Near death experiences: What really happens when you die? 

Are we humans experiencing life, or are we life experiencing being human?

I have to tell you this. I had a real-life vision experience, it's the only way to describe it. It wasn't a dream nor was it a nightmare, more like a twilight present moment, it was vivid and unforgettable. I was in bed and how It started was, at least what sounded like 1000 heavy footsteps marching heavily up the stairs and come into my room and they were sweeping with brooms, I never saw them. I felt everything was been swept away and I felt a presence get into the bed with me and push me down through the ground and went running down an underground tunnel. The first stop I experienced was, in front of me a massive pair of black curtains and when they were pulled open I saw a massive round circle and inside this circle, { Earth } was millions of human Beings, suffering in anguish, I was then shown black and white portraits of evil-looking men, they went flying past me, I felt I was been pushed further down this tunnel and it was scary, It was then I called out "Jesus help me" and at that, I was instantly taken out and saved, thank you, Jesus. All this on the first few days of Covid lockdowns in 2020. Please take from this message as you please for I have received it loud and clear... Jesus Christ saved me from this evil outcome that is upon us. He will save you. All you have to do is call out his mighty name. My take on this experience. I have physically shaken up from this experience for a long time afterwards, it took me a long time to come to terms with it. When I got the chance to study my experience I knew it was a spiritual awakening to the evil upon us. The Black curtains represent your government is lying to you, the heavy footsteps and the sweeping represent a forceful heavy hand in implementing these restrictions and Australia is proof of this, and the earth and the people in anguish are what the people are going to go through in the not to distance future. Also, it felt like I had no control over it and was forced into it against my will which some governments are trying to do with these vaccines. Jesus is the only way out of this evil, pray for people, pray, for I believe we are in the end times for humanity for we will no longer be human and God-like if these evil beings have their way. This Earth is entrapped with complete negative evil control and Jesus Christ is the only way out.

I can’t believe people don’t talk about NDEs more often. When I first learned about them it completely transformed the way I look at the world. Thanks for picking this topic.

So fascinating, I love that people like Sam exist and are looking to find answers to our biggest question.

I don’t agree that these experiences are consistent and universal, many people report all kinds of differing experiences. Also I’m a Nurse and have been for over 20 years and I have met a number of patients who have had an MI or trauma and state there was nothing there at all.

All I know is this: Days before my Dad died he was talking outloud to his deceased mother!!!!!

We are the universe experiencing itself, LITERALLY. When we die the universe will continue to experience itself. The most enlightening philosopher I've ever listened to is #AlanWatts

Ask him how to define “real” experiences. No one can objectively claim of another person’s experiences that they are “real”, that sn experience accurately represents Real phenomena. There’s no way to measure such claims. So what he’s claiming is purely hypothetical. Even the telling of similar experiences from different people is little more that subjective inference. The “devil” is not just in the details but in the interpretation. The facts as known is this, when the brain ceases All function there is No consciousness… period. When people report near death experiences they are in fact revealing cognitive function from a still-living (in some level) brain. And the brain is not yet completely dead. Clue: They’re called NEAR death experiences. There is no coming back from complete brain death. So when people report NDEs and want to characterize them as out of body, spiritual events, etc. what they’re really declaring is they have little understanding of how the human brain operates.

What if the brain is more like a receiver or antenna for a consciousness, and damage to the brain or chemicals just affect how the "signal" is interpreted?

My Near-Death Experience changed the course of my life. Thanks for the interesting video.

As an NDEr myself I thank this Dr for his open mind I’ve been watching him for a while and he truly wants to understand this Of course on less you have had an NDE like me and others you never understand what is like But I wish him well on his path

They DIDN'T actually die ! That is the point !

People have been having NDEs for thousands of years. People from across time, cultures, race, faiths, education levels, social/economic levels, children, elderly, all ages have all had experiences that had distinct similarities. There are many times doctors have resuscitated people who have recounted afterwards that they left their bodies and traveled outside the hospital and saw a car accident or a shoe on the roof of the hospital or spoke with their aunt, who also was out of body, who had actually died in a car accident while they were on the operating table (so they could not have known about their aunt's death), things that are easily verified. There thousands and thousands of cases where a mother suddenly knew her child was in danger at the exact moment that they were in danger even though the child may have been thousands of miles away. Consciousness is not created by or in cells. Our brain is a place for our consciousness to reside while the brain is alive.

I guess the question is where does our physical bodies end and our consciousness starts. Does our brain generate consciousness or does a consciousness find its way into a complicated enough system (brain) and then operate there?

I have lots of doubts about NDAs. People see things based on their religious beliefs, they speak to angels in their language (very multilingual those angels), also where does free will end and “God” and all those religious attributes start. Unfortunately all experiences are different in that aspect which makes them personal, subjective and thus questionable. Smb wrote here on the comments they were proclaimed dead and then several more defibrillations and they are back. This is pure chance that a doctor decided to try again and it worked. As much as I want to believe I just think we don’t know enough about what dying is and that NDAs are the remaining brain activity before it completely shuts off.

There is so much that could be said, about this topic; I am sure many people have had experiences that go beyond the every day explanation, that most of our doctors tell us. Let me share one of mine. When I was a boy, I didn't like hockey and my father was a big hockey fan... this caused a bit of a problem for us and it made me dislike hockey even more, since I felt like my father wasn't proud of me, because I didn't like his favourite sport. So, when I got married, I told my wife, we would get along fine as long as we never discussed hockey. She said, that was fine, as she didn't care for it, either. Why did I share this? Here is why.... When our first child was born (a girl) she never saw a hockey game on tv. No one ever baby sat her; I was a very over protective parent, and since I was molested as a boy by our school janitor, when I was 5/6, I became overly cautious. One day, when my daughter was 3 years old, she started asking me a question. She wanted to know where her son was. I thought she was playing, at first, but then it became apparent that she was serious. I asked her what her son looked like, and she gave me a very detail picture, of a slim man with curly red hair (she described it as orange) who wore a brown leather coat and drove a white car. She went on to tell me that her son used to pick her up and take her to the hockey games (she had never seen a hockey; not one in person nor on tv). Puzzled, I asked her, "When did he do that?" thinking she might say, "Oh, the other day." but she didn't. She responded by saying, "You know, daddy, when I was an old lady." I should add, I didn't, at the time, even believe in reincarnation. Eventually, I did send this story into a writer who did publish it.... as he felt it had the sound of authenticity. Consciousness is a very fascinating thing.

I think it's wishful thinking as much as my ego would love to continue. There's still no evidence at all that it does. Just a wish

Wait, animals have thoughts and feelings.

No one can prove there isnt an after life thats impossible

I work in IT and have worked around something called "Dumb Terminals" that bank tellers might use. The terminals are very basic and mainly transmit data back and forth from a server without processing anything. It strikes me as possible that the human body is a bit of a dumb terminal where part of your psyche gets stored up in the cloud somewhere. You die, then you wake up in the cloud or a different dumb terminal. The purpose of your life on earth seems to be to teach something, perhaps how to love and trust others in a way that only a mortal human being can do. I remember watching one video about a near death experience and it mentioned something about God saying that he had problems with the Angels because they never lived a mortal life. So perhaps we are here on earth to get some training to be an angel of sorts one day and be able to grasp it all without losing our sanity.

I love him. He's so smart and open minded. He knows the truth about consciousness but is careful in what he says.

I worked with Sam. Amazing doctor. 🙏☺️

Drugs as anesthesia's do marvelous things to the brain. Even the human body produces chemicals to alter ones mood. Unfortunately when you are dead all the electrical activity in the brain stops. Has anyone weighed a "SOUL". I don't think so Olie 🤣👀.

We are spiritual beings experiencing a physical life. Not vice versa...Dr Prashant Solomon.

Wearing a white scrub in a video usually points to a dental hygiene advertisement, not to a scientific report.

Who knows but in future trials like Elon Musk's Neuralink success in brain chip implant may tell us the brain network in the last stage?...although there are still ethical questions to be answered.

Been there , done that. I would recommend everyone to experience death. Most amazing minute and half. Found myself in the ER. Problems breathing. Found out two weeks later that one doctor hit me twice with a defib machine, gave up on me and proceeded to filll out the hospital's documents forthe issusnce of a death certificate.Another doctor used the defib machine 7 more times and "brought" me back, I understand now.

When my mother got very sick she would talk to her siblings who had passed away. There were 2 brothers she had not spoken to. One in New Mexico, who had disappeared over and over again and by this time had probably passed away. However, the baby brother could not be found, even though we knew he was in the area. His oldest son sounds like his dad. When she heard his voice, she visibly calmed down and passed away a few days later. Another time like this happened with my stepson, who’s mother and I were close, was in the hospital dying from lupus and he didn’t want to see her. I told him he needed to tell his mom goodbye or he might regret it later. Well when we got to her room and as soon as he spoke she smiled. She died the next day. Both my mom and my stepson’s mom needed to hear their loved one voice so they could go with peace in their hearts.

This would explain my dream of other lives / dimensions and or future events. Hearing you say like a radio is how I tried explaining it before.

I came here, because I think, I had twice or more NDE. People who shared their NDE usually people called them crazy or something else. but as some like the comment said we are probably "spirit" experiencing human life.

If consciousness exists after physical death where was our consciousness before we were born

4 minutes in and I still think that baldy is trying to make his point...which appears to not even have a resolution at the end of the video

My man died 30.11.23 at 47. It feels as if half of me was ripped of the flesh im 36, but he was my evirything. I rather die then a life without him. Henrik❤Malin 🔥🔥

A little detail: Dr. Parnia says that we can "recite poetry and paint", which animals don't. Well, some animals can definitely pain, I have seen elephants paint with my own eyes. I'm not sure about poetry, since I cannot understand animal "language", yet I daresay that, though we are certainly the most intelligent species present on this planet at the moment, animals deserve a bit more consideration than most people normally grant them

#AlanWatts "When you die you will not have to put up with ever lasting non existence, because that's not an experience, so after you die, the only experience you can have, is the same sort of experience as when you were born"

I’m convinced these NDEs are a glimpse of the wonder after our experience here is done. The similarities I find throughout the testimonies are remarkable, but each testimony is unique on it’s own. I was an atheist for over ten years, at the eight year mark I decided my pursuit for the truth has come to an end, that I would not find the answers I seek. But I then had a personal experience which caused me to explore areas I purposely ignored because they seemed too far fetched. For about a month now I no longer call myself atheist, I now believe in the source to everything. 💚

I went to a beach. I came up through the sand. Pet my dead dog. Spoke to my dead cousin. And was brought there and returned by a lady in blue robes. She told me her name was Harriot. When my father came out of his coma before he died, he said he was in Hawaii with my dead cousin. I know what awaits me, my friends.

Hi , I don't know your name as it is not written for us perhaps late you tubers, what is like to know from U personally is do you believe that JESUS CHRIST rose from THE DEAD? THANK YOU

I guess everyone has a different near-death experience and so was mine. I had a cardiac arrest last year inside an ambulance. How do I know I died (at least briefly) ? The paramedic told me after I came to that they had to shock me. What I felt while I was "dead" was this immense tranquility, the one you feel when sleeping after spending some time on the beach. The funny thing is that when I heard the paramedic calling me (her voice was so distant even though she was physically next to me), I had this feeling of thinking "leave me alone". So, no, no voices from "the beyond", no white light or any light whatsoever, only this grand, grand peaceful feeling.

None of this supports anything supernatural.

It s remarkable that the doc implied that there might be sth beyond life..i thought that as a scientist he would have said the exact opposite

As he said there is NO evidence for his speculation- at this stage, this is not science. An interesting hypothesis, no doubt, but to proceed though the true scientific process we need data. Go gather and report. Otherwise, there is nothing more to be said. Flaxen Saxon.

Where this gets interesting is that you can tap into your consciousnesses with your mind. And it gets even more interesting when you tap into other peoples consciousness with your mind.

I died too, car accident, hit my head, more than half my brain dead, lost more than 40% of my blood, doctors gave up on me, but my parents prayed and prayed. I wake up, recover against all odds and no doctor has been able to explain to me how I did it without prescription drugs or medical aid. I had God's love bestowed upon me through my parents, that's all I needed :)

Dr Sam is a great man I had ever known.

I expect I'll become slightly less interested in the results of football matches.

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are deep psychic, conscious, semi- conscious, or recollected experiences of someone who is approaching or has temporarily begun the ... Mar 31, 2023 Frontiers a systematic analysis of case reports and qualitative research -... who are clinically dead are psychopathological symptoms caused by a severe malfunction of the brain resulting from the cessation of cerebral blood circulation Wikipedia Near-death experience - Wikipedia

I only hope there are no people or corporations to deal with after I die

Our creator programmed everything and we dont understand yet so many things...

Thanks for clarity . I was recently ill and nearing death. Now I treasure everry sec of my life and enjoying . Not afraid of death anymore.

We do not die. our body dies, but we are not our body. It's not a belief, it's my conclusion after many years of studying consciousness. Main stream science is materialistic and takes wrong assumption (our brain creates our consciousness, which is a belief or a hypothesis and absolutely not a scientifically proven fact) and do not consider testimonies (what people say is not valid, only what formula or repeatable observations are valid) but the fact is that these testimonies are SO numerous and consistent from one to another and in different kind of experiences (NDEs, OBEs, shared DEs, past lives testimonies, mediumship, psychedelic experiences, terminal lucidity and many others... they are all saying the same things, they are all consistent with the "we are not our body" theory. Hopefully many scientists start now to investigate and change their approach to a wider science (see post materialistic science).

Sam parnia is a joke he tried to prove ndes and he found out that he didn't like the findings

He doesn't know.

Thannos TV EN Channel is a good source of NDE testimonies

Thank you. Could you please upload the whole intervew?

*No conclusive findings (AWARE-II study) of an Afterlife, nonetheless, yet. For the time being, it's all in the brain/mind and is based on ones cognition, perception and emotions, per se. An innate coping mechanism and part of the Human Condition. Fascinating phenomenon. 🧠 🌌*

If one experiences things that other people didn't experience themselves, it is hardly understandable to them. If one had for example near death experiences and has auditory and/or visual hallucination - other people would say it is mental disorder or some sort of schizophrenia. I think it is very small minded if people name a near death experience a mental disorder. And i do have an Amnesia. But what i can remember in, are these "Hallucinations". People could now explain it with something that the brain made up. So, people are basically trying to explain something they haven't seen and not experienced, to someone who has. And they explain you this with that it's not real. How do they want to know what's real and what not. I would say though, that it is not made up from the brain, and there are other entities. Specifically 1 entity that is important. I could animate it, theoretically, once i feel a bit better, or i could also make paintings that would show what i have seen, or both, and probably brain implants are available in several years.

If I have to believe those stories - I am not buying it seriously. Believe and faith is something you can do in church. Nobody who really died did come back and told us the truth until today, right - though there is no evidence at all - thats my opinion about NDE´s until today. People might believe in what ever they want. That´s none of my business at all.

Life after life 🙏🏻

Comon man there are doc that do belive that spirit and conchesness is for ever our body is just a vehicle numb nut.

Sam you're doing a good job

People really need to be concise with their stories in the comments. Nobody is gonna read your 8 paragraph essay

More like this please

I'd love to speak to this DR. I have some valuable input for him.

You have to Explain how NDE Experiencers Have Learned--in the middle of their NDE Experiences--that other family members have died! (Even Dr Bruce Greyson has an Anecdote of one such an Occurance!) You also have to Explain how NDE Experiencers have learned what Other Surgeries are in progress in other Operating Rooms while The Experiencer him-- or herself is under General Anesthesia and in the middle of being operated on, him-- or herself! Or how an NDE Experiencer knows what is going on several Rooms and/or Floors away from her- or himself... Or even on The Other Side of The Planet Earth! Yes: "Seriously!"

We also have people see things while alive and awake. I heard this music 3 times the night before my dad passed, the last time it came behind my ear.... then when my dog passes a sheik came over my head. Then my child and I heard a groaning man upstairs when NO ONE was there!.... lots of others so these NDE's arent the only things showing us.

Fascinating, really deserves more time. Any links appreciated.

Not sure how he can dismiss connections between people's consciousness at some higher level when he has no idea what consciousness is.

This is amazing. So heart and brain death doesn’t equate cellular apoptosis? So then the whole definition of death needs to include cellular death as well?

Cracks me up that scientists are starting to come Around the idea that we do not produce our own consciousness every single near death experience points did the same thing

Research into NDEs will reveal that consciousness is the key to understanding our universe and the next level of science. We are already starting to go in that direction.

I wanna know why nde is different for everyone

on my travels i found my self in Sweden looking up a couple I,d met on a Greek ferry .They invited me to stay for a few days and they would show me the sights ,,,,During a discussion with the wife who I will call Marie she mentioned that she had a daughter aged 14 who I might not meet although she would be around the property but had no time for strangers,,,.On wandering on to the verandah that afternoon I bumped into this young lady and we exchanged pleasantries but gradually got into converstion about all sorts of subjects,, from that moment we became inseperable ,...Marie suggested that Gretch take me to her favorite beach so we cycled about 2 km and sat in a little cove covered in small pebbles and Gretch sat in a yoga stance ,and I thought here goes I was warned about this as several times I tried to get up but she,grabbed my hand but after 20 minutes she was laughing and joking and we fell intto each others hands .I thought this cant go anywhere with me being 40 yrs old and mentioned it,but she put her finger on my lips and said we have known each other in another life the next morning at breafast she sat close to me on the table grabbed a roll and added all the things I liked and handed it to me and her cousin at the end of the table said ""just look at that old married couple..""..Marie thanked me when I was leaving expressing a great releif that I had changed Gretch for the best, In a quiet time Gretch was very upset as she argued that we were meant for each other and had known each other before ,I promised to return ,I didnt and I discover after 40 years later she never married ,I know we had loved somewhere in the past

awareness is the essence of what we're talking about... and yes... there is life... an organisation of matter in a pattern .. the physical purpose of which is to preserve that pattern as long as possible in a universe that otherwise tends things to higher states of disorder... that's life.... but also the fact this arrangement of matter is aware means there is some underlying property of the universe centred around awareness... and it is something to do with information... and interpretation... to do with meaning... and context... that is the awareness... and the answer will be at the quantum level... we know that information cannot be destroyed... but we also know something at that level is undefined unless it is observed... science hasn't mastered this yet... it hasnt really explored it properly.. Partly because its so hard to quantify. So, following on from this... if so... then it is likely computers in their own way are aware... not like us... nothing like us.... but any system that is built with purpose.. meaning .. and can interpret information... and is responsive, is aware at some level... so a computer for example.. similar level to a single cell organism. But I'll take it to the next level... its quite likely we have collective awareness too... through our interactions... exchanges of information and collective behaviours.... but the distortion of brain chem can mimic any type of experience that can be experienced in human consciousness and even some that otherwise couldnt.. therefore cannot be trusted... in order to prove that someone had an experience not of the body... they would need to know things that they could never have known.. Otherwise. no... i dont think if there is any activity in the brain... any at all.. or if cells are still ticking and chem reactions are occurring... that's not death; death is when life ends... cells are just a bunch of chemicals slowing breaking down.. ; as long as the brain is firing.. then it is possible to have some kind of experience in the biological sense without it being some great mystery.. unless like i say... someone gleans some information during this experience they shouldnt know... like... an event occurring in another place.. etc if you want to know what we are... we are not the body... we are not the cells.. we're not the nerves.. we are merely the exchange of information... the interpretation and the meaning of that information... the significance and purpose of those processes. If a system could be built that mimicked 100% all the information process and exchange of a human.. and it was based on something else... it would be a human being... as far as I can see... and you'll note that although the body is still fully functional otherwise.. once that information process is disturbed... either by sleep or a drug such as general anaesthetic... then awareness is gone... is there a means for that to be carried on separately from the body? Maybe.... its certainly a strange universe...

There are some similarities among NDE's but there are also quite a lot of differences ....often depending on culture, I've watched dozens of them and no two accounts actually describe the same experience. Those of a religious persuasion usually are desperately wanting these to verify their own belief systems, but its often reported that the NDE's of hindus , muslims and christians are quite different , even non believers NDE's usually mirror the predominant religion of their culture. What is more interesting are the out of body experiences , as people can relate what went on even then they were unconscious.

Jesus Christ

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I drowned in 1991. This is real.

It’s a big frustration for me to know for sure that the human being is a body and soul but not many people actually know it

We are spiritual beings living a human existence. My soul mate passed recently very suddenly. I've had so many signs he's still around..1 eg my TV....turns itself off on changes chann4ls I'll change the channel again but the TV again will change back to the channel it wants....its gone on by itself when I'm asleep many hours after it's been turned off. Tv has been checked it's perfectly fine yet this continues to happen Could go on forever about different things that have happened which are out of the ordinary. Thank you doctor for this interview

I think people would be more open to believing there is a “God” or higher power after you die, that loves you, no matter what - if we would take away these “threats” of, “if you don’t believe this, or that, or live your life exactly this way, according to this book, etc. then you won’t go to Heaven.” I believe when we die, we will be met by a force that is so powerful that we can’t put it into words, and it will be an overwhelming love. If I’m wrong, we will be in a state of peaceful sleep anyway, so it’s a win-win. Just chill out, no guilt trips, be peaceful, kind to others and happy. Period. ❤❤❤

Wow

I think it's something to do with fractal geometry, during the dying process we get our life reviews, than everything folds back into time when we are born but don't keep our memories with us they are locked away for good but we are born again without knowing who we were before.

good video

The 1960s gave us the Summer Of Love, hippies, and CPR & Defibrillation. CPR & Defibrillation made possible the NDEs of millions worldwide, born into generations where Quantum Theory was a preextant influence filter, and wherein as time proceeded the concept of Consciousness as the Observer combined with popular dissemination of Near Death Experiences produced the logical epiphany that the Quantum Field was a mental construct within our own Perception In Consciousness to explain our perception of the physical and the material. No such field is required within Consciousness. When mastered, what is willed is what is. All that's neatly timed with the universally felt sense of an impending cosmic awakening. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

It could be that we are Consciousness Beings, and that Perception In Consciousness is axiomatic to Consciousness, and that our bodies, brains, neurons, protons, and quarks are manifestations within that Perception In Consciousness, and that therefore, physicality and interaction in a material experience is Perception In Consciousness. Got Consciousness? It's ALL you have. You do not physically exist. You cannot physically die. You transition to another Perception In Consciousness. You've done this before. Many times. All of your experience adds back to the Whole. Without you, the Whole is incomplete. This is why you have value, why you are an essential part of the Whole. We exist in a Consciousness Singularity, the Primary Consciousness. We are partitioned bits of Primary Consciousness with our own separate self-awareness, interacting with Primary Consciousness in symbiosis. We are of, by, and within Primary Consciousness, holographically and fractally identical to Primary Consciousness, with the mission to experience what we can and share back the Whole in endless interplay. Choose well the roles you play.

What about temporal lobe epilepsy and seizure activity? Ecstatic seizures and stuff. There’s a lot not known about epilepsy but I wonder if the electrical storms in the right part of the brain can cause a NDE or obe

Congratulations to dr Parnia !!

Thank you

That's awesome 👍.

Good presentation

I have known about all this stuff since childhood.And have had plenty of so- called experiences through out my adult life.BUT I perceive this phenonema as natural, not supernatural!! After 15 mins. plus, you are dead!We still don't understand the behaviours of the brain yet, but we learn more all the time 😏 Their is no life after death tho, which doesn't bother me at all. I have had a very interesting life♥️🌞♥️

I wish I could shadow him doing his amazing work.

🐇My dad waited for my mother to come to his bed side, when she arrived, He took three breaths and passed away. He waited for some time...Thank you..

This is so interesting. So revealing. Fascinating stuff.

Thanks!

Cant agree about thoughts as it could be created by nurrsl networks and so does ai do it , what we dont understand about consciousness is the I , like how we perceive stuff and not thoughts.

Let's say we compare the brain with a computer. Sam Parnia says that you do not find toughts in a brain cell (basic component of a brain). However you will also not find a computer program in the copper or lead,... (basic components of a computer)... Though the computer is able to produce and run complex computer programs. Curious to hear someone thoughts about this anology.

The brain dying shouldnt have enough power left to produce these experiences

If doctor describes consciousness as a separate entity that says to me its a description of a soul i’m not a religious person either but a definition of a soul is a immaterial thing of a human and its not like You can’t pick up your conscious like you can look at cells as a physical thing.