Here is one experience:
A migrant worker named Maria was brought to the Harbor view Medical Center, in Seattle, in cardiac arrest. After three days of convalescing, she went into cardiac arrest for a second time. Shortly after resuscitation, she told the following story to Kimberly Clark Sharp, a critical-care worker in the coronary-care unit. 2 Maria said that while the medical team was resuscitating her, she found herself floating out of her body and toward the ceiling. From there she was able to watch the team working on her body. She described the people in the room, what they were doing, and the equipment they used. She then found herself outside the hospital, where she took note of the design of the emergency entrance. Although all that she described was 100 percent accurate, Sharp admits that she thought Maria was “confabulating” and had learned the details of resuscitation and the hospital’s architecture before admittance. This is all the harder to believe considering Maria had never been in Seattle before.
Then Maria told her that as she was rising outside the hospital building, she came close to a window on the third story of the north side, where something sitting on the window ledge caught her attention. It was “a man’s dark blue tennis shoe, well-worn, scuffed on the left side where the little toe would go. The shoelace was caught under the heel.” At Maria’s bidding, Sharp went out to look for the shoe, a search Sharp was sure would be futile. Nothing could be seen from the outside, so she made the rounds of the rooms on the third floor from the inside. She came at last to the right room. When she pressed her face against the window pane and peered down at the ledge, she saw it. From her viewpoint inside the building she could not see what Maria had seen from outside, the worn spot at the little toe area, but all the other details were exactly as Maria had described them, even the shoelace tucked under the heel. She opened the window and picked up the shoe. There was indeed a scuff mark on the area of the little toe.
