A moment, and a thousand years… both and neither.
I was not in time/space so this question also feels impossible to answer. Here’s what one participant who went through a near-death experience had to say about the timeline of their LRE: ‘‘There is not a linear progression, there is lack of time limits It was like being there for centuries.
The order of events, for example, was rarely chronological - more often, interviewees reported witnessing their life events in random order, or even simultaneously. They found that the stories all had several elements in common, including a few that contradicted commonly held ideas about what an LRE looks like. Without much evidence to support the existence of LREs, though, the best that researchers can do is lump them in with hallucinatory or dreamlike experiences.īut a new study on consciousness, published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, takes a different approach to evaluating LREs - and, according to the authors, adds both neurological and statistical support to the argument that they really do exist.įor the study, a team of researchers led by Judith Katz, a neurologist at Hadassah University in Jerusalem analyzed seven accounts of LREs that they had gathered through in-depth interviews. Take for example, Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon who claims to have spoken to God in a near-death experience. It’s a well-known trope in movies, books, and pretty much any other form of storytelling where the protagonist has a near-death experience: At the moment of reckoning, they see their life flashing before their eyes - their entire past spooling out before them, a replay of all the most significant moments.Īnd the phenomenon isn’t confined to fiction: Plenty of people have reported having what researchers call “life review experiences,” or LREs - including some scientists.
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