The doctors concluded that the stories of visions are by no means fiction
The whole life flashed before my eyes - they say in Russian. "Life-review experience" - LRE ("life rewind experience" in literal translation) is the name given by scientists to this phenomenon from among those known from the words of the resurrected - people who have experienced clinical death. Typically, LRE is "bundled" with other visions of near-death experiences (NDE - in English abbreviation). Those who visited the threshold of the World assured that they saw themselves from the sidelines, rushed through the tunnel, met with deceased relatives. But the "death journey" usually began with this very rewind of life.
For believers, NDE is a confirmation of their ideas about the afterlife and the soul that moves there. Therefore, they find dying visions quite logical.
For physicians, the NDE is a mystery. They long ago concluded that the stories of visions were by no means fiction. That their source, of course, is the brain - some processes that suddenly begin to occur in it. But it is not yet possible to fully understand them. There are only hypotheses - albeit very plausible.
According to statistics, up to 20 percent of those resurrected face the phenomenon of near-death experience.
LRE was recently taken over by Israeli scientists from the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center. And under the leadership of Judith Katz Neuropsychiatry Lab, Department of Neurology, they made sure that the “rewind” phenomenon really exists.
First, the scientists vehemently "interrogated" 7 patients who, they swore, experienced LRE to the fullest. Identified the characteristic features of the phenomenon. We made a questionnaire. We gave it to other patients who faced rewind. There were 264 of them. Their answers and revelations were enough to carry out a statistical analysis. He allowed to draw several conclusions, which Katz and colleagues published in the scientific journal Consciousness and Cognition (Consciousness and cognition).
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First: LRE is inherent in human consciousness. This is a fairly common phenomenon of a mental nature.
Second: "rewind", or rather the reproduction of a lived life, really happens very quickly - just swiftly. Sometimes in a split second.
Third: the LRE involves parts of the brain that are responsible for long-term autobiographical memory, which are included in accelerated work.
Fourth: the "rewind" is faced by completely healthy patients who find themselves in stressful situations - in moments of mortal danger, as they say.
Fifth, what is the meaning of LRE is anyone's guess.
All the subjects, however, noted: after, by the will of fate, they looked back at their lives, they began to appreciate more those who walked or continues to walk alongside through life. But this cannot be the target of LRE.
If you believe eyewitnesses, then the whole life passed before our eyes in the reverse order.
HYPOTHESES
Oxygen starvation
It is quite possible that there is no point in LRE. Just like that - bizarre - the brain begins to behave during oxygen starvation - hypoxia. And it can occur when the heart stops and blood, enriched with oxygen, ceases to flow to the brain. Hypoxia can also be caused by severe stress when a person is about to lose consciousness. Or already lost for a moment.
The British professor of medicine, Dr. Paul Wallace, starts with the idea that the brain does not stop functioning "all at once." The scientist believes: the youngest, from the point of view of evolution, structures are switched off first. The latter are more ancient. Switching on occurs in the reverse order - first, the more ancient parts of the cerebral cortex "come to life". And in the memory of a person at this moment the most persistently imprinted "pictures", which had a bright emotional coloring, emerge. These may well be memories of important events that happened to this person.
At one time, Dr. Walless also analyzed the memories of "immigrants from the other world." And I discovered that scenes from the life or faces of loved ones that emerged during the "rewind" were lined up in chronological order, the reverse of how they happened in a person's real life.
Just soda in the blood
Some scholars believe that LRE and other NDEs are not so much mental as chemical. Like, these are hallucinations caused by certain substances that the body has developed to protect the brain from damage during the same hypoxia. This hypothesis was recently confirmed by Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš from the University of Maribor in Slovenia.
Zalika monitored the condition of patients suffering from acute heart failure. Many died - medicine was powerless. But 52 were resurrected. While the patients “traveled” to the other world and back, the researcher took their blood for tests.
Of those resurrected, 11 people reported on the NDE - including "all life before your eyes." In total, this is just under 20 percent. That corresponds to the world statistics: according to various sources, from 8 to 20 percent of those who have come to life tell about visiting the other world.
Zalika looked to see if there was anything strange in the blood of those resurrected. The strangeness was found. The concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in their blood was supernaturally high - such that it could well cause hallucinations.
By the way, mystical visions similar to NDE are sometimes visited by both high-altitude climbers and divers who dive to great depths without scuba gear. They also sometimes sharply increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
Mysteries of dying visions remain, but their true meaning has not yet been clarified
Vladimir LAGOVSKY