Well technically, it’s a “near death” experience. I had one, BUT i am convinced that it is a matter of the brain misfiring while in a state of dying, causing hallucinations, especially if high fever is involved, which i had. I beleive it isthe brain’s mechanism to help protect the dying person from the pain and fear of dying, as It causes an altered state that separates itself from the trauma of dying.
I know there are some who claim out of body experiences, and claimto see things “that they couldn’t possibly have seen otherwise” (for instance, a m3dical 5ool atop a dresser, too high to see from a bed) but I question that. I don’t totally discount it, but do question it.
It is a real experience? Or just the brain going haywire? I suspect the latter, though i can’t say with 100% certainty. I only know ehat I 3xperienced, and being that it wasn’t biblically sound, I personally know that it was a runc5ion of a brain in a traumatic situation trying to protect itself efen thougnthe experience was horrible (I “went” 5o hell, not heaven, and while thay i n its3lf was frightening and horrid, it did seperate me from the physical trauma in the process of dying)
Wow! Major spelling mistakes- if anyone can’t decifer what I wrote, I’ll rewrite it
Well, I freaked out my surgeon by telling him to have a wonderful time at a concert he was chatting about during the operation. And even told him what classical music was playing in the operating room.
His jaw dropped open and quietly and quickly walked away from my bed in the recovery room.
Second operation...don’t recall a single thing. LOL.
I never had an NDE, but I have had other experiences which prove to me that there is a soul and that once it leaves the body it can interact with the physical domain.
Christian history has more than a few who were “vouchsafed a vision of hell” without necessarily implying that the person experiencing it was headed that direction.
When it happened to me I was deep inside the hospital ICU in an induced coma.
I “left” the hospital to visit my friends in their dreams to tell them either I would survive but if not I was saying goodbye. (It was nighttime).
What bothered me was it was raining, not hard, kind of a drizzle, no thunderstorms, but I was getting wet.
Months later I looked at what the weather was like that evening. Light showers.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/tn/memphis/KMEM/date/2010-6-3
So the out of body experiences described could be related to dreaming.
Now when I was very young, probably 4 or 5 years old, I remember having a "dream" where I was floating in my bedroom near the ceiling and could see myself in the bed down below. I slowly floated down towards my body on the bed and then I "woke up". I still remember that dream clearly all these years later - or was it even a dream!
Did the experience affect your typing ability?
There are many books on near death experiences I haven't read but have heard recently one doctor now deliberately sets up items on high places that the patients could never see from their beds and then asks them about these later.
Fr.Robert Spitzer has referenced the accidental one of the patient who said there was an old tennis shoe on the roof of the building next to where he revived after briefly being apparently dead. Staff climbed stairs and checked and found the shoe. No one could view it from the first building. Weird.
The better explanation is that the brain is not the origin of consciousness but a conduit for it, just as a TV is not the source of the images and sound on display but a conduit for them. Kill the body and consciousness survives, just as smashing a TV does not eliminate the programming it displayed.
Notably, there are many examples of carefully controlled and well documented hypnotic past life regressions that support the view of consciousness as surviving death. Similarly, there are evidential mediums whose abilities at accessing the dead in spirit form are so well proven as to exclude fraud.
As for frightful NDEs, they seem to be a warning to change course in life, both for the person affected and for those who hear of the experience.
I think it’s a real experience. One story that I read about an NDE, the person spotted a shoe on a ledge of the hospital outside. Not visible from inside. When he ‘came back’ & mentioned it, someone went to look, & the shoe was there.
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