Do you think it's possible that what a person feels or sees during a near death experience is explained merley as a consequence of a "biological shutdown" of the brain? Basically what I'm asking here is whether it is possible that those experience are triggered by the brain as the neurons begin to die?
Please stick to the question, I don't need religous types of answers!
2007-07-05 11:03:21 · 6 answers · asked by Sticky 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Yes, you can say that. All the near death experiences are all hypothesized depending on the understanding of the physiological function. Those who had near death experiences for sure could not exactly explain the mechanism during the near-death period. Whether someone had survived, for sure on such bad situation, the entire system of the body are almost to shut down which would clearly mean no one could describe what really is happening.
2007-07-05 11:25:21 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nah it's more than that. For instance as the brain's dying it releases a massive amount of a naturally produced psychedelic tryptamine usually released during dreams called Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) from the pineal gland. Also read this.
"Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility that stimulation of the angular gyrus is the cause of out-of-body experiences. Stimulation of the angular gyrus in one experiment caused a woman to perceive a phantom existence behind her. Another such experiment gave the test subject the feeling of being on the ceiling. This is attributed to a discrepancy in the actual position of the body, and the mind's perceived location of the body.."
There are other chemicals released by the brain which can act to calm you down and send you in to a semi-conscious dream state where you will die peace, rather than being fully conscious and going into a panic attack.
2007-07-06 10:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think so.With my own personal experience I returned with to much knowledge of what happened to me. How in the world could I tell the doctors about the procedure. It totally caught me by surprise. I never studied it! I returned changed completely. I will not get into that part about religion. The human body is so amazing. Like when say you get decapitated. They say it takes a few minutes for the brain to die. 5 or 10 minutes I think, can't say for sure. I am sure the body doe's probably have some kind of system like that. As for that being responsible for everyone experiences, I would have to disagree, very strongly! Everyone experiences have to much in common. Might be some who did not die, rather had some kind of hallucinations.
2007-07-07 18:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by Michael2832 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it's very possible. those flashes of white light people commonly see can easily be attributed to hypoxia induced neural irritation in the occipital areas of the brain.
2007-07-05 13:28:05 · answer #4 · answered by belfus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i heard a story that someone died. they brought them back to life real fast and the first things she said was no let me go back. so maybe
2007-07-05 11:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by Joey M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got shot in the leg...thats all...lol
2007-07-05 11:06:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋