Near death experience of Howard Storm

[Alex K]

CL,

Who knows what this kind of deprivation does to people's minds. It's *not a dream* either, during dreams the brain is in principle fully functional and when we wake up, the usual mechanisms for reality checking do their thing. We evolved to be functional in the real world despite having dreams. In these extreme experiences, the brain does not operate properly. You can't compare the two except to note that dreams show us that our mind is capable of astonishing fabrications.

Right, so if this happened to you (your brain fabricating an incident with God and Jesus during near death), you would wake up and rationalize it, right? You would wake up and at least eventually come to the conclusion that it was just your brain doing weird things. Correct?

It's hard to tell what I would do under such circumstances. I hope that I would still possess the skeptical faculties to understand that there is a perfectly ordinary explanation and that invoking the " supernatural " is not justified. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw Jesus in an NDE though, I was raised in a protestant environment and half my music consumption is Christian sacred works. Odds are my brain will play the St. Matthew's passion in the background if I ever have an NDE