(November 24, 2014 at 12:03 pm)Losty Wrote: It only seemed like some mysterious thing because my brain wasn't functioning properly at the time and my perception was all fucked up.That may be all that it is. It seems that our brains work very, very hard to make sense of the information streaming into it. If we are disoriented for any reason, the brain apparently goes into overdrive to try and make sense of the discordant data suddenly flooding it, even if it means dumping us into a dream-like state where anything goes... including out-of-body experiences and the whole bright-lights-and-dead-grandparents reunion.
That may seem weird, but I think most of us have had some very vivid dreams where the impossible happens and we treat it nonchalantly. The brain is used to going all science-fiction on us when we're not completely conscious or lucid; NDEs may simply be another dream state.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould