2006-07-27 12:38:03 · 10 answers · asked by dopeysaurus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Last spasms of the optic nerve and visual cortex
2006-07-27 12:42:02 · answer #1 · answered by 自由思想家 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Check out the Near Death Experience Research Foundation website: www.nderf.org
2006-07-27 20:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by sleepyredlion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I didn't see that kind of light, but I definately had a near death experience during surgery 20 years ago. Whether you believe in God or not, it's the most precious experience I've ever had. It totally convinced me that God is real, and Heaven is real.
2006-07-27 19:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by loveblue 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it was the last spasms of the optic nerve the people who come round would be blind.
2006-07-27 19:43:15 · answer #4 · answered by rodmod 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NDEs are very interesting.... I beleive that they are simply a chemical reaction going on inside the brain.... They seem to have certain characteristics that are common, and it would not surprise me that, as a survival mechanism, the brain has devised a way to make death less traumatic...after all, arent NDEs very similar to birrth? And Birth is believed to be very traumatic... In birth, you travel down a "corridor" and into the light from darkness of the womb.... Could death and NDEs simply be the subconcious memory of those events coming back!?!?!?!
Cuz Heaven doesnt exist, so we know thats not it....
2006-07-27 19:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A good argument for both. The medical profession did an pioneering operation where a woman had to be clinically dead so they could work on her brain. They then resuscitated her and she told them everything they did and said even though she had no brain activity etc. she also talked to loved ones and had a message for one of the doctors from a loved one!!
I`m for heaven.
2006-07-27 20:07:27 · answer #6 · answered by Tink 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the last spasms of the optic nerve as the 'soul', or whatever you want to call it, merges into the one being that entails all other things.. so basically my answer is somewhere in between
2006-07-27 19:44:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I drowned when I was around 11 and what I do remember vividly was struggling then a moment of calm when everything stopped, it appeared to get brighter all around me.
Now I don't believe in god and my eyes were wide open before I lost consciousness.
I think its oxygen deficiency in the brain or something spiritual.
2006-07-27 19:52:31 · answer #8 · answered by Rob G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nerves and brain cells can't regenerate once they are dead, so it can't be the death throes of the brain or you'd be blind and brain damaged after resuscitation.
2006-07-27 19:42:49 · answer #9 · answered by sarah c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of my exs tried to strangle me once and all i thought was 'theres no point fighting him, just give up' then i saw my dad waving to me like he was callling me over (he dies about a month before this). the next thing i know my ex was slapping me awake.
2006-07-27 19:42:40 · answer #10 · answered by bananabex 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋