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Originally Posted by Jules76
First I just want to say I'm not mocking anyone's experience, but I want to put my take on things. Personally I think it is a chemical thing, similar to dreaming if you like. It is interesting that people often have the same experience, but if you put it into context it's not really that suprising.
The whole "drawn to a bright light, seeing loved one's etc" is generally the experience we all come to expect. It's been shown on countless TV shows/movies or in books/literature and having people recount their experiences of the same thing simply reinforces this expectation. So when the time does come, it's not suprising in this "dream" state your mind grabs this "scenario" from your subconscious and plays it.
But anyway that's just my take.  |
Hi Julian,
Yeah I'm not saying its one way or the other. It could be chemical as you say or it could be an indication of a seperate consciousness from the body (which if I understand you correctly you don't really think is on the cards). Now I'm not advocating one theory over the other at this stage. I just think the whole thing is interesting. But I do have a problem with your explanation.
I think they have records of people having these experiances well before people were "sharing" their stories and I dare say people are having these experiances now without ever having paid much attention to the stories, so the preprogramed senario you suggest is not really a convincing explanation for me for the similar stories. Of course there may be other explanations for the similar stories that have nothing to do with a seperation of body and "soul" (for want of a better expression). Eg something in the nature of the brain chemical might induce similar images. Like I say I dont advocate one way or another. Its just facinating to me.