[Rakkasan1]

...Horrible sensations of falling or rising at high speed. Like a lift or driving down a hill. G- acceleration and deceleration. Almost makes you want to throw up.

kinda like seeing Helen Thomas pictures.

[bkepley]

Nah..they're wrong..it's space aliens.

[Old_Mil]

Don't buy it. If you read the accounts of people who have claimed to have near death experiences, they read as accounts of things that the amygdala inadequate to be the mediator for. If one was to account for them with neuronal activity, you'd have to resort to significant activity in the cerebral cortext to get there.

In the end, this article amounts to nothing more than one professor's belief - which, by the way, contradicts what we know about neuroscience.

[Right in Wisconsin]

Not surprisingly, these bizarre experiences - called REM intrusions by scientists - are accompanied by fear and terror.

Don't believe out of body experiences that involve feelings of going to the light or seeing angels could be fear or terror

[diamond6]

I have a friend, (I don't think she would mind me telling her story) who will remain anonymous, who claims she died. She did see Christ, who told her to "hold on to life" and He sent her back. While she was with Him, she noticed a gate with a door. The door was only open a little bit, she could have never passed through.

She came back and is now a Eucharistic Minister to the homebound. She is a wonderful and holy woman.

[LibKill]

"Many times I've left my senses, fought giant serpents, rats upon my bed!" (Edmund-Edmund, Not Insane, Firesign Theatre)

[aberaussie]

bttt

[RepublicanPOTUSin08]

I experience sleep paralysis from time to time. Never had an OBE or an NDE. Mine is the more mundane version as described in the article. It happens when I'm coming awake, but equidistant from both sleep and consciousness. I hear mumbling or laughter or some such thing, often feel like I'm being pulled or sucked down a vortex, all accompanied by an immense feeling of terror that causes me to scream myself awake. The first time it happened, I was pretty scared afterward. Now, I sort of know what to expect, and know that it's natural, so depending on how conscious I am, it's more of an annoyance than anything. Sort of like, "okay, let's get this overwith." Happens very rarely, thankfully.

[OldPossum]

Then how do you explain more than one individual who "floated" above the room while doctors feverishly tried (and succeeeded in) to save their lives? These people were able to later describe exactly what happened during their time of "death." The medical personnel were amazed at the details provided.

This is just something I once read and cannot vouch for other than saying that. But if it is so, then there are death experiences no matter what this person in this study says.

[BunnySlippers]

I have had long periods of time where I have suffered from sleep paralysis. It is indisious and very frightening.

[Ditto]

Because the brain turns off the body's ability to move during dreaming,...

Stopped reading right there. That's bull.

A long-long time ago --- I used to pitch softball and during one game, I had a hard-hit line drive right back at my face. I caught the ball with no problem and even doubled the guy off first who had broken for second when the batter swung. I didn't think anything of it at the time.

But that night, this was only a few weeks after I got married, I had a 'flashback dream', where that ball was coming right at my face and I reacted by thrashing my "glove hand" and ended up smacking my sleeping wife right in the face. We both woke up and my bride wondered what the hell hit her and as I tried to explain, --- well, it just made it worse. ;~))

Yes, you can move during dreams.

[EyeGuy]

Yeah, Professor Secular whatever it takes..but by whatever roundabout method of scientific-method tortuosity you use to get there, none of that God and Heaven superstititious nonsense. Right? Don't wanna jeopardize the grant money gravy train.


So the mystery of what starts the baby's heart beating inside his mother's womb can be explained by String Theory, I suppose.

[Bobalu]

I have very occasional sleep paralysis, OBEs and lucid dreams.
My OBEs always begin with a really odd rushing sound in the head that is hard to describe....sort of a cross between a sound and the buzzy sensation you get when your leg goes to sleep on you.

No..I don't smoke weed, drink or take dope.

[glymers]

These so called doctors can somehow say that there is no such thing as spiritual dimension. NDE Seeing the White Light, Speaking to God or Jesus, But yet they can not explain how pvs patients and brain injury patients are waking up after years in a coma, able to tell their stories of a Spiritual Healing. Just today in the news a woman woke from a 6 year coma and the doctors called it a Miracle, a Mystery.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

A lot of people seem to feel an intense need to return to their body when they have these experiences. Maybe this is where ghosts come from?

I've sometimes had the "Falling out of bed" sensation.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump.....

[endthematrix]

Re: "idea that the near-death experience is a biological experience"

The study is nothing new. Try research from Dr. Persinger and his "God Helmet." Bombard the brain with EM waves and feel what happens. Everything from terror to sexual gratification. He also knows cell phones has an effect on the brain.

[aberaussie]

"I am a firm believer in biology," Prof Nelson said yesterday.

...and therefore will seek and accept only naturalistic explanations for these phenomena. Nothing supernatural is possible.

[calex59]

Yeah, a person always has sleep paralysis when they die. The people who have these experiences are not near death, they are dead and are resuscitated. They are not asleep. I know two people who have died and had after(not near) death experiences. Scientist have come up with BS explanations before and this one is a little more off the wall then normal. The last theory put forth was that people suffered hallucinations due to lack of oxygen.