My husband told me that my sister, her name is Julie was missing and we had to drive over to my Mom's house.  I didn't think anything worse than Julie was missing and the police must be looking for her.

As we drove over to my Mom's, my husband was driving and I was sitting in the front passenger seat, I suddenly felt this instantaneous feeling that my sister Julie was sitting directly behind me in the back seat of the car. 

I then looked at my husband and he continued to not say a word and was still driving.  I did not turn around for some reason, but I thought "no that means that Julie has died."  And then I refused to believe it. 

A few minutes later we arrived at my Mom's house.  We went in the house and my Mom was leaning over the kitchen sink staring out the kitchen window. My Mom's friend, his name is Ed was there too. 

I said to Ed, " are they looking for Julie?"  He looked at me with a shocked look, then walked over and put his arms around me and said: " Julie died at 3:00 am this morning."  

As I write this experience, today would have been my sister Julie's 47th birthday, September 20, 2011.

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes    

Was the experience difficult to express in words?   No      

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    Was always alert and consciousness throughout.

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness?     Normal consciousness and alertness

Did your vision during the experience differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any way, such as clarity, field of vision, colors, brightness, depth perception degree of solidness/transparency of objects, etc.)?            No      

Did you have any visual impairment during your normal everyday life immediately prior to the time of the experience?            No      

Did your hearing during the experience differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any way, such as clarity, ability to recognize source of sound, pitch, loudness, etc.)?            No      

Did you have any hearing impairment during your normal everyday life immediately prior to the time of the experience?            No      

Did you experience consciousness / awareness apart from your physical / earthly body?            No      

Did you see or hear any earthly events that were occurring at a time that your consciousness / awareness was apart from your physical / earthly body?            No      

Did you see or hear any earthly events that were occurring during the time that your consciousness / awareness was apart from your physical / earthly body that you later (after your experience) verified really happened or was real?            No      

Did you see or hear any earthly events that were occurring during the time that your consciousness / awareness was apart from your physical / earthly body that you later (after your experience) verified did not really happen or was not real?            No      

Did you see or hear any earthly events that were occurring during the time that your consciousness / awareness was apart from your physical body that were located far beyond any possible physical sensory awareness of your physical / earthly body?            No      

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            Intense, that suddenly, my sister was without a doubt her spirit was sitting behind me in the car.

Did you pass into or through a tunnel?            No      

Did you see an unearthly light?            No      

Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)?            No      

Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth, but whose earthly lives had ended prior to the time of your experience (they were deceased)?            Yes     My sister, had died at 3:00 am, June 12, 1993.

Sometime in the morning, can't remember my husband and me were driving over to my Mom's (My husband could not bring himself to tell me that my sister had died). I suddenly felt Julie sitting behind me.  I have never had a feeling like that before in my life.

Did you encounter or become aware of any earthly beings who were alive at the time of your experience (they were not deceased)?            No                  

Did you become aware of past events in your life?            No      

When you became aware of past events in your life, did you encounter anything that you had forgotten or did not know?         No      

Following your experience, did you ever investigate the reality of any past events in your life that you became aware of during your experience?        No      

Did you later verify (after your experience) that any of the past life events in your life that you reviewed during your experience were not real or did not really happen?        No                  

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that there is continued existence after earthly life (life after death)?            Yes     my sister's spirit without a doubt in my mind was there.  The soul is eternal as is love.

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that there is no continued existence after earthly life (no life after death)?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that God or a supreme being really does exist?            Yes     We could not be here in this earth realm without a supreme being.

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that God or a supreme being really does not exist?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that some or all of us currently living our earthly lives did have some type of existence prior to our current earthly lives?
            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that some or all of us currently living our earthly lives did not have some type of existence prior to our current earthly lives?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that there exists a mystical connection, oneness, or unity that connects some or all of us currently living our earthly lives with something else, such as other being(s) or other thing(s)?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that there does not exist a mystical connection, oneness, or unity that connects some or all of us currently living our earthly lives with something else, such as other being(s) or other thing(s)?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding earthly lifes meaning or purpose?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding earthly lifes difficulties, challenges, or hardships?            No      

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding love?            No     
 
During your experience, did you encounter any other specific information / awareness that you have not shared in other questions that is relevant to living our earthly lives?           No      

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge or purpose?            No      

What occurred during your experience included:            Content that was entirely consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience                       

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience?            I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience                             

Did you have any changes in your values or beliefs after the experience that occurred as a result of the experience?            Yes     My beliefs are certain now and after reading the many incredible, extraordinary events from other people describing their NDEs' on this site.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?            No      

Are there one or several parts of the experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you?  That my sister came to visit us after she had passed to say good by, but at the time, I refused to believe it.

Have you ever shared this experience with others?            Yes     I think it was several weeks or months later; I just could not talk about it so soon afterwards.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?            No      

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real    Can't explain other than it happened, it was absolute.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience at the current time:            Experience was definitely real   

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?            No      

Have your religious beliefs/spiritual practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            Yes     Have become more spiritual.

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience?            Yes     After my father passed away, it happened on Easter Sunday of 2011.

My husband was playing a soft jazz song on his car radio and I thought to myself that Dad would have liked this song because my Dad liked smooth jazz music.  Suddenly my husband says to me, you want to see the name of the song, and the song's name was Endless and the group who sang it was:  Soul food Heaven and Bill.

Well, I looked at my husband astounded and said OMG, I have to call Mom.  I called my Mom and she asked me when did this happen, and I said two minutes ago, and she said that "I was just thinking of Dad two minutes ago."

My Dad's first name was Bill.

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience?        No

Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?            Yes    

What could a national organization with an interest in near death experience (NDE) do that would be of interest to you?        None right now.

Please offer any suggestions that you may have to improve this questionnaire.  Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience?                    A little too many questions, but then I guess you have to be detailed.