Experiences triggered by drowning
Drowning-related NDEs are often among the most vivid and detailed. The gradual loss of consciousness in water creates a unique pattern of experience, frequently involving tunnels, light, and life reviews.
Maria TK NDE Home Classification NDE 457 Maria TK NDE 996 Experience Description Hi, my name is MariaI was on vacation with my ex-husband in my native country Bulgaria. Didn't know that I was pregnant (two to three months approximately) and had to ca...
My name is David; I live in Hawaii, I am 32 years old, and am a survivor of NDE. I have not spoken to any support groups of this since then, it has had a significant change on my life, and at times, it seemed as though I was crazy. Now I know that t...
During the afternoon of May 15th, 2001 while working from atop of an eight feet ladder I lost my balance when the ladder I was working on moved. Unfortunately, I fell backward through a T-bar ceiling head first landing on concrete. As I tried to brac...
My parents took us to the beach for the weekend. I went out in the water by myself, further than I should have. I tried swimming back to shore but was exhausted. I felt myself slipping beneath the water. I struggled to stay on top. But I was simply t...
In August 1985, the day I arrived on vacation at the seaside in the south of France, I arrived having only one idea in mind, to have a bathe, to have a swim, to enjoy the pleasures of the sea. My four year old niece came into the sea with me and at t...
Preventing a possible double murder by a drug addict and his friends of the drug addicts ex-girlfriend and her mother, I ended up being kicked in the head approximately twenty times (as I found out later). After the first kick to the head, I was unco...
My throat became more and more sore and I was trying to wake up until there came a point when the pain suddenly lifted. I felt no hurt, total release, no weight, and perfectly normal. My father was in the room with a lit candle that kept going out. H...
It was summertime and I was at a church swimming party and cook out. We where all in the pool playing I was on a raft hanging on the side of the pool. One of the ladies called out food is ready. Everybody was getting out of the pool when one kid thou...
My accident happened after lunch outside the school cafeteria. It was customary to help the janitor take the trash outside to the dumpsters. There was a side-door with two to three concrete steps going down. This is where the accident occurred. I fel...
While in the back of an ambulance during transport from one hospital to another, my heart stopped. I don’t remember being put in the ambulance or very much of what took place between the time of having the stroke and my NDE. I also do not remember...
I was traveling home from work in the fog in a car driven by my workmate Mark. I was sitting in the back seat of the car without a seatbelt when a car appeared out of the fog and struck us head on. I was thrown violently through the car and impacted ...
I was in a rubber dingy, my mother was pulling me. I was with a friend. The friend had a life jacket on. I did not. The dingy tipped in the middle of the lake.I remember looking down at myself going in the water. A bright light surrounded me. I was w...
Swimming in a pool and suddenly panicked when I could not reach the side of the pool. Started sinking and every time I was able to surface, saw the life guard with his back turned to me, talking to the lady that had brought me. Kept gasping for breat...
It was a hot summer day in South Texas. I, along with two other friends, had gone to where my father worked. My father worked at the Donna Lakes, a large water reservoir with several lakes and deep canals that lead to the main diesel pumps that take ...
I was swimming at a local lake with my grandma, aunt and cousins. I was about four or five years old and I couldn't swim that well yet. After about six feet into the water, there was an abrupt drop off to about ten feet deep. I went to go swim toward...
I was in the water with a cousin and a current dragged us inside the sea. My cousin, in her desperation, stepped on my head trying to reach the surface. I lost orientation and didn't know where the bottom or the surface was. I tried to swim but sank ...
I was playing with my grandmother in the pool by jumping off the edge and letting her catch me. While jumping during this game, I came short of her arms and fell into the water. As I couldn't swim at that time and the pool was too deep for me, I went...
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I had severe head trauma after being hit with a shot-put at a track and field tournament. I remember feeling like I was drowning in my own blood, then rising above the scene. There was no pain associated with this. My account was brief. I remember fe...
We had gone on vacation to Araxá from Belo Horizonte. My father, mother, and three sisters. I was the oldest. In Araxá, at the Grande Hotel, which still stands even today, there were outdoor and indoor swimming pools. It had rained the previous days ...
I fell through the ice and thereafter slipped underneath it. Slowly my eight years of life experience left me and was transformed into beautiful music and colors. I lost consciousness, which finally returned after three days. I didn't see the music a...
I was home with my children (home from school on spring break - ages eight and ten). I have some health conditions and was, at the time, taking SEVERAL different medications prescribed by five different well-meaning doctors. The doctor had just given...
I was seven years old, it was summer and I was as usual spending my summer holiday sailing the seas around Denmark in my parent self-build sailing boat. We were laying in the harbor of Nyborg on the Island of Fyn. It was dinnertime. My father had mad...
As a preamble to this story, I want you to know that up until that moment (1981), I was used to swimming in swimming pools and quiet waters. I had never swam at the beach where the waves may drag you out into the sea. It was the summer of 1981 when ...
I remember that I could no longer get any air in. I felt that I was like a drowning victim. At first, it was hard to get air, and then I went to a dark place. I saw a life movie of me when I was a child, and I saw my children crying over my coffin bu...
I was put under general anesthesia at about 10:30 a.m. for a routine hysterectomy. The doctors told my husband and mom that I would be awake in recovery around 12 p.m. The anesthesiologist started the IV drip and everything went dark as I went unco...
The experience itself was extremely unique to anything I have experienced in life so far. It is very vague now, but the years of nightmares remind me. The most memorable part was infinite beings of light and darkness swirling around me pressing in to...
I 'woke up' in the pool. Screamed for my father. He didn't come. He was at the pool lip, looking down at me. Before I floated upward, awareness surfaced, I was in a blue bubble, breathing in the water. I saw a thread. Compelled, I touched it. That's ...
These may not qualify as NDE's as I was not the person dying.In the first experience, I was at a summer camp experience with my friend, Bunny, and her family. We decided to go swimming in the lake early evening. She didn't like to feel the mud on her...
I was swimming in cold, ocean water off La Jolla 'Bird Rock' beach. My swim buddies were returning to shore as it was way too cold for comfort. Only one friend, Ted, had had the good sense to wear a wetsuit. As I attempted to follow, I was caught in ...
It was summer in Long Island, New York at Stone Brook beach. My older brother challenged me to swim over to an island maybe thirty feet away. I made it across and was so tired. My brother told me the water was rising and I panicked. I started to swim...
I was swimming in a lake with my brothers when I decided to swim out to a stump and then back to shore. I was not a good swimmer and half way there or back I started going under. I was very frightened and then suddenly a peace came over me. I was flo...
I was eleven years old, my brother eight years. We were at a public swimming pool; there were many people around as it was school holidays. My brother dived into the shallow end of the big pool and I realized he was struggling. Without thinking, I di...
I was admitted to hospital with acute abdominal pain, the surgeon performed an emergency laparotomy (stomach inspection). During surgery they found nothing wrong in the stomach area - I had a pneumonic virus, during surgery my lungs collapsed and hea...
I had been twenty-one years old for about one month. It was Valentine's Day, 1998. I was six hours away from home at university. I awoke that February morning to a cloudy Indiana winter sky. The literal darkness of both day and night during those win...
When I was five my family was visiting my aunt's cabin at a local lake. While running up and down a long boat pier in front of the cabin, I fell off the pier and into the lake. I recall at first floundering in the water (as I did not know how to swim...
After just moving to the city, my partner and I went to meet some friends on their boat that was parked in the quay. After having a bit to drink, it was quite late. My partner and I started arguing over something silly. He walked off the boat, so I ...
The summer I was eight years old, I was wading in a nearby creek at a family outing, as was done on a fairly regular basis. I could not swim but moved along the edge of the bank into deeper water, using the bank to hold on to, occasionally checking t...
I was at the beach with my family one summer. It was a small and crowded beach, one section of this beach, on the west side, was closed due to a 'drop off.' My mother had instructed me NOT to go near this side because of the drop and the fact that I ...
While attending a Summer camp in 1952 at eight years old I ventured into line at the diving board end of the swimming pool. When it was my turn to jump off the board I was filled with a dreadful sense of fear. As I backed away, someone pushed me off....
It was my first time at the ocean at age seven and a day after a hurricane had been out at sea, warnings posted to swim at own risk and warnings also on radio. I was with my best friend and her family on the beach and they said we could go swimming. ...
Kamuning Road is a two way street emerging from the Main Highway 54 - EDSA. This is a main street where both public and private vehicles traverse twenty four hours a day and I live along this street. I grew up in this vicinity so I know how the traff...
I'm at work right now, so I can't in as much detail as I (you) would like. Short story: I was free diving (no diving gear) through lava tubes in Hawaii. I took a wrong turn and got lost/stuck in an underwater cavern. I was under water for around fift...
It happened at the beach. I didn't know how to swim. The water came up to my feet when I lost my footing, slipped, and fell back, because the beach where I went is like a wave. When I lost my footing, I sank. I later tried to get out but the waves ke...
Went body surfing with buddies. I was caught in a current and started to go under the pounding surf. I was having a hard time breathing. I started choking, water rushing in my nose and mouth. DROWNING! I'M GOING TO DIE! After fighting to get air inst...
One of my earliest memories 'Drowning' (Washington):When I was about five years of age, my oldest sister Cherline took my younger sister Lori and I to a local swimming hole in Pasco, Washington. Lori wanted Cherline (about age sixteen). Lori was goin...
I was at the oral surgeon's office this morning for a dental implant. I had nitrous oxide, which I have had before but I've never had this experience before. I felt like I was quickly going toward this long, very bright light and I saw a shadow of a ...
Philippe R NDE Home Classification NDE 1135 Philippe R NDE 3156 Experience Description I was spending my holidays with my parents at my mother's uncle and aunt's place, in Toulon. It was summer and everyone was indoors. I had remained outdoors and I ...
My Uncle Carl (who had just returned from the Korean War) was living with us and offered to take us children swimming at Percy Quinn State Park, Pike County, Mississippi. I was just learning to swim and we were at a beach on the west side of the lake...
I was chasing after some ducks at a lake. Running alongside the shoreline, I then tripped into the water. I was immediately knocked out. After being in this state of floating face down in the water, I noticed a buoy marker at the same water line as I...
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