This YT channel is different people talking about their own NDE’s. Here’s an example below. You or anyone you know had an NDE? I have always been fascinated by the topic, and have read books from Dr Sam Parnia who tries to objectively study the topic.
I was passenger in a Willys Jeep that lost control and went down a steep bank right into a pond. Went completely underwater. The water was muddy, visibility was zero. I remember thinking this could be it. I remember thinking don’t try to get out until the jeep stops.
The jeep came to rest about 6 feet deep on its side, driver side down. I immediately got the door open and dismounted. My buddy popped up right behind me.
Neither one of us even got a scratch.
Got kicked off a horse that then trampled me. No recollection of the events that followed but I was told I got up and tried to get back on the horse before having a seizure. Ended up breaking almost all my ribs, blew out both my lungs, fractured my skull and eye sockets and had heavy internal bleeding and brain swelling. Was really close the the edge there… Spent a while in a coma and lots of rehab.
About 9 months later that horse and I reunited. SOB saw me walking the shed row and I’ll be damned if he didn’t start panicking. Smacked him once then forgave him. Horses do what horses do…
ETA: was about 25 years ago and I was in my early 20’s and in excellent shape. Don’t think I would have survived it today.
So and NDE is when you were dead, and had an out of body experience. In many cases the person is pronounced dead, no heart beat, no brain activity, nadda and yet can tell the doctors what they were saying, meet various spiritual beings, etc, etc. That vid in OP is an example. There’s been far more of them in recent times because they have gotten so much better at bringing people back from being clinically dead. Dr Parnia has been researching the topic for a while now:
So using Will’s example, nope… not a near death for me. No pearly gates… No angel trumpets or devil trombones… After watching the video and some others I wonder how someone that has gone through that sees life as they know if going forward.
Many give their view of life going forward. As expected, it totally changes them forever, always for the better. This one is worth a view:
We went canoeing down the rivers in Daniel Boone National forest. Had gone many times on these wild white water trips. This week it rained non stop for 7 days. The guide said if it wasn’t you guys, I have turned around 5 groups already. Canoe’s sit mangled at the rental location under normal weather.
The rapids were way too dangerous for a canoe, but we were young and dumb. Very dumb. We were half way through the trip. The normal process is to get out of the canoe and plan the route through the white water, we did that. But when we got through about 100 yards of white water we turned a corner and another 100 yards awaited us. I was on front of canoe, we went over a huge ridge and the canoe went straight through and down deep.
I was fighting to keep my head above water and would go over another rapid and it would shoot me so deep I couldn’t see light. I thought “ if I get pinned against a rock-IM DEAD”
I thought I was dead, very sure this was it. But through the grace of God…….
PB
See Post #4…
One thing that leaves me unconvinced, everyone that reports having a near death experience seems to have a different experience. I guess the light is often common, but the details all seem to differ.
There’s way more similarities than differences, which is one aspect that blows people’s and doctors minds.
So f-ing powerful:
I’ve had quite a few, but no light or pearly gates or anything like that.
You died and were brought back to life? It does not seem like most have the NDE some report. Why/how we don’t know.
How much of that is just a pre-programed response do you think? We all hear the stories, right? White light, etc, so when it happens, how can you tell that this isn’t your mind just regurgitating what you have always heard others describe it as?
When I was a child, *yes. I have no recollection of that, though.
I did wake up in an ICU once, as an adult. That was a hell of an experience. My idea of a NDE is a near miss, or surviving something that should kill you.
*we have to define “died”. There is a disparity of definitions here.
No one has the answer to that, and that’s of course part of the debate of the one side that says it’s all physical/biological, and the other that says there’s more to it then that. I think the evidence strongly favors the latter. There are things that happen that simply can’t be explained as purely biological at this point, at least not with current level of knowledge.
Doc in post #4 researches the topic and worth a view. Hos books are also quite good.
To me the fascinating part of these types of reports are when the person has an out of body experience and reports what they saw from a perspective that they were not in a position to see or when they report hearing a conversation that occurred outside of the room they were in. I draw no conclusions of my own either way and certainly don’t understand it, but admit the phenomenon is very interesting. No personal story other than my first marriage being a prolonged near death experience.
I’d say it is what your body does when you are dying, kind of like a symptom of shock, to help ease some of your suffering. I don’t want to get too deep into the subject because if people believe good things happen when they die, I wouldn’t want to be the one to even try and take any of that away from them.
I’d hope there is something else, something nicer, but as has been pointed out, we have no way to know for sure.
That’s kinds what I am thinking. We are so conditioned to expect a white light by all these stories that I feel like it may just be self induced confirmation bias.
Another good point, it may very well be just random firing of neurons as your body shuts down.
All I am saying is that there are more than one reason why the story is often the same.