Near death experiences?

Question

I've done research on it and some argue that what people see is real while others believe they are just images from past memories. Personally my grandpa has had one. What do you think?

Answer 1

well the thing with NDE's is, while the person may be 'dead' as their heart has stopped beating properly owing to electromechanical disassociation EMD which is where the senatrial (SN) node and atroventricular (AV) node (which contract the heart muscle making it pump) do not send electrical pulses or 'fire' in time with each other meaning blood doesn't get pumped round right, so they then defibrilate the person who is in EMD they basically shock the persons heart with a high voltage and a low current they can stop the heart as well when they proform heart transplants or bypass grafts and forceing the two nodes back into time causeing the heart to beat again, this has nothing to do with the brain during EMD and upto 45 minutes after death electrical activitiy can be measured in the brain meaning that their is potential to think in this time, given that is it not possable that the brain can be preparing itself for death, those that think allah is the true god often have visions of him, or things to do with him, or the the christain god if they are religious it also often supports their own denomination, the brain seems to soften the blow for itself if you see what i mean, you dream at night, so when you think about it, its not that hard to imagine your brain would be going mental if it thinks it was about to die
its the last great defense the brain can offer itself, i mean if it didn't comfort itself imagine the mass hystira it would go though, it tricks itself to keep itself from the truth if that makes sense
i hope i helped

Answer 2

People who are near death, and have visions of bright lights with angels, or a tunnel leading to this beautiful place, etc are religious people. No non-believer ever has a vision of heaven. To put it in other words, the idea was already in the mind before the near death experience.
My heart and breathing stopped while in a hospital. It took the staff a long time to get me breathing, and my heart pumping again. In that time, I was clinically dead , no visions, no tunnel, no bells, no angels, no lights, just plain blank.

Answer 3

I died on an operating room table in Seattle in 1996. The docs were able to bring me back. Elvis had definitely left the building and I was on my way somewhere else. I've written all about it in my blog entry entitled "The Day I Died." If you're interested.

Answer 4

As a Buddhist, who's studied a lot of this from various perspectives, it makes logical sense:

"The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche and "Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth" by Tulku Thondrup if you want to read from Tibetan Buddhist pov's.

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Answer 5

Near-death experiences occur most frequently with cardiac arrest, resulting in blood loss to the brain, which begins to undergo dysfunction if deprived of blood supply for more than ten seconds. Higher consciousness is affected first, followed progressively by lower and lower levels of brain function. Like the orderly shutdown of a computer, more complex things go first, followed by more basic things later. This commonly occurs when fighter pilots "grey out" during periods of high acceleration, and many pilots have reported effects similar to near-death experiences.1

It is the continuation of basic brain functions that allow people to remember their near-death experience, as well as continue to hear the voices of doctors and relatives during that time, as hearing is one of the last brain functions to fail. Many other specifics of near-death experiences have explanations relating to changes in brain chemistry caused by lack of oxygen, including the "out of body" experience described by many.3 In short, many of the events common to near-death experiences have a biological origin, and are not glimpses of eternity at all.

Answer 6

I've had one. I've also had multiple Out-of-Body Experiences.

They're quite an interesting experience, but totally mundane in origin. They're very well explained biologically and neurologically.

Answer 7

A malfunctioning, oxygen-starved brain tends to manufacture hallucinations. Often they take the form of whatever people expect to see. That's all there is to it.

Answer 8

My father seen nothing. And I mean nothing. He believed life after death, was your children and their memories.

My mother seen my father waiting for her, as she was dying, and told us what she was seeing. Had a very brief conversation with him and told him that all her girls were good.

I believe your brain creates the experience you expect, as it us slowly deprived of oxygen.

Answer 9

i think its possible to seperate from the body ...