When I was 3 my family was moving and we lived near a pretty busy, and my grandmother was on the other side of the road and I was pretty bored so I decided to cross the street and no one was watching me, so I started walking, but I didnt know it but a car was coming and going about 50. So right before th car hit me, my dad saw me and ran out and threw me off of the road, and he got hit. His leg broke, the bone basically was ripped out of his leg, and he was pretty ****ed up. But he's fine now.
Two Swiss scientists say they have been able to identify a part of the brain that may be responsible for the "out-of-body" experiences of patients who came close to death.
Neurologists Olaf Blanke and Margitta Seeck said in a joint statement they had been able to make the observation during exploratory experiments for treatment of severe forms of epilepsy.
Electrical stimulation of a key area of the brain near the temple upset the mind' s perception of the body, according to the team from the University of Geneva' s medical school and the Neuroscience institute at the Swiss federal technical college in Lausanne (EPFL).
The brain generates an image of the body in the mind. But this is an external image as if the body were projected under, facing or behind the person, they said.
In the first two instances, the patients still recognise their own image; in the latter, however, they sense another, sombre and menacing, presence.
Update.
Electrodes implanted into the brain to treat a man with a stubborn case of ringing in the ear, sparked an out-of-body sensation instead, doctors over here (Belgium) reported.Stimulating the electrodes made the 63-year-old patient feel like he was outside his body twice, for 15 and 21 seconds, and allowed the doctors to use a PET scanner to track which parts of the brain became active during the experience.
The out-of-body sensation of near-death experiences, sometimes reported by people whose hearts have stopped for a time, are regarded by some people as evidence of an afterlife.
Most scientists are doubtful, especially when epilepsy, migraine headaches, and brain stimulation can mimic the sensation.
A team led by Dirk De Ridder of the Antwerp University report in the New England Journal of Medicine that they were trying to cure the man of tinnitus in one ear when they stumbled onto the phenomenon.
The treatment did not work. Instead, the electrodes made the man feel like he was about 50 centimeters (20 inches) behind his body and off to the left.
Only a certain pattern of stimulation, involving a portion of the superior temporal gyrus, located on the right side of the brain, produced the sensation.
Positron emission tomography, or PET scans, showed that other parts of the brain became active as a result, including the supramarginal gyrus, which processes information from the inner ear designed to detect head movement and position.
"Whether these regions are activated in patients who report disembodiment as part of a near-death experience - and if so, how - is a provocative but unresolved issue," they wrote.
Originally posted by ragesRemorseI had something like that happen once... not the overdosing/almost dying part but the part about thinking your dead (or not knowing what the **** was happening) cause everything's repeating itself.. only lasted a couple minutes but at least it felt like eternity.
When i overdosed on drugs my heart stopped. I guess that counts for near death. couldnt tell you what it was like though, because i was passed out. I know when i woke up though, i thought i was dead and in hell, because everything kept repeating itself. this continued untill the drugs worked their way out of my system.
Storm's very much correct. Please read through her above posts before viewing the video below.
The following is an experiment from Dr. Michael Shermer that tests these ideas firsthand, and shows how OBE's can be simulated in a lab setting, and explain the vast majority of NDE's using neuroscience.
Shermer's writings extrapolate on this and other paranormal phenomenon, most of which are explainable through more rational means.
Re: Did anyone here ever have a near death experise?
Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
There are some stories I hear on tv about people who say they died and saw there body sleeping a nd was taken to heaven.
And bought back.Not everyone believes it but what do you guys think about this?
I think people do have near death excerises.(Sorry about the spelling)JM 😕 😮 😛
People who have NDE are hallucinating.
near death experience
i got shot at close range in echo park california about 15 years ago and as i was laying in the middle of the street looking at the sky i felt really weak like i wanted to close my eyes and go to sleep and at that very moment it seemed like nothing was moving in the sky and i remember wondering why the ambulance was taking so long.everything seemed frozen as the second flash went off my eyes didnt see the sky anymore because the flashes were going off so fast all i could see was darkness.the scary part was that it was nothing but really bad things that i had done in my life nothing good. as i could remember it was about 8 or 9 flashes and when they stopped i was so terrified that i started asking god for forgiveness and also for a another chance.i asked as if i was talking to someone.a few seconds later ambulance picked me up and took me to the the hospital where they operated on me for 13 hours.this was about 15 years ago.everytime i think about it i feel in my heart and soul that i was going to die and go to hell and everytime i think about it i know jesus is knocking in my heart and i finally realized that he did give me another chance.i hope that no one ever experiences this event because i dont care who you are you will have fear in your heart and you will be very terrified.ive now changed my life and i believe in my heart that when my heart does stop to beat forever that i will go to heaven.i am not trying to preach to anyone so take care and i hope that maybe this will event in my life will help someone take care javier................................
Re: Did anyone here ever have a near death experise?
Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
There are some stories I hear on tv about people who say they died and saw there body sleeping a nd was taken to heaven.
And bought back.Not everyone believes it but what do you guys think about this?
I think people do have near death excerises.(Sorry about the spelling)JM 😕 😮 😛
I never had a near death experience, before. Now, my dad on the other hand did. He told me, when he was in the hospital, over a heart attack, he saw his soul going up to Heaven; luckily the doctors were able to save him.
Peace,
Amanda