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw family members from above pond | 1.00 | Mother, Teri, John | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3875 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1162 Concentrate on breathing | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1162-concentrate-on-breathing-and-opening-your-eyes.html | 2016 | F |
A woman was driven to the ER with sudden severe symptoms including chills, vomiting, fever, extreme headache and physical weakness progressing over 8 hours. She developed sepsis from an unknown infection source. After crashing in the ER waiting room, she woke on a stretcher seeing blood pressure of 49/28, realizing her critical condition. A doctor sat with her, offering strong loving presence and holding her hand as she faced potential death. Her organs began failing from sepsis, lungs filled with fluid, and she developed pneumonia. She may have suffered a heart attack from life-saving drugs. She spent 12 days hospitalized - 8 in ICU, 4 on regular ward, then two months recovering. She experienced the same NDE twice in 24 hours, once in the ER and again in ICU with her deceased mother present the second time. A dark oval object filled her vision with a cloud-like image inside, surrounded by a thin border of light. It grew larger until she found herself floating upright in complete stillness, existing as pure energy in overwhelming space of joy and love. A voice said: "Tina... it is not your time yet, don't worry or panic. Relax and focus on calming your body. Concentrate on breathing and opening your eyes." She returned to find medical team inserting a central line in her neck. The experience provided absolute trust in the unearthly being guiding her return. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Critical sepsis with organ failure, BP 49/28, ICU monitoring, possible cardiac arrest | Voice guidance during crisis, awareness of medical procedures (central line insertion) | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Awareness during resuscitation | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3876 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1164 Euphoria way beyond crack cocaine | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1164-euphoria-way-beyond-crack-cocaine.html | 2015 | 2016 | 61 | F |
A 61-year-old woman underwent temporal artery biopsy under general anesthesia in July 2015. She was not anxious about the procedure, having survived acute respiratory failure in 2013 with lung hemorrhaging, induced coma, and partial lung removal. She considered this biopsy minimal in comparison to her previous near-death experience. Upon emerging from anesthesia, she felt yanked from a beautiful place. Her memories faded rapidly as consciousness returned, frustrating her deeply. She recalled beautiful colors never seen before, but the strongest component was the feeling - rapturous joy and love beyond adequate description. The experience surpassed any earthly pleasure by magnitudes. She became agitated during transport to recovery, feeling "kidnapped" from the beautiful place, demanding to be returned immediately. Her hysteria and uncontrollable crying required Valium sedation. The experience haunted her thoughts as she wished to recapture that feeling. Reading Patricia Pearson's "Opening Heaven's Door" months later, particularly Jayne Smith's NDE account, validated her experience. Dr. Jeffrey Long confirmed via email this could be a rare anesthesia-related NDE despite no cardiac arrest. As a recovering addict familiar with cocaine's euphoria, she testified this experience exceeded that high thousandfold without negative effects, providing pure immersion in joy and love. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Surgery under general anesthesia, temporal artery biopsy | Beautiful colors and overwhelming joy/love but no specific veridical content | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/6/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||||
| 3877 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1165 Sixty years in heaven thirty minutes earth time | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1165-sixty-years-in-heaven-thirty-minutes-earth-time.html | 1977 | 2016 | Unknown |
During a Labor Day 1977 car accident, a person experienced time slowing as their car was struck and headed toward a concrete pole. Everything stopped in suspended animation before a presence surrounded them with a swooshing sound like helicopter blades. They moved upward rapidly through bright white light, seeing the accident scene below while feeling profound peace and certainty of safety. They arrived at a cobblestone path with a luminescent glass city shimmering in unseen colors to the left and a meadow with children, adults, and animals playing to the right. Their guide, appearing as a handsome 30-35 year old in brown robes, led them to a library within towering buildings. The library contained countless scrolls where beings cheered their arrival. They experienced a 360-degree life review showing the domino effects of harsh words affecting hundreds of people. For 60 years they studied scrolls containing complete human lives and universal information. They learned about predetermined life choices, the illusion of linear time, and that even evil serves evolution's purpose. When told to return after extensive learning, they negotiated terms but ultimately squeezed back into their body in the ambulance. Their friend spent 3 months hospitalized while they emerged unscathed. Forty years later, they recognized their guide as a childhood friend who died at age 12. |
5 | Ambulance | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe car accident with life-threatening trauma | Extensive otherworldly journey but no earthly veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 3878 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1166 Pulmonary embolisms took me to the gates of heaven and Jesus | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1166-pulmonary-embolisms-took-me-to-the-gates-of-heaven-and-jesus.html | 2015 | 2015-10-23 | 2016 | F |
On October 23, 2015, Deanne collapsed at home from massive pulmonary embolisms five weeks after knee replacement surgery. She coded upon ambulance arrival at the hospital emergency and three more times after. ICU staff worked on her for 95 minutes, preparing to call time of death when a doctor found a faint pulse she maintained. She spent 7 days in ICU and 7 more in rehabilitation. During the experience, she was in complete darkness with a man in white standing beside her. At the darkness's end was a bright circle of light with people milling around living normal lives, reminding her of a hallway nightlight from childhood. Initially believing she was kidnapped by a Klingon on a spaceship, she felt crushing despair at never seeing family again. The man placed his hand on her arm as his face clarified - long stringy brown hair with the blackest eyes. Without moving his mouth, he communicated: "You have to fight, Deanne. We'll take care of you." She woke intubated in ICU with husband and son present. Two months later, watching a documentary about Jesus using 3D reproduction from the Shroud of Turin, she recognized the figure as matching exactly. She realized she hadn't just died but was taken to heaven's gates where Jesus comforted her, letting her choose based on her heart's despair about leaving family. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Four cardiac arrests, 95 minutes resuscitation, ICU monitoring | Recognition of figure matching Shroud of Turin image months later | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 0 | 1 | ICU medical team | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3879 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1167 Liver failure shows me all animals and plants have souls | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1167-liver-failure-shows-me-all-animals-and-plants-have-souls.html | 1997 | 2016 | 25 | F |
At age 25, a woman experienced complete liver failure with toxins and ammonia flooding her body and brain. She entered a violent coma, was flown to another hospital, placed in induced coma, and listed for liver transplant. Doctors said she needed immediate transplant or would die that night, but she survived multiple nights and her liver regenerated 100%. During the coma, she was approached telepathically by three angelic beings of varying authority levels, compared to the Golden Girls. They showed her life from birth, revealing conscious decision-making begins around age two. Every wrongdoing was shown without judgment, only reflection from her own consciousness. They explained humans come to earth to learn, showing she had chosen her life path before incarnation. They revealed her mother's hidden love at her funeral and her children's future neglect by stepsisters, motivating her return. She learned all animals and plants have souls, requiring human compassion and appreciation. Evil and suffering serve evolutionary purposes in their worldview. They showed her garbage mountain from lifetime consumption and pollution's effects. Her liver miraculously regenerated 100%. A liver meant for her went to Evel Knievel instead. She developed severe medication allergies but found healing through her husband's healing hands. |
4 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Violent coma from liver failure, life support, transplant list | Shown future events including children's neglect that later occurred | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/6/2025 | 1 | 0 | Shown future about children | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3880 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1171 Locked inside a freezer | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1171-locked-inside-a-freezer.html | 1965 | 2016 | 8 | F |
An eight-year-old girl playing alone near her house became trapped in an industrial freezer when the door locked behind her. In pitch black darkness with musty smell, she couldn't open the door and became frightened, slumping in the back corner. She quickly struggled to breathe with tightening chest, believing she would die. She placed her head down preparing for death. She then found herself outside her body above the porch, looking down at her father. She could clearly hear both parents' voices. Her father asked "Where is Jane?" and her mother replied "Outside playing." When he asked "Where?" and came outside looking, she was high above the porch viewing the entire backyard and closed freezer. She willed her father to find her, thinking intensely "Please find me." Her father noticed the freezer door shut, ran to it, and pulled her out unconscious. He carried her to the kitchen where she took her first full breath. She was confused and shocked, later resting on her parents' bed. Her father immediately removed the freezer door. The incident was never discussed with her parents. The experience created lasting trauma including suffocation fears, panic when locked in rooms, deep water phobia, and severe death anxiety, especially at night. After therapy at age 59, her sleep improved and death fear diminished. |
5 | Home | 5 | 18 | 33 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Suffocation/asphyxiation in locked freezer requiring rescue | Specific veridical perceptions of parents' conversation and father's search pattern from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Locked in freezer | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard parents conversation from above | 0.00 | Father and Mother | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||
| 3881 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1172 Terror then feeling safe and secure | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1172-terror-then-feeling-safe-and-secure.html | 1987 | 1987-02-14 | 2016 | F |
On February 14, 1987, Tammy attended a wedding where she suddenly felt odd and scared with the distinct feeling of dying. Her husband noticed her turning gray. She kept saying "I'm not going to make it" while trying not to make a scene. Her friend turned and looked horrified at her appearance. She collapsed at the church threshold. Initial experience brought horror and terror - darkness with extremely rapid movement that terrified her beyond description. She clawed back to consciousness, meeting her girlfriend's eye before leaving her body again. She was completely irritated by people trying to help, feeling profoundly safe and secure beyond any earthly experience. CPR was performed which annoyed her greatly. She returned briefly, then was "whisked away" again. This time she couldn't hear anything but knew she was being shown "delicate and beautiful things" while being raised to wonderful light. She felt more secure, safe and loved than ever in her life. She came to a stop standing beside her "heavenly father" - a term she'd never used before. Her husband's voice pierced through dimensions screaming "Tammy please don't die I love you." She told her heavenly father "I can't leave him" and was returned to her body. The contrast between initial terror and ultimate divine safety marked this profound experience. |
2 | Other | 7 | 4 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Collapsed requiring CPR, appeared dead to witnesses | Awareness of CPR efforts while out of body, heard specific words | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 0 | 1 | Husband, wedding guests | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3882 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1174 Heard many voices above her from her body | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1174-heard-many-voices-above-her-from-her-body.html | 1985 | 2016 | F |
A high school student visiting her brother in Houston during spring break 1985-86 collapsed at a restaurant after spending the day at the beach, visiting a comedy club with two-drink minimum, and eating late. She passed out just before eating soup, her head hitting the table. An ambulance was called. While unconscious, she found herself laying on her back in darkness with an extremely loud din of voices above her. She couldn't distinguish individual words from the cacophony. The voices seemed to peer over an invisible hole's edge, surrounding a circle with possible dim light inside. The voices were overwhelming in volume and number, creating a lasting impression. Finally, a single voice declared to the others: "It's not her time," and the voices faded. She woke to find her panicked brother and EMT personnel kneeling beside her. When she asked her brother if many people had been talking loudly above her, he said it was just him and the EMT in quiet conditions. Her brother was shaken when she revealed what the voices said about it not being her time. She hadn't categorized this as a near-death experience until recently, now believing it was a "potential NDE" involving spiritual beings determining her fate. |
6 | Other | 3 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Collapsed at restaurant, unconscious, EMT response | Heard many voices when only brother and EMT present, specific message "It's not her time" | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard many voices while unconscious | 1.00 | Brother | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 3883 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1175 Golden skulls people stars darkness | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1175-golden-sculls-people-stars-darkness.html | 2011 | 2016 | Unknown |
One night after retiring, a person found themselves floating in a dark tunnel, drawn to golden light on the right side. The entrance was lined with golden skulls producing light, continuing through both sides of the passage. Inside, people surrounded them in all directions with no true up or down, dressed in varied attire from casual to opera formal to work uniforms. These opaque entities appeared to speak but produced only muted, unintelligible sounds. One female tried reaching out but couldn't make contact. Moving deeper, light diminished and entities became transparent, wearing tattered or minimal flowing garments. The tunnel widened until only stars remained visible in pitch blackness. They contemplated choosing their destiny among the stars but found no familiar Earth constellations. The vast emptiness stretched endlessly with fewer stars the further outward they moved. Feeling slightly panicky about eternal floating in darkness, their guardian (accompanied by an animal spirit) intervened, saying it wasn't their time yet and tugging them back. They woke with their heart doing a "fish-outta-water" thing, requiring slow breathing and coughing to stabilize. An EKG 3-4 years later revealed evidence of a heart attack within the past 5 years, confirming the medical nature of this vivid experience that remains perfectly detailed years later. |
2 | Home | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Nighttime cardiac event, later confirmed by EKG showing past heart attack | Journey through tunnel with entities but no earthly veridical content | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3884 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 13-a-choice-to-continue-or-return 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/13-a-choice-to-continue-or-return.html | 2006 | Unknown |
The experiencer developed a pulmonary embolism three days after surgery, though it was not correctly diagnosed for another three days. While sleeping in the middle of the night, they experienced sudden incapacitating pain described as being stabbed and were unable to breathe. This acute medical crisis precipitated their near-death experience. During the experience, they floated through a tunnel filled with spirits, with a distinct impression that their grandmother was present among them. At the end of the tunnel was a light described as "blue light to the other side of life." The experiencer was given a choice to either continue down the tunnel toward the light or return to their body. During this decision point, they were informed that if they chose to wake up, they would be very ill and experience great pain for a while. The experiencer engaged in a discussion with the beings about having just had their second child and that continuing would mean leaving the children for their husband to raise alone. They consciously decided to return, reasoning that leaving would not be fair to the children. This demonstrates a clear decision-making process and awareness during the experience. Upon choosing to return, the experiencer awakened and called for assistance. They subsequently spent several weeks in the intensive care unit recovering from the medical crisis. The experiencer did not speak about this experience for several years afterward, suggesting its profound personal impact. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Pulmonary embolism causing inability to breathe, required ICU stay | General tunnel and light experience, grandmother presence sensed but no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Floated in tunnel with spirits present | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3885 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 14-brighter-path 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/14-brighter-path.html | 2002 | 2006 | Unknown |
The experiencer had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and started on Glucophage and Lipitor medications. Five days after beginning these medications, they suffered catastrophic organ failure involving the liver, heart, and kidneys. Their husband found them near death and turning blue in their bedroom, prompting an emergency 911 call. Though conscious initially, the experiencer could not hear or speak and was taken to the nearest hospital where they entered a coma lasting eight days. During the coma, the experiencer found themselves waiting in a dark, warm, and moist place where they felt incredible peace and joy. A man in a blue shirt appeared and lifted them up, though they had no awareness of having a body. They departed together on a misty bright path. As they progressed along this path, both the being and the path itself became progressively brighter. The being grew larger and more filled with light the further they traveled. They passed through what was described as a void area "where there was no God," yet the path and the being continued to grow brighter even in this space. Eventually they reached an area with what appeared to be three entrances to a wonderful place. However, the experiencer was given to understand that their place there was not ready yet and they had to return to their body. The return to the physical body was marked by the worst pain they had ever experienced. The contrast between the peace and joy of the spiritual realm and the pain of physical existence was profound. The experiencer states they are no longer afraid to die, understanding that there is no pain in dying itself, and expresses eagerness for when their time comes to return permanently. |
4 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Multiple organ failure (liver, heart, kidneys), 8-day coma documented | General spiritual journey description without specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 0 | Man in blue shirt and bright path | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3886 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 15-misty-white-light 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/15-misty-white-light.html | 1984 | 2006 | Unknown |
The experiencer was an accomplished long-distance cyclist who, on August 5th, forgot to wear their helmet while riding home from summer classes. They were struck by a drunk driver with a blood alcohol level of 0.52 - over five times the legal limit - who was already being followed by three patrol cars. The impact threw them 300 feet, with such force that their clothes were ripped from their body. They suffered five multiple fractures of the left femur, three fractures of the right hip, and massive internal bleeding. During one of three clinical deaths while comatose, the experiencer found themselves in a large tunnel described as miles wide and long with a misty white light at the end. They felt profound peace and did not want to leave. A presence was with them, and they communicated telepathically without spoken words. When asked "Are you ready to die now?" they were able to see their fiancée crying in the waiting room. This observation of their fiancée prompted their response: "No! She needs me!" after which they returned to their body. The experiencer remarkably observed medical procedures while their heart had stopped. They saw blood flowing from their chest to the bed to the floor and witnessed nurses rushing in after their heart stopped and triggered an alarm at the nurses station. Medical staff later could not understand how they were able to "see" these events after cardiac arrest. They were clinically dead three times during their 22-day coma, with lungs 92% filled with pulmonary emboli from bone marrow. The experience had lasting effects, spending four and a half months in ICU, receiving over 200 shots of Heparin and 66 units of blood transfusions. They spent three years in and out of hospitals with permanent disabilities including arthritis, bursitis, and heel spurs. Despite the trauma, they found meaning in survival and eventually overcame bitterness toward the drunk driver who received only 10 days in jail despite killing an eight-year-old girl two years earlier. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinically dead three times, cardiac arrest with heart stopped, 22-day coma | Saw blood flow and nurses after heart stopped, saw fiancée in waiting room while dead | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 4 | 2 | Saw blood flowing after heart stopped | 1.00 | Medical staff | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3887 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 16-waved-back-by-an-angel 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/16-waved-back-by-an-angel.html | 2002 | 2006 | Unknown |
In 2002, the experiencer was thrown from a horse, breaking their back in six places and suffering a concussion. They were brought to the hospital and given iodine for a CAT scan. Unknown to them at the time, they had an allergic reaction to the iodine which caused their heart to stop while inside the CAT scan machine. This created the life-threatening medical emergency that precipitated their near-death experience. The experiencer's pain suddenly stopped and they heard the bell ringing with hospital personnel calling "code blue, code blue." Initially thinking someone else had died and that staff would leave them alone to attend to that person, they then emerged from the CAT scan tunnel and saw multiple people running toward them. Remarkably, they observed this scene from above, looking down at the medical team. Only then did they realize they had died. Upon realizing their death, they immediately thought about the white light and tunnel they had heard about. As soon as they had this thought, they saw both the light and tunnel, which appeared golden in color. They walked into the tunnel, which seemed to become progressively narrower, feeling as if they were shrinking. At the apex of the tunnel stood an angel dressed in white who waved them back, indicating they should return. At that precise moment, hospital personnel administered a shot of adrenaline directly into their heart. They felt themselves "pop" back into their body, immediately experiencing the pain of their broken bones again. Upon opening their eyes, the nurses said "you scared us, we thought we lost you for good." This suggests the medical team had been working intensively to resuscitate them and were genuinely concerned about losing the patient permanently. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Heart stopped from iodine allergy during CAT scan, code blue called | Heard code blue while dead, saw medical team from above, observed resuscitation | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 3 | 1 | Heard code blue being called | 0.00 | Nurses | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3888 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 17-black-room 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/17-black-room.html | 2001 | 2001-10-26 | 2006 | Unknown |
On October 25, 2001, the experiencer called in sick to work, not feeling completely right. That evening around 7 PM, they developed increasing pain that worsened dramatically. Unable to drive themselves, they called their husband to take them to the emergency room. After about an hour wait, medical staff diagnosed a very large kidney stone stuck in the ureter. The patient was admitted for at least overnight observation and placed on a Morphine PCA pump allowing self-administered doses every 10 minutes. The pump malfunctioned at 8 PM on October 26, and though the nurse struggled to fix it, the patient fell asleep on their right side after their husband left. While asleep, the patient vomited and inhaled the vomit back into their lungs, causing respiratory arrest. During this state, they experienced being in an extraordinarily black room - blacker than they had ever seen. Initially unconscious of anything, the space felt like a blank room containing nothing but themselves without a body. The environment was profoundly quiet and peaceful. After some time, they began feeling uncomfortable and developed the persistent thought that "it" was a lie, though what "it" referred to remained unclear. This "lie" theme became almost mantra-like in their consciousness. The experiencer then began hearing occasional bursts of TV or radio static, through which their name and other words occasionally emerged. As they heard their name, they felt this might be worth listening to and struggled to listen. They became conscious that medical staff were feverishly trying to get them to respond, though initially they could only listen without speaking. When finally able to talk, they realized they could not see despite their eyes being wide open, causing great fear due to being a glaucoma suspect. Vision returned gradually - first shades of gray, then colors, then shapes, and finally full sight. The medical team had the patient answer numerous questions while disoriented. They couldn't understand why so many people were in the room until remembering they were hospitalized and something terrible must have occurred. A CNA had found them severely cyanotic (blue) and completely unresponsive during a routine vitals check. The code team took 15 minutes to revive them with the defibrillator team waiting outside. The patient developed inhalation pneumonia in both lungs and spent the weekend in ICU. They now report being completely at peace with death, knowing how peaceful it is, and believe they were reluctant to leave that peaceful place, making resuscitation difficult. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Respiratory arrest from aspiration, cyanotic, 15-minute resuscitation, ICU required | Heard name and voices through static while unresponsive, gradual vision return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 1 | Black room with static and voices | 0.00 | CNA, RN, Code team | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 3889 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 18-a-boundary-of-flowers 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/18-a-boundary-of-flowers.html | 2006 | 11 | Unknown |
At age 11, the experiencer was walking home from school when they stepped out in front of a car and were struck on their bottom. The impact propelled them through the air, and while airborne, they had the conscious thought "this will hurt" as they fell toward earth. Surprisingly, they felt no pain upon landing. When their head hit the ground, they heard a distinct "crack" sound and were suddenly pulled rapidly upward out of their body. The experiencer found themselves standing before a remarkably beautiful woman who appeared to be in her thirties. Through some form of direct knowing, they understood this woman was actually hundreds of years old, though they could not explain how they possessed this knowledge. This suggests a form of telepathic or intuitive communication common in near-death experiences where information is received directly without verbal communication. Between the experiencer and this beautiful woman stood a hedge containing extraordinary flowers in colors they had never seen before in earthly existence. These flowers were described as huge and displayed colors beyond the normal visible spectrum. This hedge served as a boundary that the experiencer was not permitted to cross. The woman communicated that the experiencer had to go back and that they had work to do in their earthly life. The experiencer felt unhappy about being told to return, experiencing total peace in this realm with no wish to go back. They had no thoughts about who or what they had left behind in the physical world. Suddenly, without transition, they found themselves lying on the ground with their head hurting badly and people gathered around them. The rapid transition from the peaceful otherworldly realm to the painful physical reality marked the end of their near-death experience. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Hit by car, head trauma with cracking sound, rapid upward pull from body | Beautiful woman, extraordinary flowers in unseen colors, hedge boundary | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 0 | Beautiful woman hundreds of years old | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3890 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 20-living-grace.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/20-living-grace.html | 2002 | 2006 | F |
In November 2002, the experiencer was deeply depressed after losing possessions and feeling like a failure as a mother. She overdosed on Zoloft in a suicide attempt, telling God "you don't want me here so I am leaving." After initially passing out and surprisingly surviving, she experienced a prolonged paralysis lasting approximately two days while caring for her nine-year-old son alone. During this time, she could not move her body but remained conscious, watching her son from a fetal position on the floor. The experience intensified with severe pain behind her left ear and neck, feeling like surgery was being performed on her brain. She felt completely separated from her body - her mind and body disconnected, though she wasn't floating above. As her organs began shutting down one by one with excruciating pain, she could feel each organ cease functioning until only her heart remained, beating slower and slower. At the point of death, she saw pale visions of two Jesus-like beings and a cloud-type being before her eyes. When her heart was nearly stopped, she declared "I want to live" - first in her mind, then whispered, then shouted. She took a huge gasping breath, inhaling some of the cloud being, and her heart began beating again. She felt she had experienced a void - "a horrible, undescribable lonely, ugly feeling" like having "one leg in hell and one leg in heaven." After the experience, she was hospitalized for three days in the ER, then transferred to a mental hospital. She expressed profound gratitude for surviving, saying God's grace gave her this opportunity when she "should have gone to hell." Her life and her son's life were completely transformed by the experience, filling her with gratitude for every minute of life. |
5 | Home | 5 | 10 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Life-threatening overdose with organ failure described | Separation from body and observation of son while paralyzed; saw spiritual beings at moment of near-death | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Paralysis for approximately 2 days | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw son while paralyzed | 0.00 | Son (age 9) | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 3891 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 21-happy-freedom.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/21-happy-freedom.html | 2002 | 2006 | 61 | M |
The experiencer had two distinct near-death experiences in his life. The first occurred at age 13 during surgery with ether anesthesia. He found himself flat on his back, speeding through a tunnel filled with beautiful colored lights on the walls. At the end of the tunnel was an incredibly bright light, brighter than the sun, yet it didn't hurt to look at it. As he approached closer to the light, he suddenly woke up about a week later, having apparently passed out while still in the tunnel. The second experience happened at age 61 in 2002, caused by a lithium overdose due to the VA hospital not properly monitoring his lithium levels. This time he had two distinct visions, though he was uncertain if they were connected or separate events. In the first vision, he saw himself as a two-year-old baby boy floating in a beautiful blue sky, completely happy and carefree. Sunshine created rainbow colors through the sky, and he watched eagles flying overhead. Filled with joy, he flapped his arms trying to fly up and touch the eagles, though he never reached them. In the second vision, he found himself in darkness as black as coal, still appearing as the same two-year-old boy. Despite the darkness, he felt the same freedom and happiness. He saw a bright star high in the sky and began pushing himself upward with his feet through the thick darkness, extending his right arm with index finger pointed to touch the star. In both experiences at age 61, everything disappeared before he could reach his goal - neither touching the eagles nor the star. The consistent themes across all experiences were movement toward light or celestial objects, profound happiness and freedom, and a return to childlike innocence during the life-threatening lithium overdose. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Lithium overdose at VA hospital due to improper monitoring | Tunnel with lights, transformation to child form, movement toward light/star | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 3 | 0 | Tunnel with colored lights | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3892 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 26-unborn.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/26-unborn.html | 1997 | 2006 | M |
In 1997, while resting in bed feeling tired and depressed, the experiencer suddenly popped out of his body through his head and began floating above the bed. His spiritual body then entered head-first through a long tunnel that materialized from nowhere. Initially frightening, his essence began speeding up and collapsing into a tiny ball of light. As he decreased in size, his awareness expanded. He became aware of other spiritual beings in the tunnel - some traveling in his direction, others the opposite way, and some remaining stationary, emanating bewilderment and confusion. After what seemed like eons, he reached the end of the tunnel and entered a vast, brilliant field of light - an energy field like walking on the sun's surface without heat. The light encompassed everything paradoxically as both nothingness and everything. His initial fear was instantly replaced by immense love, happiness, and joy when the light sensed his fear and calmed him. The light and experiencer began exchanging thoughts, feelings, and knowledge telepathically, like two computers swapping data instantaneously. When asked "What have you done with your life?", he experienced a non-sequential life review where he could feel, think, and experience the emotions of everyone he had ever contacted, witnessing the cascading effects of his actions like dominoes. The light showed him that trivial moments, like feeding a stray cat as a child in Arizona (which they later adopted and named Birdy), held extraordinary meaning. The light revealed that everything happens for karmic reasons and all beings are connected. When asked if he wanted to progress further into the light, he initially agreed due to depression and loneliness. However, the light showed him his unborn daughter playing in a field with a dog, telling him that if he continued, she would never be born and couldn't experience earthly life. He chose to return for her sake. Since the NDE, he has experienced eight angel visitations and encounters, including seeing his unborn daughter with an angel named Susan. When his grandmother died in 2002, he encountered a mysterious white Alaskan Malamute that matched the dog from his NDE vision - possibly a spiritual guardian or his grandmother's spirit. The experience left him with light sensitivity, perception of spiritual entities, increased psychic abilities, and additional OBEs. |
6 | Home | 3 | 18 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Medical context unclear - described as tired and depressed but no specific crisis mentioned | Detailed life review, shown future unborn daughter, later verification of dog from vision | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 0 | Shown unborn daughter | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3893 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 27-three-accounts.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/27-three-accounts.html | 2006 | M |
A graduate student experienced heart failure with tachycardia at 4 AM on a Friday, having three distinct near-death experiences during treatment in the cardiac catheterization lab. In the first experience, he appeared on a cloud-like street where he could walk without feeling it. In a huge, bright gymnasium-like structure, three wise elderly men approached him. When he expressed confusion about where he was, they huddled together, then told him "we don't think you're supposed to be here yet." The second experience occurred in the cath lab during medication testing. He encountered light ten times brighter than the sun that didn't hurt his eyes, enveloped in what felt like warm jello - a bath of absolute unconditional love, acceptance, and forgiveness. He described it as taking all the best experiences of life combined, yet only a fraction of how exquisite the feeling was. A man resembling himself appeared from the light and engaged in telepathic communication. During a comprehensive life review showing everything he had done, said, wrote, and thought, the being gently reassured him that mistakes were how we learn. When asked why we're on earth, the being answered: "You're only here to help each other." The third experience involved floating above rolling green hills like Ireland, then being kicked by a donkey and tumbling backward. A bright light appeared, communicating that he never had to worry or fear for the rest of his life, that the bright place with the three men was his destination after death, and that he only needed to live his life to fulfill his purpose. Following these experiences, he changed careers from accountant to professor, fulfilling the command to help others by teaching students to become accountants. He noted that medical records showed he woke about a week after the initial heart failure, with significant memory gaps. The experiences fundamentally transformed his life purpose and career path. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest with tachycardia, treated in cath lab with medication testing | Three separate experiences with detailed observations, life review, received knowledge about life purpose | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 4 | 1 | Cloud-like street and gymnasium structure | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||
| 3894 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 28-watching-over-me.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/28-watching-over-me.html | 2006 | 19 | M |
At age 19, Matt was a college sophomore suffering from multiple illnesses including lung infection and bronchitis. Before returning to school, he had a mysterious encounter with a priest in an old prison-turned-gallery - a figure who disappeared when his friends approached. Upon returning to college, his condition severely worsened. Friends found him unresponsive on Saturday evening with a 105-degree fever, soaked in sweat. Paramedics said he would have died had they waited longer. He was packed in ice and rushed to the hospital where he underwent spinal taps and numerous tests. He experienced respiratory arrest and received a tracheotomy, feeding tube, and central line before falling into a coma lasting over three weeks in ICU. During the coma, Matt had an out-of-body experience where he could see himself lying in bed with doctors, nurses, and his parents around him. He could describe in great detail a room he had never physically seen, though he was later moved to a room with a window. He observed all his tubes and could see people's facial expressions. In his NDE, he found himself in a wheelchair wearing a priest's white robe with a cross, surrounded by others dressed similarly in the brightest white imaginable. The inability to speak and being in a wheelchair made sense later, as he awoke completely paralyzed from the neck down with a tracheotomy preventing speech. The same priest from the prison kept asking "Matt, what do you want to do?" When Matt couldn't answer, the priest said they were having a vote. The vote didn't pass, and the priest told him it wasn't his time and he'd have another chance later. Matt recognized the priest as his deceased next-door neighbor who had died when Matt was 10, falling from a ladder while cutting tree branches. After awakening from the coma, Matt was completely paralyzed and unable to speak, matching his wheelchair-bound, mute state in the NDE. The experience opened his eyes to out-of-body and near-death experiences, leading him to speak to groups about not taking life for granted. He feels he became a much better person through this transformative experience. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Respiratory arrest, 105°F fever, coma for 3+ weeks, tracheotomy, complete paralysis | OBE with detailed room description never seen, recognized deceased neighbor as guide | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Tracheotomy, paralyzed from neck down | 7/7/2025 | 3 | 2 | OBE viewing of ICU room | 1.00 | Parents | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3895 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 33-sisters-prayer.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/33-sisters-prayer.html | 2006 | Unknown |
As a child, the experiencer held their breath to prove a point during an argument. After feeling their body drop to the floor, they rose and hovered at the ceiling, observing their sister and mother place their body on the bed. They felt a tug and went upward with their spiritual eyes squeezed tightly shut from fear. Feeling a slight wind on their spiritual cheek, they slowly opened their eyes to find themselves in dimness, sensing other spirits rising or falling at different rates around them. Above was a light that drew them closer. They stopped at the edge and slowly extended their hand, stepping through into a beautiful realm. They found themselves in a green field with a river flowing in the distance, trees lining the banks, and a dirt path alongside a four-foot cobblestone wall that followed the path to the horizon. They heard children laughing at play, and saw them cresting a small hill, playing with a checkered ball, each taking turns to kick it and run. The experiencer wanted to join them. Steps appeared at the wall when they thought about joining. At the topmost step, a person surrounded by clouds asked telepathically, "Do you know who these children are?" Through thought alone, they instantly knew these were all children who had died young - aborted, died in childbirth, from accidents or illnesses. The voice warned that stepping over meant no return. Initially not caring about returning, they shrugged, ready to join the eternal play. At that moment, an image of their sister appeared in their mind - kneeling beside the body with tears streaming down her face, praying and begging God to let them come back and be alive again. Not wanting their sister to hurt, they chose to return. The voice said "You have chosen well," and instantly they were pulled back into their body, sitting up and hugging their sister. They could repeat their sister's exact prayer words. The sister confirmed she had held a mirror to their nose with no breath for five minutes. Their mother dismissed it as imagination, and the experience distressed the sister so much they rarely discuss it. |
5 | Home | 5 | 15 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Stopped breathing for 5 minutes confirmed by sister with mirror test | Heard sister's prayer word-for-word while out of body, saw heavenly realm with deceased children | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard sister's prayer | 1.00 | Sister | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3896 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 34-at-birth.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/34-at-birth.html | 2006 | F |
During childbirth with a 4.2 kg baby in the wrong position, the experiencer underwent a traumatic forceps delivery. At the moment the baby was pulled from her, she felt everything being pulled from her body - heart, lungs, everything from the neck down. It was the most terrible feeling she had ever experienced. She immediately found herself in complete darkness, weightless and floating, disoriented with no physical pain or discomfort. She clearly remembers thinking "So this is what it feels like to die." She had the sensation of leaving her body and floating in deep outer space. Though she could still hear the voices of those in the labor room - her doctor, midwife, and husband - she couldn't see anything. The voices became progressively fainter and more distant as she felt drawn away from them toward something unseen. She felt anxious, not knowing what was happening, but believed she had died during childbirth. Her husband began calling her name repeatedly, refusing to give up until he got a response. His voice started very faint and distant but grew louder as the process reversed. She was no longer being pulled away but gravitating back toward her husband's voice. She opened her eyes to see her husband looking at her. When she told him about the experience and asked how she looked during that time, he said she looked "terrible, very unwell." She asked if her heart had stopped, but it hadn't. She remains uncertain whether this was a true near-death experience or if she was passing out from the extreme trauma of the delivery. The experience left her with questions about the nature of what happened during that traumatic birth. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Traumatic forceps delivery with 4.2kg baby in wrong position | Floating in darkness, heard voices becoming distant, drawn back by husband's voice | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard voices in labor room | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||||
| 3897 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1183-avoid-the-rat-race.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1183-avoid-the-rat-race.html | 1989 | 2017 | Unknown |
The experiencer was critically ill in the ICU on a ventilator with Crohn's Disease that had rapidly deteriorated, resulting in a perforated large bowel. The family had been informed that survival was uncertain. During four weeks in the ICU, the experience occurred during what was described as either very late at night or in the early hours when a cardiac arrest occurred. During the cardiac arrest, the person was suddenly standing upright feeling completely perfect, positioned at an edge between a gray area behind and a meadow spreading upward in front. The meadow was filled with beautiful poppy-type flowers that were fleshy in appearance like tulips, displaying colors never seen before that radiated warmth and energy. The scene evoked intense joy and a sense of perfect welcome. There was a powerful knowing that stepping into this meadow would bring true happiness, with goodness awaiting in the golden light. Just as the right leg moved forward to step into this realm, a female voice called out the person's name. The experience included a profound sense of warmth, welcome, and perfection in the otherworldly meadow. The flowers exhibited colors beyond earthly experience and radiated an energy that drew the observer forward. The golden light promised complete happiness and goodness. Upon hearing their name called, the person opened their eyes to find a medical team working on resuscitation efforts. Though disappointed to return, the person slowly recovered and left the ICU. The experience left lasting impressions: love is the most important thing in life, one should avoid the rat race, death is not to be feared though the dying process may involve pain, and the person now possesses knowledge that emerges spontaneously before conscious awareness. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest in ICU setting with ventilator support, family informed of critical status | Vivid otherworldly observations of meadow with unique colors and flowers, but no earthly veridical content | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw otherworldly meadow with unique flowers | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3898 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1184-it-marked-the-trajectory-of-my-life.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1184-it-marked-the-trajectory-of-my-life.html | 1986 | 2017 | 8 | Unknown |
An eight-year-old child at a sleep-away camp in Sag Harbor, Long Island, was at a public beach with a strong rip tide when a wave knocked them down. Before recovery was possible, another wave dragged the child into the ocean. The ocean seemed to grip the child by the ankles and thrash them on the ocean floor repeatedly. After reaching the threshold for holding breath from prior experience with breath-holding games, the child needed to breathe but could not reach the surface. After moments of agonizing for air, all bodily sensations suddenly ceased. The child entered a realm beyond space and time where consciousness remained fully intact despite the absence of bodily sensations. The experience was characterized by floating in peaceful euphoria while gravitating toward an incredibly bright light that was more brilliant than the sun yet viewable without harm. The light was alive, resembling translucent rainbow-sparkling snowflakes caught in sunlight but more magical because of its living quality. There was a sensation of warmth and love with a deep sense of connection comparable only to being a suckling infant in a mother's warm embrace. While floating in this nirvana, the realization came that breathing was no longer necessary, leading to the understanding that this was death. A conversation occurred with a higher entity described as a loving judge or "the source," where the child decided there was more work to do in this incarnation and chose to return. The bright light seamlessly transitioned to bluish-green movement as it became sunlight streaming through ocean water, and consciousness broke as the child rose to the surface. The ocean had expelled the child several hundred feet from the original shore location, already resuscitated with a stinging face from being dragged on the sandy ocean floor. No one had noticed the incident, providing no external validation for this intense experience. The child did not share this otherworldly experience for many years, finding it unsafe to discuss. Almost ten years later, while under psychedelic mushrooms, the NDE was recalled and recognized as having completely marked life's trajectory, influencing spirituality, interest in consciousness exploration, reverence for nature, and passion for environmental and social justice. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning incident at beach, stopped breathing, reached limit of breath-holding capacity | Telepathic communication with higher entity, awareness while unconscious, specific details about the light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw incredibly bright living light | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3899 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1185-he-would-respect-my-decision.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1185-he-would-respect-my-decision.html | 2017 | M |
The individual decided to commit suicide and created a hangman's knot in a rope, tied it to a beam, placed the noose around their neck, grabbed the beam and let go. The rope broke but the noose had tightened sufficiently to cause death by suffocation. The person was later found with no detectable pulse, having lost bladder and bowel control, and was initially pronounced dead before a faint pulse was eventually detected. The person awoke in the hospital a day or more later. Immediately after letting go of the beam, the person found themselves in a light looking down at their dead body on the floor. From this elevated perspective, they could see their body clearly and observed shadowy figures moving in the background. A voice identified as God spoke telepathically, expressing respect for the person's decision either way but stating a preference for them to return. God indicated there were plans and a destiny to fulfill. The communication emphasized that the choice was ultimately the person's to make, with God respecting free will while expressing divine purpose for their continued life. The person observed their dead body from above and saw shadowy figures in the background. The telepathic communication with God was clear and specific about respecting their decision while wanting them to fulfill their destiny. Being curious about these plans, the person chose to return. After choosing to return, the noose loosened and the soul re-entered the body. Others found the person and initially declared them dead, noting the loss of bodily functions. Though unable to move, open eyes, or speak, the person could hear everything, including someone detecting a faint pulse. The next memory was awakening in the hospital days later. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Death by suffocation from hanging, found without pulse initially | Out of body view of own dead body, telepathic communication with God | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw own dead body and heard people's comments | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3900 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1190-basking-in-a-pool-of-love.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1190-basking-in-a-pool-of-love.html | 2015 | 2015-09-29 | 2017 | F |
On September 29, 2015, the experiencer overdosed and was found lying on the living room floor with eyes open and not blinking, exhibiting very shallow breathing. Emergency services were called, and the person was placed on life support in intensive care. The husband found the person and was not allowed in the ambulance, having to take public transport to the hospital due to financial constraints. Upon arrival, he found the patient connected to multiple machines with a swollen left forearm from thrashing, either from seizures or other causes. The medical team administered the largest possible dose of propofol to stop the thrashing. While on life support, the person experienced being very alert in darkness, knowing they were in a different realm with only God's presence. There was no fear despite wondering if this was purgatory or eternal suspension. The experience was characterized by feeling whole, unconditionally loved, forgiven, and accepted in ways never before experienced. The person felt suspended above their body without suffering, basking in a pool of total love and acceptance, with thoughts that eternity in this state would be acceptable. There was relief from recent abuse by self, family, and husband. The primary observation was the awareness of being in complete darkness yet knowing God's presence was there, feeling unprecedented love, wholeness, forgiveness and acceptance. The person was suspended above their body in a state of pure love without any suffering. The person awoke on September 30 to see their husband in intensive care, with "Unresponsive" written on the board. Initially, there was extreme anger about being brought back and about how life had been lived in fear and people-pleasing. The person walked out of ICU on October 1 at 10:30 PM while heavily medicated. The NDE resulted in complete healing from mental illness symptoms, with the person no longer showing signs of Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosed in 2012 after 30 years of therapy. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Overdose requiring life support, marked unresponsive in ICU | Awareness while on life support, suspended above body, experiencing God's presence in darkness | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Awareness of being suspended above body in God's presence | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3901 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1191-everything-is-always-how-it-s-supposed-to-be.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1191-everything-is-always-how-it-s-supposed-to-be.html | 2004 | 2017 | F |
In 2004, the experiencer's heart stopped in the operating room after giving birth to their youngest son. The medical report indicated complications due to heart disease, specifically Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP). The person woke up with a doctor yelling at them to wake up and open their eyes, and was initially angry to be back in their body and the physical world. The experience led to depression for the first couple of weeks, wanting to return "home," which created guilt about having three children to care for. Upon waking in what they called heaven or "home," the person had no body but retained their identity, surrounded by angels and loved ones who also lacked bodies but whose presence was known through love and support. The first message received was of unconditional love. The experience involved being bathed in beautiful white golden light with immense happiness, contentment, warmth and love beyond words. No verbal communication occurred; everything was transmitted through thought, with questions answered before they could be completed. Three messages were received repeatedly: unconditional love, everything is always as it's supposed to be, and everything will always be all right. There was knowledge that if they didn't return, their children, husband, family and friends would be okay, though returning was not presented as optional. The primary observation was the beautiful white golden light and the presence of angels and loved ones without physical forms, all communicating telepathically with messages of unconditional love and universal rightness. Life changed drastically following the NDE, including divorce and career change. The person no longer fears death, knows souls live on, and believes all people are connected as one. The messages received continue to guide and help navigate life, with the experience recognized as a transformative gift. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Heart stopped in OR after childbirth, complications from Mitral Valve Prolapse | Telepathic communication with beings, bathed in white golden light, received specific messages | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Experienced heaven with angels and received telepathic messages | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3902 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1195-i-remember-my-brother-screaming-when-i-was-not-breathing.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1195-i-remember-my-brother-screaming-when-i-was-not-breathing.html | 2017 | 3 | F |
A three-year-old child was swimming with family all day when everyone decided to play volleyball. The child's floaties were removed and they were told they were too little to play. Deciding to continue swimming, the child felt as if the floaties were still on and took a big leap off the step as normal, immediately sinking. Despite screaming and struggling to get at least a hand above water for someone to see, the child blacked out. The mother later confirmed the child was likely in the pool at least five minutes, was pale and not breathing when pulled out. The first memory after blacking out was being at the bottom of the pool, looking up from near their body. Next, they remember being carried out of the pool and seeing the rail while passing it. The following memory shows everyone huddled around while the edges of vision were blurred. The child distinctly remembers their brother screaming at their mother to do CPR while the mother was sobbing and saying she couldn't. The brother urged the mother to do what she knew how to do as a Labor and Delivery nurse. During the experience of being carried to the house, it felt like moving back into the body, crossing over a line or boundary. The child observed from the bottom of the pool looking up, saw the pool rail while being carried out despite being unconscious, and heard their brother screaming for CPR to be performed while the child was not breathing. The mother's specific CPR technique involved breathing and then beating on the back instead of chest compressions. The mother performed CPR with a breath followed by turning the child over and beating on the back until water was expelled and eyes opened. The child fought paramedics when being strapped down, then stayed overnight in the hospital but was fine. The mother confirmed all observed details including the brother's words, though the brother denies saying them. The experience was never discussed as a child. |
5 | Other | 5 | 16 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Drowning for approximately 5 minutes, pale and not breathing when recovered | Multiple specific observations while unconscious: view from pool bottom, seeing rail, hearing brother's specific words | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw events while unconscious after drowning | 1.00 | Mother (L&D nurse) | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 3903 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1198-it-is-here-in-our-bodies-that-the-lessons-of-love-are-made-manifest.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1198-it-is-here-in-our-bodies-that-the-lessons-of-love-are-made-manifest.html | 2017 | 25 | F |
At age twenty-five, after an eighteen-hour arduous labor and birth of her second child, the experiencer hemorrhaged and bled to death. She was taken to a ward and left alone to rest. While trying to find a comfortable position to sleep, she realized she was stuck to the sheets with something warm and sticky and was too lightheaded to sit up. A cold electric tingling washed through her with dancing pinpricks of light filling her vision. A nurse found her with no pulse and called "Code Blue," while the experiencer found herself unable to breathe or make any sound as her body shut down with intense claustrophobia. She popped out through the crown of her head with an audible internal pop through the fontanel spot, then floated around the ceiling looking down at her body with curiosity but no attachment. She traveled up through the building into the night sky, drawn toward the stars, and experienced traveling at the speed of thought. She witnessed her life review showing all her incompletions and times she hurt others, seeing everyone's perspective. She was shown angels who had helped her throughout life in disguise. She approached a tunnel with a brilliant living light at the end, encountered her deceased father standing and healed from his quadriplegia, and began transforming into golden light while touching a welcoming force field around Jesus. When asked about her children, she realized they needed her and chose to return. Key observations included floating above her body and seeing it from a different perspective than mirrors provide, witnessing medical staff rushing in with equipment, seeing her deceased quadriplegic father standing and walking for the first time, encountering what she knew was Jesus surrounded by golden transformative light, and experiencing a line of ancestors stretching behind her father. After remaining unconscious throughout the day, a wise nurse brought her crying baby to her bedside, and his cry called her spirit back with an audible thud. The experience gave her healing abilities where her hands can detect disturbances during healing sessions. It set her life on a course of service and healing with the understanding that we are all living hopes of our ancestors and precious fragments of God. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 0 | Hemorrhaged and bled to death after childbirth, nurse found no pulse and called Code Blue | Out of body observations, saw deceased father healed, encountered Jesus, life review with multiple perspectives | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw body from above and medical response | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3904 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1200-out-of-body-during-asthma-attack-and-later-surgery.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1200-out-of-body-during-asthma-attack-and-later-surgery.html | 1969 | 2017 | 16 | F |
At age 16 in 1969, the experiencer had an asthma attack with several doctors working in a small room. She experienced an out-of-body state where she could see and hear the doctors from the corner of the room while they worked on her. The room appeared very bright and the visual memory persisted clearly. This experience was later recognized as an out-of-body experience after reading Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in a 1976 undergraduate class. During the first experience, she observed from the corner of the room, seeing and hearing multiple doctors working on her body during the asthma attack. The room seemed unusually bright, possibly due to the medical setting or the altered state of consciousness. In 1980, during a five-hour knee surgery, she had a similar experience where she felt her blood glucose dropping dangerously despite being under anesthesia. She heard the surgeon questioning why her heart rate was rising and blood pressure dropping, desperately wanting to communicate that her blood glucose was low. The primary observations were seeing doctors working from an out-of-body perspective during the asthma attack and later hearing surgical conversations about vital signs while under anesthesia, correctly identifying her hypoglycemic crisis before the anesthesiologist realized the error. During the surgery, she heard the anesthesiologist finally say "Damn, she was right; I gave her too much insulin." When he came to recovery to check on her, she asked how low her blood glucose went, causing him to turn white and leave quickly. As a licensed mental health counselor and diabetes educator living with chronic illnesses, she had provided the anesthesiologist with an insulin sliding scale before surgery due to her low insulin sensitivity. Her awareness of the hypoglycemic crisis and the anesthesiologist's confirmation of his error validate her consciousness during deep anesthesia. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Two events: asthma attack at 16, later 5-hour knee surgery under general anesthesia | Out-of-body observation during asthma attack, heard specific medical dialogue during surgery about glucose crisis | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw doctors from corner of room during asthma attack | 0.00 | Anesthesiologist | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||
| 3905 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1201-the-older-gentleman-and-his-son-were-together-again.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1201-the-older-gentleman-and-his-son-were-together-again.html | 2017 | F |
The experiencer spent several hours in the hospital emergency room in excruciating pain and nausea due to a bowel obstruction caused by adhesions strangling the small intestine. After tests, emergency surgery was scheduled immediately. Within the hour, she was in the operating room undergoing the procedure when her soul left her body during the surgery. During surgery, her soul left her body and floated above the operating table where she could see doctors and nurses working over her for what seemed like a minute or two. Suddenly surrounded by beautiful rainbow-colored light, she moved rapidly through it and found herself standing in Heaven next to a golden wall of pure gold surrounding a glorious city. She experienced pure love and peace, heard celebration sounds from within the city, and stood in a meadow filled with wildflowers of vibrant colors. A beagle puppy played at her feet while hundreds of people with angels walked from a garden toward the city entrance. She recognized two men passing by: a friend's son who had died years before and his father, an older gentleman. She was given infused knowledge that she had to return to tell the wife that her husband and son were together. Key observations included seeing two specific deceased men (father and son) walking together toward the heavenly city, whom she recognized from pictures and whose deaths were later confirmed. The wife's husband had died during her surgery, which she learned only after awakening. A beagle puppy appeared at her feet, later explained when her daughter revealed a neighbor had beaten a beagle puppy to death. Upon returning to her body, she awoke hooked to machines with a nurse at her bedside. Later that day, after being moved to her room, she received a message that the woman whose son had died years ago had lost her husband that day during her surgery - these were the two men she had seen. Her friend was grateful for the message that her son and husband were together. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 16 | 33 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Emergency surgery for bowel obstruction from adhesions | Identified specific deceased individuals later confirmed, saw them before learning of death | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw two deceased men walking together in heaven | 1.00 | Friend (widow), Daughter | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3906 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1203-the-void-my-grandmother-and-god-change-the-way-i-see-life.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1203-the-void-my-grandmother-and-god-change-the-way-i-see-life.html | 2014 | 2017 | F |
Nearly three years ago, the experiencer was diagnosed with idiopathic anaphylaxis, causing anaphylactic shock without specific allergies. During three episodes of anaphylactic shock in 2014, she felt her spirit leave her body and had three progressive near-death experiences. She lay in a coma on a ventilator in the intensive care unit during these experiences. The medical crisis was severe enough to require intensive life support. The experience began with finding herself in a friend's car backseat, observing her friend in mismatched clothes typing "Hang on kiddo, I'm coming" on Facebook. She then entered a void of complete darkness and oppressive spiritual energy where breathing required tremendous effort. After cycles of sleep and waking in this void, she eventually saw her physical body in the hospital bed through a barrier, hooked to wires and tubes with her daughter standing nearby. She experienced being pulled into a tunnel toward brilliant living light where she encountered her deceased grandmother with brilliant red hair who rescued her from the void. Her grandmother's spirit embraced her, and she then approached Jesus, beginning to transform into golden light. She also encountered her deceased father standing and healed, with a line of ancestors behind him, and was surrounded by twenty-four robed teachers who taught her in a domed room. Key observations included seeing her friend's specific Facebook message later confirmed, viewing her body from outside with daughter present, encountering her deceased grandmother and father both appearing healed and vibrant, experiencing transformation into golden light when touching Jesus's force field, and receiving teachings from twenty-four spiritual teachers. She returned when asked about her children and realized they needed her. The experience resulted in complete transformation, understanding that we are all connected, developing a truer understanding of divine power, and gaining peace without worry. She now sprints toward love and rejects fear, with walls down and ready to fulfill God's purpose. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 31 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Anaphylactic shock episodes requiring coma and ventilator in ICU | Verified friend's Facebook message, saw body from outside, encountered specific deceased relatives | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw friend typing specific Facebook message | 1.00 | Friend | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3907 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 37-more-than-euphoria-amid-the-presence.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/37-more-than-euphoria-amid-the-presence.html | 2006 | F |
A woman who was five months pregnant experienced an emergency cerclage procedure due to unexplained dilation. The next day her water broke and she went into labor, delivering a stillborn baby whose lungs were not developed. She experienced massive blood loss for three days as the placenta had not come out, requiring emergency surgery. During this third surgery, she experienced death and found it wonderful and preferable to life. During the experience, she was drawn into a bright atmospheric presence without boundaries that was everywhere like air. She recognized this greater presence as God, with a smaller section to the right that she understood was Christ who had led her there. She was given understanding about life without words - that all earthly emotions like anger, grief, and disappointment were small and irrelevant compared to the afterlife. She experienced a feeling that superseded peace, understanding why people constantly search but are never satisfied on earth. She was shown various moments from her life, including embarrassing moments from kindergarten and mundane moments like frying chicken at age sixteen, all to demonstrate how unimportant earthly events are compared to eternity. She repeatedly said "You are in control, so that's all life was about" with overwhelming confirmation. As she was experiencing this divine existence, she heard someone screaming and was told by the presence "but you have a husband who loves you very much." She was sent back despite wanting to stay, returning to her body during surgery while feeling pain. After the experience, she no longer takes life events seriously knowing they are temporary. She can identify truly anointed pastors from those who are not. She feels some resentment about being sent back and spends time trying to recapture the feelings from the experience. The depression she had been experiencing was completely cured and replaced with love and renewed energy. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Emergency surgery during massive blood loss over three days | No specific veridical observations of earthly events during NDE | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 3908 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 38-beauty-and-no-fear-at-drowning-point.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/38-beauty-and-no-fear-at-drowning-point.html | 2006 | Unknown |
During a rock climbing trip to Mount Olympus in Greece, the experiencer and two friends lost their path and struggled for hours in heat without water. They decided to descend to reach the Ennipeas river with crystal clear frozen waters. After rappelling 25 meters to reach the river, they needed to swim across. Being a poor swimmer and frightened, the experiencer asked a friend for help crossing but began drowning, pulling the friend down while trying to surface. When the second friend jumped in to help, the experiencer was pulling both people down in desperation. After approximately 2-3 minutes of struggle, having swallowed plenty of water, the experiencer reached a point of complete relaxation. All fear disappeared and was replaced by warmth and a beautiful feeling. Despite being aware of dying and sinking to the bottom of the deep river, there was no fear, only complete calmness. The experiencer's eyes were wide open, seeing sunlight coming through the surface while feeling beautiful. One friend finally pulled the experiencer out by the hair, with no pain felt during the rescue. Once safe, the experiencer couldn't stop crying and was in shock. The lasting impact was profound - the experiencer cannot forget the point where all terror vanished and was replaced by beauty and peace, even though drowning is normally a horrible way to die. This transformation from panic to complete calm at the threshold of death left a permanent impression. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning with 2-3 minutes underwater | Saw sunlight through water surface, aware of sinking to bottom | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw sunlight through water surface while drowning | 0.00 | Two friends | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3909 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 39-image.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/39-image.html | 2006 | F |
The experiencer's spleen ruptured at home and she was rushed to Yeovil Hospital for emergency surgery. She kept going in and out of a coma while being prepared for surgery. During this time, she could see herself lying there and felt at ease. A very bright light appeared, getting brighter continuously, and then she saw the figure of a man. The man was tall with the brightest blue eyes, a strong jaw, neatly trimmed beard, and long tidy hair. He held his arms out, wearing a tunic of amber. She recognized him as the Lord. He told her she could travel on or go back - it was her choice. He said "Bless you my child, only you can make this decision. Things have been very hard for you over these past years. You have had so much to bear, more than many." He approached, put his hands on her forehead, bent and kissed her forehead, then asked "Which way are you going?" She replied that she had to go back because her work wasn't finished - her youngest daughter still needed help, her son was confused and needed help, and she hadn't spent enough time with Mike, her husband of only three years. The Lord said "Bless you my child then we will go back" and began to fade away along with the light. She next remembers waking up with family at her bedside, on a respirator. After recovering and being moved to an ordinary ward, she was discharged several days later. While on the breathing machine, her youngest daughter gave her a refrigerator magnet that was the exact image of her vision of Christ, which she now keeps on the wall above her bed. |
4 | Hospital | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Ruptured spleen, coma, emergency surgery | Detailed description of Christ figure matching later gift | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw detailed appearance of Christ figure | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3910 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 40-blue-light.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/40-blue-light.html | 1998 | 2006 | F |
In 1998, the experiencer didn't know she was pregnant when she was kneed in the stomach by her former husband. She had an ectopic pregnancy and was rushed to the hospital in searing pain, screaming in emergency. She exploded from every orifice and her blood pressure dropped dramatically. She was being asphyxiated by 2.5 liters of blood in her abdomen that crushed her lungs, preventing movement. Her brain took her on a "pain journey" where she visited a huge brown paddock with a miniature mythical Greek creature who identified himself as "death, my only friend." Doctors slapped her awake to tell her they were taking her to emergency surgery. On the operating table, she pulled off the mask to shout "everybody do a great job!" before going under for three hours that felt like three thousand years. On the "other side," she raced down a dark tunnel, unable to see the sides but knowing it was there. She was falling fast but traveling straight ahead, scared at first but then slowing down. At that moment she knew the answers to everything. She was surrounded by loving spirits appearing as blue lights who knew everything about her yet accepted and loved her, wanting to protect her. A big blue light with white around it approached, loving her completely and cradling her feelings. It wanted her to cross the space between them and she felt pulled like a magnet. She woke up two days later in ICU, opening her left eye to see a butterfly and initially thinking she was dead in heaven. It took time to accept she was alive again. The experience no longer affects her as it once did, causing some guilt about this diminished impact. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Ectopic pregnancy rupture, 2.5L internal bleeding, emergency surgery | No specific veridical observations of physical events | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 3911 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 64-sweet-contentment.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/64-sweet-contentment.html | 2006 | F |
The experiencer went to a new OB/GYN after her regular doctor dismissed her complaint of leaking fluid as just a yeast infection. The new doctor confirmed her water had broken and sent her home on bed rest. On July 15th evening she was admitted to labor and delivery at a Richmond, Virginia hospital. After strong labor without dilation past 1.5cm and 24 hours of Pitocin with no progress, she became increasingly ill. She had been without food for over 68 hours, vomiting and contracting continuously. With blood pressure of 50/32 and heart rate 165+, she was left alone for over an hour in hypovolemic shock. As they started the oxygen mask in the OR, she heard a nurse say "She's crashing" and then left her body. Suddenly everything was bright, clean white. Through a doorway, she saw her deceased fiancé (a sheriff's deputy killed months prior) wearing a white robe, kneeling with his right knee up. They communicated through eye contact without touching or speaking verbally. She also briefly saw her grandparents smiling at her with love. She watched the scene below with no emotion, seeing doctors opening her up and frantically working to get the child breathing. Her fiancé told her through eye communication "You can come now or go back. It's your choice" repeatedly. When she heard the child cry, she felt a jolt-type pain and panic. With the second cry, the pain was more intense. Despite wanting to stay, she felt the maternal pull and knew she had to come back. Five hours later she woke up and told a doctor and nurse about seeing where people were standing during surgery. The doctor said "How did you know that? There was a curtain up" and attributed it to lack of oxygen. The experience removed her fear of death and gave her lasting awareness that life can be scary but death is as simple as walking through a doorway. The feeling of sweet contentment from the experience still brings tears to her eyes. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 31 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Hypovolemic shock with BP 50/32, heart rate 165+, described as "crashing" | Saw doctors opening her up, people's positions in OR despite curtain, child being worked on | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Surgical curtain up | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw surgical procedures and staff positions | 1.00 | Doctor | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3912 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 65-revelation.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/65-revelation.html | 1967 | 1967-12-24 | 2006 | F |
On December 24, 1967, the experiencer entered the hospital at midnight in labor with respiratory distress. In the delivery room, she was given a facemask that impaired her breathing further. Due to Demerol, she couldn't speak up about the suffocating mask. When she tore it away, staff strapped her hands down and replaced the mask. As an atheist expecting permanent unconsciousness, she knew she was going to die from suffocation. Instead of losing consciousness, she found herself surrounded by painfully loud noise like a giant freight train circling her head. She was acutely aware in a place of complete darkness where her hand before her eyes was invisible. She was alone in agony but had expanded knowledge - all mysteries of the universe made sense, and earthly importance seemed insignificant. She knew she would spend eternity alone in this dark, chaotic place without peace, and that she belonged there. Her mind posed the question: "What have you ever done in your life that was totally selfless?" Examining her life, she realized she had never done anything without selfish motive - no kind word or deed without personal gain. Feeling deep regret and remorse for never doing one selfless thing, her condition changed with this revelation. She came to with an IV (unusual for delivery patients then), packed in ice to stem severe bleeding. Her respiratory distress was completely gone. The terror of her experience and lack of terminology (before NDEs were known) kept her silent. Her universal knowledge slipped away immediately, leaving only the terrifying knowledge of a reality beyond life that was, for her, hell. The experience motivated her to search for life's meaning and spiritual reality. She purposed to do anonymous acts of kindness without selfish interest, which remains challenging forty years later. She developed lasting fear of childbirth and death. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Respiratory distress during childbirth, severe hemorrhage requiring ice packing | No veridical observations of physical world | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3913 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 66-gargantuan-energy-source.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/66-gargantuan-energy-source.html | 2006 | 17 | F |
At age 17½, after being bedridden for a month with five migraines and acute bronchitis, the experiencer took too many pills wanting pain-free sleep. The combination included five anti-depressants, Advil, sleeping pills, and tranquilizers. She emphasizes she wasn't trying to commit suicide, just giving up the will to fight. Her friend held her hand as she lay in bed, and witnessed the gold cross necklace bouncing inches off her chest before she stopped breathing. The friend called 911, and she was taken to the ER where she received oxygen. She suddenly felt herself in a dark, churning black tunnel with transparent yet thick moving walls. A tiny light approached, getting bigger, but before it reached her she heard a huge deep growl that felt scary and creepy entering her space. Just before it got closer, she flew at light speed into the light, which became clearness. She was surrounded by the sweetest entity she'd ever met, who took a mild human resemblance to put her at ease. Communication was direct, through "felt" words rather than speech. She saw flashes of her life memories, feelings, thoughts, and her spirit's position in the universe. The entity seemed like father, god, brother, friend, teacher, and superior being with total care but strictness. He communicated she wasn't fully developed spiritually, making her feel immature like a five-year-old. She felt incredible peace and intense longing to stay at his side, experiencing love like for parents but multiplied by millions. The entity radiated omniscient superiority, wisdom, patience, and love - a gargantuan energy source she felt was God himself. When told "you are not ready yet. You have to go back," she refused like a spoiled child, fighting the message. Despite her tantrums, he remained patient and unyielding like a father forcing a child to school. She felt held in symbolic arms for reassurance before accepting. She then flew incredibly fast, seeing her body before falling back into it. Since then, she has heightened awareness of others' emotions, frustration with bodily limitations, and certainty that a wonderful being said she's not ready "yet" - implying she will be someday. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Overdose causing respiratory arrest, friend saw her stop breathing | Friend saw gold cross necklace bouncing inches off chest before breathing stopped | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw body from above before returning | 0.00 | Friend | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3914 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 70-held-back.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/70-held-back.html | 2006 | Unknown |
The experiencer was rushed to hospital on August 12th with a ruptured appendix. Initially misdiagnosed as only a "rumbling" appendix, they spent 12 hours deteriorating while drugged. When operated on Friday the 13th, the mistake was discovered and frantic major surgery took place to remove poison from the abdominal cavity. They were taken to a side ward with the expectation of death within hours. Their mother was called from 300 miles away as death was expected. Drifting in and out of consciousness, the experiencer became aware of looking down at their body from the ceiling. They saw their body in awful pain and felt relieved not to be in it, experiencing complete calm and indescribable peace. A deep black valley appeared to the left, and the elderly woman from the neighboring bed appeared beside them, singing to herself without noticing them. The woman called out "Can you help me with this mother?" and a warm, benign presence came from beyond the valley - her mother, who took her hand as they crossed together, singing. The experiencer tried to follow but was held back at the valley boundary. They sensed indescribable joy, peace, and tremendous light emanating from the other side, desperately wanting to cross. They were turned away gently, saw their body in agonizing pain again, and knew with certainty they would return to it. Despite distress about returning, they came to in the side ward knowing the elderly woman in the next bed was dead before nurses realized it. Meanwhile, the experiencer's partner was awakened by a terrible howling dog in their driveway - a very large black dog howling in a terrifying way. When she went to scare it away, the dog had vanished with no trace. She knew it related to the experiencer being in mortal danger and called the hospital expecting death. Despite blood poisoning reaching the cellulite level, the experiencer staged an unexpected recovery, amazing the medical staff. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Ruptured appendix, blood poisoning, expected to die within hours | Knew elderly woman in next bed had died before nurses realized | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 0 | Knew elderly woman had died | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3915 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 74-loving-light.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/74-loving-light.html | 2006 | 4 | M |
At nearly four years old in Canoga Park, California, the experiencer repeatedly asked his father to go swimming. His father, watching TV, finally said "oh all right, leave me alone." Taking this as permission, the child put on his suit and climbed into their above-ground pool. The water level was too low to reach the rim from inside, with no interior ladder, trapping him. He had to constantly swim to breathe, yelling for help from every location with no one hearing. After conserving energy by standing and surfacing for air, he yelled "God anybody please help me" before going under. A clear voice told him "take a deep breath" and when he surfaced for air, it said "No, take a deep breath under water!" The voice said "Trust me" when he thought he couldn't. After taking a breath of water and feeling its heaviness entering his lungs, he was looking down at the pool, house, and yard. He was turned to face a bright white yet highly colored loving light with hundreds of thousands of silhouetted people between him and the source. Twelve people plus one special person met him at a wall of fog/droplets that bounced off each other, extending into darkness. He extended his arms through the wall but the special person pushed them back saying "Go back you have something to do." Despite wanting to stay, he saw his body in the ambulance with a man (his father) crouched beside him saying "God please don't let him die." His mother arrived as they opened the ambulance doors, and he said "hi mommy!" - his last understandable words for years. His father found him on the pool bottom after feeling/hearing the word "pool" hit him. Paramedics attempted resuscitation for over 15 minutes without signs of life before his father climbed in the ambulance where he started choking/breathing. The experience left him unable to speak clearly until 8th grade. Rules were imprinted including: suicide is wrong, God exists and energy doesn't die, evil forces are real, he has not lived before but must get it right the first time, and God is always around. He identifies the plus-one figure as Jesus after hearing similar accounts. The experience prevented illegal and hurtful actions throughout his life. |
1 | Ambulance | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Drowning, resuscitation attempts for 15+ minutes without life signs | Saw father in ambulance, heard him say "God please don't let him die" | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw scene from above and heard father | 1.00 | Father | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3916 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1181-prayers-like-musical-notes.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1181-prayers-like-musical-notes.html | 2017 | F | A physical therapist in Alaska underwent back surgery for a ruptured disc. During the procedure, an artery was accidentally cut causing massive bleeding. She found herself near the ceiling observing the doctor swearing and ordering blood bags, then saw her body being flipped on the table. She passed through walls and witnessed a surgeon rushing from an elevator in street clothes. Rising through hospital floors into space, she was guided up a rocky incline to a pastoral scene with a river. Her deceased relatives including parents and grandparents she'd never met were gathered on the opposite bank. A guide led her to a Greek-style building containing the Book of Life, where spiritual beings showed her a life review experiencing both her actions and their impact on others. She saw prayers from family appearing as musical notes linking upward, with her daughter's prayer forming the final link. Upon deciding to return for her children, she awoke in recovery enveloped in divine peace and love that lasted three weeks. Dr. Gower later confirmed he had rushed to the hospital in street clothes from his office, validating her out-of-body observations. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 50 | Exceptional Evidence | 20 | Arterial bleeding during surgery causing life-threatening emergency | Saw Dr. Gower in street clothes rushing in, confirmed specific details later | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/7/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw doctor swearing and ordering blood | 1.00 | Dr. Gower | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3917 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1182-unknown-water-advisory-leads-to-unconditional-love.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1182-unknown-water-advisory-leads-to-unconditional-love.html | 1989 | 2017 | Unknown | After moving to a new city, the experiencer unknowingly drank contaminated water during a water advisory. Believing they had a bladder infection, they drank more water which worsened the condition. They experienced very high fever with excruciating back pain, black tongue and feces indicating severe infection. After inadequate antibiotics failed to help, they passed out from pain. Suddenly floating upward through a tunnel toward a bright omnipresent light, all pain disappeared and they felt lighter than air. The light emanated unconditional love unlike anything experienced on Earth. A light-being on their left communicated telepathically, welcoming them and discussing their situation. They were given the choice to stay or return. Realizing they were dead, they chose to come back, experiencing a convulsive re-entry into their painful, heavy body. The experience took 28 years to fully integrate into their life. The profound encounter with unconditional love and the presence of the welcoming light-being transformed their understanding of death and the nature of consciousness. | 5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe infection with high fever and organ failure symptoms | Classic NDE elements but no specific verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3918 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1204-everything-is-life.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1204-everything-is-life.html | 2017 | F | During a violent domestic assault, the experiencer was being strangled by their abusive boyfriend who had his thumbs pressed to the back of their throat while sitting on them. Their son tried to help by jumping on the attacker's back but was pushed off. After calling out to God, they were suddenly pulled or thrown into another space. They found themselves in a theater-like area with illuminating light, experiencing profound peace and quiet unlike anything known before. Their body became one with everything around them, like a drop of water joining the ocean. They became aware that everything is life and that time doesn't exist - everything happens simultaneously. Looking down, they saw their boyfriend strangling their physical body without feeling any emotion or attachment to it. They witnessed a complete life review showing past, present and future events like a flip book in fast forward, feeling every emotion they had caused others. Though unable to recall specific details, they received an important message. Upon thinking of their son, they were immediately pulled back into their body, feeling the hands around their neck again. The boyfriend looked into their eyes and suddenly released them and left. They ended the relationship without anger toward him. | 5 | Home | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening strangulation with loss of consciousness | Out-of-body view of strangulation, complete life review with past/present/future | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self being strangled from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3919 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1206-i-watched-not-realising-the-body-on-the-floor-was-mine.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1206-i-watched-not-realising-the-body-on-the-floor-was-mine.html | 2017 | F | While vacationing in Bali, the experiencer received news that their dog had been left without water by the boyfriend's sister. After confronting the boyfriend, he became violent and put them in a chokehold while kneeling over their head as they lay on their back. They felt lightheaded and about to black out, then everything went dark. After hearing distant rambling voices, a bright light appeared requiring their eyes to adjust. They found themselves in the same room but filled with smoky haze, all bright colors gone, replaced by cool tones. They were taller than usual, standing at the feet of their physical body. Their body was frothing large amounts of white foam from the mouth and seizing. They felt nothing and wondered why the boyfriend was so panicked as he apologized, slapped their cheek, and screamed for help. A Balinese woman entered asking what happened and splashed water on the body's face. Throughout this, they had no realization the body on the floor was theirs. They began floating backwards and upwards diagonally as voices grew fainter. Instantly they woke back in their body, panicked, ran to the door, fell down two flights of stairs and were carried to the foyer for assistance. | 5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Strangulation causing loss of consciousness and seizure | Detailed observations of body seizing with foam, specific rescue attempts by boyfriend and hotel staff | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/7/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw own body seizing with foam | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3920 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1212-oob-following-suffocation-in-german.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1212-oob-following-suffocation-in-german.html | 2009 | 2017 | F | In September 2009, after jogging, Anke's loose sports clothing caught fire from the fireplace. The synthetic fabric caused flames to climb rapidly, igniting her jacket. When flames reached her face and hair, cutting off air, she experienced an "aha moment" realizing she was dying. She felt no pain or fear, only acceptance. Her consciousness separated from her body, observing it torkeling with arms flailing from an external perspective. Her 14-year-old son appeared, tackled the burning body, and extinguished flames with a carpet. She observed neutrally as paramedics arrived and the rescue helicopter landed. In the helicopter and hospital, she watched medical staff work on her body while no one could perceive her presence. Her body lay in intensive care, bandaged completely except for a mouth opening with tubes. A large luminous male figure appeared, telling her she wasn't dead and would receive answers. He taught her about consciousness, soul integration, and how the physical body serves as a vessel for experience in duality. She experienced unconditional love and learned that time doesn't exist - everything happens simultaneously. Given the choice to return or depart, she chose to consciously say "yes" to her body and life. She merged back with her body feeling profound gratitude. Eight years later, she maintains both human consciousness and the soul's unconditional perspective simultaneously, living without fear of death or pain. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 15 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening burns and suffocation requiring helicopter evacuation and ICU | Detailed observations of son's rescue, paramedics, helicopter, ICU treatment | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw son extinguishing flames | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3921 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1213-i-was-told-this-life-would-be-catastrophic.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1213-i-was-told-this-life-would-be-catastrophic.html | 1951 | 2017 | 5 | F | At age five during Christmas 1951, while severely ill with double pneumonia and likely pericarditis, the experiencer had a profound spiritual encounter. Surrounded by "brown velvet" or "brown fluid," they encountered a Lady emanating indescribable light - a light that was embracing, representing pure love, safety, acceptance, and mothering. The Lady warned that this life would be "catastrophic" and gave the significant number "23." She asked if they were willing to live this lifetime and promised God would never leave them. When their mother shook them, thinking they were dying, they were torn from the Lady saying "Leave me alone. I want to stay with the lady." Throughout life, significant events occurred on the 23rd of various months. Their daughter, conceived July 23, 1986, began suffering mental illness/spiritual assault in her twenties and died by suicide at age 23 on March 2nd (3/2), calling at 3:02 PM and 4:23 PM. The experiencer felt their daughter's soul pass through them at death. The number 23 was given as protection to survive their daughter's death. They've had multiple spiritual experiences including seeing their daughter whole and healed on October 23, 2011, meeting angels, past life memories, and now care for a foster child born May 23rd. The experience provided certainty that loved ones remain with us beyond death. | 5 | Home | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Double pneumonia with likely pericarditis at age 5 | Prophetic warning about catastrophic life and number 23 later verified through life events | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3922 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1216-someday-my-experiences-will-all-add-up-and-make-sense.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1216-someday-my-experiences-will-all-add-up-and-make-sense.html | 2017 | F | Thirty minutes after delivering her second child, the experiencer developed severe abdominal pain and heavy bleeding. Despite trying to stay calm, she felt increasingly lightheaded. Her blood pressure dropped to 74 systolic. The midwife administered oxytocin to her thigh which she couldn't feel due to numbness. Her breathing became restricted and she was pulled deep inside herself, traveling upward as if in an elevator thinking "Oh, here we go" as if knowing the destination. She reached a window where three figures sat around a table - her deceased maternal grandmother (died when she was 8), maternal grandfather (died before her birth but recognized with certainty), and "God" (despite not believing in God, later understanding God as the energy of love). They were having a meeting: grandmother relaxed and radiating that everything was alright, grandfather somewhat agitated advising God, and God smiling calmly. She gained understanding of herself and others, made a decision (possibly about life path or returning), then plummeted back to her body. Her blood pressure reached 60/30 at the lowest. The midwife reported she appeared to lose consciousness repeatedly, though she felt conscious throughout - realizing she was conscious to herself while appearing lifeless to others. This changed her entire perception of consciousness. She became obsessed with understanding consciousness and researching NDEs, eventually accepting the unknown after intense searching. | 5 | Other | 7 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Postpartum hemorrhage with blood pressure 60/30, life-threatening | Spiritual encounter with deceased relatives and divine figure, no verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 0 | 1 | Midwife | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 3923 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1219-your-heart-stopped-for-a-minute-there-but-we-got-you-back-3.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1219-your-heart-stopped-for-a-minute-there-but-we-got-you-back-3.html | 2017 | 2017-03-07 | 2017 | F | Hospitalized in Detroit for a subchorionic hematoma at 24 weeks pregnant, the experiencer was monitored for nearly a month before emergency C-section at 29 weeks on March 7, 2017. During delivery, massive bleeding occurred when the placenta shredded and tore the uterine wall. She heard nurses counting over 50 sponges and felt her breathing slow, then heard her heartbeat followed by silence and a flat-line sound. From above, she observed the medical team performing a whipple stitch as nurses provided sponges on instruments, noting how pale her face looked. She felt pulled away yet heard a nurse saying "stay with me hun." White light hit her with unprecedented warmth like a fuzzy blanket of heat, experiencing immense, pure love. A single butterfly flew into the light. Her best friend's mother (died October 2015), whom she'd been with at death and who she'd asked to help them have a daughter, spoke from the light. She said "I know it is beautiful here but you can't stay," urging her to return for her boys, husband, and newborn daughter. She asked her to hug and kiss her daughters, saying she missed them but was okay. Despite wanting to stay in the beautiful light and love, she was pulled backward into darkness and her body. She awoke feeling excruciating pain. In recovery, the nurse said her heart stopped for a minute but they got her back, nearly requiring hysterectomy. The experience left her with PTSD initially, taking a year to process, eventually leading to greater involvement with her children and NICU volunteer work. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest during C-section with massive hemorrhage, confirmed by nurse | Observed whipple stitch procedure, sponge count, deceased friend's mother with verifiable message | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw surgical procedure from above | 0.00 | Recovery nurse | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3924 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 185-loving-light-took-grief-and-said-grow.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/185-loving-light-took-grief-and-said-grow.html | 1999 | 2006 | M |
A counselor enrolled in a clinical hypnotherapy program experienced severe chest pain during his second hypnosis session. He had been previously diagnosed with heart disease and had similar episodes before. During the relaxation phase, the pain intensified to unbearable levels - feeling like a ton of weight on his chest. Convinced he was dying of a heart attack, he heard a loud clapping sound followed by a "whoosh" and found himself out of his body, above and to the left of it. A long, thin, swirling dark purple vortex appeared, connecting to his forehead and winding out as far as he could see. He next found himself in complete peaceful silence in the presence of a brilliant white/blue light totally filled with love and acceptance. He wanted to merge with the Light more than anything. The Light communicated telepathically, saying "Give me your grief." This related to deep sorrow from his painful divorce years earlier, particularly the trauma to his two daughters. The experience transformed into a vision where he saw himself as a six-year-old boy unable to reach a container marked "Grief" on a high shelf - reflecting childhood abuse and feelings of helplessness. The Light said "I can!" and two rays of light swept down, took his grief, and embraced him completely with love and acceptance he had craved as a child. The pain vanished completely. Later tests revealed no heart attack occurred, though he would eventually need three stents and a pacemaker. The experience profoundly changed his life - he shifted from fundamentalist to universalistic religious views, simplified his lifestyle, lost all fear of death, and dedicated himself to helping others. Days later, while driving, he heard the same telepathic voice commanding him to "Grow!" |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe chest pain episode with pre-existing heart disease, later requiring stents and pacemaker | Clear OBE with specific location awareness, telepathic communication, but no verifiable external observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Out-of-body observation of self and room | 0.00 | Student therapist and clinical psychologist | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3925 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 196-streaming-bright-light.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/196-streaming-bright-light.html | 1948 | 2006 | 5 | Unknown |
A five-year-old child experienced a sudden, painful inguinal hernia while trying to lift a cousin. The intense pain led to an emergency hospital visit where doctors decided immediate surgery was necessary. The child was taken to the operating room on a gurney and remembers a mask being placed over their face for ether administration - a tricky anesthetic for young children at that time. Upon losing consciousness, the child found themselves observing the operating room scene from several feet above, floating peacefully while watching the doctors and their own body on the operating table. The body, still in prone position as on the table, began turning slowly toward a window high up on the wall. A bright streaming light came through this window, and the child felt drawn to it, beginning to float slowly in that direction. Just as they were about to pass through the opening and into the light, they awoke in the hospital room, gagging and vomiting from the ether's effects. The nurse was angry about the mess. When the child told the nurse about the experience, she laughed and said it was just dreaming. The mother similarly dismissed it as imagination when told. The experiencer never shared the story again for decades until reading about other NDEs. The event remained vivid for 63 years, as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Since then, they've had numerous precognitive dreams and at least two non-NDE out-of-body experiences, suggesting lasting psychic sensitivity. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Emergency surgery under ether anesthesia for inguinal hernia | Clear OBE with observation of operating room from above, drawn to bright light through window | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed operating room from above | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 4 | |||||||||
| 3926 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 197-a-healing-robe-of-stones.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/197-a-healing-robe-of-stones.html | 2006 | F |
A woman suffered a catastrophic car accident resulting in a lacerated liver, holes in her spleen, and over 100 broken bones. She coded three times during the emergency. Life-flighted from California to Reno, she experienced multiple profound spiritual encounters during her medical crisis. Initially, she found herself floating above her body, observing herself wrapped in blankets below. She then floated to her husband's side, hearing him tell others about her lacerated liver and that she might die, though he couldn't hear her reassurances that she was okay. She flew toward the sky where she encountered her father who had died two months prior from cancer. He appeared refreshed and young again, telling her she wasn't finished with her work and had to return, though she resisted. She entered a golden light where she met an old Indian man. Together they created a healing robe of stones - leather with a breastplate of moonstone, lapis, and silver that felt heavy on her body. Despite begging to pass over due to the anticipated pain, she was told no. She remained in the warm golden light wearing this healing robe for three days, being shown things that are sometimes blocked but remembered at appropriate times. She awoke 15 days later to learn she'd received 22 units of blood and undergone 24 hours of surgeries for her broken bones. Despite multiple infections and grim prognosis, she healed miraculously within three days. Medical staff called her rapid wound healing amazing. She later learned the stones in her vision (moonstone and lapis) are associated with blood and infection healing in Edgar Cayce's Atlantis writings. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Coded three times with massive trauma requiring life flight | Specific observation of husband discussing her condition, meeting deceased father, detailed healing vision | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed and heard husband discussing her condition | 1.00 | Medical staff | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3927 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 198-the-brightest-of-lights.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/198-the-brightest-of-lights.html | 2006-01-06 | 2006 | M |
On January 6th, after dropping off a friend from work, a man was speeding home when he hit a tree trying to avoid an accident. According to police and tow truck reports obtained later, he was a bloody mess requiring immediate surgery with poor survival chances. He sustained severe facial lacerations from being caught in the windshield, with glass cutting into both cheeks, plus a burst bladder requiring a foot-long abdominal incision. His family didn't find him until three days later. Despite minimal religious background and church attendance mainly to please others, he experienced a profound spiritual encounter. He found himself in a dark, grayish, smoke-filled place, puzzled and examining his surroundings. Looking down, he saw a ditch stretching infinitely in all directions. Through the smoke and darkness, shapes formed on the ditch's other side - black, ugly creatures that could shift size rapidly, moving smoothly as if floating. He experienced fear multiplied a thousand times, paralyzed with helplessness, convinced he witnessed demons and part of hell itself. He then saw one of the brightest lights ever - white like looking into the sun. A man appeared, smiling and rotating slowly to show his majestic form, transparent from behind, surrounded by colorful lights. Standing before a large gold judge's bench, this being radiated overwhelming love, communicating comfort without words. The experiencer wondered if this was God or Jesus. The being looked toward a light the experiencer knew he wouldn't enter but felt reassured. He then witnessed beings at a hospital - large, beautiful creatures around doctors, families, and children, smiling and comforting them. He heard anguished screams of those not wanting to die and pleas to die. Returning to reality, he recovered in one week despite his severe injuries, bearing permanent facial and abdominal scars as testimony to skeptics. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe accident with immediate surgery needed, poor survival prognosis | Detailed hellish and heavenly visions, but no verifiable earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw hospital scene with beings around people | 0.00 | Police and tow truck driver | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3928 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 199-caring-voices.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/199-caring-voices.html | 2006 | Unknown |
An individual experienced two near-death episodes within weeks of each other, each with distinctly different characteristics. The first occurred during a violent assault when an ex-boyfriend attacked outside their residence. He knocked them to the ground and sat on them, choking with both hands wrapped tightly around their neck, cutting off oxygen. During the strangulation, they felt themselves floating slowly upward toward clouds as everything became bright. They heard caring voices filled with love and comfort, reassuring them that the attacker could no longer hurt them. The experience felt euphoric with perfect peace. While floating away, they looked down and could see both their body below and the back of their attacker. The sensation ended abruptly as they fell instantaneously back into their body and began gasping for air. Upon recovery, they noticed small bruises on their neck and broken blood vessels in both eyes. Despite the violent circumstances, the NDE itself was pleasant and peaceful. The second NDE occurred shortly after when they were electrocuted through their fingertips while typing on a keyboard. The electrical shock threw them off their chair across the room. This experience was markedly different - featuring complete darkness rather than light, accompanied by their own screaming and groaning. Upon recovery, they felt very scared, shivering, and noticed the smell of something burning, likely from their own body. The contrast between the two experiences was stark: the first brought peace, light, and loving voices despite violent circumstances, while the second brought darkness, fear, and distressing sounds despite being an accident. They found the second experience particularly disturbing and prefer not to remember it, highlighting how NDEs can vary dramatically even for the same person. |
5 | Home | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Strangulation cutting off oxygen, later electrocution | Clear OBE viewing body and attacker from above, physical evidence of bruises and broken blood vessels | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw own body and attacker from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3929 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 200-floating-through-the-air.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/200-floating-through-the-air.html | 1993 | 1993-11-11 | 2006 | 17 | F |
On November 11, 1993, in Zurich, Switzerland, a 17-year-old was poisoned with strychnine (rat poison mixed with sugar) by an emotionally disturbed man attempting murder. Feeling sick at school, she was sent home but collapsed on a stone bench by the Limmat River, unable to continue walking. She died while watching ducks in the water, experiencing her first of two cardiac and respiratory arrests. She awoke in terror and disorientation in what seemed like the same location but with a gray veil over everything. Realizing she wasn't sitting, standing, or lying - nothing touched the ground - she existed in pure consciousness consumed by fear, remorse, guilt, and despair. She could float through air and see anywhere without limitations. At 2 PM, remembering a planned meeting with her boyfriend on the bridge, she floated there and confirmed he hadn't arrived yet (later verified). Her attempts to scream produced no vocal sound, only thought-screams. Hearing underwater-like voices, she discovered paramedics working frantically on someone on the bench - herself. A glass wall seemed to separate them. Despite getting directly in their faces and screaming mentally, they neither saw nor heard her. She flew up to the tree crowns, crying without tears, feeling separated from everyone while trapped in the world. When paramedics called "Michele" (her ID's second name), she realized they were trying to reach her and was sucked back into her body with overwhelming tightness and violent convulsions requiring restraints. She asked a paramedic why he hadn't answered her earlier; he confirmed she was dead at 2 PM. Mistaken for a drug addict, she was taken to police instead of hospital, collapsed again with a second arrest (experiencing only darkness), and finally received proper medical care in ICU where poisoning was diagnosed. The experience left her unable to be in darkness, needing lights on to sleep. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Two cardiac and respiratory arrests from strychnine poisoning | Specific time verification (2 PM), boyfriend's absence later confirmed, paramedic interaction | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw boyfriend was not at bridge at 2 PM | 1.00 | Paramedic | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||
| 3930 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 203-standing-in-the-greenest-grass.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/203-standing-in-the-greenest-grass.html | 2006 | 2006-10-29 | 2006 | Unknown |
On October 29, 2006, an individual was found unresponsive on their foster mother's couch with labored breathing. When sat up, green mucus emerged from nose and mouth. After several hours of failed arousal attempts, an ambulance was called. The person was dying of renal failure and multiple organ issues, ending up on a breathing machine in the ICU. The experience began before leaving the house. Their deceased grandmother yanked them from their body, instructing them to observe the damage done over 10 years through pain pill addiction, self-hatred, and guilt - a slow self-destruction. They were taken to a classroom with crystal white floors and walls but no ceiling, revealing a perfect blue sky with puffy white clouds. Six beings of light sat before them, communicating telepathically with the command to "STAND STILL." Light rose from the floor, embracing their spirit, removing all pain and guilt while filling them with love and understanding. Their vision then showed only their undiscovered body on the couch, regardless of which way they turned. They experienced a life review, but with pain and guilt removed, they experienced it through the feelings of others they had affected. A guide led them through an amazing hallway that extended infinitely. They witnessed spirits lining up for reincarnation in great detail. Finally, they stood in the greenest grass ever seen with a beautiful tree in the middle. Returning to their body on the breathing machine felt like adding 500 pounds instantly. This return process occurred multiple times over several days as they fought renal failure. They were instructed to write about their life and death experience to help others. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Renal failure requiring ICU and breathing machine | Detailed otherworldly observations including classroom, beings, reincarnation queue | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw own body on couch before discovery | 0.00 | Incompatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3931 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 222-review-to-send-on-or-back.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/222-review-to-send-on-or-back.html | 2007 | Unknown |
During surgery or in the three days following, an individual experienced an almost immediate out-of-body state. They felt two to three times their normal height and could see through walls. This heightened perception marked the beginning of a profound experience they knew was real, not a dream. They found themselves in what appeared to be a huge cavern or void, crouched behind a boulder-like formation. Their eyes felt literally as big as saucers, though they felt no fear, only profound aloneness. They observed two figures in black, hooded cloaks similar to ring wraiths from Lord of the Rings, though they sensed no evil from them. One figure approached the other by floating - they had no visible feet or weren't using them. Despite complete silence, the experiencer KNEW through direct knowing that the figures were discussing them and deciding what to do. The beings appeared to be reviewing the outcomes of either sending them on to the afterlife or back to life. The decision was clearly made to send them back. The experiencer returned with a strong sense of purpose - not of grand importance or special work, but simply that things wouldn't evolve properly if they didn't complete this life. They developed a profound belief that everyone, even the most vicious criminals, has a reason for being here. They understood that even small acts like smiling at a stranger who then chooses not to do something negative can make their life meaningful and affect the future positively. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Surgery with possible complications over three days | Detailed observation of two beings reviewing outcomes and making decisions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Could see through walls | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3932 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 77-life-span.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/77-life-span.html | 1983 | 1983-09-06 | 2006 | M |
On September 6, 1983, during a night flight, a military pilot was preparing to take off in a MiG-23 aircraft (SM 240). Prior to takeoff, he experienced a tingling sensation in his toes, a premonition that something drastic would occur, but he ignored the warning and proceeded with the flight. After takeoff, with undercarriage and flaps retracted at 200 meters altitude, he saw something approaching in the darkness. Instinctively ducking his head, he heard a jarring engine noise followed by immediate engine seizure. The hydraulic system failed simultaneously, causing complete loss of flying controls. The aircraft became engulfed in a ball of fire, leaving only one option: ejection. At barely 300 meters altitude with the aircraft descending rapidly, a remarkable experience occurred during the critical moment. As he reached for the ejection seat handles, his entire life span from age six to that present moment flashed before him in a comprehensive life review. He successfully ejected with safe separation and parachute deployment. Despite going through three high-tension electrical cables, which he later called providential survival, he managed to cross a water canal and land in a plowed, watery field that cushioned his impact. He sustained only minor bruises and walked to a nearby village. The next morning when collecting the parachute, they discovered he had miraculously passed through three high-tension cables without electrocution. A Court of Inquiry later determined that an owl had been ingested into the engine, causing the catastrophic failure. The life review during the ejection sequence remains his most vivid memory of the incident. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Life-threatening aircraft emergency with fire and ejection | Life review from age 6 to present during ejection | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Life review during ejection | 0.00 | Court of Inquiry | Highly Compatible | 1 | ||||||||
| 3933 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 85-shimmering-river-of-life.html 2006 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/85-shimmering-river-of-life.html | 2006 | Unknown |
A pedestrian pushing a disabled car was struck from behind when another vehicle hit. Trapped between both cars, the impact bent the frames of both vehicles. They regained consciousness on an emergency room gurney, knowing they were dying and welcoming release from pain. Despite religious upbringing expecting a man in white robes on a golden throne, the experience differed dramatically. As death occurred, all feeling ceased and blackness closed in with light shrinking to a pinpoint. They felt themselves falling backward into blackness with a cool wind sensation, then turned toward a pinpoint of light. Emerging into light in an upper corner of the ER, they observed their body on the gurney below without disturbance, experiencing euphoria, perfect peace, and complete being without pain, wants, or needs - a sense of being home. They sensed a presence and received communication beyond telepathy - not hearing words but instant sharing of knowledge. Made to understand they must return, they experienced their first want: the desire to remain. The wall became transparent, revealing a flowing silver, shimmering river. Each drop was a different color yet flowed as one body. These colored drops were the experiences of all who had lived, existing as separate items belonging to the whole - the collective consciousness containing omniscient knowledge of everything spoken, heard, and experienced, including every cell division and thought. They understood concepts of ONE foreign to description - many being one and one being many simultaneously. Touching the river revealed past lives across infinite realms, realities, and worlds with beings unlike anything in science fiction. After receiving understanding about right and wrong actions through sensations, they fell backward into their body. They died again during 30 hours of surgery but had no second experience. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Pedestrian struck between cars, died in ER, underwent 30 hours surgery | Detailed vision of collective consciousness river containing all experiences | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed body from upper corner of ER | 0.00 | Incompatible | 9 | |||||||||||
| 3934 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1241-encountering-the-essence-of-compassion.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1241-encountering-the-essence-of-compassion.html | 2016 | 2017 | Unknown | The experiencer was sitting in their kitchen last October when they suddenly had chest pain and the strong conviction they were about to die. They describe feeling warm while falling and surprisingly felt no hate or anger toward their parents, accepting that this was the end of their life. The experience progressed as they passed through two doorways - one of justice and one of love - entering an empty space where normal senses did not apply. There was no sense of time or space in this realm. They encountered what they describe as an "essence of compassion" that was ultimate and would accept even a mass murderer. They felt drawn to this essence but sensed a barrier preventing full union. In this state, they understood that nothing needed to be gained or achieved - everything was perfect as it is. Remarkably, they saw the garden and lawn outside as if the room had no walls, even though this view was impossible from their seated position, which they verified multiple times afterward. The experience left them with absolute joy, transcending happiness, and three profound convictions: that fear of death is an error, that there exists an "essence of compassion" that some call God, and that while their Buddhist teachings contained truth, other religions like Islam also contain truth. They now see both Buddhist and Abrahamic religious perspectives as mutually compatible ways of describing the same phenomenon, comparing it to how light is both particle and wave. | 5 | Home | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Chest pain with strong conviction of dying suggests medical crisis | Saw garden/lawn from impossible vantage point, verified multiple times afterward | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw garden and lawn from impossible position | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3935 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1242-i-knew-my-own-separateness-and-also-oneness-with-every-thing.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1242-i-knew-my-own-separateness-and-also-oneness-with-every-thing.html | 2017 | 16 | Unknown | At age 16, the experiencer underwent oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth. They were given Sodium Pentothal (Thiopental Sodium) for anesthesia, but believe the nurse administered too much. During the procedure, they left their earthly plane and had a profound experience. When they awoke, they found the dentist straddling their chair, frantically pounding their chest and screaming "BREATHE!!! BREATHE!!! BREATHE!!!" with absolute fear on his face. The nurse and surgeon whispered back and forth, with the surgeon saying "Okay, let's do this and get this kid out of here." During their NDE, they found themselves enveloped in complete blackness with no bodily form, yet remained themselves as a thought. They were surrounded by and part of an exquisite pure energy of everything, all swirling in love. They sensed they were one with all universes, galaxies, planets, and life - from atoms to quarks and beyond, infinite and pure. They describe it as "Orgasmic Consciousness" - knowing both their separateness and oneness with everything in the greatest sensation of love. The experience was absolute bliss without gravity or physical form. Upon return, they lay paralyzed from the drug with tears streaming, processing what they had experienced and feeling sad about being brought back. The weight of life felt tremendous compared to the other side. They learned that we take our self with us when we die, and they no longer fear death, considering it might be the best thing they ever know. | 3 | Other | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Cardiac/respiratory arrest requiring chest compressions during surgery | Profound experience but no specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3936 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1246-it-held-all-the-knowledge-that-ever-was-or-will-be.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1246-it-held-all-the-knowledge-that-ever-was-or-will-be.html | 2017 | 2017 | 28 | F | A 28-year-old named Alex entered detox for severe opiate and benzodiazepine addiction. The facility cut off all opiates and reduced Klonopin to 3mg daily. By the second night, terror and sickness set in with heart rate at 157 bpm, fluctuating temperature between 96-102°F. On the third day, she awoke into overwhelming physical, mental, emotional and spiritual pain, drenched in cold sweat with convulsing muscles. She lay in bed for five days, three with no recollection, convinced she would die. While staring at the wall accepting death, time stopped. A messenger resembling Jesus approached - 5'7" with light brown hair, wearing a white suit with depth in the fabric, and sandals. Through telepathic communication, he showed her looking at her pale, motionless body in bed. He expressed that her pain was noticed and showed her a tunnel on the wall - grey with glossy rings inside extending to eternity. She passed through to a realm beyond space and time, encountering an orb of white flickering light containing all knowledge that ever was or will be, surrounded by yellow then orange light. She became everything and nothing simultaneously, experiencing complete acceptance and understanding in a language beyond Earth. Upon return, profound changes occurred: all anxiety, fear and addiction completely vanished. She stopped all medications, developed new abilities including drawing and enhanced psychic perception, and experienced a complete identity shift where "Alex died" and a new pure version emerged. She now avoids technology, sees energy patterns everywhere, and mourns her former identity while finding life a pleasure for the first time. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe withdrawal with heart rate 157 bpm, temperature fluctuations, convulsions | Saw self in bed, encountered guide, traveled through tunnel to knowledge realm | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw own body in hospital bed | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3937 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1249-mommy-why-didn-t-you-keep-me-2.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1249-mommy-why-didn-t-you-keep-me-2.html | 2015 | 2015-07-24 | 2017 | F | Tammy underwent a hysterectomy on July 24, 2015, for adenocarcinoma of the cervix after two prior surgeries. She had been experiencing guilt about an abortion from April 26, 2010. During surgery under anesthesia, she experienced an NDE while coming out of anesthesia. She found herself standing on a number line at zero, wearing the same black skirt and white shirt with black roses she had worn to the hospital. A carbon copy outline of herself stood before her surrounded by white light with red question marks above her head. On the left side, she experienced complete darkness and a life review of all her wrongdoings against the Ten Commandments, feeling every emotion of those she had hurt. She felt extreme heat on her left side, hotter than a furnace, and saw two burning human figurines screaming in pain - her ex-husband and his father - with the smell of burning hair and decayed flesh. On the right side, she saw light, flowers, and a vision of a tall man with a 4-5 year old girl with long black hair who resembled her. The girl asked "Mommy, why didn't you keep me?" and Tammy realized this was her aborted child. The girl said she forgave her but told her she needed to change and stop treating people meanly. A mysterious tall man in an aqua blue shirt held a device with blue and red buttons. After promising to change, he pressed the blue "SEND BACK" button. Upon awakening, she was covered in sweat and had removed her hospital gowns while coming out of anesthesia, repeatedly saying "THE HEAT, THE HEAT, ITS TOO HOT!" The nurses confirmed she had removed multiple gowns during emergence. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Hysterectomy under general anesthesia for cancer | Extreme sweating and heat sensation confirmed by nurses, removed gowns during emergence | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Extreme heat sensation and sweating | 1.00 | Nurses | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 3938 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1250-go-and-tell-everyone-that-i-love-them.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1250-go-and-tell-everyone-that-i-love-them.html | 2017 | M | During a depressing period, the experiencer was in a friend's car talking to his estranged mother who told him she never loved him and he wasn't her son. In despair, he threw his phone out the window and when the driver made a right turn, he opened the door and jumped from the moving car. His head hit the concrete and as he tried to get up, he felt like he was yanking himself out of his body. After taking three steps, he found himself in the air. God spoke directly to him saying "I AM GOD, YES I AM REAL, YES ANGELS ARE REAL, THEY'RE A GIFT FROM ME...WANNA MEET THEM?" When he said no because it was scary, God told him he had many people to help and it wasn't his time to leave. God gave him a hug that felt like "the biggest alpha male mixed with the most motherly woman." God declared He loves EVERYBODY and wants the most messed up people, saying He would go to the end of the world so everyone is with Him. When asked what message to bring back, God said "GO AND TELL EVERYONE THAT I LOVE THEM!" He then appeared by a cloud full of light surrounded by angels. His two Guardian Angels stood on his right and left, 8-9 feet tall with large wings. The left angel was upset about the suicide attempt. The right angel was muscular with 6-foot gray wings of unexplainable material. They showed him paramedics working on his body below, confirming the afterlife was real. He told the angels he was ready to work with them, then woke up in the hospital days later. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Head trauma from jumping from moving car, paramedics required | Saw paramedics working on his body from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw paramedics working on body | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3939 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1251-two-sleep-apnea-obes-as-a-teenager.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1251-two-sleep-apnea-obes-as-a-teenager.html | 1976 | 2017 | 17 | M | The experiencer had two OBEs within one year as a teenager with undiagnosed sleep apnea, later confirmed to stop breathing for over a minute at times. First experience: While asleep, left body, floated up through ceiling and roof to 200-300 feet altitude, traveled southwest rapidly, and hovered over a cow barn and farmhouse. Two years later, began attending a charismatic church in a remodeled cow barn matching exactly what was seen in the OBE. Second experience at age 17 in 1976: Came home exhausted from a band gig, fell asleep, and at 3 AM felt paralyzed with loud buzzing and rushing sounds like Niagara Falls. Found himself floating 4-5 feet above his body in a wispy grayish-white energy form. Saw his physical body still and lifeless on the bed despite darkness. Could control movement by thought. Floated through walls to brother's room (special needs), tried unsuccessfully to wake him - hands met resistance like magnetic fields. Floated to parents' room, did a somersault 6 feet high, but they couldn't see or hear him either. Fear of being permanently separated from physical world caused violent return to body, waking gasping for air with pounding heart. This initiated a spiritual journey: first exploring Zen Buddhism, then dating a Baptist girl, visiting a Benedictine monastery where he experienced God's presence, converted to Christianity, and later attended the prophetically-seen barn church for 4-5 years. Sleep study years later revealed severe obstructive sleep apnea with breathing cessations over one minute long, explaining the OBEs as possible death experiences. | 5 | Home | 7 | 10 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Undiagnosed sleep apnea with breathing cessations over 1 minute confirmed years later | Prophetic vision of church verified 2 years later, detailed observations while OBE | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Sleep apnea preventing breathing | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 1 | Prophetic vision of church building | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||
| 3940 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1252-tickled-to-meet-man-who-said-come.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1252-tickled-to-meet-man-who-said-come.html | 2017 | 5 | Unknown | Around age five, the experiencer was being tickled by brothers for an extended time. Though laughing, the pain was excruciating and they couldn't catch breath to tell them it hurt. The tickling continued until they couldn't breathe at all or get any air, terrified by the inability to breathe. Everything went black. Next, they were looking at their white popcorn ceiling with a large hole in it, dark and covered with a thin veil. Moving toward the ceiling and approaching the hole, shapes became visible on the other side. In the center was a man with a crowd behind and beside him. The experiencer felt tremendous love, peace, and kindness. The man extended his hands and said "Come" in a gentle, tender voice with a tremendous sense of welcome. Throughout the experience there was no fear, only curiosity and comfort from His presence. However, feeling despair at leaving parents, the child said "No, Please don't make me leave Mommy and Daddy." The man smiled sadly and let them return. They awoke alone, with brothers gone. Due to young age, personality or health changes are unknown, but the experience was never mentioned to family. The main lasting effect is never questioning that something exists beyond this world. The experience provided certainty about the afterlife despite being so young. | 5 | Home | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Could not breathe from prolonged tickling, everything went black | Saw ceiling hole with veil, man and crowd on other side | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3941 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1253-don-t-move-out-of-the-light-or-you-will-never-leave-this-place.html 2017 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1253-don-t-move-out-of-the-light-or-you-will-never-leave-this-place.html | 2017 | 18 | Unknown | At age 18, excited to donate blood for the first time as a civic duty, the experiencer went to donate. On the way home with their father, they stopped at a veterinarian's office to pick up medication for their elderly dog. The father parked at the end of a long uphill driveway. Walking up the hill to the office, they became confused and dizzy, recognizing it wasn't wise to exert themselves after donating blood. They sat in a chair telling the attendant (a family acquaintance) they felt unwell. The father then parked closer and approached the door. Next, they saw a beam of light surrounding them while descending below the floor. Looking up from 30 feet below, they saw themselves sitting in the chair with head fallen back as father entered. They stood in a beam of light with total darkness outside extending to infinity. When about to step out of the light, a hand touched their right shoulder (identified as their angel) and a voice warned: "Don't move out of the light or you will never leave this place." In the palpable darkness, millions of illuminated souls were visible, milling around with moans and cries of utter grief and sorrow. Some sat on the ground having given up searching for the exit. One woman in particular saw them, approached very close, and telepathically sent a desperate plea for help - her face remains memorable. After what seemed like a long time watching the lost souls, they returned to the chair. Initially thinking father was shaking them to stop, it was actually the tail end of a convulsion. The father's face was white with fear. They now understand this was an upper level of hell where there is no hope. | 5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Collapsed after blood donation with convulsion witnessed by father | Saw self from below, father entering, souls in darkness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw self and father from below | 0.00 | Father | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3942 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1254-caesarean-section-nde-in-1979-scotland.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1254-caesarean-section-nde-in-1979-scotland.html | 1979 | 2018 | F | The experiencer awoke in a hospital bed 38 years ago (1979) after a Caesarean Section, stunned by an unbelievable experience. Though they tried keeping the memory alive, details faded over the years. They remember flying at great speed down a spiral tunnel with a siren-like noise "oing-oing-oing," rising and falling. At the tunnel's end, unbearable pain suddenly began. Unable to escape it, they pleaded with God to take it away. Just when realizing with horror they couldn't take anymore, they were in bright white light, knowing they were in God's presence. No landscape or people were visible, just light and an overwhelming sense of peace, love, and unity. Everything made sense and they felt every atom of themselves being loved - it was ecstasy. They realized this had nothing to do with religion, which was inapplicable. They now think they were in a kind of purgatory, though words are useless. They were sorry to wake up and have tried recreating details through meditation. Death no longer causes fear; they look forward to being with God again. When they tried telling their husband, he paid little attention. Words were totally inadequate. Years later, discussing it with spiritual friends in northern Scotland, the husband asked why they never told him. They replied they thought he'd find it embarrassing, which he confirmed was right. Others didn't want to hear, so they stopped telling anyone, as there was no knowledge of NDEs then. Years later when ill with cancer, they recovered through surgery and treatment, simply thanking God for sparing them. They wonder about life and death daily, believing love is central, trying to love everyone including those they dislike, praying multiple times daily for everyone and the world. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Caesarean section under general anesthesia | Tunnel experience, divine presence, overwhelming love | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3943 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1265-hit-by-a-122-rocket-in-viet-nam.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1265-hit-by-a-122-rocket-in-viet-nam.html | 1968 | 2018 | M | In March 1968 at a firebase near Cam Lo, Vietnam, the experiencer was speaking with Lieutenant Lane about a new job and promotion. They had walked downhill away from others when a 122 rocket exploded a few yards behind him. Immediately knowing he was hit, he said "Oh God, I'm hit," then felt himself rising out of his body. Floating upward, he passed through a "layer" of souls hanging in space - beings in extremely long, hooded robes with their backs to him. As he passed through them, one turned and gave him a sad smile. He then rose into a tunnel and saw a very bright light ahead, moving toward it. At the light, which seemed to guard a gateway, a powerful voice told him he had to go back, that he had work to do. He then became conscious in a bunker being treated, having lost most of his blood. Lieutenant Lane was killed by the same rocket. He was immediately sent home and retired from his wounds. The experience left him with certainty about the afterlife and his purpose. | 5 | Other | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Hit by 122 rocket explosion, lost most blood, lieutenant killed | Rose from body, saw souls in robes, tunnel with bright light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 3944 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 306-ultimate-peacefulness.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/306-ultimate-peacefulness.html | 2007 | Unknown | The subject was a nursing student diagnosed with a tumor of the right kidney requiring surgery. Prior to the operation, they felt a strong sense of trust in God with their minister present. During the surgery under general anesthesia, the subject experienced an out-of-body awareness where they awakened and observed themselves on the operating table from above. They could see the tops of the surgical caps worn by two doctors performing the operation. Following this realization that they were viewing their own body, they began moving through what they described as a tunnel through dark space at an angle. Initially frightened, they gradually became calmer as the tunnel grew warmer and brighter. The ascent brought increasing peace and acceptance, culminating in what they described as "ultimate peacefulness" - a profound sense of well-being accompanied by intense bright light and warmth. Behind the light, they heard a voice that communicated with them and believed they saw their deceased grandmother Susie. The voice told them "it's not your time" and "you'll be there in the end," which disappointed them as they had to leave. The descent was rapid at the same angle, ending abruptly when they awakened in severe pain in the recovery room. A female doctor they never saw again leaned over saying "it'll be alright." The mother later revealed the doctors had emerged covered in blood, and years later a wire worked its way out suggesting complications during deep suturing. The experience gave the subject psychic abilities to predict deaths and transformed their personality to value relationships and enjoy life with certainty of God's existence. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Surgery with general anesthesia for kidney tumor removal | Clear OBE viewing surgical scene from above, seeing tops of operating caps of two doctors | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw self on operating table from above | 0.00 | Mother | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3945 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 311-not-ready-to-go.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/311-not-ready-to-go.html | 2007 | Unknown | The subject overdosed on alcohol and pills in what may have been a suicide attempt, resulting in being clinically dead several times over approximately one hour. They were given last rites by a priest as medical staff worked to resuscitate them. During this critical period, the subject experienced floating near the ceiling looking down at the crowded room full of people including family and medical staff. They observed their mother crying intensely, showing deep love and distress, while their father stood to the side looking speechless. The priest was observed administering last rites. The subject could hear or perceive the thoughts of doctors and nurses believing they would not survive. They felt stuck near the ceiling for what seemed like a long time, observing themselves and everyone in the room. During this time, they experienced being pulled away from their body but resisted, thinking or saying "I'm not ready to go." They then moved back toward their body and awakened the following day in the hospital bed. Weeks later, when the mother began describing the events, the subject stopped her and accurately recounted everything that had occurred - who was present in the room, the father standing silent, the priest's actions, and all other details. The mother confirmed all observations were accurate, validating the out-of-body perceptions during clinical death. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Clinically dead several times over one hour, given last rites | Multiple specific observations of people, positions, actions, and thoughts/words | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw mother crying | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3946 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 315-following-spiritual-guide-toward-white-tunnel.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/315-following-spiritual-guide-toward-white-tunnel.html | 2001 | 2007 | M | On March 3, 2001, at approximately 2:00 a.m., Jim experienced a massive heart attack that felt like being hit in the chest with a sledgehammer. After taking two aspirins and having his wife call 911, he was in intense pain when paramedics arrived. According to the paramedics, he flatlined during treatment. Initially, he heard one paramedic say "Stay with us Jim," then heard nothing as all pain disappeared. He entered a state of total peace, bliss, and harmony simultaneously. He observed a tunnel illuminated with white light that was bright but not harsh on the eyes. For an extended period, he found himself following another being toward the tunnel, unable to catch up to this unknown figure who was ahead of him. This peaceful state lasted considerable time before he suddenly felt intense pain and burning in his chest again as the paramedics resuscitated him. They had shocked him three times, up to 360 joules, to bring him back. Upon return, he heard their voices and felt very upset that they had disturbed his peace, reportedly using rough language toward them. Later, he shared his experience with an Ojibwa Shaman who identified the figure he was following as his spiritual guide. The experience remains profoundly important to him despite skeptical reactions from others, including dismissal from a Catholic nun. | 1 | Ambulance | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Heart attack with cardiac arrest, flatlined according to paramedics | Saw tunnel with white light, followed unknown being toward it | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw tunnel and being | 0.00 | Paramedics | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | |||||||||
| 3947 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 345-shown-how-illnesses-start-on-an-energetic-level.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/345-shown-how-illnesses-start-on-an-energetic-level.html | 2007 | F | The subject had grade 4B Hodgkin's Lymphoma (the highest grade) and one morning could not move, prompting emergency hospitalization. After scans, the senior oncologist informed her husband that her organs were shutting down and she had only 36 hours to live. Despite the grim prognosis, they started chemotherapy and oxygen while testing organ functions. During this critical period while drifting in and out of consciousness, she felt her spirit leaving her body and observed conversations between her husband and doctors taking place 40 feet away down a hallway, which she later verified. She crossed into another dimension where she was engulfed in total love and experienced extreme clarity about her cancer's purpose, her life's meaning, and how life works. She understood her powerful nature and saw the amazing possibilities humans can achieve. She was given the choice to return or proceed toward death, with the understanding that returning would mean rapid healing - not in months or weeks, but days. She was shown how illnesses start energetically before becoming physical, and that medical treatments only address the physical body, not the energy, causing illness to return. She saw how everything in life depends on the energy we create around us. She was shown scenes including how her life touched others like a tapestry, and saw her brother on a plane coming to see her, which was verified when she awoke. Upon choosing life to not let her brother see her dead, the organ function test results changed from showing failure to showing normal function, amazing the doctors. She recovered rapidly, with lymph nodes shrinking so much that doctors couldn't find any large enough to biopsy, and bone marrow showing no cancer activity. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 48 | Exceptional Evidence | 18 | Grade 4B lymphoma with organs shutting down, given 36 hours to live | Verified conversation 40 feet away, saw brother on plane coming, organ test results changed | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 3 | 2 | Heard distant conversation | 1.00 | Husband | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3948 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 349-lost-breath-of-life.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/349-lost-breath-of-life.html | 2007 | Unknown | The subject overdosed on prescribed medications (MS Contin and Ativan) and was told they stopped breathing for seven minutes. They woke up a week later in the ICU and spent another week and a half hospitalized. During the period of unconsciousness from overdose to hospitalization, they experienced a hyperreal state of awareness. They remember people talking around them and felt like they were floating and moving around the ambulance. In the beginning, they experienced extreme pain and sensed an evil presence. Later, they felt joy, especially after waking up, and felt they had undergone a spiritual experience. The contrast between the initial negative sensations and later positive feelings marked a significant spiritual transformation. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Overdose on prescribed medications, stopped breathing for 7 minutes | Floating sensation, heard people talking, moved around ambulance | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard people and felt floating | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3949 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 351-sensed-someone-beside-me.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/351-sensed-someone-beside-me.html | 2007 | 2007-03-16 | 2007 | M | On March 16, 2007, at 1:00 a.m., the subject was attacked in bed by his schizophrenic stepson who stabbed him and his wife approximately 15 times with a carving knife. He sustained multiple stab wounds, with most deflected by his left arm, but two reaching his stomach and two more to his left knee. After talking the attacker out of "finishing it off," he bound a severed artery in his arm with a sheet and called an ambulance. Covered in blood and losing consciousness, he truly thought he was about to die. It was 1:50 a.m. when paramedics arrived. During this critical period, he experienced a vivid otherworldly scene: it was sunny and pleasantly warm as he walked down through a field of grass and flowers toward a pretty wood and shimmering lake. He sensed someone he liked beside him but couldn't see them directly and didn't know who they were. There were pleasant sounds around them. He wanted to stay but realized he couldn't and "really had to go." He then returned to consciousness screaming and jerking, with paramedics trying to calm him. During transport, he experienced another altered state where he seemed detached and floating above everything, with visual distortions showing extreme contrast - shadows going black while light areas became terrifically bright, crystalline shimmering white. He was later told he had lost four pints of blood and had been resuscitated. He spent a week in the ward with months of physical therapy ahead to regain use of his left hand. He occasionally feels that he is actually dead and this reality has no substance. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Stabbed multiple times, lost 4 pints blood, resuscitated | Walked through field toward wood and lake, sensed unseen companion | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw otherworldly landscape | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 3950 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 352-surrounded-by-gods-love.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/352-surrounded-by-gods-love.html | 2007 | 12 | Unknown | At age 12, an experienced Junior Olympic swimmer was playing "Uncle" with a high school senior in the practice pool at the YMCA in Miami, Florida. They lost consciousness while trying to pull a friend underwater and drowned, experiencing no fear or sensation of suffocating. They found themselves traveling in an escalator-style ride up to white clouds, looking down to see their friend and swim coach trying to revive them on the opposite side of the pool from where they drowned. They said "You're wasting your time, I'm up here." They entered what they believed to be heaven and were totally surrounded by God's LOVE with no desire to return to earth, not missing anyone or anything. They could see but received thoughts from other sources without seeing anyone. They saw God and inherited his ability to love, forgive and forget. They remember being able to come down to earth and sit on a tree limb in a beautiful valley of trees and grass, possibly an apple orchard with green apples. They could float to different locations in heaven and visit anyone they wanted, though they didn't have the desire at that time, being totally caught up with God's Love. The next memory was spitting out water on the ground and walking two blocks home. They believe they were dead, not just near death, and that God has planned their life with many divine experiences. They report being given codes for eradicating the flu and a six-minute test for respiratory infections as God's gifts. The experience profoundly affected their beliefs about the afterlife and divine purpose. | 5 | Other | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Drowning during pool game, clinically dead | Saw revival attempts from opposite side of pool, saw coach and friend | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw revival attempts from above | 1.00 | Swim coach and friend | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 3951 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 353-bright-oversized-sun.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/353-bright-oversized-sun.html | 2007 | 2007-04-19 | 2007 | F | On April 19, 2007, the subject walked into a closed sliding glass door at a restaurant patio, hitting face-first with tremendous force that caused severe facial injuries including a large forehead lump, facial cuts, and suspected broken nose. After turning to slide down the glass, she was placed in a chair where she vomited, sweated, and lost consciousness for approximately eight minutes. Her friend reported she sat slumped with eyes wide open, not blinking, with glassy eyes and extremely shallow breathing. They had to hold her head back to prevent it from falling forward, and at one point neither the friend nor a helping woman could find her pulse. During this time, she experienced standing on a beautiful hill covered in wild yellow and white daisies and tall green grass under a bright blue cloudless sky. An incredibly bright, oversized sun to her right took up almost a third of her field of vision. She wore a beautiful bright pleated dress with yellow and white daisies matching the hillside setting. Her hands looked younger and thinner, and she couldn't see her bare feet in the tall grass. White fluffy dandelion seeds floated everywhere in the air. She felt extreme happiness, contentment, and freedom - the happiest she had ever been. She heard distant voices but wanted to stay in this beautiful place. When she questioned why the sun was so large and bright, she was suddenly lifted back, experiencing intense pain as paramedics worked on her. They noted very low blood pressure and administered oxygen. She became fully aware while being wheeled through the hospital. The experience left her wondering if the bright oversized sun was the light people describe in NDEs. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe head injury, unconscious 8 minutes, no pulse found at times | Detailed beautiful hillside scene with oversized sun, younger appearance | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Experienced otherworldly hillside | 0.00 | Friend and woman helper | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 3952 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1266-new-zealand-school-girl-meets-mother-figure-in-the-real-place.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1266-new-zealand-school-girl-meets-mother-figure-in-the-real-place.html | 2018 | 13 | F |
A 13-year-old New Zealand schoolgirl participated in a breathing technique with classmates that was supposed to create a feeling of being high. After taking deep breaths and standing quickly, she blacked out and hit her head. Friends reported she fell backwards like a plank and was unconscious for about a minute. During her unconscious state, she experienced floating above her friends who surrounded her body calling her name. She then found herself in an otherworldly place moving upward where she encountered a woman who looked like Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch. This figure radiated incredible, powerful maternal love that the experiencer had not received from her own mother. Present but blurred were figures representing her father and siblings. The experiencer hugged the mother figure and cried with relief, feeling she had returned to "The Real Place" where time is infinite and earthly life is just a brief experience. She recognized this place as the actual reality, pronouncing "I'm back!" and understanding that earthly existence is temporary while this realm is eternal. She felt she was supposed to forget this knowledge but vowed to remember. Authority figures described as balding men with a mafia-like presence told her she must forget. When the family said she had to return, she cried and repeatedly said "no" as she fell backward away from the crying mother figure. She awoke in her body crying after what friends said was about a minute, though it felt much longer to her. The experience gave her lasting knowledge that the "normal state" is temporary and that there exists an infinite, more real place that is home. |
5 | Other | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Loss of consciousness from hyperventilation and fall, friends witnessed unconsciousness | Observed floating above friends calling her name, no specific verifiable details provided | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 0 | Floating above friends who surrounded body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3953 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1270-tall-spiritual-being-sat-me-on-his-knee.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1270-tall-spiritual-being-sat-me-on-his-knee.html | 2018 | 20 | F |
A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized with a severe infection from a Copper 7 IUD that had been implanted during military service. She was on her deathbed when she flatlined, immediately zooming through a dark tunnel that quickly became bright with light. She was regurgitated into a golden field reminiscent of a special place from her childhood in Germany where honeysuckle bloomed. The weather was beyond perfect with divine sunlight and breeze, and the field glowed with golden grass displaying God's splendor. She experienced herself as approximately 4 years old, skipping innocently through the field and into the arms of a tall spiritual being in a long hooded robe. She recognized him as male and felt sudden peace and protection. He picked her up and sat her on his knee, seeming about to speak when static interrupted. A non-verbal question was imposed about whether she wanted to stay or return. Despite wanting to stay, she chose to go back as the static grew louder. She was whisked back through the tunnel. Upon return, she immediately pointed to her head, demonstrating awareness of her appearance. The strong antibiotics had damaged her hair, and she asked for a scarf. Her family had been praying beside her bed throughout the experience. The static she heard was later identified as her family's prayers beside her bed. This veridical observation of her damaged hair appearance, which she couldn't have known through normal means while unconscious, provides evidential support for the reality of her out-of-body experience. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Flatlined on deathbed in hospital from severe IUD infection | Immediately knew about hair damage upon return, heard family praying as static | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 1 | Knew about hair damage from antibiotics | 1.00 | Family members | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3954 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1273-i-helped-resuscitate-another-man-while-i-was-in-a-coma.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1273-i-helped-resuscitate-another-man-while-i-was-in-a-coma.html | 2011 | 2018 | 45 | M |
A 45-year-old man underwent pancreatectomy surgery for ampullary cancer in July 2011. Following complications requiring multiple surgeries, he was placed in a drug-induced coma and intubated. His condition became grave with ARDS, double pneumonia, pseudomonas infection, sepsis, and a pseudoaneurysm causing bleeding from multiple orifices. After five surgeries, including one leaving a football-sized open hole in his abdomen, doctors gave him little chance of survival. During his coma, he experienced an out-of-body event where nurses came to his room asking for help because he was a paramedic. He found himself in the adjacent room helping resuscitate a black man in his mid-fifties who had coded. He assisted with administering drugs, CPR, and defibrillation attempts. After the doctor pronounced the man dead, he returned to his room and observed the man's wife in the hallway - a black woman in her mid-50s with shoulder-length greyish-black hair wearing a bluish-white mid-calf dress, crying and screaming. Weeks later at home, he told his wife this wasn't a dream but felt completely real. His wife then revealed he had accurately described the man, his wife, and the events that occurred. However, at the time he was in deep drug-induced coma, unresponsive and sleeping. When the adjacent patient coded, they mistakenly called the code blue for his room number, causing his wife to fear he had died. She confirmed there was no way he could have seen the man or his wife from his room, especially while comatose. This veridical out-of-body experience, with multiple specific details confirmed by his wife who witnessed the actual events, provides strong evidence for consciousness existing independently of the physical body during extreme medical crisis. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Drug-induced coma with multiple life-threatening conditions including ARDS, sepsis | Accurately described appearance of patient and wife in adjacent room while comatose | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | Football-sized open abdominal wound | 7/8/2025 | 3 | 1 | Participated in resuscitation efforts | 1.00 | Wife | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||
| 3955 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1278-saved-by-my-beautiful-tender-soft-wise-cat.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1278-saved-by-my-beautiful-tender-soft-wise-cat.html | 2016 | 2018 | Unknown |
During the 2016 presidential debates, the experiencer suffered a severe kickscooter accident, landing directly on their knee after hitting a pinecone. The impact caused a broken patella (kneecap) and sent them into shock. After returning home in extreme pain, they attempted to sleep in a bathtub to stay near the bathroom. Upon lying down with elevated knee, they experienced severe nausea and recognized symptoms of shock from internet research. The NDE began as the ceiling appeared to come closer. Their body felt arched with their heart leading upward. All sounds became muffled and they experienced intense meditative peace and bliss. They realized they were dying and felt complete, not grasping for any earthly possession or person. The experience felt comforting, simple, and full. Their 18-year-old cat entered the bathroom and sat beside the tub, seeming to sense their spirit leaving. Out of concern that no one would care for the cat as well as they did, they "swam" backward and down to return to their body. The cat remained calm throughout, demonstrating awareness of the spiritual event. After returning, they slammed the bathroom door repeatedly to wake others for help, but no one responded. They received visions while making their way downstairs: seeing their grandfather, questioning need for medical help, and seeing themselves being wheeled from the hospital in a wheelchair. They also heard about an ex-boyfriend and recalled his words "you choose your own death." They called 911, went to the hospital where X-rays confirmed the broken patella. They declined surgery, choosing self-rehabilitation instead. The experience included premonitions and synchronicities that proved meaningful. |
5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe knee trauma causing shock, confirmed broken patella on X-ray | Experienced leaving body, ceiling coming closer, cat sensing departure | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Cat sensed spirit leaving | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3956 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1279-start-over-in-another-lifetime-or-continue-on-in-this-one.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1279-start-over-in-another-lifetime-or-continue-on-in-this-one.html | 2018 | 7 | Unknown |
A 7-year-old child living in suburban Chicago experienced severe asthma attack requiring hospitalization. After unsuccessful treatment with inhaler and prednisone, they were given medication causing anesthesia-like sensations. Despite nurses wanting them to stay awake, they drifted off and stopped breathing altogether. The child experienced looking down on someone in a bed with doctors working, then tried to get family's attention at home through a sliding door but couldn't be seen or heard. They met others in a dark void, all trying to understand their situation. A distant light appeared and they became part of it while wanting to bring others along. The experience included overwhelming love and complete acceptance, with presence of other beings communicating in a strange language. A comprehensive life review showed moments from multiple perspectives simultaneously - their own and everyone affected by their actions. This proved deeply humbling. Meeting a feminine guide/counselor figure, they had to decide whether to continue this life or start over in another. They were warned this life would be very lonely and might not reach full potential. They were shown future decision points, their career, living location, and various challenges. They remember choosing their parents before birth from what looked like Seattle's Space Needle, selecting them for their kindness. Despite the guide suggesting starting over would be better, attachment to family led them to continue this life. They were shown a future scene with a blonde woman on a plane with sunrise above clouds, feeling "it was all worth it." Upon return, they were intubated and unable to communicate telepathically with the nurse. The experience left them more serious and mindful, noticed by a friend years later. Thirty years passed before meeting someone who embraced their story. They maintain hope for the future while attending IANDS meetings. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe asthma attack, stopped breathing in hospital, intubated | Saw doctors working on body, tried to communicate with family at home | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Intubated | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 0 | Looking down at body with doctors | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3957 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1284-i-now-communicate-with-conscious-energies-in-the-energic-conscious-continuum.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1284-i-now-communicate-with-conscious-energies-in-the-energic-conscious-continuum.html | 2018 | Unknown |
The experiencer attempted suicide hoping to disappear into nothingness. Instead, their spirit or "conscious-energy" left their body and observed surgeons operating to save their life. A kidney surgeon was repairing a kidney cut in half, while another surgeon patched their colon which had been cut open, spilling intestinal waste into the abdominal cavity. From near the surgical suite lights, they watched and noticed the surgeons telling jokes while operating, with nurses and doctors laughing. They then "zipped off" into what some call Purgatory, though they had never believed in it previously. Suddenly, vast knowledge about the afterlife became known to them as if they had always known it. They felt Jesus shove them back toward the operating room with incredible speed. They awoke in an ancillary room unable to move, thinking they were paralyzed. A nurse was shocked they had awakened and had breathing problems. The surgeon helped their breathing, but the anesthesia had worn off unexpectedly and they urinated on him before passing out again. In ICU, they recognized a nurse from surgery who was stunned. They described the surgery, jokes, and details to her. The surgeon dismissed it saying their ears probably captured everything and they recognized people by voices. Years later, knowledge began flowing to them and premonitions came true, leading them to research their experience. They now communicate with conscious-energies in what they call the "Energic Conscious Continuum" (their scientific term for the Spirit Realm). The verified observations during surgery while unconscious, later development of accurate premonitions, and ongoing communication abilities suggest consciousness continuation beyond physical death. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Emergency surgery for suicide attempt, kidney cut in half, colon perforated | Observed surgical procedures, heard jokes, recognized specific nurse from surgery | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/8/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed surgical procedures | 1.00 | Nurse and surgeon | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3958 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1286-saved-from-allergic-reaction-by-otherworldly-figure.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1286-saved-from-allergic-reaction-by-otherworldly-figure.html | 2000 | 2018 | F |
An English teacher at a Japanese women's boarding school experienced a severe allergic reaction to cement dust after bathroom renovations in her dormitory. Workers had sealed her room while removing old grout, but fine cement dust permeated through, coating everything. She went to sleep on dust-covered bedding, having only flipped the dust off and changed sheets. She awoke during the night to find herself staring down at her body on the futon from a standing position at the foot of the bed, seemingly standing through the bed itself. A large circular gateway of radiating bluish-white light opened where the north wall had been. A masculine figure approached through it, his features obscured by intense backlighting. Standing at her bed's head, he occupied the same space as physical objects while remaining visible. He placed hands on her shoulders, immediately returning her to her body. Her eyes were swollen nearly shut, she could barely breathe, and she wanted only to rest. The figure commanded "Get up" and when she resisted, warned "Get up or you will die." He flipped her from bed, landing her on hands and knees. Looking up with swollen eyes, she saw his silhouette perfectly. He pointed toward the balcony door. She crawled outside onto cool cement, leaning against the wall. The figure watched until she was safe, then walked back into the light and vanished with the gateway. She remained outside until 5am when nuns began stirring. When she called for help, nuns initially dismissed her condition, telling her to wash curtains. Only upon seeing her did they realize the severity. Despite life-threatening symptoms requiring days to recover, no medical help was summoned. The experience remains vivid after 18 years, and she notes never hearing of hallucinations physically tossing people from bed. |
5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe allergic reaction to cement dust causing respiratory distress, eye swelling | Saw figure through gateway, experienced being physically moved while nearly blind | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Eyes swollen shut, severe dust exposure | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Clear vision of figure despite swollen eyes | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3959 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1289-love-was-what-everything-was-made-of-came-from-and-returned-to.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1289-love-was-what-everything-was-made-of-came-from-and-returned-to.html | 1985 | 2018 | 14 | M |
This account describes two NDEs. At age 7 (1978), during a severe viral outbreak affecting children, the experiencer went into a coma from dehydration in an isolation tent. Breathing and heart stopped for nearly 5 minutes before CPR revival. At age 14, while at church camp, severe bullying resulted in a head injury to the brain stem when pushed into a wooden beam. Breathing and heartbeat stopped; CPR was performed for 4 minutes until paramedics arrived. The second NDE is vividly recalled: awareness of leaving body while maintaining familiar physical features for comfort. No tunnel or bright light, but lifted away to a physical-feeling place with beings projecting peaceful thoughts through telepathic communication. An immersive life review showed good and bad actions from others' perspectives without judgment, revealing how actions helped or hindered their chosen life path. Souls of other recently deceased were encountered with instantaneous thought-based conversations. A group journey through space at impossible speeds brought them instantly to any thought destination. Stars had specific frequencies - brighter stars higher tones, creating stellar choruses. Colors blended like Van Gogh's Starry Night with integrated sounds and music. Complete connection with everything existed simultaneously. All was made of, came from, and returned to all-encompassing unconditional love. A male-feeling voice said return was necessary. Other voices comforted, promising the memory would bring everything back and their day would come in an eye's blink. Despite trying to stay, increasing heaviness pulled them back. They awoke in the ER feeling disconnected, with pain experienced as if happening to someone else. The experience led to lasting effects: IQ drop, lethargy, loss of interest, deep depression, and years of suicidal ideation before eventual recovery through hospitalization. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Head injury to brain stem, stopped breathing/heart, CPR for 4 minutes | Life review, journey through space, encountered other souls | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/8/2025 | 1 | 0 | Universal experiences and life review | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3960 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1290-teenager-in-uk-out-of-body-into-light.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1290-teenager-in-uk-out-of-body-into-light.html | 2018 | 14 | M |
A UK teenager experienced multiple out-of-body episodes around age 14, occurring during daytime exhausted naps. These OBEs involved leaving the body but being stopped at the ceiling, aware of the physical body below but unable to look at it. The room remained visible along with outside views and background noise. Anxiety about being free from the body would cause return with a jolt. One experience involved seeing a death figure passing through closed doors in the hallway, creating fear it had come looking for them. These OBEs ceased after this frightening encounter. The near-death experience occurred at night, distinct from the OBE sensations. Awakened by feeling watched and irritated by a pinprick of light where ceiling met wall, with no apparent source for the reflection, they got out of bed to examine it. The light grew larger until they were totally absorbed, realizing they were no longer on Earth. Initial struggle and panic arose from being out of body in an unknown situation. They became aware of commotion in the light ahead, sensing they were causing concern and disturbance. Voices said "What is he doing here, he shouldn't be here yet." Some voices were familiar, others unknown but knew them. Upon realizing they were dying, they shouted "Oh God I'm not ready for this!" A heavy thrusting sensation immediately returned them to bedroom and body. They sat up sobbing after the profound emotional experience. The unknown beings were felt to be ancestors who knew them, inspiring later genealogical research to honor their memory. This connection helped cope with chronic mental health issues emerging around age 24. Now at 44 with terminal physical health issues, they long to be taken peacefully by the white light, hoping to accept it openly without fear. |
6 | Home | 1 | 2 | 3 | Weak Evidence | 0 | No clear medical crisis described, spontaneous nighttime experience | Saw light, heard voices saying shouldn't be there yet | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard beings discussing presence | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3961 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1294-apocalyptic-vision-during-high-fever.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1294-apocalyptic-vision-during-high-fever.html | 2018 | 7 | Unknown |
A 7-year-old child developed high fever requiring absence from school. With father working afternoons and mother rarely missing work, an older sister (17 years old) provided care. The sister placed cool cloths on the child's forehead as the fever worsened. The bed began spinning in circles from fever effects before the child's spirit lifted from their body to face a glowing male presence on a large throne. The glowing being appeared masculine in a long white gown with bare feet, seeming to have long white hair and beard though features weren't clearly visible due to the glow. Beside him was a large glowing bucket containing glowing power. Without speaking, he reached down, picked up a ball of energy, and hurled it toward the child. The child told their sister they would be fine "because Jesus was giving me power to make me better." A curtain or roller blind with string and ball appeared and lifted, revealing another clearly visible male figure. This unknown man smiled lovingly while dozens of small babies or cherubs sat in his arms and on shoulders, all interested in seeing the child. After this figure pulled the blind down and disappeared, a marble-sized bulge appeared on the wall where the string had hung - a physical manifestation not present before the NDE. The child then floated outside their bedroom window to witness complete world destruction as if from nuclear bomb - everything burnt and in rubble. A crucifix with Jesus rose miles high from the rubble before sinking into ground. The world then replenished: trees bloomed, everything turned green, monkeys appeared swinging from trees. The child was later told their mother was called home from work and they were taken to hospital with no memory of the trip or stay. Years later, they interpreted this not as doomsday but as showing life's cyclical nature and potential divine intervention after human destruction. |
5 | Home | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | High fever in child requiring hospitalization, sister as witness | Saw visions, physical marble appeared on wall after experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Physical manifestation on wall | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3962 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 358-shed-body-like-caterpillar-for-more-beautiful-form.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/358-shed-body-like-caterpillar-for-more-beautiful-form.html | 2007 | F |
A young girl in Shoeburyness, England, experienced a near-drowning incident during a swimming lesson at her primary school. Unable to swim, she somehow ended up at the bottom of the pool, though she cannot recall how it happened. While underwater, she found herself in darkness and began calling for her mother, feeling alone but strangely warm and not frightened. She then heard a woman's gentle voice and drifted toward two shadowy figures - an older woman and a young man. The woman kept saying "There she is. Oh! Isn't she lovely" but insisted the girl go back because "Mammy needs you." Despite wanting to stay in what felt like a happy place, she was turned back. She suddenly found herself at the bottom of the pool looking at the filter, surrounded by bubbles, before reaching the surface. The girl believes the figures were her grandmother who died in 1929 and her uncle Francis who died in the 1940s, both before she was born. She had never seen photographs of either but felt she knew who they were. The experience left her with no fear of death, viewing it as shedding an earthly body like a caterpillar to take on a more beautiful form. Years later, she still considers the experience sacred and shares it with those who fear death or have lost loved ones, believing it has influenced many people throughout her life. |
5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning incident at school swimming pool, life-threatening but no medical details provided | Saw two figures believed to be deceased relatives, heard voices, but no specific verifiable details provided | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 3963 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 363-everything-self-evident.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/363-everything-self-evident.html | 2007 | Unknown |
Living alone in Washington DC, the experiencer suffered from chronic bronchitis that doctors could not treat. Every night involved severe coughing and wheezing before sleep. One night, the person apparently stopped breathing altogether while asleep. Without any tunnel or transition, they found themselves in a different realm consisting entirely of light, sound, joy and bliss. The realm contained beings of pulsing colored light without human shape, more like oval or round pulsing loci of light with no sharp outlines. Everything gently blended together. The beings were creating indescribable music full of joy and praise for God. The experiencer became made of music, light and joy, filled with bliss and feeling "at home" for the first time ever. Everything was instantly self-evident - turning awareness to anything brought immediate understanding with no time delay. They experienced freedom in time and space. During a brief abbreviated life review, they knew they had much work to do on earth, particularly with family relationships. Looking down, they saw a shimmering grey silk cord connecting to their body far below in a dark, foggy place. They jumped back into their body and spent 10-20 minutes coughing and clearing breathing passages. After the experience, they found a Rolfer, received treatment, and the bronchitis cleared completely. They became more adventurous, moving often and having more frequent and deeper spiritual experiences. |
5 | Home | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Respiratory failure from chronic bronchitis, stopped breathing during sleep | Saw silver cord connecting to body, experienced instant knowledge, but no specific verifiable earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw silver cord connecting to body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||
| 3964 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 366-a-wondrous-river-of-peace.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/366-a-wondrous-river-of-peace.html | 2007 | Unknown |
The experiencer was talking on the phone when a lightning strike hit them in the face, throwing them backward. They separated from their body and observed the scene around them. A nurse who was waiting to use the phone immediately started CPR on their unconscious form. During the out-of-body experience, they floated away from the immediate scene and saw their children playing before floating out of the building entirely. They were then bathed in a bluish-white light that had a sensation of acceleration and direction. The experiencer described being pure thought flowing in a wondrous river of peace and loving feeling. This state of blissful consciousness continued until they were suddenly back in their body and experiencing pain. Medical follow-up with a cardiologist and neurologist revealed no lasting deleterious effects from the lightning strike. However, within that year, the person developed an insatiable desire to listen to piano music, play it, and later compose it, despite having only one year of piano lessons at age seven with no prior interest. The experiencer became a case study of Dr. Oliver Sacks, presumably due to the unusual development of musical abilities following the lightning strike and near-death experience. This sudden acquisition of musical talent represents a rare but documented phenomenon following certain types of brain trauma or near-death experiences. |
2 | Other | 10 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Lightning strike requiring CPR, indicates cardiac arrest | Saw children playing while out of body, general observation only | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw children playing | 0.00 | Nurse | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3965 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 368-lucid-thought-in-dark-void.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/368-lucid-thought-in-dark-void.html | 2007 | 43 | M |
A 43-year-old psychiatrist was playing Gaelic Football when he was struck in the left side of his head by another player's hip at full speed. The impact lifted him off the ground, spinning him in the air before landing unconscious. Witnesses, including his nephew, report he was unconscious for 30-60 seconds with brief fitting and bleeding from his head. Team members worried he might be dead due to his unusual stillness. During unconsciousness, he found himself in a black void with no sensory input except memory of a "click" from his left side. He experienced complete sensory deprivation but maintained full logical reasoning and language abilities. He felt comfortable, possibly floating in an enclosed space. Through clear reasoning, he deduced he was playing football and must be knocked out, growing slightly anxious about the duration. He then felt rapid backward and upward acceleration as if traveling a huge distance past blurred spots of light like stars. Feeling excitement about going somewhere wonderful, he recognized this as a near-death experience and thought "I can't, I'm not ready, I've got to go back." This seemed to trigger a sudden direction change. His next memory involved confused perception of grass, a swollen left eyelid, and hallucinatory images of the game with pink sky. The experience left him reflecting on consciousness during apparent unconsciousness. As a psychiatrist familiar with NDEs since reading Moody's work in the 1970s, he considers both neurological explanations and the possibility his "decision" to return saved his life. He retired from the sport afterward. |
5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 4 | Severe head trauma with loss of consciousness and possible brief cardiac issues | No specific verifiable observations, only internal experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 1 | Nephew and team members | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3966 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 370-outside-a-gate-with-other-beings.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/370-outside-a-gate-with-other-beings.html | 2007 | Unknown |
Following two knee surgeries and job loss, the experiencer was severely depressed. Three days before the overdose, spirits circled their body with a whirling sound, visible "plain as day" for 30 seconds, followed by a mist above the bed. In desperation, they swallowed 470 blood pressure pills with alcohol. After calling 911, they were given multiple blood transfusions without cross-matching, causing an allergic reaction with 107-degree fever, respiratory failure with severe hypoxia, hypertensive shock, renal and liver failure, and cardiac arrest. They coded and medical staff could not initially restart their heart. They were kept in a drug-induced coma for three days with seizures requiring EEG and CT scans due to concern about brain damage. During the medical crisis, they sensed a man's presence beside their bed watching and waiting, and heard growling from the sink. They then experienced a very bright light and freedom from their body with wonderful feelings of total peace. They found themselves outside a gate with other beings in bright mist, knowing crossing would be final. A female higher power told them it wasn't their time and they must go back. Upon return, they felt the life support tube in their lungs. They saw mist above their bed the first night back. After 12 days in ICU and four days in psychiatric ward, they returned home feeling given a second chance. The experience brought profound peace, spirituality, and purpose to help others without judgment. The experiencer now studies NDEs extensively, shares their story freely, and has lost all fear of death, viewing it as only the beginning. They thank God daily for their second chance and feel total peace with a renewed desire to live. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Cardiac arrest with failed resuscitation attempts, drug-induced coma, documented with EEG and CT | Saw gate and beings but no specific earthly observations to verify | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Presence beside bed and growling sound | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3967 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 372-im-home.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/372-im-home.html | 2007 | 15 | F |
At age 15, while eating lunch with her 19-year-old sister, the experiencer tried to talk while swallowing thin crispy french fries without chewing. The potato lodged in her throat, causing excruciating pain "like swallowing a razor blade." Unable to bring it up or swallow it down, she stopped breathing. Her sister initially thought she was acting up, but when she began sliding off her chair in slow motion, her sister jumped up, caught her, and began screaming and slapping her face trying to revive her unconscious form. During this time, the experiencer found herself in complete darkness, maintaining her identity but able to move in any direction effortlessly. She felt like "all eyes," seeing even behind herself. Feeling comfortable in the nothingness while waiting for something, she noticed a white dot and lazily floated toward it. While floating, she reflected on her life experiences, carrying the essence of everything lived, particularly distinguishing between experiences that brought happiness versus sadness. Approaching the growing white opening, she heard someone calling (likely her sister) but dismissed it as unrelated to her. She found herself between darkness and luxuriant white light made of rainbow colors yet easy on the eyes - warm, welcoming, and alive. She recognized it as herself, thinking "I'm Home" and "That's where I belong." As she reached to enter, she sensed a presence on her left - a man with brownish-fair curly hair, short beard, and pale blue-grey eyes. Though she knew his exact appearance, she never turned to look. He asked what she was doing there and challenged her presence, saying "It is not your time yet. You still have a lot of work to do." Though she wanted to argue using free will, she recognized his truth. She returned to her body, opening her eyes to see her sister "pulling her hair out" in distress. The chip was nearing her stomach, still painful but no longer important. The experience remained sacred to her for years, ultimately helping her recognize everyone's importance and purpose in life, influencing many people throughout her eventful life. She had distanced herself from religion a year before the experience. |
5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Choking with loss of consciousness and stopped breathing | Heard calling but no specific verifiable observations; being with appearance described but not identified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 1 | Sister (age 19) | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||
| 3968 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 373-surrounded-by-pure-love.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/373-surrounded-by-pure-love.html | 1979 | 2007 | F |
In 1970, during her first son's birth (8 lbs 4 oz, posterior position), the experiencer had a frightening OBE. She heard the doctor say they could save the baby but probably not her due to hemorrhaging and uterus not contracting. She watched from the ceiling, yelling for them not to give up though they couldn't hear her. She witnessed her funeral and burial, feeling dirt covering her before awakening very ill and drugged for several days. This caused panic attacks with hospital smells afterward. Her actual NDE occurred in July 1979, ten days after her last son's quick, uneventful birth. Severe cramping and hemorrhaging led to hospitalization for D&C and blood transfusions. She received all available blood, requiring police to bring more from neighboring town. Blood was administered without cross-matching due to crisis, causing allergic reaction with 107-degree fever. Ice and cooling measures were applied while staff held her shaking feet with heated blankets. When she felt bleeding again and told the doctor (who denied it), she left her body. She experienced no pain, found herself surrounded by pure love and embraced by Jesus. Though she couldn't describe his appearance, she knew his identity. He said it wasn't her time and she should return. Her life review brought shame, but turning to Christ brought pure love and guiltlessness. He explained her mortal behavior was natural, with no judgment. They communicated through hearts and feelings, preventing misunderstanding. When she argued her sons had a great father and cited free agency, he responded with humor: "I'd expect you to argue for your own case!" showing intimate knowledge of her. He then showed her husband's death. Seeing this future death four years hence, she agreed to return to raise her sons, receiving a promise she could return after. Christ emphasized all one brings back is love given and that life concerns loving relationships. She returned to her body laughing with joy. Six weeks before her husband's accident, she saw it in a lucid dream, tried changing the outcome unsuccessfully, and told her husband who dismissed it. The accident occurred exactly as envisioned four years after her NDE. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Hemorrhage with severe allergic reaction to blood transfusion, 107-degree fever, life-threatening crisis | Predicted husband's death 4 years in advance, saw it again 6 weeks before it happened exactly as shown | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 1 | Shown husband's future death | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3969 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 374-peaceful-and-not-frightening.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/374-peaceful-and-not-frightening.html | 2007 | Unknown |
While body surfing near San Diego, California, the experiencer was caught in an undertow and pulled underwater. Their brother was visible but out of hearing range to the left. Unable to reach the surface despite panicked struggling, they swallowed substantial amounts of water during their desperate attempts to breathe. Suddenly, they became aware of complete silence, like ears popping but magnified. Light was visible, believed to be sunlight hitting the water above. They began feeling very warm and sleepy, which led them to stop struggling. Their thoughts turned to their brother and how he wouldn't be able to find them. They decided to take a nap and figure out how to escape the predicament upon waking. After closing their eyes and feeling warm and sleepy, they dozed off for what seemed like the shortest possible second. They were then suddenly thrust up and out of the water with great force. Finding themselves only chest-high in the water, they clambered onto the beach where they vomited several times and collapsed, shaking and struggling to breathe. Initially very shaken by the experience, they had mixed feelings - having felt so comfortable until being thrown from the water, after which their throat and stomach hurt badly with achy muscles for the afternoon's remainder. Since this experience, they have not been fearful of death, finding near-death to be very peaceful and not frightening once they knew it was coming. While they didn't take away anything particularly religious or spiritual, the peace of the experience has stayed with them. |
5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning with loss of consciousness underwater | No specific verifiable observations, only internal peaceful experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 3970 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 376-a-place-with-emanating-love.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/376-a-place-with-emanating-love.html | 2007 | 17 | M |
The experiencer became a Christian around age 10-11 with an incredibly emotional conversion. Shortly after, while sleeping beside his grandmother's bed, he experienced the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (witnessed by grandmother), with overwhelming peace and love almost identical to his later NDE. After gradually seeking peer acceptance, he moved away from this closeness with God. A resurgence of faith at 17 was eventually smothered by a sexual affair. While preparing to move in with his girlfriend, he had secretly prayed for God to deliver him through marriage or other means. Driving to collect her belongings for the move, they were rear-ended by a large pickup truck at high speed. He was knocked unconscious for an undetermined time. Though now vague, the memory remains very real - he saw/felt a place with light similar to many NDE drawings, with people emanating love toward him. He wanted to go where they were but viewed from a distance. He realized he was physically fine and couldn't go there because his body was intact. Becoming conscious, he briefly didn't know where or who he was. The incredible peace turned to upset upon realizing there was an accident. He began sobbing "I'm sorry" thinking he'd hurt someone, but was told it wasn't his fault. After ensuring everyone including his girlfriend (now wife) was okay, he became carefree, joking with the ambulance driver who found it disturbing. At the hospital, he pretended to be dying as a joke to a nurse before stopping himself. Diagnosed with a concussion, he lost two weeks of memory before the wreck, slowly recovering all but the final five minutes. The experience reminded him of his Pentecostal baptism and reinforced his Christian faith. He still embraces many NDE aftereffects listed on IANDS website. |
5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | High-speed collision with loss of consciousness and concussion | Saw place with people but no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3971 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 378-light-and-tunnel-beneath-the-water.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/378-light-and-tunnel-beneath-the-water.html | 2007 | M |
The experiencer was swimming with three sisters and one sister's boyfriend when the water level rose sharply due to ship traffic in the river. Boat waves and engine suction/release caused dangerous water level changes. Unable to swim, he didn't feel it necessary until the sharp change occurred. Tragically, one of his older sisters died from drowning during this incident. He went to the surface twice, but on the third time underwater, he began to relax and felt peacefulness coming over him. Toward the end of his decline in the water, he saw a lighted tunnel with individuals he couldn't remember or likely didn't know given his young age. These pleasant male and female adults were welcoming him into the tunnel. He specifically remembers making a conscious decision that it was not his time to pass. He pushed off from the river bottom, reached the surface, and his sister's boyfriend caught him. Following his sister's death, his parents' struggling relationship ended in separation. Growing up in a family of ten children, this near-death experience profoundly influenced his life trajectory. By nature becoming calm and relaxed, he learned to be insightful and determined under stress, first realizing this during high school athletics. He graduated from the United States Military Academy, served five years in the Army, and entered the rocket propulsion business. He has found peace and satisfaction helping others, particularly enjoying Rotary International Club membership of eight years. Married with two sons, one is beginning his second year at Temple Medical School. The experience shaped his life philosophy of service and achievement. |
5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | Near-drowning in river, went under three times before rescue | Saw tunnel with welcoming beings but no specific identifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 1 | Sister's boyfriend | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3972 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1295-fifteen-year-old-girl.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1295-fifteen-year-old-girl-has-panoramic-view-of-accident.html | 1977 | 2018 | 15 | F |
In 1977, a 15-year-old girl experienced a severe car accident during an illegal drag race with older boys. The impact left her unconscious with severe injuries including a compound fracture of her left femur and hip, requiring immediate medical intervention. Paramedics found her bloody and mangled in the dirt, working desperately to save her life. During the trauma, she experienced a profound out-of-body experience where she felt completely calm and warm, with no sense of her physical form. She described feeling like she was the universe itself - the air and trees. Everything became incredibly clear and vibrant. From above, she observed the entire accident scene panoramically, seeing police cars, ambulances, and two paramedics working on a bloody young girl with a mangled leg. Not recognizing herself initially, she asked "Who's that?" and heard the response telepathically rather than verbally. She became aware of two presences beside her who identified the body below as hers, saying "That's you." They told her she could return if she wanted, and she chose to return. There was no sense of time, worry, or pain during the experience - only peace and harmony. She felt no urgency to return to her body initially. Upon returning, she was resuscitated by paramedics and experienced horrific pain from her injuries. She spent a month in the hospital with internal fixation surgery and required follow-up surgeries annually for three years. She maintains absolute certainty that her experience was real and not fabricated. |
5 | Ambulance | 5 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe trauma from car accident with life-threatening injuries requiring resuscitation | Panoramic view of accident scene, observation of self from above, specific details about emergency response | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 1 | Panoramic view of entire accident scene | 0.00 | Paramedics | Moderately Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 3973 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1296-unconditional-love.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1296-unconditional-love-washed-over-me-like-a-huge-wave.html | 1976 | 2018 | 20 | Unknown |
In March 1976, a 20-year-old IRS tax examiner experienced sudden paralysis from Guillain-Barre Syndrome following a job furlough and earthquake. The condition progressed rapidly over three days from tingling toes and weak shoulders to complete paralysis from the nose down. Despite an alert mind, the patient required mechanical ventilation in ICU after choking on water, spending months on life support with 24-hour monitoring. Doctors provided no timeline for recovery as few cases of this severity were documented, with only mechanical support available while waiting to see if the body would recover. During one of two near-death episodes identified by medical staff, the patient experienced floating above their body after seeing a hooded figure described as an angel of death. They found themselves in a dark room with bright light from above, seeing only the knees, legs and feet of Jesus in white robes. An overwhelming wave of unconditional love and peace washed over them - feelings never experienced before or since. The presence, identified as God, communicated through pure thought that the patient should return to fulfill their destiny and become a writer, which seemed odd given their background as an engineer and artist. The patient desperately wanted to stay in this peaceful state but heard voices calling "Rudy, Rudy!" They remember God's final message: "I will heal thee." Upon returning to consciousness, they fell hard to the floor with a bleeding forehead, repeatedly saying "WOW!" to confused coworkers. Following prayer from their minister and a faith healer, movement began returning weeks later. After three months in ICU and three months of rehabilitation, they relearned basic functions including talking, writing, standing and walking, though permanent nerve damage and muscle weakness remained in their lower body. The experience gave them the ability to help their mother peacefully transition when she passed in 2017, believing their NDE partly served this purpose. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Guillain-Barre Syndrome with complete paralysis, respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, near-death episodes confirmed by medical staff | Out-of-body experience, seeing religious figure (Jesus), experiencing overwhelming unconditional love, communication through pure thought | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Complete paralysis, mechanical ventilation | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw Jesus in white robe | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 3974 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1298-real-world.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1298-the-real-world-is-much-more-wonderful-and-complex.html | 2018 | Unknown |
A patient with multiple medical complications including bacterial pneumonia, post-surgical infections, and a nephrostomy experienced a profound near-death experience while severely ill in the hospital. Exhausted physically and emotionally from repeated hospitalizations, they felt "done" and experienced a sensation of falling asleep that transformed into sinking or falling forward, pressing against a membrane with diffused light on the other side. Through the membrane, they sensed three beings - two closer on the right and one superior being on the left. Communication occurred instantaneously through unspoken questions and answers that arrived as complete understandings, as if remembering known truths. When asking if this was death, they received confirmation. Despite awareness of their hospital room and husband sitting with a friend, they expressed fear about leaving family behind but were assured everyone would be okay. The beings explained through complex understanding that while various events would occur in their loved ones' lives, earthly existence is brief and relatively insignificant in the eternal scope - comparing life to a movie that ends as one exits the theater into the real world. The other side of the membrane represented the REAL world, far more wonderful, complex and dimensional than earthly existence. They were told their family would join them before they could think about it. After joyfully submitting and feeling ready to cross over, they were forcefully shoved back with teeth-rattling intensity, returning crying and alerting their husband. They felt profoundly cheated and for years wished not to wake up, longing for death despite loving their family. The experience included subsequent spiritual communications and connections to larger reality that eventually faded, leaving them doubting but trying to trust the memory of absolute knowing. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe bacterial pneumonia with multiple complications, general serious illness | Awareness of hospital room while in experience, sensing beings through membrane | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Nephrostomy tube | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Awareness of hospital room while out of body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3975 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1302-childhood-nde.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1302-childhood-nde-followed-by-precognitive-dreams-visions-and-ufo-alien-writings.html | 1967 | 2018 | 10 | M |
In 1967, a 10-year-old boy traveling with his family to Galveston experienced a severe car accident when they collided with a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road without warning signs. The impact knocked out his two front teeth completely and left him unconscious and bleeding severely. Paramedics arrived to find him in critical condition, and he was transported to the hospital where he entered a coma with a very poor prognosis for survival. During the coma, he experienced a long tunnel-like hallway with an extremely bright light at the end. The light was so intense he had to shield his eyes with his hand raised above his head. A young female voice then spoke to him, identifying herself as his guardian angel. Together they observed his body lying in the hospital bed from an outside perspective. The angel said "That's you down there" and explained "We aren't ready for you yet. You can return if you'd like." The boy smiled at her and chose to return. Upon his return to consciousness, the hospital staff expressed amazement at his unexpected recovery. The experience left lasting effects - he retained clear memories of dreams during the coma and the encounter remained vivid over fifty years later. The NDE marked the beginning of unusual experiences including precognitive abilities that manifested later in life. This childhood NDE was characterized by the classic tunnel and light imagery, out-of-body observation of his physical form, communication with a benevolent spiritual being, and the choice to return to life. The experience provided him with a lasting sense of spiritual connection and opened him to paranormal experiences throughout his adult life. |
4 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe car accident with head trauma, coma with poor prognosis | Tunnel with light, guardian angel encounter, observation of own body from outside | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw own body from outside perspective | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 3976 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1305-man-nde-at-work.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1305-man-s-nde-at-work-allows-him-to-help-his-mother-cross-over.html | 2010 | 2018 | M |
In May 2010, a DOD employee suffered a heart attack from a blood clot that broke loose following a foot injury where bones were crushed by an SUV. Earlier that day, a homeless woman had given him her Bible after he gave her $20, prophetically telling him he would need it more than her. He developed severe double pneumonia that worsened until November 29, 2010, when a severe coughing fit at work caused him to lose consciousness and collapse across his desk. Instantly surrounded by immense, loving light with a low steady buzz, he lost all pain and physical sensation, describing it as "falling through the floor and landing in God's hand." The light was too bright to look at directly, and he appeared to be on his knees. Before him was a courtroom with four judges in grey hooded robes on tall benches, all writing. A low courtroom bar stood before them, and he immediately knew crossing it meant never returning. When focusing on the light identified as God, everything instantly made sense. He was told through pure thought to become a "writer" despite being an engineer, physicist, and artist. Desperate to stay, he heard coworkers calling "Rudy, Rudy!" but wanted to remain. God's final message was "I will heal thee." He regained consciousness falling hard to the floor, bleeding from his forehead, repeatedly saying "WOW!" He felt frustrated at being unable to bring back all the knowledge gained, feeling his brain was "pitifully small." His boss, upset by the experience, said "These things don't happen to people like you" but within 18 months took early retirement to become a Lutheran minister. The experience enabled him to guide his mother peacefully through death in January 2017, telling her to "go into the light" during her coma. She passed on his birthday at 4:45 AM after he intuitively woke at 4:00 AM knowing her time was near, despite nurses expecting her to last the weekend. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Heart attack and severe pneumonia, lost consciousness with respiratory distress | Courtroom vision with four judges, communication with God, knowledge of crossing point of no return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 0 | Courtroom with four judges | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3977 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1306-teenager-twin.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1306-teenager-communicates-with-identical-twin-from-coma-nde.html | 1988 | 2018 | 19 | F |
In June 1988, a 19-year-old woman with severe asthma experienced medication toxicity that led to a life-threatening crisis. After feeling ill at lunch with trembling hands, fever, and nausea, she was initially treated for heat stroke. That night, her identical twin sister found her having a severe seizure - back arched, head drawn back, rigid, with mucus from her mouth, gasping for air. She stopped breathing and turned bluish-grey before her sister performed the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge mucus, allowing her to breathe again while continuing to seize. At the hospital, uncontrolled seizures led to dangerously high vital signs and cardiac arrest. She was shocked back to life but then experienced dangerously low vitals and entered a 3.5-day coma in Cardiac ICU. During this time, she experienced leaving her body as a light, buoyant ball of energy, observing from the corner of her room looking diagonally down at her body connected to machines. She witnessed her supervisor gasp and cover her mouth upon seeing her, wanting to comfort her but unable to communicate. She existed in what she describes as a timeless, expansive void filled with incredible peace and the energy of love - a powerful, amazing sense she didn't want to leave yet knew she couldn't stay. Her identical twin sister, laying her head on the patient's chest on the final day of the coma, suddenly saw a vision of her sister in full hospital garb with bright light behind her, saying "Don't worry, I'm going to be okay. I have a lot to tell you." The sister ran to tell family she would be okay, and the patient emerged from the coma shortly after. Upon waking, medically paralyzed with hands restrained, on a ventilator, she heard echoing words and managed to squeeze a hand when asked, though it took hours to recognize her crying mother. After weeks of therapy, she made a full recovery with no permanent damage despite lethal enzyme levels. Her doctor called it a miracle, saying something intervened and she had a purpose in life. The experience left her extremely sensitive, experiencing "movies" showing people's healing needs, eventually learning to manage these abilities through meditation, Reiki, and spiritual practices. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Medication toxicity causing seizures, cardiac arrest requiring defibrillation, 3.5 day coma in Cardiac ICU | Out-of-body observation of own body and supervisor's reaction, twin sister receiving telepathic communication with accurate message | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Medically paralyzed, hands restrained | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed supervisor's reaction from corner of room | 0.00 | Identical twin sister | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||
| 3978 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1309-mother-believed.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1309-mother-believed-stabbed-son-was-dying-but-chaplain-didn-t.html | 1983 | 2018 | M |
In January 1983, a British Army member visiting a German disco bar was violently attacked while buying food outside. Two unknown men beat him to the ground, stamping on his body and kicking his head. After stumbling inside, he and friends who ran to help were attacked by eight men with knives. His friend was killed and he was stabbed in the chest, losing massive amounts of blood and unable to breathe before collapsing. His body continued being kicked and stamped while on the ground. During this brutal attack, he felt no pain and experienced going down a tunnel toward an incredibly beautiful light that pulled him upward. The light was extraordinarily peaceful and joyous, making his heart sing with unconditional love. He reached out desperately wanting to reach the light and was about to touch it when he experienced falling backwards. He saw his body being given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but felt annoyed at being pulled back, wanting to go "home" to the light instead. An off-duty nurse friend successfully resuscitated him after he had stopped breathing at the scene. He survived treatment in ICU at a local hospital. When he tried discussing the experience with an Army Chaplain, he was dismissed as imagining things and told to stop being foolish and "buck up his ideas." Remarkably, his mother in England, over 1000 miles away, experienced excruciating chest pain at the exact time of his stabbing, witnessed by her companion. She was the only person who believed his experience. The event profoundly changed his life and relationships, though most people including his wife and father didn't understand or believe what had happened to him. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Stabbing with massive blood loss, stopped breathing, required resuscitation | Classic tunnel and light experience, simultaneous chest pain experienced by mother 1000 miles away | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw own body being resuscitated | 0.00 | Mother and companion | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 3979 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1312-suddenly-remembered.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1312-suddenly-i-remembered-everything-who-i-was-what-my-life-was-about-what-home-was.html | 2018 | Unknown |
During a work presentation, an individual experienced severe heartburn, burning between shoulder blades, and chest pressure. A nurse coworker recognized heart attack symptoms and helped transport them via scooter to a vehicle. The pain was so intense they could barely breathe during transport to the emergency room, where testing showed normal EKG but elevated troponin levels indicating cardiac insult. They were later diagnosed with viral myocarditis. At the peak of pain, they suddenly left their body and entered complete darkness with no pain, only total peace. Looking around curiously, they observed a pulsing light with yellow and pink tones before them, recognizing it as their true form with calm acceptance. Feeling warmth from the left, they turned toward a beautiful distant glow and instantly remembered EVERYTHING - their true identity, life purpose, and what "home" really was. Overcome with excitement and joy at being back, they surged toward the light. Just as suddenly, they returned to their body being offloaded from the scooter, experiencing gut-punch pain and inability to speak. They felt intense anger at being back in their body rather than continuing toward the light. The emergency room confirmed cardiac damage through troponin levels despite normal EKG readings. This experience remains clearer than any memory, dream, or other life experience. They experienced themselves as their true self without physical, emotional, or bodily concerns. The encounter provided lasting gratitude and knowledge that daily life has purpose beyond this reality, death is something to anticipate after a productive life of learning and contributing, and reunion with loved ones is certain. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Viral myocarditis with cardiac damage confirmed by troponin levels | Recognition of true form as pulsing light, complete memory return of true identity and home | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw true form as pulsing light | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3980 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1313-trip-to-hell.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1313-my-trip-to-hell-saved-by-a-little-angel.html | 2013 | 2018 | M |
In September 2013, a man was admitted to a Northern California hospital with pancreatitis. The ER doctor warned him he would experience more pain than most humans experience in their entire lives. During late night hours while suffering agonizing pain from his pancreas dissolving itself, he felt an internal shift that made him close his eyes. Upon opening them, he couldn't see clearly and began peeling hardened wax-like layers from his eyes while hearing footsteps clamoring around him. As his vision cleared, he found himself on the outskirts of a sea of savage people with white soulless eyes hitting each other with various weapons. When he thought "What is this place?" someone screamed "Hell!! Where do you think you're at?" All communication was telepathic. The violent crowd turned on him, initially throwing shoes and shirts, escalating to sticks, clubs, bats, and pipes. He ran and fought back as the attacks intensified, with inhabitants moving at superhuman speed like track stars and warriors. The violence was relentless, with inhabitants taking pure pleasure in it. A 3-4 year old girl with one blue eye and one white eye, accompanied by a 12-foot tall "King," stopped him saying "I know who you are! You're J... W... C..." She told him he hadn't been there long and could still return by feeling being back where he came from. As attacks resumed, he fought through the crowd toward the darkness barrier that repelled him like same-pole magnets. Fighting against this force while being pulled back by hundreds of hands, he made one final plunge into darkness. Closing his eyes, he desperately imagined being back in the hospital bed. After about ten seconds, he opened his eyes to find himself looking up through the hospital sheet. His heart kick-started and he jumped up screaming, ripping out his IV. He spent two weeks recovering with nurses who listened sympathetically, though doctors dismissed his experience. The little angel knowing his name haunts him, making him wonder if his eternal fate is already written. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe pancreatitis described as life-threatening with extreme pain | Detailed hellish realm with specific beings, telepathic communication, angel knowing his exact name | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 0 | Hellish realm with violent inhabitants | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3981 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1322-there-is-no-i.html 2018 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1322-there-is-no-i-since-five-ndes-from-age-4.html | 2018 | 4 | Unknown |
A German individual experienced five NDEs beginning at age four when they fell into a muddy dig near the seaside. Their body sank into mud as they flew into calm grey and began dissolving before their father pulled them out by the neck. The second experience involved spirits asking if they wanted enhancement despite stress. After refusing unethical military work, spirits appeared at night with questions about dying and making others die. When they chose death over harming others, a spirit stabbed their spiritual belly with a knife, causing their spiritual body to dissolve into shreds. This spiritual death left them feeling unreal with no bodily borders, like calm wind blowing through walls. The spacy, borderless feeling persisted for years, calming after six months. The third NDE occurred when confronting drug dealers who threatened them with a pistol. Time froze, they left their body, and worried spirits surrounded them as they spoke calming words that defused the situation. The fourth NDE happened while flying a historic glider that was pulled at twice the safe speed (120 km/h instead of 60). A female spirit shouted "He's coming NOW!" as time froze again. An older spirit said they must act immediately to survive. They returned to normal time flow, released the cable, and landed safely after the glider nearly performed a fatal loop. They felt they didn't belong to this world, with silent spirits nearby. The fifth experience involved painful dreams of dying brutally, followed by realization during nonduality questioning that there is no "I" inside or outside the body, no border between hand, table, or window. Something around them died again during this realization. These experiences removed fear but also prevented experiencing universal love or complete enlightenment due to insufficient energy from the forced spiritual death. |
5 | Other | 3 | 2 | 5 | Weak Evidence | 0 | First NDE: drowning in mud at age 4; Fourth NDE: near-fatal glider accident | Multiple spirits observed, time freezing experiences, spiritual death of ego boundaries | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 2 | 0 | Time freezing during life-threatening events | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3982 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 379-love-each-other-and-learn.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/379-love-each-other-and-learn.html | 2007 | Unknown |
A person was forced to take a ride with a family friend who attempted to assault them in a field. During the assault, the attacker slammed the left side of their head against the dashboard, causing a severe head injury. Following the impact, they experienced leaving their body and following an intense bright light through darkness. The light was warm and loving, drawing them forward despite knowing they were leaving family behind. Upon arriving in the otherworldly realm, they encountered beings in white robes who radiated intense light and complete love. These beings were more alive than anyone on earth. They communicated telepathically, sharing knowledge about the experiencer's future including that they would never have children but would find peace with this, would get glasses at age 25, and would have a special true love for life. They were shown glimpses of future events and developed psychic abilities to sense accidents and deaths, though never clearly enough to warn others. The beings revealed that the experiencer would be professionally successful and do great things for others, including serving on the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board. They emphasized that dying is wonderful and painless - it's being born into real life. The core message was that we are here to love each other and learn. Despite wanting to stay in that wonderful place of wisdom, they were told they had to return. Upon returning to their body, they experienced horrible head pain, sickness, and dizziness. The attacker was terrified, praying because he thought he had killed them. The experiencer retained clear memories of the event and its teachings, understanding that the other realm is more real than earth, and that dying holds no fear. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe head trauma from assault, left side of head slammed against dashboard | Future predictions about not having children, getting glasses, finding true love, professional success | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 3983 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 384-time-to-return.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/384-time-to-return.html | 1970 | 2007 | M |
In March 1970, during the fifth week of Army basic training, a soldier developed a severe illness following a cold bivouac experience. Starting with a 101-degree fever, ankle pain, and stiffness, his condition rapidly deteriorated. His temperature spiked to 105 degrees, and he experienced excruciating headaches that led him to hit his head against a wall for relief. He was eventually hospitalized and diagnosed with meningitis after a spinal tap revealed milky spinal fluid instead of the normal clear fluid. During the medical crisis, while having his spinal column tapped, he experienced leaving his body and observing the procedure from above. He then traveled through a long dark tunnel toward a bright light where he encountered Mary and Jesus. During a life review, he felt guilty about various things but was assured the guilt was not his to keep. He was told he was loved and received information about his future, including that he could return to care for his spouse but must continue loving her even through divorce, and that his second spouse would have a dog that nearly dies. He also learned that all spirituality is good and no belief system is better than another. The experience included meeting someone's deceased brother with a message for his twin sister who wasn't actually a twin. Years later, he successfully delivered this message to a coworker whose brother died in Laos and whose name appeared on a scale model of the Vietnam Memorial. The experiencer was told about returning and not to fear the noise. After being in a coma for three days with complete organ failure, his condition dramatically reversed within 24 hours of the NDE. Following thirty days of sick leave and recovery, he returned to duty and met the medic who had performed the spinal tap, who expressed surprise at seeing him alive. The experience transformed his understanding of death as a natural continuum rather than failure, enabling him to better support cancer patients and families in his later career as a cancer specialist. |
4 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Meningitis with coma for 3 days, complete organ failure, temperature of 105 degrees | Specific future predictions verified: second spouse with sick dog, message for specific person about brother in Laos verified years later | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed spinal tap procedure from above | 0.00 | Finance coworker | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 3984 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 404-quiet-and-clarity.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/404-quiet-and-clarity.html | 2007 | Unknown |
Following a serious rollover car accident where the driver was crushed inside the vehicle, they experienced leaving the scene and moving up a dark tunnel, being pulled slowly by their shoulders. The journey through the tunnel lasted what seemed like only a few minutes before they found themselves suspended in front of two forms of light. The main, brightest light form communicated with them mentally, delivering a clear message that it wasn't their time yet and they had to go back. During the experience, the person examined their own hands and arms, which appeared as translucent light blue. They still looked normal in form but without actual body mass. They had some awareness that they were not alive, though this wasn't entirely clear to them at the time. The environment they entered was characterized by exceptional quiet and clarity, with an all-knowing quality that included instant thought processes not relying on hearing or voice, accompanied by feelings of peace, understanding, and acceptance. Upon acknowledging what the light form communicated, they were pulled backward down the black tunnel with great speed and noise, an extremely unpleasant sensation. Their arms and legs pointed straight forward as they were sucked back in the direction they came. They saw nothing else during the experience except the light beings, the tunnel, and their translucent arms and hands. They awoke hanging upside down inside the crushed vehicle, still in their seatbelt with the engine screaming unbearably. After managing to escape through a small crushed window and crawling through a barbed wire fence, they discovered they had a broken neck, several broken ribs, and cuts on face and arms. The car had flipped three times, with their head struck from behind by the crushed roof on the final impact. Despite the severe injuries, they expressed to emergency personnel that they would rather let go, knowing they would be alright based on their experience. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Severe car accident with broken neck and ribs, crushed in vehicle | Observed translucent blue appearance of hands/arms, two light beings, tunnel experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw own translucent body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3985 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 405-telepathic-communication.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/405-telepathic-communication.html | 2007 | 3 | Unknown |
At approximately age three, a child experienced their first severe asthma attack. The parents, having no prior experience with asthma, didn't understand what was happening or how to respond. By the time they reached the hospital, the child was "stone cold blue" from lack of oxygen, indicating severe cyanosis and respiratory failure. The severity of the situation deeply upset the mother, who could not discuss it in detail years later due to the emotional trauma of nearly losing her child. During this medical crisis, the child had what they initially remembered as a dream but later recognized as a near-death experience. They awoke in a dream state and decided to search for God, flying up through clouds into outer space. After flying for a long time, they entered more clouds and were drawn to a bright light. As they approached, the light communicated telepathically, with each word causing the light to brighten and dim rhythmically. Initially, the light gently scolded them, asking what they were doing there since it wasn't their time yet and they had to return. Despite being told to go back, the experiencer lingered, apologetic but disappointed, stalling while bathing in the warmth and unconditional love emanating from the light. As they absorbed this divine light and love, they felt the depth and breadth of eternal knowledge and the wisdom of ages within themselves. This profound connection to universal understanding left an indelible mark on their consciousness. Reluctantly, they returned to their body, but life was fundamentally transformed by the experience. The impact was lasting and profound. No subsequent religious education could override their direct experience of God, and they never believed in hell based on what they had learned. They maintained abilities to fly in dreams and commune with ethereal entities on the other side throughout their life. It wasn't until college, when learning about Raymond Moody and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's work on NDEs, that they recognized their childhood "dream" as a near-death experience and confirmed the medical details with their parents. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | First asthma attack at age 3, arrived at hospital "stone cold blue" indicating severe cyanosis | Telepathic communication with rhythmic light responses, felt eternal knowledge and wisdom | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 1 | Telepathic communication with light being | 0.00 | Mother | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 3986 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 406-corridors-of-lifes-images.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/406-corridors-of-lifes-images.html | 1977 | 2007 | M |
On June 19, 1977, at 1:20 a.m., a man was involved in a high-speed car accident that resulted in vehicular homicide charges. Driving at approximately 80 mph, the car hit gravel and slid into trees. The driver's nose was nearly torn from his face and he was bleeding from his right ear, lying unconscious in the back of a police car. His friend, who had been unable to buckle his seatbelt, was killed in the crash. The experiencer suffered severe facial trauma with his finger able to go up inside his sinus cavity. During his unconscious state, he experienced leaving his body, watching himself from about three feet behind as his body fell to the street. His vision shifted to looking down through tree branches at the accident scene below, seeing his brother's car, police cars, an ambulance, and groups of people. He and his deceased friend both realized simultaneously "we are dead." A voice identifying as "Father" (which he recognized as Christ) told him not to be afraid. He then witnessed a 360-degree panoramic life review showing corridors of images from age two onward, stacked one in front of the other running away and up. The experience included remarkable veridical elements. He was transported to his mother's bedroom where the dog responded to his presence. He visited his younger brother's room, then traveled 12 miles to his older brother Charles's apartment, seeing him reaching for the door with a shadowy figure beside him. He tried repeatedly to communicate with Charles, saying "Get me out of this." He then traveled 15 miles to his father's apartment, observing him reading a newspaper on the couch. Throughout these visits, the voice asked him to confirm the identity of each family member. After the life review and family visits, he saw an image of himself in a white robe, head bowed, appearing to hang like a coat on a hook. A blue-white sesame seed of light approached with increasing sound frequency, merging with him as light poured into his head. He regained consciousness in handcuffs, learning his friend had died. Later, at a party weeks afterward, Leslie Harris confirmed the veridical aspect by revealing she was with his brother Charles the night of the accident, and Charles had suddenly said "something has happened" - validating that the experiencer had indeed been present at his brother's apartment during the NDE. |
5 | Other | 5 | 20 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | High-speed car accident, severe facial trauma, nose nearly torn off, bleeding from ear, unconscious | Visited multiple family members at distant locations, brother sensed presence, later confirmed by witness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 4 | 1 | Observed accident scene from above | 0.00 | Leslie Harris | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 3987 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 410-between-worlds.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/410-between-worlds.html | 2007 | F |
A woman experienced a near-death event during a severe illness from possible food poisoning, though the exact cause was never determined. She had been severely ill for weeks, unable to keep any food down, and her weight dropped to a mere 80 pounds. Despite being thin, her stomach became distended to the size of a nine-month pregnant woman's belly from excess bile production, nearly exploding. She was hospitalized for weeks while doctors struggled to identify the cause of her mysterious illness. During this critical period, she had an inner knowing that she was dying and could sense her spirit releasing itself. Angels told her she needed to get to the hospital immediately. She felt as if she could recall this happening from before, knowing what was occurring but not wanting to die. When her husband arrived home, she experienced everything becoming peaceful with faint music playing. She witnessed her spirit rise above her body and observed it for a while from above, floating but not too far up. Initially unaware she had died, she tried talking to people who weren't responding, wondering why they weren't listening. Time seemed to slow down with a strange feeling of being caught between worlds or realities. She found herself begging the creator to let her stay alive for her son, moved by the look of fear on her father's face when he arrived at the hospital. She communicated telepathically with the creator, saying she had more work to do and asking to stay. There seemed to be an agreement with her request. The communication was different from earthly interaction - telepathic in nature where they could send messages and understand each other without talking. She experienced immense, great love for all beings in that realm. Though she struggled to fully express the experience in words, she knew she had chosen to return for her son and that there had been an agreement allowing her to stay. The experience left her with the permanent knowledge of the overwhelming love that exists in the spiritual realm. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Severe illness for weeks, weight loss to 80 pounds, distended abdomen from bile, hospitalized for weeks | Observed body from above, telepathic communication, sensed agreement to return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed own body from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3988 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 421-natural-continuum.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/421-natural-continuum.html | 2007 | M |
A cancer specialist underwent cardiac catheterization when his left ventricle ruptured, causing cardiac tamponade. His blood pressure dropped to 20/0, requiring emergency needle penetration through the chest wall into the pericardial sac to aspirate blood and temporarily relieve the tamponade. He was rushed to surgery for repair of the left ventricle. Due to approximately 34-40 minutes without adequate blood pressure, his vital organs failed three days later - liver enzymes elevated 400 times normal, pancreatic enzymes 100 times normal, kidney function at 1% of normal, spleen dysfunction, disseminated intravascular coagulation with platelet count of zero, significant pulmonary emboli, and left lung collapse. His heart arrested twice and was restarted. During one of the cardiac arrests, he experienced leaving his body though the exact location wasn't evident. He found himself in a tunnel of light approximately twenty feet in diameter that was warm, comforting, and created total calmness. He was content and without apprehension. Having read about NDEs during medical training, he was aware of the circumstances. He felt the presence of a divine source and indicated his willingness to pass from this world, realizing this was a transition rather than an end and feeling motivated to explore the future. However, he also expressed that if his work on earth wasn't complete per his Creator, he was ready to return, though he remembered thinking "We better put the plumbing back together again because things don't look very good." At that moment, he found himself back in the hospital bed, intubated and on life support where he had been for two weeks. His family had been informed that if his heart stopped again, no heroic measures would be attempted since all organs had failed. Remarkably, within 20 minutes of returning, his platelet count increased to 28,000 and reached normal 350,000 within 24 hours. All liver and renal functions normalized within 24 hours, pancreas within 72 hours. CT scan showed complete resolution of pulmonary emboli. He lost 50 pounds of fluid retention in 24 hours and walked out of the hospital four days after the NDE, walking/jogging three miles within two weeks. As a physician and cancer specialist who deals with death daily, the experience transformed his perspective. He now views death as a natural continuum rather than medical failure, enabling him to support patients and families on a deeper level. Despite his scientific training, he cannot accept physiological explanations for NDEs given his own experience and miraculous recovery that defied all medical statistics. The event feels more real than reality and remains vivid in his memory. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Cardiac tamponade, BP 20/0, cardiac arrest twice, complete multi-organ failure documented | Experienced tunnel of light, divine presence, conscious choice to return, miraculous recovery documented | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 1 | Awareness of poor physical condition | 1.00 | Medical team | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3989 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 422-learning-with-being.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/422-learning-with-being.html | 2007 | Unknown |
On January 10th, a person began feeling unwell, initially thinking they had eaten something bad. The condition worsened over two days until they awoke at 12:30 a.m. with stabbing abdominal pain. After waiting hours to reach someone, a neighbor took them to urgent care at 7 a.m., where they received a direct admit to the hospital. Despite the urgent referral, they waited eight hours in the ER becoming increasingly incoherent. Initially diagnosed with Crohn's disease and appendicitis, surgery revealed not only appendicitis but also a ruptured ileum with pus spreading as high as the liver. The doctor later indicated the appendix likely ruptured Wednesday afternoon and the ileum the previous night. During the ER wait, the person slipped away into a darkened roadway with colored streaks and sparks, feeling like riding an airport moving walkway. They found themselves in a desert-like place with people streaming toward a building resembling a 19th-century church crossed with a barn. Inside, people and small animals were occupied with their tasks. Only a badger would talk to them, saying they would eventually go where needed. Outside was bright but comfortable, with large animals and roadways. An unfamiliar man told them "You don't belong here" and sent them away. They went to a neutral place to take a "class" lasting experientially about a week though only hours passed. After surgery, they slipped back into the experience, joining a class with other beings where each received different tools. Working with a lab partner, they spent experientially four months learning to use the tool, then two months in the field building a healing construct combining both their tools. Total experiential time was six months over two to three days of Earth time. They awoke to medical staff with a large needle, with the doctor leaping back when they spoke. The doctor mentioned the effort required to wake them. At another point, they met "the lady of the veil" who placed hands on their neck and belly, transporting them to rolling hills of memory foam grass with flowers. An unprecedented entity embraced them with complete unconditional love and acceptance for two experiential months. They believed this was a realm only for the truly dead and thought they weren't returning, yet someone made an exception. Upon return, their "life cord" was changed or absent. Six months later, work performance reviews showed a complete personality discontinuity, with managers arguing about contradictory assessments, labeled a "discontinuity" by upper management. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Ruptured appendix and ileum, peritonitis with pus to liver, surgery required | Extended experiences in otherworldly realms, interaction with beings, tools for healing, time distortion | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 1 | Experienced months of time in days | 0.00 | Work managers | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3990 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 424-sense-of-peace.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/424-sense-of-peace.html | 2000 | 2007 | Unknown |
In March 2000, while driving home at night, a person's last memory was waving goodbye to a friend before entering total darkness. They experienced no fear or pain, just nothingness that felt embracing and calm. They had never felt such intense peace and euphoria, describing it as almost beyond words. They felt themselves sinking deeper into the blackness and were more than happy to go with it, aware of the intensity while allowing themselves to sink deeper. The feeling was so intense they were content to continue, realizing that if they kept going further, they would die. What jolted them was the sudden thought "What about my family?" and how their departure would impact them. Despite not wanting to leave this peaceful place, they felt a struggle emerging within. They remember arguing to go back to live, being told it was impossible or couldn't happen - that they were too injured. Their overwhelming anxiety for family made them fight against the sucking feeling of darkness. These were not verbal conversations but rather dialogue sensed mentally. The will to fight became overpowering as they made the conscious choice to live rather than die. They experienced the darkness rushing away and suddenly taking a deep breath, as if someone had held their head underwater and they gasped fiercely for air. Upon regaining consciousness, everything was crystal clear and vivid, though they were extremely confused about their location and circumstances. They heard voices, saw lights, felt groggy and disoriented, lapsing in and out of consciousness. They were trapped in metal, experiencing terror and fight-or-flight response but unable to move. A 40-ton semi-trailer had run a red light and hit their car on the driver's side while they were going through an intersection. They were trapped and had to be extracted. They survived with only a fractured collar bone and bruising, which everyone who saw the car considered miraculous. In the following months, they experienced strange happiness and detachment. Though their injuries weren't life-threatening, they believe they were dying during the darkness experience and had to fight to stay alive. They cannot fully explain the experience but consider it miraculous. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | T-boned by 40-ton semi-trailer running red light, trapped in vehicle | Conscious choice between life and death, mental dialogue, darkness rushing away upon choosing life | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Conscious choice between life and death | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3991 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 425-spirit-flung-out-of-body.html 2007 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/425-spirit-flung-out-of-body.html | 2006 | 2007 | Unknown |
A severe head-on collision resulted in a near-death experience where the individual's spirit was violently flung from their body at the moment of impact. The person was a passenger in a vehicle that crossed lanes and collided head-on with another car, killing three people. With an engineering background, they instantly calculated that all four occupants would die. In the split second before impact, they tried to protect the driver, their friend of 25 years, by putting their left arm out to guard them. The collision was catastrophic - breaking their left femur twice, shattering their left forearm, and causing severe head trauma. At the moment their head struck the dashboard, their spirit was forcefully ejected from their body, landing at the chest of a much larger spiritual being. In this state, they experienced no pain, only darkness, but felt physically renewed in their spiritual form. They declared with a deep, commanding voice mixed with commitment and reason: "I'm not done yet." A second consciousness observed in disbelief, questioning who they thought they were to remain with this being rather than return to their mangled body. There was no tunnel of light, just a dark setting with these spiritual presences. The person felt a strong commitment to an unfinished project that needed to survive. After pushing away from the larger spiritual being, they returned to their body just before the airbag deployed, which then violently threw them against the roof, cracking their head open. Despite the severity of injuries requiring careful extraction to prevent amputation, they survived. The experience left them with an oddly calming aura and a sense of being guided by forces beyond their control. They reflected that throughout their life, they had survived approximately 10 life-threatening experiences, including a prophetic dream in 1993 about their own death. They concluded that there is more beyond than just light and loving figures - that we accept challenges in life guided by strong, objective spiritual presences beyond our awareness. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe head-on collision with multiple fatalities, life-threatening injuries | OBE experience but no specific veridical observations of earthly events | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Spirit forcefully ejected from body at moment of impact | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3992 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 432-another-chance-to-live.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/432-another-chance-to-live.html | 2000 | 2008 | Unknown |
In October 2000, the individual experienced a severe car accident when their vehicle left a country road and struck a telephone pole, resulting in a punctured lung and multiple broken bones. Their head shattered the windshield, and the engine was pushed nearly to the seats - damage so severe that witnesses found it hard to believe anyone survived. The person has no memory of the accident itself, only a glimpse of driving through a town about 15 minutes before the crash. During the experience, their consciousness entered a dark void without any visual memory or sense of physical form - only pure thought existed. Their mind screamed "I'm going to die!" followed by "I'm going to die right now!" The initial shock turned to absolute terror, the most intense fear they had ever experienced. Then a calming voice communicated directly into their mind saying, "Yes, but it's okay." Immediately, they were immersed and completely enveloped by divine love in a way beyond words. All worries and cares disappeared as they were embraced by this divine presence. Knowledge was imparted instantaneously - not through speech or telepathy, but as if all knowledge appeared in their mind at once. They were shown that human conflict is not God's intention, that we are meant to love and help one another. They understood the reason for everything, from raindrops to grains of sand, witnessing God's grand design in seconds. They realized God knew everything about them - every atom, every thought - seeing through to their pure essence. Though not allowed to retain the specific knowledge, they remember being shown these profound truths. After receiving this divine knowledge, they were filled with deep sorrow and thought, "I wish I had done more with my life." The experience ended immediately after this thought. They believe it was their time to die but God gave them another chance to do more with their life. The experience reinforced their existing faith in God while deepening their skepticism of organized religion's focus on doctrine over genuine spiritual growth and helping others. |
5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe car accident with life-threatening injuries including punctured lung | Profound spiritual experience but no veridical observations of physical events | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 3993 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 435-watching-myself-struggle.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/435-watching-myself-struggle.html | 2008 | Unknown |
During a rafting trip with friends, the individual encountered dangerous rapids that their group tried unsuccessfully to avoid. The raft was pulled into a whirlpool and capsized, resulting in a life-threatening drowning incident. The person was pulled underwater multiple times - first for approximately 20 seconds, then surfacing briefly before being dragged down again for 30 seconds. After being thrown against a rock, they were pulled under for a third time. During this third submersion, a remarkable out-of-body experience occurred. The person's spirit separated from their physical body and observed the drowning scene from about six feet away, remaining at the same level in the water. From this vantage point, they watched their own body struggling desperately underwater, along with two other people who were also fighting for their lives beneath the surface. Initially experiencing fear at the separation, an overwhelming sense of calm quickly enveloped their consciousness. The out-of-body state continued for approximately 30 seconds, during which they maintained clear observation of multiple bodies struggling in the churning water. The experience ended when their body was thrown against a rock for the final time - at that moment of impact, their spirit suddenly "popped" back into their physical form. The violent collision seemed to trigger the reunification of consciousness with body. Since this near-death experience, the person reports having gained a significantly better understanding of life and their personal purpose. The brief but profound separation from their physical form during a moment of extreme mortal danger provided insights that have had lasting impact on their perspective and life direction. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening drowning incident with multiple submersions | Clear OBE with observation of self and others underwater from specific distance | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed self and two others struggling underwater from outside body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3994 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 436-difficulty-being-back-in-my-body.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/436-difficulty-being-back-in-my-body.html | 2005 | 2008 | Unknown |
After months of severe depression and barely eating, the individual attempted suicide by taking a bottle of sleeping pills at a supermarket one block from their home. Within minutes of ingestion, disorientation set in, and they struggled to make it home, going directly to bed upon arrival. What followed was a profound near-death experience that fundamentally transformed their relationship with existence and spirituality. Initially, their world ceased to exist except for consciousness itself, trapped in a state of incredible wrongness and unease beyond description. This condition felt like eternal hell - a timeless, eternal agony with no possibility of hope or change. Time became meaningless in this void of suffering, creating an experience of being suspended in unchanging torment. Eventually, their consciousness separated from their body, floating above and observing their physical form convulsing violently on the bed below. At some point during this out-of-body state, they re-entered their body and returned to life. The experience has had profound and lasting effects over the three years since it occurred. Physical challenges persist, including difficulty with exercise and a tendency toward injury requiring careful movement. The ability to plan for the future has been lost. However, significant spiritual transformations have emerged: they became much quieter, gained the ability to meditate for the first time, and developed a previously unthinkable connection to God. The spiritual awakening includes experiences of overwhelming love that feels almost unbearable in its intensity. During meditation, they perceive mysterious sounds - sometimes like ringing, electrical wires, pulsing harmonics, or angelic singing. Life's former meaning has dissolved, replaced by a singular purpose: to know God. Despite ongoing challenges with embodiment, the experience has fundamentally reoriented their existence from depression and emptiness to divine connection and spiritual purpose. |
5 | Home | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Overdose causing convulsions, life-threatening condition | OBE observing own body convulsing, no external verification | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed own body convulsing on bed from above | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3995 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 439-a-cube-with-rainbow-prisms.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/439-a-cube-with-rainbow-prisms.html | 2008 | F |
A mother of three young children under age four attempted suicide by taking approximately 30 Wellbutrin XL tablets, immediately regretting her action. After falling to the floor unable to vomit the pills, she was rushed by ambulance to the hospital where she experienced approximately 25 seizures over eight hours. With her body shutting down and facing imminent cardiac arrest, medical staff placed her in a drug-induced coma on full life support. Her family was initially given only a 20% chance of her survival, though this improved to 50% as she stabilized. During the coma, she experienced a terrifying vision of a massive silver and black grate approaching her - a perfect cube being constructed piece by piece with deafeningly loud metal clanging sounds. She understood this cube was either meant to contain her or she would enter it and never return. Terror consumed her as the structure grew louder and closer. Despite being restrained to the hospital bed, she experienced herself fighting desperately, her arms punching and thrashing in front of her as she screamed to God that she didn't want to die, that she wanted to live. The cube continued its inexorable approach until she felt certain death was imminent. She cried, screamed, and fought with every ounce of her being. Then suddenly, in a miraculous transformation, rainbow prisms flooded through every section of the cube structure. She knew with absolute certainty in her heart that God had heard her desperate cries. She felt herself being lifted up and taken into Jesus' arms, where He held her and told her she was loved and that she was His. The entire experience was suffused with an orange hue during her time with Christ. The dramatic shift from the terrifying mechanical cube to the rainbow-filled divine embrace represented a profound spiritual transformation. She survived against the odds, understanding that her desperate prayer had been answered and that she had been claimed and saved by divine love when she was closest to death. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Drug overdose, multiple seizures, drug-induced coma on life support | Spiritual/symbolic vision only, no veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Tied to bed | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3996 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 440-if-this-is-death-its-wonderful.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/440-if-this-is-death-its-wonderful.html | 2008 | Unknown |
The individual experienced an unplanned overdose that led to a profound near-death experience. As the effects began, they felt themselves starting to tremble, and the next moment found themselves outside their body, looking down at their physical form lying below. This out-of-body perspective brought no fear whatsoever as they observed themselves; instead, they felt completely at peace with the situation. While hovering above their body, they clearly remember saying, "If this is death, it's wonderful." The statement reflected their genuine amazement at how peaceful and pleasant the experience felt, contrary to any fears they might have previously held about dying. Around them, they became aware of some kind of beings arranged in a circular formation, though they couldn't make out specific details about these entities. Despite not being able to identify them clearly, they felt entirely comfortable and safe in their presence. Beyond the circle of beings, there was a light visible in the distance, drawing their attention but remaining separate from their immediate experience. The wonderful feeling continued until they were told they couldn't stay. They recall no anger or disappointment at receiving this news - everything seemed matter-of-fact and accepted without emotional resistance. The experience left such a positive impression that even a severe heart attack in 2001, which included cardiac arrest induced by medical dye, did not produce a similar near-death experience. The contrast between this spontaneous, peaceful overdose experience and the absence of any NDE during a later life-threatening cardiac event suggests that near-death experiences may not be purely physiological responses to dying. The overwhelming sense that death was "wonderful" and the calm acceptance of having to return transformed their understanding of death from something to fear into something peacefully transcendent. |
5 | Unknown | 3 | 4 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Unplanned overdose causing trembling and apparent loss of consciousness | OBE with observation of own body, awareness of beings and distant light | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 0 | Looking down at own body during OBE | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 3997 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 441-glow-of-energy.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/441-glow-of-energy.html | 2008 | Unknown |
Diagnosed with a life-threatening spinal cord blockage from the fourth to seventh cervical vertebrae, the individual faced immediate surgery with the stark warning that they might die from something as simple as a cough or sneeze. Their right arm was paralyzed, legs were spastic, and electric shock sensations ran through their body with head movement. The surgeon warned that even if they survived the operation, they might emerge as a quadriplegic. Facing imminent death, they progressed through classic stages of denial, bargaining, and ultimately acceptance, experiencing a violent shaking as intense energy moved through them, followed by unprecedented calm and heightened sensory awareness. During surgery, as anesthesia was administered with the thought this might be their last experience, they let go completely. They experienced intense vertigo and spinning, moving through a tunnel-like vortex of spinning memories from their life. To maintain stability, they had to withdraw attention from these memory scenes and focus on their destination, feeling drawn forward while aiming for the endpoint to maintain some sense of control. The journey through this tunnel was extensive, with memories calling for attention but requiring focused resistance to avoid being pulled off course. Emerging from the tunnel into a space of stillness, they encountered a glowing spark of consciousness - pure intelligent energy without human form, accompanied by another observing spark at a distance. The being conducted what felt like an exit interview, prompting them to complete their thoughts about their concluded life journey. After reviewing and understanding their life differently, they indicated readiness to move on. As the being began to lead them away, a thought about their daughters growing up without their father caused them to pause. The being noted that because their reason for wanting to return was for others rather than themselves, they would be allowed to return, immediately sending them back before they could protest. They awoke in their body in traumatic pain amid hospital drama, feeling as if they had jumped into an ongoing movie. Initially, the trauma obliterated memory of the experience, but reading about NDEs a year later triggered recall. Their original diagnosis of spinal cord tumor proved incorrect after they worked on healing themselves in consciousness, with doctors later declaring it must have been a misdiagnosis. The experience transformed their life philosophy from regretful "I wish I had" to active "I'm glad I did." |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening spinal surgery under general anesthesia, warned of imminent death risk | Tunnel experience and being encounter but no earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 3998 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 442-a-mission-to-do.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/442-a-mission-to-do.html | 1980 | 2008 | M |
In 1980, a farm tractor accident on an apple ranch in Washington led to a profound near-death experience spanning two and a half hours of clinical death. After the accident, the injured man struggled to reach the ranch house where his half-brother (the ranch boss) called for ambulances. When emergency responders attempted to insert an airway, severe throat swelling prevented standard treatment. His brother intervened to prevent an emergency tracheotomy, insisting on using a child-sized airway instead. At the hospital, defibrillator paddles were used to restart his heart after cardiac arrest. Upon losing consciousness when the defibrillator paddles were rubbed together, he awoke in a dark room under a sheet, feeling completely fine and fully dressed despite being in a hospital bed. Suddenly, the corner of the ceiling began spinning rapidly over his left shoulder until the roof opened. Unable to grip the bed as his fingers passed through it, he was pulled feet-first into a tunnel. Initially drawn toward a fiery area, his prayer "Oh no God, please don't let me die here today" redirected him into a more pleasant tunnel of subdued light with cloud-like formations visible through the floor. The journey continued through tunnels with disorienting turns into a realm where he encountered his ancestors - great-grandfathers from 1865 including one in Civil War Confederate uniform, a state senator, a man on horseback approaching Mohawk Indians and British troops, and finally a king's silhouette whose crown light nearly blinded him. After passing through darkness and experiencing burning chest pain (likely from resuscitation attempts), he felt a sudden cleansing and joined others flowing through a massive doorway into blinding white light. He found himself floating above an immense brick fence extending for miles, too tall for anyone to cross, with a forbidden black area on one side that meant instant death to observe. The setting included two tall cedar trees, green pastures, and distant trees on a sloping hill. In this waiting area without gates, a robed man with sandals confirmed someone would come soon and warned about the deadly black zone. When lifted up and placed on his back, he heard a wonderful, familiar voice declare: "It is not yet your time to be here. You must go back." Despite begging to stay or at least know his mission, he was told he would only understand his purpose when the time came. After two and a half hours of death with rigor mortis setting in, he awoke in the hospital where the doctor expressed amazement at his survival, having expected to bury him within 12 hours. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Cardiac arrest requiring defibrillation, declared dead for 2.5 hours | Complex spiritual journey but no verified earthly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/9/2025 | 0 | 1 | Hospital doctor | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 3999 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 443-back-home.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/443-back-home.html | 1959 | 2008 | 4 | F |
At age four and a half, during tonsillectomy surgery, a hemorrhage occurred that nearly proved fatal. The child saw a brilliant warm white light during the procedure and awoke surrounded by worried parents who said "We almost lost you." She received three blood transfusions and spent two weeks hospitalized. A month later, discovering her neighbor's kitten Snowball dead, her mother's explanation of death sparked profound questions about consciousness and existence that her four-year-old mind grappled with - understanding bodies die but wondering what happens to thoughts and essence. That night, while rubbing her eyes in bed and contemplating mortality, she suddenly shot out through the top of her head into inky blackness. Her consciousness, feeling cloud-like without defined form, floated in pitch darkness yet felt no fear. Looking down and to the left, she observed Earth as a large blue ball slowly rotating, seeing sunlight on blue water and brown soil with white clouds floating overhead. She recognized it as Earth but felt completely detached, having no emotional ties or urge to return to that beautiful, peaceful blue sphere below. After timeless observation, she became aware of something above and to the right - a magnificent golden staircase backlit by spectacular warm golden-white light beyond description. The stairs featured intricate golden carvings visible even from a distance. Forming the thought to approach triggered movement toward the stairs, accelerating as she drew closer. Reaching out with tingling anticipation to touch the bottom stair, she heard a booming male voice declare: "You are not supposed to remember this!" Instantly, she was back in her bedroom, crying desperately to return to that beautiful staircase, knowing that reaching the top would mean being "home." She kept this secret for years until 1969 when Apollo moon photographs validated her vision - she had seen these exact Earth images ten years before they existed. The experience left lasting effects: sensitivity to noise, violence and light; subnormal body temperature; violent medication reactions; unexplained anaphylaxis; watches malfunctioning or running only when worn; computers dropping offline in her presence; prophetic abilities including dreaming of her father's death two days before it occurred; six months of contact with her deceased father; ability to communicate with animals and insects; and Reiki healing abilities. She describes feeling "not of this world" and living only to know God, yearning to return "back home" to that golden staircase. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Tonsillectomy hemorrhage, nearly fatal, requiring blood transfusions | Saw Earth from space 10 years before Apollo photos - remarkable verification | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/9/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw Earth from space as blue sphere with clouds and continents | 1.00 | Apollo photographs | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 4000 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 449-you-were-dead.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/449-you-were-dead.html | 1984 | 2008 | F |
This individual experienced multiple brushes with death throughout life, beginning in infancy when a stroller rolled down a hill into a busy intersection, followed by splitting their tongue on a razor with miraculous healing through grandfather's prayer, and drinking kerosene at age four requiring emergency treatment when an incubator malfunctioned. These early incidents seemed to prepare them for a profound near-death experience in 1984. In 1984, a severe car accident required emergency responders to use the Jaws of Life to extract them from the wreckage. During this traumatic event, they remember seeing a light up ahead and experiencing a peace they had never known before. Multiple voices, sounding like three or more people speaking in unison, communicated to them saying, "We're not ready for you yet." Confused, they responded by asking, "Who are you talking to?" before suddenly returning to consciousness with a deep, gasping breath. The dramatic return to life startled the rescue worker attempting extraction, who had witnessed their clinical death. His words became permanently etched in memory: "You were dead lady. You weren't breathing." This confirmation from an emergency responder validated the reality of their death experience. The rescue worker's shocked reaction and explicit statement about the absence of breathing provided external verification that actual death had occurred before their sudden revival. The peaceful encounter with multiple divine voices and the message about timing not being right suggests a purposeful preservation of life. The pattern of multiple near-death incidents throughout their life, from infancy through adulthood, indicates a special protection or purpose. The 1984 experience stands out as the most profound, with clear consciousness during death, divine communication, and external confirmation of clinical death from emergency personnel. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe car accident requiring Jaws of Life extraction | Light and voices heard, no specific earthly observations but revival witnessed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 0 | 1 | Rescue worker | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||