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Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death
- hackernewds 4y agoNot scientific and I'm not sure linking this is allowed, but lots of anecdata here pointing to this experience as well https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s0oj2w/redditors_who_had_a_near_death_experience_what/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s0oj2w/redditors... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/26xdbe/serious_what_was_your_near_death_experience_like/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/26xdbe/serious_w... https://www.reddit.com/r/latterdaysaints/comments/1egept/some_interesting_neardeath_experiences_shared_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/latterdaysaints/comments/1egept/som... here is a segment > My sister was shot while she was walking her dogs in our small town in Alaska. The bullet ricocheted around piercing her bowel in 9 places. Even though we had one of the best Rhode's Scholar docs in the north at our ER and the only flight out of town was miraculously minutes away from takeoff and held up to fly her to Anchorage, she bled out and died on the operating room table. She knows because she vividly remembers everything the surgeons said as she lay dead on the table. What she told me later is remarkable: She recalls drifting up and into a very bright light. She was no longer in pain, and felt compelled to travel into the brilliance. It lead to an amazing river. Seriously, the look on her face when she describes this place helps me realize that radiant, endless joy is not just a possibility but an eventuality. She describes playing in a river that consisted of pure knowledge. Anything she ever wanted to know was at her fingertips. As she played in this amazing river she could sense figures on the distant shore. They were our people, she explained. Our family. Our animals. All waiting patiently for her to finish playing in the river and wade towards them on the shore. Though she was not ready to leave the marvelous river, she knew without being told that they would wait patiently and joyfully. But she never made it to the shore. As she was playing an amazing thing happened. Seriously, people, if you could see the look on her face when she describes this next part you would laugh for pure joy. A being approached her. She did not know what it was except to describe it as pure, unconditional, ebullient LOVE. It radiated love. It pulsed love. And ALL THINGS diminished before the radiance of that love. The next part makes me chuckle a bit even though that seems out of place. She said it spoke to her and said that she had to go back, that it wasn't her time. She said, like a little kid, "But I don't want to." When she recounts this experience she emphasizes that to be in proximity of that being is ALL THERE IS. She describes it as a completion. A peace. A welcoming. To leave was incomprehensible. But to decline was also incomprehensible. She felt infused with a purpose. Very, very, very reluctantly she returned to life. She is amazing. They patched her femoral artery and explained that the graft would eventually give. In all probability she will die within minutes. Living with that sword of Damocles should be terrifying. No. To her it's a promise that she will get to return. Life is what we are here to do, she explains, but after.....sweet, benevolent, all encompassing love. With every single breath my sister is heartbeats from death, and I have never met anyone who is more alive. Fearless.
- OscarCunningham 4y ago> lots of anecdata here pointing to this experience as well In your quote, her life doesn't flash before her eyes.
- behringer 4y agoSo there's an alternative phenomenon that keeps a person wanting to continue living. Strange for sure.
- grapescheesee 4y agoMuch of this story reminds me of Carl Jung's The Red Book.
- AndrewOMartin 4y agoIt sounds like the brain has a survival mechanism whereby at the point of death it generates the biggest cliché it can.
- dmix 4y agoReads like someone who’s read one too many New Age/meditation books.
- orange8 4y agoHow exactly does "the brain" generating the biggest cliche movie show dream it can help someone survive? And what is the difference between "the brain" and the person watching the movie show?
- sethammons 4y agoMaybe something is cliché because it is based on some truth. Maybe.
- uuyi 4y agoMy cousin went through a similar thing after a bad motorcycle accident. In his case his dreams were terrible creatures torturing him. I can imagine this sort of experience is where hell and heaven spawned from. He’s now absolutely fine and doesn’t ride motorbikes and is still a staunch atheist.
- geuis 4y agoLink to the paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.813531/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.8135... I don't want to cast aspersions on the submitted site, but I believe it's better to submit the source material rather than a 3rd party's interpretation.
- mellosouls 4y agoI think if the 3rd party summary is balanced enough and the original clearly linked in it, I'd generally prefer the non-academic version as a first intro.
- bobitsaboy 4y agoAppreciated when the 3rd party's website throws up a demand to subscribe to their newsletter and no user-friendly options to close said demand.
- rich_sasha 4y agoVery interesting, I didn’t realise it’s universality through time. It would be fiendishly hard to establish causation; does this happen because it is some kind of natural (supernatural?) effect, or is it because people expect that to happen through cultural references? Apparently being shot with small calibre doesn’t make you fall there and then. But since westerns popularised the idea, this is what everyone does (according to QI anyway).
- hackernewds 4y agoThat small calibre thing is fascinating. Any readings on it? How do they even validate that does happen?
- rich_sasha 4y agoDepictions and descriptions of being shot from before westerns make no mention of people falling down as if struck by lightning. It’s like there is no expectation that you fall down if stabbed, say. Apparently...
- rich_sasha 4y ago(Since I can’t edit my response) some context and some further links: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30212/do-people-fall-over-when-shot-because-theyve-seen-it-on-films https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30212/do-people...
- allisdust 4y agoApparently they found similar waves in rat brains after death before this paper came out. This paper is more about finding the same in humans which they couldn't do till now.
- Teletio 4y agoThere is no proof of any supernatural thing ever.
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- frereubu 4y agoThis (including the original paper) is a very liberal interpretation of a small data set. It's an interesting idea, but by definition the data are from a very unusual point in time - at the beginning of brain death - so interpreting them in terms of normal brain activity seems something of a stretch to say the least.
- bufferoverflow 4y agoI had a strange disease a few years ago. I had 4 times when I really thought I was dying, once in the ER. Nothing flashed. I only thought to myself - OK, so that is how I die.
- telesilla 4y agoI concur. I had an almost-sudden death involving a train (saved by a fast-acting crowd) and I was surprised at how I wasn't frightened, more 'so this is how I die'. Not until I was safe did I panic.
- thatwasunusual 4y agoMaybe your life wasn't remarkable enough to be worth replaying. That's what I expect for myself, at least. :)
- tobyhinloopen 4y agoWell that’s a depressing comment
- virtualritz 4y agoAmerican humor vs British humor? Just a wild guess ofc. And/or taking a joke about people in general personal even though the resp. person is just the vehicle for the joke and not the aim? I found that funny. Probably because I deem my own life anything but remarkable.
- jotm 4y agoBut what triggers it? I believe it's the brain's last attempt to "live" by thinking what it could've done to live (more). Sort of like when poisoned, jumping off a bridge, or just realizing your life is absolute shit. It also doubles as an escape from the current desperate situation. Ignore the pain and dream. Memory trips happen quite often with various drugs, too. Or when you're in such extreme pain (broken limbs, etc) your body releases a lot of endorphins which feels a lot like heroin.
- mhitza 4y agoIt's probably the end-screen that tallys up your score, before you take of your simulation helmet. A la "Rick and Morty" Roy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzVlQ653as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzVlQ653as /s
- CRUDite 4y agoWhat about if cells are shock triggered by g forces to emit certain proteins / chemicals initiating the wave of memory excitation. This could be tested
- mhitza 4y ago"Evidence". The measured activity was the same as of a dream state. "Evidence" that life is a dream?!
- arcticbull 4y agoMore likely evidence your brain produces a ton of DMT when you’re about to kick the bucket and you go out in one heck of a psychedelic drug trip. [1] [1] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-21660-002 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-21660-002
- mettamage 4y agoWhy are we evolved to do this?
- robinduckett 4y agoProbably just in case the thing that would have made us die doesn't actually make us die so we don't fully process the horrifically traumatic thing that caused us to almost die
- xcambar 4y agoIn case you end up not dying, it makes it memorable enough so that you won't reiterate the action causing you to almost die. "Oh sh*t, that was traumatic. I'll never eat these gorgeous little berries if they caused that". On the other hand... "maybe if I take just a bit less, I won't almost die but just have a great trip". Hence, psychedelics.
- 867-5309 4y ago>Science CONFIRMS >It’s THOUGHT that these oscillatory patterns, and an increase in gamma waves, SUGGEST memory recall tl;dr clickbait
- yotamoron 4y ago"When he unexpectedly died"? As opposed to what, an experiment where patients are deliberately killed in the name of science?
- spleen 4y agoIt’s just clumsy wording. The patient appeared physically fine prior to the EEG scan, otherwise he would have not been there in the first place.
- ahmedfromtunis 4y agoAs opposed to the patient being clearly in their latest hours as a living being. I remember listening to a podcast where they went to nursing homes and talking to nurses on how they can pretty accurately predict that a guest is not going to survive for more than a few hours or till the next week. (Of course they explain how this is not very scientific and how sometimes they miss the mark. I forgot where it was, but I'm looking for that episode and going to post a link to it when I do find it.)
- zikduruqe 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity
- aortega 4y agoWhy would the brain evolve to do this? it has no evolutionary purpose. Once you are dying it doesn't matter what the brain does or feel, it can make you feel bliss or the most unimaginable torture, nothing will help you reproduce more or be more adapted to the environment, you are done.
- oneoff786 4y agoThe brain is a system. That it does weird stuff when flooded with whatever chemicals might be associated with imminent fear of death isn’t that surprising at all. Not everything happens is a result of evolutionary guidance. Many things are just side effects.
- tetris11 4y agoIf you take the position of life being a simulation, it could just be that every entity upon termination, simply summarises key aspects of their life to be forwarded, collated, and further summarised by a higher entity, in order to test some model.
- Narretz 4y agoIt might just be an artefact of dying or catastrophic emergency that has nothing to do with evolutionary pressure.
- XorNot 4y agoThe comment (currently) above this one is a pretty good explanation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31059618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31059618): if there's anything in your memories which will help you escape the imminent death situation, then you might survive. Not doing it is a losing strategy since you're not taking any additional steps to prevent termination of the geneline.
- aortega 4y agoIndeed, it might be useless in a complex life like a human but it might very well save a fish or a rat from being eaten.
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- Svip 4y agoWait, I thought the purpose of life flashing before your eyes is that the brain is trying to find a past event, that might help avoid the impending death. On QI, though I cannot remember the episode, they told a story of a swimmer, who encountered a shark, and suddenly his life flashed before his eyes, thinking he was going to die. In the slides of memories, he saw his son watching a DVD about punching a shark on the nose. So he did, and it saved his life. That explanation makes a lot of sense to me. The brain is convinced that death is imminent, and has no time to go through the normal procedure of remembering, so it just pulls up as many memories it can to the forefront, in hope that one of them might provide the answer to prevent death.
- throwanem 4y agoThis is exactly the sort of plausible just-so story I would expect from QI. On another episode, Stephen Fry explains with no doubt equal earnestness that the fins on a Saturn V rocket are there to generate lift as it travels through the atmosphere. It's fun, as any panel show helmed by Fry certainly would be. But you don't want to put too much faith in what you hear on it, at least in advance of checking with a credible source.
- Sholmesy 4y agoThey have a pretty solid research team (https://qi.com/elves https://qi.com/elves), and they often do segments about times they've gotten things wrong, or the science has changed etc. It is first and foremost an entertainment program, so yeah.
- Aromasin 4y agoThe Elves make an excellent podcast that I highly recommend to others.
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- wyrm 4y agoI think this is a case of a word having one colloquial meaning and a different technical meaning. If you "lift" something, you're probably picking it up. In a hydrodynamic sense, "lift" is a force on a foil moving through a fluid. This kind of lift is a force orthogonal to the direction of motion through the fluid and the surface of the foil. That could be upward lift, like that on the wings of an aircraft. That could also be the forward and leeward lift on the sail of a sailboat, or the windward lift on the sailboat's keel. It could also be the lateral, stabilizing lift on the control surfaces of a rocket.
- The_rationalist 4y ago
- MarionG 4y agoLife flashes before the eyes upon death. In real time.
- blenderdt 4y agoAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- taneq 4y agoThis process is called 'living.' - Sir Terry
- mrleinad 4y agoI had to read that twice to realize what you were saying. Well played.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI'm a time traveler. I can travel into the future 1 second at a time.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoI'm a time traveler. I can travel into the future 4-16 hours at a time. Depends on the amount of ~~alcho~~ time travel fluid intake.
- huynhhacnguyen 4y agoHope I'm not the only one that clicks on the link mainly because I'm curious to know how they "conducted" such a study. From what stated in the article, is it safe to assume that this has happened only once, ever?
- Teletio 4y agoIm curious how this is different from normal day to day. I recall memories very often. they are very shallow though. Like I remember touching the soft inner layer of my kid jacket (it had trains on it) but this is not a very detailed memory at all. If I'm dying and those shallow memories would pop up, yeah sure why not? But 'life flashes before the eyes' is a very romanticized thing and I do not get why. Recalling memories btw could also mean recalling any memories. This is probably no effidence for 'life flashes before...'
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoIt's an involuntary recall of every (or so it seems) memory sequentially at very high speed in very specific circumstances. It's incomparable to just thinking about your childhood.
- Teletio 4y agoIt probably seems to be to the people nearly dying. Is this proof? No. Is it more realistic that it's more shallow and uncoordinated and you are dying and your brain doesn't work properly currently due to dying? I would say yes.
- CRUDite 4y agoThis happened to me as an 11 or 12 yr old. I was hit by a car that crossed a red light. The moment I was hit I saw my life and memories from it, certain pauses on interactions with key people and there were very overwhelming positive and calm emotions, but I saw everything and indeed strangely carousel style. When I hit the tarmac I was slammed back in real time and was scrabbling to hang on the front of the car as it didn’t stop for 50 yards and was dragging me under. It had a profound impact on me. It makes sense it’s a human experience that’s ‘an unknown known’. I don’t buy the ‘survival mechanism’ theory, the nature of the experience was not one of search. It was over 30 years ago, but remains something I know to be ‘real’ as a phenomenon
- lr4444lr 4y agoThis fascinates me. Can you tell me what the perception of time is like for this experience? Obviously it must be extended as compared with waking reality, but how long did it feel like? Was it like a lucid engrossing dream that has a plot that literally feels like many days length, or did you perceive the outside reality moving in more slow motion?
- CRUDite 4y agoI went onto study physics, I used to think about it every now and then. It’s not easy to characterise / quantify an answer but there was no experience of time, I was not aware enough of externalities to know what slow motion would be as that implies a connection to outer time. I don’t remember a cradle to present run through of memories but I certainly saw / experienced a slideshow and then ‘real time’ moments of positive interactions with people, which then moved on. Was that seconds or moments or just memory clusters firing I don’t know. Enough to re live the experience with a different perspective. of course early memories are not (for me)as complex or emotionally involving or nuanced with language so the bulk of memories were from later life. I have no recollection of the composition of ‘the slideshow’ but do remember for eg love for my mother in certain ‘scene(s)’ and that was more of a ‘real-time’ segment. A precession of memories certainly indicates time flow. I was dimly aware of the ground at the last moment as it came towards me and thinking back on it the scenes faded and real time came back along with my sense of the outside world aka the ground.
- taylorius 4y agoWho knows? It might be a quick-recap-so-we're-all-on-the-same-page before the appointment with St Peter and his scales for all we can determine.
- twobitshifter 4y agoI’ve fainted once before and fell over backwards onto the ground. When I came to it was like a reboot of life. I saw leaves in gray up close near my eye and I then flashed back into who I was and what I had been doing. It was as if a second before everything had been simply gone and it didn’t leave or go with any warning or flash, just nothingness and then life again. What happened is that I badly sprained my ankle and sat on a outdoor wall to recover. The blood rushed to my ankle and away from my head. When this happens the body’s response is to faint to get flat and allow blood to flow back to your brain.
- DougN7 4y agoI’ve experienced this. Someone pulled a gun on me with the intent of killing me. Past memories flashed by incredibly fast in a slideshow sort of format, all in a second or so. I don’t know why it happened, but I figured my mind was trying to find a way out of the situation.
- belzebalex 4y agoHow did it end?
- dylan604 4y agoThe time I was mugged at gunpoint by two guys was a surreal experience. It was such a calm experience in the sense that neither of the two muggers were aggitated or excited. There was only one gun. During the entire interaction, there were many thoughts of movie like scenes on how to disarm the gun and extricate myself from the situation like a scene from a movie. Having absolutely 0 training in any kind of self defense, I chose to not do anything and walked away unharmed and just lighter in cash. The only thing that changed from that is it was the absolute last time I've carried cash.
- p1mrx 4y ago> The only thing that changed from that is it was the absolute last time I've carried cash. "Give me your money!" "I don't have cash on me." "Oh, sorry to bother you, have a nice day."
- sethammons 4y ago
- jrootabega 4y agoI'm not saying there COULD not be a benefit to this kind of behavior, but it also wouldn't require much more than two already accepted brain behaviors. We dream, sometimes vividly, sometimes incorporating things we've done or regretted, or things that seem to define us. And some experiences, particularly smells, can suddenly bring back memories you didn't even know you had. So we have the ability to recall things unexpectedly, or maybe just suppress them in normal routines. (I'm not suggesting "suppressed memories" as is usually understood.) It's not a bad hypothesis that the brain, in extreme moments, would enter a dreamlike state with long-buried memories.
- flawn 4y agoAnyone knows if this can also be reproduced by animals?
- agumonkey 4y agoThere's a reddit story of a dude who had the mirror experience. After some blunt trauma, he fell on ground unconscious, during that time he experienced a lifelike dream of a whole existence (job, meeting a girl, getting married, buying a house, etc). Unrelated: but he was traumatized waking up realizing his dream reality was gone. World of memories and dream is strange.
- nathias 4y agoThis is a very well known and documented phenomenon, it's called lies on the internet.
- mrleinad 4y agoIt sounds too similar to certain sci-fi stories [1][2] that it warrants taking it with a grain of salt, I have to say. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_Th... [2] https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived
- Mezzie 4y agoI know other people think it's a lie, but I think it's possible albeit embellished. I lucid dream regularly (about 90 percent of dreams I remember, I"m lucid; easily a few times a week for a couple of decades), and visit the same places and people fairly often. I also have a more 'complete' dream experience than a lot of people (apparently) in that it's a full sensory experience and I can read/write in my dreams. I definitely have had dreams I don't want to leave (or, vice versa, there are some dreams + recurring locations I ALWAYS leave), and some that make me feel very sad when I wake up because of the loss. If I were in a coma, I could see something like that happening.
- thebestreadmill 4y agoThe carousel metaphor reminds of when I smoked opium mixed with paracetamol in the golden triangle with the natives all night in their hut. There was a period of time when my eyes were open yet in my mind a rolodex of motion scenes were flipping in my mind at a speed that I could understand each scene on each card. Then the doctor(man manning the bamboo pipe) said to take a break. So I shifted out of smoke rotation and left the others enjoy. Outside the hut in the middle of the night other natives were hunting in pitch dark with homemade rifles. Really cool experience.
- saimiam 4y ago> natives Did you mean “locals”? Don’t think I’ve heard anyone call locals “natives” in my 25+ years of reading stuff on the internet.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoCome to New Mexico. There's "natives", "locals" and everyone else.
- thebestreadmill 4y agoWell these were native tribes that have been living in these mountainous jungles for a long time. For me, I associate the label "locals" with a slightly more "modern" society which has been converted to modernism a certain amount. In no way did I mean to demean them if that is where you are going with this. :) But you can certainly call them locals if you wish.
- saimiam 4y agoFor some reason, it didn’t even occur to me that you meant literal indigenous tribes. Tbh, I was a little put off by the word ‘natives’ because I thought you were referring to non tribal, present day individuals as natives. But I think there is definitely a missing word for present day indigenous, tribal people who prefer to adhere to their ways rather than accept modern ways of life. “Natives” sounds demeaning to me. “Locals” has a whiff of modernity. Maybe “indigenes” (which is apparently a real word)? https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Indigenes https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Indigenes
- verisimi 4y agoCan it possibly be that the physical, material reality we all know and love is actually an illusion, and that we are really spiritual creatures, that we have a life review in death, as evidenced by the testimony of thousands of NDEs (near death experiences) and OBEs (out of body experiences)?
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoMany here on HN will laugh at you because there's no peer-reviewed, double-blind, placebo-controlled study for that. Or clearly your are confusing causation and correlation :)
- Qub3d 4y agoOne thing that both terrifies and, oddly, comforts me is that when we zoom out to the highest scales of the universe, its clear that there are questions we cannot answer. Its like the halting problem for metaphysics.
- zerop 4y agoThat eastern tradition says that one may see future of family at this time.. there are many..
- macspoofing 4y ago>defined as when the brain has transitioned into preparing for deathdefined as when the brain has transitioned into preparing for death why would there ever be a "death preparation" module in the brain?
- Proudmuslim 4y agoWe were created after all
- jollybean 4y agoI was in a snowmobile accident as a young man and it happened to me. It's like time stands still for a moment and you get to revisit some fairly important memories stored away in vivid detail. It's odd to fathom the evolutionary reason for that. As someone who takes a slightly different metaphysical perspective than 'scientific materialism' ... I think there's something 'a bit more' going on.
- pmoriarty 4y agoOne single EEG (not even an MRI) of one guy before he died. This is very weak evidence, bordering on anecdote, from which we can't generalize to anyone else. Even for this one guy, the EEG patterns "suggest memory recall". We don't know what was actually going on in his mind. Maybe he was remembering something. Maybe. Maybe it was of a grocery list. We have no idea. Even if it was a memory of his entire life -- a big stretch, given the very, very weak evidence -- it could have happened purely by chance.. that he happened to be remembering something, and that happened to be a memory of his life. It doesn't mean that that happens to everyone else. This whole article is very low content, and the "evidence" for what it claims is very poor.
- ciphol 4y agoOne EEG suggesting memories, out of one EEG which possibly could have suggested memories. Sure, it would be nice to have more than one data point, but I think when that data point corroborates what many people have reported based on their experiences, it's worth something.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"One EEG suggesting memories, out of one EEG which possibly could have suggested memories." Memories of what, though? We have no idea. Weak evidence that one guy maybe* remembered something before he died is virtually worthless. The article's claim that "Science Confirms That Life Flashes Before the Eyes Upon Death"* is hyperbolic and completely unwarranted.
- Bolkan 4y agoI know. It's happening to me right now.
- voakbasda 4y agoThese experiences fall into the same category of phenomenon as seeing ghosts, UFOs, and so on. Occam’s Razor applies. Our brains and senses are stupidly fallible and almost completely untrustworthy. Moreover, interpretations of EEG scans are highly subjective, given that we still don’t full understand the brain… much less its emergent behavior that we call the mind. I find it easier to believe that these researchers have found a way to confirm what they want to believe, rather than objective measures of a real phenomenon. Extraordinarily claims require extraordinary proof, and I do not see that here.
- cersei 4y agoThis is more metaphysical than scientific (but could have a multidimensional scientific basis)... I had a near death (or perhaps actual death) experience as a child where my life flashed by, however it was ever so slightly different from the life I knew (in a butterfly effect kind of way), which then prevented me from dying. It felt as if history had changed or my consciousness joined a parallel timeline where I was still alive. What made me think this way is that I seemed to have retained memories from the original past and not the current one, them being mostly similar events, but in slight differences in timing & order (which ended up making a big difference for me). I of course always tried to assess if this was some form of psychosis or error (assuming that to be the case), but I seemed to know a variation of real events that had not been shared with me (due to the timing differences, e.g. something happening before my birth rather than after it). Anyway, as a fun thought experiment... If your near death experience was indeed history rewriting itself ever so slightly, and even if you retained memories from it, would you be able to tell? You can't be fully certain that all of the people share exactly the same history the way you remember it (and you'd be likely to dismiss yours as an erroneous memory.)
- iw0 4y agoSame happened to me as a child. I fell down in a deep pool and start sinking. After some time of trying to escape and seeing just water bubbles suddenly pictures of my life started flashing. They looked like photos of random moments with my family changing really fast and continued few seconds before the life guard pull me out. I didn’t really think I would die at that time so seems that the life flashes were completely unconscious.