British scientists who study clinical death have suggested that the "visions" that a person sees after cardiac arrest may well be real, and not hallucinations, as was previously thought.
Researchers believe that human consciousness continues to function for some time after cardiac arrest.
Work in this direction lasts more than four years, and over the years, scientists have analyzed the experience of clinical death of more than two thousand patients from hospitals in the United States, Great Britain and Austria.
More than forty percent of survivors say they were fully aware of themselves at a time when their heart was not beating.
An example of the "life" of consciousness can be considered the experience of one social worker who experienced clinical death. At this time, according to him, he seemed to hover over his body and could see everything that the doctors were doing with him. Moreover, he remembered everything to the smallest detail. Using this example, we can say that consciousness works after cardiac arrest for at least three minutes.
Research on this topic is being conducted in various institutions, but so far they have not come to a definite conclusion. But everyone agrees that the brain and the very consciousness of a person lives for some time after death, what happens next is not known to science.
Smolsky Evgeniy