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What Goes On In Your Brain During A Near-Death Experience

What Goes On In Your Brain During A Near-Death Experience
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Many of those who had gone through near-death experiences reported their different versions of what they think it feels like to have “Life Review Experiences (LREs).” An experience, researchers say seems like a replay of the past.

A team of researchers led by Judith Katz, a neurologist at Hadassah University in Jerusalem came up with neurological and statistical evaluations to support the claims that “life review experiences (LREs)” do occur when someone is on the verge of dying.

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The study which was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, analyzes stories of 7 people who underwent full LRE. And, authors found several common elements in the stories after in-depth interviews – though some instances also contradicted previously held beliefs about “life review experiences.”

One of the participants of the study talked about the orderliness of the life events being replayed:

There is not a linear progression, there is lack of time limits […] It was like being there for centuries. I was not in time/space so this question also feels impossible to answer. A moment, and a thousand years… both and neither. It all happened at once, or some experiences within my near-death experience were going on at the same time as others, though my human mind separates them into different events.

Another participant hinted at the emotional experiences from the perspective of others close to them:

I could individually go into each person and I could feel the pain that they had in their life … I was allowed to see that part of them and feel for myself what they felt.”

However, what the researchers found to be the most interesting part of the study, was the major change in perspective regarding significant people in their lives.

To that end, authors collected the main characteristics of LRE to mold a questionnaire and to device an LRE-score that best reflects LRE phenomenology. The survey was administered to a group of 264 participants of diverse ages and backgrounds.

Researchers noted that many of the elements identified in the quantitative result are common things that are also evident in healthy people.

Read also: Life After Death! Interesting Scientific Approaches

These results suggest that the LRE phenomenon is based on an alteration of a common neurocognitive mechanism shared by the general, healthy population.

In conclusion, authors say the brain isn’t reacting to the threat of death, but what really happens at near death is a replay of one’s own life-events.

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REFERENCE / RESOURCES

Judith Katz, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Shahar Arzy. The life review experience: Qualitative and quantitative characteristics. Published in Consciousness and Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.10.011

Gerald M. Woerlee. he Near-Death Experience: Unanswered Questions (2009). The Secular Web.
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Remsun Debbarma January 31, 2017 - 8:28 pm

You have shared very interesting content with us, as there ‘re no one who can tell the near to death experience. But even after reading all this we can not say actually what the real experience would be. Anyway thanks for this awesome post you have given us 🙂

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Moses N. Chukwu January 31, 2017 - 11:42 pm

You are welcome. And, thanks for the comment.

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