YEAH!  All NDEs ever submitted to NDERF since 1998 have now been posted! 1/13/2008

Thea NDE. English expanded version  7/1/08  From Romania, Original in Romanian Translated to English by Mariana.  I wanted to show off that I was a good swimmer but the river undercurrent took me away to this drop off near the foot of a bridge.  They told me later that a professional swimmer who happened to be there on vacation at his grandparents’ got me out of the water but that I did not look scared at all.  What I did not tell them was that I had panicked and struggled for a several minutes before I decided to completely give up.  When I did give up, the water disappeared and all around me there was this gentle light that did not hurt my eyes, and I experienced a sense of total peace and calm.  I remember thinking that if that was death it was fine with me.  I would like to tell you that I had an unhappy childhood, with an alcoholic father and a mother who did not have much time for me, so being there in that place was a wonderful thing for me, indescribable.
NDEs at age 4 (scarlet fever 104 temp) and 8.

Brynda SMR.  6/19/08 I went to shut off the computer and suddenly his chat popped up, he said "Hi Beautiful" . I was so excited. We chatted for a couple of hours and when I had to go to bed I said "Teach me a beautiful word in Hopi". There was a pause, then came back the word "Ladimina". I asked him what it meant and he said "Bright Star"!!!!!!!!!   Again, bout fell off my chair. Our liaison continued for a week or so, then morphed to phone conversations. Everything was as if we had known each other forever. 2 weeks later I went to meet him in Flagstaff, AZ. We had planned to just meet but it was so amazing I followed him to his house on 3rd mesa and spent the night. 1 week later he said I love you. I am a complete commitment phoebe but I blurted it out too!  **It was at that point that it had been 7 months since I had heard that and that he was the 4th guy I dated since the divorce! 

Rick R Possible NDE. English expanded version  6/14/08 I don't know how I got there but I stood in a huge hall.  I could see the forms of people standing around me.  I could not see their faces but it seemed like I knew them.  I sensed this.  The most usual thing about where I was, is that the ceiling was THE NIGHT SKY, with brilliant stars.  The floor was like polished marble.  Then he comes into the hall and walks straight up to me.  I hear him say, "hello, I am the Son of God."  From here on out I cannot remember anything else.  It is like every thing just cuts off right there. He was about 5-10 to 6-0 tall, he had shoulder length brown hair and had a dark complexion.  This is about all I can remember about the way he looked.
Knee surgery. No life-threatening event.

Nithin S NDE. English expanded version  6/6/08 From India While I was eating food with my mother & friend it got into my respiratory tract.  Then I couldn't take air inside.  I fell down. struggling for air. I felt parting with my body & going upwards. I am now seeing a tunnel with light on other end someone is pulling me upwards. When I look around the surrounding is very bright. Then I can't see anything because of light. I have a strong desire to get into my body. Because my mother is crying for me. I can hear her crying from very down. Then suddenly I gasped some air with all my efforts. The food is moved out of the tract. Suddenly I get the feeling of inside the body.
NDE due to choking on food. 

Mariana Probable NDE. English expanded version  6/1/08 From Columbia, Original in Spanish, translated to English by Mariana.  Everything was dark and silence. All of a sudden I heard girl children's laughing, the sound was very sweet but I couldn't see anything. Afterwards the clarity started, I saw the girls smiling and running around me. In some way I knew my daughter was there, then I felt so much happiness I smiled and felt I was falling into a very happy state that didn't let me react.
Probable NDE but definite ADC from her daughter she had just lost in childbirth.

Rickie T NDE. English expanded version  6/1/08  The next thing I remember it was jet-black. The darkness was peaceful as it consumed my entire vision. I started to notice a pinhole of a white light. It was directly in front of me. As I sat there looking at this light it started to grow in size. It became so large that my entire vision was now white except the top corners, which were still jet-black. A circle of the brightest white light I have ever seen before in my life. The white light was so bright, that I was unable to see anything in or around it. What I did notice was that even though it was bright, it did not hurt my eyes. I began hearing my name being chanted. It sounded like more than one person was chanting my name. I became confused, because I was not sure who was calling my name. I kept staring into the bright white light but I was unable to see anything.  
NDE from attempted suicide

Gini C NDE. English expanded version  6/1/08 I saw a old Native American man and a cougar sitting in front of a fire. I approached him. He looked up and said, "Follow me."  We went into a cave.  The cougar was on my left side and the man on my right.  As we walked through the cave, I saw my life from birth until present.  When we got to the end of the cave, I saw a brilliant white light.  The old man looked at me very sternly and said, "Choose."  I guess I chose to live instead of going into that light.
NDE due to hemorrhagic stroke.  Met Native American and cougar.  Lists her race as “Caucasian”.

 Jeff S NDE. English expanded version  6/1/08 The pain grew and so did my screaming when all of a sudden I was in no pain at all. I was moving and moving fast. Eyes still closed. What about my family I thought? They will be fine the voice said and I was good with that cause I knew it was true.   When I finally opened my eyes there  was a beautiful city that shined like the sun. Is that heaven I asked? Yes the voice said.  Then in a flash I had met my grandfather. He was much younger and very happy. In another flash I was at the bottom of the great stairs which lead up. As I looked up and focused there was God, Christ, and the Spirit surrounded by angels singing and praising. I fell to the ground for I knew where I was. Christ lifted me up and gave me a hug and said I love you.  At some point my life was reviewed and I was told that it wasn't my time and would be sent back. Before I could question that I found myself in an orb of pure love and was cradled in the arms of it.
NDE due to being buried while working on a well.  Series of dreams appear to have prepared him for how to respond to the life-threatening event.

Darren T NDE. English expanded version  5/27/08 I REMEMBER STANDING IN A DARK AREA AND JUST LOOKING UPON A BRIGHT LIGHT IN THE DISTANCE.  THE LIGHT WAS BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN - YET IT DID NOT HURT MY EYES TO LOOK UPON IT.  BEAMS OF LIGHT WERE STREAMING OUT OF IT IN EVERY DIRECTION.  AS THE LIGHT CAME CLOSER TO ME I COULD SEE THE SHADOW OF A PERSON STANDING IN THE CENTRE OF THE LIGHT. I COULD DETERMINE THE SHAPE OF THE HEAD, SHOULDERS, ARMS & LEGS OF THIS PERSON.
NDE due to brain hemorrhage

 Shonda G NDE. English expanded version  5/27/08 I shut and locked my door and started taking the pills. They were very small and I took around 100 pills…  I suddenly felt like I was really small and looking down at myself on the floor. Everything was dark around me and I felt very very alone. I felt very sad for the person on the floor (didn't really associate that person with myself) I felt a sense of never ending aloneness. That is the last thing I remember until I was in the ER getting my stomach pumped.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

Lorena NDE  English expanded version  5/27/2008 From Peru, Original in Spanish, Translated by Mariana  I felt like something was talking to me without words, I only knew there was somebody letting me know that I was wrong or confused. My life was like a movie only saw it from the moment I got married. There were no sequence of images, they were more like spots and I knew why I have lived that. It was a circuit or something that was growing up every time more and more that each spot was passing and my death was the goal, I just felt that God wanted me to reach that moment, because I understood many things and then I saw my husband passing from the same in that moment. Then I saw a future, my husband and I in a green prairie in a very nice little house, inside I saw I had more children, I just knew that my husband and I were very happy and I understood my mistake. I was cheerful and I don’t know why my faith grew up so much that I just knew God had put me in this. I asked him not let me die please, I asked him to let me see my son grew up, to show my husband that I love him, that I was wrong. I prayed without stopping I repeated I will not die I will not die.

Sana NDE  English expanded version  5/19/2008 From Saudi Arabia Original in Arabic, translated by Jody via Google (so if anyone can help me clean it up so that it more accurately reflects what the experiencer was saying, I would greatly appreciate it) Then started feeling that the ceiling of the room is going on, and I started rising from the Earth towards the ceiling and enter the tunnel Spiral brings me to the top quickly, and I imagine my husband and my latest recommendations, which gave birth to the child and tell him: I die now, children must receive good care Take my grandmother to one .. I echo the certificates attest that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad Messenger of God again and again .. . I feel that I spent in the tunnel spiral smoothly and quickly pleased His Excellency indescribable when they began recovered consciousness and found myself still alive grief because I lost that feeling that indescribable
NDE from childbirth complications.

Denise N Possible NDE  English expanded version  5/18/2008 I had enough 'time' to feel like I was 'there' all of a sudden.  I remember looking at the scene below, checking out the room and the dentist...just scoping the place out...kind of like in a detatched wonder...like "How cool...what's this?"  started to try and figure out what was going on, where "I" was....then I felt a 'presence' near me.  This presence asked me to look at the scene and focus.  I didn't want to and started to turn and look at the 'being' next to me and was gently turned to the scene again and told to focus...kind of like a child was asked to focus.  I was urged to do something about the scene....told to take the mask off the girl's face.  Didn't feel like she was in trouble and didn't feel like I needed to do anything...kind of like a child thinking "Why...I don't even know this girl...why intervene...she looked like she was ok".  I was urged to focus and take the mask off - the urgency or the 'thoughts' from this other being were becoming hard to ignore and I started feeling the need to do as I was told. 
OBE, possible NDE, associated with nitrous oxide for dental procedure.

Bill B NDE  English expanded version  5/8/2008  THE TRUCK WENT OFF THE ROAD AND TURNED END OVER END AT THE TIME IT SEEMED TIME STOOD STILL AND HAPPENED IN SLOW MOTION.  EVERYTHING WENT BLACK. I SEEN A MOVIE OF MY LIFE, EVEN THE BIRTH OF MYSELF LEAVING MY MOTHERS BODY, BEING DELIVERED BY DOCTOR.  IT SEEMED I VIEWED MY WHOLE LIFE EVEN UP TO THE MOMENT OF BEING IN THE TRUCK.  I WAS THEN IN A TUNNEL FLOATING AND HAD THE MOST PEACEFUL FEELING EVER IN MY LIFE. THERE WAS A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL AND I JUST KEPT REACHING FOR IT. THEN, I WAS JUST BACK IN THE TRUCK, HANGING UPSIDE DOWN BY THE SEAT BELT.
NDE due to truck accident.

Mieke NDE  English expanded version  5/8/2008  From the Netherlands, Original in Dutch translated to English by Annelies. An acquaintance who was using drugs at the time flipped and turned on me.  He put both his hands around my neck and started to strangle me.  I tried to fight him as best as I could but I couldn't prevent him pushing backwards He pushed me into a closet. At a certain point I "went" , I saw myself "leave" and then everything went black.  Then all of a sudden there was light on the left and darkness on the right. A pleasant male voice asked: Mieke. do you choose the light or do you choose the darkness?  I said: I choose the light. And then it seemed the light filled my body and it went through me into the boy who was strangling me. He let me go at once and apologized.
Shared experience - the strangler let go when he felt the light go from her body to his arm.

Juan Carlos NDE  English expanded version  5/7/2008  From Columbia, Original in Spanish translated to English by Rio.  I could only think: "It's over," and I began entering into a tunnel of light, with a much greater and brighter light towards the back.  As I went into the tunnel, I didn't want to go back.  This could have been a phenomenon associated with the lack of oxygen, but the most astonishing thing is that at a certain point I saw myself on top of the water and I could swim toward the riverbank, leaving more than 200 companions who were with me astonished.  I thought someone had pushed me towards the surface but nobody knew who it was, nobody had an explanation.  The only sure thing is that I felt frustrated because I didn't want them to take me from there.  It was a marvelous and unforgettable experience.
Teenage drowning NDE.

George T NDE  English expanded version  5/6/2008  From Romania, Original in Romanian translated to English by Mariana.  I saw next to me two sturdy men who took me in their arms in order to transport me to the ambulance, they looked very tall and very bright – afterwards I found out that I had been walking to the ambulance on the arm of this nurse who helped me, also I was told that I had been laying at the back of the ambulance all the way to the hospital, but I remember being in front, next to the driver, I even felt the breeze on my face, at the same time I could not understand why he did not answer me – after some time we arrived at the hospital, and I saw everything they did in order to resuscitate me, at the same time I went down the hallway to speak with this man who was covered in blood and was trying to get up from the floor, I helped him and I asked him what had happened to him, he told me he overdosed in order to take his own life, but now he couldn’t move and no one was helping him, I think once in a while I was back in my body for a second or so and I could see everything around me but did not understand. This is a short description of what happened to me during my first NDE.
NDE from Suicide Attempt.

Christine A NDE  English expanded version  5/3/2008  The first scene I remember was that I was in my apartment bedroom (where my body lay).  My ceiling light was on and my body lie near the right side of my bed.  I was on the left side of my bed, not up in the air, yet not on the ground either.  I saw several people knelt down around my body, so I couldn't really even see myself.  The people wore dark clothing, so I'm assuming they were police.  I think I saw one person with a white shirt (EMT?).  While I was watching the 'event' I was with two of my deceased relatives: my grandfather's cousin, Aunt Kate (who was more like a grandmother to me); and my Uncle Harry.  In life, these were really the only two members of my family (besides my mother) that I was close to.  I loved them very, very much.  I don't remember ANY strong emotion at all during the NDE.  In fact, I felt almost emotionally detached from what was going on.  I was not elated, I was not frightened nor angry, etc. Just peaceful, calm, and almost like accepting.  But I 'knew' why Kate and Harry were there.  I knew that they were going to take me somewhere. 
NDE due to heart arrhythmia as a result of chemotherapy for leukemia.

Angela P NDE & Meditation  English expanded version  5/3/2008  From Tasmania I looked up and thought to myself that I was sure that I had turned the light off, when I had gone to be. I thought the light was coming closer to me and then thought I was dreaming. I looked down and saw myself and the sunshine through the window and realized I was not moving. I struggled inside me to move but could not until I heard this gasping sound which accompanied my arms moving and I opened my eyes and I could still hear this gasping when I realized it was the rush of air into my lungs. I was so terrified and utterly exhausted. I was surprised to find myself on the floor and lay down on the bed and slept.
NDE due to allergic reaction and meditation experience.

Carol M NDE & Possible NDE English expanded version  4/29/2008 From Saudi Arabia Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio.  I began seeing everything white around me, like this blank page to write on.  At the same time I felt a presence as if someone was with me and began explaining to me about  some doubts I had at one time.  Not with words, but with images and perhaps telepathy since I do not remember hearing a voice.  But I could understand everything he said and it was all so clear and obvious that I wondered how I could not have understood this before and that my mother would also be happy to know it.  I understood that everything good and bad happened for a purpose.  That God hopes the devil will understand that God is so good that notwithstanding all the bad the devil does God is unable to cause harm to him.  When the devil understands such great love, this whole world system will come to an end and all will know this other world that people such as I try  to describe so poorly. I understood that God is everywhere because the material world hides what scientists so earnestly seek, even the smallest part of material creation is God.
Experiencer has a masters degree, born in Bolivia, and living in Saudi Arabia where the experience occurred.  The experience during child birth is a possible NDE, but the drowning experience when she was 16 is a NDE.

DW Experience English expanded version  4/27/2008 I loved it, but it had loved me first and I loved it for loving me. I wish that I could explain how precious that was to me; To be wanted when I didn't even want myself. I had just killed me. To be told I was not only desired as one to love, but that it wanted me to love it. That I was sought out in such a way by one so loving was more than I could understand. What greater love is there than a love that reaches out to you and says, "I will always love you", then shows you all they are, not knowing if, in the telling, something will make you judge them someone you can't love. It made itself vulnerable to my rejection. How could I not love a being that trusted me with all of it's true self? That being already KNEW me before I arrived there. It chose to love me and wanted me to love it, KNOWING all of it. I wasn't asked to love blindly. I was showed the self that wanted me to love it. It wanted to be chosen by me as one that I would love. It had loved me before I was human, it loved me before I was born, it loved me being back with it, but most of all, it loved that I loved it, too. It was joy filled that I loved it. I was in a state of bliss from the love we shared. So was my new friend, the Divine Loving Being. Our perfect understanding in complete Love was, and could only be, Divine. I was HOME. That is what it felt like, the ultimate homecoming. I was where I was meant to be. I fit perfectly there. I was so glad to be there, loving with that being. "It was where I was meant to be" is as close as I can put it. To be together with that other, loving self was the perfect place for me to exist.
NDE due to suicide attempt.  Note From Dr. Jeff: "This is among the most profound NDEs ever shared.  I encourage EVERYONE to read this."

Bonnie J Experience English expanded version  4/27/2008 The next thing I sensed was a surreal feeling of floating high, high in the sky.  I had all of my senses though I felt I no longer had a body. All around me was bright, bright light and I sensed so much love I felt as if I'd never ever felt before - quiet, peace, serene contentment, no pain, now worry, just a tremendous sense of BEING - of me BEING.  I hear (sensed) love, joy, peace, contentment. I floated without seeing anyone (relatives that had passed away).  But, if this makes sense, I FELT God's presence. Then I sensed (heard - I hesitate to describe the event with our human terms because I never HEARD anything yet I know I was asked) a question. The question was:  'Are you ready Joyce?'.  I struggled with the answer and then I was shown my graveside.  The grass around my burial plot was vivid, vivid green, the sky was blue, there was a gentle breeze - I even heard a bird sing. People were leaving the coffin for their cars.  The only 3 people left by my coffin were my husband, my daughter then aged 3 and my son then aged 17 months. AT THAT MOMENT I KNEW I could not leave my children - I telepathed my answer, "NO".
NDE due to boating accident.

Sylvia P Experience English expanded version  4/24/2008  I believe this occurred during the emergency, exploratory surgery to save my life.  I later found out that during the surgery my body started to 'shut down.'  My experience was that I was in the dark, lying down, but I felt very comfortable.  I was experiencing total comfort and not afraid in any way.  A figure walked in ( although dark, I could see him).  He was someone that I had know as an acquaintace all my life and about the age my father would have been.  This person had passed away several years ago.  He sat down beside me, not facing me, and reached for and held my hand.  After some period of time he tugged on my hand and I said, "I am not ready to go with you." He very gently paced my hand back by my side, and walked into the darkness very slowly.  He never said a word nor did he turn his face to me, but I knew him.  After he left, I remember nothing until I woke up the next day on the ventilator.
NDE associated with surgery.

Kathleen S Experience English expanded version  4/24/2008  TOOK AN OVERDOSE OF INSULIN. I THEN PASSED OUT AND LLOYD PUT ME IN THE CAR AND TOOK ME TO THE HOSPITAL. I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS BUT I REMEMBER WAKING UP WITH MYSELF SITTING IN THE CORNER AND WATCHING A SHEET BEING PULLED OVER MY HEAD AND THEN MY SPIRIT FOLLOWED THE DOCTOR OUTSIDE INTO THE WAITING ROOM AND THE   DOCTOR TOLD MY HUSBAND THAT I HAD 2 HEART ATTACKS IN 5 MINUTES AND I DIED. MY SPIRIT THEN FOLLOWED MY HUSBAND OUTSIDE AND HE PUNCHED THE BUILDING AND SCREAMED NO, NO, NO AND HE SCREAMED AT THE SKY AND SAID WHY GOD WHY? I REMEMBER MY UNCLE RICHARD MY AUNT MARY AND MY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA WERE WAITING FOR ME WHEN I WENT THROUGH THE WHITE LIGHT. THEY SAID YOU NEED TO GO BACK BECAUSE YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR FAMILY NEED YOU HERE ON EARTH NOT IN HEAVEN YET. IT WAS A VERY NICE RIDE THROUGH THE WHITE LIGHT AND I DID NOT WANT TO COME BACK
NDE due to insulin overdose.

Sandra H Experience English expanded version  4/24/2008