I don’t know if my experience qualifies as NDE: as I don’t know how long you have to be dead to be considered dead, I don’t know how many minutes I was dead/dying, and it happened during my birth so by some communities’ measures I wasn’t yet fully alive (at least from a sentient perspective).
Even though I could not have any conventional, post-birth knowledge from this life yet, (and I am open and on the fence about reincarnation), I believe that I have created memory of either my birth or my death or my resuscitation. My point here is that based upon conventional thought, my human consciousness would not have had any real life experiences to compare the sensations that I will describe below against.
I can also accept that this occurrence could be a trigger for my psychic abilities. Unlike in your childhood experiences Debi, I don’t have a clear before and after period by which to compare any spiritual differences.
Almost my entire life, on an irregular and infrequent basis, I would have a recurring “dream”. This dream is very hard to describe so I’ll only attempt to share the sensations. First, the dream only seems to happen as I am falling asleep (I cannot recall it ever happening later in my sleep cycle) and it is always lucid. Second, the entire dream appears to last for only about a minute. Third, the only visual I get is what I can only describe as an extreme darkness - nearly black - with only one visible stream of soft white and pink (interwoven) light coming from the distance and projecting along my right side. There is a constant physical sensation of being suspended “inside” of a very encompassing warm and comfortable mass. Lastly, I sense I am moving towards some distant point. I cannot recall any occurrence of this recurring dream where I actually reached any end point in my movement.
I have not had this dream even one time in the five years since I chose to give the dream a name or an identity. I decided that this dream is a remembrance of either my birth, my death, or my resuscitation. But, I don’t know which one.