Experiences triggered by allergic reactions
Anaphylaxis and severe allergic reactions can trigger sudden NDEs. The rapid onset creates an unexpected transition, and these experiencers often describe heightened awareness and clarity.
First Person Interview as told to Elaine Smith (NDERF Volunteer):Karen's near death experience was in the summer of 1975. She was driving in their car with her ex-husband on a vacation near Durango, Colorado. She was traveling with a cat without her ...
I was walking down Whitstable high street at night, when a mugger attacked me. I resisted his attacks, but he still pushed me into the road. A car hit me. Doctors said I was dead on the scene, but one still attempted to revive me. He succeeded. Whil...
I had swollen lungs, so I couldn't lie on my back. I didn't have any asthma medication. I went to bed, had trouble breathing, couldn't breathe fully. Then I fell asleep and experienced that I saw myself lying there. I saw someone who pressed down on...
11Nov 2003I was in a very deep sleep, surrounded by total darkness, very intense. Even in a dreamless sleep one could expect to see something. I was far away. At 4.00am I became fully awake; there was a light so bright that I could not stand it for l...
I was floating. I felt like I was floating very high, but I realized I was looking down at my mother standing over me in a bed. My mother was trying to wake me up, but I did not understand why. Everything was so peaceful floating there. I felt very s...
I was in a friend's house with another three friends. I needed to go to the bathroom. I entered my friend's bathroom. The light was on. All of a sudden I heard a clatter on the floor, as if something fell over, but I could see nothing: I was consciou...
I had a feeling of extreme peace and I loved being where I was. I was not afraid at all and I wanted to stay where I was. I then began to see what was going on around my body. It was as if I were looking down from above and behind my body. I watched ...
When I was sixteen years old I was driving home with my dad from the mall. When we got side swiped by a passing speeding car changing lanes too fast. We were pushed into a transport trailer and dragged under for about two hundred feet. My dad was alm...
I was at a friend's get together and everyone had been drinking at around 12:30 at night I was extremely hungry, everyone there was eating cookies. I have a sever allergy to nuts and can die within three minutes of eating one. I ate the cookie and ri...
I do not very often share my experience not because it was not real but because I cannot make people understand the depths of what it meant to me and I feel they make light of it. It was and still is very surreal to me and when I recall it I still fe...
I was fifteen and in the ninth grade. During the afternoon of April 15, I noticed my lips and ears felt swollen. The swelling continued into the evening. When my parents took me to the emergency room I was given Benadryl and sent home. By the next mo...
I'm in a 'tunnel' that's ox-blood red, it's narrow or sort of 'close'. I kind of float ahead through windings and curves, but I never hit anything. It feels warm, peaceful and pleasant and it's just like 'everything runs smoothly'. There's someone th...
When I was six, my mother gave me chewable children's aspirin due to a fever. This caused the fever to go up and the doctor suggested giving me more. Finally In was at 106.5 degrees and I was rushed to the hospital. I went into a coma due to being di...
I have asthma and as the result of applying an anti-inflammation cream to reduce pain in my neck I had a severe asthma attack that resulted in respiratory failure. I was unconscious. During the minutes before my loss of consciousness, I was completel...
Dixie E NDE Home Classification NDE 1121 Dixie E NDE 3125 Experience Description According to the registered nurse, an old lady visiting someone in the hospital (Darien) saw me sitting in my car, looking 'dead.' I was taken by a stretcher into the em...
Well, I'm not the one who had the NDE, it was my father, but since he doesn't have a computer and he has told me the story many times, I'll tell it to you the best I can. Everything happened when he was more or less twenty-three or twenty-four years ...
Fifteen minutes after taking a new diabetic injection, I was driving to work at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, forty miles away. While en-route, I began to have a medication allergic reaction in the car. I noticed my f...
I had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic I was taking. I thought it was due to some lotion I had put on, so I got in the shower and tried washing it off. I did take a Benadryl beforehand, not realizing that it would take a while to work. While in ...
I had reoccurring strep throat for months. The throat culture results came back and I not only needed some heavy duty antibiotics, but a mandatory penicillin shot. In the doctor's office, I leaned over the end of the table to receive the shot in my h...
After receiving the injection, within a few seconds two things happened. The first was that my sight was completely obliterated and instead, I was rushing down - at very high speed - what can only be described as a tunnel of red blood cells. Red corp...
This was in 1976. My children were next door when I returned from work. I knew that the guy who lived next door was a drug addict and was injecting himself with drugs. When I went to get my children home and confront him about using drugs in front...
I was in the lake in a large tire inner tube, but unable to swim. I slipped out of the inner tube, head first into the water. I remember nothing except knowing that I was at the bottom of the lake and wondering why I felt no discomfort or the sensati...
I went to the dentist's office for some cavities that needed to be filled. As soon as they gave me the shot of Novocain, my cheeks turned bright red. The dentist said that it was just normal. Everything was fine, but when I got home, I was so sleepy ...
Rue A NDE Home Classification NDE 1372 Rue A NDE 311 Experience Description I was at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to have magnetic resonance imaging done. Before they put me through it they had to give me a shot of iodine. I did...
I had had attacks before and always recovered, this time I could tell I wasn't. In effect, you strangle. I had somehow hooked myself through a window in the bathroom to try to breathe better I guess. Anyhow, as a result when I passed out I didn't fal...
I was bitten by fire ants while working. I noticed that I was having a very bad allergic reaction, hives and swelling, and called to be transported to the hospital by a co-worker. They were late and by the time I reached the hospital I was in very ba...
My skin turned red and I was having problems breathing. I tried to take a cold shower because I felt as if I was on fire. I believe the shower made it worse. I had to lay down. By the time they got me in the ambulance, I had to totally force in on br...
I was getting ready for bed one night and had taken a couple of over the counter sleep aids. My roommate had then come home from work and offered me a cookie she got from work. I had eaten this cookie not knowing its exact contents. A half an hour we...
I went to the dentist office for a simple filling. I was injected several times with Novocain because I wouldn't get numb. The dentist just kept giving me more and more. I began to shake uncontrollably. My heart was racing, and beating very irregular...
At the time of the experience, I was a police officer in Florida. I went to the emergency room of the hospital because of a bad reaction to a tetanus shot. While in the emergency room, I was given two shots of penicillin. After the second shot, I f...
Cam Possible NDE vs Drug Experience Home Classification Possible NDE vs Drug Experience 1759 Cam Possible NDE vs Drug Experience 3765 Experience Description When I was sixteen I was experimenting in 'huffing' solvents. Everyone experiences the ringin...
I was in a dark room or tunnel and it was so peaceful but really dark and I heard people calling me from far, far away. I did not want to come back for it was a wonderful feeling and I was annoyed and had to come back
Reaction to insulin blood sugar low, unconscious, cannot move or speak. I saw myself bathing in bright light. Surrounded by twelve beings in white garments - I was in the middle of the circle. I also saw shadow people in the corner of my back yard - ...
[Chinese translated to English, sorry that there may be some errors in the translation since my mother language is not English.]:An NDE that happened to me eight years ago has completely changed me.I had a family and my father was very strict upon me...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing. I saw beings in the form of 'aliens' but these may have been guardian angels lifting me away from earth into this amazing bright light that was like a tunnel. I felt so much love and beauty. It was such a pea...
Okay, I remember it was a night like many others, when I went out with the man who was at that time my husband, going out with the intention of using drugs. We went to find another friend who was the man who started me off in that world. Then we went...
Almost immediately I had an allergic reaction to medicine prior to the NDE. Near-death experiences are often explained by the experts as a sensation that people on the brink of death have while leaving their bodies and observing them as though they w...
Tammy G Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2340 Tammy G Probable NDE 4623 Experience Description I was in the Ophthalmologist office for a test to photograph the blood vessels in my retinas. My eyes were first dilated with drops. A nurse w...
I was a store man at the time, alone working on the office computer at about 2:00 am. I don't know why I started coughing but I did, it quickly became uncontrollable, then after a while I felt my windpipe close, I knew I was in trouble. My initial fe...
Shortly after the injection was given, she was in extreme pain, and then blacked out. She said she recalled that all of the pain disappeared, and that she was floating above her body, as if at the ceiling, and watching as her husband, my dad, held he...
I had not long been given two cats. I am semi-handicapped and rely on help from others for daily tasks and assistance with mobility. This day I was clearing out a cat box, which contained ammonia, and I am careful to have my windows open when doing t...
I had an anaphylactic reaction to a medication in the hospital. I had no pulse. I remember being above my bed and watching everything from above. I heard everything the doctors and nurses said but I could not respond. In the corner of the room above ...
I was visiting a friend in Lompoc, California. As I was sweeping her kitchen, a fire extinguisher was knocked down and fell on my foot. She took me to the emergency room to see if my foot was broken. When I got to the ER, the doctor took x-rays, and ...
Bill D NDE Home Classification NDE 3072 Bill D NDE 6316 Experience Description We were hunting about 20 miles out of town. I was stung hundreds of times by hornets. My last conscious recollection was my friend carrying me into the hospital. Then I su...
I was stung by an insect, my throat instantly constricted and I fell to the ground unconscious, before even being able to cry out. Fortunately, it was in a crowded place and people came immediately to help. I seemed to be located about 10 feet over m...
Gene B NDE Home Classification NDE 3617 Gene B NDE 7149 Experience Description At approximately 5:00 p.m. on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, in 1988, I was in my medical office in Washington State. I had recently been diagnosed as having chronic fati...
I had been invited for lunch at Marseille to a friend of my mother's (from work). We lived at Aix-en-Provence. I never ate oysters as they disgusted me, but being polite, I swallowed them one by one with bread (12 in all). About 20 minutes later I st...
Lu F NDE Home Classification NDE 3918 Lu F NDE 7636 Experience Description I began to suffer allergic reactions and the specialists couldn't find a suitable treatment. The clinician had prescribed me an injection of decadron, a medicine I have avoide...
I had an asthma attack but worse than ever before. There was no air going in. I was being driven to the hospital and I knew I was going to die. We were about half way to the emergency room when something took over me and I remember rolling down the w...
I was painting a room and tore a cartilage of an ear. In a few days, my ear became infected. I went to the doctor who prescribed a strong antibiotic injection. They gave me the medication in a certain house two blocks away from my house. On the third...
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