I sort of zoned out.  I was in shock from the accident.  Then I was outside my body, looking down on it from the upper right corner of the room.  It looked like this thing that had been tossed aside, like my Raggedy Ann doll dropped in the corner (that was the analogy I used describing this experience, when I was still a child).  I felt no sense of connection to it... it was just an object. 

Then a woman appeared beside the bed.  She didn't come in, she was just there.  She was blurry, she didn't have any distinct features.  I used to describe her as "looking like a genie:" female on the top, and just fog below.  She looked at my body and smiled, and then she vanished. 

I would like to say that I had some sense of her identity as my mother, but I don't, just that she was definitely female. I think she was, but that's something I concluded later, not thought at the time.  This all happened before I learned that she had died.  

The next thing I can recall is having my knee stitched up, from the normal vantage point of being in my body.

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Yes     It feels as if my brain is translating something essentially outside my normal perception, into memories that are only an approximation of what happened.

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     I had been in a rollover car accident which killed my mother, who was driving.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    Hard to say.  I was in shock and not mentally all there.

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?    Less 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:            Hard to say.  I was in shock and not mentally all there.

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.)?  Uncertain      The person I saw wasn't solid, or have a completely human body. I don't think sight is really now I perceived her at all but I don't know another way to describe it.

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      I didn't hear anything that I remember.

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

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            None, or if there were any I repressed them-- I don't remember a whole lot about that day.

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?          No      

Did you see a light?           No      

Did you meet or see any other beings?           Yes     Only as described above

Did you experience a review of past events in your life?    No      

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          No      

Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?           No           

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Yes     Absolutely. Both. I felt like I had stepped out of time's normal flow, off to the side of it. I relate the experience as if it happened chronologically in a certain way, but some part of me feels like that's not true... that's just how I have to describe it, because we live in time and space.

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     No      

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? No      

Did you become aware of future events?       No           

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Uncertain      I like to think I do, but I don't know if it's related or not.  Around thirteen I started to experience what I named Vox. Vox is, seriously, a little voice (figuratively speaking) or a collection of them inside me, which talk to me sometimes about spirituality, the nature of existence, and my purpose in life.  This isn't quite as lofty as it sounds, and I'm not insane either.  But they sometimes chime in with things that I wouldn't necessarily conclude on my own.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     I do remember telling my father about it when I was ten or eleven.  He was in the car during the accident but not seriously injured.

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

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was probably real    I wish I remembered, but I don't.  I think I began to recall it a few days later.

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?    In truth, part of me feels that my experience wasn't significant-- it was sort of a cosmic accident. I wasn't meant to learn anything from it, it wasn't a turning point in my life.

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was probably real            Well, now I know that shock can cause perception to be significantly altered, and I was a child-- my mind was much more flexible than an adult's. I could have invented the whole thing. 

But, the experience seems so... random, and so unlike anything else.  Plus my sense of where I was watching from, and the angle of the room, is the clearest part of the whole thing.  I was up by the ceiling.