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> During the time I was dead Thanks for sharing. Very interesting experience however, I don’t think that you were dead. IMHO, you were in a state where your br
by mrtksn 3y ago
> During the time I was dead
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting experience however, I don’t think that you were dead. IMHO, you were in a state where your brain was not functioning properly due to lack of blood flow or maybe external input.
All death experiences seem to be something of that sort and I suspect if body transplant was a thing, the experience would have been similar.
I think the correct description of the experience would be pre-death or something similar and would not be a glimpse into the “life beyond death”.
- MPSimmons 3y agoI don't think I have grounds to argue against this take. I think the definition of death changes over time as medical technology advances in its ability to return someone to "life".
- whatshisface 3y agoIf your brain is working well enough to have thoughts about its experiences, I don't see how you could call that death when people whose brains are not working that well at all, are alive.
- Buttons840 3y agoIt's also important to remember that we don't know what we experienced in the past, only what our fallible memories of the past are. This applies to more than just near-death experiences.
- nativeit 3y agoIt’s an open question in many (most?) of the reported NDEs as to whether their experiences were contemporaneous with their “deaths”, or rather their brain’s retrospective backfilling of the period when it was oxygen-starved and neurotransmitters lacked the ability to regulate their concentration and flow. I’m not a neuroscientist (or any kind of scientist) but I don’t think the consensus involves approaching reported subjective experiences from a presumption that they reflect the literal experience of death in the more permanent sense.
- yencabulator 3y agoI think the naming fruits test with the headphones was meant to cover this. The evidence seems to point at "nobody formed memories of language sounds while they were flatlining", the one correct answer matches expected random chance.
- thghtihadanacct 3y agoWasnt there something on here recently about EKG signals an hour after cardiac arrest?