What do you think of this new evidence for 'near death experiences'? Doesn't this make more sense? details?

Question

http://news.discovery.com/human/near-death-brain.html

Basically a study has shown a similar pattern in a group of people's brain waves right before death.

"It's possible a cutoff of oxygen would trigger a similar but recoverable event that becomes seared into memory.

"Not everyone reports this light sort of business. What you hear most often reported (in near-death experiences) is just a vivid memory," Chawla said.

Brain researcher Kevin Nelson at the University of Kentucky, who studies near-death experiences, said it's well known that when the brain is abruptly deprived of blood flow it gives off a burst of high voltage energy."

Answer 1

Haven't they already discerned that there's a specific chemical the brain releases for some reason when you go into shock that cause really intense dreaming sensations while you're unconscious?



I think they did a study where they injected it into people and they reacted exactly as the people in near death experiences react.



What I hate is that my mom was in a car accident a long time ago and she refuses any sort of science that says she basically just hallucinated the out of body experience.

Answer 2

I'll tell you what it is not indicative of - any spiritual notion of an afterlife.



I have lowered the oxygen level in my brain due to an overdose - what happened was I started to suffer delusions. The logical extension of this - is - as the brain loses more and more oxygen - it's reality concept breaks down - culminating in not being able to discern reality at all in death.



It maybe that there is a surge of brainwaves at death - but this cannot be correlated with any idea of spirit leaving the body or move to an afterlife. It is much like the surge of electricity that happens when one switches a light on or off - which sometimes can blow a weak lightbulb.



It is nothing more than a final tidal surge of the flows of electricity throught the brain. Changes in electric potential are associated with an EMP - and we know this happens when a switch is switched off - which is why electric circuits have to be protected from surges - that's all we are witnessing here in the brain - nothing more.

Answer 3

For the past 60'000 Shamans have been having out of body experiences exactly the same by using a particular drumming tempo. It's been well documented for decades and repeatable in the lab.



Nurses put things on the top of cupboards in hospitals so that anyone claiming an OBE can say what was on top of the cupboards.



It;s not a new thing but ancient, its only recently that science has acknowledged the fact, they still don't give them any credit for it though, and take it all for themselves. Same with Shamans saying we are all connected. The scientists won't describe it the same way and invent a new fancy name for it, quantum entanglement. lol



Practicing Shaman.... quantum physics rocks

Answer 4

There are bound to be scientific discoveries about what happens chemically when we just about die. That, in itself, cannot be interpreted to rule out the reality of what happens to the invisible, spirit part of humans who experience looking down upon their apparently dead body. If you have the nerve, check out this link, because one of the guys, Howard Storm, was an atheist when he experienced what he experienced.



Check this out to discover the flip side of imagining an after-life will be rosy. This is a wake-up call to those who think humans invent ideas of an after-life.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864#

Answer 5

I had a NDE but I was drugged up beforehand (legally-I was already in the hospital for a surgery) so I missed out on the whole 'experience' thing. No fair!

Hey Christians...your deity made me miss out on a really cool dream. He sucks!

Answer 6

It is quite possible. "Near death experiences" are not matters of the Christian faith (not something one must subscribe to believing). I have no idea what causes such dreams, visions, or experiences. That explanation is as probable as any other.



Regardless, a "near death experience" is no legitimate evidence of anything as to religious matters.....excepting perhaps to the person that "experienced" them.

Answer 7

Last I heard, only 10% of dying people or so HAD near-death experiences. Would it be reasonable to conclude that only 1 in 10 people have souls?

Answer 8

I don't believe they have really proven anything, from reading the entire report they appear to be merely speculating and not really proving the case.

Answer 9

Sometimes we just need to understand that there is a purpose and a plan in these occurrences, and maybe it is just for the persons involved to have a second chance. Most of these people who have had these experiences have miraculously changed their lives for the better, in which they begin to cherish the gift of life and living. Many become testimonials of a true existence of a Supreme Being. It makes you realize that life is really fragile, and that if its not our time to go, then its not. God truly knows us, within our innermost thoughts and complications..

Answer 10

This is easy before we die our brain to protect ourselves from dying Shoots many chemicals (might be all the chemicals we have) everywhere that causes us to hallucinate.....think of it this way when we are in a desert and we are from thirst we start hallucinating about water and things and people this is our brains way of giving us hope so we don't die. but long story short of brain will do anything to survive hope i helped now please help me https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20100126105546AAXkP01

Answer 11

didn't they already show the same thing happens in pilots who take on too many g's and their brains become oxygen deprived?

oh no wait that's right science likes to reconfirm evidence over and over again and from different angles and sources

Answer 12

I know of people that said they died and came back, and one man told me the doctor was asking his daughter for organ donations, but he remembered nothing about anything while he was "dead." Another man said two doctors asked him why he was not dead, and he remembered nothing about any light or anything else while he was dead.

Answer 13

That is biologically what happens, yes. Interesting you have been reading about this as well.

Answer 14

Appealing to religious folk with logic and cold hard facts... good luck with that.





Edit: Guy above me looks like he struggles with child-proof seals on cough medicine.

Answer 15

In my opinion it is crap. Just a dream of sorts.

Answer 16

I believe it's true when someone nearly die they see angels.



OK explain how someone's brain would cause 'hallucinations' when they're sick? and unconcscious? When i'm sick i don't get hallucinations.