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Originally Posted by sr332603  I've seen a lot of discussion on NDEs and read up on them a good deal. From what I can gather, a key piece of evidence proposed to prove that they represent something other than a hallucination or the brain shutting down is that they occur during periods of no measurable brain activity. (I know that this is not the only piece of evidence, but please let's keep this as the focus of this thread).
My question is - how could anyone know exactly when a dream / hallucination / experience occurred? What gives proponents a reason to believe that the experience didn't occur before or after the patient's brain activity dropped?
An analogy (and correct me where I'm wrong): If you video taped me waking up at 3:00AM to use the restroom, and the next morning I recount a crazy dream I had in the middle of the night, you would not have evidence that I was dreaming while walking around. Would you? |
One piece of evidence, is that many people report specific clinical things that happened while they are being resuscitated as part of their NDE. I think that is why, the intrinsically unlikely idea that the oxygen-starved brain would suddenly boot up and create a hallucination,
and remember it, ever got proposed!
David