There are dreams, daydreams, visions, hallucinations, NDE's, hypnotic regression and channeling.

In my opinion and based on my own experiences as well as research, NDE's are a "free for all" region where anyone, including spiritual scam artists, can spoon feed you visions of paradise, heaven etc.

If I had an NDE of going to heaven, I would place the experience in the same box as one of going to hell or even one that was completely neutral either way.

As a Christian, my beliefs have led me to the following conclusions. Dreams and related come from one of four sources:

1) our own spirit (weakest in terms of manifesting)

2) demonic sources (very strong manifesting qualities)

3) from God (the strongest and most powerfully manifesting dreams)

4) our own spirit with God guiding the elements of the dream in the background (used to deliver a message that otherwise would just be a normal dream from our spirit).

None of the four overlap. Dreams manifest as you:

1) talk about them;

2) write about them.

They cannot manifest otherwise.

NDE's are all demonic in origin; even the wonderful ones. God sent His son to die on a Cross for our sins; He didn't then change His mind and send a tour bus to guide us through the heavenly streets of gold. The distraction and deception of NDE's is very, very subtle: but consider this...if a deception were not believable, would it even qualify as a deception?

Scripture is all we need. Everything else is a distraction.