Does your life really flash before your eyes? Before you die? And if so is it in fast forward mode including your whole life or just the important and defining parts of your life?
*Like I assume it would only occur before you are mortaly wounded like you see a bus or truck coming and cannot move in time, as opposed to sudden death by explosion or not directly looking at it, BTW anyone believe you actually see Death himself appear and slice you his sickle balde? If so would you see your life flash before your eyes, and then Death himself or visa versa?
this is a pretty silly question because it's based on a myth.......that at first glance, anyone knows is impossible to answer.
No person has ever died.....and came back to life. No human being has ever ceased cardio and neurological function......to have died, to become lifeless and remain that way hence forth.......then have come back as a ghost to explain what they saw before they died.
it's impossible to know now........but my guess would be that somebody's mind was wandering as they came close to death, as their neurological functions began being disrupted......synapses misfiring.... what information entered their mind was memories of thier life. Then someone else reported the same.......and another...and another......and another...................ofcourse anybody who would make a claim like, "your life flashes before your eyes when you die" would be sure to leave out that yeah, a percentage of the population experience this while an equal percentage experience feelings of euphoria as if they were stoned......aswell as a percentage experiencing dreams they had once had that were still stored in their memory......aswell as a percentage experiencing their "to do" list for the next day......
it's much more profound to say, "you're life flashes before your eyes when you die" than it is to say "when you come close to death and your brain is robbed of oxygen, the synapses misfire...pulling information at random that is stored in your brain. some may be memories of past experiences but it's just as likely to be travel directions, dreams, yearnings or anything other information ever stored by your brain".
I hope I won' t find out the answer to this question in the near future.
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I don't think it's to be taken so literally that a "film-strip of your life" quickly flashes before your eyes. I do believe that if your lying down and death is imminent (say for example from a mortal wound) your best and favorite life experiences and memories come to your mind in vivid clarity. Kinda like in Forrest Gump when Bubba is mortally wounded in Vietnam and he tells Forrest "I wanna go home".
Yeah i agree that is more reasonable and logical. If however you die suddenly without time to react then your brain obviously would not have the time to generate the process of seeing the best bits of your life.
Yep, sometimes you don´t have time to 'acknowledge' your death. I think you are talking about some situations where we become extremely aware of our death, and have time to keep wondering.
Wondering about our lives is what we do when we are still alive, but in death there is no preocupations about how we lived our lifes or something like this. What is done, is done.
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Last edited by Atlantis001 on Jul 21st, 2006 at 02:17 AM
well, there's actually a book about this, its about a lady who came back from death, and it tells her journey, its pretty interesting, and she has other titles too
nobody has ever come back from death. death by it's very nature is permanent. Not one person walking this earth has ever had a complete lack or cardio and neurological function......only to miraculously have both again.
i think its the brains way of waving good bye to its self to make its self very happy with all the happiest moments of your life.
i started thinking about this when i saw armageddon and just before the bomb blows him to bits (and the rock) his life flashes.
but thinking about it now it actualy makes me feel very pieceful.
hmm
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Does your life really flash before your eyes?
Jul 16th, 2006 11:24 PM
It's also easier to say. 
