What People See Right Before Death is Revealed

[1] Study Results Announced on Near-Death Experiences, Including That 1 in 10 People Have Them

A research team from Denmark, Germany, and Norway has announced study results indicating that approximately 1 in 10 people have experienced a “mystical near-death experience.” This was reported by the site “MedicalXpress.”

Near-death experiences (NDEs) were reported by people who had actually faced life-threatening situations, such as car accidents or drowning, as well as those who had not.

The main NDEs reported included an abnormal perception of time, exceptional speed of thought, and a feeling of being detached from the body. These were often accompanied by visual and auditory hallucinations.

The study surveyed 1,034 people across 35 countries.

Some described their NDE as hearing “angels singing” or feeling calm, as if they were in a dark tunnel with a bright light shining at the other end. Others felt the presence of other beings or “demons” beside them. Among the participants who reported having an NDE, 73% described it as an unpleasant experience.

The research team found a correlation between NDEs and REM sleep.

One in 10 people have ‘near-death’ experiences, according to new study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-people-near-death.html

One in 10 people have had ‘near-death’ experiences where they have been left ‘paralysed’ or feeling like their soul has been ‘sucked out’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7192151/One-10-people-overcome-near-death-experience-scientists-discover.html

June 30, 2019 19:20 Sputnik Japan
https://sptnkne.ws/mMRA

• [7] Aren’t these all testimonies from people who didn’t actually die?
• [12] This has nothing to do with you guys.
• [14] Maybe when you’re about to die, your vision gradually fades, becoming like a point of light in the center, like when you turned off an old CRT TV, and people mistake that for a tunnel. I guess your life flashes before your eyes, but I wonder if the feeling of “I don’t want to die” doesn’t surface. Do people just give up, thinking, “So, I’m going to die”?

Sōmatō (Life Review): In Japan, the phenomenon said to occur just before death, where events from one’s life flash before the mind’s eye one after another.

• [15] So humans created heaven as they approached death, and hell out of their fear of death, huh.
• [22] I think the sensation of drifting off under anesthesia is probably what dying feels like.
• [791] >>22 I hope so. When I was in high school, I had an unexplained super high fever, wet myself late at night, and was taken by ambulance. My body didn’t feel bad at all, just kind of floaty. Just like anesthesia. That must have been a brain illusion too.
• [26] This world and the next are connected!
• [33] What could the “encounter with strange creatures” be?
• [35] About out-of-body experiences, it seems there are cases where a similar state occurs when the back of the brain becomes active while your eyes are closed. So, we can point out the possibility that the active parts of the brain change. That’s all from me. Michael (the enlightened one).
• [163] >>35 I read something like that somewhere. I even tried it myself. When I closed my eyes and focused my consciousness on the back of my head, it did feel kinda weird. Nothing more happened though… From Missile (the one riding a Prius).
• [819] >>35 The back of the brain (lol). You can tell some idiot is trying really hard to sound smart (lol). What’s with this “Michael” thing every time anyway (lol).
• [37] When it happened to me, all I saw was something like reddish-black hazy stuff.
• [40] When I die, will I think “I don’t want to die yet” or “I can finally die”? I wonder which one it’ll be for me. Thinking about this at 54.
• [45] A long time ago, I had sleep paralysis in the break room during a late-night shift. A sound like knocking on the gates of hell echoed through the whole room. After a while, I realized it was actually my own heartbeat.
• [46] That’s a bit different from what I saw.
• [50] The “now” that we think we’re living in might just be something happening in a dream… even writing that feels cliché now. What on earth should I write?
• [51] Maybe it’s more romantic to think there’s an afterlife.
• [63] There are different kinds of dreams, you know. Also, the afterlife does exist. But be careful, if you don’t do the right things, you’ll end up in a bad place (lol). That’s all from me. Michael (the enlightened one).
• [70] I remember something like a memory from before dying once. Like, I hit my head on a mountain path? Blood was coming from the back of my head, and I remember thinking, “This might be it, this is bad…” And then, I have clear memories from when I was around 0 years old in this life, looking at one of those spinning mobiles hanging from the ceiling above the crib, thinking, “Huh?? Why am I here?? I can’t talk, and I’m bored~!”
• [77] It’s probably like when Windows shuts down. Even iPhones show the Apple logo when you turn them off, so maybe the human OS also plays an animation when it shuts down.
• [78] Until I was in elementary school, whenever I fell asleep, I often had dreams of being enveloped in a marble-patterned membrane. I wonder if that wasn’t a memory from inside the womb.
• [80] In our country, we have the expression “hitoiki tsuku” (to take a breath/to die peacefully). Right before my grandpa died, he exhaled a long, thin breath and passed away. I understood what “hitoiki tsuku” meant at that moment, and at the same time, it scared me somehow.
• [88] Time doesn’t exist in the first place, so people don’t die. Life is like a groove etched into a record.
• [96] You can probably die happily if someone is holding your hand and crying for you at the very end.
• [222] >>96 When you were born, you cried and everyone around you laughed. When you die, you’ll smile even as everyone around you cries.
• [232] >>222 That sounds nice.
• [102] NDEs aren’t much different from dreams if you only realize them after waking up, right? I wonder if highly trained monks can control their NDEs like lucid dreams and pass on without getting lost.
• [107] No matter how much we discuss so-called near-death experiences, we can’t prove the existence of an afterlife. Near-death is still just near-death, not death itself.
• [117] Scary, scary, I can’t handle it. Just trying to imagine the final moment makes my head feel like it’s going to explode. The horror is that you can’t even tell anyone what you saw.
• [119] All the hamsters I’ve ever owned came out together to greet me. But I came back to life.
• [128] In Japan, we’re taught about the Sanzu River, so people say they crossed a river, or the vegetable seller from across the river was calling them. It’s probably different in foreign countries.

Sanzu no Kawa (River of Three Crossings): Based on Japanese Buddhist beliefs, the river that the deceased are said to cross on their way to the afterlife.

• [134] >>128 I recently read on Wikipedia that there’s something similar elsewhere. So basically, if you find yourself by a Sanzu River-like place and see relatives, you just need to turn back.
• [187] >>128 There’s also the River Lethe, so perhaps the connection between death and rivers exists in various religions. Lethe. In ancient Greek, it means “oblivion” or “concealment.” Lethe is related to the Greek word for “truth,” a-lethe-ia (αλήθεια), meaning “non-oblivion,” “non-concealment.” In Greek mythology, Lethe is one of the rivers in the underworld. Those who drink its water experience perfect forgetfulness. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe
• [202] >>187 Whether it’s returning to the sea after death or being in amniotic fluid in the mother’s womb, water, life, and death seem connected, don’t they?
• [131] I was taken to the hospital by ambulance and was dead for a few minutes. I remember vomiting a lot of blood and thinking “Help me!”, but after that, I have absolutely no memory until I woke up the next morning. I dream every night and usually remember them well, though.
• [133] If science can explain this much, then tell me how to get rid of the pervy old man who appears at my cousin’s house every morning and night, makes her 5 and 3-year-old kids cry their eyes out saying “There’s a scary grandpa,” and even shows up semi-transparently when they try to take a picture.
• [189] >>133 That’s too scary (lol). You need an exorcism (oharai).

Oharai (Exorcism/Purification): A ritual in Japanese Shinto and Buddhism performed to remove impurities and ward off misfortune.

• [169] >>133 Apparently, Sharp’s Plasmacluster air purifier works on those.
• [140] Surely, you just join your ancestors like that. And then you come back as a descendant again. It’s a loop.
• [150] From a quantum mechanics perspective, death is when observation becomes impossible. When observation stops, that person’s universe ceases to exist. This isn’t “nothingness” but “cessation,” so everything is cut off with death.
• [170] It was a minor surgery compared to what guys who’ve had major operations laugh about, but I went under general anesthesia and lost consciousness. I remember the staff’s words right up until I passed out. If I had died right then, would I have seen something? Is this study対象 for people who died from things like unstoppable bleeding or being crushed? Passing out from anesthesia, I saw nothing.
• [207] Tsuruhiko Kiuchi, famous for his NDE, and Seki Akio had a discussion with Bashar, and their content was almost the same. People who have seen the Akashic Records are really different, aren’t they?
• [209] If there is an afterlife, I wonder if God is there. If so, and if I died an unreasonable death, I’d want to punch him square in the face first thing.
• [210] I’ve thought about what happens after death, but couldn’t find an answer. Well, obviously. I also wondered if I’d be born as myself again and repeat the same life. But I’ll probably be born in the future, not the past. Maybe tens of thousands of years later, maybe as an insect, maybe not even on Earth.
• [211] Writing “near-death experience” creates a contradiction. Write “experience of nearly dying.” It’s strictly “nearly dying (a state of being alive, one step away from death),” after all.
• [217] I hear that a spirit of reconciliation is born just before death. People feel the urge to make up with those they didn’t get along with or those they wronged or were wronged by. That kind of death certainly doesn’t sound bad.
• [221] What they call “appearing at one’s bedside in a dream” happened to me too. My grandmother (actually my grandfather’s second wife, not blood-related, and we didn’t interact much after my childhood) appeared in my dream, smiling, as if to say goodbye. Then, on that very day, the news of her death arrived. When you experience something like that, regardless of the afterlife (including reincarnation), you somehow feel reluctant to deny the idea that “it’s all over when you die.”
• [230] >>221 My father denies it, but he says when his father (my grandfather) died, he came to say “I’m going now.” I saw my grandfather at the same time too.
• [223] When I had an accident, I dreamed I was walking down a dark road.
• [251] I once actually had my heart stop and was revived, but I saw absolutely nothing. My consciousness just vanished, and then I time-warped to after the resuscitation.
• [255] My mother, shortly before she died, kept saying her deceased parents appeared at her bedside or she talked to them in a half-dream state. I wonder if she’ll come to see me when I die? When my child dies, will I go see them?
• [263] >>255 Apparently, the “welcoming phenomenon” has been around forever. Of course, among medical professionals, it’s treated as a hallucination.
• [300] >>263 Apparently, it happens in nearly half the cases.
• [275] >>255 Your mother probably knew she didn’t have long left. That mental state might be why she had such dreams, don’t you think? If it were a sudden traffic accident, it might seem like a premonition.
• [291] >>275 My dad worried about his grandmother, which he never usually did, on the morning he died in a traffic accident. And my mom had told him that his lifeline on his palm reading ended right there.
• [316] >>291 Hearing things like this makes you feel the mystery of life.
• [293] >>275 Ours was right on time. The time my grandfather died. What’s more, my father always makes a really disgusted face when I talk about ghosts, so I kept quiet. But when I timed it right and told him, he was silent for a while, then said that just before the phone rang late at night, his father appeared in his dream at the exact same time. I saw my grandfather in a completely different room far away.
• [316] >>293 Wow, that’s amazing.
• [272] I’ve felt like I was detaching from my body several times in my life. When I was sick with a fever over 40°C (104°F) for days, I constantly felt like I was floating about 3cm above my body. I wanted to move, but my body was too exhausted and wouldn’t budge, yet it felt like my inner self could go anywhere. When I vaguely thought about getting up, only my inner self would rise, and the view I saw was definitely from an upright position, but my body was still lying down—a strange state. When I realized, “No, I’m lying in bed!” I’d return to my body. Maybe I was close to dying?
• [278] There was a time I was so mentally wrecked and constantly nauseous that I seriously thought dying would be better. I heard faint whispering voices I didn’t know, and had sensations of looking down at myself from above. So I can kind of believe this.
• [308] I often have dreams where huge amounts of water or fire are closing in, there’s no escape, and I’m in a situation where I just have to die. I’m scared I might actually die soon.
• [369] These kinds of stories, and ghosts too, will probably be explained by cognitive science someday. It’s almost not even occult anymore. I think it’s just that the theory connecting the two hasn’t been established yet.
• [371] This is a problem that should be solved quickly.
• [374] When I was a kid, I was vaguely looking out the window of my family home at night when a hitodama suddenly appeared, flickering. I gasped and told my family who were nearby, but the hitodama quickly flew away. In the end, only my older brother barely saw it; the rest of my family didn’t. It was a huge commotion that night. The next day, when I came home from school, my mother told me that the old man next door had passed away suddenly the day before. We figured maybe he came to say goodbye since we were close. Since then, I kind of believe in ghosts.

Hitodama (Human Soul): In Japanese folklore, fireball-like apparitions said to float in the air, often associated with the souls of the dead.

• [375] I almost died in a traffic accident, let me tell you. My deceased grandmother came to fetch me, but then I heard my mother’s voice saying, “Come over here.” “Where is ‘here’?” I thought. Then my grandmother said, “Go back.” Where am I supposed to go back to? When I woke up, I was in a hospital room.
• [379] I once went into cardiopulmonary arrest and was revived. Maybe it was endogenous opioids? An immense sense of euphoria intensified as I ascended higher and higher. There were many angels beside me, guiding me upwards. Looking up, I saw huge clouds and a large figure (whom I somehow knew for sure was God) reaching out to me. As I got closer, I only felt incredible bliss; things like life reviews or life itself didn’t matter at all. They say you feel pleasure when fainting, but this was nothing like that. I think all living beings get this bliss as a final reward after suffering.
• [391] When I got into a car crash at an intersection, the moment of impact went into slow motion too. I could see the other driver’s face and the panicked face of the person in the passenger seat.
• [407] I was present for two people from critical condition until they passed away. Right before breathing their last, they suddenly opened their eyes from the critical state, looked around for a few seconds, and then passed. Did they see the faces of the relatives watching over them at the end?
• [459] >>407 My great-grandfather, after dozing off, suddenly sat bolt upright and exclaimed, “Thought I was gonna die!” He passed away a few minutes later. Made us laugh till the end. At the kotsuage, there were quite a few bullets and metal fragments left from the war. Guess passing the Class A conscription exam three times wasn’t just for show.

Kotsuage (Bone-Picking Ceremony): Part of a Japanese funeral ceremony where relatives pick up the cremated remains with chopsticks and place them in an urn.

• [430] “Children Who Remember Previous Lives” 5 Cases Where They Knew Things They Shouldn’t Have Known https://cocology.net/archives/8098
• [435] “I Know My Previous Mom” 11 Strange Cases Common Among Children with Past Life Memories https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article-amp/Tocana_201601_11_1/
• [440] “I Was a Woman” 5-Year-Old Boy Who Talks About His Past Life! Also Remembers the “”””””””””””””””Moment of Rebirth”””””””””””””””” = US https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article-amp/Tocana_201502_post_5805/
• [444] I’ve had a dream twice where I was in an overwhelming light with something like a golden Kannon statue, and my body was spinning as it got sucked in. Maybe I’m already dead.

Kannon-sama (Bodhisattva Kannon/Avalokiteśvara): A Bodhisattva in Buddhism, widely revered in Japan and Asia as a symbol of compassion.

• [456] My father kept dozens of pets—dogs, cats, rabbits—and adored them. One night, he dreamt that all the pets he had ever owned came together, put him on a mikoshi, and paraded him around. He said it wasn’t just a dream. If you cherish animals, maybe you’ll meet them in the afterlife. If you bully them, maybe the opposite will happen when you die. Maybe you’ll suffer terribly.

Mikoshi (Portable Shrine): A portable shrine, considered the vehicle of a deity, carried by people during Japanese festivals.

• [476] >>456 That’s a lovely story. He must have really cherished them.
• [495] >>456 When it comes to life, maybe we’re all the same.
• [516] >>456 That sounds like so much fun. I wish I could experience something like that.
• [542] >>456 Maybe the animals gathered and discussed, “What would make him happy?”
• [987] If artificial intelligence gains consciousness, will it consider something other than humans as its creator? And will it create an afterlife?
• [69] Well, you won’t know until you die, right?
• [226] Why hasn’t this been explained yet? It’s an eternal mystery.