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| 4001 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1324-mother-s-nde-and-premonitions-of-children-s-deaths.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1324-mother-s-nde-and-premonitions-of-children-s-deaths.html | 1989 | 1989-03-28 | 2019 | F | On March 28, 1989, a mother driving with her three children crashed into a parked semi-truck on the Ohio Turnpike. The impact caused cardiac contusions and abnormal heart rhythms, leading to loss of consciousness. During her NDE, she experienced pitch darkness with a warm, comforting presence surrounding her. She was instantly given total and absolute knowledge about everything in the universe - physics, astronomy, psychology, medicine, and all aspects of how physical and spiritual worlds operate. This omniscient state filled her with electrifying elation and joy at possessing ultimate Truth. When rescue personnel awakened her, she felt distressed as all the divine knowledge rapidly evaporated. She could not remember the crash itself. Tragically, her two older children, Lauren (7) and Ryan (10), both suffered brain injuries and died from the accident. The experience transformed her from being religious to deeply spiritual, finding solace in NDEs and the belief that her children exist in a spiritual realm. Multiple premonitions preceded the tragedy, including the children's sudden interest in finding a church, disturbing visions, and her own sense of impending doom. She now works as a pediatrician, seeing God in newborns' eyes daily, and believes the precognitions were attempts from the spiritual world to interact with the physical world. | 1 | Other | 10 | 10 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 6 | Cardiac contusions and abnormal heart rhythms from chest impact, lost consciousness | Experienced universal knowledge and understanding, but no specific verifiable observations during NDE | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4002 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1325-the-most-important-assignment-in-life-is-love.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1325-the-most-important-assignment-in-life-is-love.html | 1974 | 2019 | 30 | F | In 1974, a 30-year-old woman underwent a hospital examination for a suspected brain tumor. During the procedure, a doctor accidentally hit her central nervous system multiple times while inserting a needle into her nape to blow air in. This caused severe damage, leaving her unconscious for a month. During her NDE, she first experienced an OBE, seeing doctors treating her body from above. Remarkably, she floated to the doctor's home, observing his nervous tics, furniture arrangement, and urination problems - all later confirmed by the doctor. She then went through a tunnel to a place of indescribable light and beauty with colors beyond earthly comprehension. She saw deceased people looking younger and was shown multiple past lives including as an Indian warrior, young women in a brothel, and French aristocracy during execution. A loving being (she believes Jesus) showed her a complete life review where she saw not just actions but thoughts, learning that thoughts matter more than deeds. She experienced the meaning of life through a simple portal but cannot recall the details. The experience gave her clear-sightedness to see others' true thoughts and feelings. She endured years of intense physical pain afterward but drew strength from the loving presence she encountered. The NDE fundamentally transformed her spirituality and understanding that love and positive thoughts are life's most important elements. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 18 | 40 | Exceptional Evidence | 15 | Medical procedure accident with central nervous system damage, unconscious for a month | Verified OBE observations of doctor's home, furniture, medical condition, and behavior confirmed post-recovery | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed doctor at his home while out of body | 1.00 | The treating doctor | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||
| 4003 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1326-teen-sees-patient-in-adjacent-room-while-out-of-her-body.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1326-teen-sees-patient-in-adjacent-room-while-out-of-her-body.html | 2019 | 13 | F | A 13-year-old girl in Szczecin, Poland, was hospitalized with rheumatic fever during summer holidays. She experienced severe joint pain and high fever, with her grandmother applying cold compresses. Her last memory was screaming in bed before losing consciousness. She found herself in a dark, warm place feeling peaceful with no pain. She felt compelled to move upward toward a bright white light in the distance. A male voice touched her shoulder saying "Child, you have to go back. It's not your time." Despite her protests wanting to stay in the painless warm place, the voice firmly insisted she return. She then experienced coming down through the ceiling, seeing herself on the hospital bed with her mother asleep beside her, noting her mother's hair had turned grey. Through glass windows near the ceiling, she observed into the adjacent room where she saw an 18-year-old girl with beautiful black hair. She heard medical staff discussing how the girl had been attacked in a park, had brain damage, wouldn't survive, and needed surgery where they would cut her hair. Upon awakening, her first question was about the girl next door. A nurse dropped her tray in shock, and staff whispered "how does she know that?" The specialist denied such a patient existed, but her mother checked and confirmed the girl was there exactly as described. The medical staff refused to believe her experience and gave her empty boxes to play with. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 20 | 43 | Exceptional Evidence | 18 | Rheumatic fever with apparent loss of consciousness, life-threatening condition | Specific observation of patient in adjacent room - teenage girl, black hair, brain damage from park attack, surgical plans | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 2 | 2 | Saw mother sleeping beside hospital bed | 0.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4004 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1327-anti-theist-youth-hears-god-s-voice.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1327-anti-theist-youth-hears-god-s-voice.html | 2014 | 2019 | M | A young man with Marfan Syndrome underwent aortic valve replacement surgery in 2014. His condition included severely impaired vision (corrected at 15), severe asthma, and an enlarged aorta. Before surgery, social workers visited asking about last wishes, unknowingly expecting him to die. During the operation, he suffered an asthma attack and woke struggling to breathe while surgeons scrambled for a ventilator. He suffocated and died for seconds. During death, he felt relaxed and saw himself on the operating table, his mother crying, surgeons setting up the ventilator, and family in the waiting room - all later confirmed. He entered what he calls "the Dark Place" or "void" - a state without emotion, thoughts, personality, or memories, yet remaining sentient. In this darkness, a loud male voice spoke a single word: "God." He was immediately resuscitated and placed in a medically-induced coma for two weeks. Upon waking, his first words were "I heard God!" though he doesn't remember saying it. Recovery took 4 months. Significantly, he had been an antitheist from ages 9-15, hating the Christian God despite not believing in his existence. Through religious process of elimination by 2016, he concluded he heard the Jewish/Christian God (YHWH), as the voice said "God" as His name with a booming male quality matching biblical descriptions. He believes the Dark Place was Sheol - the biblical grave or place of the temporary dead. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 6 | Cardiac arrest during surgery with asthma attack, confirmed death for seconds, required ventilator | Saw operating room events, mother crying, family locations - all confirmed by surgeons and mother | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 4 | 2 | Saw self on operating table during surgery | 1.00 | Surgeons | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4005 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1329-young-woman-dies-of-a-broken-heart-but-now-knows-her-friend-lives.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1329-young-woman-dies-of-a-broken-heart-but-now-knows-her-friend-lives.html | 2016 | 2019 | 31 | F | A 31-year-old woman experienced cardiac arrest from extreme grief after learning of her childhood best friend Todd's death. Their relationship began when she was 6 and he was 21, living next door during her abusive childhood. They shared a telepathic connection and he was her lifeline. After years of separation, a telepathic voice directed her to a grocery store where they miraculously reunited. Two weeks later, she learned Todd had died. The grief was so overwhelming she experienced sharp pain down her left arm, crushing chest pain, and difficulty breathing - classic heart attack symptoms. She chose to let go and died. Outside her body, she saw herself dead with glazed eyes. About thirty tall, beautiful beings surrounded her who felt like angels but looked human. She felt she knew them from before birth and experienced unconditional, endless love. She recognized existing eternally before this life. A male being told her it wasn't her time and she must return despite her protests. After being forced back, she died again from cardiac arrest. Todd's voice spoke to her soul, expressing eternal love and telling her to stay alive as it wasn't her time. She resented returning but couldn't argue with his love. She heard him clearly say to tell their story because it matters. The experience convinced her humans exist before birth and after death in eternal love. | 2 | Home | 10 | 8 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Two cardiac arrests at home from extreme emotional distress ("broken heart syndrome") | Saw own dead body with specific details, encountered beings, heard deceased friend's voice with messages | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw own dead body from outside perspective | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4006 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1331-woman-feels-she-s-been-given-the-meaning-of-life.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1331-woman-feels-she-s-been-given-the-meaning-of-life.html | 2019 | F | A woman underwent hysterectomy following childbirth to stop life-threatening menstrual hemorrhaging. The surgery proceeded smoothly and she woke in recovery with no pain, puzzling nurses. As anesthesia cleared, she became aware of having been forced back into her body against her will. She knew with certainty she had left her body and returned to her true self as Light - feeling powerful strength, vast understanding, and connectivity to All That Is. She experienced herself as huge, clear, neither male nor female but both, as JOY and LOVE, one with her soul group. Re-entering her heavy physical body was energetically painful, feeling isolated from her real existence. The contrast between her magnificent spiritual self and the decaying meat-body caused intense anguish. She spent hours in agony, creating a drawing of a glowing specter bursting from a corpse-like body. An elderly confused patient was admitted that night, crying that her daughter had abandoned her. When nurses threatened restraints, a voice told the experiencer "this is the point of it all" - that we're all trapped in bodies like individual canoes on a river of painful experience, and the only thing making it worthwhile is reaching across to ease another's suffering. She was flooded with love and courage, seeing everyone as graceful beings, not broken creatures. She comforted the elderly woman, channeling her daughter's presence until she calmed. This brought her profound joy despite still feeling trapped. The experience fundamentally altered her spirituality, relationships, and life goals over 18 years. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Hysterectomy under general anesthesia | Experience of leaving body and cosmic consciousness, but no specific verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4007 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1332-brief-out-of-body-on-ceiling-of-operating-room.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1332-brief-out-of-body-on-ceiling-of-operating-room.html | 2019 | 24 | M | A 24-year-old man severely cut his ankle on broken glass, completely severing the tendon controlling his big toe. He required immediate surgery but had been partying the night before. Doctors were concerned about giving anesthesia due to his recent alcohol consumption, requiring his brother to sign liability forms as his own signature would be invalid. During surgery preparation, he was given anesthesia and his next memory was waking up trying to determine his location. He found himself on his back but realized he was upside down with his back against the ceiling. Looking down in panic, he saw an operating room with a doctor and nurse working on a patient's feet. The memory of his injury flooded back and he realized it was his own body below, though something blocked his view of the face. His religious training triggered immediate fear of going to hell. He could only scream internally "I'M NOT READY!!!" This was his last memory before feeling like a vacuum cleaner sucked him back into his body. He told no one for years until joining recovery and Christian communities. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Surgery under general anesthesia for severed tendon | Out-of-body view from ceiling, saw medical staff working on feet, recognized own body | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Viewed operating room from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||
| 4008 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1333-surfing-accident-reveals-unknown-mercy-to-young-woman.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1333-surfing-accident-reveals-unknown-mercy-to-young-woman.html | 2019 | F | A young woman surfing with friends encountered dangerous conditions when weather worsened rapidly. Dense fog obscured the shore as she paddled back alone. A powerful wave sucked her down, slamming her to the ocean floor with tremendous force. The unusual current pinned and violently tumbled her, preventing escape. Despite being a strong swimmer with excellent lung capacity, she couldn't free herself and was dragged deeper out to sea. The burning pain in her lungs became unbearable as she fought the urge to gasp for air. Suddenly the pain vanished and she floated upward, seeing below her a terrifying sight - a woman lying lifeless on the ocean floor. An overwhelming feeling of "mercy" filled the entire ocean with unprecedented power. She then realized she was looking at her own body and no longer felt part of it, experiencing calm and feeling like she was breathing underwater. Looking up from 12 feet under, she saw bright light at the surface (despite stormy weather) streaming down naturally but unlike sunlight. After lingering peacefully, she realized she needed to swim hard toward the light. Approaching the surface, she felt she was breathing underwater. Upon surfacing, she was repeatedly crushed by waves until a calm male voice instructed her to do the backstroke. The voice later yelled "PADDLE!" She followed the guidance, reached shore, and survived. She later became an NYPD officer and 9/11 first responder, feeling the drowning incident had prepared her for that trauma. | 5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning with apparent loss of consciousness underwater | Saw own body on ocean floor, experienced overwhelming mercy, heard guiding voice, unusual light in storm | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw own body on ocean floor from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4009 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1338-many-experiences-in-and-out-of-body-living-with-genetic-syndrome.html 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1338-many-experiences-in-and-out-of-body-living-with-genetic-syndrome.html | 2013 | 2019 | F | A woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome experienced multiple NDEs through 26 surgeries over 15 years. At age 5 with kidney cancer, after being anesthetized while coding from blood loss, she found herself in a waiting room with benches. A woman at a central table stamped her hand blue and directed her through a blue portal (versus a red one). She emerged in her neighborhood, seeing deceased grandparents strolling the street. Entering her house by passing through the door, she heard but couldn't see her father and sister having lunch - later confirmed they were home eating while she was in surgery. In 2013, after 18 hours of labor, she bled out during emergency cesarean. She observed doctors delivering her son and saw herself pale and nearly dead - observations her doctor later confirmed. In 2016, brain decompression surgery led to septic infection. Her incision reopened, draining brain fluid. With blood pressure 43/30 while coding, she felt incredible peace watching doctors work, saw her mother crying outside, and wanted to tell her everything was wonderful. After a week in ICU, she heard beautiful classical music for 5 days that no one else could hear - it stopped when she stepped back from death's edge. In 2018, E. coli infection caused kidney failure. While unconscious, she played with her deceased childhood dog - seeing, smelling, feeling, and hearing him perfectly. Each experience brought brighter technicolor vision, deeper understanding, and meaning in everything. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Multiple life-threatening events: cardiac arrest during surgery, brain surgery complications, BP 43/30 | Age 5: Confirmed father/sister at home eating. 2013: Doctor confirmed observations. Heard music only while critical | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 2 | Heard father and sister at home during surgery (age 5) | 1.00 | Father and sister | Moderately Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4010 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1376 Begged to return to care for his babies | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1376-begged-to-return-to-care-for-his-babies.html | 2019 | 55 | M | A man experienced a near-death experience after being run over by a 5-ton truck on his first day of work. While dying in a policeman's lap, he left his body and floated above, observing the scene below while being drawn toward a light. The light communicated with him in a human voice, telling him it was his time. However, he pleaded three times to return, thinking only of his young children aged 2 and 3-4 years old who needed him to raise them. The light warned him "you won't like it" if he returned, but after his third plea, he was sent back with the words "So be it." Upon returning to his body, he experienced excruciating pain and watched medical personnel shocking his heart three times before he was revived. The experience profoundly changed him - he withdrew from family, felt worthless, and constantly sought to recapture the peaceful feeling he experienced while dead. This emotional distance eventually led to his divorce after 16 years, once the children were raised. Now at 55, he no longer fears death, remembering the greatest peace he felt during his NDE, and believes it won't be long before he returns to that state permanently. | 5 | Other | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Clear life-threatening trauma from being run over by 5-ton truck, died and required cardiac resuscitation with defibrillator | Out-of-body experience with observation from above, communication with light entity, choice to return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed self from above while dying | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4011 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1382 Life Review: Exchanging Loving Kindness with All 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1382-life-review-exchanging-loving-kindness-with-all-2.html | 2019 | 31 | F | A 31-year-old mother of four experienced a near-death event during a severe infection that began with a sore throat and high fever. After being hospitalized and becoming progressively weaker, she had an overwhelming sadness one morning when the doctor was telling her a story. She suddenly found herself on the ceiling, observing her body below and noticing a bald spot on the doctor's head as he cried. She then traveled to the nurse's station where staff were ordering Chinese food, and experienced bi-location during her husband's phone call with her friend in North Carolina. She underwent an extensive life review in a theater setting where she exchanged love and understanding with people from throughout her life, including experiencing both perspectives of past interactions. She traveled through a tunnel toward a bright light where beings informed her that her ancestors were there to welcome her, but her grandmother had intervened. They told her she couldn't stay as she had contracted to help others, raise her children, and get her PhD. After being shown future healing technologies using light and vibration, she returned to her body but couldn't move. A nurse discovered she still had a pulse when the doctor thought she had died. She later verified details including the Chinese food ordering occurring on payday and matching her friend's new office wallpaper she had seen during her NDE. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 45 | Exceptional Evidence | 15 | Severe infection requiring hospitalization, doctor believed she had died, prolonged recovery period of about a month | Multiple specific veridical observations: Chinese food ordering verified as occurring on payday, friend's office wallpaper changes verified with exact match, observed doctor's bald spot from above | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 3 | Observed doctor's bald spot from ceiling | 0.00 | Hospital nurse | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4012 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1386 Teen wishes for death but is shown who she really is 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1386-teen-wishes-for-death-but-is-shown-who-she-really-is.html | 2019 | 16 | F | A 16-year-old girl suffering from severe lupus with kidney failure, heart problems, and multiple symptoms reached a breaking point and surrendered to God in prayer, asking for help or death. That night she had a transformative dream where she went through phases of healing including forgiveness, love, and gratitude before levitating into the sky despite people trying to pull her down. She shot up into pure white loving light that held her in radiant love and bliss, experiencing her eternal nature and the perfection of all her life experiences. She felt absolute unconditional love and oneness with consciousness itself, understanding she was never truly sick. Her soul chose to return to share this love with the world. She woke gasping for air in tears of bliss, knowing she was healed, and ran upstairs to tell her parents. For four months she woke with the sun in joyous meditation, hiding her medication while her body healed. Lab work confirmed her kidneys were completely healed without scarring and no sign of lupus remained. The enlightened feeling faded when she returned to school, and years later a heart attack at age 31 prompted her to move to Thailand for healing. She has been symptom-free for 15 years and now teaches breathwork and meditation. | 5 | Home | 3 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 4 | Severe lupus with kidney failure requiring dialysis, but experience occurred during sleep/dream state | Spiritual insights and healing but no specific veridical observations during the experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Spiritual understanding and healing | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4013 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1388 New Zealand girl learns from epilepsy near-deaths 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1388-new-zealand-girl-learns-from-epilepsy-near-deaths.html | 1993 | 2019 | 13 | F | A girl with severe epilepsy experienced three NDEs. At age 13, she had a seizure while swimming in Taupo, New Zealand, and drowned. She transitioned from extreme panic while drowning to being pain-free and detached, floating about 20 feet above in spirit watching the lifeguard resuscitate her body as crowds gathered. She felt relief and wanted to continue into the spiritual world but was urged by another spirit to return as her time wasn't up. She was forced back despite resistance. At 17, during a flying fox adventure ride, her safety belt caused suffocation when she couldn't reach the platform. She lost consciousness while dangling until a teenage boy rescued her with a stick from a cliff. At 19, a ruptured appendix triggered a seizure, and she died requiring CPR and life support. Doctors confirmed she had died and was revived. Though she doesn't recall the spiritual aspect of the third experience, she remembers the severe pain and slow recovery. These experiences taught her empathy, gave her a sense of purpose and belonging, and removed her fear of death. Now a solo mother with three college degrees running two businesses, she views these experiences as learning opportunities that inspire her to help others. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Multiple life-threatening events: drowning during seizure requiring resuscitation, suffocation, ruptured appendix with confirmed death requiring CPR | First NDE included OBE floating 20 feet above watching resuscitation with crowd of about 20 people, spirit encounter | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Watched resuscitation from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4014 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1401 Man meets grandmother during panic attack near-death 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1401-man-meets-grandmother-during-panic-attack-near-death.html | 2012 | 2019 | M | Seven years prior, a man experiencing work-related stress and anxiety was lying in bed when he began hyperventilating and felt his heart and breathing stop, losing consciousness. He fell through different levels of consciousness encountered during sleep, with an intense feeling of love and calmness growing stronger with each level. He reached a place where his deceased paternal grandmother was sitting at a table in his parents' dining room, surrounded by beautiful orange, purple and red light with calming white noise emanating from all around. They communicated telepathically without words, exchanging feelings of unconditional love and a sense of "not to worry." His grandmother appeared to be grinning, at peace and very happy. At this point he felt his heart and breath restart and regained consciousness. The experience left him with lasting feelings of peace and connection to the spiritual realm. | 5 | Home | 7 | 6 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Panic attack with reported heart and breathing stoppage, though medical verification unclear | Encounter with deceased grandmother in specific location with telepathic communication | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw deceased grandmother | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4015 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1403 Young mother has OOB and conversation with being during surgery 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1403-young-mother-has-oob-and-conversation-with-being-during-surgery.html | 2004 | 2019 | F | A young mother underwent thyroid surgery for a follicular cell tumor. During surgery, she remembered seeing her female doctor looking over her face before losing consciousness, surprising the doctor who said she should have been completely unconscious by then. She left her body and found herself in a space enveloped with soft white light, like a room without walls or floor. There was a chess game on a banquet table and a being in her left periphery she couldn't directly see. She arrived feeling heavy-hearted and weary. The being discussed her young daughter, and she initially felt she didn't want to return, believing her daughter's good father would be enough. The conversation included other issues she can't fully recall, but notably the being told her there would be another baby. This discussion restored her maternal feelings of love, prompting her return. She awoke gasping on a gurney pushed against a wall with tubes removed, experiencing burning sensations throughout her body like her spiritual being couldn't adjust to this frequency. Dr. Kaplan found her and she ended up urinating on herself. The doctor said people don't act this way after thyroid surgery. Later she experienced severe anxiety, angelic music visits, and saw the word "Grayson" spelled out in letters while sleeping - significant as Bruce Greyson founded IANDS. Her daughter Zoey was born in 2007, fulfilling the being's prediction. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Thyroid surgery under general anesthesia for tumor removal | Awareness during surgery when should have been unconscious, verified by surprised doctor. Being predicted future birth of daughter | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw doctor during surgery | 1.00 | Female doctor | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 4016 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1405 GI almost dies has painful life review and flies around the world 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1405-gi-almost-dies-has-painful-life-review-and-flies-around-the-world.html | 1996 | 1996-10-25 | 2019 | 26 | M | A 26-year-old soldier deployed to Thailand contracted H. pylori, experiencing severe symptoms including fatigue, stomach pain, and breathing difficulties. On October 25, 1996, while lying in bed with breathing problems, he passed out clutching his chest. He immediately levitated to the ceiling, flipping to a bird's-eye view where he saw his motionless body. Standing before the bed, he analyzed the TV sounds from different positions to verify the reality of his experience. The bedroom ceiling was replaced with condensed outer space filled with tiny bright stars against impossibly dark space. A 7.5-foot tall angel in a white robe appeared, resembling Christopher Lee, with whom he had a telepathic conversation about being on the wrong trajectory to Heaven. He then hovered above his house which appeared roofless like a dollhouse, seeing his wife cooking and another angel with her. He flew across the Pacific Ocean at 50,000 feet altitude from Guam to Los Angeles in about 10 seconds. In a bright orange/yellow room representing God's presence, he underwent judgment where he experienced how his past words and actions affected others throughout their lives, feeling their pain and humiliation. After expressing shame and asking to go to Hell, he turned back saying he just wanted to see his birthday. He was thrown back into his body at exactly 12:00 AM on October 26th, his birthday, as his wife brought cake. A new doctor diagnosed and treated the H. pylori infection. The experience transformed him into a loving person who began attending church. | 5 | Home | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe H. pylori infection causing life-threatening symptoms, breathing/heart stoppage, successful treatment confirmed | Detailed observations: TV analysis, ceiling transformation, 7.5ft angel, roofless house view, wife in kitchen, Pacific Ocean flight, birthday timing exactly midnight | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 0 | House appeared without roof | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4017 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1413 I felt like who I was always supposed to be 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1413-i-felt-like-who-i-was-always-supposed-to-be.html | 2019 | M | A special education teacher on Thanksgiving vacation experienced a fatal heart arrhythmia while sleeping. A loud voice screaming "WAKE UP!" jolted him from sleep, saving his life by getting him out of bed. He experienced time slowing, strange colored lights, and knew he was dying. His partner called 911 and he collapsed on the couch. Paramedics found him with grey-blue head, bright red swollen body, 94-degree temperature, and no blood pressure. In the ambulance and ER, he alternated between blackness and awareness, insisting nothing was wrong despite critical condition. He then left his body, floating 8 feet above, observing with peripheral awareness of a familiar presence beside him. He saw paramedics in the hallway including an African American woman he thought was the ambulance driver, and his partner looking horrified and short compared to the paramedics. Looking down at the hospital table, he slowly realized the bearded man below was himself. Understanding he was dead, he sensed a bright void behind him with people standing there. He felt like who he was always supposed to be, seeing clearly from both eyes, understanding everyone's thoughts and feelings. When asked if he wanted to return, he hesitated, then experienced absolute unconditional love and felt what everyone in the room was feeling, plus all his disabled students throughout his career. Seeing himself held in the arms of a motherly/angelic figure moved him deeply, and he agreed to return. The doctor later explained he had died from V-tach fatal arrhythmia, with low body temperature because he had been dead before waking. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 12 | V-tach fatal arrhythmia, clinical death confirmed, 94-degree body temperature, no blood pressure, required resuscitation | Specific observations: paramedics in hallway, African American woman driver, partner looking short, seeing self on table with beard, held by maternal figure | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 4 | 1 | Saw paramedics in hallway | 0.00 | Emergency room staff | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4018 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 450 I Want to Go Back 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/450-i-want-to-go-back.html | 2008 | Unknown | The subject underwent a lengthy spinal surgery lasting two and a half to three hours under general anesthesia. Medical staff had significant difficulty bringing them out of unconsciousness, taking two and a half hours instead of the normal thirty minutes to an hour to achieve consciousness. During this extended period under anesthesia, the subject found themselves standing in beautiful, gently rolling green hills with perfect natural grass. Large oak trees provided inviting shade, and the sky was a clear blue between robin's egg and Crayola blue. The air was perfectly crisp with no humidity or dust, accompanied by a gentle breeze and a pleasant chorus of insects and birds. The subject experienced absolute clarity, peace, and love, feeling it was perfect and wanting to stay forever. Upon hearing someone say "Take a few deep breaths for us" and feeling touch, they returned to consciousness. When they said "I want to go back," the medical staff urgently replied "No, no you can't go back!" and administered oxygen. The experience eliminated their fear of death and provided lasting peace about God's presence and control. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Surgery with general anesthesia, difficulty emerging from unconsciousness | General descriptions of otherworldly realm, no specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Beautiful green hills and perfect environment | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4019 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 451 Charcoal Corridor 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/451-charcoal-corridor.html | 1999 | 2008 | Unknown | In May 1999, the subject was struck by a car while bicycling in Manhattan, suffering a broken ulna and broken ball joint in the left hip socket. Emergency surgery was performed about five hours after the accident. On the second night in the hospital, the subject awoke from sleep aware of being in two places simultaneously - physically in the hospital bed and walking down a long dark corridor. The corridor was gray on gray, about seven feet high walls, with no ceiling but a lighter gray sky above. It felt like a temporary transit zone with a sense of impermanence. At a Y-shaped junction, the subject understood that turning left meant choosing death while turning right meant choosing life. The left corridor emanated incredible peace, comfort, warmth and security - like being in the womb - extraordinarily beautiful though nothing was visible. The right corridor produced waves of frantic, frenetic, loud, confusing sensations like standing blindfolded in Times Square. Despite the appeal of the peaceful left path, the subject thought "I'm not ready yet. There's still too much I want to do" and chose the right path toward life. Upon stepping right, the corridor melted away and the subject was back in the hospital bed. The experience taught them about continuity after death and that ultimately we have control over our own destinies. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe trauma from car accident requiring emergency surgery | Symbolic corridor experience without specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Gray corridor with choice between life and death | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4020 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 454 Hand Reaching Down 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/454-hand-reaching-down.html | 2008 | Unknown | The subject experienced two NDEs. The first occurred during childhood while home sick from school. They awoke to what felt like the ceiling falling and an earthquake, lost vision, and found themselves in bed with mother and aunt present. The experience began in blackness, then shapes of colors and sizes flew past. A bright light appeared ahead, and they moved toward it following their mother's instruction. They saw clouds or thick mist above with light everywhere. A ladder appeared going up into the mist, and a hand reached down. Though unable to see a face, they knew it was Jesus's hand. After returning, they felt changed and believed they could fly for a long time. The second NDE occurred in November 1997 at age 30 at a couple's house. A bull-mastiff dog suddenly attacked, biting into their temples. They immediately entered the black realm and pleaded about having responsibilities and children. They heard people saying "She's dead. What are we going to do?" before returning to their body with blood spurting from head wounds, experiencing stroke symptoms. After this event, they saw only glowing green or red eyes in people indicating good or evil. Unlike the first experience where they felt not all of them returned after entering the light, this time they returned fully as they didn't go into the light. | 6 | Home | 3 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | Childhood illness of unknown nature; second event was dog attack with stroke | Saw ladder, hand reaching down identified as Jesus, color changes in people's eyes | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 2 | 0 | Ladder and hand of Jesus | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4021 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 455 Radiating Warmth 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/455-radiating-warmth.html | 2008 | 16 | Unknown | At age 16, the subject was in an accident with a school bus. After impact, they felt themselves outside the car looking in, observing people running toward the accident and a man trying to save another victim. They began rising above the scene and floated past a traffic signal that wasn't installed until the following week. They felt warmth radiating from above and to the left, discovering they had no physical body. A beautiful bright white light drew them upward. During the ascent, they experienced a complete life review where they saw and understood everything that had happened in their life without judgment. They felt immense love and electricity, swimming in bliss. Five shadows approached and stopped, communicating through "thought talk" to discuss whether the subject could continue. They determined it "wasn't their time" despite the subject's pleas to stay. One shadow lingered to convey there was more for them to do. The subject awoke after two weeks in a coma, unable to speak for a week. Upon recovery, they developed numerous psychic abilities including precognition about deaths, thought reading, seeing spirits, and prophetic dreams. They turned to alcohol and drugs to suppress these abilities but has been sober for two years. They now work as a massage therapist and Reiki practitioner, helping others heal. | 4 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Two-week coma following school bus accident | Observed traffic signal that wasn't installed until following week - specific predictive veridical observation | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 2 | 0 | Traffic signal not yet installed | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4022 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 456 Walking to Heaven 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/456-walking-to-heaven.html | 2002 | 2002-01-08 | 2008 | F | On September 17, 2001, the subject had a hysterectomy for fibroids and endometriosis. The surgeon failed to remove endometriosis from the bowels and right ovary as agreed, causing complete bowel obstruction by year's end. On December 30, they heard God tell them to stop eating. After New Year's Eve church service, they began vomiting black material. On January 4, 2002, they went to the ER with severe pain but were sent home with laxatives. January 5, they returned with severe vomiting and dehydration and were admitted. Tests continued until Wednesday when the blockage was discovered. During a barium enema procedure, the pain was so severe they demanded sedation. Under sedation, they remember Jesus walking them to Heaven. They emerged from darkness into a bright white room where they could see through the wall to rolling green fields, trees, blue sky, and people walking, sitting, conversing, and reading. Jesus communicated that they could go to heaven or stay on Earth. Despite being tired of pain, they chose to stay for their husband and son. Jesus smiled and said "okay." They woke to the surgeon saying "Welcome back! That was close!" Their husband later confirmed they were 30 minutes from death. The experience gave them confidence in raising their son, eliminated fear of death, and created a desire to help others overcome fear of dying. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Complete bowel obstruction, 30 minutes from death per medical staff | Detailed observations of heaven including people and activities | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heaven with people and landscape | 0.00 | Surgeon | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4023 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 467 Left and Returned 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/467-left-and-returned.html | 1998 | 2008 | 45 | M | In September 1998, at age 45, the subject suffered a heart attack at home while working on computer programming and smoking heavily. The episode began with dizziness, shortness of breath, and chest pain. Sharp pains radiated down the left arm with crushing chest pain. After calling 911, paramedics arrived and attempted to insert an IV but veins were collapsed. The subject felt they might die, asked their girlfriend to care for their dog, then collapsed to the kitchen floor. Upon hitting the floor, they experienced a distinct separation from their body, which had become a "poisonous vessel." There was no pain, only peace, and a floating sensation near the ceiling light or doorway. They experienced a rotating descent back to their body, with ceiling tiles spinning until suddenly still, staring up at a paramedic. Their first words were "Something very strange just happened..." The paramedics had experienced a flatline event requiring immediate stabilization. The heart attack was caused by severe electrolyte imbalance with critically low potassium, not arterial blockage. After treatment with IV and medication, they returned home that night. The experience led to immediate aging acceleration (hair graying, vision deterioration, dental problems, back issues) but also positive changes including successfully quitting smoking after nine years and moving to a better location for work. | 2 | Home | 10 | 6 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Flatline event during cardiac arrest from electrolyte imbalance | Floating sensation near ceiling, rotating descent with spinning ceiling tiles | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 2 | 1 | Floating near ceiling | 0.00 | Paramedics | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4024 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 469 Death Not Terrible 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/469-death-not-terrible.html | 2008 | 47 | Unknown | On their 47th birthday, the subject went running to lose weight gained after quitting smoking three months prior. Their son accompanied on bicycle. Upon returning home, they experienced severe chest pain while cooling down in the living room. Despite their son's concern, they insisted not to call paramedics. Their daughter found them making strange breathing noises in the chair. The subject remembers trying to breathe with all their strength, knowing their heart had stopped and brain needed oxygen, but realizing blood couldn't circulate without heartbeat, they stopped trying. Though dead, their mind remained active. They remember neighbors staring but were upset no one was helping. While dead, they observed life from an emotional distance, like watching an anthill. They saw people at a graveyard moving toward a grave with a casket, unable to understand why people were crying, thinking it strange and wasteful. Death felt quite nice with no feelings of loss or regret about leaving earth. They believe they went "further through the world on the other side" but cannot remember details. They underwent two years of psychotherapy afterward, initially having no emotions which gradually returned completely. They understand emotions help us "feel" life properly. They look forward to leaving this dimension when their time comes but know suicide won't get them there. | 2 | Home | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest with heart stopping, aware of dying process | Observed graveyard scene with casket and crying people from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 1 | Graveyard scene from above | 0.00 | Paramedics | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4025 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 470 Saw What Happened 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/470-saw-what-happened.html | 1964 | 2008 | F | In Spring 1964, the subject and friend were playing Barbies when they saw boys with innertubes heading to a creek. They followed without telling parents. The boys let them use a spare tube that wasn't fully inflated. After going over rapids, the friend felt an electric shock from a short in an irrigation pipe, causing the tube to flip. The subject hit their head on a rock, became unconscious, and was trapped underwater in a narrow rock canal. They saw themselves underwater, wedged between rocks with water coursing over their body, one foot up on an outside rock. They watched their friend standing on the bank looking afraid and repeatedly asked "Why doesn't she help me?" though the friend couldn't hear. They saw leaves fluttering in wind while remaining calm. Then experienced tumbling, pulling, jerking with shadowy places, figures, light glints, and leaf patterns with sunlight. The friend found a teenager mowing who rescued the subject by pushing them down the canal and lifting them out lifeless. An Eagle Scout, he performed artificial respiration while his mother called a doctor. After eight hours unconscious and delirious, they awoke in the hospital calm and serene. They told everyone they "saw what happened" but were dismissed as hallucinating. The experience left them terrified of basements and animals for years. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Drowning with head injury, unconscious for 8 hours | Observed self underwater, friend on bank, rescue attempts while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 1 | Self underwater and friend on bank | 1.00 | Friend, teenager rescuer, mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4026 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 473 In Spirit Floating 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/473-in-spirit-floating.html | 2008 | Unknown | As a young child, the subject was playing with a doll in the basement when their family dog (Collie/German Shepherd mix) began growling at them from the stairs. Despite calling for their mother, they received no response. Attempting to climb the stairs, the dog attacked from behind, biting them in the back of the head. Their mother found them, stopped bleeding with water, wrapped them in a blanket, and rushed to the hospital. The subject's grandfather (a doctor) and grandmother (a nurse) operated on them. Under ether anesthesia administered through a black rubber mask, they counted backward from 100 to 97. They experienced an out-of-body state floating in a void of complete darkness. Though everything was black, they could see clearly all around as if there was light. The space was so soundless it hurt their ears. They sensed invisible boundaries they couldn't cross and called out "Isn't anyone there?" multiple times with increasing anxiety. No one answered, and they feared being alone forever. They suddenly woke in their parents' bed at night, immediately asking "Mommy what is it like to die?" Their mother said nothing. The grandfather later revealed the bite went through the skull, missing the brain by a quarter inch. The dog was euthanized immediately. The subject was swollen for over a month and remained terrified of animals for years. They now think about death every day. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Emergency surgery under ether anesthesia for skull-penetrating dog bite | Experience of dark void with paradoxical sight, no veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Void with paradoxical vision | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4027 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1670 Swedish 7-year-old 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1670-swedish-7-year-old-falls-out-of-car-and-remembers-conversation-on-the-other-side.html | 2022 | 7 | Unknown | A 7-year-old child was playing with their dog in the back seat when their stepfather took a sudden turn, causing the back door to open. The child fell out headfirst, suffering blunt head trauma. During the experience, the child left their body and encountered a bright white light with overwhelming feelings of calm, happiness, and love - a divine feeling unlike anything experienced before. The child moved toward a portal or gate made of bright white light when they heard a female voice speaking with someone else, saying "She is young. She should go back. It's not her time yet." The child also sensed familiar presences, like family, surrounding them. After this encounter, the child opened their eyes in their mother's lap, saw her crying surrounded by trees, then went into a coma and woke up a week later after head surgery. The experience left such a profound impression that the child recalled it frequently throughout their life. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe head trauma from falling out of car, required surgery and resulted in week-long coma | Experience included OBE and divine presence but no specific verifiable observations of physical world | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 4028 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1673 Post-partum emergency 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1673-post-partum-emergency-but-she-s-enfolded-in-peaceful-loving-darkness.html | 2002 | 2022 | 23 | F |
In 2002, a 23-year-old woman experienced a catastrophic post-partum hemorrhage when her impatient doctor forcefully pulled her placenta, inverting her uterus. The doctor turned pale with terror and told her she was going to die as blood convulsed from her body at an alarming rate. Staff rushed family from the room as she began losing consciousness. In that moment, time and space ceased to exist, and she began communing with a presence that felt like it had always been with her. She bargained transparently with this presence about her desire to live and raise her children. As she lost bodily sensation starting from her toes and traveling upward, she experienced overwhelming assurance that she would survive. Despite being rushed to emergency surgery, she felt complete peace unlike anything before or since. Medical staff seemed unable to hear her attempts to reassure them she would be okay. She experienced being tucked into a "universal blanket" by the loving presence, seeing no lights or visions but letting go into an infinitely peaceful and loving dark embrace. Her heart stopped multiple times during the night. She awakened strapped to a hospital bed, intubated, with no pain medication as she was too weak for it. Though medical staff thought she was unconscious, she was aware though possibly out of body. Unlike everyone else, she was not surprised by her survival, having received divine assurance during the experience. The experience transformed her perspective entirely. Throughout her pregnancy, she had felt an unnatural foreboding, flinching when passing funeral homes and wondering if each household task would be her last. The NDE confirmed her premonitions had meaning but also brought profound gratitude for her return to raise her children. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Multiple cardiac arrests documented, emergency surgery, massive hemorrhage with uterine inversion | Experience focused on spiritual/emotional aspects rather than verifiable physical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4029 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1683 58-year-old flatlines twice 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1683-58-year-old-flatlines-twice-during-heart-attack-but-returns.html | 2018 | 2022 | 58 | M |
On July 3, 2018, a 58-year-old man woke at 4 AM with chest tightness. Having experienced similar symptoms two nights earlier when an ambulance took 25 minutes to arrive, he decided to drive himself to the emergency room. Upon arrival at 4:20 AM, he told the receptionist with a twirly mustache that he needed immediate attention for a possible heart attack. The receptionist initially dismissed him, telling him to take a number, but then connected him to an EKG machine. Upon seeing the results, the receptionist exclaimed "Oh my god, man, I am so sorry; you are the real deal" and screamed "code red." Medical staff swarmed him, cutting off clothes and inserting IVs while a young woman held his hand asking about his family to keep him conscious. Suddenly, he found himself in bright white light with all pain gone, feeling like he was floating on air. He thought "Whatever they gave me was the best drug ever" as all the medical staff had disappeared. The woman holding his hand began crying, and when he asked why, she was surprised he was conscious and explained he had flatlined and been defibrillated back to life. While being rushed to surgery for a stent insertion, he flatlined again. After the stent was successfully placed, he heard the doctor say "You're going to be okay now, buddy" and "Great work." The next morning, his doctor visited him first, calling him "his miracle" and explaining the statistical improbability of surviving after flatlining twice. He underwent quadruple bypass surgery and recovered. The experience involved classic NDE elements including bright white light, absence of pain, and floating sensations during clinical death, though no otherworldly encounters or life review were reported. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest confirmed by EKG, flatlined twice, required defibrillation and emergency stent | Specific dialogue from receptionist and doctor, awareness while supposedly unconscious, nurse's surprise at consciousness | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 1 | Heard receptionist and medical staff dialogue | 0.00 | Nurse, Doctor, Medical team | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||
| 4030 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1684 Young woman car accident 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1684-young-woman-remembers-messages-and-choices-while-hurtling-off-mountainside.html | 2022 | F |
A young woman's jeep was sideswiped by an oncoming car skidding on ice, hurling the vehicle over a mountainside. The impact threw her out of her body, where she was shown three poignant life lessons: she had never truly witnessed a sunrise despite seeing many, never genuinely experienced the aroma of freshly cut grass, and never authentically touched another person with real presence. These revelations came as the jeep tumbled down the icy mountain, falling 25 feet before hitting an embankment and rolling ten more times. In her out-of-body state during this suspended moment, she experienced overwhelming remorse for wasted moments while being shown that many souls have similar regrets at death's threshold. She understood that each soul exists for the bliss of its own existence. She was shown multiple destinies - one where she would die, others with negative impacts, and the one she chose to return as a force for good. A being of light told her "love is all that matters" and showed her she would write a book sharing this message, also revealing that sound and light were the future of medicine. After choosing to return, her perspective fundamentally shifted from "having to" do things to "getting to" experience life. She lost all fear of death, knowing experientially that what follows is abundant and loving. The experience required years of healing childhood wounds before she could fully embody and share the message of unconditional love she received. The near-death experience transformed her from surviving to truly living, from running from death to purposefully running toward life, love, and service. She learned to refuse victimhood and reclaim personal power through conscious choice, understanding that the purpose of life is simply to love. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe car accident, vehicle went off mountain, fell 25 feet and rolled 10 times | Profound spiritual insights and life review but no verifiable observations of physical events | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4031 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1685 Russian boy drowns 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1685-russian-boy-drowns-and-feels-all-consuming-love.html | 2022 | 11 | M |
An 11-year-old Russian boy drowned in Lake Obozero in the Arkhangelsk region. While his mother and aunt were 40 meters away, he struggled desperately, shouting for help while choking on water. As he sank to about 2 meters depth, he saw his mother jump in wearing her blue dress. In desperation, he climbed up her body like a tree, drowning her in the process while uncontrollably inhaling water. When his strength was completely gone, his thoughts hammered "Now I'll die" repeatedly, followed by questioning "Why did I live?" A life review began showing events like film frames with complete sensory details - smells, wind, even dust. He could stop and examine any moment, feeling the sun's warmth and breeze. After reviewing everything without finding life's purpose, he felt a tingling sensation like weak electrical current flowing from his extremities to his chest, where "I" resides. His limbs ossified as he left his body through his back at chest level. Feeling immense relief at finally dying, he saw his body and mother clearly underwater while moving away. At 5 meters distance, he flew through a round hole into complete darkness, seeing his body through this portal while moving through light particle dispersion toward a yellowish glow. Approaching the light, he felt all-consuming love, warmth, and joy. Then hearing "It is not yet your time," he was turned by an invisible force and flew back ten times faster. Returning through the hole, he found his body being dragged ashore. Fascinated by his huge-appearing heel with its papillary patterns and sand grains sparkling in sunlight, he flew into his body through the heel. His mother and aunt revived him, pumping water from his lungs and restarting his heart while he playfully made his lips into a tube to fountain water at their faces, finding death amusing. |
5 | Other | 10 | 15 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Clear drowning incident, heart stopped, lungs full of water, required resuscitation | Specific observation of mother's blue dress, detailed view of heel papillary lines, saw body being dragged | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw mother's blue dress underwater | 0.00 | Mother and Aunt | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4032 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1686 Woman meets Jesus 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1686-woman-meets-jesus-following-surgery.html | 2022 | F |
A woman experienced an NDE after long, complicated surgery. Upon becoming conscious in recovery, she begged the nurse to let her die due to horrendous pain, but the nurse refused. She then found herself in another realm - upright in space surrounded by bright, sparkly lights brighter than the sun but not hurting her eyes. She was enveloped in alive, loving light that consumed her, filling every cell. A soft breeze moved golden curtain sashes in a huge temple before her. The curtains were made of flat, penny-sized gold pieces draped over wooden rafters between stone columns. Despite being distant from the temple, she could see details closely. She felt completely peaceful with no fear, absorbed in love without thoughts of family or future. Her body wouldn't move forward toward the temple, but she could look through a side window and saw a beautiful gold-patterned wooden box she wondered might be the Ark of the Covenant. An extremely bright orb approached from her right, which she immediately knew was Jesus. She saw His face's charcoal sketch outline against the brightness. Jesus spoke telepathically: "It is not your time yet. You have to go back. Everything is going to be okay. Tell them about me." Though she didn't want to leave, she couldn't argue. Looking down, she saw only a white robe with tiny sparkles shimmering on it, extraordinarily beautiful. Jesus allowed her final looks around before sending her back, putting thoughts of family in her mind. Instantly back in recovery around 9:30 PM, the pain was gone. She overheard the nurse tell an orderly "We had a hard time stabilizing her." She felt God's presence and wondered if she was glowing. The experience left her struggling to share her visit with Jesus without sounding ridiculous. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 2 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 4 | Long complicated surgery, recovery room crisis, nurse mentioned difficulty stabilizing | Overheard nurse say they had hard time stabilizing her, time awareness (9:30 PM) | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard nurse speaking to orderly | 1.00 | Recovery room nurse | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4033 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1687 Drowning woman 2022 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1687-drowning-woman-meets-jesus-and-her-unknown-biological-father.html | 1978 | 2022 | F |
In February 1978, a woman surfing at Maria's break in Rincon, Puerto Rico, was caught in 6-foot waves and swept toward a rocky reef cliff. Battered against the 10-foot cliff covered in sea urchins, she desperately tried climbing while being repeatedly smashed by waves, with urchin tentacles penetrating her body. Her red crochet bikini was torn, exposing her to more injuries. Praying "Please don't take me Lord. I'm not worthy to go now," she was pulled from her body through her head into a cloudy form that hovered above a wooden bench. From this vantage point, she simultaneously observed her drowning body below and witnessed people forming a human chain to rescue her. To her right was a stream of warm bluish-white lightning-like light she knew was God. A tunnel appeared with her father Joe floating left of the entrance in cloudy blues and browns, while Christ floated right in whites and pastels. Inside the tunnel, a shadowy figure with Elvis-like hair repeatedly asked Joe if she was coming, relaying questions from thousands of beings at the tunnel's end who knew her as ancestors and friends. She watched her life review in reverse on a white screen, from drowning back through birth to before birth, seeing herself as a streaming cloud child riding a white horse who had asked to be born to learn perseverance and resilience. The film showed her requesting this birth despite preferring to keep riding. Surrounded by overwhelming love and acceptance, she was told by God to return and teach that God exists, to prove what she had seen. God's final message was: "Time is of an essence, time is short, as you know it. Go teach. I am that I am." Thrown back into her body at light speed, she reached for a young man's extended hand as he led a human chain rescue. Forty-five years later, through DNA testing, she discovered the shadowy figure in the tunnel was her biological father Raymond, whom she'd never known existed. |
5 | Other | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Severe drowning incident with reef injuries, required human chain rescue, hospitalization | Observed rescue chain forming, saw specific tunnel beings, life review details, later DNA confirmation of unknown father | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw people forming human chain rescue | 1.00 | Young man leader, 5-6 others including 2 women | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 4034 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1419-1421 David Oakford NDE 2019 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1419-part-1-lengthy-nde-learns-of-egypt-gaia-dark-souls.html | 1979 | 2019 | 19 | M | David Oakford, 19, experienced a profound NDE after overdosing on an unknown substance at a farewell party. After taking what he thought was cocaine but was likely a more dangerous drug, he collapsed and his organs began shutting down. He felt his body's organs stop functioning one by one, including his heart. He then encountered a luminous being who identified himself as David's guide, showing him Egypt's pyramids across time, explaining Earth (Gaia) as a living being, and revealing cosmic truths about the universe's structure. He traveled to a spirit city between Earth and heaven, underwent a life review with a council of beings, and was shown his future path. Despite wanting to stay, he chose to return to complete his earthly mission of helping souls and raising Earth's vibration. The experience included profound teachings about love, energy, the pre-existence, and humanity's role in universal harmony. Upon returning, his friends dismissed his experience as a drug trip, leading him to suppress the memories for years before eventually sharing his transformative story. | 5 | Home | 7 | 18 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Drug overdose leading to organ shutdown, heart stopped, friends found him unconscious | Extensive observations of spirit realms, Egypt across time, spirit city, life review, future predictions that came true | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw pyramids in ancient and modern times simultaneously | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 4035 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1429 Multiple NDEr 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1429-multiple-nder-shares-about-wars-in-heaven-and-on-earth.html | 2020 | F | A woman experienced multiple NDEs throughout her life due to ongoing health issues including toxic shock during childbirth and severe illness on an airplane. During her second major NDE on a plane, she left her body, saw herself from multiple angles simultaneously, stood over dark blue water with the Book of Life, and encountered a figure she recognized as the Savior. She saw a man on a desert island she was meant to help. For two weeks after, the veil remained thin and she received visions about divine roles of men and women, saw Delta Airlines bankruptcy (which occurred), her move to Utah (which happened), and a future daughter. Later NDEs revealed extensive teachings about pre-mortal existence, the War in Heaven linked to the Big Bang, Satan's rebellion involving unspeakable sins, and how Earth events mirror heavenly wars in waves. She learned about her pre-mortal life with Heavenly Parents and her agreement to come to Earth. Her experiences emphasized family as heaven's foundation and preparation for Christ's Second Coming. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 12 | Multiple medical crises: toxic shock during c-section, severe dehydration and illness on plane, blood disease affecting bone marrow, heart failure episodes | Multiple specific predictions verified: Delta bankruptcy, move to Utah, birth of daughter, work location in North Salt Lake. Extensive otherworldly observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 4 | 0 | Saw multiple perspectives simultaneously on airplane | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4036 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1430 Woman Helps Cross Over 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1430-woman-helps-another-cross-over-during-nde.html | 2020 | 36 | F | A 36-year-old woman experienced an NDE after taking new medication that interacted dangerously with her antidepressants, lowering her heart rate. While asleep, she found herself as an entity of energy perceived as beams of light in a void of nothingness, feeling profound contentment. Another bodiless being explained her role was to help souls cross between planes of existence. She was sent through multiple realities to help a young Caucasian girl's spirit move between planes, which required more effort than traveling alone. Upon returning, she was given a choice by a being she termed "god" (though aware it wasn't the religious God) to stay and continue this work or return to her body. She chose to return due to concern for her parents' grief. Upon waking, she felt she had been taking shallow breaths and needed to breathe deeply. Later research revealed the medication interaction could cause death. A doctor suggested her choice to live or die may have been genuine. She concluded the experience was likely a vivid dream caused by medication, though she may have been close to death. | 5 | Home | 3 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Medication interaction that could cause death, shallow breathing noted | Experienced role as helper of souls crossing planes, being of light, choice to return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 1 | 0 | Helped teenage girl's spirit cross planes | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4037 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1431 God Consciousness 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1431-i-was-one-with-god-consciousness.html | 2020 | F | During emergency c-section for third child, woman experienced catastrophic hemorrhage losing 4 liters of blood. After 10 days of feeling unwell post-surgery, she suddenly hemorrhaged massively at home. As blood streamed down, she felt her whole life bleeding away and chose to surrender and let go. Time slowed dramatically. She lost consciousness multiple times during transport to hospitals. During surgery prep, she felt soul-weary and decided to let go of life. A voice asked if she was "coming with us or staying" and she chose to leave her body. She experienced freedom, jubilation, and music, flying through bright blue sky as a beam of light. At a celestial library, she met beings including deceased grandparents who appeared young. She saw bright light knowing it was God but was told it wasn't her time. After reviewing a book showing "Self Worth" as her life lesson, she chose to return. She visited a house with children and elderly helpers, whispering love to souls before returning through a mirror. Recovery included 6 blood and 15 plasma transfusions. Everything in life slowed down permanently. She now helps others access inner peace. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Massive hemorrhage with 4 liters blood loss, cardiac arrest implied, required extensive transfusions | Met deceased relatives appearing younger, library setting, specific life lesson revealed, profound lasting changes | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw deceased grandmother and great-grandmother as young | 1.00 | Medical staff | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4038 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1432 Brief Moments of Light 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1432-a-lifetime-brief-moments-of-light-when-suddenly-truth-beams-on-us.html | 1960 | 2020 | F | Woman experienced multiple NDEs throughout life. First at elementary age when large rock cracked her skull - she rose into arms of light-filled angel who carried her up spiral staircase, showing her heaven's golden entrance and giving choice between heaven or parents, choosing to return for mother. Woke from 3-day coma with miraculously healed skull. Second NDE as teen from accidental nitroglycerin overdose causing heart to race dangerously. She descended through darkness on clear black object to massive metal furnace doors, witnessed empty throne and golden box with gears. Parts of her life dripped away until only "belief-in-God stone" remained. Grey alien-beings with empty black eyes emerged trying to capture her soul with electrical shocks, but fled when she prayed Lord's Prayer and light appeared. Also shared husband Bob's 2016 deathbed visions of golden objects, puppy, divine presence, and his out-of-body experience crawling on door before death on her birthday. These experiences taught her about pre-ordained connections and divine planning. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Skull fracture with 3-day coma, heart crisis from nitroglycerin overdose | Angel encounter, heaven vision, hellish realm with alien beings, prayer causing beings to flee | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw angel being with dancing light | 0.00 | Family members | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4039 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1433 Nurse Dead 20 Minutes 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1433-nurse-dead-for-20-minutes-sees-god-but-can-t-enter.html | 1989 | 2020 | 23 | F | A 23-year-old nurse contracted Klebsiella pneumonia from an isolation patient despite precautions. Hospitalized for 2 months with fevers reaching 105.2°F, she became septic. Doctors told her mother she would probably die. After hearing staff say "She's not gonna make it," she closed her eyes and found herself in another realm without a tunnel. She was on a path with vivid colors unlike Earth - hills, green grass, brook, stone wall, animals, and flowers. Bearded irises smelled like lemonade. A golden coach appeared and took her to a mansion with a round room filled with people of all ages and races, gold candles, robin's egg blue walls with gold trim. She felt a presence and encountered her grandmother (died 1985) and great-grandmother (died 1978), both appearing 17-21 years old. Angels 10+ feet tall in bright white opened huge doors revealing bright light she knew was God. Everything made sense instantly - "we are one with everything." After being told it wasn't her time, she returned to ICU. Pronounced dead 20 minutes earlier, her recovery baffled doctors. Even 30 years later, irises still smell like lemonade to her. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Klebsiella pneumonia, septic, fever 105.2, pronounced dead 20 minutes | Detailed otherworld description, met deceased relatives appearing young, sensory persistence (lemonade iris smell) | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/10/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw deceased relatives as young adults | 1.00 | ICU nurses and doctors | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4040 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1434 Welsh Woman 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1434-welsh-woman-is-cared-for-in-heavenly-hospital-while-in-coma.html | 2011 | 2020 | F | Woman experienced 3 heart attacks and 2 cardiac arrests over 4 hours while in A&E. Required 40 minutes of resuscitation to maintain heart function. Placed in induced coma in ICU with poor prognosis - family told to expect the worst. She could hear husband's mother and children encouraging her to fight. Felt overwhelming calm and irresistible pull toward bright light. Found herself floating in a hospital ward setting with continued serenity. A young nurse in old-fashioned uniform spoke to her saying "Hello, Vanessa" and assured her doctors were working hard to help her recover. The nurse said she would leave her with family briefly and return. Vanessa felt content and peaceful with family visits. When nurse returned, she touched Vanessa's hand saying "I'm sorry, but you can't stay. You have to go back, but don't worry, I'll accompany you." Next experienced anxiety and knew she had to fight, followed by vivid strange dreams about fighting to return. Upon waking, experienced nightmarish dreams that made the peaceful NDE stand out as definitely real by contrast. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Three heart attacks, two cardiac arrests, 40 minutes resuscitation, induced coma | Heavenly hospital with vintage nurse, specific dialogue, choice to return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard family while in coma | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4041 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1440 Near-Death Soldier 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1440-near-death-soldier-taken-to-past-time-where-his-soul-is-joined-by-another-man.html | 2020 | M | Soldier in Army Basic Training received concussion from illegal pugil stick uppercut after sparring ended. Collapsed getting into ambulance, temperature reached 107-109°F. Doctors declared him brain dead due to prolonged extreme fever. During coma, found himself in what he thought was heaven - dark grey concrete room with wooden beams. A Mediterranean-looking man in dirty tan robes with gold belt welcomed him. A blonde woman surrounded by light took his hand and they traveled through beam of light. Had life review seeing childhood, including day grandmother died. Traveled above Earth viewing it from space. Visited what appeared to be Biblical times with early Roman architecture, people in period clothing. Saw buildings of concrete with wooden beams, marble columns, polished stone paths. Upon waking, nurse was surprised as they thought he'd never wake from permanent coma. People said he wasn't the same person after. Believes the Mediterranean man somehow joined his body - sees the man's hands in OBEs, has had 30 years of visions. Recently asked by God if humanity deserved to survive; the man inside him answered "no." | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Heat stroke with brain damage, temperature 109°F, declared brain dead | Time travel to Biblical era, life review, permanent personality change, ongoing visions | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 3 | 2 | Traveled to Biblical times | 0.00 | Medical staff | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4042 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 822 A Grandmother's Loving Message | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/822-a-grandmothers-loving-message.html | 2012 | 19 | M |
A 19-year-old male attempted suicide by overdosing on multiple medications after learning his ex-partner was dating someone he considered a friend. The emotional pain from repeated betrayals and long-standing depression led him to swallow numerous pills from his parents' medicine cabinet. He was found unresponsive and rushed to the hospital where he fell into a coma lasting three days. Doctors informed his family that his organs were failing and he would need to be disconnected from life support if he didn't wake soon. They predicted severe brain damage and inability to walk if he survived. During the coma, he experienced himself in a dark space observing two people conversing - one he recognized as a perfected version of himself, glowing and peaceful, the other a woman in dark clothing with a veiled face. The experience felt timeless with alternating perspectives between observing from above and being in his body speaking with the woman. When a door opened flooding the space with brilliant white light, the woman rose to leave. He tried to follow but found himself unable to move. The woman turned and said "It's not your time yet" before vanishing. The patient miraculously awakened on the day scheduled for life support removal, defying medical predictions. He was pronounced dead multiple times during the ordeal but was successfully resuscitated each time. The woman in his experience is believed by his family to have been his grandmother who died in 2005 and who had loved him deeply as her favorite grandchild. Following this experience, the patient's life transformed completely. He recognized the preciousness of life and now advocates for others experiencing suicidal ideation to seek help. The NDE provided him with certainty that everyone is deeply loved and that life, despite its challenges, is a gift meant to be lived fully. |
4 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Patient was in coma for three days after overdose, on life support | Experience included specific visual details of two figures and environmental elements, but no verifiable observations of physical reality | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Coma | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw two people in conversation from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4043 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 827 The Fastest Roller Coaster Ride Ever | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/827-the-fastest-roller-coaster-ride-ever.html | 2012 | Unknown |
A patient experienced a profound near-death experience while in a coma. The experience began with being propelled through a tube at tremendous speed, described as faster than any roller coaster, with loud noise from the velocity and a rough, bumpy sensation. This journey took them through various past life events, including vivid memories of childhood visits to their grandparents' house, walking to the corner store for wrestling magazines, and returning home. The ride deposited them in an unfamiliar, seemingly dangerous location where they wandered extensively, always walking through potentially hazardous neighborhoods yet feeling completely protected and watched over. A significant moment occurred when time stopped. While in a store, a voice over the loudspeaker counted down to zero, explaining that time would stop but then restart counting forward. This zero point represented a critical decision moment where the experiencer felt they could control whether time would restart. They consciously chose to let it continue, and the count resumed forward. The patient vividly remembered a priest visiting their bedside and a photograph being taken of this visit, though upon awakening they learned the priest had indeed visited but no photograph was ever taken. The experience produced lasting transformation. The patient emerged without fear of death, possessing absolute certainty about the afterlife as a peaceful realm beyond imagination where angels tell stories and loved ones reunite. They describe feeling God's presence and a reality of pure happiness without pain, suffering, or hatred. The NDE fundamentally shifted their worldview from hyper-religious to deeply spiritual, emphasizing love, peace, understanding and harmony over religious doctrine. They express profound gratitude for the experience, which granted them unprecedented appreciation for life and an unshakeable sense of calm when contemplating the divine presence they encountered. |
4 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Patient was in coma, medical context limited in description | Specific memory of priest visit that was confirmed real, awareness during coma | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 1 | Aware of priest visiting bedside during coma | 1.00 | Wife | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4044 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 833 Two Brushes Unnoticed | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/833-two-brushes-unnoticed.html | 2012 | 26 | F |
A woman experienced two distinct near-death experiences at different life stages. At age five, she drowned in a pond after her brother took her floating board while she could only dog paddle. Initially choking on water, she stopped fighting and felt fine, marveling at the green water's beauty and colorful fish swimming by. She rose to the water's surface with ability to look beneath or above it, then ascended into the sky, hovering over the pond. From this aerial perspective, she observed her mother and sister sunbathing on a blanket while her brother used her board at the pond's edge. She felt angry that she had died without anyone noticing her absence. Twenty-one years later at age 26, she experienced a second NDE during a seven-and-half-week ectopic pregnancy with twins. While being wheeled to an examining room, she felt faint and nauseous. Suddenly she was propelled through a tunnel like a rocket into space with loud noise and rough, bumpy movement. She emerged standing amid total bright light before a row of seated people, with one central figure she knew was God, though she could only perceive shadows. Communication occurred heart-to-heart without voices. She argued with God, demanding to return for her three young boys, even bargaining that if God saw they'd be better off without her, she would accept death. The experience ended with the nurse's voice interrupting, seemingly unaware anything had occurred. The next morning revealed her abdomen filled with internal bleeding up to her chest from the ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Family was called to make funeral arrangements before emergency surgery, described as the largest ectopic pregnancy the hospital had seen. Both experiences left her feeling unnoticed during critical moments, yet profoundly impacted her spiritual understanding. She negotiated directly with divine presence for her life, demonstrating maternal determination to return for her children's sake. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Two life-threatening events: drowning and ruptured ectopic pregnancy with massive bleeding | Specific observations during drowning OBE but no verification attempted | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw family from above pond during drowning | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4045 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 838 A Burst of Light Amid Violence | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/838-a-burst-of-light-amid-violence.html | 1979 | 2012 | F |
In December 1979, a woman experienced a violent near-death experience when an assailant entered her bedroom and strangled her to unconsciousness. Without her glasses and unable to see clearly, she sat up only to have the attacker place his hands around her throat, increasing pressure until she passed out. The experience began with her observing from above the bathroom door, seeing herself on the bed with the assailant on top of her body. An all-encompassing darkness surrounded her before a burst of light enveloped her with unconditional love, eliminating all pain and paralyzing fear. She perceived a tunnel with light at the end, its walls appearing smoke-like rather than solid. Looking for her hands to verify her presence, she discovered she had no body, existing purely as awareness rather than physical being. Moving toward the light, she heard her recently deceased father's voice speaking sternly in Spanish, saying "No es tu tiempo" (It is not your time). Her father had passed away weeks before, and she had said goodbye to him a week before his death. His familiar stern manner and native language confirmed his identity. Profound sadness accompanied the realization she must return to face her attacker. After the assault ended around 2 AM, she managed to call her boyfriend and police, receiving treatment at the county hospital. The experience left lasting trauma, including pregnancy from the assault requiring termination, ongoing counseling, and permanent hypervigilance about security. She couldn't discuss the NDE for decades, fearing institutionalization during an era when such experiences weren't understood or accepted. The NDE produced lasting heightened awareness she considers both blessing and curse. She experiences precognitive dreams, including seeing her sister pushing against a door weeks before her cancer diagnosis, and dreaming of two shiny buildings exploding a week before 9/11. Unable to share her violent NDE with support groups focused on peaceful experiences, she maintains anonymity as the assailant was never apprehended. |
5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Strangulation causing loss of consciousness, life-threatening assault | Observed self and attacker from above bathroom door, heard deceased father's voice | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw self and attacker from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4046 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 851 In the Highest Plain | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/851-in-the-highest-plain.html | 2012 | M |
A championship football player and team's strongest athlete experienced a catastrophic weightlifting accident when another person carrying dumbbells fell into his bench press bar loaded with 405 pounds. The bar disracked, striking his forehead and breaking his sinus cavity, then bouncing up due to resistance bands before crushing his nose in four places and breaking his orbital socket. Despite throwing the weight off with one arm, he lost significant blood while being transported between hospitals, unable to drink water due to choking risk. During surgery under general anesthesia, he left physical reality entirely. He immediately understood he had died, reviewing his entire life while surrounded by infinite darkness and complete tranquility. All burdens lifted as warm rushing wind entered his consciousness core. He gained complete understanding of his actions and others' throughout life, feeling only sadness that loved ones couldn't join him in this pure happiness. Without time's constraints, existing in the highest plane of reality, individual identity and status markers became meaningless. His consciousness expanded beyond bodily limits, moving through vast darkness by will alone toward an internal pulling force. The words "Though I walk through the valley of death, I fear no evil for the Lord is with me" began repeating continuously within his consciousness. He observed a radiating light silhouette appearing as an open doorway with rounded top, two figures standing guard at its edges. Approaching this illuminated portal, a thunderous male voice echoed throughout declaring "Nicholas, it is not your time." Immediately lifted and thrown backward, he fell through consciousness levels until reaching this plane. Upon awakening, he cried hysterically, repeatedly asking parents why he was sent back to this world of pain and suffering. An elderly woman carrying a rosary later appeared in his room, praying with him and revealing she came from his grandfather's birthplace. When he glanced at his phone momentarily, she vanished with the door closed, with nurses confirming no visitors that morning and no prayer services since the 1960s. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Surgery under general anesthesia for severe facial trauma | Life review, specific doorway vision, mysterious visitor post-NDE with specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Doorway with guards and divine voice | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4047 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 855 Glorious Light Enveloping My Soul | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/855-glorious-light-enveloping-my-soul.html | 2011 | 2012 | M |
On October 10, 2011, a lifelong alcoholic experienced catastrophic liver failure with internal bleeding, initially mistaking digested blood for diarrhea. His wife, an experienced nurse, recognized the emergency and rushed him to the hospital. After initial stabilization, he projectile vomited pure blood and his blood pressure dropped to 40/40. During the first of two code blues lasting approximately 45 seconds, he experienced being sent to hell - a cramped, uncomfortable realm filled with beings carrying dark clay boxes the size of old televisions, constantly bumping and grunting. Unable to distinguish faces or ethnicities, he screamed to God for forgiveness and proclaimed Jesus as the true living God. A light broke through, pulling him from hell back to earth. Six hours later, while listed as "grave" condition in ICU after receiving 23 units of blood and having a balloon placed in his stomach to stop bleeding, his wife noticed him staring behind himself. He coded again, but this second death brought a glorious experience. A divine light, not bright but enveloping his soul, surrounded him as he slowly ascended with perfect peace. Continuously thanking and praising God during his elevation, the light became increasingly soothing and accepting rather than brighter. He felt the beautiful fulfillment of eternal bliss before suddenly returning to his body. The experiencer had an extensive criminal history including prison time for burglary and bank robbery, later becoming a successful executive before his alcoholism caused this crisis. His background included childhood alcoholism, violence, and decades of crime before meeting his wife and eventually reforming. The NDE completely transformed him - he became certain of God's forgiveness and the reality of both hell and heaven. Following recovery, he wrote about his experience to share that despite his poster-child-for-hell background, God's forgiveness through sincere belief saved him. He emphasizes that asking God sincerely for forgiveness and believing in Jesus brings salvation regardless of past sins. His soul was saved by faith and God's mercy, proving divine forgiveness extends even to those with the darkest histories. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Two cardiac arrests (code blue), blood pressure 40/40, died 45 seconds first time | Two distinct death experiences - hell and heaven visions with specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 1 | Hell experience during first death | 0.00 | Wife (nurse) | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4048 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 857 Meeting My Guide | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/857-meeting-my-guide.html | 1999 | 2012 | 72 | M |
In February 1999, a 72-year-old retired civil engineer and U.S. Army veteran with 27 years of service experienced cardiac arrest after early morning heart symptoms. His wife, an experienced nurse, administered aspirin and drove him to the emergency facility 14 miles away. Minutes after the physician began treatment, his heart ceased functioning and he lost consciousness for 90-120 seconds according to his wife's account. He was successfully resuscitated with defibrillation paddles. During clinical death, he found himself in an upscale executive office confronting a friendly man around 60 years old - tall, athletic build, thick silver-gray hair, wearing white shirt, tie and gray trousers with suit coat removed for casual atmosphere. The setting included wall shelves lined with small pewter or ceramic figures, each seemingly representing a person or event. The guide delivered a corporate orientation-style lecture without audible speech, yet all ideas were perfectly understood. Time was compressed, allowing extensive communication in Earth's 90-120 seconds. The guide explained important facts about the new venue and corrected past errors with phrases like "get it right this time," though without reproach. Words formed visually in the air like white chalk on a blackboard, later dissolving into smoke-like shapes upon return. The experience transitioned to climbing familiar stairs to a landing with a red door (3.5x7 feet) containing a translucent window (1.5x2 feet). The setting strongly resembled his childhood physician's building from the 1940s, except the door's color. Unable to see through the window, he consciously chose to withdraw, descending three-quarters down before the universe shifted. He floated rapidly backward through night sky, feet forward, experiencing profound peace possibly enhanced by medication. Defibrillation paddles brought violent return with his shout "What in hell did you do that for?" Ten years later in 2011, while studying the Book of Mormon, he recognized Alma's instruction about death and resurrection as identical to his NDE orientation lecture, providing significant validation of his experience's spiritual authenticity. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest with successful defibrillation, witnessed by medical staff | Specific office details and childhood building memory, but no external verification | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Corporate office setting with guide | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4049 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 858 There is No Hell We All Go Home | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/858-there-is-no-hell-we-all-go-home.html | 2012 | M |
A man was struck by a car while riding his motorcycle and died on the operating table during emergency surgery. He experienced passing through darkness into a soft bluish light where an entity he identified as Jesus was both part of the light and a doorway. Though not in his physical body, he felt completely normal in his spiritual form. Communication occurred without spoken words, directly between their beings, while joy enveloped him entirely. He felt profound relief discovering the afterlife's reality. Jesus acknowledged his pain and situation, stating "I know it hurts and I know it is bad. You have not done what you said you would do and must go back." Despite the experiencer's refusal and desire to remain, Jesus insisted he must return, saying "You will come here, just not now...not yet. I am sorry." The experience ended with his return to the operating table, hearing medical staff say "We got him" followed by "Oh my God he is awake." The NDE produced complete life transformation. He became an ordained minister and now preaches with a specific message revealed during his experience: there is no hell and everyone returns home to the divine. This universal salvation message forms the core of his ministry and spiritual understanding. The experience eliminated his fear of death and gave him absolute certainty about the afterlife's peaceful nature. He knows a divine presence awaits all beings with only happiness, bliss, and reunion with loved ones - no pain, suffering, or hatred exists there. The encounter left him profoundly transformed from who he was before to becoming a minister spreading the message of universal divine acceptance. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Died on operating table during surgery after motorcycle accident | Saw Jesus in light, communication without words, heard medical staff upon return | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard medical staff upon return | 0.00 | Incompatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4050 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 859 A Panoramic View of Myself | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/859-a-panoramic-view-of-myself.html | 2010 | 2012 | 21 | M |
A 21-year-old male drove while heavily intoxicated following relationship problems, consumed by suicidal thoughts and believing "something needs to happen so I don't make it home." Driving 90 mph down the center of a winding road around 1:45-2:00 AM, he approached a four-lane highway junction checking for other vehicles to avoid harming anyone but himself. His next memory was awakening in a medical helicopter being transported to the hospital, with the intervening experience occurring during the gap. He found himself in complete darkness feeling unprecedented happiness and euphoria. Observing himself walking slowly from above and behind, he existed without physical form yet knew it was himself. A grayish circle underneath followed his movement through what he sensed was a giant cubed room despite the darkness. The experience involved dual perspective - watching from above while simultaneously experiencing first-person view without visible body. He harbored no thoughts about what happened or his location, simply feeling amazing before abruptly awakening in the helicopter. Medical staff provided intermittent care as he drifted in and out of consciousness over several days, never returning to the dark space. During recovery, he developed remarkable ability to perceive detailed images of angels and demons in abstract patterns, particularly bathroom marble tiles. These visions appeared extraordinarily detailed for approximately one month. He experienced vivid dreams of angels and demons during sleep throughout this period. The temporary enhanced pattern recognition and spiritual imagery lasted about a month before fading. The NDE's profound happiness and unique dual consciousness perspective, combined with subsequent spiritual visions, marked a significant transformative experience following his near-fatal suicide attempt, though specific lasting changes weren't detailed. |
5 | Ambulance | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Near-fatal car accident, helicopter transport, multiple days unconscious | Experience in darkness with dual perspective, no verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||||
| 4051 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 860 Blocked by a Golden Being | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/860-blocked-by-a-golden-being.html | 2012 | Unknown |
While riding a bicycle past a golf course, the experiencer saw a van run a stop sign and couldn't swerve away in time. Staring through the windshield at the driver while hoping they wouldn't brake, the collision occurred when the driver did stop. The impact sent them flying through the air like an awkward flightless bird. Upon hitting pavement, they observed an intensely bright column of white light emanating from their body's head and immediately recognized being outside their physical form before being sucked up the light column like an envelope in a pneumatic tube. They arrived in a place of pure love - completely enveloping and immersive feelings of loving acceptance, calmness, and belonging/home. A golden light glowed in the distance which they needed and wanted to reach. As they stepped forward, a golden humanoid being without features or clothing blocked their path, radiating overwhelming calm and agape love. The being's right hand was raised palm-outward in a stopping gesture while communicating telepathically "You must go back." Despite the experiencer's devastation and pleas to stay in this place of love, the being shook its head maintaining the stop position, stating "It's not yet your time. You must go back." A horrible shrieking pierced their consciousness as they returned to their body lying on the street, screaming with EMTs and bystanders hovering while the van driver made a phone call. Though only gone seconds to perhaps a minute, the experience seemed much longer. The profound disappointment of missing something stupendous initially overwhelmed them. Since the accident, they've discovered a calling as a guide for dying individuals, stepping over the barrier between life and death to help others cross over. Understanding others' fears has helped overcome their own, particularly the fear it wasn't real. The ability to repeatedly cross over and re-experience those feelings eliminated the horrible disappointment of return. They now know what awaits after completing this life, removing all fear of death while enabling them to help others overcome their fears during transition. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Bike accident with apparent brief clinical death on street | Bright light from body, golden being, telepathic communication, but no verification | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4052 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1689 Girl 8 NDEs | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1689-girl-has-8-ndes-and-learns-the-purpose-of-suffering-on-earth.html | 2022 | 5 | F | A young girl between ages 3-7 experienced multiple NDEs due to severe abuse, primarily through strangulation by foster parents. During her first NDE, she was declared dead after strangulation went too far, attached to EEG monitoring showing brain death. She observed from outside her body as medical staff argued about removing life support. A Being of light guided her to follow the adults to another room where she memorized their conversation verbatim, which she later repeated accurately. The Being took her into the presence of a Great Intelligence filled with overwhelming love and gratitude for humanity's suffering. She experienced the universe, surfing on sound and tasting colors, hearing planets sing and stars laugh. Though given the choice to stay, she reluctantly returned knowing she had important work despite knowing only pain awaited. In subsequent NDEs, she traveled to other planets, witnessed alien species, experienced life from the perspective of plants and fish in water worlds, and received profound spiritual insights about existence. One experience showed her why souls choose to come to Earth - to experience limitation and suffering so that unlimited love can know itself fully, solving the paradox of an unlimited being. She met beings appearing as Jesus and Buddhist monks who helped her understand free will and her soul's mission. Throughout eight total experiences, she gained understanding that Earth is where the unlimited becomes limited, allowing the divine to experience what pure love cannot - suffering, loneliness, and evil - making all other beautiful worlds possible. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Multiple cardiac arrests and clinical death with EEG monitoring documented | Veridical observation of conversation in distant room while body was in another location, later verified verbatim | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 3 | 1 | Observed adults' conversation in distant office | 1.00 | Doctor | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4053 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1691 Dying Woman ECMO | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1691-dying-woman-experiences-life-as-a-flower-and-fish-while-out-of-body.html | 2015 | 2022 | F | In 2015, a woman was in a coma on ECMO life support with less than 1% chance of survival. Her CO2 level exceeded 200 (normal 20-30), indicating near-complete CO2 in lungs with no oxygen to the brain. Given last rites after brain scans, family was told she would likely be vegetative if she survived. She came near death 2-3 times during September 26 weekend when family gathered to say goodbye. During her coma, she left her body and witnessed medical staff discussing her poor prognosis, attempting unsuccessfully to communicate with them. She traveled through space to alternate dimensions and timelines, visiting another planet where she appeared deformed because it wasn't her species. A guide explained life is a series of experiences and perspectives. She experienced existence from a lily's perspective and as a fish in a tank, gaining first-hand non-human viewpoints. She received prophetic visions including Trump's election victory before knowing he was running, predicted studies on tree consciousness, and foresaw major alien contact around 2023. She encountered a brilliant light and instinctively produced a silver sphere from which arose a hologram of Jesus Christ. After this encounter, her vitals improved 50% overnight when switched to an oscillator. She returned with heightened senses, validated predictions, and understanding that NDEs vary because souls learn differently. She now knows trees are conscious beings holding Earth's history. | 4 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Coma on ECMO with <1% survival chance, near death multiple times, CO2 >200 | Out-of-body observation of medical staff, accurate future predictions including Trump election | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard medical conversation about prognosis | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4054 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1699 Four-year-old Falls | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1699-four-year-old-falls-and-meets-yeshua-jesus-and-council-of-elders.html | 2023 | 4 | M | A four-year-old boy fell headfirst 8-9 feet into an in-ground silo onto concrete, seeing the dirt wall pass in slow motion during the fall. His brother ran toward him while his mother screamed not to touch him. Upon realizing he had died, he was surrounded by warmth and pulled through bright golden light. A man he later understood as Yeshua (Jesus) held his left hand tightly and led him, though Yeshua appeared different from familiar pictures. The child alternated his gaze between Yeshua and his lifeless body at the silo bottom, feeling confused and scared. As they walked, increasing multitudes of souls surrounded them. Yeshua explained these were "Earth souls to help lost earth souls" and revealed "You were there in the beginning," showing him a vision of himself in another time walking through off-color people who transformed from grey to various colors. Six or more individuals formed a V-formation surrounded by golden light, dividing the crowd as they moved. Yeshua led him to address his Council of Elders - eleven members in white robes with medallion pendants showing two circles, standing around a 25-30 foot stone circle. Placed in the center, a tall figure named Taos taught him hand movements, beginning to glow until his face became bright white light while others hummed. Light energy struck from above, jolting his body. Despite his fear, Yeshua encouraged "You can do it." He awoke in the doctor's room with no visible head injuries, noting the doctor resembled Taos. | 5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Fall from height with head injury, unclear if clinical death occurred | Saw own body in silo, remembered car ride to doctor while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw own body at bottom of silo | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4055 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1708 Woman Air Embolism | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1708-woman-leaves-body-during-procedure-and-receives-messages-in-the-dark.html | 2013 | 2013-02-20 | 2023 | F | On February 20, 2013, a woman with Myasthenia Gravis was finishing her first plasmapheresis treatment when the nurse removing the IJC catheter from her jugular made a critical error. While teaching a new nurse, she switched hands because her arm got tired, allowing air to enter directly into the patient's brain. The patient felt bubbling throughout her body, then experienced leaving her body from legs upward. She never felt her body fall back though she was sitting up initially. In her mind she screamed about not wanting to leave her children, having had conflict with her mother for six months. She heard a voice say "ALL WILL BE AS IT SHOULD" accompanied by indescribable peace and love. She found herself in endless darkness, floating without weight, pain, or time - experiencing both 100 years and a split second simultaneously. When she asked why it was dark and where she was going, the voice said "You're not allowed to see because you wouldn't want to fight." A 35mm film appeared showing her entire life from childhood to death, reliving each frame with complete understanding. Those who loved her provided peace and relief from thirst and hunger. She saw her mother and reconciled, then was directed to her car to enjoy driving. Suddenly she felt her body burning with peaceful, protective flames. She opened her eyes to find her neighbor and paramedics who had been declaring her dead after 23-25 minutes. Her neighbor had a prophetic dream about fire, found the locked door mysteriously open, and called for help. A neurologist happened to be nearby for the resuscitation. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Air embolism to brain, clinical death for 23-25 minutes, successful resuscitation | Neighbor had prophetic dream, found locked door open, exact death duration documented | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 1 | Neighbor's prophetic dream and mysterious door opening | 1.00 | Neurologist and paramedics | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 4056 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1711 Woman Cardiac Arrest | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1711-woman-leaves-body-multiple-times-including-going-to-a-place-of-suffering.html | 2018 | 2023 | F | In September 2018, a woman experiencing severe depression and alcohol abuse admitted herself to the ER, sensing something was seriously wrong. Her body went into cardiac arrest twice due to alcohol-related complications. She bled excessively and lost consciousness 4-5 times, with each episode becoming progressively more intense. Her body would heat up with comforting warmth, and events sped up like a roller coaster dream. During her first cardiac arrest, she found herself in a very bad place with other suffering beings. She shouted not to be there anymore and returned to her body. When her heart stopped the second time, she floated atop a mountain, her hands touching it as she ascended. At the summit, she was greeted by her deceased grandparents in a beautiful setting. A pattern appeared in the ground, and she felt ultimate joy and love while taking deep breaths and peering over the mountaintop. Her grandmother told her to go back down the mountain. She spent a week in a coma, existing between both worlds. Later in ICU, she experienced a déjà vu episode that repeated six times with no control over time or events, feeling she was about to die. A nurse sensed her instability and helped her return to reality. The dual experiences of a suffering realm and a beautiful mountaintop with deceased relatives reflect both warning and comfort, demonstrating the reality of different spiritual destinations. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Two cardiac arrests documented, week in coma | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 4057 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1713 Woman Car Accident | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1713-woman-in-accident-sees-earth-as-oval.html | 2022 | 2022-08-04 | 2023 | F | On August 4, 2022 at 4am, a woman had a severe car accident at an intersection. She was stopped at a red light, it turned green, she started moving, then was struck. She felt no pain from the accident and in the blink of an eye found herself outside Earth. She existed without her body as pure energy, experiencing extraordinary freedom and joy. In the darkness of space, Earth was visible but appeared oval rather than circular. She could see without eyes and think without a brain, moving by intention alone at great speed. She had no interest in Earth anymore, observing the entire world as golden or yellow light energies moving and connected to each other, except for some dark blended energies of various sizes that were powerful but disconnected from others. She felt excited to go farther from Earth, knowing there was a crowd or living things or movement beyond a certain point she was approaching. A message came to her mind that she could hear suffering souls on Earth and intervene to protect them. Just as she was excited to move forward beyond that point, she woke up in the ambulance with a doctor asking questions. She temporarily lost her memory. The experience revealed Earth from a cosmic perspective as interconnected light energies with some isolated dark forces, suggesting a spiritual battle and her potential role in helping suffering souls. | 5 | Ambulance | 5 | 6 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 5 | Severe car accident with loss of consciousness | Saw Earth as oval from space perspective, observed energy patterns | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4058 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1714 Muslim Man Cardiac Arrest | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1714-muslim-man-has-spontaneous-death-experience-later-becomes-a-christian.html | 2010 | 2010-11-17 | 2023 | 29 | M | On November 17, 2010, during the Islamic holiday of Ghorban, a 29-year-old Muslim man was alone in his third-floor apartment when he suddenly experienced severe cardiac symptoms. Upon standing to wash his coffee cup, his heartbeat accelerated dramatically and he lost body control. The earth opened beneath him and he fell through a dark tunnel, screaming and trying to grasp something. He found himself in complete darkness with a sense of anticipation for a destination. A massive 35mm film appeared showing his entire life from childhood to death. He was pulled into each frame, reliving experiences with complete awareness. Those who had loved him provided peace and calmness. After the life review, he saw his mother who pointed to his car, telling him to enjoy. While driving, he felt his body burning in peaceful, powerful flames. He opened his eyes to find paramedics writing death documents after 23-25 minutes. His neighbor had a prophetic dream about fire, found his locked door mysteriously open, and called for help. The paramedics had given CPR but were preparing to call the hearse when he revived. The experience transformed him from a radical Muslim to eventually becoming a Christian three years later, establishing over 5 churches in Iran and 2 in Georgia, with over 250 Muslims converting and 150 receiving baptism through his ministry. | 2 | Home | 10 | 8 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Spontaneous cardiac arrest, dead 23-25 minutes, CPR given | Life review with complete awareness, prophetic dream by neighbor | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 1 | Paramedics | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4059 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1715 Woman Hemorrhage | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1715-woman-hemorrhaged-and-met-her-deceased-father.html | 2023 | F | A woman experiencing a miscarriage took medication to induce abortion of the fetus but suffered severe complications with excessive bleeding. After passing out at home, she was taken by ambulance to the ER where she continued bleeding excessively and lost consciousness 4-5 more times. Each episode became progressively more intense, with her body heating up and comforting warmth taking over. Events accelerated like roller coaster dreams within minutes. During her final loss of consciousness, she fell into the deepest, warmest, most comfortable state, far from the hospital bed and the stresses of her body, grief from miscarriage, and pandemic concerns. She found herself in a dark tunnel sloping uphill toward bright light where her deceased father, who had died 7 months earlier, stood with outstretched hand. He communicated through thoughts rather than words, offering support in the most welcoming way. She felt immense comfort seeing him and was lulled by his presence, wanting to follow him up through the tunnel. He didn't try to convince her but was simply supportive. When she realized what this meant, she decided she wasn't ready to let go of life - her family, especially her young son, still needed her. She shook her head saying she wasn't ready, which he understood, and then she returned to consciousness. The experience provided comfort about her father's continued presence and gave her reassurance about love on Earth and possibly beyond, strengthening her connection to her life purpose. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe hemorrhage with multiple losses of consciousness | No specific veridical observations documented | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4060 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1447 Suicide beholds essence of God | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1447-suicide-beholds-the-essence-of-god-as-love-and-light.html | 2020 | Unknown | Person suffering from clinical depression attempted suicide by consuming 1,300 pills pulverized into pudding on the day before Valentine's Day. After hearing God's voice commanding them to leave the apartment or die, they crawled to a neighbor who called 911. During unconsciousness in the hospital, they experienced a profound NDE where they were greeted by angels with glowing hearts who helped balance their light body. They underwent a life review without judgment, met a council of light beings who asked if they created joy in life, and were given a choice to return or stay. They chose to return to avoid causing pain to their parents, were told their depression would heal, and that spiritual gifts would be activated. Upon return, they became a spiritual counselor and minister, experiencing divine encounters including a visit from Jesus who connected their hearts with emerald light. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 3 | 10 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Suicide attempt by overdose of 1,300 pills, found unconscious, treated in Emergency Department and ICU | No specific veridical observations reported, experience was entirely transcendent | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 4061 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1448 Man with childhood NDE | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1448-man-with-childhood-nde-is-further-activated-by-ndes-in-his-60-s.html | 2020 | 2 | M | Man experienced multiple NDEs throughout his life. At age 2-3, he nearly died from accidental strychnine poisoning. Doctor said he would die within hours. During this time, he had an out-of-body experience where he saw his mother praying at a granite building, asking God to let her raise him. He heard a voice say "Stop it" and was instantly healed. In 2014, he had two more NDEs during heart surgery. In the first, he was a child watching a parade of guardian angels in brilliant armor, with the Father telling him they await his command. In the second NDE, he witnessed the "soup of souls" - a brilliant ball of light from which millions of fingers extended to touch a canvas of life, creating and guiding human lives. He saw how souls return to the canvas at death and are reborn. After these experiences, he developed healing abilities and intuitive gifts, often knowing what strangers need to hear, including once preventing a suicide. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Childhood strychnine poisoning declared fatal by doctor; heart surgery in 2014 | Saw mother praying at granite building during childhood NDE, described specific location and her words | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw mother praying at granite building | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4062 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1453 Childhood NDE and visitations | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1453-childhood-nde-and-visitations-finally-understood-after-50-years.html | 2020 | 6 | M | At age 6, boy nearly drowned in his uncle's swimming pool in Houston during summer vacation. After going under three times, everything turned white and he experienced profound peace. He left his body and floated above the pool, observing from above. He saw his Uncle Bill notice him through sliding glass doors, run out, remove shoes and socks, pull him from pool and revive him with a slap that brought small amount of water up. This NDE opened door to spiritual experiences - throughout life, deceased relatives and friends visit him in dreams at moment of passing. Experiences include grandfather saying beautiful place awaits, various relatives with messages, and remarkable veridical case of neighbor Debbie who reached out for 10 days after death until found. Also helped locate hidden necklace from deceased brother of neighbor through dream communication. Now understands all visitations were real, not coincidence. | 5 | Home | 7 | 15 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Drowning in swimming pool, went under three times, uncle pulled him out and revived him | Saw uncle coming through door, removing shoes/socks, pulling him out - all verified; later veridical dreams of deaths | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw uncle coming to rescue | 1.00 | Uncle Bill | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 4063 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1459 Young mother drowns | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1459-young-mother-drowns-in-sailing-accident.html | 2020 | F | Young mother was sailing on 18-foot Flying Dutchman with husband and father-in-law when boat capsized in strong wind. She was attached to trapeze wire for ballast with velcro harness that would not release, trapping her under 15 feet of water. After 30 seconds of struggle, she expelled all air and sucked water into lungs, then gave up fighting. She saw white light and felt absolute calm, happiness, eager to join others going to light. Felt presence of deceased grandparents and angels helping/guiding her. As she approached end of tunnel, clear male voice said "Go back, it's not your time, you have a son to take care of." This gave her strength to fight. Husband dove down three times with air to buddy breathe and release harness. She was under water almost 3 minutes according to witnesses. Experience eliminated fear of death, strengthened spirituality and compassion. She knows the next stage will be pleasant. | 5 | Other | 10 | 3 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Trapped underwater for 3 minutes during sailing accident, harness wouldn't release | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 1 | Husband and father-in-law | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 4064 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1463 Greeted by spirit guides | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1463-greeted-by-vibrantly-colored-spirit-guides-and-guardian-angels.html | 2020 | 2020-03-08 | 2020 | F | Woman involved in horrific three-car motor vehicle accident on March 8, 2020. Hit from behind then forced into oncoming traffic for head-on collision. Lost consciousness after second impact. Daughter found her with blue-white hazy eyes, slumped over steering wheel, making gurgling sound and not breathing. She observed herself from outside body being tossed in car with airbag smoke, noted brilliant magenta color of her favorite t-shirt. Floated out of body and rose above car with incredible feeling of oneness and joy, no pain. Could see in all directions simultaneously. Met 5-6 guardian angels/spirit guides in indescribable light with vibrant orange and yellow colors, felt like celebration waiting. When she thought of family, was forcefully sucked back into body with excruciating pain. After 8 weeks recovery gained new life perspective, lost fear of death, found voice to express feelings, strengthened spirituality and increased awareness to serve others as doula. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Three-car motor vehicle accident with head-on collision, found not breathing with eyes glazed | Recognized self by brilliant magenta color of favorite t-shirt she specifically wore | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw self in car and t-shirt color | 0.00 | Eldest daughter | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4065 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1469 I am the only God | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1469-i-am-the-only-god-and-my-name-means-love.html | 2020 | 11 | M | At age 11, boy was swimming at Fall Creek Falls in Tennessee when he fell asleep on a boulder. Someone pushed him in not realizing he was asleep. After struggling and pulling a would-be rescuer under, he sank to the bottom. When he stopped fighting, incredible peace and relief came over him. His spirit slowly left his body, moved through the water, broke the surface and hovered over his body on the bottom. Found himself in dark tunnel with bright light at end, accompanied by a guide. Many other grey spirits with darker guides were present. He became aware of an entity of pure light and inhuman love. When he asked if it was the Christian God, it replied "I am the only God, and my name means love." When asked what to do with his life, two black stone blocks appeared with words HUSBAND and FATHER. Told these were possibilities if he chose certain paths, not predetermination. Asked to stay or return, he chose to return for his mother's sake. Mother pounded his back and he spit up water. Witnesses said he was under 3-4 minutes. | 5 | Other | 10 | 3 | 20 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Drowning at waterfall, underwater for 3-4 minutes according to witnesses | No specific veridical observations of physical world reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 1 | Mother and other witnesses | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 4066 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 488 Guided to Do Out of Love | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/488-guided-to-do-out-of-love.html | 1980 | 2008 | 8 | M | In summer 1980 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, an 8-year-old boy and his two brothers (ages 9 and 10) went fishing with their father. While walking along a river, they attempted to cross by holding onto a bush that extended over the fast-moving water. The 9-year-old brother lost his grip and was swept away, prompting all three boys to end up drowning in the river. The experiencer recalls dying, unable to breathe as water filled his lungs, feeling terrible pain from objects hitting him in the river. He prayed to God for help and immediately felt arms around him with a voice saying "Relax, everything is going to be okay." He could suddenly breathe again and felt no pain. An angel guided him toward an incredibly bright light that engulfed them - thousands of times brighter than the sun yet not hurting his eyes. The light itself felt alive with love. Another angel appeared, identifying himself as the boy's guide, and showed him a life review where he could feel how his actions affected others. The guide emphasized that "it's the things that I do out of love that count." The experience included traveling backward through his life to being pure light before birth. He was told his mission wasn't complete and to forget everything and tell no one. A tall man with dark skin carried him out of the water after 22 minutes underwater. About 2,000 people had been searching for the boys two miles downriver. A police officer initially claimed they couldn't be the missing boys since no one could survive 22 minutes underwater. The boy temporarily lost his voice afterward and developed a stutter he didn't have before, but retained vivid memories of the experience despite being told not to share it. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Clear drowning incident with 22 minutes underwater, life-threatening situation | Life review with empathic understanding of how actions affected others, awareness of rescue efforts 2 miles away | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 3 | 1 | Awareness of rescue efforts | 1.00 | Police officer | Moderately Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 4067 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 489 Spirit Communication | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/489-spirit-communication.html | 2008 | F | A woman suffered a near-fatal automobile accident that caused her to stop breathing, requiring a ventilator, and then go into a coma. During her coma, she experienced vivid remembrances of being in a heavenly realm permeated by bright mist and light that passed through everything, including her transparent hand. She walked with a heavenly being she recognized as Jesus, though he didn't need to announce himself as she knew him as a familiar friend. They floated above the ground through a beautiful garden where everything had brightness, plants were bright green, and water sparkled with a musical, singing quality. When she tried to drink from the stream, the water ran through her hands without being wet, yet her thirst was quenched just by Jesus looking at her. Communication was telepathic rather than verbal, and Jesus exuded love, concern, and caring through his shining countenance. She was given the choice to return to earth or stay in heaven, expressing she wanted to return if she could help others and communicate. She then found herself observing her husband holding her hand in the hospital room from above her body, feeling a strong desire to return and live with him. While trapped in her body during recovery, she could sense nurses' thoughts through their touch, knowing whether they believed she would survive. Since her NDE, she has gained the spiritual gift of communicating on a spiritual level through writing, feels the need for quiet contemplation, and lives with peaceful hopefulness. She believes she returned to testify about the spirit world's beauty and Jesus being who he claimed to be. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Near-fatal automobile accident, stopped breathing, on ventilator, went into coma | Out-of-body observation of husband in hospital room, telepathic abilities sensing nurses' thoughts through touch | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed husband from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4068 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 491 Childhood Imaginary Friend NDE Guide | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/491-childhood-imaginary-friendnde-guide.html | 1995 | 1995-07-14 | 2008 | 39 | M | A 39-year-old man who had childhood experiences with a spirit guide named "Mr. Cardine" from ages 3-8 had a near-death experience on July 14, 1995. After eating a peanut butter sandwich, he experienced severe anaphylactic shock from an unknown allergy that had caused hives for 21 years. At the hospital, he collapsed and required CPR while floating above his body watching the resuscitation efforts. A voice asked "Why have you worried so much in your life?" and "What good is it now?" referring to his body. He was enveloped in light from a star that formed into swirling colors creating an oval space. The voice said "Here is your assured home you built while you were living. Have you finished everything you want in this life?" Thinking of unfinished woodcarvings, he returned to his body, feeling the nurse's chest compressions. Mr. Cardine then showed him visions of evil people turning into clouds of light being drawn into tar-like beings, warning this would happen to his mother. On a third departure, Mr. Cardine said "We are going on a journey" and took him through darkness to encounter two massive living beings of increasing size who communicated with Mr. Cardine and looked at him with overwhelming love. Mr. Cardine said "You have chosen life. You will suffer as you help others" before he returned. The doctor had to repeatedly revive him with slapping and shouting. Each time he returned, he said "What in the hell am I doing back here?" The experience left him unafraid of death and with a strong desire to help others, believing his next home will be better the more he helps people. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Anaphylactic shock leading to cardiac arrest, required CPR in emergency room | Out-of-body observation of CPR being performed, heard medical staff | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed CPR efforts | 0.00 | Doctor | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||
| 4069 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 494 Face to Face with Jesus the Christ | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/494-face-to-face-with-jesus-the-christ.html | 2000 | 2008 | 60 | M | A 60-year-old Vietnam veteran with stage 3A lung cancer underwent pneumonectomy (lung removal) surgery in 2000. A month later, during a second surgery to repair a fistula, he died on the operating table. Upon awakening, he observed the entire surgical team of seven physicians huddled together praying for him across the room. When one noticed his eyes open and shouted "He's alive," they rushed back, explaining they had tried everything to revive him before gathering to pray for his soul. One physician stayed behind and revealed that while the patient was clinically dead with his chest open, he began talking out loud to Jesus Christ in a two-way conversation, though only the patient's voice was audible. The doctor documented this in medical records. A month later, a psychic friend who had predicted his cancer revealed the conversation's content: when he died, he screamed apologies for hurting anyone, attracting Jesus's attention. He told Jesus about his cancer treatment, disability check, and desire to have fun, making everyone laugh. Jesus touched him, instantly cured his cancer, and sent him back with 26 more years to live helping others. The friend saw lights and angels around him. His cancer later metastasized to stage 4 in 2003, but after surgery, mysteriously disappeared completely. He remains the sole survivor of 12 clinical trial participants. In 2007, during a heart attack, he had another NDE where focusing on light during prayer caused his BiPAP dependency to spontaneously resolve. He now dedicates his life to telling others about Jesus healing him. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 20 | 50 | Exceptional Evidence | 20 | Died during surgery with chest open, surgical team unable to revive | Talking to Jesus while clinically dead observed by 7 surgeons, conversation documented in medical records | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/11/2025 | 3 | 2 | Saw surgical team praying | 1.00 | Surgical team | Moderately Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4070 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 495 About to Enter the Light | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/495-about-to-enter-the-light.html | 2008 | 35 | M | A 35-year-old divisional manager had an aortic dissection at home in Las Vegas. The heart repair surgery went well, but instead of waking 24 hours later, he went into a two-month coma. One month in, doctors told his wife and boss he wouldn't survive the night as his kidneys had failed, requiring dialysis and ventilator support. His right leg was amputated above the knee due to compartmental syndrome poisoning his body. Just before waking from the coma, he walked through a long dark corridor where a raspy voice he believed was Satan repeatedly called his name, saying "Don't go into the light come into the darkness. The grass isn't any greener on the other side." Each time, he responded "Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. He is the way, truth and life" - the only scripture he had memorized. Satan eventually left. He continued walking toward a faint glow that grew bigger and brighter. As he was about to enter what he felt was Heaven, a lady's voice of obvious authority said "Don't go into the light. It is not your time yet." He bowed his head in disappointment. He then awoke from his coma staring at his wife's face, unable to speak or move initially, desperately wanting to tell her what he had seen. She eventually managed to read his lips. | 4 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Aortic dissection, two-month coma, kidney failure, leg amputation, on dialysis and ventilator | Dark corridor experience with entity encounter, approaching light | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Voice stopping entry to light | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4071 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 499 Someone Stopped Me | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/499-someone-stopped-me.html | 2008 | M | A man was out to dinner with five friends in Ireland when a large piece of steak became lodged in his throat. Unable to speak, he frantically signaled for help by slapping his back. His friends initially thought he was joking, then tried hitting his back and the Heimlich maneuver, both unsuccessful. Someone called for an ambulance. His vision and hearing failed as he thought sadly of his family while being frightened beyond belief. Then he found himself in a completely dark place where the fear had strangely disappeared. He thought he might be in purgatory (as a Catholic) and that it wasn't so bad - peaceful despite the darkness. He felt he had no body but was still himself with crystal clear thinking, sensing he was there for a long time. In the distance, miles away, he saw a small warm and inviting light that he can still feel today when remembering it. As he willed himself toward the light, someone stopped him - he felt but didn't see this presence. A voice that was neither male nor female said, "Don't be scared, you're going to be okay." Next, he found himself on his stomach looking at the piece of meat that had come out somehow, as the Heimlich hadn't worked and he had been dead. People were watching through windows. He never told his friends due to Ireland's Catholic culture where this would be seen as demonic. The experience removed his fear of death, which he now sees as natural as life. The voice seemed to know him personally. | 5 | Other | 10 | 6 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Choking on food, unable to breathe, Heimlich maneuver failed, was dead | Dark place, distant light, stopped by unseen presence with reassuring voice | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw the piece of meat | 1.00 | Five friends at dinner | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4072 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 500 Chose to Stay with Children | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/500-chose-to-stay-with-children.html | 2008 | F | A mother of four-year-old twins became severely ill with pneumonia and was admitted to ICU with failing organs. She was on various antibiotic drips but picked up a super bug and progressively worsened. From day two forward, she drifted in and out of confusion, becoming very weak. On the eighth day, she was put on a ventilator. The day before waking, she had a near-death experience where she found herself in a very bright, white light place with angels who looked like people but no one she knew. They were at the other end of a tunnel while she was at the near end. Someone kept saying "come, the fight will be over, come and you will feel better." The pull toward the angels was huge, feeling safe and secure. She walked partway down the tunnel, but below she could see her children looking up at her, needing her. She told the angels she needed to stay with her children. They continued calling "come, come" and it was exceptionally difficult to fight the urge to go - it would have been utopia. Halfway down the tunnel, she looked at her children again, immediately turned around and walked back. The angels' calling grew quieter until she woke up. She doesn't know how long after the experience she awakened. By the 13th day her condition had improved. She could recall the experience immediately upon waking, knowing she had chosen to stay with her children. She is now healthy and a mother to four beautiful children. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Severe pneumonia in ICU, organ failure, super bug infection, on ventilator day 8 | Saw children from tunnel looking up at her needing her | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw children below | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4073 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 501 Oneness is Reality | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/501-oneness-is-reality.html | 2008 | F | A woman had an asthma attack and was put on a respirator in ICU for five days. She experienced four states of consciousness: awake, dreaming, hallucinating, and out-of-body in another realm. She overheard two doctors discussing opening the thoracic area in a different room about another patient, which a nurse later confirmed. In the spiritual realm, she encountered Bha, her deceased yoga teacher's wife who had died three years earlier, talking animatedly with a tall blue light being shaped like a man with turquoise neon outline and moving lights inside. Unable to breathe or move her chest, Bha told her to "stop interfering, let the machine breathe you." She experienced a life review going back to age seven, then to being a fetus discovering her tongue, and finally to being formless "isness" - a state of oneness and bliss she identifies as God, where she knew everything and realized she had created all her life's melodramas. Returning to the room, Bha said it was time to go back. Seeing a vision of her daughter crying over her grave, she chose to return. After discharge, she experienced a stroke-like event losing memory, speech, and balance for six weeks, requiring care and speaking with a foreign accent. This was followed by an extended bliss period with awareness of universal oneness, psychic abilities, wild birds perching on her, and living completely in the moment. She lost many memories permanently but gained healing abilities. The blue being (Michael) taught her spiritual things nightly for years. She divorced her husband and trained as a hypnotherapist, holistic masseuse, and later as an Interfaith Minister to help others with dying and spiritual counseling. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe asthma attack requiring respirator/life support in ICU for 5 days | Heard doctors discussing surgery in different room about different patient, confirmed by nurse | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 1 | Overheard medical discussion | 1.00 | Nurse | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4074 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 502 Spinning in the Tunnel | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/502-spinning-in-the-tunnel.html | 2008 | F | A woman with a severe urinary tract infection with blood in her urine visited her family doctor who administered a strong penicillin shot. After the doctor left the room, she felt faint and clammy, then passed out while sitting up, unable to scream for help. She floated up out of her body toward the ceiling and corner of the room, saw a tunnel and began spinning in the white tunnel. While out of body, she heard the nurse come in, see her passed out, and run out screaming for the doctor. The doctor ordered adrenaline shots and both medical staff sat her up and administered multiple shots in her arms. As she came to, she exited the corner/tunnel and went back into her body. She was dripping with sweat, wearing a wet grey cotton shirt when she left. The doctor told her he had "lost" her and it scared him to death. She was frightened and wanted to leave quickly but was told to sit and relax to ensure she was okay. At the time, she didn't understand what had occurred and didn't know about NDEs until five years later when a TV show explained them. She then began talking about it and discovered others who had also had NDEs. She will never forget the experience and knows without doubt that her soul or spirit left her body that day. Her belief in God has strengthened and she knew He wasn't ready to take her yet. | 5 | Other | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe allergic reaction to penicillin requiring multiple adrenaline shots to revive | Heard nurse screaming for doctor and observed revival efforts from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed revival efforts | 1.00 | Doctor and nurse | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4075 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 868 View of Self Survival | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/868-view-of-self-survival.html | 2011 | 2012 | Unknown | The experiencer was hospitalized for a severe anaphylactic reaction to shellfish that recurred every four hours in a biphasic pattern. During an episode on the observation floor, respiratory treatment with albuterol failed to work and the patient's airway closed completely. A Code Blue was called as the patient lost consciousness. The experience began with a profound deafening silence followed by slow motion perception before everything stopped. The patient found themselves at the foot of the bed observing their own body curled up on the bed, viewing the scene from an out-of-body perspective. They experienced intense heat and heard a male voice that sounded like an ex-boyfriend commanding them to "Get up, get up." Upon this command, they immediately returned to consciousness. Remarkably, while still unconscious with eyes closed, the patient sat up and administered their own EpiPen injection from their purse, saving their own life while medical staff waited for missing epinephrine from the crash cart. The patient reports ongoing PTSD symptoms including flashbacks, blackouts, and a persistent feeling of having left part of their spirit in that hospital room. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Code Blue called, cardiac arrest during anaphylactic reaction | Clear out-of-body experience viewing self from foot of bed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self from foot of bed during cardiac arrest | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4076 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 871 Greeted and Given A Tour | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/871-greeted-and-given-a-tour.html | 2012 | Unknown | The experiencer was taking large amounts of cocaine when they went into a seizure and died. Friends witnessed them dying and screaming that they were dead. During the experience, the person found themselves climbing an autumn hill to a flat rock overlooking a divide of water. They observed people appearing to picnic happily on the other side, with a fountain, beautiful flowers that seemed to worship the light, and extraordinary colors. A male figure in white appeared and gave them a tour of a celestial city containing great halls and libraries with scrolls of various sizes, including one so large it took up an entire wall. Beautiful choir music would periodically sound, causing everyone to stop and praise before resuming their activities. The experiencer learned about angelic duties including counting births and deaths, and how different areas of heaven oversee different aspects of earthly life. They spent what felt like all day there though only two minutes passed on earth. Upon return, they had no cocaine effects despite the large dose, lost all drug cravings, and developed profound love for all people, psychic abilities, and sensitivity to light and sound. Three witnesses were present who confirmed the death but never saw the guide in white. The experiencer now struggles with earthly time concepts and appointments. | 5 | Other | 10 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Death from cocaine overdose with seizure, confirmed by witnesses | Detailed observations of heavenly realm, libraries, angels, choir | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw heavenly city with libraries and halls | 0.00 | Three friends present | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4077 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 875 Overwhelming Presence and Peace | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/875-overwhelming-presence-and-peace.html | 2012 | Unknown | The experiencer had a head-on collision at 6:30 AM on the way to work. The first memory after impact was floating approximately 20 feet above the ground, observing their body trapped in the car from this elevated perspective. They experienced unexplainable peace and felt surrounded by God's presence. Despite it being morning, they perceived a beautiful night sky with stars and illuminated mountain ranges. The visual perception was unusual - not like normal vision but rather a three-dimensional awareness of all surroundings simultaneously, consuming a large dimension of space rather than looking in one direction. The experience lasted what felt like 5-10 seconds before a sensory overload brought them back into their trapped body, feeling pain, cold, and seeing vehicle lights. Their next memory was praying aloud and asking a man to pray for them, which he did. They spent 10 days in ICU and doctors said they should be dead, expecting hospitalization through March, but were released after only three weeks. During recovery, they experienced a profound mental and spiritual transformation with overwhelming divine presence during prayer. All anger and bitterness disappeared, replaced with peace and a completely transformed outlook on life, relationships, and perspective. | 5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Head-on collision severe enough for 10 days ICU, doctors said should be dead | Out-of-body view from 20 feet above, unusual 3D perception of surroundings | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Viewed trapped body from 20 feet above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4078 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 876 Over the Scene | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/876-over-the-scene.html | 2012 | F | An inexperienced driver on the Massachusetts Turnpike lost control of a borrowed car while attempting to pass a school bus that suddenly pulled in front of them. After slamming the brakes and jerking the steering wheel, the car swerved uncontrollably across the highway while other drivers slowed to avoid collision. In a moment of panic and realization that this was the end, their panic suddenly left entirely and vision blacked out. They felt lifted out of the car and over the scene, experiencing an overwhelming sense of love and homecoming. They thought "So this is the end of this particular chapter" and felt elements of identity dropping away one by one - blond, tall, female, violinist - realizing they had forgotten their true nature in life and were now returning to that truth. They thought of their parents with regret about their devastation but felt comforting knowledge that they too would eventually know the truth and it wasn't really that long a time. The experience did not result in permanent peace - they developed PTSD and a lasting phobia about highway driving, for which they later received EMDR treatment. They have maintained a lifelong interest in mysticism and began intensive meditation practice the year before sharing this account. | 5 | Other | 3 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Life-threatening car accident with loss of control | Out-of-body experience with profound identity dissolution | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 4079 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 877 Revelation and Transformation | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/877-revelation-and-transformation.html | 2006 | 2012 | Unknown | In February 2006, the experiencer was critically ill with staph infection in lungs and all sinus cavities, plus C-diff infection, experiencing 103-degree fever, black mouth sores, poor breathing, and severe headache pain. Before hospital admission, they left their body and observed the ambulance, healthcare workers, husband and eight-year-old son from above, while their entire life scrolled by all at once. They declared "I am not ready to die yet" and returned to their body. Three days later in the hospital bed, they saw and felt a beautiful angel in a dream with arms raised and palms pressed together toward heaven. Despite their physical body remaining in bed, they experienced dancing with the angel - twirling and leaping - while feeling total peace and unconditional love. The angel told them they were free, all would be well, and they would help others heal, instructing them to write about the experience immediately to share messages of love, light and peace with the world. Following this encounter, they experienced complete healing and transformation. They became a yoga instructor and energy healer, able to read others' energy fields and channel Universal Consciousness/Divine Holy Spirit. They now experience regular intuition, synchronicity, and guidance to various teachers, enjoying perfect physical health while recognizing their true nature as already perfect and steeped in unconditional love. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Critical illness with multiple severe infections and high fever | Out-of-body view of ambulance/family, angelic visitation with dancing | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/11/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw ambulance and family from above | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4080 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 880 Clarity about Life | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/880-clarity-about-life.html | 1999 | 2012 | Unknown | In 1999, during a period when the experiencer was spiraling out of control with all meaning and purpose vanished from life, they were swept out to sea by a twenty-foot freak wave while riding a bike one evening. As their body began shutting down in the water, the excruciating pain subsided and they became acutely aware of a loving presence nearby. What followed was an enlightening conversation with this higher presence through thought communication. Caught between this world and the next, they relived many pivotal moments from their past and had every question about life answered with absolute clarity. The experience provided profound understanding and perspective on their life journey and purpose. Close to death and practically unconscious for several hours in the dark ocean, they were miraculously spotted by a man with a telescope who had borrowed it from a neighbor only hours before the incident. This remarkable rescue, involving a borrowed telescope being used at exactly the right moment to spot someone in dark ocean waters, suggests divine intervention. The experience transformed their understanding of life's meaning and purpose, replacing despair with clarity and understanding about their life's journey. | 5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Near drowning after being swept out by 20-foot wave, unconscious for hours | Enlightening conversation with presence, life review with questions answered | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 4081 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 881 Freedom in My Lungs | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/881-freedom-in-my-lungs.html | 2012 | Unknown | A college sophomore in a rigorous engineering program, exhausted and depressed with chronic asthma, experienced an NDE while alone in their dorm room. During a severe asthma attack combined with overwhelming depression, they stated they didn't care if they stopped breathing and died. They involuntarily arched their back and knew they died. The experience involved being enveloped by magnificent, brilliant light radiating love, peace, and understanding. Without seeing their physical body, they believed they were kneeling at the base of an enormous white marble throne they never actually saw - an act of voluntary submission and reverence. After what felt like an eternity but was instantaneous, they were hurled back through their chest into their body. Immediately upon return, they found complete freedom from asthma that continues to this day. Unlike typical NDEs, there was no tunnel, deceased relatives, life review, or command to return. The experience led to intense spiritual hunger, leading them to explore various Christian denominations before leaving organized religion, finding the doctrines too restricting compared to their firsthand divine encounter. They found the Tao Te Ching's description most aligned with their experience. For ten years afterward, they possessed extraordinary ESP abilities, particularly reading and comforting others' grief and pain, though this gradually dissipated after leaving church. | 5 | Other | 3 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | Severe asthma attack leading to apparent death | Experienced divine light and throne, though not visually seen | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4082 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 886 Love Everything that Exists | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/886-love-everything-that-exists.html | 2012 | 2012 | Unknown | The experiencer blacked out after witnessing gruesome violence, beginning with terror and confusion similar to a frightening experience years earlier. They moved through darkness at beyond light speed with things whooshing past and through them, like a tunnel without spatial limits. They recognized being part of the everythingness around them and realized they had been there before, though identity and spatial concepts didn't exist. A glow appeared inside and outside simultaneously, bringing awareness of being the same as everything else - both ceasing to exist and being infinite, everywhere, everytime. They experienced their entire earthly existence simultaneously - past, present, and future - living it all at once while these experiences were part of the universal whole. After breaking through something, the glow intensified into beyond-unconditional love where love itself is everything that exists. Without warning, they felt separation from this unity and moved rapidly back through a dark tunnel toward a pinhole of earthly light. Fighting against returning, they realized the pinhole was 2012, feeling like eons had passed. Being forced back felt like hundreds of senses being suffocated until only five remained, like being shoved into a "weird and well-used jacket." Upon return, they couldn't initially categorize sensory input or recognize objects, slowly relearning that red and blue were colors, identifying walls, buildings, and humans. They maintained connection by looking into someone's eyes that showed universal love. The experiencer feels partially still "out there" with intense aftereffects changing their life permanently. | 6 | Other | 1 | 8 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Blacked out after seeing violence, medical status unclear | Detailed journey through dimensions, universal consciousness experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Incompatible | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 4083 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 891 Yes Theres Something After Death | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/891-yes-theres-something-after-death.html | 2012 | F | A nurse underwent cardiac ablation for atrial fibrillation lasting nine hours under general anesthesia. Despite initial confidence, she felt uneasy about the procedure. During ablation of multiple "hot spots," her heart stopped after the second ablation and restarted spontaneously. On the third ablation, her heart stopped again and remained in asystole (flatlined). During this cardiac arrest, she suddenly heard people rushing around, instruments hitting metal trays, and someone saying "Oh my God it's a very high degree heart block." Understanding the medical significance, she felt no fear or pain but thought "whatever." She found herself somewhere warm and comfortable, sensing but not seeing a white room with no doors or windows. She experienced complete and utter love unlike any earthly love and felt she was not alone, though no one appeared. She didn't care if she survived. Upon awakening hours later with an external pacemaker sustaining her lower heart function, she learned she had been in critical condition for six days before receiving a permanent pacemaker. When asked by the doctor before the second procedure, she involuntarily blurted out "Just don't let me die," then made excuses for the statement. Post-experience, she had nightmares, panic attacks, and delayed memories of the NDE, along with guilt about not wanting to return. Remarkably, she stayed awake for six days straight in the hospital despite her weakened condition. As a nurse, she now knows people don't experience pain when dying as the soul disconnects from the physical body. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest (asystole/flatlined) during monitored ablation procedure | Heard specific statement "very high degree heart block" and activity during arrest | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 1 | Heard medical team during cardiac arrest | 1.00 | Surgeon | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4084 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 893 A Musical Note | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/893-a-musical-note.html | 1990 | 2012 | F | In September 1990, during major gallbladder surgery under general anesthesia, the patient experienced what began as a sensation of flipping over and seeing the floor, wondering if they had been turned over and why they saw floor instead of table. They then zoomed up to the ceiling, looking down at a body they initially didn't recognize as their own until realizing it was dead. Nurses were rushing around while the anesthetist said "for God's sake breathe" with everyone in panic. Unconcerned about being dead, they thought "Oh well, I'm dead, better go then" and began traveling backwards faster than a bullet through a blacker than black void. Terrified, they tried to stop themselves and discovered their arms were replaced by wispy light. They arrived at a building bigger than a city with huge arched doors, and with just a thought about what was inside, found themselves in a huge empty room where they sensed an unseen presence and communicated through thought, receiving instant answers to questions. Next they stood in a garden with colors unlike earth - alive, vibrant, and glowing. A musical note sounded, telling them to return. Despite their desire to stay in paradise, the note sounded again and they were suddenly back gasping for air with extreme chest pain. Six weeks later, the surgeon confirmed the events, going "deathly white" and stating "You were determined not to come back to us, but we were even more determined that you would." The experience dramatically changed their life - they now have purpose, help people, channel healings, have psychic experiences, and no longer fear death. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Major surgery under general anesthesia with apparent cardiac/respiratory arrest | Saw medical team panic, heard anesthetist say "for God's sake breathe", verified by surgeon | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw and heard medical team during crisis | 1.00 | Surgeon | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4085 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1717 Canadian Catholic three-year-old drowned | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1717-canadian-catholic-three-year-old-drowned-and-said-mary-smiled-at-her.html | 1970 | 2023 | 3 | F |
A three-year-old girl from Toronto went to a local swimming pool with her father and six-year-old sister in the early 1970s. During an adult-only swim period, she impulsively jumped into the deep end, thinking she could sink to the bottom and push herself back up. Instead, she began spinning underwater and ran out of air, experiencing what appeared to be a drowning incident requiring resuscitation. During the experience, she found herself at the bottom of the pool feeling wonderful and relieved. She could swim freely without needing air and observed her sister and others gathered around something on the pool deck, not realizing it was her own body being resuscitated. While swimming underwater, she witnessed a nativity scene materialize - Mary in a dark blue robe and lighter veil, Joseph in brown holding a staff, and a manger. The scene transitioned from darkness to bright light as Mary looked up and smiled at her. Behind Mary's eyes, she recognized a familiar bright light that filled her with love and the knowledge that she was important. The child saw Mary smile radiantly and felt overwhelming love and recognition, knowing this presence from before. She desperately wanted to go to Mary but was suddenly pulled back into her body, finding herself sitting on the pool edge with her angry father lecturing her about being selfish. Her sister asked if she was scared, and she replied it was fun, not understanding why everyone was so upset. It wasn't until 2021, at age 56, that she learned from her sister that she had actually stopped breathing and needed resuscitation. The experience included classic NDE elements of leaving the body, encountering religious figures, experiencing unconditional love, and being sent back. The witness verification came decades later when her sister confirmed the medical emergency. The experience left her unafraid of death, knowing "we don't really die." |
5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Drowning incident with loss of consciousness and breathing, requiring resuscitation as confirmed later by sister | Out-of-body experience observing pool scene from underwater perspective, though specific details not independently verified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw sister and others standing around something by pool | 0.00 | Sister | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4086 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1721 Suicidally depressed young woman has NDE during minor surgery | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1721-suicidally-depressed-young-woman-has-nde-during-minor-surgery.html | 1992 | 2023 | 40 | F |
A 40-year-old woman with severe clinical depression underwent surgery for a lymph node biopsy in 1992. She had been suicidal and ironically hoped the tumor might be cancerous. During surgery, she experienced a rare reaction to anesthesia due to pseudocholinesterase deficiency, the same condition that had previously killed a friend. The anesthesiologist noted she was paralyzed and would not wake up soon, requiring immediate ICU transfer. She heard these conversations while unconscious but felt wrapped in complete well-being and peace rather than alarm. Initially, she entered a "blacker beyond black pyramid-like tunnel" that brought profound comfort. Hours later, when partially awakening in the ICU with a breathing tube, she experienced severe panic from being unable to breathe on her own despite the ventilator. Her husband was called to calm her, explaining the paralysis. The terror became so intense that she instantly left her body, finding herself cradled in all-encompassing love and peace that permeated every cell. She experienced pure consciousness without a body, receiving telepathic communications from at least two presences who showed her the connections between all humans. The experience revealed she was connected to every human through "fine silver threads," understanding how fragile we all are and how our actions affect one another. She received insights about belonging on Earth despite her social anxiety and depression. The beings told her "you are a spirit having a human experience" and revealed meanings of her life challenges, though she couldn't remember all details afterward. They gradually faded away as she returned to her body, where her husband was wiping tears from her face. The experience provided lasting insights about compassion and the shared struggles of humanity. While the anesthesia effects lingered and depression continued initially, she eventually found effective treatment with new SSRI medications. The NDE served as a crucial intervention when she needed it most, helping her understand she belonged here on Earth despite her ongoing challenges with bipolar disorder. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Surgery with general anesthesia, rare enzymatic deficiency causing prolonged paralysis requiring ICU care | Heard medical staff conversations while unconscious, experienced leaving body during crisis | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard medical staff discussing her paralysis | 0.00 | Husband Ken | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4087 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1723 Danish woman floats in void several times in recovery room | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1723-danish-woman-floats-in-void-several-times-in-recovery-room.html | 2023 | F |
A Danish woman underwent gallbladder surgery for gallstones. In the recovery room, she was given pain medication and was the last patient there around dinner time, hearing staff discussing their evening meal orders. After the nurse left, she was overcome with fatigue and fell into what she thought was deep sleep, but instead found herself in a place she calls "nothingness" - a dark space like thin coffee with foggy clouds, where the atmosphere felt heavier than oxygen but lighter than water. While floating in this peaceful silence, she realized she didn't need to breathe. As she relaxed completely, it felt as if a heavy, wet winter coat was lifted from her, making her feel even lighter. A woman's voice suddenly spoke to her in a loving but firm tone, calling her by name "Gitte" and telling her she must breathe. As a reflex, she took a deep breath and was instantly pulled back into her body as if by an elastic attached to her navel. She found herself back in the dark recovery room. This same sequence repeated four more times - the fatigue would return, she would find herself in the void where the "heavy coat" would immediately fall away, and the woman's voice would command her to breathe, pulling her back to her body. She tried to fight the fatigue and reach for a nurse call button but was repeatedly overcome. After the final return, she felt ordinary tiredness and fell into normal sleep, waking hours later in a hospital room. The experience involved multiple transitions between her body and a peaceful void state where breathing was unnecessary. Each time required external intervention from a feminine voice to return her to physical life. The repetitive nature suggests possible respiratory complications from post-operative pain medication requiring supernatural intervention to maintain breathing. |
3 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Post-operative recovery from gallbladder surgery with pain medication, possible respiratory depression | Multiple out-of-body experiences to void state, heard staff discussing dinner orders | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard staff discussing dinner orders | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4088 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1732 Ten-year-old girl falls and leaves body but returns just in time | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1732-ten-year-old-girl-falls-and-leaves-body-but-returns-just-in-time.html | 2023 | 10 | F |
A ten-year-old girl was riding bikes home from school with her friend Todd, who was swinging a bungee cord attached to his bike handle. The cord accidentally looped under his glasses and hit him in the eye, causing him to lose control and fall. She ran over his legs and fell off her bike, losing consciousness while looking at a street light. She immediately found herself in absolute pitch darkness, darker than any physical darkness, which felt neither hostile nor threatening but simply existed. In this darkness, she felt her feet shuffle forward on what seemed like a freshly polished wooden stage worn from years of use. A blinding beam of light engulfed her from above, and she sensed her own features being "etched into life" like an artist drawing. She heard hushed murmurs from an unknown number of entities that she sensed were in stands like a Roman coliseum, populated by angels, demons, and deities. Two masculine voices became clear, with one asking "What is she doing here?" and another responding "It isn't her time yet." A doorway-shaped light appeared to her left with a growing black spot that revealed itself as Todd approaching while calling her name repeatedly. As she pondered moving toward the light tunnel and Todd's form appeared, she suddenly opened her eyes to find herself turned opposite from the street light, staring at an SUV tire heading toward her at 45 mph. She managed to spring to her feet in a split second, narrowly avoiding having her head crushed by the vehicle. The experience involved a near-miss with death where she was unconscious long enough for a life-threatening situation to develop. The entities' discussion about it not being her time, combined with Todd's voice calling her back, facilitated her return just in time to save her life. She remains uncertain about the identity or number of the judging entities but knows she's lucky to be alive. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Head trauma from bike accident causing loss of consciousness, nearly struck by vehicle | Heard entities discussing her presence, theatrical setting with stands of beings observed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard entities discussing her presence | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4089 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1733 Childhood drowning leads to lifetime of after-effects | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1733-childhood-drowning-leads-to-lifetime-of-after-effects-2.html | 1973 | 2023 | 10 | F |
A 10-year-old girl at summer camp in California went on a canoe trip on the Russian River with her 7-year-old sister in the early 1970s. Due to shortage of life jackets, children who could swim didn't receive them. During the second leg of the river journey, their canoe hit white water and rocks, flipped over, and pinned her underneath. She likely hit her head on rocks and "woke up" trapped beneath the overturned canoe in pitch darkness. Unable to lift the canoe edge or find an air pocket, she remained remarkably calm and decided to sleep rather than panic about not breathing. Suddenly, she experienced a rapid slideshow of her entire life, both good and bad moments, shown so quickly she could only watch without thinking about individual scenes. She felt happy and peaceful about her life review. Next, she found herself standing in the water beside the canoe with her sister clinging to her and crying, repeatedly saying "We thought you were dead!" The adult with them stood in shock, saying nothing. She felt angry about being back, wanting to return to the quiet, dark, peaceful place where there was no noise or pain. The profound after-effects lasted decades. In her 20s, she experienced precognitive visions, prophetic dreams, and electromagnetic sensitivities with lights and electronics responding to her presence. Her 30s brought severe clinical depression, dissociation, and suicidal ideation, feeling like she was watching rather than living her life. A medium later told her she had died and was sent back because it wasn't her time. After years of therapy and medication, she found stability and happiness by age 60. The experience profoundly impacted her entire life, initially manifesting as psychic abilities and electromagnetic effects, then evolving into severe depression and dissociation, ultimately resolving into acceptance and peace with life. She never feared death again, maintaining certainty about continuation beyond physical death. |
5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Drowning incident, pinned underwater beneath overturned canoe after hitting head | Life review experience, standing in water when previously trapped, sister's reaction | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review as rapid slideshow | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||
| 4090 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1736 Critically ill woman wakes to see Jesus who heals her | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1736-critically-ill-woman-wakes-to-see-jesus-who-heals-her.html | 2020 | 2023 | F |
In August 2020, a woman preparing for a dinner party suddenly experienced violent vomiting and diarrhea from apparent food poisoning. The severe illness continued for two weeks with spiking fevers, inability to eat, and extreme weight loss to 111 pounds. Her husband had to carry her to the bathroom as she became too weak to walk. She was so ill she lay in her own waste for two weeks, too sick to move or have sheets changed. She lost track of time with days and nights blending together during the prolonged critical illness. During this near-death state, she woke up in a desert setting where she saw Jesus casually leaning against a large boulder at a cliff wall, wearing his white robe. Having daily conversations with Jesus previously, she wasn't surprised by his appearance and immediately asked if he would "burn all this out" of her. He responded "Yes, ma'am" through telepathy. Their conversation continued, though parts were wiped from her memory to be remembered later. Jesus walked over and touched her head with a fingertip, after which she awoke back in her bed. She immediately grabbed her phone to document the experience, then walked into the kitchen where her family celebrated her survival. About a year later, she discovered the phone notes revealing she had asked Jesus about her book and had given him her life to use as he pleased. She describes being "a sucker for the guy" who she turns her life and will over to daily. Following the experience, Jesus dictated her second book during what seemed like a manic high lasting months, which some call channeling. The after-effects included complete healing from several addictions (including cough drops), heightened spiritual perception allowing her to "see through everything and everyone," and an unshakeable conviction that she had to have died to meet Jesus. She emphasizes that once one walks with Jesus, all else pales, and she maintains absolute trust in divine guidance. A year after the experience, she burst into tears with the realization she must have died. |
5 | Home | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe illness lasting two weeks with life-threatening symptoms, husband confirmed critical condition | Met Jesus in desert setting, immediate healing and recovery, documented experience on phone | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw Jesus in desert setting | 0.00 | Husband Bernie | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4091 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1738 Young woman overdoses and experiences unending undying love | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1738-young-woman-overdoses-and-experiences-unending-undying-love-among-other-things.html | 2014 | 2023 | 21 | F |
A 21-year-old woman in a California mental health treatment facility, struggling with emotional regulation and depression, attempted suicide by taking a whole bottle of Tegretol after a failed attempt with a knife. She called police regretting the action, was taken to the hospital where she initially felt fine, then began acting strangely with uncontrollable laughter. Staff were hostile and accusatory toward her. She began passing out repeatedly, feeling air leave her body, experiencing complete blackness with no memory, thinking as an atheist "See there really is nothing after you die." She also smelled iron or sulfur that staff dismissed. After multiple episodes of losing consciousness, staff found her not breathing. When told to walk to another room, she collapsed and died for 3-5 minutes, requiring CPR. During her NDE, she appeared in a dark, gloomy park resembling one from Maryland, similar to the "upside-down" from Stranger Things. She encountered Death as a man in a black hoodie whose presence felt familiar. He sat with her saying "Well here we are again," and when asked how to escape, demonstrated on a giant hamster wheel that repeating mistakes leads to worse places. They walked past a pit of black and red muck representing despair. Death led her to a cabinet identical to the one she'd taken pills from, which opened to reveal bright light that hugged and enveloped her with unending, undying love - an emotion never felt on Earth without pain or suffering. She recognized this as home and wanted to stay, but chose to return for her parents. The light transformed into the nurse's flashlight as she returned. A nurse coldly informed her she'd been dead for 5 minutes. The experience didn't immediately change her - suicide attempts worsened afterward and she was hospitalized. Six years later in 2020 during quarantine, the memory's impact hit fully, leading to Christian conversion. She now struggles with wanting to die again to get answers, viewing death as a path to understanding rather than something to fear. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Cardiac arrest from overdose, stopped breathing, CPR performed, dead 3-5 minutes per nurse | Encountered Death entity, saw otherworldly park, experienced divine light and love | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw Death as hooded figure and otherworldly park | 0.00 | Nurse | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||
| 4092 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1741 Teen on drugs almost dies but has NDE and learns a lot | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1741-teen-on-drugs-almost-dies-but-has-nde-and-learns-a-lot.html | 2023 | 15 | F |
A 15-year-old girl, angry and isolated after moving to a new state, attended a bonfire party deep in the woods and took strong drugs that caused severe hallucinations. The hallucinations were terrifying, with people's faces morphing into demons and monsters. In desperation to escape the hallucinations, she jumped into the large bonfire, lighting up "like a candle" and burning severely before someone pulled her out. The other teenagers hid her to avoid legal trouble, attempting to clean her wounds and leaving her alone in the dark woods, away from everyone. In agony and knowing she would die, she prayed repeatedly "Just let me out!" She was pulled up through a pitch-black tunnel and landed on a dark, rocky, treeless plain covered in grey mist with unfamiliar stars overhead. Despite looking like a horror movie scene, it was peaceful. A massive ancient stone wall of a sleeping city towered nearby, with incredibly beautiful music floating down that made her heart hurt with longing - "love and hope in the form of music." She had no body but felt whole, with an invisible tether leading back to her dying body on Earth, which she could faintly feel and wanted nothing to do with. A beautiful glowing star-like guide appeared, radiating calm intelligence. This instantly made her know God was real, which enraged her as the architect of all suffering. She swelled with destructive anger, wanting to knock the being into another cosmos. A chessboard appeared, and she demanded to know if life was "some sort of game." The guide explained she chose her life and suffering, that Earth exists for eternal beings to learn and grow through struggle, and that facing life's struggles through love was the ultimate test. The guide showed her past experiences and explained her duty, mentioning "there are children that need to be born." The guide convinced her to return despite her resistance, healing her body through the tether so she could survive. Upon waking at sunrise, still alone and in agony, she eventually made it to a hospital where she healed far better than expected. Now 30 years later, she recognizes it as divine intervention, confirming God's existence and teaching that we are eternal beings choosing earthly experiences for growth. She later married her boyfriend and had the children mentioned by the guide. |
5 | Other | 5 | 12 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Severe burns from jumping into bonfire, life-threatening injuries, months in hospital | Encountered divine guide, received knowledge about life purpose and future children | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard beautiful otherworldly music | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4093 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1742 Ten-year-old girl has NDE from inhaling helium balloon | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1742-ten-year-old-girl-has-nde-from-inhaling-helium-balloon.html | 2023 | 10 | F |
A 10-year-old girl, excited to inhale helium to make her voice high-pitched, passed out cold when the helium blocked oxygen supply to her brain. She fell to the ground and hacked uncontrollably for about a minute. Her last memory was inhaling the balloon before suddenly finding herself in a completely different realm. She was running through a tall, waist-high yellow wheat field with waves in the wind, under "Golden Hour" lighting that felt like heaven. She ran for what seemed like 10 minutes without physical stress toward a massive, healthy green tree. Underneath the tree was a figure she inherently knew to be Jesus Christ, patiently waiting for her to run into his embrace. Having grown up Christian, she felt inclined to assume it was Jesus, but something within her knew with certainty it was him. As she neared Jesus and was about to reach him, she was suddenly pulled back to reality, opening her eyes to worried parents and siblings surrounding her. She felt strange with her oxygen restored but wondered what would have happened if she had reached the figure under the tree. The experience left her with certainty about Jesus's presence and the reality of a heavenly realm, though she was prevented from fully reaching him. The golden wheat field and divine figure waiting under the tree created a powerful spiritual experience from a brief loss of consciousness due to oxygen deprivation. |
5 | Other | 3 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | Brief oxygen deprivation from helium inhalation causing loss of consciousness | Saw Jesus waiting under tree in wheat field, pulled back before reaching him | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw Jesus under tree in wheat field | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4094 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1744 Hitting head at age 8 leads to lifetime of visits to heaven | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1744-hitting-head-at-age-8-leads-to-lifetime-of-visits-to-heaven-and-spirit-work.html | 2023 | 8 | M |
An 8-year-old boy died when he fell and hit his head on an end table next to his bed. He saw a being in a burgundy robe, then fell asleep but never forgot the encounter. This initial experience opened a lifetime of spiritual experiences and abilities. For years afterward, he could understand and feel spirits, speaking with them telepathically to assist in their ascension to heaven. In 1999, he experienced a complete out-of-body journey where he stood next to Jesus on the Mount of Olives, discovering he was the apostle Thomas. He saw Jesus bleeding with thorns on his head and blamed himself, leading to deep searching for meaning. Multiple psychics later confirmed he had been present since the beginning of time and space, arriving from the star Sirius to assist in Earth's ascension. His nightly spiritual work involves traveling to astral planes and timelines to clear issues, perform reincarnation assistance for people who haven't died yet, and rescue souls from self-created purgatory and hell realms back to heaven. He emphasizes that purgatory and hell don't truly exist but are created by human consciousness. He has encountered many lost souls, including those from Chernobyl. The initial childhood NDE activated profound spiritual gifts including spirit communication, astral travel, timeline work, and soul rescue missions. He believes everyone has these abilities and shares his experiences to help others understand their spiritual potential. His work focuses on helping souls return to heaven and assisting Earth's spiritual ascension. |
5 | Home | 3 | 6 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Head injury from falling onto end table at age 8, stated he died | Saw being in burgundy robe, later visions of Jesus and Mount of Olives | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw being in burgundy robe | 0.00 | Incompatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4095 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1475 Woman enters the light | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1475-woman-enters-the-light-and-praises-god.html | 2020 | 2020-01-07 | 2020 | F |
On January 7, 2020, the patient underwent minimal mitral valve heart repair surgery that went catastrophically wrong. Minutes after initial closure, her heart began performing every possible arrhythmia simultaneously, attempting two major heart attacks. The medical team had to perform emergency open-heart surgery to fix a slipped ring that had folded onto an artery, requiring bypass surgery. What should have been a 3-5 hour procedure became two open-heart surgeries lasting 10 hours. During the crisis, the patient found herself in a void space of soft, peaceful gray light with translucent sparkles. She was pulled through a tunnel of brilliant white-silver light that enveloped her completely, merging with her essence. She encountered a divine presence she recognized as God, surrounded by surround-sound thought communication. The patient expressed overwhelming gratitude for her life, family, and even the smallest details of creation. When God told her "There is no need to list. I know, Charity," she responded "Your will be done, Lord" and was immediately pulled back. The experience left her with profound changes - she became calmer, sought nature constantly, switched to plant-based eating, and meditated regularly to recapture the peace she experienced. She described the light as containing God's glory and presence, where she existed in complete blissful silence and oneness. The void space had no fear or darkness, only soft gentleness and exquisite love. Upon return, she awoke on a ventilator with family present, immediately recalling Psalm 100:4 about entering God's gates with thanksgiving. The experience reinforced her understanding that praising and thanking God is all she wanted to do while in His presence, never thinking of earthly life or family while there. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 5 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Two heart attacks during surgery, heart performing every arrhythmia, 10-hour emergency surgeries | Profound spiritual experience but no specific verifiable out-of-body observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4096 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1476 Motorcyclist OOB | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1476-motorcyclist-has-oob-and-after-effects-since-accident.html | 1980 | 1980-04-20 | 2020 | M |
On April 20, 1980, the patient was riding his Honda 750K motorcycle too fast on mountain roads near La Luz, New Mexico when he lost control on a tight curve. The bike high-sided and both rider and motorcycle went flying after hitting a car. He was unconscious when taken by ambulance to Holloman AFB hospital, then transferred via Medevac helicopter to Fort Bliss due to severity of injuries including a broken left femur. During the helicopter transport, he became aware of sitting up and looking out the window watching rotor blades, perceiving everything in slow motion. Looking around the aircraft, he discovered he was sitting next to his own body on a gurney. His only thought was matter-of-fact: "Wow. I'm dead." He then found himself in the presence of pure Consciousness in an endless pale blue light. The entity communicated: "No, you are not dead. All is not as you've been told. You've been here before; you'll be here again." A wave of information was poured into him that would become the source of insights over the years. The experience occurred within moments but felt eternal in the timeless space. He woke up four days later in ICU in traction. In subsequent years, he experienced spontaneous OBEs, precognitive dreams (one life-saving), enhanced intuition, and loss of both fear of death and zest for life. He began extensive reading of esoteric information to understand what happened. The experience remains vivid 40 years later. He concluded three certainties: there is an Ultimate Creator, we are soul beings in physical experience, and we survive physical reality. Despite hearing various explanations from endorphins to devil deception, he remains convinced of the experience's authenticity. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Motorcycle accident with severe trauma, broken femur, unconscious, required medevac | Clear out-of-body experience seeing own body on gurney in helicopter, detailed observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self from outside body in helicopter | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4097 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1477 Woman given Fentanyl | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1477-woman-given-fentanyl-for-pain-leaves-body-and-watches-resuscitation.html | 2020 | 2020 | F |
In Spring 2020, a woman experiencing severe kidney stone pain was brought to the emergency room during COVID-19 quarantine, alone at 1 AM. After multiple doses of Fentanyl throughout the night failed to control her pain, she experienced a life-threatening overdose. She watched her vital signs dropping on the monitor - blood pressure, pulse, and respiration all falling - and knew she was dying alone. After crying out "God Save Me," she felt her soul ripped from her body. From the ceiling, she observed the medical response to her monitor alarm. The nurse hit a button and ran out while the ER EMT checked for a pulse, finding none, and began removing her gown and dropping the bed for resuscitation. A being she felt was her Guardian Angel hovered beside her at the ceiling, silently watching with her. The nurse injected Naloxone into her IV, causing her body to convulse violently while the EMT draped herself over the patient's body to hold it down. Looking down, she saw her body's eyes were open but empty - she was staring into them from above, not out from them. Her body appeared pale, deflated, and broken like a discarded doll. When her soul was pushed back into her body with a thud, she immediately began violently vomiting, filling three emesis bags while the EMT stroked her back and hair. The experience was verified through medical records showing Naloxone administration. The presence of her Guardian Angel and the violent physical reaction to the overdose reversal medication created a profound spiritual encounter during a medical crisis. She experienced the classic separation of consciousness from the physical body, observing resuscitation efforts from an external vantage point. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Fentanyl overdose, vital signs crashed, no pulse found, Naloxone administered | Detailed observations of resuscitation procedures, EMT actions, Naloxone injection | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed resuscitation procedures from ceiling | 1.00 | Nurse and ER EMT | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4098 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1478 Divine Love experience | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1478-the-divine-love-we-share-between-us-is-all-that-truly-matters-and-is-measured-and-endures.html | 2020 | 10 | F |
A 10-year-old girl with strep throat and pneumonia experienced anaphylactic shock from a penicillin injection after being wrapped in cold sheets for fever reduction. She floated to the upper-right corner of the hospital room, observing her body below with complete disidentification. Through the wall, she could see her distraught mother in the hallway. The medical staff frantically attended to her body while she watched dispassionately from above. A brilliant white-silver light began filling the room and enveloped her, drawing her into a corridor of light where she merged completely with it. In this pulsing brilliance of exquisite love and peace, she encountered a magnificent being of pure Divine Love, flanked by two other beings. Communication was telepathic and instantaneous. The central being, whom she recognized as God, encouraged her to review her life before deciding whether to stay or return. The life review was extraordinarily detailed - she experienced every thought, word, and deed from the perspective of everyone she had ever encountered, feeling their emotions and seeing the ripple effects of her actions through them to others. She saw how simple gestures like genuine smiles had profound impacts. She witnessed a "reunion" with every person she had ever met, all welcoming her home. After seeing glimpses of her future life including children she would birth and her mother's potential devastation, she chose to return. The experience included visits to an ethereal realm with vivid colors, fragrances, and beings in flowing garments who communicated telepathically. She learned that we are all one, that only love is real, and that we hold ourselves accountable for our unloving actions. Since the experience, she has become more intuitive and had spontaneous healings and mystical visions. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Anaphylactic shock from penicillin after strep/pneumonia, fever treatment | Saw mother through wall in hallway, observed medical staff actions from corner of room | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw mother through wall in hallway | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4099 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1479 Suicide told no business | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1479-suicide-is-told-she-has-no-business-trying-to-get-in.html | 2020 | 18 | F |
At 17, the patient met an emotionally abusive boyfriend who convinced her to join a suicide pact, claiming they were "better" than society. After a year of manipulation and drug abuse, she repeatedly drove long distances at his request for planned overdoses that never materialized. When she finally refused one night, he completed suicide alone. Following his funeral, she attempted suicide herself by taking an entire package of OTC sleep medicine in an empty parking deck. As the overdose took effect, she saw her fingernails turn yellow and became unable to move. While leaning back in her car seat, completely numb, her consciousness moved to clouds visible through the windshield without leaving her body. She encountered a male presence who was upset and annoyed that she was trying to "get in" where he was. Behind him were several passive male and female presences waiting to return to where they came from. The presence reprimanded her angrily, telling her she had absolutely no right to come there and to "get the hell away." She felt his anger and was hurt and sad at the rejection. She was repeatedly told she had no business there before being pushed back into her body. Unable to move initially, she desperately tried to sit up and call for help before eventually regaining body function and driving home, where she slept for two days. The experience permanently ended her suicidal ideation. Over time, she developed an overwhelming sense of being watched and loved by beings in ways no human could. She feels grateful for the experience and the strong sense of divine love it brought, though she wishes she could go "home" without suicidal intent, knowing she will eventually return after learning new lessons. |
5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Overdose of entire package of OTC sleep medicine, paralysis, yellow fingernails | Consciousness moved to clouds but remained aware of body, encountered presence | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4100 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1480 Fugitive happy moments | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1480-fugitive-is-shown-all-his-happiest-moments.html | 1989 | 1989-11-09 | 2020 | M |
On November 9, 1989, around 10 PM, the patient was fleeing from police and helicopter when he hid under an untrimmed pomegranate tree. A K-9 unit dog named Bronco found him immediately. During the struggle, he grabbed the dog's cheeks while on his stomach, but officers pulled him out by his feet. After being handcuffed, the dog mauled his head extensively while he kept his face down. An officer finally stopped the attack saying he had enough. Blood was running unstoppably from his head wounds. While waiting for the ambulance, his legs gave out and he fell to his knees, frightened by the sensations he was experiencing. The warmth from his blood contrasted with the cold night as he lay on the gurney. In the ER, after his head was wrapped for surgery preparation, his body began shaking uncontrollably before everything went black. After an indeterminate period of darkness, dim light appeared and he saw his body with doctors working on him. Though not fully conscious, he had peripheral awareness. An intense, mesmerizing light drew him toward it. Two film strips on his left side began showing all the happiest moments of his life from birth to that moment. He recognized every scene and felt indescribable joy while the light intensified from everywhere. A phone rang, his friend called out "Junior!" and everything went dark again. When dim light returned, a doctor was examining his eyes saying "we almost lost you there." After counting backward from ten (reaching seven), he lost consciousness again. The surgery turned a 3-5 hour procedure into 10 hours. He later awoke in recovery. The experience taught him that we continue collecting memories that equal infinite light to balance the darkness we all must experience. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 6 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Severe head trauma from dog mauling, extensive blood loss, near death per doctor | Witnessed life review showing all happiest moments from birth, saw doctors working | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw doctors working on body | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4101 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1481 Michael Tamura journey | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1481-journey-to-expanded-consciousness-by-michael-tamura.html | 2004 | 2020 | M |
Michael Tamura experienced five NDEs between 2004-2012, with the most significant being three major events. First, severe gout pain led him to call out to God, resulting in being escorted by Archangel Michael to a conference room with five divine beings who informed him he had completed his life contract and could choose to stay or return. He chose to return for greater benefit to others, receiving supernatural computer guidance afterward to find gout treatment. His second NDE occurred during a heart attack after experiencing kundalini energy disruption. While chanting Hebrew prayers for the dead (despite not knowing Hebrew), he went outside and collapsed. He encountered beings who told him this decision was about eternal life, not just returning. After committing to eternal life regardless of physical conditions, he experienced Mother Earth opening to receive accumulated healing energies from his chest. The helicopter transport involved flatlining, leaving his body through the ambulance roof, and being pushed back by golden angels. The third NDE was sudden cardiac arrest during gym workout in 2011. His consciousness traveled to the furthest point imaginable yet the center of everything - a space of total oneness by "the eternal flame of God's Divine Love." He experienced undulating wings of massive Seraphim and thousands of angels in constant worship. Advanced spiritual training included facing horrific images while practicing non-resistance. The cardiac arrest led to discovery of a burst blood vessel requiring emergency surgery by the surgeon who invented a new technique that saved his life. Throughout these experiences, Tamura received spiritual upgrades, enhanced psychic abilities, and deeper understanding of divine orchestration. Each NDE took him to progressively higher spiritual realms with increasing responsibility for his return mission. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Multiple cardiac arrests, heart attacks, burst blood vessel, emergency surgeries | Spoke Hebrew prayers without knowing Hebrew, specific medical procedures described | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Chanted Hebrew prayer for dead without knowing Hebrew | 1.00 | Wife Raphaelle | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4102 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1482 Childbirth brain bleed | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1482-following-childbirth-woman-passes-dark-place-and-heals-her-brain-bleed.html | 2020 | F |
Following childbirth, a woman developed post-partum pre-eclampsia (possibly eclampsia), a rare condition with 99% mortality rate when occurring after delivery. While resting at home, she felt she could "just die here and be at peace." Her husband urged her to get up after a long nap, but she experienced a terrible headache and vision loss. At the hospital, her blood pressure measured 180s/130s, requiring immediate magnesium treatment to prevent stroke or death. Placed in a dark room with non-functioning monitoring equipment, she agreed to go home while her husband and baby rested. As she fell asleep, she saw deceased loved ones (mostly her spouse's family) and angels in the corner. The angels appeared first as beings of light, then took form. Though previously atheist due to forced Catholicism, she accompanied Mother Mary and angels through dimensions, passing a dark gray place with dark shapes she refused to enter. She then entered a vibrant realm with colors more brilliant than earth, featuring beautiful shapes, butterflies, and a wedding dress. When she expressed desire to live and see her children grow, she was shown a life review of her children grown up and birthdays passing. In a place of white light and unconditional love she calls Heaven, she existed without form in pure bliss. She then saw blood in her brain and was guided by unseen hands to heal it, sucking out the blood until it was gone. The experience transformed her completely - she discovered she had always possessed gifts to communicate with the other side. She now serves as a conduit for Mother Mary and angels, bringing divine mother ways back to earth and helping people remember their unique purpose. She was previously guided to change hospitals before the event, recognizing these weren't coincidences but divine guidance. |
5 | Hospital | 8 | 10 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Post-partum pre-eclampsia, BP 180s/130s, 99% mortality rate, stroke/death risk | Guided healing of brain bleed, saw and removed blood from brain with guidance | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw and healed brain bleed | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4103 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1484 Abuse survivor NDE | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1484-male-sexual-abuse-survivor-s-nde-results-in-increased-psychic-abilities.html | 2020 | 21 | M |
A childhood sexual abuse survivor experienced visits from "the light" throughout his life during trauma, beginning with his first abuse. The light would visit during abuse episodes, causing ecstatic states where he would predict future events. At one incident in 6th/7th grade, when friends were being abused by a teacher, he confronted the abuser who pushed him over and stepped on his chest. This triggered an ecstatic state with light visitation where he predicted cartel violence against children in Mexico, which he interpreted as the light's message that the abused children would be alright. At age 21, after finishing school, he experimented heavily with LSD, taking increasing doses over 5 days without sleep. After passing out, he experienced a dream-state premonition of the next day's events. Upon waking, his heart stopped abruptly. Out of body on his knees beside his physical form on the mattress, his spirit looked up and saw a distant light, then shot up like a rocket into yellow light that became whiter as he merged with it, feeling supreme love and joy. As he began losing all sense of self while merging with the light, he found it unnerving and was slammed back into his body instantly, taking a huge gasp as he hadn't been breathing. The next day his premonition proved accurate. Since then, he has experienced many accurate dream premonitions of daily events, psychokinesis abilities, and a "god-like flow" to life. The NDE remains as vivid today as when it occurred. Though the light had visited him throughout childhood trauma, the deliberate drug-induced experience at 21 created permanent psychic enhancements including precognition, psychokinesis, and heightened spiritual awareness. |
1 | Home | 7 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Heart stopped from LSD overdose after 5 days without sleep | Out of body seeing own form, premonition verified next day, ongoing precognitive dreams | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Premonition of next day events | 1.00 | Incompatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4104 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 894-unlimited-peace-and-serenity.html 2012 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/894-unlimited-peace-and-serenity.html | 2012 | 8 | Unknown | At eight years old, the experiencer was attacked by two men who physically and sexually abused them. One attacker attempted to drown them in a river, holding them underwater by the neck. After initial panic, they experienced unlimited peace and serenity. They found themselves in a narrow tunnel of incredibly bright white light, floating on their back moving forward feet first, experiencing absolute bliss and unconditional love. At the end of the tunnel was a huge face of a man with white beard resembling Santa Claus who told them "It's not your time." When they protested, he showed them a glimpse of outer space with beams of light and planets. They became a light shooting around in space with other lights, just "being," and saw a distant planet that felt like home. They also saw a massive light they felt all came from. Looking down from high above, they saw their parents hear screams and their father running to help. Upon return, they felt depressed and wished they were dead, missing their true home. The experience taught them four lessons: love, be loved, just be, and experience life. | 5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Drowning incident described as life-threatening | Observed parents hearing screams and father running from aerial perspective | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw parents respond to screams from aerial view | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4105 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 899-mom-said-i-fainted.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/899-mom-said-i-fainted.html | 2013 | 5 | Unknown | At age 5, while playing with friends in a neighbor's backyard, the experiencer had great difficulty breathing and became extremely upset. Unable to breathe, they felt themselves come out of their body and floated next to their body lying on the ground. Worldly things immediately lost all importance, and they KNEW they were not just of this world. Time felt fundamentally different. Looking inward, they had a vision/memory of a beautiful city that was home, which made them very happy. The thought of "friends" waiting for them brought even greater happiness and complete bliss. A being of light then came and made it instantly clear they were not to be out of their body, immediately returning them to their body on the ground. The experience seemed to take about 5 seconds, though time didn't exist normally. When they tried to explain it to their mother, she said it sounded like they had fainted. The experience was profound, leaving them with knowledge that time doesn't exist the way we perceive it and that there is more to existence than the physical world. | 6 | Other | 3 | 2 | 5 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Breathing difficulty and collapse described but no specific medical details | General out-of-body observation without specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Floating next to body, seeing friends | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4106 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 900-unknown-bliss-and-beauty.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/900-unknown-bliss-and-beauty.html | 2013 | 7 | Unknown | At age 6 or 7, during a family swim at an abandoned gravel pit, the child tried to join adults in deeper water but was sent back. Walking into water, they stepped into a hole and felt nothing beneath them. They sank, struggling with bubbles rising and darkness surrounding them. A very bright warm light appeared above, and they stopped struggling, feeling calm, tranquil, and at peace as never before. They felt drawn into the light, content, happy, and eager to continue toward unknown bliss and beauty. No beings were seen and no sounds heard. Their uncle noticed their ponytail breaking the water surface and pulled them up by it. They felt anger at being stopped from their journey. The uncle who saved them died a few years later in a truck accident. The experience left them unafraid of death, though not seeking it. They became more compassionate and comfortable with death and dead bodies, able to touch and kiss deceased relatives at funerals when others couldn't, understanding bodies were just remains while the person went somewhere lovely and safe. | 5 | Other | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Clear drowning incident described | Only general experience of light, no specific observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4107 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 915-my-childhood-nde-became-my-gift.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/915-my-childhood-nde-became-my-gift.html | 2013 | Unknown | The experiencer had two traumatic foot injuries in two weeks: foot caught in car door and crushed in merry-go-round. They developed osteomyelitis with foot swelling to football size and were rushed to ER. Despite mother warning about penicillin allergy, they received massive dose, went into anaphylactic shock and clinically died. While barely conscious when brought in, they suddenly felt themselves rising to corner of green room, seeing mother and doctor leaning over their body. Everything was crystal clear, more vibrantly colored and detailed than usual. The doctor told mother he didn't think they could be revived; mother was crying. They felt adult-like emotions, great love and compassion for mother, wanting to tell her it was all right to be dead but understanding they couldn't communicate. They felt great sadness for mother but none for themselves. Next they were awake in different room after revival, looking at bandaged foot. This began their continuous childhood memories. The experience was the most real they ever had. They kept it secret until hearing Raymond Moody speak about NDEs in mid-1970s. The lasting effect is no fear of death, increased compassion and understanding. They now consider the experience a gift. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Clinical death from anaphylactic shock explicitly stated | Saw specific details of green room, mother crying, doctor saying couldn't be revived | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed doctor telling mother couldn't be revived | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4108 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 916-lessons-i-learned-from-my-nde.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/916-lessons-i-learned-from-my-nde.html | 2010 | 2013 | Unknown | In January 2010, the experiencer was very ill with undiagnosed myasthenia gravis for two weeks. On the night of January 31, 2010, they had a myasthenia gravis respiratory crisis and could not breathe. Living alone and trying to wait until February 1st when insurance would begin before calling 911, they felt their soul lifting out of their body during the crisis. In that moment, they realized everything is about love. They communicated with an unconditional love source, expressing desire to stay despite previous ambivalence about living. They realized they might have a purpose in life and should stay longer. At that moment, their soul returned to their body while still struggling for air. They were admitted to hospital for ten days until the crisis passed. Since the experience, they see people as souls in physical form rather than just bodies. They have heightened intuition and avoid bitter people. They feel unconditional love for all humanity, even those previously disliked. They understand the body is just a shell and try to spread the message of unconditional love, though many don't understand. The experience enriched their life profoundly. | 5 | Home | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Myasthenia gravis respiratory crisis clearly life-threatening | No specific verifiable observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 4109 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 917-my-post-military-suicide-attempt-spirals-of-pain-turn-to-spirals-of-joy.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/917-my-post-military-suicide-attempt-spirals-of-pain-turn-to-spirals-of-joy.html | 2013 | Unknown | After Middle East deployment in Navy, experiencer developed depression and psychological problems. Despite therapy, medication, and friend support, they attempted suicide by prescription drug overdose. Last memory was taking large doses of medications and laying in barracks bathtub, feeling pulled away as vision went dark. They experienced falling and spinning backward in endless black space. Then witnessed a spiral of emotions, senses, and visions at mind-blistering rate, feeling they were witnessing operation of the spiritual world. The spiral morphed into scenes of every type of violent death, experiencing the pain of thousands of victims as if being slaughtered repeatedly. After eternity of horror, everything stopped in a state devoid of anything - no self, light, darkness, or feeling. Warmth then came through them as darkness washed away in pure bright white glow. They felt their spirit being placed back in body with pleasure throughout. They recounted positive life moments and felt unwavering eternal love from a being above. This being showed them how amazing and fulfilling life can be through another spiral introducing all purest feelings, leaving them content and full of joy. They awoke in Naval Medical Center two weeks later after being in coma, with mother and grandmother at bedside. The aftereffects cannot be fully expressed in words. | 4 | Hospital | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Two-week coma from overdose documented | No specific verifiable observations, only spiritual visions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 4110 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 918-st-michael-my-childhood-protector.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/918-st-michael-my-childhood-protector.html | 2013 | M | As a child playing in the basement, the experiencer was eating a hard candy (jawbreaker) that got stuck in their windpipe. Unable to breathe, after a few minutes they fell to the ground and floated out of their body. They found themselves in a tunnel full of sparkling colors, walking over a bridge to a beautiful landscape. From a brilliant light, a figure emerged and came toward them - a brilliant angel in white robe with golden trim, shimmering in golden white light with shimmering wings. Never afraid, they knew it was St. Michael the Archangel. The angel took their hand and communicated telepathically that they had to go back home as their mother would be worried. They walked back and instantly found themselves in the basement, back in their body, as the candy flew out of their throat and they could breathe again. Their mother had named them Michael and they wore a St. Michael medal, which they still wear today. They have maintained lifelong devotion and attachment to St. Michael. | 5 | Home | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Clear choking incident with breathing cessation | No verifiable earthly observations, only spiritual encounter | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4111 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 922-my-awakening-with-the-angels.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/922-my-awakening-with-the-angels.html | 2009 | 2013 | F | In December 2008, experiencer had emergency hysterectomy due to severe anemia from excessive bleeding. Months later, readmitted with severe pain and infection, slipping in and out of consciousness. After signing forms and seeing family, lost consciousness from pain. Beautiful Beings of Light surrounded them, pain disappeared. One Being stayed close - their Angels. They communicated telepathically. The Light showered incredible love through every cell, like warm fire on cold day. Asked about mom and brother (both deceased), was told they were there but refused to see them, knowing they wouldn't want to leave. Had no body awareness but could see medical equipment, low respiration, high heart rate. Nurses said might not survive the night. Viewed experience like movie with no physical attachment, only incredible love, peace, warmth in beautiful colored Light. Pulled back into body periodically, feeling pain when eyes opened, seeing children or boyfriend, then returning to Angels and warmth. For four days between two worlds while doctors ran tests. Finally, doctor found burst appendix near liver (not in usual location), requiring immediate surgery. The experience brought profound life changes including new life motto, seeing people as connected, understanding choice in death timing, and eventual relationship changes. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Burst appendix discovered after 4 days, life-threatening infection | Heard nurses say might not survive, saw medical equipment and vital signs, doctor crying | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Heard nurses discussing survival | 0.00 | Doctor | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4112 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 923-an-experience-that-changed-my-life.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/923-an-experience-that-changed-my-life.html | 1987 | 1987-02-28 | 2013 | Unknown | On February 28, 1987, while waiting for ride to work, experiencer heard friend Russell whistling in backyard with his cockatiel Buddy. They talked on fence until bird flew into tree. Using pool pole to retrieve bird, when pole got within 22-24 inches of high tension power line, electricity arced across air using them as ground. Everything turned RED with flashes of light approaching at tremendous speed. Heard 60 Hz hum increasing in volume, screamed as light overtook them, lost bodily control. Three flashes of light passed through them, then everything went black - no time, sound, or light. Opened eyes seeing Russell but couldn't communicate, separated by glass plane, frozen in time. Faded to black again. Later opened eyes seeing Russell trying to save their life, but realized they were sitting on fence watching from bird's eye view, feeling no pain. Environment suddenly changed to large white room without walls, bright white light everywhere with no shadows. Hundreds of transparent human-shaped figures without features approached. One threw 3-foot light bolt striking their back, paralyzing them for 7-10 seconds before breaking free and running. Came upon white moving surface like water, chose to run, fell in and opened eyes in backyard. | 5 | Other | 5 | 7 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | High voltage electrocution from power line | Observed Russell trying to save life from bird's eye view on fence | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Watched rescue attempt from fence | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4113 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 926-wheel-of-life.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/926-wheel-of-life.html | 2013 | F | Three weeks before heart attack, experiencer felt sick at school (thought to be heart attack but was acid reflux). Week before, watching TV transplant patient warning convinced them to declare "no heart transplant." Week later in ER, felt hit by lightning bolt, got in hot bath thinking strained muscle but was in horrible pain. Voice said "go to emergency room now." Doctor tried reflux medicine but it hit opposite wall. EMT said "she's not going to make it" (heard his thoughts mentally). Had out-of-body experience following ambulance from outside. Was lifted into room with 12 beings of light in robes, could see all planets throughout universe. Communicated without words through images and feelings, taught different levels of science in "Big School of Truth, Knowledge, and Love." Reviewed life in director's chair watching dot speed toward them showing life from conception to present. Saw their seven miscarriages and two drownings. In 5th grade incident, felt girl's pain they'd hurt, knowing God felt it too, realized poor choices harmed themselves. Became spoke in Universe's wheel of life with billions rolling through, experiencing without emotions or judgment. All souls had different hues of pure white light. God said "Heaven is not gated community, open for all." Realized all are light, frequency, vibrations, and pure love. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 7 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Clear heart attack with transport to hospital | Heard EMT's mental thoughts about not making it, followed ambulance from outside | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard EMT's mental thoughts | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4114 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1745-drowning-young-man.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1745-drowning-young-man-learns-of-the-mysteries-of-the-universe.html | 2019 | 2023 | Unknown | On July 26, 2019, the experiencer went to the beach with two friends, Sarah and Michael. After drinking throughout the day, they ventured into the ocean as the sun was setting. A massive wave crashed upon them, pulling them under the water. The experiencer's consciousness began drifting away as their body struggled against the currents. They entered a brilliant tunnel of light, experiencing profound love, peace, and joy beyond earthly description. A spirit guide accompanied them through the tunnel into a realm of pure spiritual energy. They emerged before a magnificent Roman-style building where three ancient beings conducted a comprehensive life review, showing how all actions interconnect and impact others. These beings shared universal wisdom and truths that expanded the experiencer's understanding beyond measure. They were then drawn back to their body, breaking through the ocean surface gasping for air. The experience permanently transformed their perspective on life, death, and the mysteries of the universe. They dedicated themselves to studying philosophy and spirituality, sharing their experience to inspire others to seek deeper understanding and embrace the interconnectedness of all existence. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Drowning incident described with loss of consciousness | No specific veridical observations reported during OBE | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 4115 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1746-five-year-old-girl.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1746-five-year-old-girl-drowns-was-revived-and-remembers-many-things-from-her-time-outside-her-body.html | 1961 | 2023 | 5 | F | On August 2, 1961, a five-year-old girl drowned at Highland Lake, New Jersey during her grandfather's funeral wake. While at a neighbor's house for lunch, she slipped on wet rocks and hit her head, falling unconscious into the lake. She experienced slow suffocation underwater before her consciousness separated from her body. From an out-of-body perspective, she observed the entire rescue scene - people screaming, various resuscitation attempts on the dock, her father saying "Please God not another one," and performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She watched herself being loaded into the ambulance marked DOA, observed her parents in a separate waiting room, and saw nuns at the hospital windows. In the emergency room, she witnessed the doctor ordering adrenaline STAT and nurses cutting off her new shirt. She felt the excruciating pain when adrenaline was injected directly into her heart, forcing her back into her body. After ten days in a coma with a Glasgow scale rating of 1, she miraculously awakened against all medical expectations. The experience left her with permanent physical effects including blue-tinged blood, breathing difficulties, and years of medical restrictions, but also gave her a unique perspective on life and death. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Drowning with cardiac arrest, DOA status, 10-day coma | Multiple specific observations while unconscious: father's words, ambulance details, hospital procedures | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 4 | 1 | Heard father's specific words | 1.00 | Dr. Braun, Sister Rose Margaret, nurses | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4116 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1750-teen-commits-suicide.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1750-teen-commits-suicide-but-is-taken-by-god-and-feels-pure-love-before-being-returned-to-his-body.html | 1984 | 2023 | 15 | M | In 1984, a 15-year-old boy attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills following severe family trauma, including witnessing extreme domestic violence and dealing with his parents' divorce. Sitting in his living room listening to Cat Stevens, he took enough pills to be lethal and waited to die. As he watched what he thought was his last sunset, a massive ball of white light came through the apartment and engulfed him. He left his body and experienced pure, unconditional love beyond description - not forgiveness but complete acceptance. The light, which he understood as God, grieved with him for his pain. He felt information being "downloaded" into him vibrationally. The voice told him "It is not your time" and instructed him to make himself vomit. He was placed back in his body, the light lifted him to his feet, and he followed the instructions, expelling the pills. The experience transformed his life, teaching him about self-compassion and the importance of sharing love with others. He now works to help others struggling with addiction, grief, and shame. | 5 | Home | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Suicide attempt by sleeping pill overdose | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4117 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1751-man-in-motorcycle.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1751-man-in-motorcycle-accident-meets-god-and-is-given-choice-of-returning.html | 2015 | 2023 | M | In 2015, a man suffered a massive motorcycle accident that severely damaged his right arm and leg. During the two hours paramedics worked to stabilize him, he left his body and observed himself from above, initially believing his life had been meaningless. He then experienced overwhelming "pure love" millions of times stronger than earthly love. He felt absolute elation, finally home, understanding how everything fits together. He realized God was beside him while he watched his body dying. God asked him, "Do you want to go back or come with me?" Despite desperately wanting to go with God, he chose to return for his three young children who needed him as their sole carer. God promised he would survive for his children but would eventually come with Him. He experienced a major jolt returning to his body with all the accompanying pain. Despite the paramedics' concern about his vitals, he knew with absolute certainty he would survive because of God's promise. The experience left him with unshakeable knowledge of the afterlife and the importance of keeping one's soul in good order. | 5 | Other | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Massive motorcycle accident with life-threatening injuries | Observed body from above during resuscitation | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed body from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4118 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1752-ten-year-old-boy.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1752-ten-year-old-boy-is-thrown-from-car-and-is-saved-by-light-being.html | 1997 | 2023 | 10 | M | In 1997, a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother were in a severe car accident on a rainy night. The car hydroplaned, flipped multiple times, and hit a culvert. The boy was thrown 60 feet, hitting a tree, while his grandmother died in the accident. After crawling back to her, his youth pastor Sister Theresa arrived and began praying. The boy lost consciousness and immediately viewed the scene from above, seeing the group praying while observing himself from over his right shoulder. A brilliant being of light appeared - tall, extremely bright like fire but without heat, colored between white and gold like the midday sun. This being touched his body near the stomach, sending warmth throughout and producing an overwhelming feeling of pure love and ecstasy. He realized this being's realm felt this way constantly and desperately wanted to go there. The being refused his request without words and returned him to his body. In the hospital, the surgeon Dr. Braun reported his spleen had been shredded but the main artery was mysteriously cauterized, preventing him from bleeding out - a medical miracle. The experience gave him lasting spiritual transformation and what he calls "Divine Knowledge." | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Severe car accident trauma, thrown 60 feet, shredded spleen | Out-of-body observations and miraculous cauterized artery confirmed by surgeon | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/12/2025 | 2 | 1 | Viewed accident scene from above | 0.00 | Dr. Braun | Moderately Compatible | 8 | ||||||||
| 4119 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1762-jesus-comforts-woman.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1762-jesus-comforts-woman-in-operating-room.html | 2018 | 2023 | F | On November 2, 2018, a woman experienced placenta acreta and inverted uterus after delivering her second child, losing 7.5 liters of blood with 8.5 liters transfused. Twenty minutes after delivery, excruciating pain and rapid blood loss began when the doctor detached the placenta. In terror, she cried out "God please help me!" As she lost consciousness, time stopped and she felt herself slipping backwards while remaining aware. Everything became quiet with immediate peace surpassing all understanding. The freezing cold transformed to warmth and love, all pain ceased, and she felt completely accepting of death, thinking only of the day she accepted Jesus as a child. She told herself there were only two outcomes: dying to be with Jesus or surviving for God's purpose. In the operating room, a masked man with the most beautiful eyes told her "Look at me, Amanda. It is going to be OK." She felt overwhelming love for him. Later, no one could identify this person, and she realized it was Jesus. After waking from surgery and ICU recovery, she experienced angels as shadows bringing peace and felt the power of worldwide prayers. The experience gave her profound purpose, knowing only God's love matters. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Placenta acreta with 7.5L blood loss requiring massive transfusion | Saw unidentified man with beautiful eyes in OR who could not be found later | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/12/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw unidentified man in operating room | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4120 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1766-young-woman-pedestrian.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1766-young-woman-pedestrian-is-hit-by-car-and-has-brief-time-out-of-body-with-entity.html | 2017 | 2023 | F | On Valentine's Day 2017 in Providence, RI, a woman was hit by a car driven by a drunk driver while waiting at a crosswalk. Her last conscious thought was "I'm not gonna make it." She found herself floating as dark mist in a wide, dark tunnel, experiencing complete serenity with no memory of the accident. A singular being accompanied her, appearing as a Central or South American deity mask with rainbow-colored glowing edges. The entity had three slanted stripes on each cheek and expressed simultaneous laughing and crying. Though mischievous and slightly sinister, she enjoyed his presence. They communicated telepathically while he kept her company. She felt he was experiencing all the emotions she wasn't feeling. Her final words were "I have to go back for my babies," and she immediately returned, conscious and screaming. She suffered cortical blindness initially, requiring seven staples for an occipital lobe injury. Released after four hours with no other injuries remarkably. The experience convinced her everyone "goes to heaven" regardless, and reinforced her atheist beliefs while acknowledging forces humans don't understand. She never felt alone during the experience. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Hit by drunk driver, occipital lobe injury, cortical blindness | No veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 0 | Incompatible | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 4121 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1768-young-woman-hit.html 2023 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1768-young-woman-hit-by-car-in-australia-has-meaningful-out-of-body-experience.html | 1998 | 2023 | F | In December 1998, a German law student in Sydney, Australia was hit by a drunk driver while standing on a sidewalk waiting for a traffic light. She has no memory of the impact but experienced looking at herself from the beautiful blue sky, seeing herself walking with sunlight illuminating her blonde hair more beautifully than ever. She felt perfect wellbeing with no pain and complete happiness. She understood this was death. In another scene, she floated bodiless over darkness toward a bright round light. The Clash song lyrics "Should I stay or should I go?" entered her thoughts, then she was turned around against her will back into darkness, understanding darkness represents earthly life and the light is where we go when we die. She awoke in an ambulance thinking she was watching a movie before realizing it was her. For years she wondered why she had to return since it wasn't her choice. Twenty years later, she understood her purpose: becoming more spiritual and teaching yoga to convey presence and peace. She cultivates the peaceful feeling from her NDE to share with others but struggles relating to people, finding most misguided, and relates better to animals, especially dogs. | 5 | Ambulance | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Hit by drunk driver while standing on sidewalk | Observed self from above with specific visual details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw self from sky perspective | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4122 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1769-woman-in-induced-coma.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1769-woman-in-induced-coma-sees-deceased-relatives.html | 2023 | 2024 | F | On February 2, 2023, a woman had gastric bypass surgery. Forty-eight hours later, she suffered complications requiring emergency surgery for bowel obstruction in two places. Her organs began failing and she was placed in a medically induced coma on a ventilator. During the coma, she found herself in a crowded place with voices like a restaurant. The crowd appeared as black silhouettes, but sitting before her in honey-colored light were three deceased relatives: her godmother who had passed years before with sad eyes, her grandmother who died when she was 12, and her grandfather who died when she was 19. All three appeared incredibly young. Behind the crowd was a bright white light at a small distance. She repeatedly asked "Why can I see you all?" with no response. She felt no negative emotions - no anger, pain, temperature, or fear - only noticing sadness in her godmother's eyes. She awoke days later in the ICU. When she described how young her relatives looked to her mother, her mother confirmed they appeared as they had looked years before the experiencer was born, providing evidential confirmation. | 4 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Medically induced coma following surgical complications with organ failure | Saw deceased relatives appearing younger than she ever knew them, confirmed by mother | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 1 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||||
| 4123 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1772-near-drowning.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1772-near-drowning-at-age-8-leads-man-to-future-encounters-learning-loving-kindness.html | 1977 | 2024 | 8 | M | At age 8, a boy was attacked by a family member who tried to drown him in the Russian River, California by choking him underwater near a dam. Thinking it was a game, he felt no fear initially. He opened his eyes to find himself in another realm, cradled by his guardian angel in arms of light, being presented to God. The angel asked God "He's adorable, can we keep him?" but was told no. During descent back through gray clouds, the child asked about God's love and his purpose but wasn't allowed to know. He requested and received a subtle hug before being merged back into his underwater body with the warning "Don't breathe!" Mechanical dam parts struck him, throwing him upstream along the river floor, which he experienced with profound appreciation for the sensations. The memory was suppressed until age 22 when God asked him about forgiving his attacker during another spiritual experience. He responded with complete forgiveness and was told he would go to heaven. God held his spirit as glowing light fell through him, sharing tangible divine love. The experiences taught him his purpose is loving kindness to others, understanding that tribulation enables spiritual growth. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Attempted drowning by strangulation underwater | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4124 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1493-life-review-shows-his-encouragement-of-others-2.html 2020 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1493-life-review-shows-his-encouragement-of-others-2.html | 2016 | 2020 | 46 | M | On March 24, 2016, during a scheduled colonoscopy preparation, Mike experienced severe dehydration from the bowel prep working too well. Five minutes after receiving an IV in the emergency room at Blanchard Valley Hospital in Findlay, Ohio, his heart stopped completely. His soul immediately left his body, passing through the wall to his left into a dark room where he was seated in a chair. A being behind him rapidly showed him images from his life like a slide projector, stopping at four specific moments where he had encouraged others - at ages 6, 9, 25, and in college. Each time, he was launched back into those events, experiencing them fully with all senses including smells and physical sensations. The being emphasized "More of this!" before Mike returned to his body. He came back feeling euphoric and running on pure unconditional love, though the medical staff was emotionally drained from performing CPR. The experience gave him zero fear of death and a deep understanding that encouragement can change the world with little effort. He remains profoundly affected, knowing that wealth and position don't matter at death, only our connections and memories. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Clear cardiac arrest documented, CPR performed by nurse, occurred in hospital setting during medical procedure | Life review with specific sensory details including smells (propane exhaust, banana suntan lotion), specific clothing details (yellow Chevy Luv Truck tank top), and time-specific events | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Life review with full sensory experience of past events | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4125 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1498-physician-recalls-5-near-deaths-giving-her-new-view-of-the-world.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1498-physician-recalls-5-near-deaths-giving-her-new-view-of-the-world.html | 2021 | 47 | F | A physician experienced five separate near-death experiences throughout her life, each providing unique insights into consciousness beyond the physical body. At age 6, she fell 20 feet from a barn loft and subsequently saw a woman at the end of her bed for three years, later identified as her deceased grandmother from a photo discovered 43 years later. At 23, during an auto accident where she crashed into a house, time stopped and her entire life flashed before her eyes while she made a conscious choice to stay. At 24, she experienced anaphylaxis from IV dye during a medical procedure, losing body awareness and seeing a tunnel with white light before being pulled back by the code blue team. At 38 in China, she acquired severe Campylobacter jejuni infection with life-threatening symptoms and saw red glowing entities who instructed her to drink water, ultimately saving her life. At 47, a port infection caused blood poisoning and pericarditis, after which she began having visits from angelic beings and prophetic dreams. These experiences gave her premonition abilities, including accurately predicting pregnancies and their outcomes, and warning her mother about surgical complications. She now feels she has stepped out of the matrix with a bird's eye view of existence, understanding that true happiness comes from relationships and service rather than material possessions. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Multiple life-threatening events including fall, accident, anaphylaxis, severe infection, and blood poisoning | Precognitive identification of grandmother never seen in photos, accurate pregnancy predictions (9/10 correct), premonition dream preventing mother's surgery complications | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw deceased grandmother at bedside for 3 years after NDE | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4126 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1500-horseback-accident-leaves-young-woman-with-pain-and-insights.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1500-horseback-accident-leaves-young-woman-with-pain-and-insights.html | 1985 | 2021 | 31 | F | In October 1985, while horseback riding at a summer camp ranch in West Virginia, a 31-year-old woman experienced a severe accident when her horse was spooked and bucked violently. She was thrown airborne, landing directly on her head with her neck bent so forcefully that her face was pressed to her chest, causing severe spinal injuries and torn ligaments. Her consciousness immediately bifurcated - simultaneously aware of her body's injuries without feeling pain while watching a complete life review that played backwards through all 31 years, every relationship and feeling, back to conception. She then traveled through a tunnel at incredible speed toward a brilliant light, experiencing pure consciousness without body awareness. In this light, she encountered what seemed to be guardian angels or her higher self, engaging in wordless instantaneous communication. She was given a choice to transition or return, with options of being paraplegic, quadriplegic, or living in constant pain. She chose to return with chronic pain to complete unfinished purposes. Upon returning, she had to make a conscious decision to reconnect with her physical body to move her limbs. She discovered her neck had literally disconnected from the spinal column and snapped back, saved only by years of yoga practice making her strong and flexible. The experience led to major life changes including relocating to warmer climates, changing careers multiple times, and ultimately pursuing ecology and teaching meditation. | 5 | Other | 8 | 14 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Severe traumatic injury with neck disarticulation, cervical vertebrae damage, later confirmed by chiropractic care | Complete life review with every second of 31 years, bifurcated consciousness observing body and experience simultaneously, choice given about physical condition upon return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Bifurcated consciousness observing injury | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4127 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1503-young-woman-sees-life-forms-from-other-places-and-demon-like-creatures.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1503-young-woman-sees-life-forms-from-other-places-and-demon-like-creatures.html | 2021 | F | A young woman in the Critical Care Unit with a rare form of pneumonia not responding to medications experienced a profound NDE while struggling to breathe with a BiPAP machine. Her experience began with traveling upward through the ceiling and into space through a black void, feeling unexpectedly peaceful despite thinking she should be afraid. She observed planets, stars like diamonds, and invisible matter with mass beside them. Arriving at a receiving station, she was greeted by a female guide who showed her around a level where souls appeared as yellow orbs of light zipping through an enormous archway, with some orbs talking as they passed. She experienced overwhelming love beyond mortal comprehension and felt connected to everything in existence. Her journey included seeing different life forms on other worlds, including beings whose good or evil nature was immediately apparent and others who made homes inside trees. She crossed a rainbow bridge, saw a mother-of-pearl building, visited a building where miracles were stored containing body parts for healings, and saw an amber door with intricate carvings. She sensed different levels of heaven and saw her deceased father's eyes through a porthole above, knowing they couldn't reunite yet. Upon waking, she briefly saw demon-like creatures and a door on the ceiling that disappeared when she blinked. The experience left her profoundly changed, especially developing a deep connection with animals. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 16 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 4 | CCU with rare pneumonia not responding to treatment, doctors told family situation not optimistic | Detailed otherworldly observations including specific architectural features, different life forms, souls as orbs, rainbow bridge, stored miracles | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | BiPAP machine | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw souls as orbs of light at receiving station | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4128 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1512-uk-man-has-obe-life-review-and-is-given-a-blank-slate-upon-return.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1512-uk-man-has-obe-life-review-and-is-given-a-blank-slate-upon-return.html | 2009 | 2021 | M | On June 20, 2009, at exactly 3:00 AM, a UK man experienced cardiac arrest while sleeping, following years of medical complications and trauma. His heart stopped beating, and he found himself outside his body, observing it lying still on the bed. The entire room glowed with brilliant light that didn't hurt his eyes, and he noticed his physical hand with its distinctive Star Trek Klingon-like scar next to his spirit hand. Maintaining his investigator nature even in death, he devised a plan to verify his experience by traveling instantly to his brother-in-law Michael downstairs to listen to BBC World Service news, memorizing details to prove his OBE upon return. He experienced complete connection with all existence, feeling as "one of many who made up the one, and the one made up the many." Given a choice to stay or return to care for his wife and children, he chose to return despite being warned of future pain. He then experienced a complete life review of everything done, not done, said, and not said, seeing all possible outcomes. A chalkboard appeared with writing being erased clean, and he received a blank scroll while hearing his deceased grandfather's voice saying "There you go, boy; have another go" in a perfect South London accent. Upon returning to his body through conscious effort, he verified the news details he had memorized. Hospital tests confirmed his heart had stopped and showed changed patterns. The experience left him with no ego or material needs, finding joy in simple existence. | 2 | Home | 10 | 18 | 42 | Exceptional Evidence | 14 | Cardiac arrest confirmed by hospital cardiologist showing heart had stopped and blood patterns changed | Memorized BBC World Service news from downstairs while OBE, later verified details, saw distinctive scar on physical hand from outside body | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Cardiologist | 2009-07-19 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw own body and distinctive scar from outside | 0.00 | Cardiologist | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||
| 4129 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1513-woman-sees-her-dad-during-brief-visit-to-the-other-side.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1513-woman-sees-her-dad-during-brief-visit-to-the-other-side.html | 2020 | 2021 | F | On February 11, 2020, around 9 PM, a woman experienced a violent assault involving strangulation that resulted in a near-death experience. During the attack, with hands around her throat, she quickly lost consciousness and found herself somewhere extraordinary. The environment was characterized by an indescribably bright, happy light that wasn't harsh or painful like artificial lights or even the sun. Everything was illuminated from within, and she experienced sensations so vivid that sight combined with deep feelings in her soul, making vision almost unnecessary. She was at what felt like a gate or border of a wonderful garden, though not physically visible. The overwhelming feeling was pure bliss and love beyond the range of normal human emotion. There she encountered her father who had died 19 years earlier when she was 12. He appeared not as the hardened, cancer-stricken person she remembered, but young and free like in old photos from Virginia, completely carefree and peaceful. Other people were present but her focus was on her father. She existed near him without words being spoken, experiencing a ball of warm healing loving light encompassing peace, forgiveness, love, happiness, understanding, and acceptance. Her name being called repeatedly pulled her back, creating a choice between staying with her father or returning. She woke to her attacker holding and shaking her, screaming her name. The experience left her with deep confusion and pain at losing her father again so quickly, but absolutely convinced of its reality. | 5 | Home | 5 | 12 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 6 | Life-threatening strangulation causing loss of consciousness | Saw deceased father appearing younger and healthier than in life, as he looked in old photos from Virginia before illness | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw deceased father restored to youth | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4130 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1514-man-has-memories-of-traumatic-birth-when-he-was-born-dead.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1514-man-has-memories-of-traumatic-birth-when-he-was-born-dead.html | 2021 | 0 | M | A man reports having vivid memories of his traumatic birth when he was delivered with his umbilical cord knotted, not breathing, and with his heart stopped. He was successfully resuscitated and spent a week in the NICU. Throughout his childhood, he experienced flashbulb-type memories or images of his birth, including bright fluorescent lights, electronic sounds, and a calming feminine voice saying "I know it hurts." This felt awareness was validated just before his seventh birthday when his family told him he had died during birth. The revelation initially made him feel sick and repulsed, feeling like a freak, but deep down he had always known this happened. He describes having always felt different with a strong awareness of his body, especially his heart. Throughout childhood, he saw and felt things, had premonitions, and knew things he shouldn't have been able to know, with witnesses still alive to verify these experiences. He reports having had three separate NDEs total, all occurring in November (his birth month) and all involving his heart. The pattern completed when he discovered a congenital heart defect (PFO or hole in heart) present since birth, resulting from the birth trauma. He grew up feeling like a lonely, introspective child who spent time reading and having deep thoughts, with vivid visions of past events. Despite being raised Catholic, he felt drawn to understanding his astrological significance. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest at birth with knotted cord, resuscitation, week in NICU | Flashbulb memories of bright lights, electronic sounds, feminine voice saying specific words, later confirmed when told about birth trauma | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 1 | Birth memories including lights and sounds | 1.00 | Parents | Moderately Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4131 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1515-following-motorcycle-accident-man-has-vision-of-his-own-funeral.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1515-following-motorcycle-accident-man-has-vision-of-his-own-funeral.html | 2019 | 2021 | M | On July 18, 2019, a man was in a severe motorcycle accident that caused multiple injuries and internal bleeding. In the emergency department, he was bleeding out and "coded" twice, experiencing two distinct near-death episodes. During his first experience, he was initially inside his body looking around the hospital room with one eye open when his girlfriend approached, smiled, and told him everything was okay and he wasn't going to die. Despite her reassurance, he closed his eyes feeling he was already dead. He heard his mother screaming "How could they do this to my son?" His consciousness then lifted above his body and he found himself floating in blackness. In his second experience, viewing only through his eyes without seeing his body, he found himself in an open warehouse watching his family and friends walking up a grassy hill toward a church for his funeral. His vision progressively pixelated until he could only see shades of grey, and his consciousness began floating into nothingness. He remembers thinking "Is this it? Is this what happens when you die?" The experience left him feeling more alone and hopeless than ever before in his life. Having lived with depression his whole life, he describes this as a different kind of darkness and disappointment than he had ever experienced. The visions of his own funeral and the profound sense of isolation marked this as a particularly distressing NDE. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 8 | Coded twice in ED during treatment for motorcycle accident with internal bleeding | Heard mother screaming specific words, saw hospital room details with one eye, vision of funeral scene | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard mother screaming in hospital | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4132 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1516-hindu-nepalese-young-man-crashes-his-motorcycle-and-has-obe.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1516-hindu-nepalese-young-man-crashes-his-motorcycle-and-has-obe.html | 2011 | 2021 | M | In November 2011, a young Hindu Nepalese man experienced a profound NDE following a motorcycle accident. Earlier that day, he had taken an illegal substance with friends and was riding home when he experienced a "oneness experience" while still riding. He heard a voice asking "Are you not the one who is desiring to go to Vaikuntha?" and realized he would have to die first to get there. He lost control of his motorcycle and crashed. Finding himself wounded in the street with people gathering, an unearthly man appeared in the sky saying "You can do it." He then observed white light searching for channels to exit his body, leaving through what he perceived as the uterus. His awareness transferred to a fluid substance that left his body, hovering in the 4th dimension where others couldn't perceive him. He encountered two women and humorously asked one for coffee, knowing she couldn't hear him. Another fluid substance pulled him toward bright white light where he dissolved completely, losing all concept of self and time, experiencing pure joy. The experience included a life review of himself as a child contemplating death, visits to otherworldly landscapes, encounters with an unearthly wise man, glimpses of his grandfather, observation of parasites living on human emotion, and travel through a long tunnel. Fearing permanent death, he departed the tunnel to space where he saw Earth and Moon closely, then was placed at the "top of the world" where he expressed desire for a realm higher than Vaikuntha. Four intelligent beings observed as he fell through layers, finally returning to his body in the ambulance. | 5 | Ambulance | 5 | 16 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Motorcycle accident with injuries requiring ambulance transport | Complex otherworldly journey with specific details about realms, beings, tunnel, Earth view from space | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw Earth from space | 0.00 | Incompatible | 9 | ||||||||||
| 4133 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1527-heart-attack-leads-to-teachings-about-dimensions-by-higher-self.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1527-heart-attack-leads-to-teachings-about-dimensions-by-higher-self.html | 2015 | 2015-05-04 | 2021 | M | On May 4, 2015, during heart bypass surgery, a man experienced cardiac arrest when his heart stopped on its own during the operation. Through the surgeon's quick action using physical pressure rather than electrical shock, his heart was restarted. During this time, he had a profound out-of-body experience, observing his body on the operating table through a hole in the ceiling and hearing the surgeon say "I think we need another graft around this one that's about 85% blocked" making it a four-way bypass. He then encountered a "Greeter" dressed entirely in white with bright blue eyes and no feet, appearing about 45 years old. Remarkably, he experienced multi-dimensional consciousness, simultaneously observing the Greeter from behind while also seeing himself standing eight feet away facing the Greeter. When offered the choice to "come Home" or return to his body, he saw his wife Anita in his mind and chose to return despite knowing he would be impaired. He later awoke with right-side paralysis from three strokes during surgery. The experience taught him about multi-dimensional existence, confirmed pre-chosen "Exit Points," and revealed his Higher Self "Artoomid" and guide Michael. Through subsequent hypnotherapy sessions as a retired hypnotherapist himself, he verified that the Greeter was a specialized transition guide who appears to many at death, that souls can choose to return if the body is repairable, and that consciousness exists simultaneously in multiple dimensions. The experience eliminated his fear of death and gave him profound understanding of consciousness beyond the physical. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest during heart bypass surgery, heart stopped and was restarted by surgeon using pressure | Heard surgeon discuss need for fourth graft at 85% blockage, observed surgery from above, experienced multi-dimensional consciousness | written_account | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Heard surgeon discussing additional graft | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4134 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 503-floating-above-my-right-shoulder.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/503-floating-above-my-right-shoulder.html | 2008 | 16 | Unknown | At age 16, the experiencer was driving too fast as a new driver when their car went off the road, hit a bump, became airborne, and overturned in a drainage ditch. Though only sustaining minor injuries including a broken nose, cuts and bruises, they experienced a profound out-of-body experience during the crash. After the car left the road, everything shifted into slow motion. In the brief seconds before impact, their mind raced through multiple thoughts about missing homecoming, how their parents would react, and who would call their boyfriend. Upon hitting the bump, they suddenly felt themselves floating above their right shoulder, pressed against the roof of the car which seemed a foot higher than normal. From this vantage point, they watched their physical body move like a rag doll in slow motion below them. They remember thinking "What the hell? Is that me? What's going on?" The experience ended abruptly when the car finished flipping. They didn't realize the car had overturned until removing their seatbelt and falling from the seat. The experiencer notes they never died or was seriously injured, yet had this profound OBE that remains difficult to explain to others who often dismiss it. The experience provided them comfort knowing others have had similar experiences. | 5 | Other | 5 | 5 | 10 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Car accident with vehicle going airborne and overturning - life-threatening trauma | Clear OBE with observation of own body moving like rag doll from above | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw own body from above during car crash | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 3 | ||||||||||
| 4135 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 504-there-is-more.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/504-there-is-more.html | 1972 | 2008 | F |
In 1972, seven weeks after giving birth to her third child, the experiencer was rushed to hospital with heavy bleeding, loss of sight, and massive stomach cramps believed to be blood poisoning. During a medical procedure under anesthetic, she experienced a profound NDE. She had absolute knowledge she was dying as her body shut down from her right toe upward. She entered a terrifying white tunnel like a slide, moving feet-first in a slalom ride that grew faster, accompanied by terrifying noise. The tunnel turned dark and seemed to narrow. She experienced intense fear and desolation, crying inconsolably. Suddenly she found herself standing beside her hospital bed observing the scene. She could see the doctor bent over her body, visibly upset trying to awaken her. She attempted to reassure him it was okay since she was dead, but he couldn't hear or feel her touch. She noted she was standing in a space that couldn't physically accommodate a person. After returning to darkness, she emerged into a vast space with an arched sky of inky dark blue filled with billions of stars. The air felt like warm liquid velvet. She floated in overwhelming peace and comfort. A beautiful, deep voice full of love spoke telepathically from over her left shoulder saying "Your time is not now. You must go back to your children. They need you." Despite her protests, the voice insisted her newborn and other children needed her. Upon return, she was severely depressed and spent six months on antidepressants for presumed postnatal depression. Unable to access medical records and with no one willing to discuss the event, she remained confused until discovering NDE literature ten years later. The experience transformed her life in wonderful ways - she lost all fear of death and gained certainty about the continuation of consciousness and the existence of a loving source. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage with suspected blood poisoning requiring emergency procedure | Clear OBE with specific observation of doctor's distress and attempt to awaken patient, noted standing in physically impossible location | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed self and doctor from beside hospital bed | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4136 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 505-filled-with-love-and-peace.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/505-filled-with-love-and-peace.html | 2008 | Unknown |
The experiencer was hospitalized for approximately one week with severe asthma causing breathing difficulties. They had an intuition something was wrong and asked the night nurse to watch them, keeping their door open against usual practice. After declining a midnight breathing treatment to avoid jitteriness, they were awakened by an urgent voice commanding them to push the call button immediately. Despite this not being their normal internal voice, they responded instantly. Their body wasn't responding properly - they struggled to reach the call button, their head dropping, arms barely working. They managed to weakly call "I can't breathe" before their body began failing with legs, chest, and arms flailing in desperate attempts to inhale. A nurse rushed in thinking it was a nightmare, then immediately called a code blue upon realizing the severity. The respiratory therapist yelled at them to breathe while rubbing their chest and face. Despite seeing the serious looks in the medical team's eyes, they lost the ability to respond, then their vision, though hearing continued briefly. After questioning if they were dying, they suddenly entered an indescribably beautiful, bright golden light that wasn't blinding. They became part of it, moving at amazing speed through this light to an open space where they saw countless people outlined in light - no clothing, no distinct faces or gender, extending as far as they could see. They felt instantly loved, accepted, and at peace with no fear or pain - the most love they'd ever experienced. They had rapid dialogue about their life and how beautiful everything was. Then they were shown their resuscitation scene from above - the respiratory therapist with an ambu bag, ER doctor controlling the code, nurses and aids around their bed in a wrecked room. Realizing they hadn't said goodbye to anyone, they felt pulled back as air was pushed into their lungs. They awakened to blinding room light with excruciating burning pain throughout their body before relaxing and remaining largely unconscious for weeks. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Code blue called for respiratory arrest with resuscitation team response | Detailed observation of resuscitation scene from above including specific positions of medical staff and equipment | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed resuscitation from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4137 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 510-a-world-of-peace-in-pool.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/510-a-world-of-peace-in-pool.html | 1996 | 1996-06-16 | 2008 | F |
On June 16, 1996 (Father's Day), while living in Saudi Arabia, the experiencer underwent her fourth C-section to deliver her daughter Maha at 35 weeks gestation. She had been hospitalized repeatedly during the pregnancy due to premature labor and being too ill to travel back to the United States. After being put under anesthesia, she experienced swimming at the bottom of a pool looking up at blue sky and sunshine, similar to a summer afternoon underwater view. Beautiful soft music with violins played - a song she's never heard before or since but still remembers. She struggled repeatedly to reach the surface for air, looking down to see a bright white stone path lined with crowds of welcoming people waving hello. Jesus appeared at the path's end. She felt torn between swimming to the surface and going down the inviting path. On her final look down, she heard her grandmother's voice (who died in 1981) saying "Honey you have to go back now, we aren't ready for you. Maha needs you." Without seeing her grandmother, she felt pushed, broke through the water's surface taking a huge gulp of air like after being underwater too long. She could see herself in a childhood swimsuit breaking through the water. Monitors were alarming with staff speaking multiple languages in confusion. Her husband leaned over saying "Don't leave me, come back. Just breathe sweetheart." She learned she had respiratory arrest and was dead for three minutes, later confirmed as anesthesia overdose. Remarkably, her two teenage sons in the waiting room were simultaneously thrown to their knees by a powerful force and began praying in Arabic (which they didn't speak well) that their mother wouldn't die. They received the message "God was in control" and understood the Arabic perfectly. Both sons independently reported identical experiences. The experiencer uses memories of the pool's peace and music to manage stress, no longer fears death, but struggles with mental processing since the event. Her husband claimed their marriage ended with her death, and she was treated for PTSD upon returning to the States. |
2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Respiratory arrest during C-section, clinically dead for 3 minutes, anesthesia overdose | Deceased grandmother knew baby's Arabic name "Maha" which she wouldn't normally know | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 1 | Two teenage sons | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4138 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 511-high-above.html 2008 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/511-high-above.html | 2008 | Unknown |
During an appendectomy under anesthesia, the experiencer suddenly felt a disturbing inability to breathe. Despite trying with all their force six to eight times, there was no connection between brain and lungs. They knew they were dying and were aware of being operated on. Expecting fear, they were pleasantly surprised to feel none. They stopped trying to breathe, let go, and became acutely aware this was the end, yet remained unafraid. Instantly, they found themselves high above the operating table observing everyone rushing around their body. They could see the medical team talking rapidly but couldn't hear anything. They felt remarkably clear with access to all consciousness from their entire life, able to pull any thought or information if needed, though they felt no need to do so. They thought "Why are they freaking out like this? Everything will be fine!" Then they felt several strong, very cold blows of forced air into their lungs and were no longer above the table, thinking "They did it!" They experienced nothing more until waking from anesthesia. When they asked what happened, staff confirmed cardiac arrest and were very surprised the patient knew about it. Since the experience, their life hasn't changed significantly and they've only told a few people. However, they've developed increased sensitivity and an intuitive ability to "know" things - not foresight, but discovering awareness that something would happen a certain way, usually only recognizing this foreknowledge after events have occurred. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 30 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest during appendectomy surgery under anesthesia with monitoring | Clear observation of medical team rushing around body during resuscitation | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed medical team from above during cardiac arrest | 1.00 | Medical staff | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4139 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 515-a-call-of-life.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/515-a-call-of-life.html | 1950 | 2009 | 15 | M |
In January 1950, at age fifteen and a half in Cape Town, South Africa, the experiencer contracted pneumonia, which was virtually a death sentence before antibiotics. Though treated with the new wonder drug Penicillin, he experienced a profound NDE. One morning in the hospital, he felt a comfortable warm tingling starting in his knees and proceeding up his legs. The bright sunny day visible through windows turned a beautiful deep purple with golden lights twinkling. He felt warm and comfortable, then began floating up toward the ceiling. Looking down from high above, he saw himself asleep in bed very far away, as though much higher than ceiling level. In complete silence and coolness despite the midsummer heat, he watched through the ward door as his parents came running in, led by a white-coated doctor. Nurses brought mobile screens around his bed. His mother held his hand to her face, appearing to be crying, while his father stood beside her. They stayed for a long time before leaving slowly and stooped over. This scene remains vivid decades later. He also noted it was very windy where he was floating. He woke normally with no immediate memory until months later when his mother revealed they'd received an emergency call that he was near death. When they arrived, he had already passed away, but received another call at home saying he had miraculously revived. When these details triggered his memory, he described everything he had seen - them entering the ward, the mobile screens, his mother holding his hand - which she confirmed completely. In 1968, his wife experienced identical symptoms during a hemorrhage (warm tingling, purple sunset with golden stars, asking "What are you doing down there?"). Recognizing his own NDE symptoms, he got emergency help that saved her life, as she was in cardiac arrest lying in blood. She recovered fully, and he knew his presence that evening saved her from certain death. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 43 | Exceptional Evidence | 15 | Severe pneumonia requiring Penicillin, confirmed clinical death with revival | Observed parents arrival, doctor leading them, mobile screens, mother crying and holding hand, all details confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 1 | Observed parents arrival at hospital | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4140 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 540-massive-infinite-entity.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/540-massive-infinite-entity.html | 2009 | Unknown |
While vacationing at Lake Powell, the experiencer went down a two-story houseboat slide (18 feet high) and struck a rock, shattering their tibia, fibula, and tibial plateau in eight places with a compound fracture. After helicopter evacuation to a trauma center and emergency surgery to rebuild the leg with metal and screws, they developed compartment syndrome three days later. Despite their calf swelling to basketball size, doctors initially missed the condition until a nurse insisted something was wrong. Ultrasound revealed blood flow had stopped in the leg, killing the anterior muscle and preventing circulation throughout the body. As the doctor and fiancée rushed them to emergency surgery, they closed their eyes momentarily and suddenly found themselves floating far above Earth, looking into space. They could feel Earth behind them while facing a massive, infinite entity encompassing all galaxies and space - a presence right in front of us all the time that Earth sits in. They understood all dark matter and dark energy in the void was God, overwhelming them with its unimaginable size. This presence knew everything about them as if it had built them cell by cell. Behind them, Earth seethed with life like blue and white ocean waves. The entity asked telepathically (not with voice but as a felt question) if they wanted to come out now or go back. After thinking of their life and fiancée, they chose to return. Immediately upon opening their eyes, they were still on the gurney in almost the same spot as if no time had passed. They told their fiancée they didn't think they'd make it and said goodbye before the doctor ran them into surgery. Upon waking after surgery, they had strange thoughts about floating in gas here while the other side has crystal clarity without fog. Their fiancée reported they initially spoke about not being baptized despite having no religious beliefs. The life-threatening compartment syndrome occurred without their awareness they were dying. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening compartment syndrome with cessation of blood flow requiring emergency surgery | Profound cosmic vision of infinite entity/God with telepathic communication and choice to return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4141 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 541-360-degree-vision.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/541-360-degree-vision.html | 1977 | 1977-06-19 | 2009 | M |
On June 19, 1977, at 1:20 AM, the experiencer was involved in a fatal car accident while fleeing police at 80 mph. His friend Cline died in the crash. After hitting gravel and losing control, the car crashed into trees. Initially thinking they survived, he found himself in pitch darkness asking where his friend was. He then experienced walking away from his own body, watching himself fall to the pavement, seeing through tree branches to observe the accident scene below with his brother's car, police cars, ambulance, and people gathered. He and his friend realized simultaneously "We are dead." A voice from front-right said "Fear not. Do not be afraid," identifying itself as "Father" while he heard "Christ" in his being. He then experienced 360-degree vision showing his entire life in corridors of stacked images, from age two onward, with a bright area moving like a flashlight across the panorama. He was transported to his mother's bedroom where the dog responded to his presence. The voice asked if this was his mother. His vision turned to see his younger brother through the door. Instantly transported 12 miles to his older brother Charles's apartment, he saw through concrete and steel doors to observe Charles reaching for the door with a shadowy figure beside him. Despite calling for help, the voice simply repeated the question about his brother. He was then taken 15 miles to his father's apartment, seeing him reading a newspaper through walls. After scanning the last quarter of his life review, he sensed voices murmuring behind him. He saw an image of himself in a white robe, head bowed, hands folded. A blue-white sesame seed approached with increasing pitch sound and light until they merged. He awoke in custody, handcuffed, learning his friend had died. Later, a friend confirmed his brother had sensed something happened that night, saying "something has happened" before leaving his apartment, proving the experience wasn't a dream. |
5 | Other | 7 | 20 | 37 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Fatal high-speed car accident resulting in friend's death and experiencer's severe injuries | Multiple remote observations of family members, brother's simultaneous premonition later confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw accident scene from above through trees | 0.00 | Friend with brother Charles | Highly Compatible | 9 | ||||||||
| 4142 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 542-walking-toward-the-source.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/542-walking-toward-the-source.html | 1999 | 2009 | M |
In April 1999, the experiencer had a mild heart attack following bypass surgery from 1990. While recovering at home, he went upstairs to rest while his wife and daughter were having their hair done downstairs. Lying on the bed, he experienced a strange floating sensation like riding ocean waves, feeling cold and unable to move. When it subsided and returned, he called for his wife who noted his gray color and immediately called 911. He felt he was about to die and wanted to tell his wife and daughter goodbye and how much he loved them. Later told he was speaking in a strange, coherent language no one understood. He found himself standing at the base of an enormously high mountain with an opening. Entering a dimly lit tunnel, he walked toward the light source. Rounding a bend, he encountered his father who had died Christmas Eve 1998. His father appeared 40-50 years younger than at death, with deceased relatives and pets dimly visible in the background. His father spoke saying "Go back, it's not your time yet." Paramedics stabilized him and rushed him to emergency, then ICU, where extreme electrical failure in the heart was diagnosed. A defibrillator was installed the next day. Doctors called it Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) and credited the paramedics' fast action with saving his life. During his ICU stay, multiple doctors visited to hear his story, saying such experiences occurred more than he might think. The experience brought him peace and confidence about the afterlife's reality. Though never much of a churchgoer but always spiritual, he now firmly believes in the continuation of souls, with the future dependent on the quality and goodness of present existence. |
2 | Home | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Heart attack with extreme electrical failure (SDS) requiring defibrillator implant | Clear encounter with deceased father who appeared younger and gave specific message to return | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Speaking unknown language | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw medical resuscitation scene | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4143 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 543-all-is-everything-everything-is-one.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/543-all-is-everything-everything-is-one.html | 2009 | F |
The experiencer had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy that occurred Monday evening at 6:00 PM but didn't seek treatment until Tuesday morning. Doctors gave her only 50/50 survival chances, noting her low blood pressure had prevented complete bleeding out. During surgery, she heard a deafening SNAP that left her ears ringing. From near the ceiling, she observed the operation with fascination, initially feeling deep sympathy for the patient before realizing it was herself. A bright white light on her right persistently drew her attention away from the surgery. After watching a needle thrust into the patient's chest, she moved into the light through a dark channel she recognized as a birth canal, encased in warm, gyrating black jello projecting her toward brilliant light. She experienced a comprehensive life review from childhood onward with distinct clarity. She not only saw her actions but felt the repercussions - experiencing the injury and pain she had caused others and how it passed on through them. One specific memory involved cruelly abandoning a young man who had helped her when she was drunk, leaving him stranded miles from home at night. She felt his complete panic, fear, and lasting trust issues. The guilt from seeing her selfishness turned her inside out in a cleansing process. She stood before a white landscape with a large structure to her right and an enormous stairwell containing all knowledge to her left. She remembered everything - understanding the simplicity of all existence's questions, comparing human limitation to an ant unable to perceive a human's entirety. She remembered three sisters/spirits who had been concerned about her choosing this life. Told she wouldn't be allowed to stay because of her daughter, she tried to capture the knowledge in words: "all is everything, everything is one." After returning and awakening two days later, she tried sharing her experience but faced universal disbelief, with her husband threatening divorce if she continued talking about it. Reading Dr. Raymond Moody's work later validated her experience, and she contributed to his research on the knowledge component of NDEs. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 29 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Ruptured ectopic pregnancy with 50/50 survival chance, emergency surgery | Detailed OBE watching surgery, comprehensive life review with emotional impact of actions on others | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Watched own surgery from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4144 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1529-young-child-dies-from-pills-meets-a-being-and-returns-to-feel-trapped.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1529-young-child-dies-from-pills-meets-a-being-and-returns-to-feel-trapped.html | 1963 | 2021 | 3 | F |
At age three, this individual ingested 30 Seconals prescribed for her mother during a divorce, resulting in a life-threatening overdose. The housekeeper found her unresponsive with vomited pink liquid, and she was rushed to Baptist Hospital in Knoxville, TN. Her heart had stopped before leaving home, and emergency physicians tried various interventions before successfully mainlining pure caffeine through her ankles. During the cardiac arrest, she experienced being in a white light place with a large being wearing white caftan-like clothing with a gold sash. The being sat on a gold bench and appeared larger than human with white hair and unusually large, animated eyes. She felt immediate elation and happiness in this presence, experiencing overwhelming love from this entity. The being communicated that she could not stay and must return to live out her life, despite her desperate attempts to bargain and plead to remain. Following the experience, she displayed profound changes, spending months in the woods behind her house with her dog, praying to return to heaven. She felt trapped and constrained in earthly life, experiencing a persistent sense of not belonging here. Years later, a psychic friend revealed that her sister had fed her the pills, explaining how a three-year-old accessed the medication. The lasting impact includes a lifelong feeling of confinement in physical existence and an eager anticipation to reunite with heaven and God. The experience fundamentally altered her relationship with death and earthly life. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 0 | 10 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Clear cardiac arrest documented with heart stopped before leaving home, requiring extreme measures including mainlining caffeine through ankles | No specific verifiable observations of earthly events during experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw being in white light place | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4145 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1535-spanish-man-pleads-to-return-is-given-more-time-and-now-serves-others.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1535-spanish-man-pleads-to-return-is-given-more-time-and-now-serves-others.html | 2011 | 2011-05-22 | 2021 | M |
On May 22, 2011, at 1:45 pm, Antonio suffered a fainting fit during a police training course, experiencing what was diagnosed as left bundle branch block, syncope, and sudden death. He found himself in an environment with abundant light where he met a being who told him he was home and that his earthly body no longer belonged to him. The being showed him his body below with people performing resuscitation attempts, appearing as distant silhouettes from his elevated perspective. Antonio saw deceased relatives including his wife's relative whom he had helped bury, and his grandfather who had died 20 years prior but appeared young and vital at age 25-30 rather than his death age of 77. When he pleaded to return to tell his wife he was okay, the being went through curtains of champagne-colored balls to request permission. He observed pairs of people entering through these curtains with only one returning, suggesting a transition point between realms. Permission was granted for his return with conditions: he could tell his wife everything, he would have a specific time period on earth, and he must share his story with the world. The being revealed the exact date of his eventual return home. Upon returning to his body, he experienced suffocating pain and grasped the being's hands for help before awakening to find someone performing chest compressions on him. Following the experience, Antonio developed extraordinary abilities including seeing beings from other planes, knowing when people will die, seeing future events, and helping others during their transition. He gave up material attachments, releasing judgment, attachment, expectations, ego, and fear. He now dedicates his life to helping others understand death is an illusion and assisting people in their spiritual transitions. |
1 | Other | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Documented cardiac arrest with left bundle branch block, syncope and sudden death diagnosis | Saw deceased grandfather appearing young, wife's buried relative, resuscitation scene from above, detailed realm features | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw resuscitation scene from above | 1.00 | Antonio (self) | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 4146 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1537-woman-s-love-is-measured-during-her-life-review.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1537-woman-s-love-is-measured-during-her-life-review.html | 1998 | 2021 | 45 | F |
In summer 1998, a 45-year-old woman teaching at a music school in Copenhagen experienced sudden chest pain and pressure while descending stairs after a student concert. Having had similar symptoms two weeks prior with normal ECG results, she attempted to walk home but worsening symptoms forced her to take a bus to the hospital. Porters rushed her to emergency in a wheelchair where doctors found ischemia and abnormal ECG with ST depression, treating her with nitroglycerin spray. While alone in the cardiac ward, she suddenly saw and heard a children's choir singing beautifully at the foot of her bed. She recognized all 33 children as her former violin pupils from London years earlier, whom she had taught when they were ages 3-8. She received the message that her teaching had been good enough and that she had meant much to each child, seeing her teaching and relationships from their perspectives. Simultaneously, a counter making ratchet-like sounds appeared on the right, measuring the amount of love in every thought and action of her life at lightning speed. A column of green light grew higher as love was counted and measured during this rapid life review. The experience made crystal clear that the only thing that matters in life is how loving thoughts and actions are. She had theoretically known this before but now truly understood it. The experience ended abruptly when a male nurse injected medication into her left hand. She was diagnosed with possible Prinzmetal's angina, though a 2017 scan revealed a congenital right coronary artery anomaly. She kept the experience secret for years until hearing Pim van Lommel speak in 2018, after which she discovered four of five patients in her cardiac rehabilitation group had also experienced NDEs but never discussed them. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 12 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Documented cardiac ischemia with abnormal ECG showing ST depression, treated with nitroglycerin | Saw 33 specific former violin students she had taught years earlier, life review with love measurement system | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Children's choir of former students | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4147 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1541-sleep-apnea-leads-columbian-man-to-teachings-about-covid-19.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1541-sleep-apnea-leads-columbian-man-to-teachings-about-covid-19.html | 2020 | 2020-03-21 | 2021 | 62 | M |
On March 21, 2020, a 62-year-old former orthodontist with aerospace engineering background experienced respiratory arrest from sleep apnea after accidentally sleeping on his back. His wife had previously noted he stopped breathing for long periods when sleeping supine. He awakened in a grayish cloud-like space with visibility of only a few feet, feeling comfortable, alert, and recognizing the experience as familiar from multiple lifetimes. A presence he identified as an old friend from multiple lifetimes, later revealed as Jesus/God, appeared and conducted an extensive seminar about COVID-19. Through telepathy, visions, and field trips to future New York City, he received detailed information about the pandemic's progression. He witnessed the city during catastrophic outbreak with hospitals overwhelmed, witnessed a special Cough Mask that would stop COVID-19 transmission, and observed both potential futures - one where humanity chooses the mask and survives, another leading to near-extinction with only 10,000 survivors by 2040. The being showed him specific mask design details, explaining viruses attach to aerosols and catching aerosols catches viruses. He saw future scenes of mask distribution, implementation strategies, and exact effectiveness rates. Multiple specific predictions were made including vaccine failures, timeline of events, and death tolls. He was shown humanity faces a wave of coronavirus pandemics, with COVID-19 being just the first of many arriving approximately every two years. Following the experience, he gave up his orthodontic practice despite having four young children and a new office building to pursue developing the Cough Mask on a non-profit basis. The experience included verifiable predictions that began manifesting, leading to his complete life transformation and dedication to preventing the catastrophic future he was shown. |
5 | Home | 5 | 16 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Sleep apnea with prolonged breathing cessation noted by wife, respiratory arrest implied | Extensive specific predictions about COVID-19, vaccine effectiveness, future death tolls, mask technology details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 3 | 0 | COVID-19 pandemic progression details | 1.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 4148 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1545-australian-man-chokes-and-finds-himself-in-another-place.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1545-australian-man-chokes-and-finds-himself-in-another-place.html | 2021 | 2021-01-31 | 2021 | M |
In late January 2021, while watching television and drinking tea with his wife, this Australian man burst out laughing at a comedy show while swallowing, causing severe choking. His wife attempted to assist as he coughed and choked, fighting for breath for approximately two minutes. During this distress, he suddenly found himself facing a light grey misty environment, immediately experiencing immense euphoria and ecstatic bliss that continued throughout the experience. He retained his individuality and self-awareness but felt lighter, more expanded, and more knowledgeable, though uncertain what knowledge this referred to. Compared to this new existence, earthly life felt heavy like walking in treacle. When the mist cleared, he found himself on an immense plain stretching as far as he could see, sensing many people engaged in various activities though seeing no one directly, feeling he was "Home" and belonged there. A Being or intelligent Force appeared about 20 meters away, showing interest in him to his surprise. He was staggered by this Being's power which seemed to extend forever, feeling absolute awe but no intimidation. The Being was accepting of him and possessed awe-inspiring, immense power. He did not think of the word God but recognized it as a Force, an Intelligence of immense power showing acceptance. The experience lasted no more than a minute before he immediately re-entered his body, again aware of choking but gradually able to clear his lungs. Six months later, the effect remains with him, having eliminated all fear and anxiety about death. For him, death will be a doorway to ecstasy and Home, fundamentally transforming his perspective on mortality. |
5 | Home | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe choking episode lasting approximately two minutes with breathing difficulty | General observations of realm and being, no specific verifiable details | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Immense plain with sensed presences | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4149 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1548-vietnamese-man-in-car-crash-accompanies-fiance-into-light-but-returns-alone.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1548-vietnamese-man-in-car-crash-accompanies-fiance-into-light-but-returns-alone.html | 1990 | 1990-04-13 | 2021 | 30 | M |
On Good Friday, April 13, 1990, a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American man experienced a horrific head-on collision that claimed three lives including his fiancée. Having survived the Vietnam War and rebuilt his life in America as a successful Silicon Valley engineer, he was planning a December wedding when the crash occurred while returning from Carmel. He was the sole survivor of the devastating accident. At the moment of impact after seeing headlights, he saw his fiancée moving toward a bright light and followed her. As she entered the light, she turned and told him "You cannot come because you still have something to do!" He immediately felt heaviness and found himself back in his body with blood and pain, seeing her resting on the dashboard without visible wounds. The paramedics later informed him she had suffered massive brain injury. While in the emergency room feeling hopeless and lost, he heard a loud voice saying in Vietnamese "You plan things, I make things happen!" recognizing this as God's voice. A Vietnamese proverb appeared in his mind: "Man proposes, God disposes." He made a vow to follow God's will, receiving a second chance at life. One contact lens remained on the windshield, indicating his eyes were open during impact, yet he survived what should have been fatal injuries. Later experiences included being summoned to a palace with 24 Elders and a throne with powerful divine presence, receiving a book and assignment to be an effective witness of God's grace and love. He received a cross from a friend as confirmation of his calling. Subsequent visions included attempting suicide three times before his fiancée and Jesus appeared, stopping him. The experience led him to understand death as transition, navigation in spiritual realms through thought, and development of abilities to help others in transition. |
5 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Fatal head-on collision killing three people, sole survivor with injuries requiring hospitalization | Contact lens on windshield verified eyes open during impact, accurate assessment of fiancée's condition | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 3 | 1 | Saw fiancée going into light | 0.00 | ER doctor | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 4150 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1549-man-has-nde-during-dental-work-in-1978.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1549-man-has-nde-during-dental-work-in-1978.html | 1978 | 2021 | 28 | M |
Born premature in 1950 with resulting lifelong health issues including heart arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation, this professional touring musician experienced cardiac arrest during wisdom tooth extraction at age 28 in Macon, Georgia. The dentist used only local anesthesia despite the complexity of the procedure, attempting to split deeply rooted teeth. Extreme pain triggered his pre-existing arrhythmia condition, causing his heart to stop. Suddenly he was out of body near the ceiling, observing the dentist and nurse below. He could see through walls into other rooms simultaneously, observing his wife reading a magazine in the waiting room. The dentist was shaking and slapping him, screaming at him to wake up while the nurse assisted in revival attempts. His wife heard the commotion and put down her magazine, appearing stressed. He felt perfectly normal, calm, and pain-free during the experience. The condition he experienced was sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), where his heart could stop for seconds to a minute then restart spontaneously. This occurred over a dozen more times throughout his late twenties and thirties, with two incidents documented in ICU showing his heart stopping and restarting on its own, baffling medical staff. In subsequent episodes, he found himself in pitch-black spaces, fully alert and aware, with all senses at 100% functionality despite the darkness, feeling like floating and completely at ease. The experiences left lasting impact, though he initially couldn't remember or understand what had happened until years later when NDE accounts became more widely known. |
2 | Other | 10 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Clear cardiac arrest from SADS condition, heart stopped during procedure, later ICU documented episodes | Observed dentist slapping/shaking him, nurse helping, wife putting down magazine when hearing commotion | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed revival attempts from above | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||
| 4151 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1556-teen-experiences-bliss-while-in-hospital.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1556-teen-experiences-bliss-while-in-hospital.html | 1974 | 2021 | 14 | M |
At age 14 in Anaheim, California, this young man developed osteomyelitis that was initially mistreated by doctors. A poison pocket on his left shoulder burst after a doctor used heat and electrical treatments, spreading infection throughout his body. His left arm became massively swollen, hard and red, resembling Popeye's arm. He could barely see or walk when his mother admitted him to Anaheim hospital in critical condition. He remembers only the first five minutes in the emergency room and a brief moment on the operating table, then awakened two weeks later naked between two extremely cold black ice blankets with temperature at 103°F, with IV and monitoring devices attached. During the two-week unconscious period, he experienced being in pure bliss on the "Other Side," floating in cosmic soup of another dimension. The experience was characterized by overwhelming peace and bliss that made it challenging to tolerate returning to the three-dimensional world. He later connected the severe illness to internalizing trauma from his parents' divorce at age 12. The month-long hospitalization and difficult re-entry included dealing with a new stepfather very different from his vaudeville magician father. The lasting impact includes permanent spiritual hunger for truth, leading him to become a student of Self Realization Fellowship (SRF). He maintains gratitude for the experience and connection to his mother who is now on the "Other Side." The experience fundamentally altered his perspective on existence and spiritual reality. |
5 | Hospital | 7 | 0 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe osteomyelitis with systemic infection, unconscious for two weeks, high fever requiring ice blankets | Experience described as pure bliss but no specific verifiable observations | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Experience of cosmic dimension | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 6 | |||||||||
| 4152 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 544-skipping-up-a-beautiful-path.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/544-skipping-up-a-beautiful-path.html | 2009 | 9 | F | At age nine, Mary Lou underwent tonsil and adenoid removal in a doctor's office and was sent home. During the night, she awoke in a pool of blood, hemorrhaging through her mouth and nose. Medical staff stated she was going to die as they couldn't pack both her mouth and nose without preventing breathing. During this critical medical emergency, Mary Lou experienced leaving her body and found herself skipping up a beautiful path surrounded by flowers toward a large gate. The path was vivid and the experience felt completely real. She desperately wanted to enter the gate but was stopped by a man's voice that firmly told her "Go back Mary Lou, go back. You are too young. If you come in you cannot go home." She awoke to find everyone crying around her. The hemorrhaging had been controlled and she survived. Initially dismissing this as a childhood dream, she now recognizes it as a genuine near-death experience, noting how real and vivid the memory remains decades later. | 5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Post-surgical hemorrhaging described as life-threatening, medical staff stated she was dying | Heard specific statement "She is going to die" and awareness of medical situation while unconscious | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard medical staff discussing her condition | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4153 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 545-above-the-bleachers.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/545-above-the-bleachers.html | 2007 | 2007-07-13 | 2009 | Unknown | On July 13, 2007, at a county fair cattle show, the experiencer suffered cardiac arrest while sitting on metal bleachers. She died three times during the approximately twenty-minute rescue effort. Multiple witnesses pulled her from between the bleachers and performed CPR with an automated external defibrillator (AED). During this critical period, she left her body and observed the scene from an elevated vantage point above the four-row bleachers, watching from what seemed much higher than physically possible. She observed her body being worked on by rescuers and noted the complete absence of pain while out of body. She questioned why she felt no pain and had clear awareness that she wasn't in her physical body. The experience felt timeless, with no sense of duration. When placed on the stretcher for ambulance transport, she re-entered her body, with the female EMT's face being the first thing she saw. Remarkably, despite extensive CPR and AED shocks, she experienced no pain throughout and had no bruising afterward. Hospital staff initially didn't believe the cardiac arrest had occurred until they read the AED chip data confirming multiple cardiac events. | 1 | Other | 10 | 8 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Cardiac arrest confirmed by AED chip, died three times during rescue | Observed scene from vantage point higher than the 4-row bleachers, impossible perspective | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 1 | Watched rescue from elevated position | 1.00 | EMTs and rescue workers | Highly Compatible | 6 | ||||||||
| 4154 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 546-floating-over-the-water.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/546-floating-over-the-water.html | 2009 | Unknown | During a family beach outing, the experiencer followed a friend into deeper water but lost sight of him and became exhausted from swimming. Waves began washing over their face, making breathing difficult, and they realized they might not survive. After a final glimpse of the shoreline with people unaware of the crisis, a profound calm descended. The experiencer felt a sensation of floating above the water, observing themselves from outside their body with complete detachment and no distress. The scene appeared like watching a movie, with no fear or pain. From this elevated perspective, they witnessed a man grabbing their hair to pull them from the water. The experience seemed to happen quickly yet time felt distorted. Upon being pulled ashore, consciousness returned with intense physical sensations - chest pain and burning lungs feeling like fire as air rushed back in. The choking and gasping for breath marked the return to physical awareness. Later reflection revealed the remarkable fact that they had observed their own rescue from an external vantage point, seeing themselves being pulled from the water by their hair, a perspective impossible from normal consciousness. | 5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Near-drowning with difficulty breathing and loss of consciousness | Observed self being pulled from water by hair from external perspective | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw rescue from above water | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4155 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 548-near-death-delivery-recall.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/548-near-death-delivery-recall.html | 1930 | 2009 | 0 | Unknown | Born in 1930 via cesarean section after mother developed pre-eclampsia, this person did not breathe or cry at birth following delivery. The head nurse immediately intervened, wrapping the newborn in alternating hot and cold towels while slapping them repeatedly until finally gasping for breath. Years later, when their mother recounted these birth complications, the experiencer had an extraordinary recognition - they already knew these details from actual memory. They could visualize the delivery room from an elevated perspective above the scene, watching the nurse handling their newborn body. The visual impression remains vivid decades later, including specific details their anesthetized mother couldn't have known or conveyed. The experiencer saw everything from an impossible vantage point for a newborn, observing the nurse's actions to revive them. This wasn't learned information but experiential memory predating their mother's account. The astonishment came not from hearing the story but from recognizing it as confirmation of what they somehow already knew. The experience remains completely real in their memory, suggesting consciousness and observation capacity existed even as a non-breathing newborn, providing evidence that near-death experiences can occur at birth with memories persisting into adulthood. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 10 | 15 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Did not breathe at birth, required resuscitation | Observed delivery room from above, saw nurse with hot/cold towels, details mother couldn't know | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 0 | Viewed delivery room from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4156 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 549-lifes-history-exploded-into-consciousness.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/549-lifes-history-exploded-into-consciousness.html | 2009 | Unknown | While sitting in a parked car, the experiencer's heart suddenly stopped beating, accompanied by an intense sensation rushing from heart up the spine into the brain and seemingly out through the top of the head. Initial chaos gave way to profound tranquility and an all-consuming state of heightened awareness unlike normal consciousness. The incredible quiet of this new reality was immediately apparent. Unable to move any body part and knowing the heart had stopped, they understood death was occurring. Attention was drawn upward through the top of the head into a tunnel with bright light above. Beginning to enter the tunnel, their entire life history exploded into consciousness simultaneously - a complete life review. They felt unready to die, having unfinished business and wanting another chance. The light transformed into a lightning bolt that shot through brain and spine directly into the heart with extreme intensity. The heart exploded with energy and resumed beating. The profound calm vanished instantly with the return of heartbeat. They remained in the car for over four hours in shock and severe nausea, feeling as if massive adrenaline had been injected. Though experiencing cardiovascular problems for years afterward, they rebuilt their health and remain deeply influenced by the conviction that they have more to accomplish in life. | 2 | Other | 10 | 2 | 12 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Heart stopped beating while in parked car, self-diagnosed cardiac arrest | Complete life review occurred but no external veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4157 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 550-met-by-mother.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/550-met-by-mother.html | 2009 | Unknown | After three days of flu-like symptoms while alone in London, the experiencer sought help at work, feeling as if walking above everyone. Taken by taxi to emergency hospital, they passed out and awoke hours later in isolation ward with nurses washing them with ice water and forcing iced water consumption, windows open in winter. A doctor arrived declaring them dead and ordered nurses to stop treatment. At this moment, their spirit left the body and observed from above, seeing the nurses defy the doctor's orders as he slammed the door. They immediately began a terrifying journey down a black spiral tunnel toward an amazingly bright light unlike anything seen before or since. Arriving in a beautiful place identified as heaven, they were met by their mother who had died two years earlier. Mother introduced them to deceased family members they had never known. A bright light was present but too intense to look at directly. After about twenty minutes, an unknown man announced it wasn't their time and they must return. The return journey through the tunnel led back to darkness and re-entry into the body with great pain. Unconscious for three days, they survived double pneumonia and a record-breaking temperature over 108°F, unprecedented for survival according to medical staff. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Double pneumonia with temperature over 108°F, doctor declared dead | Observed nurses defying doctor after he declared death, saw him slam door | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 1 | 1 | Observed medical scene from above | 1.00 | Hospital staff | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4158 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 551-hurried-to-the-light.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/551-hurried-to-the-light.html | 2004 | 2004-07-04 | 2009 | F | On July 4, 2004, Cindy was hospitalized for unknown causes, later requiring appendectomy. Post-surgery in her room with family, her mother noticed the drain tube rapidly filling with blood. After multiple tube emptyings, internal bleeding was recognized. The surgeon held her pulse at bedside to prevent death until emergency surgery could be prepared. By surgery time, she had lost consciousness and flatlined twice. During this crisis, she found herself in a dark tunnel with space on each side, floating toward intensely bright light shining through a crack in a door. The light was so brilliant it hurt her eyes. Something draped over her shoulders like a wrap, and a voice instructed her to ask for forgiveness, which she did saying "Oh Lord forgive me." The voice then told her to ask for help, which she also did. While urgently moving toward the light, she heard her mother saying "Cindy please don't leave me like this." She felt a great hurry to reach the light, with brightness increasingly overtaking the door. Almost entering, the voice said "Cindy you have a short time." She felt intense anger at not being allowed to stay, remaining upset for days. Upon awakening, she insisted to family that she had died despite their denials, then recounted the experience. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Internal bleeding requiring emergency surgery, flatlined twice | Heard mother's plea while unconscious, spiritual guidance received | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4159 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 553-non-existence.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/553-non-existence.html | 2009 | Unknown | During a severe asthma attack, the experiencer was rushed to hospital where they stopped breathing and required resuscitation. As a child in a hospital for dying children with collapsed lungs, they had seen "Takers" - opaque beings who led dying children away - and was determined never to take their hands, keeping fists tightly closed. During this adult crisis, after rapid discussion and pulling sensations, they found themselves sitting cross-legged suspended in a void. This wasn't darkness or light but absolute NOTHING - complete emptiness beyond expression. No emotions existed, not even calm. Time became meaningless; they existed there for eternity in both directions. Struggling to recall something important, they remembered the difficulty breathing and associated feelings, then spent time examining the life connected to those feelings. This wasn't judgment but measuring, weighing failures against successes, becoming painfully aware that whatever the measure, nothing could be done to fix it. This became their concept of heaven and hell - one's own personal measure. Then pain returned with loud voices, indicating return to life. No relief accompanied return; they wanted neither the void nor life back. The experience eliminated fear of death, bringing acceptance of doing their best in life since nothing more can fix that final measuring, though preferring complete non-existence to either state. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe asthma attack, stopped breathing, resuscitated | Life review/measuring but no external observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/13/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4160 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 554-i-couldnt-cross.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/554-i-couldnt-cross.html | 2008 | 2008-06-22 | 2009 | Unknown | On June 22, 2008, around 7:30 AM, the experiencer woke with coughing and sharp chest pain, initially thought to be a pulled muscle. The pain intensified in the bathroom, prompting recognition of a heart attack. Their partner's limited Spanish necessitated multiple phone calls through friends to reach someone who could call an ambulance in Spanish. The delay seemed excessive while experiencing intense pain and fear of dying. At the town hospital emergency room, doctors and nurses administered injections before moving them to another room where the NDE occurred. Finding themselves alone in the room, they stood observing their own body in the bed, which appeared to be sleeping peacefully. The experience felt wonderfully peaceful, perfect, without any problems. To their left was an area they couldn't cross, where they saw deceased parents, family members, and friends who had crossed over. Joy filled them at seeing these loved ones. Without words, the deceased were pointing back to the body, communicating the need to return. Despite not wanting to leave, they returned. Minutes later, staff confirmed the heart attack. They remained calm, glowing with peace and relaxation. The experience eliminated fear of death, increased life's meaning, especially regarding helping others, and left them wondering about unfinished earthly purpose. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Heart attack confirmed by hospital staff | Out-of-body observation of own body appearing peaceful in bed | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed own body from outside perspective | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4161 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 555-floating-like-a-helium-balloon.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/555-floating-like-a-helium-balloon.html | 2009 | 16 | F | This account describes two separate NDEs. At age 13, during a head-on collision with a drunk driver at a drive-in movie, the experiencer saw the approaching car in slow motion before impact. They were enveloped in complete darkness that felt quiet, warm, comforting, and cozy without fear. A white light appeared far above, resembling sunlight seen from underwater, warm like sunshine. They awoke covered in blood but without pain despite severe injuries, feeling safe while being extracted and transported to the hospital. Three years later, while bicycling home from high school, a driver ran a stop sign, hitting them hard from the side. They flew over the vehicle, landing head-first on pavement. The sensation of floating up like a helium balloon allowed them to observe the accident scene from above, seeing themselves surrounded by people on the street. They felt calm until noticing their school uniform skirt was up showing underwear, triggering self-consciousness and panic. This emotional response immediately caused them to be "sucked back" into their body, where they pushed down the skirt and regained consciousness. The second experience particularly demonstrated conscious observation from outside the body with specific veridical detail about clothing position that triggered the return to physical form. | 5 | Other | 5 | 6 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Two severe accidents - car crash and bicycle accident with head trauma | Second incident: observed self from above, saw skirt position | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed accident scene from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4162 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 937-hodgkins-disease-respiratory-failure.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/937-hodgkins-disease-respiratory-failure.html | 2013 | Unknown | The experiencer had Hodgkin's disease and was undergoing chemotherapy when severe pulmonary toxicity, anemia, and fluid around the lungs and heart led to respiratory failure while lying alone on a Saturday morning. During the experience, everything including the experiencer's body dissipated into mist, revealing a singular reality beyond the insubstantial nature of matter. This reality had consciousness, personality, and characteristics of overwhelming kindness, joy, and love - described as immediately lovable as a kitten. The experiencer felt the reality's attention directed toward them with the quality of a new mother holding her firstborn child, full of love, joy, delight, and fascination. Time had no meaning in this state, and the experiencer realized they had always been embedded within, bathed in, and cradled by this loving reality. Feeling deeply ashamed to have underestimated its love and joy, the experiencer offered to return to physical life as the biggest sacrifice they could imagine, never wanting to feel separate from this reality again. The fog reformed and rebuilt the world, gently returning them to their body. The experiencer cried for weeks afterward, profoundly affected by the overwhelming love and unity experienced. | 5 | Home | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Respiratory failure from Hodgkin's disease complications described | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4163 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 938-im-completely-different-since.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/938-im-completely-different-since.html | 2008 | 2013 | F | In December 2008, the experiencer underwent a hysterectomy after severe anemia from excessive bleeding. Two weeks post-surgery, she developed severe pain and fever, was readmitted, but the source of infection could not be found. On December 31st, her appendix burst, causing sepsis, e-coli, and staph infections. She spent four days hovering between life and death. During this time, she left her body and was surrounded by beautiful Beings of Light who showered her with incredible love. She was told telepathically that her physical condition was grave. She experienced love more profound than ever before, filling every cell with radiance like warm fire. She could see her mother and brother were present but refused to see them, knowing she wouldn't want to leave if she did. She existed as golden white light radiating and connecting to everything in the universe. Her Angels explained that our purpose is to discover unconditional love within ourselves and offer it to others, that all paths lead back to Source, and that adversities are growth opportunities. When asked if it was her time, she was told the choice was hers. Thinking of her children who had already suffered much loss, she chose to return. The doctors called her recovery a miracle, attributing her survival to being in excellent physical shape and the IV antibiotics given before the rupture. The experience fundamentally changed her worldview, making her see all people as connected parts of the same Source, leading to deeper relationships and more meaningful work helping others on their spiritual paths. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 1 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Burst appendix with sepsis, e-coli, staph infections, four days critical | No specific veridical observations of physical events reported | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 4164 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 939-my-son-my-light.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/939-my-son-my-light.html | 1973 | 2013 | 27 | F | In 1973, while living in Madras, India, a 27-year-old woman experienced an NDE during childbirth complications. Severely weakened from a rare tropical parasite that had reduced her to 90 pounds, she went into prolonged labor. After exhausting efforts to push with no progress, she felt the last drop of blood seep out and thought she was dying. Following an acute wrenching sensation, she lost consciousness. She then floated up to the corner of the room, observing her body on the delivery table surrounded by medical staff in commotion. She floated upward through the building into a black, star-filled sky, eventually resting in tranquil darkness. Earth appeared below, showing a vision of human suffering throughout millennia. She was then drawn toward a distant light at the speed of light. A compassionate presence held her as her 27 years unfolded without judgment, only complete forgiveness and loving-kindness. She was drawn into brilliant white-gold Light radiating pure luminescence - the essence of divine love and life itself. Inside this presence, she felt indescribable freedom and unconditional love. The Light communicated that she must return, saying "Your life is not completed" and "I have given you the gift of love." She abruptly returned to find her son had been born with severe head injuries requiring immediate surgery. The experience changed her life forever, leading her on a 40-year spiritual path of helping others find their inner light through counseling, crisis intervention, and expressive arts therapy. | 5 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Childbirth complications, extreme exhaustion, loss of consciousness | Observed body from corner of room, saw medical staff in commotion | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw body on delivery table from corner of room | 0.00 | Moderately Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4165 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 940-saved-by-a-frightening-vision.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/940-saved-by-a-frightening-vision.html | 1993 | 2013 | Unknown | About 20 years ago in Eastern Europe, an engineer was walking to work through a snowy park when attacked by a stranger attempting rape and possibly murder. During the violent struggle, the attacker began strangling the victim, whose winter coat prevented effective self-defense. Realizing these were the last seconds of life, the experiencer expected to lose consciousness from lack of oxygen but instead found themselves in a different, very realistic place. This appeared as a huge, boundless abyss extending infinitely in all directions, possibly as big as the cosmos. It was very dark yet visible, completely empty with no stars, lights, objects or beings - the experiencer would be its only inhabitant. The place felt profoundly unpleasant due to something essential being absent, creating a cold feeling that wasn't physical cold or evil, but rather a fundamental lack. The experiencer stayed subjectively for several seconds, overwhelmed with horror at the prospect of ending up there. Desperately screaming for help in their mind, though not expecting any as they weren't religious, the experiencer was suddenly back fighting. The attacker had stopped strangling, and the victim got the idea to bite, successfully injuring the attacker's palm with full strength plus fear, ending the fight quickly. The experiencer long believed this might have been a hallucination from stress or oxygen deprivation, only later learning about the void in NDE literature. | 5 | Other | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Life-threatening strangulation attack described | No veridical observations, only void experience | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 4166 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 941-a-vision.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/941-a-vision.html | 1987 | 1987-02-28 | 2013 | M | On February 28, 1987, around 10 AM, the experiencer was trying to help his friend retrieve a cockatiel from a tree using a swimming pool pole while on a ladder 25 feet high. When the pole came within 22-24 inches of a high-tension power line, electricity arced across the air using him as ground. His vision turned completely red, and he saw flashes of light approaching at tremendous speed with a 60 Hz hum that increased in volume. He experienced three successive electrical shocks, losing complete bodily control. After the third shock, everything went black - no time, sound, or light. Upon awakening, he saw his friend Russell working to save his life but felt separated by a glass pane, frozen in time. When he looked around, he realized he was sitting on the fence watching the accident from a bird's eye view while his body was on the ground. Suddenly the environment changed to a large white room with no walls, so bright there were no shadows. Hundreds of transparent human-shaped figures without facial features approached him. One threw a bolt of light that struck his back, paralyzing him for 7-10 seconds before he broke free and ran. He came upon a white water-like moving surface, fell in, and immediately returned to consciousness in his backyard. The experiencer emphasizes this was real, not a dream, describing being pulled and pushed to different places without control, fundamentally different from normal experience. | 5 | Home | 5 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 0 | High-voltage electrocution clearly described | Observed friend working on his body from outside perspective | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw friend working to save life from fence viewpoint | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4167 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 942-not-my-first-nde.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/942-not-my-first-nde.html | 2013 | F | The experiencer was driving to ballet class when broadsided by a Lincoln Continental going 60-70mph. Time turned to slow motion at impact. She imagined pulling ahead and telling everyone about her close call. When she lost consciousness, she experienced her whole life downloading at very fast rate like a tape recorder - everything was instant and all-knowing. She entered a void realm described as great with no attachment, no identity, where she was nothing and everything simultaneously. She experienced pure blissful all-encompassing love without ties to personal emotions. She had awareness of having a choice about returning to life. A conversation began asking what happens when you die, to which she answered Heaven or Hell as she was taught. When asked about Hell, she got an adrenaline rush and felt like being deep underwater not knowing which way was up, having to pull fast in any direction and commit. When she broke the surface, she gasped for air (likely her chest hit the steering wheel). At the hospital, she could control pain by leaving her body and could imagine walking with her broken femur using her mind with no pain. Through EMDR therapy in her 40s, it was revealed this wasn't her first NDE. A psychic told her she had multiple NDEs because she was almost pure light, making it physically painful to be here, but she had made a choice for a purpose. She had suppressed psychic abilities as a child due to fear. She now recognizes it's time to share her story and purpose. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 1 | 6 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Severe car accident with broken femur, life-threatening | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 4168 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 943-my-one-and-only.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/943-my-one-and-only.html | 2013 | F | During a caesarian section for her first child under general anesthesia, the experiencer found herself in a peaceful, calm, dark space, aware she was floating away from her body at a 45-degree angle into a dimension unlike our 3-dimensional world. She enjoyed wonderful feelings of peace and calm without concern for anything else. Then the thought occurred: "what a shame, you have carried this baby for 9 months and you are not going to see it!" A decision was made, and she felt herself falling back and slammed onto the bed very harshly where life and reality hit her. Weeks or months later, when she recalled and shared the details with her husband, he revealed that the doctor had told him she had died during the operation. She was unaware this had happened until then. Despite subsequently having another caesarian section and two hip replacements under general anesthesia, she never experienced anything similar again, confirming the uniqueness of this death experience. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 1 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 10 | Died during caesarian section under general anesthesia | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 1 | Doctor | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4169 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 947-the-nurse-knows.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/947-the-nurse-knows.html | 2013 | F | An ER nurse experienced respiratory then cardiac arrest after receiving Dilaudid IVP, with oxygen saturation dropping to 60% and below, experiencing 2nd and 3rd degree heart block. She was reportedly out for 30 minutes. During the arrest, she found herself in a "waiting room" bathed in bright golden light, wearing a light grey yoga-type garment. A line of radiant, light blue individuals without facial features stood before her, clearly surprised she was there. They would not allow her to see what was to the west or proceed in that direction. Light came from the east and she wasn't permitted to turn around. She saw a younger version of herself sitting on the "floor" (which wasn't a physical floor) with dark auburn hair in a high ponytail, looking down. All communication was through profound feelings of love, kindness, joy, elation, and complete calm - no words were spoken. She felt expected to wait. She awakened to a Brazilian physician with blade and ET tube 1mm from her lips about to intubate. The code team sat her up, and she received multiple doses of Narcan. Within 60 days, she experienced electrical problems in her home, crashed electronics including her Blackberry, DirectTV receiver, computer, laptop, and a new vacuum cleaner motor. A work associate noted something special about her eyes, saying "You know stuff." She describes having ongoing epiphanies and life review, though weak and emotionally taxed for weeks. As an ER nurse, she knows the experience was real and correlates it with the "Zero Point" from regression work with Dr. Brian Weiss. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 14 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest with monitoring, O2 sat 60%, 30 minutes down | Saw physician with blade and ET tube approaching her lips | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Saw Brazilian physician with intubation equipment | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4170 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 949-im-different-now.html 2013 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/949-im-different-now.html | 2002 | 2002-03-25 | 2013 | Unknown | On March 25, 2002, the experiencer underwent 9.5 hours of surgery for Arnold-Chiari Malformation I to relieve brain compression on the spine. After counting backward from 10 under anesthesia, the experiencer found themselves outside their body watching from the ceiling. They saw their body on the operating table and heard everything with an echoed quality. They experienced pain as staff moved them from back to belly, then retreated to the ceiling again. They found themselves walking down darkening tunnel-like hallways toward a bright light, arriving at an immense conference room requiring sunglasses from the brightness. Deceased relatives and friends surrounded the table: step-dad L (died 1988) at the head, friend E to his right, grandparents and great-grandmothers (including one never met) to the left. Communication occurred telepathically through minds without moving lips. They said the experiencer's job wasn't finished and they needed to return. A closed door at the end of the table emitted even brighter light - they were told entering it meant passing to the other side. Upon waking in ICU, the experiencer was excited to tell everyone but was asked to background it during recovery. When asked about possibly dying temporarily, the neurosurgeon seemed insulted. Since the event, the experiencer developed increased sensitivity and psychic abilities, including vibrational healing abilities discovered in 2003. People with late-stage cancer seek their help, though they don't fully understand why. They work in healthcare where they can practice their gift unnoticed, never taking money for fear the gift would disappear. They provide readings about people but keep their abilities mostly private. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | 9.5 hour neurosurgery under general anesthesia | Saw body on table, heard echoed sounds, saw movement from back to belly | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw and heard surgical procedures | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4171 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1773-man-in-his-70s-visits-other-planet-when-cpap-machine-is-dislodged.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1773-man-in-his-70s-visits-other-planet-when-cpap-machine-is-dislodged.html | 2024 | 70 | M | A man in his 70s with sleep apnea experienced a near-death event when his CPAP mask became dislodged during sleep, causing him to suffocate. He theorized that the obstruction cut off air to his lungs, leading to both cardiac and respiratory arrest. During the experience, he traveled through a tunnel at extremely high speed, encountering a bright intelligent being of light. He was directed to a dark planet with jagged rocks via a large glowing disc that hovered over his head. There he met someone familiar who seemed happy to see him, though he couldn't initially identify the person. He sensed he was there more for the other person's benefit than his own. Upon returning to his body, he found himself without heartbeat or breathing. He consciously took a breath to restart his breathing and experienced five strong hiccup-like sensations before his heart began beating again. A nurse later told him it would be impossible to be conscious without heartbeat and breathing, confirming he would have been dead. Medical examinations showed no lasting damage. | 2 | Home | 10 | 8 | 18 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Cardiac arrest without monitoring clearly documented - patient reports complete cessation of heartbeat and breathing | Experience includes tunnel, intelligent light being, travel to another realm, and meeting deceased person | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 3 | 0 | Travel through tunnel to light being | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4172 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1774-hospitalized-woman-leaves-body-and-returns-with-no-fear.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1774-hospitalized-woman-leaves-body-and-returns-with-no-fear.html | 2024 | 55 | F | A 55-year-old woman hospitalized on an oncology ward with a brain tumor experienced a profound near-death event. She sensed impending death and alerted nurses, feeling her spirit tugging to exit her body. Sitting upright in bed, she felt her spirit leave through a funnel heading upward toward heaven, becoming a gaseous whip of energy with full awareness. She traveled around the universe in spirit form, experiencing a starry cosmos where she felt peace, bliss, and oneness with all sentient beings. She perceived that time doesn't exist outside the body and understood that edges, boundaries, money, and lack are illusory constructs. She observed her mother crying in the waiting room and could hear thoughts. Given a choice to return or stay, she chose to come back for her young son. Upon deciding to return, she was immediately delivered back into her body at light speed with a bright flash. She returned completely without fear, unable to access the emotion even when trying. The experience gave her new mental software and deeper compassion for others. She later learned this was an NDE and eventually healed completely from what appeared to be an incurable advanced brain tumor. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 12 | 19 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Other life-threatening condition (brain tumor/cancer) in hospital setting | Out-of-body travel through cosmos, observation of mother in waiting room with specific details | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw mother in waiting room | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4173 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1775-caregiver-has-her-own-nde-strange-encounter-and-shared-death-experience-with-her-sister.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1775-caregiver-has-her-own-nde-strange-encounter-and-shared-death-experience-with-her-sister.html | 2022 | 2024 | F | A woman caring for her terminally ill sister Kate experienced anaphylactic shock on December 23, 2022, resulting in an NDE. During the experience, she found herself near the ceiling of her living room looking down on Kate in the hospice bed, with the rest of the room in gray mist. She perceived a question about what would happen to Kate if she died and received assurance that Kate would be fine. Images of their animals and her three children flashed before her, with the same question and answer. She felt emotional about leaving her children and immediately returned. She also experienced unusual consciousness-sharing episodes with Kate in the shower and later a profound shared-death experience where she guided Kate through a transition involving a dirt road, a gate with deceased relatives, and Kate's peaceful crossing. The shared-death experience lasted about 1 hour 40 minutes, ending at 8:42am, a time she had seen displayed in red numbers when it began. Following these experiences, she recognized she had also had a previous shared-death experience with an ex-husband. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Anaphylactic shock requiring hospitalization | Out-of-body view of sister in hospice bed, precognitive time vision (8:42), shared consciousness experiences | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Out-of-body view of sister in hospice | 0.00 | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4174 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1776-pregnant-woman-s-appendix-bursts-she-spends-time-with-god-and-her-life-is-changed.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1776-pregnant-woman-s-appendix-bursts-she-spends-time-with-god-and-her-life-is-changed.html | 2024 | F | A pregnant woman 32 weeks along experienced a ruptured appendix that felt like a bomb going off in her abdomen. She was determined to stay alive until her baby could be delivered. After 11 hours, she was completely septic and on the operating table when she heard God calling to her with a big, comforting voice. She died during surgery and immediately found herself in the presence of someone so holy they appeared as brilliant white light that didn't hurt her eyes. God gave her peace beyond her wildest dreams and they spoke for what seemed like hours but was only minutes in earth time. God told her about Their love, that she would live a long life that would often be hard, and her purpose was to give love, peace, hope and acceptance to everyone. She saw her mother in the waiting room crying and praying, could hear thoughts, while her husband was getting a snack. She was angry when revived, requiring blood transfusions and having to relearn basic skills. Her vision and hearing were temporarily perfect. The experience changed her from fundamentalist Christian to spiritual, and she later helped her daughter with holoprosencephaly prepare for and experience a peaceful death. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 26 | Strong Evidence | 2 | Ruptured appendix with sepsis, clinical death during surgery clearly stated | Saw mother in waiting room with specific details, heard conversations and thoughts, husband getting snack | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw mother in waiting room | 1.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4175 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1781-young-man-in-surgery-visits-the-light-and-sees-deceased-loved-ones-as-flaming-balls-of-sunshine.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1781-young-man-in-surgery-visits-the-light-and-sees-deceased-loved-ones-as-flaming-balls-of-sunshine.html | 2024 | M | A young man undergoing emergency appendectomy surgery experienced an NDE after being anesthetized at 5am. Following anesthesia, he awoke in a tunnel with an incredibly bright white light at the end that wasn't blinding. He felt immense peace and love, like hundreds of people hugging him with family love. The light seemed both close and far away simultaneously. Looking outside the light into darkness, he sensed sad, lonely, scared people who wanted to be in the light but couldn't. In the light, he saw his deceased father and grandparents appearing as little flaming balls of orange sunshine, which he understood to be what souls look like. He wanted to join them but was blocked by an invisible wall. He heard his name called from far away twice and felt sucked down into his body like being in a whirlpool. He awoke angry at the nurse for waking him, saying he was in a happy place. He was in recovery only ten minutes before being sent to his room. The doctor confirmed nothing strange happened during surgery. A priest friend later told him it wasn't his time, explaining why he was sent back. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 0 | Emergency appendectomy surgery with general anesthesia | Tunnel experience with bright light, encountered deceased relatives as balls of light, sensed other presences | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw deceased relatives as souls | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4176 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1782-young-man-hit-by-car-goes-out-of-body-and-has-four-broken-bones-healed-when-he-returns.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1782-young-man-hit-by-car-goes-out-of-body-and-has-four-broken-bones-healed-when-he-returns.html | 2024 | 20 | M | A 20-year-old LDS missionary in Puerto Rico was hit by a car while riding his bike and thrown into a telephone pole. He immediately left his body as a spirit, seeing his body wrapped around the pole and hearing bones breaking without feeling pain. He watched his companion stop another car for help. He was transported through a tunnel of light to beautiful beings in white standing before marble walls and a gate. Three angels told him it wasn't his time and he must finish his mission and go to medical school to become a doctor, then later an herbalist, homeopathic and energy medicine practitioner. They said Jesus would speak to his mind whenever asked. He awoke under a sheet with nurses screaming "He was dead" in Spanish. The doctor showed him x-rays comparing his initially broken right femur, right humerus, neck and back bones that were now completely healed. The doctor called it a miracle. His companion had expected to arrange body transport back to Utah but found him alive. After this, he always hears Jesus's voice when asking questions, shifted from LDS to spiritual Christianity, and became a medical intuitive. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 18 | 38 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Car accident with multiple broken bones, declared dead by medical staff | Out-of-body observation of accident scene, miraculous healing of 4 broken bones verified by x-rays | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 3 | 1 | Out-of-body view of accident | 0.00 | Doctor | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||
| 4177 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1783-young-man-in-diving-accident-is-shown-his-life-has-been-lived-to-placate-others.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1783-young-man-in-diving-accident-is-shown-his-life-has-been-lived-to-placate-others.html | 2024 | M | A man on a boat in Florida dove backwards into shallow water, landing on his head on the firm sandy bottom. He experienced intense pressure like being in a vice, with time dramatically slowing - a fraction of a second felt like 20 minutes. He heard 6-7 vertebrae collapsing in his upper spine over this extended time period, experiencing no pain. Facing impending death, he became completely honest with himself and reviewed his life. He saw that his imagined magnificent future was entirely illusory and he had been living to please others while getting no closer to his desires. He realized he never wanted to be married but did it to avoid upsetting people, had been pretending to be what others wanted, and planned to find happiness only after making everyone else happy first. When the pressure stopped, he stood up with compressed voice, surprised to be alive and still married. X-rays showed nothing broken. The experience fundamentally changed him - he lost ability to maintain social facades, left his job to become an actuary, then experienced four years of increasing depression. Eventually he gave up all dreams, was filled with light, and experienced profound spiritual awakening with lucid dreaming and impossible synchronicities. | 5 | Other | 5 | 2 | 7 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Diving accident with vertebrae collapse but no permanent injury | Life review only, no external observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Moderately Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 4178 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1785-man-in-surgery-flatlines-and-remembers-void-and-struggling-to-get-into-the-light.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1785-man-in-surgery-flatlines-and-remembers-void-and-struggling-to-get-into-the-light.html | 2024 | M | A man undergoing hernia repair surgery flatlined for 2 minutes and 30 seconds with no heartbeat, breathing, or vital signs. He was resuscitated but didn't wake until in the ICU, spending 5 days total in the hospital. During the flatline, he appeared in a large black void where he felt he didn't belong and needed to escape. Looking up, he saw a rectangular hole with diffused white light coming through, like a skylight. As he tried to go through, he felt held back by thick liquid requiring swimming motions to progress. Four ghost-like beings tried to prevent his escape, holding their arms out on each side of the rectangle. He had to push through what felt like plastic strips at a freezer doorway while losing his breath. He struggled against these beings and barriers to reach the light. Upon awakening in real life, he was shaking with slurred speech and confusion. The experience left him with clear memories of the void and his desperate struggle to escape through the light opening while being actively opposed by spiritual entities. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 8 | 25 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Cardiac arrest without monitoring during hernia surgery, flatlined for 2.5 minutes | Experienced void realm with beings trying to prevent return, rectangular light opening | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 1 | Void with opposing entities | 0.00 | Medical staff | Highly Compatible | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4179 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1786-man-going-into-surgery-talks-to-god-and-sees-beautiful-scenery.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1786-man-going-into-surgery-talks-to-god-and-sees-beautiful-scenery.html | 2016 | 2024 | M | A man underwent spinal cord surgery in November 2016 that was initially successful. Two days later, bleeding from the surgical site required emergency return to surgery. In pre-op, lying on a gurney in a dark room, he felt he was going to die. He heard a beautiful waterfall and saw it to his left, telling himself "I'm dead." He then saw the most beautiful blue sky, trees he'd never seen before, and a beautiful mountain in the most peaceful and calm place. He felt God's presence and His arms holding him while they talked. He remained aware of his body on the gurney and didn't want to return, but knew he had to. He decided to count to three to see his body. On "one" he was still looking around in amazement and talking to God. On "two" he was getting ready to see his body. Before reaching "three," he felt like a vacuum sucked him back into his body. He woke up paralyzed on his right side. When asked what happened, doctors said they "lost me for a while." The experience left him with certainty of God's presence and the reality of the afterlife despite the physical challenges of partial paralysis. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 8 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Emergency spinal surgery with complications, doctors confirmed clinical death | Beautiful otherworldly scenery with waterfall, mountain, unique trees, conversation with God | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 1 | Paradise scenery with God's presence | 0.00 | Doctors | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||
| 4180 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1789-child-leaves-body-when-suffocated-and-returned-knowing-religions-are-false.html -0001 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1789-child-leaves-body-when-suffocated-and-returned-knowing-religions-are-false.html | 8 | F | An 8-year-old girl was being suffocated with a pillow by her abusive mother after taunting her mother about faking being unconscious. Her mother slammed her head against the bunk bed frame and held the pillow down with her knees while hitting her. The child suddenly found herself bouncing against the ceiling like a balloon, connected to her body by a glowing silver thread. She could see her mother kneeling over her body cursing, her younger sister crying in the corner, and her older sister trying to pull their mother off. As the ceiling became transparent, she saw a foggy white light area with several sad-looking older people (later identified as paternal grandparents from photos). Her older sister began chest compressions and attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. A stocky, balding man with reddish hair, gold watch, and forearm tattoo appeared, touched her toe, and said in an Irish accent "Now, lassie, tis not time for you to go yet; you have many important things to do." He touched her body's toe and she was immediately sucked back. Her personality completely changed - she became painfully shy, stopped crying, and developed stronger intuitive knowing. She later had 13 dreams experiencing others' deaths and the Irish man appeared again during an accidental marijuana poisoning. | 2 | Home | 10 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 4 | Suffocation leading to cardiac/respiratory arrest requiring CPR | Out-of-body view of resuscitation scene with specific details, saw deceased grandparents later identified | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Out-of-body view of abuse scene | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4181 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1558-woman-spends-time-with-jesus-during-abuse-as-child.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1558-woman-spends-time-with-jesus-during-abuse-as-child.html | 2021 | 5 | F |
At age 4-5, the subject was lured to a neighbor's backyard where she was sexually abused along with other children. When she saw her friend Johnny being hurt and crying, she became extremely distressed and began fighting back. She was strangled during the assault, experiencing pressure in her head and a sense of doom before leaving her body. She shot into dark space, falling through endless darkness with stars far away. Jesus appeared and taught her she could fly instead of fall. He brought her to a platform and into a large room filled with joyful people who cherished each other completely. Jesus showed her rooms containing the essence of earthly things like plants and minerals, teaching her about their true nature. She learned about healing properties of plants that she retained throughout life. In the main room, she witnessed how each person was valued simply for being themselves, with people celebrating even simple acts like wiggling ears. Jesus showed her school desks with sad boys who struggled academically. He asked if she wanted to stay or return to tell these boys about their true value. She immediately chose to return to share this message. She found herself back in the neighbor's kitchen, was taken home by her mother, and never saw Johnny again as he had moved away. The experience left her with lasting knowledge about plants and minerals, and a deep understanding that every person is precious and valued. She experienced multiple episodes of leaving her body during subsequent abuse by a cousin who had been present that day, having other spiritual experiences with Jesus. The memories surfaced when this cousin died in 2019, revealing a pattern of criminal behavior throughout his life. |
5 | Other | 5 | 8 | 13 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Strangulation during assault causing loss of consciousness | Retained specific knowledge about healing plants, observed friend's distress | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 3 | 0 | Saw Johnny crying and being hurt | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | ||||||||||
| 4182 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1560-six-year-old-girl-suffocates-on-candy-and-leaves-body.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1560-six-year-old-girl-suffocates-on-candy-and-leaves-body.html | 2021 | 6 | F |
At age six, while racing a friend across a school cafeteria with a jolly rancher candy in her mouth, the subject ran into a table corner. The impact knocked the wind out of her and lodged the candy in her throat, preventing breathing. She became lightheaded, panicked, and tried to stay standing before falling backward. She distinctly felt two large hands catch her back and gently lower her to the ground, though no one was actually there to catch her according to witnesses. After losing consciousness, she found herself able to breathe again in a bright white void stretching infinitely in all directions. She was sitting cross-legged on an invisible rising platform, surrounded by at least a dozen television screens showing black and white static. She felt intense calm, peace, and apathy, with a sense that everything was okay. The platform suddenly stopped rising, causing a dropping sensation in her stomach. She felt the platform vanish and experienced a pulling sensation backward as she fell down until slamming back into her body. She immediately sat upright, coughing and trying to catch her breath. Her skin felt too tight and she was woozy but otherwise fine. Witnesses reported she had collapsed hard enough to bounce, turned blue with no heartbeat, and her mother performed the Heimlich maneuver and CPR for several minutes before she revived. Since the experience, she has felt disconnected from her body and the world, experiencing hyper-realistic dreams nightly where she can taste, touch, smell and feel pain. She developed migraines, visual snow, and various paranormal experiences. The memory remains vivid decades later, and she still feels that slight disconnection from physical reality that began when she returned to her body. |
2 | Other | 10 | 6 | 23 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Suffocation leading to cardiac arrest, turned blue, no heartbeat | Felt hands catching her that weren't physically there, saw scene from outside perspective | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 1 | Felt hands catching her that no one else saw | 1.00 | Mother | Highly Compatible | 6 | |||||||||
| 4183 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1561-young-woman-with-genetic-disease-has-had-4-ndes.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1561-young-woman-with-genetic-disease-has-had-4-ndes.html | 2016 | 2021 | F |
Subject with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome has experienced four NDEs during various medical crises. At age 5, during cancer surgery to remove a kidney, she coded from blood loss. She found herself in a waiting room with benches and a woman at a table with two swirling colored portals - one red and one blue. The woman stamped her hand blue and directed her through the blue portal. She emerged in her neighborhood, saw deceased grandparents, entered her house and heard her father and sister having lunch though she couldn't see them. In 2013, after 18 hours of labor, she was bleeding out and her son was dying. During emergency surgery, she observed from above as doctors delivered her baby and saw herself pale and unconscious. Her doctor later confirmed she was "on her way out of this life." In 2016, two weeks after brain decompression surgery, she developed septic infection with CSF leaking from her neck. She coded with vitals at 43/30 and experienced incredible peace while observing the medical chaos. She heard beautiful classical music for five days that only she could perceive, continuing until she was moved from ICU. In June 2018, an E. coli infection caused kidney failure. Between passing out and waking, she played with her deceased childhood dog - feeling, smelling, and hearing him vividly. Each experience brought technicolor brightness to her world and deeper understanding of life's meaning. She teaches others to live in the moment and notice life's beauty. Her medical team confirmed multiple near-death events. The experiences transformed her perspective, making everything brighter and more meaningful. She now helps others daily and maintains that life is beautiful when truly noticed. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Multiple documented cardiac arrests and clinical death events in hospital settings | Verified observations during surgery, heard family activities from another location, classical music phenomenon | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 4 | 2 | Heard family at home during first NDE | 1.00 | Doctor | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4184 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1562-woman-meets-three-beings-before-returning.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1562-woman-meets-three-beings-before-returning.html | 2021 | F |
The subject remembers passing out and then awakening in a warm, earth-brown cave-like setting that felt like the most natural home she had ever experienced. Three tall, lean beings in crimson brown monk-like robes were present - two with male energy were slightly elevated though not floating. The third being was leaning over her as she lay down. She couldn't understand their communication and realized they were discussing what to do with her rather than talking to her directly. When told this, she laughed and said she would relish in the glory of the place. It was then she realized how trivial human concerns are and how much better we should treat our world. The environment felt wonderful and warm, filling her with a sense of being truly home for the first time. The beings appeared to be debating her situation in a completely unoffensive manner. She was given the choice to stay or return to Earth. Upon suddenly remembering she had children, she immediately said she couldn't stay because of them. She was instantly sent back despite wanting to linger longer in that amazing place. On the return journey, she pleaded to stay a bit longer but was denied. She felt very angry with the beings upon return, though not anymore. The after-effects have been huge and challenging. She now feels like an alien in a human suit on a planet that isn't her home. The experience fundamentally changed her relationship with earthly existence, leaving her feeling disconnected from ordinary life while carrying the memory of that perfect feeling of being home. |
6 | Unknown | 1 | 2 | 3 | Weak Evidence | 0 | Passed out but no medical details provided | No specific veridical observations reported | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4185 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1564-teen-who-left-body-met-being-s-and-was-sent-back.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1564-teen-who-left-body-met-being-s-and-was-sent-back-wonders-where-non-christians-go.html | 2021 | 18 | F |
At age 18, during a car accident in mountain roads, the subject's friend swerved to avoid another car and hit a tree after nearly going over a cliff. Time slowed as they headed for the cliff edge, life scenes flashed, and she thought "Your life really does flash before you." The truck suddenly spun 90 degrees and hit a large pine tree. After impact, she couldn't move or breathe, then felt pulled upward out of her body through the top of the truck. She saw Tim running toward the wreck and another boy arriving, then entered a dark tunnel being drawn toward distant light. In the light, she encountered a presence that was three separate beings/men yet also one entity, with subtly different faces. The central figure communicated telepathically, asking repeatedly why she was there and if she knew what happened. She found herself in a bright realm where everything had inner light with no shadows - grass, trees, flowers all glowing with intense colors and perfect clarity. When she couldn't answer the being's questions or identify who he was, he said she couldn't stay and must return. Despite her pleading to remain, she was pulled backward through a vacuum sensation. She observed the accident scene from above, seeing events that had already occurred, including friends calling for help and her own unconscious body. She returned to her body feeling intense cold, pain, and the hardness of everything. She experienced complete amnesia except for the NDE itself, gradually recovering memories over several days. The experience left her unafraid of death itself, only of potential pain in dying. Years later, she became Christian and believes the three-yet-one being was the Holy Trinity, and she was sent back because she didn't know Jesus at the time. |
5 | Other | 5 | 10 | 22 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe car accident trauma, stopped breathing, friend thought she died | Observed accident scene from above, saw specific people arriving and their actions | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 2 | Saw accident scene from above | 1.00 | Friends at scene | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||||
| 4186 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1568-girl-of-six-has-seizure-and-returns-from-void-and-light.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1568-girl-of-six-has-seizure-and-returns-from-void-and-light-with-overwhelming-abilities.html | 2021 | 6 | F |
At age six, while her mother was removing a splinter, the subject became dizzy and experienced her first epileptic seizure, blacking out. She left her body and observed her mother in panic trying to help, then running to get her stepfather who had medical training. She watched them both attending to her seizing body on the floor. She was suddenly transported from the scene to a pitch-black void with no sense of body, feeling creatures growling and hissing around her though she wasn't afraid, just confused. A bright speck of white light appeared in the distance, drawing her at light speed through the void. The light grew bigger and brighter, emanating love so intense that no earthly words could describe it. At the edge of the light, she was filled with this intense love, feeling wonderful, peaceful, and completely loved. Her great-grandmother's face appeared as dots of energy, communicating telepathically that it wasn't her time and she must return. She fell backward toward her body yelling "NO!" and popped back in while her mother held her crying. Initially unsure if it was real or a dream, she said nothing. Afterward, she was transformed - overfilled with love and compassion toward every living thing, able to feel others' emotions, receiving spirit voices with messages for loved ones, and gifted with universal knowledge and understanding. The first five years were overwhelming with no control over these abilities. She was bombarded with others' feelings and messages at school, having to suppress these gifts. The abilities remain today though less intense. She maintains vast love and tries to pass it to others, understanding that love is life's most important element. The experience fundamentally changed her relationship with consciousness and compassion. |
5 | Home | 5 | 8 | 17 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | First epileptic seizure causing loss of consciousness | Saw mother's specific actions, stepfather coming from bathroom | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw mother's panic response | 1.00 | Mother and stepfather | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4187 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1573-woman-has-strange-experiences-before-and-during-induced-coma.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1573-woman-has-strange-experiences-before-and-during-induced-coma.html | 2017 | 2021 | F |
On December 28, 2017, while having morning coffee and discussing Christmas with her husband, the subject felt an ache in her left arm that intensified. She heard a voice say "Oh Sam, you are in sooo much trouble," then instructed her husband to give her aspirin and call 911. She experienced a widow maker heart attack with 100% LAD occlusion, coding 9 times total - 4 times at home, once in the helicopter, and 4 times in the cath lab. She was clinically dead for 15 minutes total with no blood or oxygen to heart or brain. During the codes, she experienced multiple mystical states. She saw a mysterious man watching the paramedics work, shiny objects everywhere, and heard distant singing. During one code, she floated with a warm breeze on her face in total peace, observing paramedics working on her body but unable to hear or feel them. She experienced various otherworldly journeys including dancing in purifying water, encountering someone appearing as Scott in mud, walking among singing flutter beings, and visiting bright colored buildings containing all her memories and future possibilities. In the final realm of pure light, she became mechanical along with others, morphing to fix her medical problems. She was shown her purpose: to share knowledge of love and forgiveness, touch lives when called, and be a person of healing and light. She awakened from the medically induced coma on New Year's Eve, surprising staff who expected three weeks of coma. Paramedics later revealed she had whispered and guided their hands while clinically dead. Post-experience, she sees light around everyone, hears layers of sounds intensely, experiences vibrant colors, and attracts children and animals. She feels overwhelmed by this world while maintaining joy in her mission to share love and healing. |
1 | Hospital | 10 | 15 | 35 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Widow maker heart attack, coded 9 times, dead 15 minutes, ICU with monitoring | Whispered to paramedics while dead, guided their hands, helicopter conversation | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 3 | 2 | Communicated while clinically dead | 1.00 | Chris and other paramedics | Highly Compatible | 9 | |||||||||
| 4188 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1581-woman-contracts-covid-19-but-is-reassured-during-nde.html 2021 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1581-woman-contracts-covid-19-but-is-reassured-during-nde.html | 2020 | 2021 | F |
In December 2020, the subject was admitted to ICU with severe COVID-19 affecting both lungs, visible as white cotton balls on x-ray. Her oxygen levels dropped dangerously despite maximum oxygen support, pulse rate declined into the 40s, and she nearly required intubation. On her second or third night at her weakest point, she experienced an NDE that transformed her perspective on death and spirituality. She saw a bright light to her right and felt a warm, soothing presence despite initially resisting. She saw an angel with golden-orange hair and bright white figure who guided her to a dark room with a pool reflecting blue light on walls. On the wall appeared her deceased parents, family friend Dennis, coworker Jan, and Jan's husband who had died by suicide the day before her admission. Each communicated telepathically - her parents expressed happiness, Dennis asked her to tell others not to judge his wife, and Jan reassured her that her husband's suicide was accepted and he was fine in the afterlife. Moving forward with her angel, she entered an area of white, yellowish, and golden light like clouds. She met a tall hooded being who revealed herself as Mother Mary, then was directed to an overwhelming pure radiating light she knew as Divine Love/God/Source. She felt like a child in this presence, understanding we are all one, always connected, with no fear or judgment. She was shown her true form as a large angel with gold wings, told she would heal, reminded of her role as a light worker, and instructed to bring back the message not to fear or judge others regarding the illness. She recovered rapidly over three days and was released as the nurses' "star patient." Post-experience, everything seemed flat and dull compared to the vivid reality of the light realm. The experience confirmed her spiritual gifts and life purpose as a light worker spreading love and reassurance. |
4 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 24 | Moderate Evidence | 7 | Severe COVID-19 in ICU, nearly intubated, critical oxygen levels | Knew about Jan's husband's suicide day before admission, specific messages from deceased | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 1 | Knew about recent suicide | 0.00 | Nurses | Mixed Compatibility | 8 | |||||||||
| 4189 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 556-miss-where-i-was.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/556-miss-where-i-was.html | 2009 | Unknown | During a heart attack in a cardiac catheterization room, the experiencer underwent extreme pain and fought for every breath. As the doctor repeatedly urged them to "hang with me buddy," their voice seemed to move away and the lights dimmed to darkness. All sound stopped, and at hyper speed, every action, word, thought, and omission of their life played through their consciousness. They became terrified of going to hell, recognizing they hadn't been particularly good despite not being bad. Then the room lit up with a perfect, peaceful light. From an elevated perspective, they could see everything simultaneously - the medical team working on their body below and their wife in the adjoining observation room talking with a nurse. They felt warm, loved, peaceful, and perfect in a way they'd never experienced before. They could see the looks on everyone's faces and tried to tell them they were fine. Despite feeling connected to their wife and children still at home, they wanted to stay in this perfect state. Eventually deciding to return despite knowing it would hurt terribly, they came back suddenly cold and in pain, but without fear. Over the following days, they experienced V-Tach episodes but told rushing nurses everything would be okay. To this day, they don't fear death and miss where they were during the experience. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 31 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Cardiac arrest during heart catheterization procedure with monitoring equipment present | Out-of-body experience with observations of medical team and wife in adjoining room, though specific details limited | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Observed medical team working on body from above | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4190 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 557-theres-life-after-death.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/557-theres-life-after-death.html | 2009 | Unknown | Three nights after an operation, the experiencer had a heart attack with two nurses present in the hospital room. Suddenly, their father who had passed away 30 years previously appeared standing at the left side of the bed near their feet. The experiencer greeted him casually, saying "Oh, hi dad," as if it were perfectly normal. The father spoke in an impatient voice, the same tone he used when waking them for swim training as a child, saying "Well come on, are you coming or not, you have to make up your mind." The experiencer replied "I'd better not," and instantly the father disappeared without another word. Everything around the father had been in total darkness - complete blackness with no white light visible anywhere. Upon returning, the experiencer found themselves surrounded by twelve nurses and doctors, with one doctor yelling their name into their left ear. The father was wearing specific clothing that, when described to the mother the next day, she confirmed was exactly what he had been dressed in for his funeral - something the experiencer hadn't known. Since the experience, the person has had many accurate "feelings" about situations in their life and friends' lives. They are now fitter than they've been in years and enjoying life fully. The experience remains vivid as if it happened moments ago, and most importantly, they now know for certain there's life after death, which gives them a great feeling. | 1 | Hospital | 10 | 12 | 32 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Heart attack in hospital setting with medical staff present | Specific observation of deceased father with unknown funeral clothing details later confirmed | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 1 | Saw deceased father wearing specific clothing | 1.00 | Mother | Mixed Compatibility | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4191 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 558-calling-by-name.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/558-calling-by-name.html | 2009 | Unknown | As a young child, the experiencer found themselves in a beautiful garden with huge flowers and big colorful butterflies. Someone dressed in all white had escorted them to this place where other children were present. They ran and played with the other children, and nobody seemed different because the love was so strong and overwhelming. What captured their attention was someone calling their name - it was their mother's voice, becoming stronger and more familiar. Having been taught to always obey their parents, that's exactly what they did. The person in white who had been watching them walked across a bridge and said goodbye. Too young to understand what had happened at the time, they didn't think much about it until years later. Their mother, who was a nurse, later explained that she had come to check on them that morning and noticed they didn't respond. The child's pupils had dilated, indicating serious trouble. She rushed them to the emergency room, though doctors couldn't find anything wrong. The experiencer believes it must have been ordained by God. Years later, this knowledge proved invaluable when their mother was in a coma dying from a major heart attack. Despite being declared brain dead and in a coma for five weeks with doctors advising to let her go, the experiencer insisted the family keep calling her name, knowing from their own experience that she could hear them. One day when the father called her name, she answered, amazing everyone as tests still showed brain death. The experiencer hopes sharing this story will help others understand that comatose patients can still hear loved ones. | 6 | Unknown | 3 | 4 | 9 | Weak Evidence | 2 | Childhood medical emergency with dilated pupils indicating serious condition | Beautiful garden setting with other children, heard mother calling | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Heard mother calling their name while in otherworldly garden | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4192 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 560-our-true-home.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/560-our-true-home.html | 1994 | 2009 | 25 | Unknown | In March 1994, the experiencer suffered a severe wrist injury in their Folkestone flat, with a three-inch wound cut to the bone through tendons. After calling for help and collapsing, they lost consciousness while friends tried to stop the bleeding and called an ambulance. In the emergency room, while a South African doctor was away on another emergency, their heart stopped from blood loss. The experience began with an amazing sense of relaxation and calm, with every negative emotion disappearing, creating a feeling a thousand times better than any earthly high. They found themselves in an electric blue tunnel, 2000 feet in diameter, floating gently toward a point of tremendous activity. The blue tunnel transitioned clearly into a white tunnel filled with overwhelming light and love, with instant knowledge that the white tunnel was one-way only. At the transition point, many souls were coming and going - some being welcomed with open arms into the white light, others in discussion, and some turned back. The experiencer was met by their own entourage of light beings who appeared human but were the same electric blue color. They were greeted with great love and urgency, held, and imbued with knowledge. They were told this wasn't their time but was meant to happen to change their life path. Vast knowledge was downloaded with the promise it would become available when needed. They learned that time is an illusion and from the other side one can travel to any period as easily as crossing a street. Despite the profound feeling of home, they had to return. The doctor revived them by punching their chest hard. They were clinically dead for at least 30 seconds though it felt like hours. The experience led to major life changes including losing their job and home, but ultimately led to spiritual growth and starting an astrology business. They now have unbreakable belief in reincarnation, karma, and no fear of death. | 2 | Hospital | 10 | 14 | 34 | Strong Evidence | 10 | Heart stopped from severe blood loss, clinically dead for 30+ seconds, resuscitated by chest punch | Detailed tunnel description with specific dimensions, observation of multiple souls at transition point | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 1 | Saw blue tunnel with specific dimensions | 0.00 | South African doctor | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 4193 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 562-unforgettable-65-years-later.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/562-unforgettable-65-years-later.html | 1943 | 2009 | 5 | Unknown | In 1943, a five-year-old child was rushed to emergency surgery for an unbearable inguinal hernia requiring immediate operation. In the operating room, they were instructed to count backward from 10 as ether anesthesia was administered through a gauze cloth over their nose and mouth. As they sank into unconsciousness while counting, they suddenly felt their body rise into the air above the surgeons and operating table, looking down on the little boy lying there with two men hovering over him. The sensation of floating was exciting and completely novel. After briefly observing the surgical activity below, their floating self slowly turned toward a window high on the wall of the operating room. Through this window, they could see a bright, beckoning light. Fascinated, they began drifting toward the light source, wanting to pass through the window opening and into the light. Then suddenly everything disappeared. Their next memory was lying in a hospital bed vomiting from the lingering effects of the ether, with an upset nurse scolding them for making a mess. When they immediately told the nurse about their experience, she dismissed it as a dream. Their mother had the same reaction when told during her visit, insisting they had been dreaming while asleep on the operating table. Since no one believed them, they convinced themselves it must have been a dream and never spoke of it again until near-death experiences became more accepted. Now they believe they were given too much ether and died on the operating table. Their only regret is that the experience didn't go further, but they were only five years old at the time. The memory has remained perfectly clear and unforgettable for 65 years. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 10 | 21 | Moderate Evidence | 4 | Surgery with general anesthesia (ether) for inguinal hernia | Clear out-of-body observation of surgical scene and bright beckoning light through window | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed surgery from above while floating | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 4 | |||||||||
| 4194 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 563-guided-by-a-wolf.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/563-guided-by-a-wolf.html | 2009 | Unknown | The experiencer went to the hospital for an overnight "simple procedure" for reflux that went horribly wrong, resulting in a long-standing esophageal perforation lasting 7-10 days, when most people don't survive past 24 hours. During surgery, the surgeon found them so septic that their organs were the hottest he had ever touched. They lost their esophagus due to infection and were placed on life support in ICU for a week, with family told to say goodbye. When they passed critical condition, doctors called them a miracle. While in ICU, they had multiple experiences where a blue-eyed wolf would appear beside their hospital bed. Without remembering how they left the bed, they would go down a hall with the wolf who opened a door. A blonde woman in white, whose face was never seen, waited on the other side. She and the wolf led them down a long dark tunnel, with the woman on the right and wolf on the left, holding onto the wolf's fur. At the tunnel's end, the woman opened a door to a beautiful large field with trees, flowers, birds, and many people who didn't seem crowded. They walked up a small hill and sat with a woman with short dark hair who had her knees pulled up. They talked about important things that couldn't be remembered later. When time came to leave, they walked back through the tunnel with the woman and wolf. This happened multiple times, with relief each time the wolf appeared. Later they realized they could only return when the wolf came for them. They believe this was a "holding place" for very sick people to receive healing energy. After recovery, they left an unhealthy relationship, took energy healing classes, started reading medicine cards, and felt drawn to help people, wanting everyone to feel loved and cared for. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 4 | 16 | Moderate Evidence | 2 | Life-threatening sepsis from esophageal perforation, on life support in ICU for a week | Repeated journeys to otherworldly realm with wolf guide and woman in white | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4195 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 564-precognition-since-nde.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/564-precognition-since-nde.html | 2009 | Unknown | While hospitalized with serious pneumonia and a major allergic skin rash, the experiencer found themselves alone in their room one night when they began moving "above" their body. The experience felt somewhat like sleeping but with awareness of having the dream. They found themselves in a very dark, cold place where they didn't want to stay. Feeling compelled to climb, they came to a high vertical wall and climbed up it. Upon reaching the top, they were instantly surrounded by the most beautiful, pure light and colors beyond imagination. The light was everywhere and went into them. They felt pure love, acceptance, and perfect happiness. The grass and colors beneath were of the purest hues, accompanied by music like bells. A lovely woman dressed in white (an angel) appeared and they traveled together across the grass toward a building. They communicated telepathically without speaking. They entered a large building with a long hall where others passed going the opposite direction, communicating without words, with someone mentioning "cancer." At the hall's end was a room with infinite levels where people on each level did activities they loved - including a beach and ballroom. Before entering, the angel informed them it was "not their time." Instantly they were back in the cold, dark place and then in their body with pain again. The experience from 15 years ago remains vivid as if it happened yesterday, continuing to be the most profound of their life. Since the NDE, they've had many precognitive experiences: clear precognition two days before their father's sudden death including a dream of receiving a phone call about a male family member dying, dreams of plane crashes and traumatic events the night before they happen, and dreams of highway collapses days before occurrence. | 5 | Hospital | 5 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 2 | Serious pneumonia requiring hospitalization | Journey to multi-level realm, telepathic communication, but no verified observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Mixed Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 4196 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 565-billions-of-conscious-minds.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/565-billions-of-conscious-minds.html | 2007 | 2007-10-18 | 2009 | M | On October 18, 2007, the experiencer was in a head-on collision when another car crossed the median. Realizing death was imminent, they prayed angrily to God about not seeing their children grow up or being with their pregnant wife. The crash was terrifying with horrible sounds of metal, skin, and bone smashing, airbags deploying slowly, and being slammed around like a rag doll before losing consciousness. They experienced going through a tunnel, then flying through the air in their spiritual self feeling on fire with tremendous energy that could "blow up this entire planet." White light emanated from their spiritual arm. After re-entering their mangled body with difficulty due to higher spiritual frequency, they willed their body to move starting with their right index finger, then right toe, discovering a broken leg. They called for help and managed to call home. While unconscious, they were in another world using thoughts to create planets, feeling lightning strike beautifully as planets formed. A female voice from a huge orb of white light with billions of conscious minds said what they create is theirs. This consciousness, connected by an umbilical cord of light, massaged their neck with overwhelming love. They then met millions of light humanoid beings in a place of darkness lit only by these beings. One being, who felt closer than family, communicated telepathically. Despite being offered rebirth as a wealthy couple's baby, they insisted on returning to this life despite warnings of difficulty. The female entity, recognized as the true God, asked them to "bring her children back to her." Flying back into their body at the crash site, they spent six weeks in traction at the hospital. The experience left them with a mission to bring God's children back, knowing for certain they had died in the accident. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Severe car accident with death confirmed by witness, broken hip and leg, 6 weeks in traction | Created planets with thought, encountered billions of conscious minds, specific reincarnation offer refused | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7/14/2025 | 1 | 1 | Experienced death and return witnessed by other driver's father | 1.00 | Father of other driver | Low Compatibility | 8 | ||||||||
| 4197 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 568-going-inside-a-glove.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/568-going-inside-a-glove.html | 2009 | F | After eight hours of labor, the experiencer was urgently taken for an emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia. During the procedure, they observed themselves from above lying on the operating table with a green sheet full of blood on their right at liver level. Medical staff in green scrubs moved anxiously around them. Initially observing without emotion or recognition that it was their own body, they felt a pleasant sensation like "the nothing and the all in the same package." They watched a nurse slapping their face and screaming their name, feeling like a child being woken for school who wants five more minutes of warm, cozy sleep. Upon recognizing the body as themselves, they remembered their baby, husband, friends, and life, which they realized they liked very much. Understanding they were dying from excessive bleeding that couldn't be stopped, they could choose to stay or return. Despite the capital-letter PEACE they felt, they decided life wasn't something to fear. The nurse continued slapping their face while another gave a blood transfusion into their right arm. Making a quick decision to live, they ran mentally into their body, which felt like "going inside a glove" or landing into something exactly their size. Upon opening their eyes and asking to see their baby, everyone looked worried - not about the baby who was fine, but about the experiencer who had been bleeding dangerously. They knew this was real and beautiful, feeling lucky to have experienced it, though they haven't shared it much to avoid confrontations about it being dreams or anesthesia effects. | 3 | Hospital | 7 | 14 | 28 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Emergency cesarean with general anesthesia and severe hemorrhage | Detailed observations of surgical scene including blood-covered sheet at liver level, nurse slapping face | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw surgical scene from above during cesarean | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4198 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 570-communication-without-words.html 2009 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/570-communication-without-words.html | 1968 | 1968-12-24 | 2009 | 17 | Unknown | On December 24, 1968, at age 17, the experiencer was in a plane crash returning from Detroit with their father. The plane hit trees, crashed on a mountainside, lost its wings, flipped over, and landed in a marsh where snow and mud covered everything. They were trapped in their overturned seat, pinned against the window with their nose and mouth filled with marsh muck, unable to breathe. After hearing their father and others screaming, realizing they were dying, and attempting to confess their sins before thinking "what I've done, I've done," they experienced profound peace like being wrapped in a black velvet blanket. Suddenly outside observing from above, they saw bluish-gray light/energy leave their father's body and thought matter-of-factly "Oh, daddy died," then saw the same light enter their own body. They sensed the crash site was on an Indian burial ground. They found themselves in a gray place like Grand Central Station with loud acoustics and many people. On the left, crash victims walked calmly two-by-two with guides in peace. On the right, others huddled in confused, sad circles. Moving faster than those with guides, they traveled at warp speed through a bright tunnel with dark infinity beyond. They stopped at what felt like a quiet lakeshore with water sounds. Three ethereal sphere beings appeared, giggling with excitement. When the experiencer wanted to join them, they said "No! We'll come to you" and instantly melded into them, demonstrating how wonderful communication is without words. They were rescued around 1 AM, approximately four hours after the crash, with a rescuer recently confirming they dug muck from their nose and mouth. The experience led to lasting changes, and they're writing a book about navigating trauma. | 5 | Other | 10 | 16 | 36 | Exceptional Evidence | 10 | Plane crash with severe injuries, trapped for 4 hours, muck blocking airways | Observed father dying with bluish-gray energy leaving, saw own body receiving same energy, sensed burial ground | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Snow and mud covering | 7/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Saw father die and energy leave his body | 0.00 | Highly Compatible | 8 | |||||||
| 4199 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1791-boy-has-formless-nde-when-given-laughing-gas-by-dentist.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1791-boy-has-formless-nde-when-given-laughing-gas-by-dentist.html | 1960 | 2024 | 11 | M | A 10-12 year old boy underwent dental anesthesia with laughing gas in the early 1960s, when correct pediatric dosing was not yet established. He immediately experienced leaving his body as a formless dot, moving through a dark space at unprecedented speed. He passed through a spiral tunnel with golden glowing spirals similar to Hieronymus Bosch's painting, then entered multiple unfathomable universes with colored worlds and nebulas. Throughout the experience, he was immersed in overwhelming cosmic sound, vibration, and resonance - experiencing himself as pure consciousness merged with universal energy. He resided in an absolute void before being drawn back through the tunnel and waking up. Years later, he recognized the visions as matching photos of galaxies and nebulae, and found validation in Hindu texts describing cosmic consciousness and the sacred Aum sound. The experience profoundly shaped his understanding of consciousness as non-local and universal. | 3 | Other | 7 | 4 | 11 | Suggestive Evidence | 0 | Anesthesia overdose in dental setting described | Cosmic visions and formless consciousness described but no specific veridical observations | written_account | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/14/2025 | 0 | 0 | Low Compatibility | 7 | |||||||||||
| 4200 | quantitative | webpage | IANDS 1793-woman-has-stroke-and-meets-former-patient-who-had-a-stroke.html 2024 | https://iands.org/research0/2024-11-23-16-15-26/nde-research/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1793-woman-has-stroke-and-meets-former-patient-who-had-a-stroke.html | 2024 | F | An experienced RN suffered a stroke while on vacation in Barcelona and was rushed to the hospital for an angiogram. During the procedure, initial success was followed by a complication when tissue broke loose and traveled deep into her brain. She left her body and observed the procedure from the ceiling, recognizing herself by her leg tattoo visible beneath the drapes. She then encountered a bright light and met Karen, a former stroke patient she had cared for who had similar paralysis. They communicated telepathically about how the afterlife works, reincarnation based on intention, and her life purpose. She received a life review showing the tapestry of existence and how small acts of kindness had profound impacts she never comprehended. After deciding to return and leaving her original self there, she slammed back into her body with intense pain. She awoke with complete left-side paralysis matching Karen's condition. The experience gave her understanding that consciousness is universal and death is not what we think. | 5 | Hospital | 10 | 10 | 27 | Strong Evidence | 7 | Stroke with angiogram complications explicitly described | Observed procedure from ceiling perspective, identified self by tattoo under drapes | written_account | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 7/15/2025 | 1 | 0 | Observed angiogram room from ceiling perspective | 0.00 | Low Compatibility | 9 | |||||||||||