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Does your whole life really flash before your eyes ?
Does your whole life really flash before your eyes if you have a near death experience or is it just a figure of speech?
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I was talking to one of my colleages one time who had a really serious car accident. The police said afterwards that they expected to find no survivors when they got to her car. She said that her life did indeed flash before her eyes. She said she couldn`t explain it but in the space of what felt like several seconds, she saw her whole life. First day at school, wedding day, everything. Maybe it happens with a sudden, traumatic death rather than a slow peaceful one.
Doesn't the brain release the psycoactive substance dmt just before/during death which could be the reason for long dark tunnels and vivid life flashing before their eye hallucinations? There's plenty of good reads regarding this subject if you google "dmt and death" Which I'm still researching myself.
I don't think your whole life literally flashes before your eys but certain events within your life are remembered in a very short sequence.
It happened to me when the patrol I was in came under fire in Northern Ireland. It felt as if time literally froze as I thought: 'Did that really just happen'? I say this because you are taught certain drills to carry out in such an event but when it happens for real the realisation of it takes a nano-second or two before you realise that it IS happening and you realise that it IS a life threatening situation. I have to say hand on heart that certain events in my life DID flash before me, though they were ordinary, everyday nondescript ones.
It happened to me when the patrol I was in came under fire in Northern Ireland. It felt as if time literally froze as I thought: 'Did that really just happen'? I say this because you are taught certain drills to carry out in such an event but when it happens for real the realisation of it takes a nano-second or two before you realise that it IS happening and you realise that it IS a life threatening situation. I have to say hand on heart that certain events in my life DID flash before me, though they were ordinary, everyday nondescript ones.
I can only recall two 'near death experiences', so here are my recollections:
1. I was in my teens, on my bike, negotiating a roundabout, when I became trapped between two big lorries on either side. As we swung round the roundabout, the gap between the lorries (where I was located!) seemed to be becoming non-existent. (i.e. I fully expected the two lorries to touch each other - and I was in the middle!). I closed my eyes and thought "This is it!!!". As I did so, a few (very isolated) fragments of my past life did, indeed, flash into my mind. However I opened my eyes, only a short while later, to find that both of the lorries were ahead of me. (I quickly stopped, got off my bike, and threw up as a result of my panic).
2. About 12 years ago, I was the only passenger on a bus when it suddenly deviated off the road (because the driver had apparently fallen asleep) and crashed through the trees on the opposite side of the road. As the windscreen caved in my only thought was "Oh, bugger, I wasn't planning on dying today!". (The bus came to a halt, several hundred yards into a field, having managed to find the only gap for several miles between some very substantial trees, which would have fatally halted its progress).
So, in one situation, I had a tiny bit of the 'whole life experience' whereas, in the other, I simply felt 'p!ssed off!'.
Chris
1. I was in my teens, on my bike, negotiating a roundabout, when I became trapped between two big lorries on either side. As we swung round the roundabout, the gap between the lorries (where I was located!) seemed to be becoming non-existent. (i.e. I fully expected the two lorries to touch each other - and I was in the middle!). I closed my eyes and thought "This is it!!!". As I did so, a few (very isolated) fragments of my past life did, indeed, flash into my mind. However I opened my eyes, only a short while later, to find that both of the lorries were ahead of me. (I quickly stopped, got off my bike, and threw up as a result of my panic).
2. About 12 years ago, I was the only passenger on a bus when it suddenly deviated off the road (because the driver had apparently fallen asleep) and crashed through the trees on the opposite side of the road. As the windscreen caved in my only thought was "Oh, bugger, I wasn't planning on dying today!". (The bus came to a halt, several hundred yards into a field, having managed to find the only gap for several miles between some very substantial trees, which would have fatally halted its progress).
So, in one situation, I had a tiny bit of the 'whole life experience' whereas, in the other, I simply felt 'p!ssed off!'.
Chris
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