Near Death Experience Study Opinions?

[He lives]

[KevinM1]

Howard Storm? Again? He didn't even come close to death. While waiting to have surgery to fix a duodenal perforation (an ulcer}, he passed out from the pain. He had his 'vision', and then woke up. The surgery was successful, with no hiccups.

It's pretty obvious that his dream was fuelled by fear and stress. That he started believing in god afterward only shows him to have been a shitty skeptic and nothing more.

[Edwardo Piet]

You know someone has no idea what they are talking about when they use phrases such as "scientifically proven".

Proven under scientific conditions.

Exactly what I mean. You don't know what you're talking about.

The way I see it... an 'afterlife' is an incoherent concept, because a continuation of life in another form is not a new life. And a 'near death experience' would mean you nearly died, so didn't die at all. I nearly died once. But apparently nearly dying isn't a near death experience

[The Grand Nudger]

The most commonly reported "near death experience" is lost time.  No experience at all.

Precisely what happened with me.  In 1987, I 'coded' for hat I was told was about eight seconds.  No light, no tunnel, not figure robed in white, no floating round the room - none of it.  I remember a feeling of intense pressure and waking up several days later, nothing in between.

Boru

I didn't get to go to the cosmic USO show in the sky either.  I just woke up later.  It's a shame, really, because I'm certainly not going to beat myself over the head hard enough for a repeat attempt at grasping the golden ticket.....but it would have been cool to have that experience.

[KevinM1]

The best trips I ever had were on ketamine. 10-13 year old me tripping balls in the hospital, experiencing weird, impossible things as vividly as I see my computer monitor now. Hallucinations that were, in every way, complete - sights, sounds, smells, feelings. It convinced me that our brain chemistry is a fragile thing, and that changes to it can have an immense effect. And it's why I will always remain skeptical of any NDE claims.

[Ravenshire]

[Edwardo Piet]

[He lives]

So you are saying that the brain has the ability to detect post it notes on a monitor while the eyes are closed? Can you do that? Can you go into a room you have never been in before blindfolded and afterwards describe everything in the room just by detecting it with your brain?

Why, then, has such a phenomenon failed to appear every time it has been subjected to scientific testing? 

What kind of surgeon would blindfold their patients?

Are you unaware that you actually spend some time wide awake in the theatre before surgery? Every time I have been I have spent some idle time looking around before the action starts.

So you don't think that the heart surgeon would have thought of that? Perhaps you should interview him yourself.

[Jehanne]

[The Valkyrie]

'Tis bullshit.