NDE\'s and skeptics: Parnia's latest studies (Identity)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 14, 2023, 16:24 (135 days ago) @ David Turell

Another article on same study:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a45632815/brain-activity-after-death/?s...

"Using an experiment design they began developing in 2015—five years before the final, full version of the study was finally completed—the scientists rigged up people who experienced cardiac arrest. This carefully performed study is part of an area of medicine and research focused on resuscitation, using methods like CPR and defibrillation. And due to the sensitive nature of trying to study people who are experiencing cardiac arrest, something that only about 10 percent of patients survive, this kind of work has a ton of value for people who are interested in near-death experiences and other edge cases of brain activity.

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"In the study, just 28 people of 567 total both survived cardiac arrest and were able to complete the cognitive evaluations and surveys. Altogether, 4 in 10 of those patients recalled “some degree of consciousness” following CPR. Of those 28, 11 people said they had memories or similar sensations from during their minutes of cardiac arrest. Six people, or 21.4 percent of those surveyed, experienced “transcendent recalled experience of death (RED).” Three reported something like dreams. None of the people exhibited signs that they were actually conscious, like moving around.

"One patient said they’d seen their father. One felt they were standing next to their bed and watching their body receive CPR. One heard their deceased grandmother tell them to “go back.” Some remembered the moments before they were finally revived into consciousness. The dreams were, well, dreams: “Then, I walked into a puddle… When I got out of the puddle, I was not wet and I sort of melded into the pavement…”

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"The attempts to guide or influence memories using images or sounds were almost completely unsuccessful. One person out of 28 identified the three spoken words, and none identified the images. In a way, this reinforces that what was happening was deep inside the brain. It points to a way that some kind of consciousness may endure even when, so to speak, the lights are out in the rest of the brain."

Comment: this artificial attempt to intrude into NDE's did not work but the studies did demonstrate deep brain activity while unconscious, indicating a way the brain could receive or develop NDE's.