I’ve been under general anesthesia five times and my experience has always been as you described. No dreams, no visions, no sense of elapsed time. That being said, I accept that others may have experienced something different during their times under general anesthesia and/or circulatory arrest. One of the interesting things about articles of faith and belief in life after death is that they can’t be proven or disproven through scientific means.
No doubt that stuff happens to some people.
I have enough “shining” moments to convince me that there is another world after death.
I am sure the skeptics could explain most of them, and I do not discuss them with anyone other than my wife.
I think these are great stories, but I don’t think I need to drop money on a book to describe it.
When it comes to surgery, I am more concerned about getting the needle and then not going to sleep. That would suck. I guess the vision then would be dollar signs.
I have had bypass surgery- no recall of any afterlife. Once before I had contacted a possible fatal infection- same as puppeteer Jim Hendrix died from. Doctor told my wife that if I had come to the hospital only a few hours later I would have been dead. I recall quite clearly, being unconscious, of going down a long brightly lit hallway, then making a left turn to another bright hallway until ending up at a very bright corner where someone stopped me and asked if I really wanted to make the left hand turn to the next very bright light. My recall is not clear at this point but for some reason the ‘guide’ said I was not ready to make the turn and I should go back. I next recall being patted on the face by the recovery nurse.