Near Death Experiences
Near death experiences fascinate me. People so often describe the experience as more lucid than normal waking life, super conscious, as if they had awoken from a dream and life had been the dream.
My mother tells me that she came home from work to find me passed out on the floor as the result of an asthma attack. I have no memory relating to that at all, not even that it happened.
It is the super conscious aspect of it that I find particularly intriguing. I'm not sure exactly what it is that is the basis for our own judgment of self-lucidity. Is our judgment impaired, or is the mind, freed of the brain, able to perceive more clearly?
While I haven't had any near death experiences that I can remember, I have had to two waking out of body experiences. In neither of those did I have any sense of super consciousness. My awareness of my surroundings seemed actually pretty ordinary.
My mother tells me that she came home from work to find me passed out on the floor as the result of an asthma attack. I have no memory relating to that at all, not even that it happened.
It is the super conscious aspect of it that I find particularly intriguing. I'm not sure exactly what it is that is the basis for our own judgment of self-lucidity. Is our judgment impaired, or is the mind, freed of the brain, able to perceive more clearly?
While I haven't had any near death experiences that I can remember, I have had to two waking out of body experiences. In neither of those did I have any sense of super consciousness. My awareness of my surroundings seemed actually pretty ordinary.
posted by Nanook at 1:57 PM
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You might want to check out the research papers about NDEs on the website of the International Association for Near-Death Studies at www.iands.org/research/important_studies, particularly the two written by Dr. Peter Fenwick and Dr. Pim Van Lommel.
Allen
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