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Near-Death Experiences ‘Realer Than Real’

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Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are triggered during singular life-threatening episodes when the body is injured by a trauma, a heart attack, asphyxia, shock. About one in 10 patients with cardiac arrest in a hospital setting undergoes such an episode.

Thousands of survivors of these harrowing touch-and-go situations tell of leaving their damaged bodies behind and encountering a realm beyond everyday existence, unconstrained by the usual boundaries of space and time. These powerful, mystical experiences can lead to permanent transformation of their lives.

NDEs are not fancy flights of the imagination. They share broad commonalities—becoming pain-free, seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel and other visual phenomena, detaching from one’s body and floating above it, or even flying off into space (out-of-body experiences). They might include meeting loved ones, living or dead, or spiritual beings such as angels; a recollection of lifetime memories (“my life flashed in front of my eyes”).

Yet not all NDEs are blissful—some can be frightening, marked by intense terror, anguish, loneliness and despair. It seems possible that distressing NDEs are significantly underreported because of shame, social stigma and pressure to conform to the prototype of the “blissful” NDE.

A 2017 study by two researchers at the University of Virginia raised the question of whether the paradox of enhanced cognition occurring alongside compromised brain function during an NDE could be written off as a flight of imagination.

The researchers administered a questionnaire to 122 people who reported NDEs. They asked them to compare memories of their experiences with those of both real and imagined events from about the same time. The results suggest that the NDEs were recalled with greater vividness and detail than either real or imagined situations were. In short, the NDEs were remembered as being “realer than real.”

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Date: 3 June 2020
Credits Publisher: Spiritual News

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