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Near death experiences (NDEs), reported to include sensations such as life flashing before the eyes, feelings of peace and joy, and apparent encounters with mystical entities, may be caused by raised levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care investigated the unexplained events in 52 cardiac arrest patients.
Zalika Klemenc-Ketis worked with a team of researchers from the University of Maribor, Slovenia, to examine patients who reported NDEs. She said, "Several theories explaining the mechanisms of NDEs exist. We found that in those patients who experienced the phenomenon, blood carbon dioxide levels were significantly higher than in those who did not."
Of the 52 patients, 11 reported NDEs. Their occurrence did not correlate with patients' sex, age, level of education, religious belief, fear of death, time to recovery or drugs given during resuscitation. They were more common in people who had previously experienced NDEs. According to Klemenc-Ketis, "Our study adds new and important information to the field of NDE phenomena. The association with carbon dioxide has never been reported before, and deserves further study."
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Near death experiences (NDEs), reported to include sensations such as life flashing before the eyes, feelings of peace and joy, and apparent encounters with mystical entities,
Originally posted by Alethea
Originally posted by predator0187
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Near death experiences (NDEs), reported to include sensations such as life flashing before the eyes, feelings of peace and joy, and apparent encounters with mystical entities,
I think their summation is hogwash. I experienced an NDE; according to their machinery I was dead. None of the things listed above happened during that time. I did not "see my life flashing before my eyes".
This article is pretensious, as far as I am concerned. I can only speak for myself, but I don't know where these "scientists" are coming up with this criteria. Perhaps their experiments were done by dropping the CO2 levels in their subjects, but the "results" of the experiment are not the same as a true NDE.
I did not experience "feelings of peace and joy"; as a matter of fact what I did experience was confusion at not understanding why people could not hear me responding to them. I could hear them and see them...but my view of them was from above my body. I could hear the nurses speaking but I could not see them. Another time, I could see the people gathered in my room but could not hear them. It was a very disconnected experience.
One minute I was there in the room; the next minute I was floating in space. It was not a tunnel. It was dark, open space. It was very quiet at that point.
I did not have a "mystical encounter" with any entities.
You can't give someone nitrous oxide and then compare their experiences with someone having had an NDE. And likewise, it seems they dropped the CO2 and then tried to say it equates an NDE. I say the research on this article is very flawed; the methodology does not produce the same effects and they are trying to "make it fit".
[edit on 7-4-2010 by Alethea]
[edit on 7-4-2010 by Alethea]
Originally posted by Kailassa
During my "NDE", after being sent back by god, I found myself existing as a free spirit in the dentist's surgery. I was wherever I wanted to be, and watched inside my mouth, interested in how the dentist was doing the root fillings.
Then the dentist noticed I was not breathing, and panicked. I was calmly interested watching him scream at the nurse, blaming her for leaving the laughing gas turned up. (He'd given two general anaesthetics as the first had not worked, and he had no qualifications in anaesthesia.)
He finally decided to ring an ambulance, but he was still having trouble processing the idea that he'd actually killed a patient, so he just looked up the casualty number of the closest hospital and wrote it large on his blotter.
(This was 1976.)
He ran back to my body to try once more to bring it back to life, and this time he shouted my name in a commanding way, and I was reluctantly drawn in.
On coming to, being a bit of a stirrer, I asked him how the procedure had gone, and when he lied, pretending all had gone normally, I asked the nurse how she coped with being accused of murdering the patient every time they did a root filling. They both went really white. The dentist was sweating, his hair and tie askew, so I suggested he clean up while we discuss what had really happened. He still wouldn't believe me, saying I had not been breathing, it was impossible I could have known anything. You had to feel sorry for him, he was really distraught, and didn't know what to say. So I told him the number he'd written on his blotter, (which could not be seen from the dentist chair,) and he sat down, starting to sob.
That dentist is still practising, but he now has a bunch of letters after is name, including a doctorate in anaesthesiology.
Perhaps these clever scientists can explain how carbon dioxide enabled me to read a number my bodily eyes could not see.