Do You Believe in NDEs?

Question

Are near death experiences caused by the dying brain or are they real after death experiences?

Answer 1

I've read quite a few, and they've all given me a profound feeling of peace. I do not know if they are real or not. I guess, one day, when we die, we'll all find out. In the mean time, have some coco.

Answer 2

Here's some cut-and-paste about NDE:

...exposure to a death-priming experience like a story or video about death results in readers/viewers having a higher belief in God and supernaturalism afterward. Religion does serve as a relief valve for emotional distress, but persons given an adrenaline blocker such as propanolol after the death/high emotional prime situation have no better recall of the priming story than of a control uneventful story whereas placebo-treated subjects have higher recall. Similar results have been seen with people suffering from amygdala damage, and PTSD has been shown to chronically, perhaps permanently, affect the amygdala. This points the way for further research on diagnosed PTSD sufferers and their level of religiosity. Especially with adults, chronic PTSD sufferers such as war veterans, before-and-after the event(s) comparisons of religious belief, as well as the exact nature of change in belief, would surely be fertile neuroscience territory.

Whirling dance, deep-breathing meditation, and other things can cause "altered states of consciousness." So can high altitudes. More specifically and technically, hypoxia. Remember that experimentally controlled and induced hypoxia can also induce an NDE. In meditative states, though only one is fully active at one time, both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems are heightened.

Answer 3

this may sound crazy, but this is the truth! I do believe that there are real after death experiences. Not too long ago this guy passed on, but technically he died twice, he owned a glass company here in my town, well known, well any ways while he was in the hospital and they was working on him, he flat lined, was technically dead, and while he was dead, his spirit was above all and heard everything said about him by everyone around him. He came back and the first thing he said is I need a pen and paper, he wrote everything down that everyone said about him while he was dead, then he died. This was one of the great testimonies that was said at his funeral, this was Awesome, it makes you think!

Answer 4

I personally believe there is something real to NDEs. I think our body is just a shell, and there is a non-physical form that ejects from our body upon death.

I know, it sounds kind of crazy, but consider this - we are only able to detect with our five senses a minuscule portion of all that's out there . There's a lot going on out there that we're probably completely oblivious to. It's kind like trying to explain color to somebody who is blind. They just don't have the resources to comprehend it.

Answer 5

there are two taxicab messiahs with two different explanations:

spiritual taxicab messaih says yes. our spirit definitely goes somewhere after we die. and NDEs are the manifestations of that departure.

rational taxicab messiah says no. science has proven that various chemicals fire off when near death. and this is the equivalent of a hallucination!

boy, i think i've got multiple personality disorder. oh no!

Answer 6

Here are what NDE's actually are.

My dog has had several NDE's in her younger life.
Once, she chewed through the cable wire outside and obliterated channels 3, 4, and 5. Man, was I angry. I nearly had to kill her.
But I relented.

Another time, when I first moved into my duplex, I went outside to talk to someone... while outside, the dog anxiously jumped against the door, sliding down, and turning the INSIDE deadbolt into lock position... locking me OUT.
ooooh.. let me tell you... I nearly had to kill her then. But I was locked out.
My sis helped me break into my own house and we had a good laugh about my silly dog.

Let's see, my dog has gotten herself skunk sprayed multiple times, kills rats and buries them in shallow holes... where their stench oozes out a couple of days later...

Lots of near death experiences for that dog. But I love her to much to actually kill her.

Near death simply means... close.. but not all the way.

Answer 7

No.
If somebody's been "brought back", then they were never truly dead. You can have no heartbeat, and be declared dead, but you're not truly dead until the brain dies. As long as the brain is alive, you can dream, process information, and hallucinate. If the brain dies, then that's it. They can't bring you back. It’s misleading to say that someone "died" if they've been brought back, because they were never really dead.

Answer 8

Absolutely:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864&q=rawlings

http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

Answer 9

I really don't know. The brain works in ways we will never understand. But so does the Lord.

Answer 10

You dead or not, near dead is just a chemical reaction in the brain, not reality, just a trick of the brain.