People who have experienced clinical death remember this incident for a long time, and they often perceive it more vividly and more emotionally than true and false memories from ordinary life, researchers from the University of Liege in Belgium concluded.
The head of the study, neuropsychologist Vanessa Charland-Verville, says that approximately 5% of the world's population and 10% of people who have had cardiac arrest report their experiences of near-death experiences, but no one really understands what exactly happened to them.
Representatives of all cultures and religions describe their visions in about the same way: they were outside their bodies and walked through a tunnel, river or door to a warm bright light, where they saw their dead relatives and friends, who told them that “the time had not come yet” and sent Vanessa Charland-Verville It is believed that such an experience is direct evidence that body and soul can be separated.
Others blame the visions for the lack of oxygen and associated chemical reactions in the brain. Some believe that this indicates the existence of God. Finding a rational explanation for what happened is most difficult because healthy people in a state of meditative trance or taking hallucinogens like ketamine have similar experiences.
Since it is understandably impossible to monitor such an event in real time, the researchers interviewed those who experienced this state during trance, sometimes several years ago. It turned out that almost always people change after such an experience, become more receptive to other people's emotions and try to help others and the planet.
Scientists asked to fill out special questionnaires for eight people who remembered about a near-death experience during a coma, six who retained memories only of a coma, but not clinical death, seven who survived a coma and clinical death, but did not remember anything at all, and 18 people who have not had a similar experience in life. They had to try to remember and evaluate the brightness of the sensations from clinical death and any events from real life.
Even years later, memories of clinical death were brighter than memories from real life. Researchers want to understand why people see almost the same thing, and to study the brain activity of those who have gone through such experiences. At the same time, they are already sure that, since the memories of this are so clear and vivid, they cannot be false.