Experience description: 

I won't go into how I ended up where I did but there I was in a small aluminum boat looking at a huge black wall, knowing in a few seconds we would hit and thinking I can only do what I can do I couldn't remember until a few months ago what happened next. The aluminum boat hit the barge the boat flipped toward the barge I fell into the water I hit my head on the barge went under the barge started swimming around trying to find the side to swim out from under.

No matter were I went I couldn't find my way out. I couldn't believe this was how I was going to die. I thought about my son in ninth grade and how I was not going to finish raising him and how bad it will be for him and wishing I could stay to see him grow up. I gave up, quit swimming and let myself go then thought of David again and gave it one last try, Which way to go? I am right handed I'll go right. I walked my hands on the metal then finally no metal there I twisted to get out from under and then I remember extreme cold then complete calm and happiness. I heard she has no pause oh my god, oh my god.

I was then out of body, so light, so free, so content to just be. Everyone was so upset, so desperate to help me, I didn't need help I was fine and so happy

more happier then I ever felt. At peace with the feeling of acceptance and love. It was more overpowering then anything I ever felt. I then realized I knew things, it is all so simple, people made things so difficult, it didn't have to be.  What really caught my interest is knowing why we can't use all of our brain potential, wow, what an eye opener, we have knowledge of this side with us all the time in our head but to live here and learn what we must to grow in understanding of emotional pain, physical pain, complete loneliness,

complete helplessness, that part of the brain is asleep for as long as our heart is beating. When our heart stops our complete knowledge returns. Everyone who dies sees and hears what they need  for their crossover to be as calmly accepted to them as possible, wait there is more I want to remember, then   I am so cold, oh no I am back, I hurt, I want to go back. I was given CPR I had no pulse or heartbeat.) This is the hardest school I could ever go to, I am not finished, there is more I have to do, more I have to learn, it will be harder now, knowing where I could be.

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? No      

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     I was trapped under a barge - trying to find my way out  - and thinking I can't believe this is the way I am going to die.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    out of my body floating over it

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?    More consciousness and alertness than normal

If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain:            My level of consciousness and alertness tuned to a high frequency. 

This is the only way I can explain.

Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such as clarity, field of vision, colors, brightness, depth perception degree of solidness/transparency of objects, etc.)?  Yes     Colors were like bright lights turned on into them. 

I was not solid, I was of substance but very light.

Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect, such as clarity, ability to recognize source of sound, pitch, loudness, etc.)?             Uncertain     

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     Yes

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            extreme happiness

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Yes    

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Yes     I could see and feel earth but I knew I was out of body at a new place, kind of like looking in a mirror to the other side of it.

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     Yes            Answered at 3

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No       There is a light that you can go through some walk to it and go through alone while others need assistance depending on what makes the person comfortable.

I knew it was there in the distance but wanted to stay in the dimension I was in to stop and take in the knowledge I was receiving. We are in this world and there is a world like this one when you cross over where I can walk with you

and feel your thoughts and emotions . I know we come here to learn and remember what we feel here to understand others trails while they are here and we have crossed over. The best way to explain this... if you never had a broken bone

you cannot understand what the person is going through but if you did you know.

Did you become aware of future events?       Uncertain
            I was aware of the greatest hardships and problems this world has ever known. I  know here the trails are going to get harder and harder for everyone.  Those here and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are the strongest so they can get through what is to come. I can't remember in detail what is to be.

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Yes     My brother-in- law died in 2000. He did not believe in an afterlife. 

I was on the phone with my sister who lived in Walnut Creek California.

All at once I only could see yellow like someone put a yellow sheet of paper in front of my eyes. Then it was gone and in my den it was filled with bubbles, thousands of bubbles. This kept happening the color yellow then gone, thousands of bubbles then gone. Then I had a voice in my head saying tell her, tell her, tell her, it became so loud I couldn't even hear my sister any more

I then said Marsha, I have to tell you something it makes no sense, I am not crazy but I have to tell you  YELLOW BUBBLES She couldn't believe it. She was happy, so happy. She then told me one night her husband Bob and her watched a movie called Houdini not sure spelled right). Bob was making a comment of being no after life, Marsha told him she would think of a secret word known only to each and whoever went first if there was a afterlife to somehow get the secret word to the one left here. To my surprise that was the secret words Yellow Bubbles. She picked them because it made no sense, nobody would ever just blurt out those words unless one of them were telling them to . 

My sister Marsha called one evening and I told her to watch the news something 

was going to happen on the golden gate bridge in the next week in which many people would be there. I wanted her to call if it happened. She called it did someone tried to jump.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     see 36

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    Yes            heard about it here and there I didn't think much of it.

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real    I just knew that this reality was, because of the knowledge and understanding  about things I had questions about and things I never even thought of.

I now know I was over, it happened, I knew, I had knowledge I never had before I only regret loosing a lot of it only remembering bits and pieces.

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?           

Yes, learning what we do from day to day effects other people we do not even know or have met. Turning left instead of right. Going to a show instead of the mall, everything we do makes a ripple that changes something else. We are very connected with each other over there and feel very close and love one another.

Here in these bodies we are disconnected to each other and very lonely that is why a baby needs a lot of touching to live it is very hard for us to be so totally isolated from each other. We need one another more than we know.

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was definitely real   

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           Yes     I see friends differently.  They are complaining about this or that. We are here to have the problem, experience it, learn from it, grow and go on. In relationships... you meet someone...fall in love...it becomes sour...you gave each other a lesson to be learned...you both carried out the relationships purpose... if you stay you become unhappy, they too become unhappy, there are more relationships to experience you don't so your time here learning has not grown into the full potential it could of. Not to say some are meant to last forever, but some are just a stepping stone to something better. If you are complaining and not finding a solution I rather break the relationship with that person, we are meant to learn and keep going

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            Yes            God is needed in my life ,church is optional

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?        

No      

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience? Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?         

My experience was eye opening. I am not the person I was, I sometimes miss this.

I view the world with different eyes, the world and it's meaning is all new and