Near death experiences. Many, many, many people have had them. Isn't that proof that you dont just disappear when you die?
2007-12-16 00:02:05 · 20 answers · asked by Terence W 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The brain does not stop working as soon as the heart stops beating; but it enters a 'shut down' phase, during which the electrochemical reactions within it are going haywire (due to oxygen deprivation) , during which you will experience wild and powerful mind trips, also, chemicals such as dopamine are released in large quantities to make the death more comfortable, which causes you to experience a certain state of pleasure; if you are revived from this state, no doubt it will have a huge impact on you, given that you don't understand it for what it really is.
2007-12-16 00:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by Jiraiya™ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
NDE's have been recreated through the use of drugs or electronic stimulation of the brain with people who most definitely were not dieing. It is possible or even probable these are simply hallucinations or perceptions that are brought about by hypoxia and the release of certain biochemicals in the brain during stress reaction or when it is shutting down.
2007-12-16 08:11:18 · answer #2 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, it just proof they have hallucination when their brain goes to a shutdown.
Try to see an actual NDE .... I bet you had never seen one.
2007-12-16 09:11:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So, if I almost fall off a cliff but I don't, that's proof of an afterlife?
Who said you disappear when you die? Like *poof*, you're gone?
No...Doesn't work that way.
2007-12-16 08:55:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not exactly "proof." The research into this field is still in it's infancy.
I am an atheist and believe in the conservation of consciousness.
2007-12-16 08:29:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a glimpse at the other side....not necessarily the christian version of heaven...but where we go when we die....
I have never heard of anybody describe great mansions and streets paved with gold when having an NDE..
That's how heaven was described to me when I was in Sunday School as a child....
-Atheist-
2007-12-16 08:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by Adam G 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The same way you explain supernatural beings that appear during sleep paralysis. Some people experience such mental illusions and are gullible.
2007-12-16 08:33:47 · answer #7 · answered by Keyring 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You mean the neurological processes that distorts perception that have been replicated in controlled experiments in labs many, many times before by placing subjects under intense stress? No... Of course it must be God!!!
2007-12-16 08:26:49 · answer #8 · answered by =_= 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No it is not proof. I died on an operating table, was brought back and saw nothing. It is all happening within the brain by chemical reaction and you will see what you ~expect~ to see.
2007-12-16 08:05:50 · answer #9 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not again. See Dr. Michael Persinger, neuroscientist of Laurentian University. He can sit you in a chair, apply electrodes and create one for you. It's the brain, nothing more.
2007-12-16 08:27:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋