Here are 3 outstanding points that support the idea that NDEs are very real.
But first, here are the well-established common features of an NDE that point to the idea that they are very real:
Being outside one’s body and observing conversations, actions and physical appearances of people they’ve never met—that are later verified.
Returning from the NDE with knowledge that the individual could not have possibly known unless they had learned it from the deceased loved-one they encountered during the NDE.
Other common features point to the reality as well. For example, why would everyone, from any walk of life, any religion, any age, encounter some form of a blinding or brilliant light that never hurts their eyes?
- Why do so many have a life review?
- Why are the experiences so overpowering that the NDE’er’s outlook on life and attitudes towards people are profoundly altered?
And that barrier or border; nearly every NDE has this feature: some kind of threshold that the person knows that going through it will mean a point of no return.
There are three additional features that are common to all NDEs that heavily point to their reality.
Skeptics, or people who insist that near-death experiences are hallucinations or dreams manufactured by dying brain cells or brain cells starved of oxygen, really need to ask themselves the following questions:
#1. Why is it that in these alleged hallucinations or dreams…the person never actually crosses that threshold and gets into Heaven?
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Nobody ever comes back to say, “I got into Heaven! There was this bridge, and I knew that if I crossed it, there’d be no going back.
“I wanted so much to cross it, and my deceased loved-ones beckoned for me, so I did—I crossed the barrier—and I was officially christened an angel!”
No sir, NDE’ers never report crossing over. They say, 100 percent of the time, that they either decided to return to their body, or, they were forced back into their body.
Funny how none have ever reported that they wanted to go back to their body, but were forced to go through that barrier or gate!
If NDEs are only a dream or hallucination, then anything should go. So why don’t NDE’ers ever actually cross over, then “wake up” from the dream to report this?
#2. Part of many NDEs is the OBE: out of body experience.
Now don’t you find it quite interesting that whenever someone reports the “hallucination” of being outside their body…that they never also “hallucinate” or “dream” that their body is doing anything more than just lying there unmoving with its eyes are closed?
Why don’t NDE’ers ever report, “I was floating above my body. I then saw my eyes open and my body sit up, and then my body walked across the room and called Dominoes to order a pizza. The pizza came seconds later and I watched my body eating it.”
Dreams during sleep, and hallucinations from brain chemistry gone awry, typically LACK logic.
So why don’t NDE’ers report that they witnessed their body get up and speak to the NDE’er?
Or order that pizza? Why doesn’t the NDE’er ever have conversations with his or her “body”? Or jump off the operating table and tell the doctors, “Hey, I’m cured!”
No sir. The body always just lies there, not moving. It never suddenly grabs the resuscitation paddles and says, “Hey Doc, enough already.” Aren’t dreams and hallucinations supposed to be rather wild?
Yet the “dream” or “hallucination” of hovering over one’s own body are quite bland: The body never does anything but lie there.
#3. If these are dreams or hallucinations…why don’t NDE’ers ever experience their fantasies?
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For example, many people fantasize being intimate with their favorite movie star — or gorging on the best chocolate cake in the world. The one at the top of this article would be one heavenly experience!
You’d think that in these exceptionally vivid dreams or hallucinations, the dying brain cells would conjure up a very stunning replica of, say, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Sharon Stone or Harrison Ford — there for the taking by the NDE’er — who then proceeds to spend what seems like hours with this facsimile of their favorite entertainer.
So those are the three questions that skeptics of NDEs need to ask themselves.
The overnight dreams and drug-induced or mental-illness-induced hallucinations of people do NOT contain common threads like NDEs do.
Really, if you were to ask 1,000 people what they dreamt last night, you’d get hundreds of very different stories.
Ask 1,000 NDE’ers to explain their “dream,” and you’ll get the same thing over and over and over (though the details will differ, e.g., how they approach the light, shape of the light, type of barrier, presence or absence of music, etc.).
Lorra Garrick has been covering medical, fitness and cybersecurity topics for many years, having written thousands of articles for print magazines and websites, including as a ghostwriter. She’s also a former ACE-certified personal trainer.
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