In my NDE I had a vision of me living my best life. I was comatose with half my brain destroyed for 21 days. My vision however lasted 11 months. The world I was in was more real than this one. I experienced everything completely, every moment was filled with love, I just know there's more to us than just life and death.
What'd you do for those 11 months? What was the world like? Were there the same people from this world in there or were all the people strangers to you?
@@Joxus My accident happened at the beginning of my 2nd year of university. So in my vision, I continued university. I don't know how because I did all new courses in engineering. I know it wasn't a repeat of my 1st year because I failed a course then. I passed everything in my 2nd year. I then flew back home to Dubai from Canada in April. I was having the best summer I ever had in Dubai. One morning in August, I was watching TV, and I simply blink. The next moment I end up in a hospital bed completely paralyzed unable to speak or do anything. But my mind was running at lightning pace. It's like I somehow traveled between dimensions or switched from one universe to another one. I know we live in a Multiverse. I just don't know how I accessed it.
@jare keren I'm a Catholic but my vision had moments with Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, so now I don't know what I am faithfully. I just read from every faith I can because in the end none know the absolute truth.
The main difference between NDEs and dreams, based on what I've learned, is that your memory of NDEs never fade, and remain as vivid as the day they happened. Dreams, on the other hand, fade so fast you are lucky if you can still remember them 1 minute after waking. I'm surprised Bruce didn't bring this up in this video.
Is that really the main difference between NDE's and dreams? How about the confirmed documented reports? That report hidden objects in the hospital that the hospital staff places there to test these "personal anecdotes"? That report full detailed conversations of doctors or family when they were in other parts of the hospital or country? That report, often as the first person, that a person they knew is deceased when before their NDE occured they were alive?
I've been keeping a record of my dreams for around 20 years and if you'll get a pad/pen and keep it beside the bed and make notes, short notes, whenever you awaken, even if it's in the middle of the night, it'll aid you in dream recall and over time you'll begin to see patterns emerging and recycling. You'll have the same issues over time but the symbols in your dreams representing them will become more complex, more in-depth and more interesting and often more interlocking with other issues in your life. Plus, you're more likely to have a "Big Dream", a dream so real it's like being awake and it may include learnings/lessons from philosophers/writers/poets/scientists or even numinous figures and when you wake up, you KNOW you've been in contact with something beyond this dimension.
I have sleep apnea. I went to sleep one night and had a bad bought of it. I finally felt as if I had no problem breathing, more like I didn't need to breath. I felt as if I was floating high above the earth and felt someone there who was comforting me. I felt unrestrained and I was so curious I had questions. I remember asking how the universe was made or something to that affect. The person or entity that comforted me took me to a large shiny light. This light seemed to contain the answers to any question I had. I have always struggled with math but all of the sudden I understood higher math, it was so easy. Everything made sense. I understood that we were given life on earth but we are restrained by it. I moved through space with a thought. I was taken to a different planet with other forms of life and told I could reincarnate here if I wished. I did not want to and I simply thought about going back to earth and I was there. I was told I needed to go back to my body because I needed to finish the current incarnation of my life on earth. I did not want to, I just wanted to stay there, it was so peaceful. I was then told someone would have to go and finish the life I started but that when that body died it would be painful. I did not want someone else to have to experience the pain of what I had started so I decided to go back myself and finish it. I wasn't told, I just understood that the purpose of life is not to gain knowledge but to have experiences. For lack of a better word we download these experiences into a collective when our body dies. Concepts of good and evil don't really exist there. Just before I went back to my body I was told that I could not remember any of the knowledge like the math I had gained from the light. I understood somehow and only asked to remember what happened here. I woke up, took some gasps of breath and all this was over. It has never happened since. I still believe this was just a dream. But it was really vivid.
wow the purpose of life is not to have knolwedge but experiences explained in the Bible very first book Gensis. God created a tree full of knowldge of the good and evil and commanded Adam not to eat from it yet adam (eve* not adam) wanted to taste and see the experience (ofc many other factors) and they ate and were filled with knowledge wow
I had an out of the body experience when I was 17. I was practicing transcendental meditation. I've never been a drug user, and I didn't have my first beer until I was 19. I know what happened to me was real, but throughout my life people have scoffed me and tried to tell me I was hallucinating. I'm sixty now, and I still know that what happened to me was real. Which is why the Jodie Foster film Contact is my all time favorite movie. Also, I've never seen an apparition, but I have twice experienced unexplainable poltergeist activity, so I believe in ghosts. I've never seen a UFO or Bigfoot, but I'm not going to make fun of people who say they have. Just because you haven't experienced something doesn't make it not true.
A few years back I had a very bizarre dream, if it even was a dream. I remember standing in total darkness, in some kind of a void. What I was standing on, I have no idea. I remember a figure starting to form some distance in front of me. How I could see it in that darkness and with no visible light source, I am not sure. I walked towards it. It was a man. A man standing there, but completely silent and motionless. I stared at him for several seconds before realizing it was me, almost like a vague and half forgotten memory had come back. I remember saying to myself, "oh yeah, that guy. I guess I can go back to being him for a while longer." I, whatever I was, stepped into my own body, and at that moment I woke up and with a start. After spending several minutes wondering WTF had just happened (was it a dream? Did I die and then choose to come back? Was I having an out of body experience in which I did not die but was presented with a choice anyway? It seemed so real! I remember it in such detail! What was it that just happened?!) I eventually drifted off back to sleep. I'll always wonder.
I had the same “dream” as you 3-4 years ago and i still can’t get over it, but i had the feeling it was more like a flashback from my past life, like i was this man. Is this past life or NDE?
@@AnnaPanariti have you ever had dreams about a past life? Growing up I had a recurring dream from the time I was very young (starting around 3 maybe, until I was about about 9 or 10) of dying as a grown adult male driving a car when the brakes failed. I went out into an intersection and looked to my left without any time to register what had hit me before the dream was over and I woke up. Always figured that's how I went out in a previous life.
When I was a kid I caught a fever and remember rising up from my body, looking down at me in the bed then to the open window. I didn't want to go out the window as I was on the third floor and that would not be a good thing to do so I reached out to myself on the bed and woke up. Near death or just a fever induced dream I don't know, that was fifty years ago but it is still a very vivid memory.
@@Ruannnnnnnn I thought Astral projection was the sensation of exploring multiple planes while OBE has the person simply move outside the body around the same area.
I have had my heart stopped (medically, using the chemical, Adenosine) 5 times. I always saw "light at the end of a tunnel". The first two times, I remembered what happened, but didn't pay very close attention. However, the last three times, I payed very very close attention. Here's what I personally experienced: It felt as if a fell down a cold water filled well, at speeds faster than a free fall through air. However, I felt no splash or water itself, it just felt cold, as if I were in cold-ish water (maybe 60 deg F water). Also, my vision was somewhat distorted, as if looking up at someone through a couple inches of water. My hearing was muffled, as if underwater. The distance to the source of the light seemed pretty far, maybe hundreds of feet. But, when I looked intensely into the light, I could see movement and it looked something like people's upper bodies moving around. When I listened carefully to the muffled sounds, it sounded like it could have been people talking. So, the last three times, I focused intensely on the the light and on the sounds. Each time I shot up out of the hole, as if being shot out of a cannon. Focusing on the distorted images in the light, tracking them to the individual medical personnel that were in the room working on my. Also, while being shot up out of the hole, the muffled sounds became evermore distinct, making me realize that the sounds were mainly the nurses and doctors talking. I also came up gasping for air, as if I has been holding my breath for a couple of minutes. The whole thing was very water themed. To be clear, I'm not trying to discredit the experience of others, I'm simply recalling my own personal experiences.
@@AL-nv4gk I wasn't able to move, I was just able to see light through what appeared to be a long tunnel. Within that light, I saw movement and as my heart restarted, I could see that the light was the ceiling lights in the emergency rooms, where I was. The motion, was the doctors and nurses standing near me. This happened all 5 times. I'm not saying that other people's "near death experiences" are the same as mine. I just have the somewhat unique situation, where I've had my heart stopped several times, and payed close attention during most of those times. To be clear, I 100% believe in God, but I also believe that MY tunnel of light was the ceiling lights in the emergency room.
@soylatte1288 That's an intriguing thought that I've never entertained the idea of an, an out of body experience. Thank you for your question! My take on the experience was absent of any metaphysical explanation. I just assumed each part of my body was operating at a reduced capacity due to a lack of blood flow. I figured that all my senses were operating at very low resolution, and that's why everything was so distorted. To sum it up, I was just on the verge of being uncomfortably cold. My hearing and vision were in a murky state. I actually don't recollect seeing or feeling and part of my body. It just felt like my body (better described as my being) was in a damp cold state. Like a cool fall night, as the moisture in the air condensates into cold dew. All the medical people thought I was nuts for being excited about getting my heart stopped again. Apparently, you've got a 25% change of not making it through the procedure.
The word "just" is quite an interesting one. It's a reduction. You can use it everywhere, food is just stuff you digest, you mother is just a vessel to give birth to you, life is just suffering... So the question for me is, what is the motivation of the person saying just. And often it is a person that is overwhelmed and therefore afraid by their experience of life so they try to reduce it, simplify it so that it requires less thought and therefore less energy and reduces anxiety. To have clear boundaries, black and white, good and bad, reduces the effort we have to bring up navigating our experience of life. By diffusing the boundaries between reality and dream, life and death we diffuse our own life. This means more possibilities... But also more chance to get hurt... Worst case, in ways we cannot understand and therefore can't change. To go deeply into our limitations requires a stable foundation, otherwise we diffuse with our limitations and the result is insanity, neurosis etc. States we fear because too much instability inevitably leads to suffering (as does too much). However if we are deeply connected to our own body and is rythms and habits (which means we don't try to escape from it and feel well in our skin), then we can clearly see into these limitations and recognize the truth underneath. The unity and thus beauty of all thing's. That we are immortal because all our boundaries are just habit's, are simply pattern's in loves great eternal dream. And we are that dream, seeing it with different eyes in whatever form the dream shape's itself into.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us out here. I am not a native English speaker and sometimes I simply lack the words to express myself. Your thoughts resonate with me, thank you for sharing them. This is a great aspect of the internet, communication.
It's simple: NDEs have different phenomenology and after effects than a dream or mainly hallucination; it's obvious that we are dealing with a distinguished - and mysterious - human experience
Don't think I'm insane but I would love to have the Ego death experience on magic mushrooms or DMT just don't know where or how I can get my hands on them, so hard to find. One time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, wonderful experience btw
when i tried shrooms i ate way more than i should of because i thought they wouldn’t work and then my face got numb and i threw up shrooms and my friend was laughing but trying to comfort me and the bathroom lights were flickering cuz they were old and i had to go home
Death is a complete mystery. We all have to go through the process,and being "almost dead" is not the same thing,because the person revives before it is too late. Nobody has come back to report what being dead actually is. I like the Houdini story. He gave his wife a code word that nobody knew,except for the two of them. After he died,his widow took part in seances,but none of those seances revealed the prearranged code word.
Maybe he wasn't allowed, or life on the other side is so different that to bother contacting the living just seems superfluous, because they'll find out eventually, or there is no life after death.
Jesus was brutally tortured to death in front of a bunch of witnesses. He rose from the dead after 3-day in a sealed tomb, and there were over 400 witnesses to that fact. Someone will say, that's impossible because he would have become insanely famous, and someone would have written a book about his life. Both those things are true!
I knew someone who 'died' but she said she saw nothing. She was alive one moment but with a bad heart pain, then she was waking up surrounded by doctors. She had no memory of anything in between. However, when my son got such a fright and passed out one time, he said he went down a 'tunnel of light' as he going into the faint. Just before I came round from anaesthetic for dental surgery, I felt I was 'flying' around the ceiling of the recovery room, looking down on my sleeping body, my dad sat in a chair beside me, another lady asleep on the other couch in the room and her husband sat beside her. A few times I have heard people have near misses (though not being injured in the least) and say that they saw their whole life flash before their eyes. So we can all have very similar experiences to these NDE's, all without actually being in any danger of death. I think stress induces these visions, our brains releasing a specific cocktail of chemicals to try to calm us down, a side effect of those chemicals being to induce several types of common 'dream states.' Now altogether which chemicals or what quantities of those chemicals can create tunnels, gardens, meeting dead people, even being tortured by demons on the way to a hellhole (yep, I've heard of that too. Silly) - is the real mystery here. Maybe the person is aware they're in trouble and dying and it's their 'expectations' (according to stories they've heard, their culture, religion, guilt, fear) that governs the type of 'scene' they expect to see when they begin to die.
The whole two times I've been put under anesthesia I don't remember one single solitary thing from the moment I fell asleep to the moment I woke up again feeling sooooo sick. I don't remember any dreams, or any strange feelings of anything, or any hallucinations be they visual or auditory or sensory. Guess it was like what being dead will be like some day. But I've had other strange experiences that make me believe otherwise as well, and have witnessed things that really make me wonder. Just shared a story in the main comments, but I'll share this other one here since it's now on my mind: My great grandmother used to talk in her sleep. She would take on a harsh, almost pirate like voice. Unlike anything kind of sound you could ever expect to come from her. It was quite creepy every time I heard it, but one time in particular was the creepiest of all. I was at the family cabin, sitting out in the living room when it happened. I was there with my younger cousins while the while almost everybody else was at the pub (I wasn't old enough yet) and my great grandma was asleep down the hall in usual room down there. Anyway that harsh voice came down the hall and what it said was chilling. "No. NO! It's not time yet!" I swear to god and to this day I believe she was telling off death itself. She wasn't ready to go anywhere just yet and she sure as hell was making it known. 😳 She lived on for a few more years after that.
So, you're saying there are chemicals which cause these things, but you don't know what chemicals they are, but if you don't know what chemicals they are, how do you know it's a chemical or chemical(s) at all?
@@NeoEvanA.R.T Okay, but I'm not so sure DMT can show you loved ones that legitimately passed away. If it was DMT, it would probably be showing you loved ones that did and did not pass away, considering it's hallucinations. These people with NDEs claim to see only people that have passed away...
@@Retrohertz someone sounds scared to me bless you , you probably think your right about everything in your life and everyone else is wrong I know you’re type 🤔
@@Lea31706 No. I just like to look for overwhelming evidence before coming to a firm opinion about anything. In this case, there is no reliable evidence. It's called science.
The difference is when dreaming you do not pop out of your body and move down hallways and start telling people what they did and said when you were flatlined. People can just own they do not believe life goes on and stay in their bubble until they are ripped out of that body and made to face their choices. The rest of us are smart enough to know if even ONE NDE is real it's real and if just ONE Ghost story is real it's all real.... We have thousands..... My grandfather was dead 35 minutes on the operating table at 13 years old in the 1930s..... He was up in the ceiling in total bliss suspended watching all below him in chaos.... The NDE's that proved to me were my grandfathers because I was very close to him, and I know Him..... The others were a blind woman who could see, a woman seeing the operating room and the tools, a woman floating floors down and watching her grandmother sarcastically ask for a cigarette and many more..... I do personally believe in Jesus Christ for many reasons.... but to me just the fact He was willing to be beat to death for me and my wicked sins is more than enough for me to desire to know Him. I don't have anyone else that loves me that much in this selfish self-serving world.... but truth be known when I truly came to Jesus I never would of known the things I have been blessed enough to experience knowing Him. Talking to Jesus and watching things just appear in my life.... Just show up..... I am not saying I have not had many hard times because I have. but in those times there was always an angel coming for me somewhere somehow..... unbelievable if I did not see it for myself..... God is many things to many people but to the ones who love Him He is beyond kind....... Many say a love so profound words do little to share..... God bless you people!
Love to hear the near-death experience of a person who was deaf and blind from birth. If they describe the experience in the same way, with similar " sounds and visions", I will alter my thinking. This should not be difficult to explore.
how would they know how to describe it? they wouldn't know what things look or sound. how would they differentiate between blue and red and other strange things that "normal" people seemingly already struggle to explain. would "i think i heard stuff and i saw things but i don't know how to describe it... also what does a person sound like?" not trying to insult, just curious
Im glad topics like this are now show to people in this way. Not as a pardocument with lightnings in the background and scary sounds. I read book of Jim Tucker and he wrote that this topics are show to people in the way that look not serious. Im really happy ots changing now. Big THANK YOU to all people from Universitet Wirginia. Greeting from Poland!
As a child I remember waking up in hernia surgery and seeing blood red at my abdomen. I spoke to my mom who worked at the hospital and knew the nurses and doctors working on me. I insisted I woke up or sat up during surgery. And I remember watching the doctors for a while from an elevated position, not quite understanding at that point that they were working on me. She said I was out cold the entire time and only woke up later after I was moved to another room. And my bloody dressings changed. Also I was put under before entering the surgery room. I remember the bright lights and doctors moving around covered in light green scrubs but I remember the tops of their heads. This was before medical tv shows also. I was 5 or 6. I remember being above everything, looking down on it all like someone was holding me to watch the surgery on the body. Later I thought someone else was getting surgery in the room at the same time. They were not. The memory isn’t as clear as it used to be but it definitely happened. And then I went back into the body I guess. I don’t think it was an NDE but an out of body experience. I had never seen that surgery room before but when I described it my mom was upset thinking I had run amuck the hospital at some point and snuck in that room. They don’t let random people anywhere near there. Certainly not a little kid. I don’t care if skeptics don’t believe me. Maybe it will happen to them and then they’ll finally believe something we can’t explain is happening. Guess what else people didn’t “believe” in once upon a time? Plate tectonics😂among other things.
I had never experienced such thing but when I was a 7, I had a very unpleasant experience that felt real. I don’t know whether I fell asleep but I found myself in hell like place. It was a vast underground place where everything seemed made of lava. I remember myself laying on my back and the suffering from burning. There were three man who seemed totally in shadows 5 meters away from me. Even though they were just standing there I felt like because of their presence I couldn’t move my body. I was crying and my sister came to wake me up. I heard her noise and pleading to her to wake me up. I still remember like it was yesterday it was such a pain. I when I opened my eyes I found big sister was shaking my body like crazy and I jumped out of the bed saying “Oh! It’s not hot in here at all”. All pain gone suddenly. I asked why didn’t you wake me up didn’t you hear my call, because I thought maybe I was only talking in my dream and not for real. She said I heard you, you were screaming and it has been 10 minutes since I starting shaking your body. It is not possible someone to not to wake up with that and even at some point you were just pretending. That could be a near death experience because the pain felt so real but why would a 7 years old would go to such horrible place even if it was. I could never understand this.
When I was a kid, we had a heater, and I have a dream where I go to hell, and I feel like I was burning, horrible pain, then I wakeup, turnout someone turned the heater too high. So don't worry, It just a dream
When my dad passed, my daughter was given an old wooden mailbox that was his; the kind with a glass door, number, and combination lock. It had been made into a bank. My daughter didn't know the four numbers, or their combination, to open that mail box. One night, my dad came to her in a dream and told her the combination. The next morning, she picked up the box, used the combination from the dream, and the box opened.
Had one as a boy when nearly drowned in cold, muddy flood water. Don't remember screaming, which alerted my rescuer, but do remember floating effortlessly in a beautiful stream with a sandy bottom, waving fronds, and coloured fish. Which do you think was reality? As to out of body experiences of people dead - whatever the exact definition of that is - rising up to the top of the theatre and looking down. What has been done is put an unmissable message on top of an upper shelf. Couldn't be missed, except all those reporting NDE failed to see it.
That experiment is actually has been criticized by both skeptics and near death believers for being stupid and irrational. Because if you were floating outside your body (theoretically) why would u look at the top of a shelf in a operation room
It’s sad that folks won’t believe in God until he’s standing in front of u giving you your life review, I am determined to work on that now and not wait until it’s too late! God help us all. What will u do if u die tomorrow and your standing in front of the God u swore all your life wasn’t real, hope this doesn’t happen to u brothers and sisters!
full stress? I can recall a dozen times when I felt stressed, but as I consciously learned to use this state to lucid dream, I don't think it was stressful. Quite the contrary.
Not really. Initially yes but once your heart and breathing stops rigour mortis sets in. Your muscles relax to probably the most relaxed state they have ever been. Brain activity on the other hand spikes and continues to keep going until every ounce of oxygen is used up. This isn’t the brain panicking either as it’s a natural process that has to happen and a process that it is used to.
Another difference between near-death experiences and dreams (at least) is that the OBE perceptions are like live action, whereas the images in dreams are often like collage images.
Hallucinations and dreams are imaginations gone wild. From the book … Hallucinations … author … Oliver Sacks When Rosalie-the very old blind lady I described in the chapter on Charles Bonnet Syndrome-became ill and thought she was dying, she had visions of her mother and heard her mother’s voice welcoming her into heaven. These hallucinations were completely different in character from her usual CBS hallucinations-they were multisensory, personal, addressed to her, and steeped in warmth and tenderness. Her CBS hallucinations, by contrast, had no apparent relation to her and aroused no emotion. I have known other patients (who did not have CBS or any other special condition facilitating hallucinations) to have similar deathbed hallucinations-sometimes the first and last hallucinations in their lives.
I got stem cell shots, and they gave me ketamine to put me out. After my ketamine experience, my brain was convinced it had experienced something profound. My rational sense, and mind were telling me obviously that I had just been dreaming. But I had a feeling of profoundness, that stayed with me for about a week. I believe there is no after life. Just exquisite, and blissful ignorance.
Yes, experiments by Dr. John C. Lilly in the early 1970s on "K" confirm your experience. Anesthesiologists have theories about quantum states in microtubules within brain neurons that may explain these experiences, and how they are able to turn consciousness off with chemically produced gasses in the brain. The idea is the gasses interfere with the coherence of quantum states, NOISE, much like DMT, LSD, and other hallucinogens do, but more research is required.
If you follow science, do it all the way through , meaning you cannot assume without evidence, making your belief of no.after life, ignorant remain open minded thats all
@@mrsq117, I dreamed that I was between two light brown walls, but they weren’t walls. It was like I was traveling through a space between two earthy colored walls, like yellow or brownish. There was someone there, but I don’t remember what they looked like, or what they said. my clearest memory is when I was going under. The doctor was talking to me as the ketamine was being pushed into the IV, and his voice started getting really high-pitched, and digital. Eventually, the sound of his voice was just a high sounding ring. I also remember feeling like I was trying to hold on to consciousness. Eventually I let go, and fell between those two yellowish, brownish colored walls.
Precisely because most of us appreciate the miracle of life that it is, we are reluctant to think that when we die, that we just end. However, logistically it just makes sense that we would return to nature as raw matter once again when our mortal coil decomposes and then reform again. What that is could be any one of billions of living organisms in the dimension we know as earth.
If drugs repress a NDE doesn't that imply that they are a brain function? Any physical scientists that don't specifically study paranormal agree with this video?
the trouble is that it's subjective. you're relying on how someone remembers their NDE, how they analyze it after, and that can be influenced by their existent beliefs and biases. they know that they almost died, and they fit their experience to fit the mold of what they perceive to be what happens when you die. just an idea.
Well no they can actually account accurate descriptions of what happened as they were dead and even get information for hundreds of miles away that they could not have possibly known. When it's verified, it's correct. That let's you know that they are objective as well.
@@aidan-ator7844 no it's false. Everything is only in your head, but just like dreams, hallucinations and near death experiences have many common themes that are shared across cultures and people's throughout time.
Reading the comments below is interesting. For those who have given scientific explanations on NDE’s because your all so smart and all knowing, then explain this: How do you explain when a person who went through an NDE sees a deceased relative or friend in the afterlife when otherwise would not have known of their passing in real life? Also people who are in their dying stages such as having hospice care have visitations from deceased loved ones whilst they’re still alive? Why do people from all walks of life see the same afterworld ie heaven? And why do all NDEs have the same process ie life review, telepathic contact with beings and at times given a choice as to whether to return to their earthly lives? I can go on. The NDE or OBE cannot simply be explained scientifically, it is way beyond our comprehension and our understanding of our reality.
For starters gather the claims and evidence otherwise is hearsay First/Second question - One cannot assume its ghosts without determining hallucinations to be the cause, find a way to exclude that possibility Third question - are you implying everyone saw the Christianity heaven version?. because christianity has no heaven beliefs until jesus returns for his second coming according to the myth, so ghosts, heaven dont go well with the belief
I have no ideia what youre talking about in the last statment about telepathy or something and your statement about science having limits is a claim that needs proof
There are many different stages of dream experience. This question is not well asked because lucid dream experience is a very powerful dream stage and it's not included on question
0:43 - Neurobehavioral Psychologist 0:51 - no 2 peopl hav the same kind of hallucination. NDEs are basically the same. 1:24 - lack of oxygen 2 brain 2:06 -
Why go through the trouble of creating these flesh prisons, if we are actually not our bodies? Only two explanations; God is an evil/ignorant demiurge or - my personal conviction - there is no god?
There are documented cases of people who have been pronounced dead or flatlined for several minutes who have had experiences seeming to last a long time in which they were out of their body. They have similar experiences that are described in NDEs. It’s not like a pure dmt drug experience. It’s much different. Scientists say they have replicated it, but how many people who died and come back were in the sample? Hard to do research on such a subjective experience.
Thing is, Camels actually exist as I'm sure the wise men would have acknowledged upon witnessing, as proof is in the pudding. Shared experiences exist in a multitude of instances aside from being near death and sober with plenty of brain oxygen. Such as shared cultural similarities across time and great distance, ice cream headaches, drawings of animals, etc. Is it taken into account people who have similar experiences to NDEs except for the close to death part? I suppose those are not as widely reported so I could see the difficulty in that experiment. Something does happen with our cognitive processes in these cases, I do not doubt that. In a world muddled with misinformation and bold assumptions based on cultural manipulations, we must be absolutely sure we have analyzed every physical or intangible property we are able, lest the information be used in an uninformed and often dangerous manner, as the wise men of the desert cow analogy might agree. Quit an interesting study to be sure, when invisible forces of nature collide with the strange beast that is the human brain. May we someday see the light at the end of this bizarre reality we perceive.
Love to know the NDE of a person deaf, dumb and blind from birth. If their experience is similar to a sighted and sounded person, you may have something?
@@nuqwestr I do believe these types of experiences must exist beyond being near to death, though the reports have primarily been examined this way so far. I also have wandered of the influence of our Sun, a primary factor of our existence, it's particles swimming in every fiber of our being. (people claiming to see a light)
The continuation of life is REAL..indeed. Nothing to fear and comforting to know, we will after crossing over, experience the Light and Love of Jesus...and our loved ones too!
That report hidden objects in the hospital that the hospital staff places there to test these "personal anecdotes"? That report full detailed conversations of doctors or family when they were in other parts of the hospital or country? That report, often as the first person, that a person they knew is deceased when before their NDE occured they were alive? You are in a "personal delusion" of intentional hubristic ignorance!
the reason we see such similar things at near death is because we are all conditioned in a similar fashion. it all depends on the neural pathways we build in life
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us. My autobiography explaining how I, and others I've told, have used this chant to successfully change our poisons into medicine titled: 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within', is now available at Amazon Books for 99 cents (the lowest Amazon allowed me to price it) You can also read more about Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo in Tina Turner's new book: Happiness Becomes You -- or you can Google 'Let go and let God' by Olivia Newton-John.
Anything one experiences just prior to one's death is a near-death experience, as is anything one experiences during an event that nearly kills one. Hence the name.
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” Jesus Christ, John 3:16-17
Was there more money to be made if researchers deduced these were not people just dreaming? Same as there is more money in not reporting the fact that planet started heating up thousands of years ago, not since beginning of industrial revolution
We are all going to die one day weather we like it or not my mum died I don’t know how to handle it I haven’t seen my dad in 6 years I’m 40 years old I had some good and bad experiences but that’s the way life is
So I didnt have a near death experience but I had an out of body ego death on lsd. I remember my mind hovering over my body and I could see all this stuff happening around. My mind was shifting and it reconnected into a universal grid. Then I flash of white light happened and it felt I was one with the universe again. I felt complete love and unity. Almost felt like a gift from something higher. I'm not religious nor was I spiritual at that time. It has made me less afraid of death and I believe we have a lot to look forward to.
Judging your potential future based on a LSD trip…So unbelievably dumb. You just more or less proof just the opposite, because your brain isnt lightning up and firing random bullshit when its dead and not on some artificial chem stuff.
@@Boblw56 please dude I'd hate to go threw life like you. I'm not religious nor did I believe in any higher power. However once I seen what I seen it change my life. I dont believe in some.e magic spirit land but what I seen is a common experience. However you have no idea what it's like to not have an ego. If you seen what I saw you'd change what you think immediately. Dont talk about something you know nothing about
the truck accident analogy is based on the fact that you have something to show for it. if you got hit by a truck, its likely your face will look like yogurt . telling someone you saw a dragon and having nothing to show for it is the first and last problem of that story
Don't generalize please, missing a bom going of on your way to bus in 1980 I was on my feet running. Admitted in hospital walking in there straight to ICU and have your children enlighten you about your Malaria afterwards, with the true events, as they were called by hospital, is a little to real for imagining things.
Most people who experience a near NDE, do not want to return from the beauty in the after world. Light is the main source. Communication is instant like telepathic. It's so fast as faster than light travels. Y the immense universe never ending in size hard 2 comprehend are brain. All a test living on earth by Almighty GOD.
I had a NDE experience as a child. I existed with a very stressed out parent that became vicious. During that time I felt and heard energy and light beings around me. They became my parents. Not that this helped me in a world that believes we are physical and then die. These are very archaic notions, not true at all. Atoms spin as positive and negative protons and electrons. Atoms are electrical energy fields. Right there this should tell everyone that this did not happen by accident. We are not accidents. We did not just happen. Batteries consist of 2 poles and have to be created. Why are we any different? After 40 years of researching to find out why I was hated so much as a child, I found out that there are people on this earth that want to keep us as slaves. They want us building their cities, until we are done, and then they don't want us anymore. They blame US for all the melting glaciers when it is THEM that are the corporations spending OUR tax dollars on fossil fuels when we should have had free energy by now. Huge mistakes have been made. Rockefeller in the 1920s should never have been allowed to put holistic doctors in jails. Rockefeller should never have been allowed to use his money to influence hospitals and doctors to the point that allopathy is what insurance pays for. The insurance corporation in america does not pay holistic doctors, so I go to no doctors except those holistic ones online and in books, like the book Hands of Light written by the physicist Barbara Brennan. She wrote that we are eternal holograms and eternal electrical energy fields. There is no such thing as death because we are constantly being created.
Having experienced near death every night for most of my entire oblivious life. I can tell you from experience the NDE is just the bodies reaction to dying, it will do anything to start your heart again and the NDE is it trying to do just that. Once the life leaves you it is pure blackness and nothing else.
Interestingly, there is someone who indeed came back from death, a very complete and torturous one, death on a cross. Crucifixion, which is where I believe the word excruciating comes from because of horrific pain it inflicts upon its victim. Yes, Jesus came back from the dead and it was the most significant event in history, which is why it was recorded so well by numerous people who witnessed it. This event changed everything on heaven and on earth. It even reset the calendar years. I'm writing this in the year of our Lord 2022. The cool thing is it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, you will when you die. Even the devil believes in God. Heck, Einstein's theories started from the viewpoint (the knowledge) that there was a time before time and space (before creation). He mathematically extrapolated forward in "time" from the point of creation. Most all of his theories have been observed to be true, in one form or another. One example being: The atomic clocks used in satellites move forward or backwards in time, depending on their relative rotation to the earth. If Einstein wasn't a Jew, he wouldn't have started with the FACT that there was a time before time, space, and matter.
@@cornpop7805 He did not come back they drank his blood and then using witchcraft walked him around like a puppet and then they ate his flesh! And you lot have been re enacting the crime for the last 2000 years , eating his flesh and drinking his blood in a sad imitation of the original crime!. Don't you ever call me Jesus again!
@@Soulless1666 I hope you realize someday that there is and has been a movement to make an army of atheist disciples and they've been talking into your ear since you've been old enough to hear. Big tech, Hollywood, and academia are all in on the big lie that there is no God, Jesus, and the afterlife. Please, for the sake of your immortal soul, find your way to open your heart. Surely you've noticed that the number of senseless deaths and massacres have increased as the number of people leaving the church and the number of abortions have increased. This is both correlation and causation.
The human soul is eternal and once dead, we serve out the rest of eternity in one of two planes of existence: one is referred to as heaven, the other is referred to as hell. Hell is the absence of God. Some make a long pit stop in purgatory, also known as limbo. What's referred to as dead is merely leaving this plane of existence, which is essentially a trial, for which you are judged and sentenced for the rest of eternity. Purgatory for those who are in need of additional purification before going to the plane of existence, called heaven. Einstein proved numerous biblical concepts. The biggest being God "spoke" the heavens and the earth into existence, meaning it appeared from nothing. Before Space (and matter) there was no time. We call it the impetus for this "The big bang". The other big biblical concept Einstein proved mathematically was, other planes of existence. The Bible documented these 4 thousand years before Einstein expressed these concepts mathematically.
Stuff like this convinces me reincarnation, especially in the animist sense, has decent grounds in mass-energy conservation. In recent discoveries the information equivalence to mass and energy means NDE could be attempts to apply this to our own mental data.
NDE is very similar to dreams, because that they see in their NDE is "arranged". I mean they don't choose to see or to explore the unknown world(realm). Even no one would tell us how they themselves look like, how they feel when they touch themselves. Can they hold their own arms? Do they have heart to beat? Do they have lungs to breathe? do they have skin and muscles? Do they take the form of human? If you are experiencing out of body experience, you should have tried to find out all of these questions. Another thing is many NDErs just tell us their stories, but no one would show us any evidences, like the pictures of accidents, medical history, or the death announcement from their doctors. How do we know that their stories are real not hoax? China has a population of about 1.4 billions, but I have never heard of NDE stories, the only recorded was the study of the those survived the Tangshan earth quake in 1976 in Hebei province in China. even so, their NDEs were very different from those in the United States. I hope Dr. Bruce Greyson would answer the above questions. Thank you so much.
This entire world is a dream we make up which we can learn from to make better choices. Those choices won't necessarily change the dream but they will change how we see it and whether we are happy and help others to be happy, too. Until we start to realize that we are making it up, we think that only by changing the world we will be happy.
He didn't prove NDEs were real or that they saw a god, let alone which one. lt would be interesting to know what he thinks the chances of there being a god is, and which one.
Well no he said that they recount accurate visions of what happened and can get info that they otherwise couldn't have known. That lets you know that they're probably not hallucinations.
In competitive freediving there are many cases of athletes blacking out due to low oxygen and requiting outside help to prevent death. If NDEs were caused by low O2 in brains you’d expect many reports of NDEs. Over a decade in international competitive freediving community and I have heard of zero cases of NDEs. So, it would seem that other explanations are needed.
@DarkNemesiss In the example provided by the alleged scientist, he claims that a conversation held in another room was known to the patient. We have no idea if that conversation was later spoken of within earshot of the patient. We do know that the unconscious brain is capable of hearing and interpreting sound. We also have no idea if the patient heard the conversation first hand. Like a blind person, the patients hearing may be more sensitive. Plus, acoustics are weird. Sound can easily travel through a vent a fair distance or bounce around every hard surface. There are cathedrals where you can whisper in one corner and be heard way over in the opposite corner. Why are you skipping mundane explanations for fantasies that require a dozen hoops to jump thru? Prove a single thing. One. Just ONE. For the love of imaginary Christ, I wish one of you would pray to your absentee father and get some fucking proof. Why does he insist on making you look like fools?
I was put on a breathing machine during surgery and I had a near death experience. Messing with the autonomic nervous system can produce them, I think.
One piece of evidence that would strongly favor those who believe NDEs are somehow truly from God or some deity would be if different people from different cultures saw the same entity. If an Australian aboriginal were to see Jesus in a cross without ever hearing about Jesus. But of course that won’t happen.
I for 1 am really trying to figure out the purpose in this whole thing called life. Ive never had a NDE but I believe there is life after death of this body. From what I am observing after listening to many many NDE experiences from people. They need to do more work..They have more to do.. Is there a quota for us? Based on our abilities. Physical, mental and emotional abilities. To help other people. Im not a christian. But in the Bible Jesus states Greater love has no one than this, to lay down ones life for his friends. A life of sacrifice? Is that what we are expected to do for the Divine?
There's no one agreed upon thing that causes NDEs. Plus all known explanations fall short and often discard explaining the extrasensory perception component of the experience.
I agree that there is no definite research that has put this issue to rest, but the evidence clearly leans towards the notion that there is more to NDEs than being a pure brain-produced phenomenon
I am unsubscribing. You aren't thinking enough, big think. You aren't covering multiple viewpoints here and you obviously haven't thought enough about this. You're only covering one heavily biased viewpoint.
In my NDE I had a vision of me living my best life. I was comatose with half my brain destroyed for 21 days. My vision however lasted 11 months. The world I was in was more real than this one. I experienced everything completely, every moment was filled with love, I just know there's more to us than just life and death.
What'd you do for those 11 months? What was the world like? Were there the same people from this world in there or were all the people strangers to you?
@@Joxus My accident happened at the beginning of my 2nd year of university. So in my vision, I continued university. I don't know how because I did all new courses in engineering. I know it wasn't a repeat of my 1st year because I failed a course then. I passed everything in my 2nd year. I then flew back home to Dubai from Canada in April. I was having the best summer I ever had in Dubai. One morning in August, I was watching TV, and I simply blink.
The next moment I end up in a hospital bed completely paralyzed unable to speak or do anything. But my mind was running at lightning pace.
It's like I somehow traveled between dimensions or switched from one universe to another one. I know we live in a Multiverse. I just don't know how I accessed it.
@@cursedtodie you were living in your brain since it was a perfect life not an alternate dimension
@jare keren I'm a Catholic but my vision had moments with Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, so now I don't know what I am faithfully. I just read from every faith I can because in the end none know the absolute truth.
@@itsgeodoodz My brain's right hemisphere was destroyed, the left hemisphere badly damaged. I can assure you I wasn't living in my brain.
The main difference between NDEs and dreams, based on what I've learned, is that your memory of NDEs never fade, and remain as vivid as the day they happened. Dreams, on the other hand, fade so fast you are lucky if you can still remember them 1 minute after waking. I'm surprised Bruce didn't bring this up in this video.
I can remember most of my dreams very well! I can also remember a dream I had at the age of 11
@@shakorahburroughs6590 Same here. And occasionally, I can feel my spirit return to my body as a dream ends.
Good point
Is that really the main difference between NDE's and dreams?
How about the confirmed documented reports?
That report hidden objects in the hospital that the hospital staff places there to test these "personal anecdotes"?
That report full detailed conversations of doctors or family when they were in other parts of the hospital or country?
That report, often as the first person, that a person they knew is deceased when before their NDE occured they were alive?
I've been keeping a record of my dreams for around 20 years and if you'll get a pad/pen and keep it beside the bed and make notes, short notes, whenever you awaken, even if it's in the middle of the night, it'll aid you in dream recall and over time you'll begin to see patterns emerging and recycling. You'll have the same issues over time but the symbols in your dreams representing them will become more complex, more in-depth and more interesting and often more interlocking with other issues in your life. Plus, you're more likely to have a "Big Dream", a dream so real it's like being awake and it may include learnings/lessons from philosophers/writers/poets/scientists or even numinous figures and when you wake up, you KNOW you've been in contact with something beyond this dimension.
I have sleep apnea. I went to sleep one night and had a bad bought of it. I finally felt as if I had no problem breathing, more like I didn't need to breath. I felt as if I was floating high above the earth and felt someone there who was comforting me. I felt unrestrained and I was so curious I had questions. I remember asking how the universe was made or something to that affect. The person or entity that comforted me took me to a large shiny light. This light seemed to contain the answers to any question I had. I have always struggled with math but all of the sudden I understood higher math, it was so easy. Everything made sense. I understood that we were given life on earth but we are restrained by it. I moved through space with a thought. I was taken to a different planet with other forms of life and told I could reincarnate here if I wished. I did not want to and I simply thought about going back to earth and I was there. I was told I needed to go back to my body because I needed to finish the current incarnation of my life on earth. I did not want to, I just wanted to stay there, it was so peaceful. I was then told someone would have to go and finish the life I started but that when that body died it would be painful. I did not want someone else to have to experience the pain of what I had started so I decided to go back myself and finish it. I wasn't told, I just understood that the purpose of life is not to gain knowledge but to have experiences. For lack of a better word we download these experiences into a collective when our body dies. Concepts of good and evil don't really exist there. Just before I went back to my body I was told that I could not remember any of the knowledge like the math I had gained from the light. I understood somehow and only asked to remember what happened here. I woke up, took some gasps of breath and all this was over. It has never happened since. I still believe this was just a dream. But it was really vivid.
wow
the purpose of life is not to have knolwedge but experiences
explained in the Bible very first book Gensis.
God created a tree full of knowldge of the good and evil and commanded Adam not to eat from it
yet adam (eve* not adam) wanted to taste and see the experience (ofc many other factors) and they ate and were filled with knowledge wow
I had an out of the body experience when I was 17. I was practicing transcendental meditation. I've never been a drug user, and I didn't have my first beer until I was 19. I know what happened to me was real, but throughout my life people have scoffed me and tried to tell me I was hallucinating. I'm sixty now, and I still know that what happened to me was real. Which is why the Jodie Foster film Contact is my all time favorite movie. Also, I've never seen an apparition, but I have twice experienced unexplainable poltergeist activity, so I believe in ghosts. I've never seen a UFO or Bigfoot, but I'm not going to make fun of people who say they have. Just because you haven't experienced something doesn't make it not true.
Look up dmt experiences
You know hallucinations are powerful right
it's a hallucination
Yes they say that you can leave your body while meditating
Would you feel comfortable telling us about your obe? My mom just passed, I'm curious about a lot right now...
A few years back I had a very bizarre dream, if it even was a dream.
I remember standing in total darkness, in some kind of a void. What I was standing on, I have no idea. I remember a figure starting to form some distance in front of me. How I could see it in that darkness and with no visible light source, I am not sure. I walked towards it. It was a man. A man standing there, but completely silent and motionless.
I stared at him for several seconds before realizing it was me, almost like a vague and half forgotten memory had come back.
I remember saying to myself, "oh yeah, that guy. I guess I can go back to being him for a while longer."
I, whatever I was, stepped into my own body, and at that moment I woke up and with a start.
After spending several minutes wondering WTF had just happened (was it a dream? Did I die and then choose to come back? Was I having an out of body experience in which I did not die but was presented with a choice anyway? It seemed so real! I remember it in such detail! What was it that just happened?!) I eventually drifted off back to sleep.
I'll always wonder.
I had the same “dream” as you 3-4 years ago and i still can’t get over it, but i had the feeling it was more like a flashback from my past life, like i was this man. Is this past life or NDE?
It was just a dream. The brain is capable of producing any experience.
@@AnnaPanariti have you ever had dreams about a past life? Growing up I had a recurring dream from the time I was very young (starting around 3 maybe, until I was about about 9 or 10) of dying as a grown adult male driving a car when the brakes failed. I went out into an intersection and looked to my left without any time to register what had hit me before the dream was over and I woke up. Always figured that's how I went out in a previous life.
@@cjg8763 That’s so bizarre!
But as i mentioned the only “experience” i had was your story, as i read it i got goosebumps!
There's a bunch of dealers who sell dmt in Miami.
When I was a kid I caught a fever and remember rising up from my body, looking down at me in the bed then to the open window. I didn't want to go out the window as I was on the third floor and that would not be a good thing to do so I reached out to myself on the bed and woke up.
Near death or just a fever induced dream I don't know, that was fifty years ago but it is still a very vivid memory.
You had an astral projection
@@Ruannnnnnnn Wouldn't out of body experience (obe) be the correct term?
@@cadethumann8605 both are right
@@Ruannnnnnnn I thought Astral projection was the sensation of exploring multiple planes while OBE has the person simply move outside the body around the same area.
@@cadethumann8605 Nope, thats also astral projection lol
I have had my heart stopped (medically, using the chemical, Adenosine) 5 times. I always saw "light at the end of a tunnel". The first two times, I remembered what happened, but didn't pay very close attention. However, the last three times, I payed very very close attention. Here's what I personally experienced:
It felt as if a fell down a cold water filled well, at speeds faster than a free fall through air. However, I felt no splash or water itself, it just felt cold, as if I were in cold-ish water (maybe 60 deg F water). Also, my vision was somewhat distorted, as if looking up at someone through a couple inches of water. My hearing was muffled, as if underwater. The distance to the source of the light seemed pretty far, maybe hundreds of feet. But, when I looked intensely into the light, I could see movement and it looked something like people's upper bodies moving around. When I listened carefully to the muffled sounds, it sounded like it could have been people talking.
So, the last three times, I focused intensely on the the light and on the sounds. Each time I shot up out of the hole, as if being shot out of a cannon. Focusing on the distorted images in the light, tracking them to the individual medical personnel that were in the room working on my. Also, while being shot up out of the hole, the muffled sounds became evermore distinct, making me realize that the sounds were mainly the nurses and doctors talking. I also came up gasping for air, as if I has been holding my breath for a couple of minutes. The whole thing was very water themed.
To be clear, I'm not trying to discredit the experience of others, I'm simply recalling my own personal experiences.
The way you describe it make it seek like you're being birthed? So if you like who you are now don't go to the light maybe?
@@AL-nv4gk
I wasn't able to move, I was just able to see light through what appeared to be a long tunnel. Within that light, I saw movement and as my heart restarted, I could see that the light was the ceiling lights in the emergency rooms, where I was. The motion, was the doctors and nurses standing near me. This happened all 5 times.
I'm not saying that other people's "near death experiences" are the same as mine. I just have the somewhat unique situation, where I've had my heart stopped several times, and payed close attention during most of those times.
To be clear, I 100% believe in God, but I also believe that MY tunnel of light was the ceiling lights in the emergency room.
Interesting, so do you think it may have been an out of body experience?
@soylatte1288
That's an intriguing thought that I've never entertained the idea of an, an out of body experience. Thank you for your question!
My take on the experience was absent of any metaphysical explanation. I just assumed each part of my body was operating at a reduced capacity due to a lack of blood flow. I figured that all my senses were operating at very low resolution, and that's why everything was so distorted. To sum it up, I was just on the verge of being uncomfortably cold. My hearing and vision were in a murky state. I actually don't recollect seeing or feeling and part of my body. It just felt like my body (better described as my being) was in a damp cold state. Like a cool fall night, as the moisture in the air condensates into cold dew.
All the medical people thought I was nuts for being excited about getting my heart stopped again. Apparently, you've got a 25% change of not making it through the procedure.
The word "just" is quite an interesting one. It's a reduction. You can use it everywhere, food is just stuff you digest, you mother is just a vessel to give birth to you, life is just suffering...
So the question for me is, what is the motivation of the person saying just.
And often it is a person that is overwhelmed and therefore afraid by their experience of life so they try to reduce it, simplify it so that it requires less thought and therefore less energy and reduces anxiety.
To have clear boundaries, black and white, good and bad, reduces the effort we have to bring up navigating our experience of life.
By diffusing the boundaries between reality and dream, life and death we diffuse our own life. This means more possibilities... But also more chance to get hurt... Worst case, in ways we cannot understand and therefore can't change.
To go deeply into our limitations requires a stable foundation, otherwise we diffuse with our limitations and the result is insanity, neurosis etc. States we fear because too much instability inevitably leads to suffering (as does too much).
However if we are deeply connected to our own body and is rythms and habits (which means we don't try to escape from it and feel well in our skin), then we can clearly see into these limitations and recognize the truth underneath. The unity and thus beauty of all thing's. That we are immortal because all our boundaries are just habit's, are simply pattern's in loves great eternal dream. And we are that dream, seeing it with different eyes in whatever form the dream shape's itself into.
It's not often that you get a sense of someone's intelligence and depth of knowledge on a UA-cam comments section; you have 'just' nailed it though!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us out here. I am not a native English speaker and sometimes I simply lack the words to express myself. Your thoughts resonate with me, thank you for sharing them. This is a great aspect of the internet, communication.
It's simple: NDEs have different phenomenology and after effects than a dream or mainly hallucination; it's obvious that we are dealing with a distinguished - and mysterious - human experience
Don't think I'm insane but I would love to have the Ego death experience on magic mushrooms or DMT just don't know where or how I can get my hands on them, so hard to find. One time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, wonderful experience btw
once I took shrooms on accident they were in a chocolate bar and my fat ass thought it was regular choclate 😂
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@@userconspiracynut is he on IG or what?
when i tried shrooms i ate way more than i should of because i thought they wouldn’t work and then my face got numb and i threw up shrooms and my friend was laughing but trying to comfort me and the bathroom lights were flickering cuz they were old and i had to go home
@@ugmiles. yeah, He has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, lsd, DMT even the chocolate bars
I can tell you what my near death experience told me, STAY ALIVE!
Death is a complete mystery. We all have to go through the process,and being "almost dead" is not the same thing,because the person revives before it is too late. Nobody has come back to report what being dead actually is. I like the Houdini story. He gave his wife a code word that nobody knew,except for the two of them. After he died,his widow took part in seances,but none of those seances revealed the prearranged code word.
Maybe he wasn't allowed, or life on the other side is so different that to bother contacting the living just seems superfluous, because they'll find out eventually, or there is no life after death.
But Bishop Fuller Sheen was given the code words, came to her and told her.
We' lol know soon because shortly we'll be able to freeze and bring back a dead brain after 2 hours
I guess the people who have died for 2-3 hours who cameback are full of it is what your saying?
Jesus was brutally tortured to death in front of a bunch of witnesses. He rose from the dead after 3-day in a sealed tomb, and there were over 400 witnesses to that fact.
Someone will say, that's impossible because he would have become insanely famous, and someone would have written a book about his life. Both those things are true!
I knew someone who 'died' but she said she saw nothing. She was alive one moment but with a bad heart pain, then she was waking up surrounded by doctors. She had no memory of anything in between.
However, when my son got such a fright and passed out one time, he said he went down a 'tunnel of light' as he going into the faint.
Just before I came round from anaesthetic for dental surgery, I felt I was 'flying' around the ceiling of the recovery room, looking down on my sleeping body, my dad sat in a chair beside me, another lady asleep on the other couch in the room and her husband sat beside her.
A few times I have heard people have near misses (though not being injured in the least) and say that they saw their whole life flash before their eyes.
So we can all have very similar experiences to these NDE's, all without actually being in any danger of death.
I think stress induces these visions, our brains releasing a specific cocktail of chemicals to try to calm us down, a side effect of those chemicals being to induce several types of common 'dream states.' Now altogether which chemicals or what quantities of those chemicals can create tunnels, gardens, meeting dead people, even being tortured by demons on the way to a hellhole (yep, I've heard of that too. Silly) - is the real mystery here.
Maybe the person is aware they're in trouble and dying and it's their 'expectations' (according to stories they've heard, their culture, religion, guilt, fear) that governs the type of 'scene' they expect to see when they begin to die.
The whole two times I've been put under anesthesia I don't remember one single solitary thing from the moment I fell asleep to the moment I woke up again feeling sooooo sick. I don't remember any dreams, or any strange feelings of anything, or any hallucinations be they visual or auditory or sensory. Guess it was like what being dead will be like some day. But I've had other strange experiences that make me believe otherwise as well, and have witnessed things that really make me wonder. Just shared a story in the main comments, but I'll share this other one here since it's now on my mind:
My great grandmother used to talk in her sleep. She would take on a harsh, almost pirate like voice. Unlike anything kind of sound you could ever expect to come from her. It was quite creepy every time I heard it, but one time in particular was the creepiest of all.
I was at the family cabin, sitting out in the living room when it happened. I was there with my younger cousins while the while almost everybody else was at the pub (I wasn't old enough yet) and my great grandma was asleep down the hall in usual room down there.
Anyway that harsh voice came down the hall and what it said was chilling.
"No. NO! It's not time yet!"
I swear to god and to this day I believe she was telling off death itself. She wasn't ready to go anywhere just yet and she sure as hell was making it known. 😳 She lived on for a few more years after that.
So, you're saying there are chemicals which cause these things, but you don't know what chemicals they are, but if you don't know what chemicals they are, how do you know it's a chemical or chemical(s) at all?
Under general anesthesia people still remember stuff so I don't think it's stress
@@123duelist DMT can have similar effects, such as the oneness with the universe, beautiful images, and a sense of all powerful love, and peace
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Okay, but I'm not so sure DMT can show you loved ones that legitimately passed away. If it was DMT, it would probably be showing you loved ones that did and did not pass away, considering it's hallucinations. These people with NDEs claim to see only people that have passed away...
I’ve had an NDE and I know it was real, more real than is life is, it’s like waking up from here not going to sleep
Mmm. No. It was a dream, hallucination or image your brain produced as a result of stimuli.
@DarkNemesiss Mmm. What?
@@Retrohertz thank you for you opinion but you are so wrong 😂 and I’m not even religious
@@Retrohertz someone sounds scared to me bless you , you probably think your right about everything in your life and everyone else is wrong I know you’re type 🤔
@@Lea31706 No. I just like to look for overwhelming evidence before coming to a firm opinion about anything. In this case, there is no reliable evidence. It's called science.
The difference is when dreaming you do not pop out of your body and move down hallways and start telling people what they did and said when you were flatlined. People can just own they do not believe life goes on and stay in their bubble until they are ripped out of that body and made to face their choices. The rest of us are smart enough to know if even ONE NDE is real it's real and if just ONE Ghost story is real it's all real.... We have thousands..... My grandfather was dead 35 minutes on the operating table at 13 years old in the 1930s..... He was up in the ceiling in total bliss suspended watching all below him in chaos.... The NDE's that proved to me were my grandfathers because I was very close to him, and I know Him..... The others were a blind woman who could see, a woman seeing the operating room and the tools, a woman floating floors down and watching her grandmother sarcastically ask for a cigarette and many more..... I do personally believe in Jesus Christ for many reasons.... but to me just the fact He was willing to be beat to death for me and my wicked sins is more than enough for me to desire to know Him. I don't have anyone else that loves me that much in this selfish self-serving world.... but truth be known when I truly came to Jesus I never would of known the things I have been blessed enough to experience knowing Him. Talking to Jesus and watching things just appear in my life.... Just show up..... I am not saying I have not had many hard times because I have. but in those times there was always an angel coming for me somewhere somehow..... unbelievable if I did not see it for myself..... God is many things to many people but to the ones who love Him He is beyond kind....... Many say a love so profound words do little to share..... God bless you people!
Love to hear the near-death experience of a person who was deaf and blind from birth. If they describe the experience in the same way, with similar " sounds and visions", I will alter my thinking. This should not be difficult to explore.
Okay bet just gotta find a deaf and blind person that's on the brink of dying 😂
Apart from the ethical, of course. We’ll have to look for anecdotes for now.
how would they know how to describe it? they wouldn't know what things look or sound. how would they differentiate between blue and red and other strange things that "normal" people seemingly already struggle to explain. would "i think i heard stuff and i saw things but i don't know how to describe it... also what does a person sound like?"
not trying to insult, just curious
Just like ghosts, it will be debunked
There is DMT experiences of blind from birth people. They see nothing. So most probably this type of experiences are not outside of the brain.
Im glad topics like this are now show to people in this way. Not as a pardocument with lightnings in the background and scary sounds. I read book of Jim Tucker and he wrote that this topics are show to people in the way that look not serious. Im really happy ots changing now. Big THANK YOU to all people from Universitet Wirginia. Greeting from Poland!
Bring it on!!! I want more science-based explanations of NDE and consciousness. Thank you Dr. Greyson for speaking up and out on the topic of NDE.
He brought up nothing scientific. "there must be something there" isn't science. Jesus fuck.
DMT will give you all the answers you need
@@Truecrimecommunity I've been reading about the beauty of the God molecule. Fascinating stuff!
As a child I remember waking up in hernia surgery and seeing blood red at my abdomen. I spoke to my mom who worked at the hospital and knew the nurses and doctors working on me. I insisted I woke up or sat up during surgery. And I remember watching the doctors for a while from an elevated position, not quite understanding at that point that they were working on me. She said I was out cold the entire time and only woke up later after I was moved to another room. And my bloody dressings changed. Also I was put under before entering the surgery room. I remember the bright lights and doctors moving around covered in light green scrubs but I remember the tops of their heads. This was before medical tv shows also. I was 5 or 6. I remember being above everything, looking down on it all like someone was holding me to watch the surgery on the body. Later I thought someone else was getting surgery in the room at the same time. They were not. The memory isn’t as clear as it used to be but it definitely happened. And then I went back into the body I guess. I don’t think it was an NDE but an out of body experience. I had never seen that surgery room before but when I described it my mom was upset thinking I had run amuck the hospital at some point and snuck in that room. They don’t let random people anywhere near there. Certainly not a little kid.
I don’t care if skeptics don’t believe me. Maybe it will happen to them and then they’ll finally believe something we can’t explain is happening. Guess what else people didn’t “believe” in once upon a time? Plate tectonics😂among other things.
I had never experienced such thing but when I was a 7, I had a very unpleasant experience that felt real. I don’t know whether I fell asleep but I found myself in hell like place. It was a vast underground place where everything seemed made of lava. I remember myself laying on my back and the suffering from burning. There were three man who seemed totally in shadows 5 meters away from me. Even though they were just standing there I felt like because of their presence I couldn’t move my body. I was crying and my sister came to wake me up. I heard her noise and pleading to her to wake me up. I still remember like it was yesterday it was such a pain. I when I opened my eyes I found big sister was shaking my body like crazy and I jumped out of the bed saying “Oh! It’s not hot in here at all”. All pain gone suddenly. I asked why didn’t you wake me up didn’t you hear my call, because I thought maybe I was only talking in my dream and not for real. She said I heard you, you were screaming and it has been 10 minutes since I starting shaking your body. It is not possible someone to not to wake up with that and even at some point you were just pretending. That could be a near death experience because the pain felt so real but why would a 7 years old would go to such horrible place even if it was. I could never understand this.
It was a sleep paralysis. It is very unpleasant in most cases. And yes it is often merge with the nightmare experience. I had it at least once.
When I was a kid, we had a heater, and I have a dream where I go to hell, and I feel like I was burning, horrible pain, then I wakeup, turnout someone turned the heater too high. So don't worry, It just a dream
When my dad passed, my daughter was given an old wooden mailbox that was his; the kind with a glass door, number, and combination lock. It had been made into a bank. My daughter didn't know the four numbers, or their combination, to open that mail box. One night, my dad came to her in a dream and told her the combination. The next morning, she picked up the box, used the combination from the dream, and the box opened.
Had one as a boy when nearly drowned in cold, muddy flood water. Don't remember screaming, which alerted my rescuer, but do remember floating effortlessly in a beautiful stream with a sandy bottom, waving fronds, and coloured fish. Which do you think was reality?
As to out of body experiences of people dead - whatever the exact definition of that is - rising up to the top of the theatre and looking down. What has been done is put an unmissable message on top of an upper shelf. Couldn't be missed, except all those reporting NDE failed to see it.
That experiment is actually has been criticized by both skeptics and near death believers for being stupid and irrational. Because if you were floating outside your body (theoretically) why would u look at the top of a shelf in a operation room
@@jean-charlespomeroy4517 Thank you. I would be most interested in your sources. Please supply.
It’s sad that folks won’t believe in God until he’s standing in front of u giving you your life review, I am determined to work on that now and not wait until it’s too late! God help us all. What will u do if u die tomorrow and your standing in front of the God u swore all your life wasn’t real, hope this doesn’t happen to u brothers and sisters!
Amen
Strange, to compare dreams, that can take place when the body is relaxed, to near death experiences, when the body is under full stress.
full stress? I can recall a dozen times when I felt stressed, but as I consciously learned to use this state to lucid dream, I don't think it was stressful. Quite the contrary.
Not really. Initially yes but once your heart and breathing stops rigour mortis sets in. Your muscles relax to probably the most relaxed state they have ever been. Brain activity on the other hand spikes and continues to keep going until every ounce of oxygen is used up. This isn’t the brain panicking either as it’s a natural process that has to happen and a process that it is used to.
See my comment above - try drowning, lovely relaxing experience.
Another difference between near-death experiences and dreams (at least) is that the OBE perceptions are like live action, whereas the images in dreams are often like collage images.
Hallucinations and dreams are imaginations gone wild.
From the book … Hallucinations … author … Oliver Sacks
When Rosalie-the very old blind lady I described in the chapter on Charles Bonnet Syndrome-became ill and thought she was dying, she had visions of her mother and heard her mother’s voice welcoming her into heaven. These hallucinations were completely different in character from her usual CBS hallucinations-they were multisensory, personal, addressed to her, and steeped in warmth and tenderness. Her CBS hallucinations, by contrast, had no apparent relation to her and aroused no emotion. I have known other patients (who did not have CBS or any other special condition facilitating hallucinations) to have similar deathbed hallucinations-sometimes the first and last hallucinations in their lives.
It's crazy how this video is titled Devil's advocate yet. People knowing this will still click on the video and complain about it.
I got stem cell shots, and they gave me ketamine to put me out. After my ketamine experience, my brain was convinced it had experienced something profound. My rational sense, and mind were telling me obviously that I had just been dreaming. But I had a feeling of profoundness, that stayed with me for about a week. I believe there is no after life. Just exquisite, and blissful ignorance.
Yes, experiments by Dr. John C. Lilly in the early 1970s on "K" confirm your experience. Anesthesiologists have theories about quantum states in microtubules within brain neurons that may explain these experiences, and how they are able to turn consciousness off with chemically produced gasses in the brain. The idea is the gasses interfere with the coherence of quantum states, NOISE, much like DMT, LSD, and other hallucinogens do, but more research is required.
If you follow science, do it all the way through , meaning you cannot assume without evidence, making your belief of no.after life, ignorant
remain open minded thats all
Was your experience a ‘feeling’ of profoundness or did you actually experience something like a light, deity etc
@@mrsq117, I dreamed that I was between two light brown walls, but they weren’t walls. It was like I was traveling through a space between two earthy colored walls, like yellow or brownish. There was someone there, but I don’t remember what they looked like, or what they said. my clearest memory is when I was going under. The doctor was talking to me as the ketamine was being pushed into the IV, and his voice started getting really high-pitched, and digital. Eventually, the sound of his voice was just a high sounding ring. I also remember feeling like I was trying to hold on to consciousness. Eventually I let go, and fell between those two yellowish, brownish colored walls.
Precisely because most of us appreciate the miracle of life that it is, we are reluctant to think that when we die, that we just end. However, logistically it just makes sense that we would return to nature as raw matter once again when our mortal coil decomposes and then reform again. What that is could be any one of billions of living organisms in the dimension we know as earth.
I don't think a feeling of certainty means it is real. Things can be vivid and seem real and not be real.
If drugs repress a NDE doesn't that imply that they are a brain function? Any physical scientists that don't specifically study paranormal agree with this video?
Exactly. The brain is amazing and capable of producing any experience.
Drugs are known for causing memory loss, people can have NDE and not remember it because of drugs.
Yeah that’s why he was saying that if the things people were seeing were caused by drugs they would not remember it
the trouble is that it's subjective. you're relying on how someone remembers their NDE, how they analyze it after, and that can be influenced by their existent beliefs and biases. they know that they almost died, and they fit their experience to fit the mold of what they perceive to be what happens when you die. just an idea.
Well no they can actually account accurate descriptions of what happened as they were dead and even get information for hundreds of miles away that they could not have possibly known. When it's verified, it's correct. That let's you know that they are objective as well.
@@timflelter5566 *cough..confirmation bias...cough* ahem. I'd love to see the evidence for those claims. sounds pretty anecdotal to me.
"no two people have the same type of hallucinations" is a completely false statement
No its true
You might have similar hallucinations because consciousness is shared, but it’s only in your head.
@@charlesgallagher1376 nope
@@charlesgallagher1376 what's only in your head is, well, everything
@@aidan-ator7844 no it's false. Everything is only in your head, but just like dreams, hallucinations and near death experiences have many common themes that are shared across cultures and people's throughout time.
Reading the comments below is interesting. For those who have given scientific explanations on NDE’s because your all so smart and all knowing, then explain this: How do you explain when a person who went through an NDE sees a deceased relative or friend in the afterlife when otherwise would not have known of their passing in real life? Also people who are in their dying stages such as having hospice care have visitations from deceased loved ones whilst they’re still alive? Why do people from all walks of life see the same afterworld ie heaven? And why do all NDEs have the same process ie life review, telepathic contact with beings and at times given a choice as to whether to return to their earthly lives? I can go on. The NDE or OBE cannot simply be explained scientifically, it is way beyond our comprehension and our understanding of our reality.
For starters gather the claims and evidence otherwise is hearsay
First/Second question - One cannot assume its ghosts without determining hallucinations to be the cause, find a way to exclude that possibility
Third question - are you implying everyone saw the Christianity heaven version?. because christianity has no heaven beliefs until jesus returns for his second coming according to the myth, so ghosts, heaven dont go well with the belief
I have no ideia what youre talking about in the last statment about telepathy or something and your statement about science having limits is a claim that needs proof
@@megalol3625 I’m unable to articulate my argument by a comment or comments. This topic requires a discussion.
@@aphroditekerylidis7000 It requires source actually, premises and conclusions can be added afterwards
@@megalol3625 hey your right! You know everything
There are many different stages of dream experience. This question is not well asked because lucid dream experience is a very powerful dream stage and it's not included on question
0:43 - Neurobehavioral Psychologist
0:51 - no 2 peopl hav the same kind of hallucination. NDEs are basically the same.
1:24 - lack of oxygen 2 brain
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I had a dream i left my body floating up and almost left my house and i was freaking out then i woke up scary
The spiritual realm is real. God exist. Every human is an immortal soul that is temporary in a material body.
Mmm. No.
Why go through the trouble of creating these flesh prisons, if we are actually not our bodies? Only two explanations; God is an evil/ignorant demiurge or - my personal conviction - there is no god?
There are documented cases of people who have been pronounced dead or flatlined for several minutes who have had experiences seeming to last a long time in which they were out of their body. They have similar experiences that are described in NDEs. It’s not like a pure dmt drug experience. It’s much different. Scientists say they have replicated it, but how many people who died and come back were in the sample? Hard to do research on such a subjective experience.
Atheists will do anything they can to deny something that most every culture for all of time has recognized: we are spiritual beings with a soul.
Thing is, Camels actually exist as I'm sure the wise men would have acknowledged upon witnessing, as proof is in the pudding. Shared experiences exist in a multitude of instances aside from being near death and sober with plenty of brain oxygen. Such as shared cultural similarities across time and great distance, ice cream headaches, drawings of animals, etc. Is it taken into account people who have similar experiences to NDEs except for the close to death part? I suppose those are not as widely reported so I could see the difficulty in that experiment. Something does happen with our cognitive processes in these cases, I do not doubt that. In a world muddled with misinformation and bold assumptions based on cultural manipulations, we must be absolutely sure we have analyzed every physical or intangible property we are able, lest the information be used in an uninformed and often dangerous manner, as the wise men of the desert cow analogy might agree. Quit an interesting study to be sure, when invisible forces of nature collide with the strange beast that is the human brain. May we someday see the light at the end of this bizarre reality we perceive.
Love to know the NDE of a person deaf, dumb and blind from birth. If their experience is similar to a sighted and sounded person, you may have something?
@@nuqwestr I do believe these types of experiences must exist beyond being near to death, though the reports have primarily been examined this way so far. I also have wandered of the influence of our Sun, a primary factor of our existence, it's particles swimming in every fiber of our being. (people claiming to see a light)
MORE REAL THAN THIS WORLD
I've wondered if it could be a dream state when people share the stories.
Why would we dream that type of dream only near death?
the light at the end of the tunnel sounds like been born
0:50 my man has clearly never tried dmt! let alone any psychedelic before.
The continuation of life is REAL..indeed. Nothing to fear and comforting to know, we will after crossing over, experience the Light and Love of Jesus...and our loved ones too!
Answer: Yes.
Gary Habermas has done a lot a work on NDEs
But we still don't know what happens if you never come back to life X'D
Does non conscious matter have “near life” experiences? Where they almost get brought into existence but revert back to blackness
The wording, what do you mean JUST a dream or hallucination??
Personal anecdotes....
That report hidden objects in the hospital that the hospital staff places there to test these "personal anecdotes"?
That report full detailed conversations of doctors or family when they were in other parts of the hospital or country?
That report, often as the first person, that a person they knew is deceased when before their NDE occured they were alive?
You are in a "personal delusion" of intentional hubristic ignorance!
…with independently verifiable facts.
You can have an open mind and still be skeptical. Try it sometime.
Very interesting.
Thank you.
Peace 💕🇺🇲🇺🇲
There is no difference. They are dreams. The brain is still producing images and sensations. When it stops, you'll know nothing... forever.
I didn't have a near death experience; I actually died & went to Heaven. I didn't want to come back to leave Heaven. My whole life changed after this.
what you believe is irrelevant ,
Also others claim they saw orbs, dead relatives, contradicting Christianity beliefs
@@megalol3625 Christian believe in seeing dead relatives
@@mattcool941 how, because until jesus returns, the dead will remain dead thats how the story goes
@@megalol3625 What you believe is irrelevant. I was agnostic. You didn't experience what I did; So you can't opine on what I experienced.
I have been iin NDE many times its no hallucination its outside human visible spectra cause the sould leave the body
the reason we see such similar things at near death is because we are all conditioned in a similar fashion. it all depends on the neural pathways we build in life
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE...
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us. My autobiography explaining how I, and others I've told, have used this chant to successfully change our poisons into medicine titled: 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within', is now available at Amazon Books for 99 cents (the lowest Amazon allowed me to price it)
You can also read more about Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo in Tina Turner's new book: Happiness Becomes You -- or you can Google 'Let go and let God' by Olivia Newton-John.
Good work.
I experienced The Holy Dopamine Ghost from sleep deprivation.
Anything one experiences just prior to one's death is a near-death experience, as is anything one experiences during an event that nearly kills one. Hence the name.
People are sleep, when they die they wake up.
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” Jesus Christ, John 3:16-17
Is NDE en experience on a quantum level or is it just another dimension of life?
I doubt Einstein could answer your question
So what about dream that felt so real that for a moment I thought it happened to me in real life
Was there more money to be made if researchers deduced these were not people just dreaming? Same as there is more money in not reporting the fact that planet started heating up thousands of years ago, not since beginning of industrial revolution
Just wishy-washy desires for anecdote to be sufficient for belief...
Just.. like... religion
We are all going to die one day weather we like it or not my mum died I don’t know how to handle it I haven’t seen my dad in 6 years I’m 40 years old I had some good and bad experiences but that’s the way life is
I find islamic imagery offensive
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So I didnt have a near death experience but I had an out of body ego death on lsd. I remember my mind hovering over my body and I could see all this stuff happening around. My mind was shifting and it reconnected into a universal grid. Then I flash of white light happened and it felt I was one with the universe again. I felt complete love and unity. Almost felt like a gift from something higher. I'm not religious nor was I spiritual at that time. It has made me less afraid of death and I believe we have a lot to look forward to.
That sounds beautiful.
Judging your potential future based on a LSD trip…So unbelievably dumb. You just more or less proof just the opposite, because your brain isnt lightning up and firing random bullshit when its dead and not on some artificial chem stuff.
Yeah, right. What you had was a drug enhanced delusion now justified with your own brand of magical thinking.
@@Boblw56 please dude I'd hate to go threw life like you. I'm not religious nor did I believe in any higher power. However once I seen what I seen it change my life. I dont believe in some.e magic spirit land but what I seen is a common experience. However you have no idea what it's like to not have an ego. If you seen what I saw you'd change what you think immediately. Dont talk about something you know nothing about
@@logank444 Bob will kneaux / wholly understand someday as well. Grateful and glad you had and shared your experience 🙏
I recommand averyone watched The OA on Netflix, trust me
i have so much faith in humanity restored.
I wonder if dmt is involved with this
The fact that are no credible after death experiences does not go unnoticed.
The guy who's supposed to be sitting at the right hand of God might be rolling his eyes. 😊
@@ziziroberts8041 what,
how does one assume its nit credible
@@megalol3625 I assume there are no credible reports because you have not yet produced one. Simple.
@@xensonar9652 you're waiting for me?
the truck accident analogy is based on the fact that you have something to show for it. if you got hit by a truck, its likely your face will look like yogurt . telling someone you saw a dragon and having nothing to show for it is the first and last problem of that story
Don't generalize please, missing a bom going of on your way to bus in 1980 I was on my feet running.
Admitted in hospital walking in there straight to ICU and have your children enlighten you about your Malaria afterwards, with the true events, as they were called by hospital, is a little to real for imagining things.
Did you experience a NDE
Most people who experience a near NDE, do not want to return from the beauty in the after world. Light is the main source. Communication is instant like telepathic. It's so fast as faster than light travels. Y the immense universe never ending in size hard 2 comprehend are brain. All a test living on earth by Almighty GOD.
stop being arrogant litle kid, have some evidence or hush
Good video.
I had a NDE experience as a child. I existed with a very stressed out parent that became vicious. During that time I felt and heard energy and light beings around me. They became my parents. Not that this helped me in a world that believes we are physical and then die. These are very archaic notions, not true at all. Atoms spin as positive and negative protons and electrons. Atoms are electrical energy fields. Right there this should tell everyone that this did not happen by accident. We are not accidents. We did not just happen.
Batteries consist of 2 poles and have to be created. Why are we any different? After 40 years of researching to find out why I was hated so much as a child, I found out that there are people on this earth that want to keep us as slaves. They want us building their cities, until we are done, and then they don't want us anymore. They blame US for all the melting glaciers when it is THEM that are the corporations spending OUR tax dollars on fossil fuels when we should have had free energy by now.
Huge mistakes have been made. Rockefeller in the 1920s should never have been allowed to put holistic doctors in jails. Rockefeller should never have been allowed to use his money to influence hospitals and doctors to the point that allopathy is what insurance pays for. The insurance corporation in america does not pay holistic doctors, so I go to no doctors except those holistic ones online and in books, like the book Hands of Light written by the physicist Barbara Brennan. She wrote that we are eternal holograms and eternal electrical energy fields. There is no such thing as death because we are constantly being created.
Having experienced near death every night for most of my entire oblivious life.
I can tell you from experience the NDE is just the bodies reaction to dying, it will do anything to start your heart again and the NDE is it trying to do just that.
Once the life leaves you it is pure blackness and nothing else.
Interestingly, there is someone who indeed came back from death, a very complete and torturous one, death on a cross. Crucifixion, which is where I believe the word excruciating comes from because of horrific pain it inflicts upon its victim. Yes, Jesus came back from the dead and it was the most significant event in history, which is why it was recorded so well by numerous people who witnessed it. This event changed everything on heaven and on earth. It even reset the calendar years. I'm writing this in the year of our Lord 2022.
The cool thing is it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, you will when you die. Even the devil believes in God. Heck, Einstein's theories started from the viewpoint (the knowledge) that there was a time before time and space (before creation). He mathematically extrapolated forward in "time" from the point of creation. Most all of his theories have been observed to be true, in one form or another. One example being: The atomic clocks used in satellites move forward or backwards in time, depending on their relative rotation to the earth. If Einstein wasn't a Jew, he wouldn't have started with the FACT that there was a time before time, space, and matter.
@@cornpop7805 He did not come back they drank his blood and then using witchcraft walked him around like a puppet and then they ate his flesh!
And you lot have been re enacting the crime for the last 2000 years , eating his flesh and drinking his blood in a sad imitation of the original crime!.
Don't you ever call me Jesus again!
@@Soulless1666
I hope you realize someday that there is and has been a movement to make an army of atheist disciples and they've been talking into your ear since you've been old enough to hear. Big tech, Hollywood, and academia are all in on the big lie that there is no God, Jesus, and the afterlife. Please, for the sake of your immortal soul, find your way to open your heart. Surely you've noticed that the number of senseless deaths and massacres have increased as the number of people leaving the church and the number of abortions have increased. This is both correlation and causation.
There's not even blackness. You no longer exist and you perceive nothing.
The human soul is eternal and once dead, we serve out the rest of eternity in one of two planes of existence: one is referred to as heaven, the other is referred to as hell. Hell is the absence of God. Some make a long pit stop in purgatory, also known as limbo.
What's referred to as dead is merely leaving this plane of existence, which is essentially a trial, for which you are judged and sentenced for the rest of eternity. Purgatory for those who are in need of additional purification before going to the plane of existence, called heaven.
Einstein proved numerous biblical concepts. The biggest being God "spoke" the heavens and the earth into existence, meaning it appeared from nothing. Before Space (and matter) there was no time. We call it the impetus for this "The big bang". The other big biblical concept Einstein proved mathematically was, other planes of existence. The Bible documented these 4 thousand years before Einstein expressed these concepts mathematically.
Now take this story and compare it with DMT experiences.
Makes a claim, no empirical data to support it.
""" scientist """
Take 7g of mushrooms and call me in the morning.
You cannot find emperical data for things that are immaterial.
it's like measuring Your weight with a Ruler 📏
@@toology55 I've had high mushroom doses, and still, they are altering the chemistry of the brain, not showing you an actual alternate reality.
None yet
Stuff like this convinces me reincarnation, especially in the animist sense, has decent grounds in mass-energy conservation. In recent discoveries the information equivalence to mass and energy means NDE could be attempts to apply this to our own mental data.
NDE is very similar to dreams, because that they see in their NDE is "arranged". I mean they don't choose to see or to explore the unknown world(realm). Even no one would tell us how they themselves look like, how they feel when they touch themselves. Can they hold their own arms? Do they have heart to beat? Do they have lungs to breathe? do they have skin and muscles? Do they take the form of human? If you are experiencing out of body experience, you should have tried to find out all of these questions.
Another thing is many NDErs just tell us their stories, but no one would show us any evidences, like the pictures of accidents, medical history, or the death announcement from their doctors. How do we know that their stories are real not hoax?
China has a population of about 1.4 billions, but I have never heard of NDE stories, the only recorded was the study of the those survived the Tangshan earth quake in 1976 in Hebei province in China. even so, their NDEs were very different from those in the United States.
I hope Dr. Bruce Greyson would answer the above questions. Thank you so much.
China is know for having a bias to any kind of spiritual practice (at least in the government ) and dose not document things like that.
I saw darkness.
This entire world is a dream we make up which we can learn from to make better choices. Those choices won't necessarily change the dream but they will change how we see it and whether we are happy and help others to be happy, too. Until we start to realize that we are making it up, we think that only by changing the world we will be happy.
I had a near death experience last week. I told my wife she was fat!
He didn't prove NDEs were real or that they saw a god, let alone which one. lt would be interesting to know what he thinks the chances of there being a god is, and which one.
Well no he said that they recount accurate visions of what happened and can get info that they otherwise couldn't have known. That lets you know that they're probably not hallucinations.
I’ve never heard it explained better.
In competitive freediving there are many cases of athletes blacking out due to low oxygen and requiting outside help to prevent death. If NDEs were caused by low O2 in brains you’d expect many reports of NDEs. Over a decade in international competitive freediving community and I have heard of zero cases of NDEs. So, it would seem that other explanations are needed.
That's not how brains work. The average person has multiple dreams every night and often remember nothing. Why would an NDE be different?
@DarkNemesiss In the example provided by the alleged scientist, he claims that a conversation held in another room was known to the patient. We have no idea if that conversation was later spoken of within earshot of the patient. We do know that the unconscious brain is capable of hearing and interpreting sound. We also have no idea if the patient heard the conversation first hand. Like a blind person, the patients hearing may be more sensitive. Plus, acoustics are weird. Sound can easily travel through a vent a fair distance or bounce around every hard surface. There are cathedrals where you can whisper in one corner and be heard way over in the opposite corner.
Why are you skipping mundane explanations for fantasies that require a dozen hoops to jump thru? Prove a single thing. One. Just ONE. For the love of imaginary Christ, I wish one of you would pray to your absentee father and get some fucking proof. Why does he insist on making you look like fools?
I was put on a breathing machine during surgery and I had a near death experience. Messing with the autonomic nervous system can produce them, I think.
What did you experience?
@@jammadamma A visual past life review conducted by a group of monks who kept laughing the whole time while repeatedly saying, 'Do you get it NOW?'
@@ziziroberts8041 scary
@@sravasaksitam Cancer is scary.
@@ziziroberts8041 how do know it was your past life and did they always said that phrase?
Very unscientific take from a scientist. If he wants to give his personal experience you shouldn't portrait it like this.
@DarkNemesiss Yes you got that right I am an atheist. I don't just believe some random BS because my parents believed it.
Check out Anthony Chene UA-cam channel. he has wonderful (non religious) interviews with people about their NDE's.
☁He doesn't quite answer the question here...Are NDE real or not❓❔☁
"Defends"?
One piece of evidence that would strongly favor those who believe NDEs are somehow truly from God or some deity would be if different people from different cultures saw the same entity. If an Australian aboriginal were to see Jesus in a cross without ever hearing about Jesus.
But of course that won’t happen.
@DarkNemesiss Says you
I for 1 am really trying to figure out the purpose in this whole thing called life. Ive never had a NDE but I believe there is life after death of this body. From what I am observing after listening to many many NDE experiences from people. They need to do more work..They have more to do.. Is there a quota for us? Based on our abilities. Physical, mental and emotional abilities. To help other people. Im not a christian. But in the Bible Jesus states Greater love has no one than this, to lay down ones life for his friends. A life of sacrifice? Is that what we are expected to do for the Divine?
Mellen Thomas Benedict is the most studied near death experiencer
Why are you only covering only one view point . There are research that explains NDE clearly
There's no one agreed upon thing that causes NDEs. Plus all known explanations fall short and often discard explaining the extrasensory perception component of the experience.
I agree that there is no definite research that has put this issue to rest, but the evidence clearly leans towards the notion that there is more to NDEs than being a pure brain-produced phenomenon
@@Get-A-Load-Of-This Can't say that for sure. Like you said no real research has been conducted
I am unsubscribing. You aren't thinking enough, big think. You aren't covering multiple viewpoints here and you obviously haven't thought enough about this. You're only covering one heavily biased viewpoint.
Why are you so triggered?
@@moontears3887 because some people are honest and care about facts over feelings. There is zero evidence of anything beyond death.
@@TheMrfrodough none yet, give it time n space 💫💚🙏🌟
@@mpv9866 that is a dishonest argument. The time to believe something is when it's proven, never before.
@@TheMrfrodough What kind of evidence exactly are you looking for?