...everyone reports seeing angels, hearing harps, and seeing loved ones on clouds?
Why doesn't anyone ever tell about hearing blood curdling screams, smelling sulpher, and feeling very hot?
2007-01-09 09:06:50 · 13 answers · asked by ...o(_insert witty comment_) 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I had a near-death experience earlier.
I saw a bit of Celebrity Big Brother
lol
2007-01-09 09:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by Great Eskape 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Maybe you should do some proper research and reading on the brain. You can induce bizarre experiences by changing chemicals in the brain (hallucinogenics for instance). You can also induce such things by simply prodding the brain. When your brain is starved of oxygen (which is ultimately what causes you to die), the neurons don't behave as they normally would. This is why there are many similar accounts from scuba divers whose air supply got too low. The same experience is also had by astronauts when they go in a centrifuge, because it causes the blood to stay lower in the body and prevent oxygen from getting to the brain. When you combine this malfunction with the memories and imagination you get some strange experiences indeed. Combine that with profound religious belief, and you get people telling us they have had a life changing experience.
Why are some people so eager to look for mystical/mythical answers to such question? I'm sorry to say but I believe ignorance has a big part to play in the propagation of the idea that it is some kind of evidence of a god or an afterlife. Wilful ignorance.
2007-01-09 19:18:52 · answer #2 · answered by gbiaki 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is my near death experience if i don`t make a lot of sense sorry but i`m confused about it my self
Anyway i had a very bad accident last year ,and was taken unconcious /semi concious to the A and E while i was in there according to what the doctors and nurses told me i died for a while but they managed to revive me
the first i knew that something had happened was about 2 weeks after i was admitted. when i came out of the coma i was on the ward by then ,i could`nt remember the accident in fact i couldn`t remember how old i was and things like that
but i do remember the doctors reviving me
i asked different doctors and nurses how i could know who was there what was happening etc but they didn`t have a reason but said what i remembered was was correct but i couldn`t have known about it and some one must have told me
sorry but no shining light or beautiful music i only remember seeing and hearing the doctors and i most definatly knew who was on duty that day all this and im not really telling you anything am i
there might be something after we die but i think were not allowed to know what it is or maybe the brain registers things for a short while after death (like a cooker ring cooling down when it`s switched off ) I just don`t know
2007-01-09 19:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by keny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is no such place as Hell. Only in your mind, it was told to you to keep you in check and it worked didn't it? We are living in Hell our own private hell and we think our reward when we die for being sooo good is Heaven. Heaven is also a figment of our imagination, do you really think there are gates? Wake up and smell the roses and sulpher if you like! You can see whatever you want to see not just when you nearly die but all the time. Just open your eyes.
2007-01-11 19:40:59 · answer #4 · answered by djdundalk 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Seriously, there are stories about that. If you study the lives of people like Maria Woodworth-Etter & John Alexander Dowie, you'd be amazed at the things recorded.
2007-01-09 17:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because hell as dipicted by many famous artists does not exist. Hell is just part of the bribe and threat systems used by christian based religions for social control. Many near death experiences talks about white lights and being told to go back. My understanding is that there are levels people go to.
2007-01-09 21:41:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
dont believe these other responses, i am sure you havent researched hellish nde accounts, they are real, i had a heart attack and had one and it was more real than life itself, i didn't see the light and i didn't see a tunnel i was just givin one choice and when i made my choice i returned, it wasnt a religious experience but a spiritual one, i laugh at the face of death now
these artificail nde accounts by test pilots are not the real thing, they do not alter or change there lives, and they are totally differant
2007-01-09 17:19:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I had a near-death experience (twice, actually) and I never saw anything like that. It felt more like fainting, everything just went black. People believe what they want to believe. Dying for a few seconds isn't quite so interesting if you don't have a big story to tell, right?
2007-01-09 17:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I saw none of that. I saw a very bright light, a warming sort of light, coming from a beautiful village with a beautiful church, which had a very elegant, tall spire. It was beautiful, still and peaceful. and that was 50 years ago and I still remember it as if it was yesterday.
I have no fear of death now.
2007-01-09 17:16:26 · answer #9 · answered by dawleymouse 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
halucinations, every one sees heaven the way they expect it to be. When in a near death situation they think about this and it "leaks" into their subconcious.
2007-01-09 17:10:25 · answer #10 · answered by T-wad 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋