A question about NDEs

[Annar71]

Hi I'm wondering if somebody could help me out with a question. Often when I talk to people about NDEs I hear people saying that even if somebody were to die it's possible that the person could have had the NDE beforehand. So what is being implied is that an NDE can occur in a split second and a person can experience something that seems like 20mins or hours in a split second.

Does anybody have any other cases or evidence to prove this?

 

[mactonite]

Michael Shermer covered something like this. In this video, he goes through some tests that were designed to recreate out of body experiences, the tunnel of light, etc..

 

[Halfcentaur]

I don't see it as any different than when we dream about long complicated scenarios that actually happen in the space of minutes. Are you not aware of that phenomenon either, Annar?

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Hi I'm wondering if somebody could help me out with a question. Often when I talk to people about NDEs I hear people saying that even if somebody were to die it's possible that the person could have had the NDE beforehand. So what is being implied is that an NDE can occur in a split second and a person can experience something that seems like 20mins or hours in a split second.

It doesn't have to be a split second, but it still might be occuring before/after the deepest point of EEG flatline. Remember, too, that the EEG measures cortical activity. Might be interesting things going on in the older parts of the brain even when the cortex is quiet.

The brain is really complicated. The NDE debate tends to be simplistic.

~~ Paul

 

[C_Felix]

Hi I'm wondering if somebody could help me out with a question. Often when I talk to people about NDEs I hear people saying that even if somebody were to die it's possible that the person could have had the NDE beforehand. So what is being implied is that an NDE can occur in a split second and a person can experience something that seems like 20mins or hours in a split second.

Does anybody have any other cases or evidence to prove this?

Well..ya ain't gonna have it after you're dead!

 

[dlorde]

Hi I'm wondering if somebody could help me out with a question. Often when I talk to people about NDEs I hear people saying that even if somebody were to die it's possible that the person could have had the NDE beforehand. So what is being implied is that an NDE can occur in a split second and a person can experience something that seems like 20mins or hours in a split second.

As I understand it, the evidence indicates that normal dream experiences happen in real-time, but they jump-cut from scene to scene, much like a film, so that the whole sequence feels longer than the real-time length of the individual scenes, as the brain fills in the jump-cuts with a sense of elapsed time.

However, one could speculate that a traumatic shock or hypoxia might disrupt the sense of time, or result in a large amount of uncoordinated activity which is subsequently interpreted as a sequence of events...

The AWARE Study is looking at this kind of thing, and is due to report at the end of the year or early next year.