What causes near death experiences?

Question

Also, what usually occurs? Loads of questions on this.

When it's religious, the dieties involved usually reflect the beliefs of the dying person, right? So, it's not all Jesus or all Buddha as couple of goofy documentaries I've watched suggested?

I recall hearing a medical explanation about what's firing in the brain that might cause a NDE. What was that again?

Answer 1

Near death usually causes near death experiences, but not always. Some 20% of pilots who blackout in centrifuge training report classic NDEs, with the out-of-body experience. And to further separate the NDE from Death, in hospital situations where patients report an NDE, some 50% of them would have survived without any medical intervention.

The following NDE experiences are typical
1. A sense of being dead.
2. An out-of-body experience. A sensation of floating above one's body and seeing the surrounding area.
3. Pleasant feelings, calmness. A sense of overwhelming love and peace.
4. A sensation of moving upwards through a tunnel or narrow passageway.
5. Meeting deceased relatives or spiritual figures.
6. Encountering a being of light, or a light (possibly a religious or divine figure).
7. Being given a life review.
8. Reaching a border or boundary.
9. A feeling of being returned to the body, often accompanied by a reluctance.

Recently, Dr. Olaf Blanke, a neurologist at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, was able to consistently duplicate some of the elements of the NDE – in the lab. He stimulated, with electricity, a part of the brain called the left angular gyrus. Patients immediately reported the impression of a shadowy person lurking behind them. And when he stimulated the right angular gyrus, they reported that they left their physical body and could look down on it from above – the classic out-of-body experience.

Answer 2

Well, near death experiences are not really proven, just what some people describe. You could call it a phenominon. When your physical body is in a bad state (eg maybe going to die) your energy body (or astral body, or soul) releases from your body. This has very different experiences for different people. Some people hear things, some people see things. But when the person recovers (they do recover or it wouldent be a NEAR death experience) the energy body re-enters the Physical body. This can be a slam or just subtle.

A little farfetched, but if a person has acctually had a NDE then they would say that it was farfetched, too.

Answer 3

when my uncle had complications to his heart surgery he had one he said it wasnt a religious experience it was spiritual, he ended up in this room and was givin a choice to return or stay when he made his choice he woke up, he said it wasnt like a dream he said it was more real than life itself he gets really emotional when he talks about it....he said he didnt see a light or angels he knew the question without nobody asking him

added: he also said his mind was cleared up from anxiety or worries and he seemed to know a lot about his life when he was in that room he said it was hard to explain, it seems to me that if your in that state you need a hundred percent of your brain to work and when your under for differant reasons that is not happening, when test pilots go through some type of nde they dont have the same questions or life changes of the medical nde but somehow it is familiar

Answer 4

Maybe something happens like you are about to die and much like sleep your brain goes into a REM well with near death your see the light at the end other tunnel or some people say their whole life flashes before their eyes and unannounced to them they are in the emergency and resuscitated and began to live.

Answer 5

As bizarre because it sounds. Now i'm 25. yet while i replaced into around 18 years previous I have been given into an extremely undesirable melancholy and that i attempted to kill myself. I have been given slumbering pills so I took a gaggle of it and that i dont remember the rest. I felt sleep and day after on the instant I wakened at a million pm. lol.. thank God it didnt artwork because of the fact now I apreciate existence plenty I dont opt for to die.

Answer 6

Seven years later. Me, I've been studying them for over two years, and I think they are "real." The soul is not the same and the brain. The soul originates in a non-material dimension, usually called "heaven." I believe in reincarnation. We are immortal. We are here to learn. Most people are afraid they will be mocked if they say things like this, because it supposedly hasn't been "proved." But there is a lot of evidence. If an NDE is of a certain length and has had a chance to play itself out (more that two minutes) it will be much like another NDE. The characteristics someone above wrote as an answer, is true. For me, the strongest indicator of their truth is how profoundly people are changed in a spiritual sense, once they have "seen the light!"

Answer 7

Dude, do you even know what a near-death experience IS? There's no "medical explanation." It's something at almost kills you. Anything.

Answer 8

um would it be near death?