Experiences triggered by illness & disease
NDEs triggered by severe illness unfold more gradually than traumatic ones, often providing extended and detailed experiences. These cases frequently feature beings of light and life reviews.
I was standing in military formation at parade rest for a chain of command of ships; this means one ship was taking command of the area from the other ship. While standing at parade rest, I all of a sudden felt extreme heat at the bottom of my feet ...
Valerie L NDE Home Classification NDE 466 Valerie L NDE 1039 Experience Description On April 25, 2003 I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance because I was not able to breathe. I had lost about forty-seven percent of my oxygen, which was not good. ...
When I first left my body, the first time was vivid; I saw myself leaving and did not care. There was a void for just a little bit, then, I could see myself going towards heaven. It surprised that I could see myself going there. It was as if I was wa...
I was sitting by a campfire at a lake, talking with an older man about rodeos and horses. It was about eleven at night and the sun had just gone down. The sky was beautiful. But there were two younger guys that did not like me being there. I felt a h...
For a couple of days prior I was so ill and now looking back realize too ill to even comprehend what was happening. I thought I had diarrhea, I had no comprehension I was bleeding to death - it was from an ulcer. I was told later by the doctors, that...
I became dizzy and collapsed outside on the front porch. I can remember floating up into a tube-like area with a very bright light at the end. Everything was turning around much like a tornado as I elevated up toward the light. I was soooo relaxed an...
The first time I was in a boarding school in Pennsylvania. Developed pneumonia and was placed in an unheated room. Had a fever rise to a hundred and seven degrees. I was moved to a hospital. My mother was a nurse there. I had no pulse or breathing, f...
When I was five years old, I became sick with a streptococcal sore throat (strep throat), and had to go to the hospital. This was complicated by the fact that I had then, (and have now) a mild, generalized case, of an ailment known as Myasthenia Grav...
I didn't know if my experience qualified, but I read a testimony on this site that had similar parameters, so here goes!I was seven years old and had contracted Scarlet Fever. It was late at night and I was in bed. I do not remember waking. I just re...
I was in my grandmother's kitchen. She was doing the dishes and I was sitting at the table eating a piece of cinnamon disk candy. Grandma left the room and somehow I began choking on the piece of candy. The candy became lodged in my throat and I coul...
I woke up in the early morning unable to breathe unless I sat up. My husband took me to the hospital after a quick trip to our family physician. I was put through a battery of X-rays and blood tests, etc. Then I was wheeled into a room, an oxygen mas...
Marion NDE-Like Home Classification NDE 533 Marion NDE 1087 Experience Description During the coma, one evening, a ‘thought’, not a voice, forced itself upon me: ‘You will recite the ‘Our Father’ and you will forgive your mother.’ Christ appeared to ...
The feelings of unearthly joy and overwhelming love." "Yes" "Developed double pneumonia." "It was an ordinary day in the life of a young carefree man and suddenly, without any warning, I felt extremely ill and was close to collapsing. I went to see ...
I had planned an attempted suicide that was quite serious in intent. I have many overdoses due to severe mental illness. I took a huge number of sedatives mixed with alcohol. I almost died. At one point I was crawling on the floor unable to move ...
I had been bleeding for three days, and that night when I went to bed I was quite weak (but I'm also stubborn). My sister was in the kitchen.
I suffered a massive heart attack on March 14, 2005, at about 5pm in the evening. I could not breathe properly and was gasping madly for air. The paramedics were called at once and when they arrived, they immediately dropped a large electrical wheel ...
I had been hemorrhaging for approximately twelve hours by this time. As I previously noted (in a question above), the nurse started to give me a shot. For some reason, she had to do this shot very slowly. When she was about halfway done, I started to...
I woke in the night of December 28th, 2004 with what I thought was a routine asthma attack. I reached for my inhaler and took a puff. I could feel that the medications didn't work, so I prepped and used my nebulizer again with no relief. I could 'fee...
I can only tell you that it was dark, cold and very scary. I always thought I would see a light and someone there. There was nothing, not anything. I kept fighting to breathe. I kept hearing people around me, but it was as if I wasn't there anymore. ...
The summer between my eighth and ninth year of school was the longest, and most difficult of my life. Actually, it was almost the LAST summer of my life. I had just completed a very good academic year, where, upon graduation I was voted by my fellow ...
I was taking medication for illness and was put on a different medication which reacted badly with me. I remember falling down on the floor (I had a lady visiting me at the time thankfully she phoned the ambulance) I remember my friend saying I looke...
I was five years old and had pneumonia. I knew I was really sick when dad slept on the sofa and I slept in his bed with my mother. I don't know if I died in my sleep that night or not, all I can tell you is what happened.I became aware and found myse...
Saturday or Sunday night I woke up because my blood sugar was too low (hypoglycemia). I needed to get some sugar as soon as possible but I was so out of it I could scarcely walk. I instantly knew that this was the worst episode of hypoglycemia I ha...
I'm a registered nurse with asthma. I went to the emergency room the day after Christmas with an asthma attack. I was given numerous breathing treatments with no relief. My doctor arrived and told the staff to intubate me. As soon as they started to ...
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 ...
I was at the gym, working out in preparation for work. This is a normal routine for me. I remember having a massive constant pain on the left side of my head. I was contemplating stopping my workout as the pain was driving me to tears. I remember t...
I was wakeboarding and crossed the wake. I spun my board around to switch directions and I pushed the nose of the board down and face planted into the water. Instead of letting go of the rope automatically, I let go too late and the handle caught my ...
This is what I saw and felt. At the time, I thought it was a dream. I woke up in a place that looked like a rose garden. I couldn't see anything else just roses and I remember it being really bright and white. There was a bench, I sat there, and I wa...
Well I had just got to the hospital that night via the rescue squad and I was really sick. I had to stay in the emergency room all night because there were no rooms available. When morning came, they moved me to my room and everything was fine. They ...
It was time to go into the delivery room. I was distraught with pain as they wheeled me in the room. I noticed the light shining on me from above my gurney. It was the doctor's light. I started hearing a buzzing sound, like loud locusts in the summer...
I was no longer in my body, but I initially thought that I was dreaming! I was totally bewildered as to what was happening to me; because I was actually above the earth surrounded by huge clouds moving about me - and I heard the most gloriously beaut...
I was five years old. I had measles and very, very high fever. I was at home because they could not shift me to a hospital. The doctor was not too sure if I'd make it through the night.What I was most aware and awestruck by was seeing myself in my be...
I went to bed after a few beers about 1:00 am. My girlfriend was asleep in the bed, I felt a bit asthmatic but soon fell asleep. The next thing I remember I could see myself sitting cross-legged in the air above me as if on a cloud. I was smiling dow...
I had a diabetic coma at work about ten years ago. I have been a diabetic since I was thirteen. I remember talking to people in a room. I felt relaxed at peace. Of the conversation and the people, this sounds strange. I remember nothing that I can de...
My friend, then in her twenties, had been very ill and was in the intensive care unit when she collapsed. She does not recall being taken to the operating theatre or the team working on her. (She was later told by her mother-in-law that a team of twe...
I began feeling a lack of air that got increasingly worse. I tried to get into the ambulance but I was so sick I couldn't do it even sitting down. I can't even remember everything that happened on the way to the hospital. I remember entering the hosp...
The water in my lungs left me be in a state of coma for four days. The things that I am about to explain took place during the four days. The doctors say that I was in a definite state of coma. And this is what I could clearly remember from this stat...
I had an NDE when I was eight in 1984, as a result of being in a coma. I'm one of the youngest kidney patients, here in the Netherlands, that has survived my disease and through that, I have been an experiment to medical science. This disease struck ...
I had gone to a doctor at a nearby treatment center for a sinus infection that I had had for two weeks and that wouldn't go away. He prescribed an antibiotic. I told him that I usually didn't take antibiotics because they upset my digestion, but he s...
On the morning of 10/25/2001 I called in sick to work. It's not that I felt sick, I just didn't feel completely right. So, I stayed home and rested. In the early evening (about 5:00 pm), I went with my husband to an event that we already had tickets ...
This all happened before I even knew about near death experiences. My father never took us to church. The only prayer I knew was the one we did in school at the starting of class in the morning. At that time, we had to pray in school. I knew about Je...
I had a tonsil infection with a fever of 42 Celsius and I was in a coma. I remember that I witnessed the whole process from some place on the ceiling of the room. I saw my uncle, who was a pediatrician, kneeling at the head of the bed crying while he...
Marietta S NDE Home Classification NDE 696 Marietta S NDE 21000 Experience Description I was very young and my brothers and sisters (of which I have seven), all went up into the hayloft to play. They were not supposed to but did anyway. I wanted to g...
Life has been difficult emotionally for some time, several years in fact. Events led up to me just wanting to die. I just didn't want to hurt any longer. I saw no way out of the pain. I had not planned suicide but the night, the moment, recent events...
At first, it seemed like I had risen upward from myself lying on the floor of my bathroom and moving across this beautiful valley filled with green grass and flowers all over. It was as if I was flying. Maybe like superman did. I felt like something ...
When it got dark, I felt the body fall away. I hovered near the ceiling and watched my sister and mom place me on a bed. I felt like I was flying upward, and scared I shut my eyes very tightly. I could feel 'spirits' ascending and descending, like on...
On my way back I was in the tunnel - now filled with a very thick fog. I was in a horizontal position as if swimming. Looking down I could see the earth twelve to fifteen feet below me as if in a Plexiglas tube. Then saw my car upside down, wheels sp...
It's funny that I write. I have told very few people in my lifetime, feeling that most people I tell might think I'm crazy. But, this was very real and the older I seem to get the more I've been thinking about it. I must have been about three to five...
Firstly, I want to enter my experience before reading others to see what is or may be not similar as compared to others. I don't want to be biased by others' stories before entering my own. I have heard about the tunnel vision and a buzzing sound, an...
Martha C NDE Home Classification NDE 754 Martha C NDE 21096 Experience Description I was having fainting spells.Background Information:Gender: FemaleDate NDE Occurred: 'August, 1992'NDE Elements: At the time of your experience, was there an associate...
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