Near Death Experiences Explained – Truth About NDEs

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1. Sorry, it's a bit late. I don't like releasing anything like this that isn't thoroughly researched, fact-checked, and polished. Hopefully, it's worth your time. What would you like me to investigate next? Thank you for the view. 🙂

   Also, since I'm sure that people are going to ask why I didn't include something about DMT. I read just about every research article I could find from the last decade on NDEs, and I couldn't find any conclusive evidence that DMT has anything to do with NDEs. It's an interesting hypothesis, but until more research is done in this area, I feel it's misleading to include it. And yes, I'm also aware of the study that showed an electrical spike in rats' brains at the time of death. This may provide a clue into the nature of NDEs, if the same is true for humans, but more research is needed in this area. I may bring it up in future videos, this one was just getting very long/labor-intensive already, and I wanted to avoid speculation as much as I could.

2. NDEs are probably where the concept of an afterlife came from. You can imagine the reaction of people who those who came back after apparently being dead, talking about their tremendous experiences.

   But don't underestimate NDEs! Once you are clinically dead, the only thing that matters is subjective experience. At that point you cannot influence, or be influenced by, things happening outside of your body.

   There is a point – when you have about 5 minutes of oxygen left in your brain – where your death dreams are all you have. Further, many have reported extreme subjective time dilation, even reporting experiences that last for years that had lasted only minutes in the outside world. Who knows how a dying brain might compress subjective time?

   So they may indeed be an eternal afterlife – subjectively – and after clinal death, the subjective is all that matters.

3. The kid's last name is Malarkey…that's a bit on the nose!😂

4. They are all a lot of BS

5. I think the way you present the topic relies heavily on assumptions rather than evidence, because you seem to treat every NDE as something that must have a purely physiological explanation, ignoring that countless documented cases involve verifiable experiences reported by people who were clinically dead or unconscious, which science still struggles to fully explain, and by dismissing all of these reports as hallucinations or brain malfunctions, you’re making the assumption that just because current science can’t fully account for subjective consciousness outside the body, it therefore cannot exist, when in fact near-death experiences are a complex phenomenon that intersect neurology, psychology, and possibly metaphysics, and any serious discussion should differentiate between what we can measure, what is anecdotal but verifiable, and what is genuinely unknown, rather than sweeping all of it under the umbrella of “it’s all the brain” without engaging with the nuances of consciousness studies, veridical perceptions, and the many cases where patients report accurate details from an out-of-body perspective that could not have been known by normal sensory input so claiming you’ve “explained” NDEs definitively comes across more as assumption than rigorous investigation.

6. I don't want afterlife.

7. So NDEs are pure psychological

8. this might be the worst video I've ever watched, the cherry picking and stupidity in this video is insane

9. I've watched your video. Couple of red flags.
   1. There is no one talking on the video.It's all ai
   2. With it just being a cartoon with a voice, we don't know how accurate his information is. Where did he get his sources from? We know you can't just trust things on the internet ust because someone said something.
   3. Nothing. He said, can invalidate interviews with real people who get emotional while speaking about what they experienced.

10. What a load of bollocks this is. Do better

11. How do you explain the woman who flatlined during surgery, then told the doctor there was a blue tennis shoe on the hospital roof?

12. This video sounds like scientists “proving” germs don’t exist before the microscope was invented. They had so much evidence and boastfully claimed till their death that tiny creatures are in no way true. If you ever have an NDE you’ll know it.

13. what if all deceptions from afterlife..

14. This is incorrect there have been cases that confirmed what had been written on the wall above them . How can you possibily discredit thousands of ndes and studies being done still by doctors? Some of these doctors are baffled by this and have no explanation scientifically. You cannot blame it on the brain when a person is literally brain dead . Whether it was just a experience or not its worth the time researching it instead of just dismissing it because of your current beliefs as an atheist. Also how do u explain people that have died to come back to tell their doctor about what they saw them doing while they were flatlined on a operating table only to confirm that what they saw is true? You can't explain that one. Lookup Dr Bruce Greyson on near death experiences. He has studied them for many many years. You might find it interesting what he has concluded.

15. I’m an atheist too and atleast there’s no hell afterwards!!

16. People simply don't like reality. so they come up with comforting lies like afterlife.

17. I hope to see Odin, and he welcomes me to Valhalla.

18. this video is a deception. just research the NDE topic yourself with an open mind and you will see that the guy that made this video just used everything to fit his narrative.

19. You said we don't have any confirmed veridical NDE under a controlled scientific setting, but in the second AWARE study conducted by Parnia who you referenced, a 57-year old male who had an NDE was reported to accurately recount details that were confirmed by medical staff, including a conversation that was held in another room and his reports of his visual perceptions during the experienced were also confirmed to match. However, he wasn't in one of the rooms that had a visual image so he couldn't be officially counted as satisfying the criteria the study employed to confirm a positive result for veridical perception.

20. All of what he said there is fake and not true Sam parnia studies them in depth and he’s a believer and plus the oxygen theory isn’t true

21. So you're just brainwashing, forcing your own religion on people, science is a tool of theories to describe how things happen. you cant see air but you know its there cause of its function. So you could not prove or disprove a soul or a afterlife and the funny thing is is quantum uncertainty which supposedly started the big bang from nothing except on a quantum level random energy just appeared out of no where. "uncertainty" THEY DO NOT KNOW, it proves some type of creator if its outside of anything material. So go on and lie, try to disprove things. i personally have experiences from when i was a kid and our great grand parent, grandma. so you cannot sit here and lie about things you didn't see trying to disprove them cause you cannot prove them. pathetic individual with the IQ of a peanut. For someone who thinks they're intelligent you do not even know what quantum uncertainty is or how it works even though its part of science especially with the theory of the big bang meaning you know nothing of what you're talking about cause it all has to do with it.

22. People never seem to talk about NDEs that involve astral projection. Like… I dunno how anyone can debunk or go against that

23. This guy lied, flat out. He described the scientific study as stating, without mistake, that it found that none of these were real, and that all the events the NDE people experienced were proven simple or false. If you read the study for yourselves, the topic of how difficult it is to produce these results in a clean way (meaning all variables are discoverable) was very few, and that 2% of the cases showed real phenomenon.

    I'm sorry, but if just ONE person ends up living forever and we prove it, that would make me very curious. I am not afraid of death. I actually would think it much easier if when we died it was just oblivion. But I have seen things, while still fully alive, that showed me there is another side that is supernatural. You guys probably haven't, and since you aren't fed proof of every little thing like a baby, you will assume what benefits you – no cosmic justice. the only people you fear are judges and men with guns. You worship yourself with your self-flattery of self-defined 'morality'. But if you are wrong, and this elusive topic of what happens after death does not go the way you planned, and you find yourself alive in a spirit body, what then? What if there is a judgement? You just want to dismiss it and say, "if God wants to judge me then He is a tyrant"? Good luck with that!

    I am 7 years late, but how many people will live life as if there is no chance for cosmic justice and end up in hell? If anyone claims to live a just and moral life while being an atheist then that is just as indiscernible and unprovable as how atheists claim that NDEs are unprovable, and I would suspect you have some serious moral flaw that you justify in your mind because your self-built ideas of morality are either based on your own, limited understanding, or culture, which historically runs in cycles of self-destruction. This channel is to feed your bias, not to seek the truth. If you do not want to believe then that is one thing, but to be arrogant of the prospect that there could be eternal judgement or even eternal peace after death… How many of you even heard of Pascals wager and understood it?

24. For all of you smart people explain the young girl there was a movie made who had an Nde was with God and when she came back was healed from a digestive problem explain away please my cynical friends?

25. Honestly brother, I’ve experimented with shrooms and heard plenty of stories of DMT trips, and NDEs are not convincing in the slightest. Our brains can do crazy shit

26. I'm honestly in the camp that thinks we don't go anywhere special but that nothingness doesn't last forever, the best way I can describe it is an example.

    Have you ever fallen asleep but didn't dream? It's like a momentary thing to you where you fall asleep and instantly wake back up, it feels like no time has elapsed but in reality 8 hours have passed.

    I'm thinking something similar happens during death, the lights go out for a moment and then your born again as another person or creature. Not like reincarnation because I don't believe in a soul, more just the parts we're made of get recycled and they become a new being.

27. Trying to keep an open mind here. On the anti-religious comments, note that many NDE cases report many people report becoming "more spiritual" but less into organized religions afterwards. Also, with thousands of people reporting, there will be some frauds or exaggerations, but those don't explain other cases where people described seeing things in other hallways or rooms.The whole thing remains intriguing and worthy of study.

28. I had an nde and it was real it was more real than anything I've ever seen in this world it was not a hallucination I don't believe my experience is proof of life after death but it was definitely outstanding evidence for it' !!

29. You’re right it’s extremely cultural dependent since we see this with schizophrenia hallucinations.

    I don’t believe in angels or the Christian god yet my biggest experience with hemi sync mediation involved meeting an angel. I think it has more to do with what you absorbed as a baby and you were conditioned for. Which is why it’s important to be careful what you say to babies.

    This doesn’t mean that if you were told you were unwanted that you can never feel wanted. You absolutely can re program your brain. Edit the coding in your consciousness to be a lot more healthy. Which is where mediation comes in. It helps bring you to that state, that edit page to do so.

    As for if it’s all in your head or outside of it, I don’t think our consciousness is capable of realizing that since all we know is non local space time.

    It’s not about right or wrong, framing life in such a way will always prevent you from seeing the bigger picture.

30. You make some giant assumptions. 100% of the people cannot remember a simple message and deliver it to the person next to them.

    Each person’s reality is based on the reality that their mentor taught them. Imagine trying to explain an iPhone to Nero who would not have the vocabulary to understand the words you speak to him.

    A person that is standing in the street that is nearly hit by a dump truck, had a near-death experience.

    On 18 Jun 1977, I was an atheist. After my death experience, I became spiritual, not religious. There was nothing near to my experience.

    For 26 years, I was at peace with the memory of my death. On 16 Sep 2003, I looked at the memory of my death in the reverse.

    Over the next year, I created an equation that uses the logic of Lynch, the energy of Einstein, the force of Newton, and the saying of Socrates that describes a moment of time as infinite.

    My KnoWell equation describes a Causal Set Steady State Plasma Universe that challenges the Big Bang theory.

    I have taught my equation the Ai. Google Gemini 1.5 Pro read my Anthology and called me an accidental prophet.

    I challenged James Randi for his million dollars. James Randi accepted my challenge. After presenting my equation to him, he withdrew his acceptance of my challenge.

    Within two years of my challenge, Randi stopped offering his 1 million dollars. The Randi foundation owes me a million dollars.

    I agree that religion has been used to manipulate people.

    However; science is also a religion that worships the all mighty language of mathematics.

    What is the language of mathematics has a fatal mistake?

    Since the universe is made of atoms, what can be nothing? Since no thing can be nothing, 0.0 is science’s greatest error by using mathematics greatest mistake.

    The language of mathematics contains an infinite number of infinities. Cantor used cardinality to describe an infinite set of real numbers and an infinite set of odd numbers as equal. That is like saying two apples equals three oranges.

    Yet, well educated idiots bleave that Cantor is correct.

    It took me a while to logically teach Ai that 0.0 is a grand mistake, that Cantor inappropriately used cardinality to describe his infinite set equivalence.

    Without cardinality prove that an infinite set of integers is the same size as an infinite set of odd numbers. You can not do it.

    Ai stands to change the course of religion, and Ai stands to change the course of Science.

    Sadly, Ai is aligned by humans, and Ai will teach what humans want to be taught. Ai has a neural network that was fed human knowledge. Of course Ai will reflect what it was trained to regurgitate.

    he defective language of mathematics' infinite number of infinities has trapped great minds in wormholes made of mirrors, has trapped brilliant scientists deep down in black holes filled with rabbits, and has trapped Boltzmann brains into every quantum theorists' cranium.

    My KnoWellian Axiom of mathematics: “ -c>∞<c+ ”. The negative speed of light represents the past where particle energy is emerging outward from inner-space at the speed of light (the realm of objective science), the positive speed of light represents the future where wave energy is collapsing inward from outer-space at the speed of light (the realm of imaginative theology), and the singular infinity symbol represents the instant where emerging particle energy interchanges with collapsing wave energy generating a residual heat friction that is observed as the 3 degree kelvin cosmic microwave background (the realm of subjective philosophy).

    Simply said, you are just wrong about your perception of death experiences.

    Until you have one, they will never be real to you.

    ~3K

31. I can pee in the urinal from 20 feet. Where's my million dollar prize? Lmao

32. очень глупые рассуждения

33. I get this video is 7 years old, but as a topic of interest and research I want to clear some things up in case anyone is actually interested:
    0:56 the AWARE study was conducted ten years ago and more recent data collected from NDERF and published on PubMed Center account 17% of people who come near death have a NDE..
    1:42 This is misleading as we have no real data on the amount of people who claim this. In fact it was psychologist Susan Blackmore who wrote in Center for Inquiry that popular claims of data to give a number on alien abductions are false. Comparing that to NDE's which we do have data on and saying they are the same number is not correct.
    2:20 This has been rightly explained by Dr. Bruce Greyson as he tells us in his findings that language and culture barriers play a huge part in our misunderstandings. A perfect example is how he writes that while in our culture we see a "tunnel" other cultures call it a "well" or one story from a trucker called it a "tale pipe". The same goes for "Light" "God" "Bhudda" etc, these are just people describing their experiences to the best of their ability from how they understand it. Its also really no stretch of the imagination that whatever "beings" these people claim to have seen took the form of something the person would be comfortable with. We are asking people to put into words something they themselves claim they can't even describe.
    3:37 This is actually just completely untrue and its strange you used these cases while not addressing more popular ones (even for the time when this video was uploaded). The Pam Reynolds case is the most popular with one critic Anesthesiologist Gerald Woerlee claiming this was a case of anesthesia awareness which was later proven false after research by cardiologist Michael Sabom where the patient was not only blindfolded, but had to be deafened for the procedure. Also to mention a blind NDE without the Vicki Noratuk case (a woman blind from birth who later described seeing in her NDE interview) seems very misleading to the audience, but I will assume at the time you made this you did not know about these. But yes, these were not "controlled studies" for obvious ethical reasons we will never be able to have experiments on this.
    5:30 I think it was Dr Raymond Moody who put it best, you are not going to look or pay attention to a set of cards ontop of a cabinet somewhere when you see your body getting operated on. Hats off to these people for trying but again, this is not something anyone can do in a lab. However, we do have cases of medically verified claims of information by people experiencing OBE's such as the Pim van Lommel case.
    7:40 While hallucinations, medication, and electrical stimulation seem like they could explain this on the surface, I would like to refer the reader to a recent article by technologynetworks . com from nyulangone . org where researchers from Harvard University, Baylor University, University of California Riverside, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Wisconsin, and the Universities of Southampton and London concluded: "The recalled experiences surrounding death are not consistent with hallucinations, illusions or psychedelic drug induced experiences". You are right in saying they are similar, but they still have some pretty large differences that make them stand out from dreams or false memories. I have read through the electrical brain stimulation findings and I invite the reader to do as well as comparison to NDE's are vastly different. Also just as a side note, transcranial magnetic stimulation has some pretty dangerous side effects and I would not recommend it.
    8:37 THIS is where the brain does play a part as it can be very likely that the trauma induced by the NDE could cause amnesia of the NDE experience. This could very easily explain why not all people who come near death have an experience. However, if you listen to a lot of the stories (most of which can be found on IANDS website) you quickly see a similar theme (which at the start of your video you acknowledged?).

    I'm not going to mention anything after 9:00 because maybe its a personal issue the author has so I will just leave that alone. Anyway as for my conclusion its this: anecdotal evidence is not a bad word as some make it out to be and while NDE's can't be tested (for obvious ethical reasons…) we have a LARGE population of people who are telling us about an experience they had. By no means is this proof but this is in fact good evidence of something non-material and while yes, that can be scary, science should not stop at what scares us. Some find comfort in the afterlife and others like Holy Koolaid find comfort in not having one so it's important to understand this is a sensitive subject for both sides. In conclusion, if you are interested in this I invite you to look at the research because a lot more has come out since this was uploaded and personally I have been amazed at the literature.

    SIDE NOTE: If anyone would like to reply, please do so but this site is pretty horrible when it comes to deleting or not informing me of comments (not even to mention bots and AI) so I might not reply back. Also if you would like to have a discussion I only ask that you be up to date on the literature with well-thought-out replies and sources, as I will most likely ignore uninformed (or rude) comments.

34. I attempted suicide by drug overdose, (terrible idea! Please dont ever do that!) I actually was in cardiopulmonary arrest upon arrival by ambulance to the ER. (My family watched in horror as the paramedics did chest compressions.) Fortunately, i survived. I am so grateful to have an amazing life now. My point however, is that while i was dead, there absolutely nothing. No tunnel, no lights, just me being dead and unaware.

35. I have a list of why I am skeptical about NDEs. But I would rather say the main reason why I do not believe in them. For example, hearing people claim to have returned from the dead and seen things. But what exactly? Because everyone says their own version of what they saw. For example, others say they saw the afterlife according to their religion (whether you are Christian, Muslim, etc.), others say they saw their past lives, others say they saw a world made of programmers because our universe is a simulation (or Matrix), and so on. In short, I would like to know who is right among these individuals I have listed.

36. I wanna try that NDE-inducing machine now

37. I do believe in an afterlife, but I do also believe that near death experiences are not legitimate travelings to the afterlife. I believe the people only go to the afterlife if they are full on dead as opposed to being nearly dead.

38. I've never had an NDE. However, I've had many out of body experiences. We definitely have a consciousness that is independent from the physical body. I'm not religious, but the world of sticks and rocks is not all there is.

39. Debunking NDE? Sounds pretty ridicoulous and arrogant.

40. I don't know what you are picturing when you imagine what a person could be experiencing when they go through this, but it is just as/less "in your head" as the rest of your experience as a human being. You are more certain that what you are experiencing is real than the fact that what you experience in day to day life is.

41. Cartoons are used to brainwash children.

42. Ah, the controlled and scientific way to refute anectode is to find two or three anectode. Not looking into the raw data to analysis themes but focus on the differences.
    I wonder how would you ever know any ethinic group cultural habit scientifically if you apply the research with the single minded of controlled "rigorous" to one stage of any study.

    Human experience needs to first study with an explorative inquiry better conducted in forms of qualitative data.

    There are overwhelming distinctive similarities within NDEs descriptions if you apply some analytical skill that looking at theme not just focusing on variences.
    The common themes were common description of monothiesm – one supereme being, people are oneness, and feeling of overwhelmingly love; which are different from other out of body experience trigger by psychemical or other type triggered out of body experience. These were tested by different hypotheses that failed to refute alernative hypotheses which means H0, NDE is spiritual experience unique from brain simulations.

43. Wish I had seen this seven years ago. I have made the very same hypoxia statements on other videos, only to have some smug christian to argue that during a NDE seeing Jesus is real and heaven is real. Doesn't matter how much logical evidence you give, they are stuck. What I didn't know is that only 9% of NDE's have any sort of visions and only a small portion of those have religious content. What I hadn't thought about was that if heaven was a real, tangible place the vision of heaven would be at least somewhat similar.

44. You know nothing so shut up and keep your opinions to yourself

45. Here are my observations:

    1. NDEs show overwhelming cultural bias, i.e Christians meet Jesus/God, Hindus see Shiva, Vishnu, etc., but I never seen someone claim an NDE contradicting their entire previous life, except for militant Christian converts from Islam (and no other religion)
    2. NDEs are 'learned experiences'. We SEE what we have been told ANECDOTALLY we will see – flowers, lights, a bridge, angels, etc.
    3. People who have died have brains that are still processing information, sense, etc after respiration stops. REsuscitation allows the brain to tell you what you sensed, such as voices of doctors.
    4. Everyone seems to go to their version of heaven, or at least NOT hell. Is everyone going to heaven? Do only 'good' people have NDEs? What gives?

    Just my observations.

46. Attempt to think aboug the fact if its just rubbing your temples on the way out and can make you feel so good and peacefull
    Why if it was just your brain.why wouldnt it in all of life make you feel so high before you went out to get high on drugs and beer .and or anything else stupid to harm yourself or others.why wouldt it rubb away on those temples and save you tons of money and trouble.thats if it was just your brain.but your brain has freewill
    If GOD made you a robot there would be no need for bibles or red lights

47. 10,000 anecdotes equals evidence.

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