Have you ever had a near-death experience? Have you ever seen the world after death? In this issue, Xiaobian will walk into this death journey with you. Near-death experience refers to an experience when humans are close to death, and according to statistics, about 20% of people who have experienced cardiac arrest have had this magical experience. Therefore, many people speculate that there will still be something that survives after death, that is, the soul as religion calls it.
Mainstream materialism holds that only matter is real, so when the human brain stops functioning, the will disappears. What exactly happens after human death has been explored since the beginning of human beings. Looking back at human history, near-death experiences have occurred as early as prehistoric times, and in 1892, the first collection of near-death experiences was published.
Heim was a Swiss geographer who accidentally fell while climbing a mountain and had a wonderful experience when he fell off the mountain. According to his description, as the fall got faster and faster, time began to zoom in, and the experience shocked him. So he began to ask about other fallen cliff people, and soon collected 30 cases like his own. These people have all fallen from high places and experienced wonderful experiences. Later, medical technology developed rapidly, people's chances of survival increased, and more people who were rescued began to tell their near-death experiences.
According to their description, they felt that they had left the flesh and come to another magical land. In 1975, Dudy wrote about the afterlife, which led more people to take the near-death experience seriously. Most neuroscientists think the near-death experience is nonsense, so they looked at it. In the existing materialist science, consciousness is all the result of the action of the brain, so when the brain stops functioning, humans will not be conscious.
But in near-death experiences, even if the brain has stopped functioning, consciousness will still be expanded on a larger scale, so some scholars believe that consciousness is not all the role of the brain. In the minds of many scientists, the study of near-death experiences is just a comical act, because this is only the subjective experience of near-death, and it is difficult to objectively prove it through instruments. But in fact, human beings have never stopped exploring near-death experiences, and we try to find the same laws from different stories. The study found that no matter how you approach death, there are very similar experiences in near-death experiences.
For example, all dying people feel that their concept of time has become confused, and they will also have feelings of happiness, warmth, surrounded by love, and some will see supernatural things. And when these dying people wake up, their worldview changes dramatically. There have been many medical explanations for the wonderful experience of near-death experiences. Some believe that the hallucinations of the dying are caused by the drugs they are given.
But this view was quickly broken, because the study found that the fewer drugs injected into them, the more likely they were to have near-death experiences, which meant that drugs inhibited the occurrence of near-death experiences. Some scholars believe that near-death experiences are caused by lack of oxygen in the brain, because no matter how you die, brain hypoxia is an inevitable factor. However, according to decades of scientific research, lack of oxygen does not make people feel warm and peaceful when they are dying, but will make people nervous and urgent. This is completely contrary to the blissful experience that the dying person says.
Some scholars believe that although the dying man's heart stopped beating, a small part of his brain was still running, but scientists did not find it, but this idea was quickly rejected by brain experts. Because consciousness is produced by a high degree of coordination of the brain, if only a small part of the brain is running, it is impossible to produce consciousness, and when the brain is hypoxic, it has no way to organize coordination, and after 20 seconds when the heart stops beating, the EEG directly becomes a straight line, which also means that the brain has stopped functioning. And the EEG of near-death experiencers shows a straight line for far more than 20 seconds.
The near-death experiencer Reynolds is a vivid example, her brain basal blood vessels are severely inflated, in order to complete the operation, they must extract blood from Reynolds's brain, lower the body temperature, and thus shrink the hemangioma, so that within an hour of the operation, there is no blood flowing into her brain. During the operation, her EEG had become a straight line, without any brain activity, and according to medical opinion, she was completely dead.
However, she miraculously came back to life and reported a blissful near-death experience. She claimed to have seen everything in the operating room, but it was impossible for her to see at this point, her eyes were blindfolded throughout the operation. Miraculously, however, she could describe surgical tools that she had never seen before. Doctors at the time agreed that this could not happen, and it was a miracle that a dying person lying on a hospital bed could describe the course of the operation.
Will human consciousness really disappear after death, or travel to an unknown and wonderful world, for which we have been searching for the truth. The world is so big that until truth is verified, we are still ignorant explorers. Have you ever had a near-death experience, and how do you think about death, welcome to leave a message to communicate. Thank you for your viewing, and we'll see you next time.