This isn’t a NDE, but something that’s been with me since 2001.
My best friend had cancer and was living in Oregon. I was in NYS, and we hadn’t seen each other in a couple years. Over the years, she had never been interested in anything religious or spiritual, and avoided the subject, but I worried about her and prayed for her.
When she died I was obsessed wondering if she had made the life-changing decision before she died, even though her daughter assured me that she had.
About a month after her death I had a dream that I was on the outside looking in (to Heaven, I assumed), and there she was, milling around, talking to people, and wearing her most beautiful pink mohair sweater. I watched for a while, and she looked over and noticed me, smiled knowingly, waved, and then continued to walk around this most vividly colorful and peaceful place.
I know it was just a dream, but believe it was given to me to put my mind at ease. I don’t remember dreams as a rule, but never forgot this one.
That’s a great story. But I don’t agree with ‘just a dream’.
I dream every night, and remember something of all of them; so I know differences between the qualities of my dreams. The night after my father died, he came to me - looking like he did when he was young, healthy, handsome- as-the-day-is-long, and kissed me. I am certain that the dream came to comfort and reassure me. It was perhaps the most impressive and numinous dream I’ve ever experienced.
There are plenty of verses in the Bible which indicate that God instructs us through dreams.