It would sad if when my life flashes before my eyes I become bored.
I’m shocked they never recorded the brain waves of dying person before this.
Beat me to the BrainStorm post...
I remember reading elsewhere that brain activity can continue 10 minutes after?
Hello, you’re dead. First things first.. the coffee is over there.
So Joe did have a cognitive test then.
No one is recording Joe’s waves?????
Interesting, as I have never heard of gamma brain waves.
Only beta, alpha, theta, and delta.
Oddly enough, I’m currently reading a 1995 book called The High Performance Mind by Anna Wise.
It talks about the four types of brainwaves I stated.
Why can't they just say 15 minutes? The article, while interesting, is chock full of unnecessary obtuse words that obscure some of the best information. Also, they measured the 30 seconds after the heart stops beating, but don't say what the brain scan showed. They only discuss the 15 minutes prior to the heart stopping.
If the memories a good ones, then perhaps:
“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.”
Luke 2:29
dr: hmmm
nurse: what is it dr?
dr: it just says, “let’s Go Brandon”
nurse: should i get dr. jill on the line?
900 seconds of uploading into the cloud?
Biden press conference.
There were also no baseline, ‘normal’ brain scans of this patient to compare the brain activity to. However, by definition we can’t have access to such data in healthy patients whose deaths are impossible to anticipate. Therefore, obtaining recordings of the near-death phase could only come from an already ill patient.
Despite these limitations, the team’s findings do point to a potential link between brain waves observed during death with the phenomenological experiences of NDEs, where participants describe their life flashing before their eyes.
Fascinating. There are ways to control your brainwaves with biofeedback. I was extremely good at that many years ago, so good I was part of a network tv show.
So, perhaps I know how to stay alive.
Or it is truly the process whereby God, who is not bound by time or space, is bringing our lives before us in seconds, calling to us to accept him, one last time, before we face eternity.
“Something we may learn from this research is: although our loved ones have their eyes closed and are ready to leave us to rest, their brains may be replaying some of the nicest moments they experienced in their lives.”
Lets hope so. Based on my limited experience of being told what grandparents, my parents and my wife’s mother did and/or said and all seeming to enjoy that moment.
They appeared to be enjoying their last moments with family or with medical people.
One, my maternal Grandmother, died at alone at her beloved kitchen table, surrounded by recipe books and assorted remembrance items, pictures, baby books and announcements in news papers.
She had made her favorite Root beer soda/sundae and had just finished it. My grandfather’s retirement pocket watch and his picture were on that table. I have had that watch in my office for decades in a special showcase built by my wife, set at his favorite time, 5 for 5 pm.
It said other animals like rats may have similar brain activity to this at the point of death. I can think of no evolutionary advantage to this, nor a vestigial purpose that no longer applies. So getting ready to die in this way may be a gift from God? Just because?
Short Story with
Intermissions.