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by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, September 02, 2009, 02:07 (5560 days ago) @ David Turell

I've never heard of a person recalling events that weren't happening around them, or from someone who was "braindead" for more than a few minutes. 
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> > I could also suggest (my idea) that in the low blood-content of the brain in these instances breaks the barrier that allows our subconscious brain to take over the model, allowing you to have a "waking dream," that could easily have you floating above the yourself. This isn't drastically different than the USAF doc "walking behind himself" at all.
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> There are many documented cases with no EKG activity, no EEG brain waves, and the person can give testamony as to what was happening around them, after resuscitation. Pim van Lommel's article in Lancet, I've referred to in the past is a great example. Vol: 358, Dec.15th, 2001.-But no EEG waves doesn't mean that the individual cells aren't doing some work, only that we have no reason to believe the mind is active. The mind doesn't have to be active for this idea to work. If information is being absorbed (as has happened in some anecdotal coma awakenings), all that needs to happen is for the person to come back awake and the combination of collected inputs gets synthesized into an experience--just like when remembering a dream.-I say this because its not like the ears aren't sending sensory input into the brain. It seems that it would make sense if some of that information is still transmitted to some brain cells even if the mind is performing any processing on it. Realistically all I typically need to imagine something is sound, in fact a recent study was just published showing that listening to music with eyes closed heightens emotional response. I can hear words and build a picture around them.-If I remember right the hypothalamus plays a large role in translating memory and is part of the limbic system... I don't think EEG's record activity at that low a level.-At this point I'm more or less letting my mind flow freely here and feel free to stuff whatever's totally off base.

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