has anybody ever had a near death experience?have you seen the white light the tunnel?

[sylviak]

has anybody ever had a near death experience?have you seen the white light the tunnel?

[WaldoMcFroog]

The white light and tunnel effect is caused by the optic nerve shutting down. When people have near death experiences, the brain shuts down a bit at a time, and the optic nerve is one of the last to go.

Sorry to be so prosaic, but that's how it is.

[bluedolphin]

bit like turning off the old telly eh!

[maggsy69]

this is near death in my eyes but no white light. driving down my local main road, on the windest day on record, when i heard this crash behind me. turned round to see a tree had been blown over and crashed literally seconds after i'd drived past! good job I don't keep to the speed limits and was doing 40 rather than 30!

[WoWo]

I was attacked once and lost a lot of blood while the doctors were running round trying to stop the bleeding I suddenly became aware of my entire body. Its difficult to expalin but its as if every single cell was calling out and a sensations as if my body was floating. Very odd, I don't think I was dying but I guess some people could experience it in some religious way.

[WoWo]

people often report that they feel their soul floating abouve their body and they look down on themselves in the bed. I think this could be explained by the fact that they get some sort of floating feeling, they hear the noise but can't see, the brain then interperates this noise and builds a mental picture. Sometimes when I dream its like watching a film, I'm watching me in 3rd person and not as I see the world while awake, also when dreaming external sounds effect the dream. For example the bin men were round and I was dreaming about a tank and the noise from the real dust cart was the noise of the tank in the dream.

[lizw]

I read an article in one of my dad's medical journals (he's a pharmacist)which was asking why funding for investigation into this phenomena did exist when more and more respected doctors were beginning to change their minds about it - it gave one case as an example - a woman had an out of body experience whilst undergoing an operation. Her surgeon who had been quite dismissive of these and explained them as does WaldoMcFroog, was astounded when she described travelling up stairs into a room where there was a locker with a book on top. She named the book. He has now changed his mind. So - I guess open minds are the best things.

[lizw]

sorry I cleary meant why funding did NOT exist!

[RevShirls]

Karl Jansen, a psychiatrist has researched this subject quite extensively. He used the drug ketamine to simulate the near death experience (NDE) You can read more here: http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=9260

[galltin]

I "died" once. I didn't see a thing.

[lreed22]

I was bucked by a horse... I died three times in the hospital... I was in a comma for a month... did I see the white light??? No... Not that I can remember! I was so out of it for so long.. I just thank and praise the lord above for my life...