Several things like that have happened to me. A really strange aspect is that - in the moment when it happens - you aren’t really struck by the strangeness; you just take it in stride, as if on some level you recognize it as perfectly normal.
It’s only later, in retrospect, that you realize how odd it was.
This has been a fascinating thread.
I do enjoy reading of these experiences.
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.