Death is the natural completion of a person's life path, but it is with this phenomenon that the deepest fears of people are connected. Quite often they are frightened not even by the fact of the inevitable death of everyone living on earth, but by the inexplicable and frightening phenomena associated with this process.
So, the most terrible phenomenon that can happen to the deceased is his revival after the recorded fact of death. It is interesting that the possibility of such a phenomenon is described in various ancient sources: in biblical texts, in tales and legends found in India, Africa, China, Eastern Europe. As many culturologists assume, at all times and in all cultures, people have encountered mysterious and inexplicable things that happen to a deceased person. Finding no logical explanation for the phenomena taking place, they composed myths and legends, partially explaining the unnatural behavior of a revived corpse. This is how the legends about "nosferatu" and zombies appeared.
Despite the fact that many centuries have passed since ancient times, and man has found a scientific explanation for many once mystical phenomena, his superstitious fear and curiosity in front of the reanimated dead remains one of the strongest. It is not surprising that books and films shot in the genre of horror with a plot about the rising of the dead from the graves are always of great interest.
So could the supernatural awakening of a dead person, described in numerous sources, take place in real life?
Despite the fact that death is an irreversible phenomenon, the revival of a person after his death is still possible. Shocking cases of such an unnatural course of events are described in medical and historical treatises.
For example, Francesco Petrarca, a famous Italian poet and philosopher, who worked in the Middle Ages and initiated the Protorenaissance, is the revived dead man. As witnesses of the incident said, the writer suddenly lost consciousness and for a long time was without signs of life. His body went cold, his heartbeat could not be heard, there was no breathing, and his pupils did not react to light. The relatives and friends of Petrarch put on mourning clothes and were already in full swing preparing for the funeral ceremony, when suddenly, twenty hours later, the poet suddenly woke up and was in excellent health. After the mysterious "death" the man lived for about thirty more years, while absolutely not complaining about his health.
It is known that such famous personalities as Nikolai Gogol, Marina Tsvetaeva, scientists Alfred and Emmanuel Nobeli, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer experienced a panic fear of waking up after their own funeral, so they even left a will not to bury the body until there were obvious signs of decomposition. All these people experienced a superstitious fear of death and an even greater fear of the thought that their dying would not be as natural and finite as everyone else's.
What really makes people come to life after death?
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In fact, there is a rather serious medical problem behind the seemingly supernatural phenomena associated with the awakening of a person after his funeral. Only at the end of the twentieth century, scientists and doctors finally managed to understand the reason for the awakening of people after death and dispel the mystical halo of this phenomenon. So, it turned out that death with subsequent revival is not death, and lethargic sleep is to blame.
Lethargic sleep is a poorly understood human condition caused by certain problems in the processes occurring in the brain. Doctors managed to find out that the area of the brain that is responsible for the rapid phase of sleep can work incorrectly, spontaneously turning on and off, and it is extremely difficult to influence these processes from outside. If in healthy people the phase of REM sleep lasts on average up to half an hour and contributes to falling asleep and awakening of a person, then in people prone to lethargy, REM sleep occurs suddenly and can last from several hours to several years! At the same time, during lethargic sleep, all metabolic processes in the human body slow down to such an extent that they cannot be detected without special equipment: the temperature drops to 30 degrees, the heart beats 2-3 times per minute, breathing slows down to 1-2 times per minute …
Lacking accurate diagnostic tools, people for centuries mistook a sleeping person in a lethargic sleep for the deceased, and arranged his funeral. It happened that the "deceased" suddenly woke up right at the funeral or during the funeral service. However, there were also quite tragic cases when the awakening occurred too late, in a coffin buried in the ground. The panting and frightened man tried in vain to get out, knocking on the coffin lid and uttering screams. The frightening groans and rattle that came from a fresh grave gave rise to numerous myths and legends about the living dead.
Fortunately, nowadays, the fact of death is checked with high-precision instruments, so now many more people who are prone to lethargy are saved from premature burial. Cases of such a condition are extremely rare, however, nevertheless, there is a place to be.
So, for example, the incident that happened to Nadezhda Lebedina got into the Guinness Book of Records. The woman fell into a lethargic sleep for twenty years. In 2011, a man "rose from the dead" in Simferopol, his awakening happened very in time, since the body had already been placed in one of the city morgues. In 2015, a similar story happened to a sixteen-year-old girl from Honduras, her lover saw her awakening a few minutes before her burial.
As you can see, mysterious and inexplicable, at first glance, events constantly occur in the world, but their nature is not always associated with the world of mysticism and paranormal phenomena. Be that as it may, the rational nature of many phenomena does not exclude the existence of supernatural forces, from time to time reminding a person of their presence in his life …
