What does it feel like to be dying?

I have heard that there is a kind of person who has experienced a "Near Death Experience" Near Death Experience (English: Near Death Experience abbreviation: NDE), also known as near-death experience, refers to the subjective experience of the moment of threat of death as described by some people who have suffered from a serious trauma or illness, but who have recovered unexpectedly, and by those who have been in a potentially destructive situation and have had a feeling of imminent death but have survived. who have escaped with a narrow escape from a potentially devastating situation, recount their subjective experience of a death-threatening moment. It is the same as the psychology of the dying process, the mental activity of human beings as they move toward death. Near-death experience is a reaction when people encounter danger (such as car accidents, sudden illnesses, etc.), and there are several extraordinary basic sensations in perception, emotion, etc., such as the feeling of time change, life review, the mood of extraordinary peace, joy, and even the "consciousness of death", etc., and each of these sensations is unique to each individual, and may occur at the same time, without universality. Each of these sensations is unique to each individual and may occur simultaneously, without universality. Each of these sensations is unique to each individual and may occur simultaneously, with no universality. Individual sensations are also often different depending on age and culture. In some of the cases provided by patients, it has been shown that the near-death experience should not be a simple unconscious act. At the same time near-death experiences are possible when people are in danger, whether or not there is nerve damage. Typically, people who have a near-death experience are in a state of localized ischemia or hypoxia or both. "Near-death experiences are a common phenomenon, and many people who have had a near-death experience can accurately describe what they "see" around them when their sensory organs of clinical death are not functioning. Few people, even atheists, currently deny the existence of near-death experiences. The phenomenon of "near-death experiences" is widespread among all peoples, and Plato recorded the phenomenon of near-death experiences as early as more than two thousand years ago in his work The Republic. There are a lot of records of this in ancient Chinese history, and there are many examples in the West after conscious recording. 1987, in Barcelona, Spain, a 24-year-old young worker named Chavez Yayena, unfortunately was crushed by a large box containing machinery, and became a coma "vegetable". 1990 One day in March, Yaaena suddenly came to his senses, and although it was only for 10 minutes or so, he recounted to the people what had happened to him during his long sleep: "I was transformed back into a child, led by my aunt who had died. She led me into a luminous tunnel that led to another world. She said to me, 'The eternal peace you want me to find is available to you in the other world.' I covered my eyes with my hands, but Aunt Maria gently pulled my hands back." After 10 minutes or so, Ya'aina fell back into a long sleep. Coincidentally, a 65-year-old businessman in the United States, who was "resurrected from the dead," also told the doctors who resuscitated him what happened to him "after his death:" "I remember that I seemed to be a light cloud, gradually rising from my body to the ceiling. The walls of the hospital and the iron gates of the hospital. The walls of the hospital and the iron gates could not stop 'me at this time'. I quickly flew out of the hospital, and with increasing speed, flew into the void of space. Then I was moving at great speed through an endless tunnel. At the other end of the tunnel, I saw a small bright light; this light grew brighter and bigger. When I reached the end of the tunnel, the light turned into a source of intense and overwhelming light. My heart was filled with joy and love. I no longer have worries, frustrations, pain and tension." It is interesting to note that some famous people have also had "near-death experiences". The Nobel Prize-winning American writer Ernest Hemingway had a "disembodied soul" experience when he was 19 years old. He was serving in the ambulance corps on the Italian front, and at midnight on July 8, 1918, a piece of shrapnel hit Hemingway's legs, seriously injuring him. Afterward he told his friend Guy Hico, "I felt my soul come out of my body, as if I had taken a corner of a silk handkerchief and pulled it out of my pocket. The silk handkerchief fluttered around and finally came back to its old place, into the pocket." In addition to Hemingway, the great German poet Goethe, the best French critical realist writer Maupassant, the famous Russian nineteenth-century writer Dostoyevsky, America's most famous novelist Edgar Allan Poe, and the famous British writer David Herbert Lawrence, all had similar experiences, and believed that "the human soul is hidden within the human body, and is a fleshly A perfect replica, composed of something extremely light, luminous, translucent, and well suited for extracorporeal activities, the soul leaves the body in much the same way as in a dream Research has shown that people who have experienced near-death experiences are spread across the world's different geographic regions, races, religions, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds. Gallup, the leading statistics company in the United States, estimates that at least 13 million living adults in the United States alone have had a near-death experience, and this number is even higher if children are included. Studies by Dr. Kenh Ring and others have shown that about 35% of people who approach death have a near-death experience. Five Stages Psychologist Kenneth Reiniger categorizes human "near-death experiences" into five stages that have been recognized by academics: - Feelings of extreme calm, serenity, and relaxation (three-fifths of near-death victims). Feeling that one's consciousness and even body image are detached from one's own body, floating in mid-air, and that one can watch the doctors go about their business around one's body as if one were uninvolved (one-third of those who have experienced a near-death experience). -Felt that I entered a long black hole and flew forward quickly and automatically, and felt calmer when my body was being pulled and squeezed (one-fourth). -A ray of light appeared at the end of the black hole, and when approaching this ray, felt that it gave itself a pure love. Relatives (some of them deceased) appear at the entrance of the hole to greet you, all of them tall, colorful, and with a halo of light. At that moment, the great experiences of one's life passed before one's eyes, one after the other, most of them pleasant events (one out of seven). -One becomes one with the light and feels for a moment that one has become one with the universe. There are also feelings of awakening, isolation, stopping of time, extinction of the sun, and being controlled by an external force. However, not all scientists are convinced of the results of "near-death experiences", especially those who are concerned with "death tests", "visits to hell" and "resurrection from the dead". The claims of "death tests", "hell visits" and "resurrection from the dead" have been rejected by some scientists. Two professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have argued that the five stages of a "near-death experience" are pure nonsense, and that it is nothing more than a hallucination of death due to asphyxiation, which is caused by a lack of sensation. Some scientists have pointed out that the subjective experiences of people at the moment of death are generally similar for a short period of time-especially since people who believe in the existence of heaven abound in the West, and are therefore more likely to have a "near-death experience"-this is a more convincing argument. This is currently the more convincing view. Biologist Roland Seger explains it from a biochemical point of view. He believes that at the time of death, the brain secretes an excessive amount of chemicals, some of which can cause strange hallucinations. Viewpoint C Some scholars believe that since both life and death are unavoidable laws of nature, death can be an instinctive reflection at extreme times. When the body judges that it is difficult to survive, it activates its own euthanasia instincts and no longer releases invigorating sensations (such as pain). Instead, it releases a chemical similar to heroin that allows the person to pass away happily. The content of the hallucination is related to the person's experiential beliefs. This phenomenon does not indicate the existence of a 2nd world such as hell and heaven. It is because there is no unknown information in the hallucinations of these people. It is like a man dreaming: "The northern man does not dream of elephants, and the southern man does not dream of camels. His information does not go beyond what he has been exposed to in reality. For example, a person who has a near-death experience tells of meeting the victim of a murder, and the victim says he doesn't know who the murderer is. But in the end the crime was solved and the perpetrator was an acquaintance. That is, he didn't see the victim in heaven or hell, merely his own hallucination. Alpha 3 At a time when the scientific community is at a loss for words, a scientific experiment named "Alpha 3" is quietly underway in Tokyo, Japan, opening up a new world for the study of "near-death experiences". The "Alpha 3" program is sponsored by a number of multinational companies, and there are 16 volunteers*** participating in the experiment. They were from the United States, Japan and Switzerland, ranging in age from 19 to 75 years old, and were all dying patients on the verge of death. They were approved to join the "Alpha 3" program after nearly three months of in-depth psychological analysis. The specific implementation method of the "Alpha 3" program is: scientists implanted electrodes in the skulls of the volunteers and connected them to a computer, so that the computer could receive the brain waves of the volunteers within a range of 80 kilometers and translate them into words within 60 seconds, which would be displayed on the fluorescent screen of the computer terminal. (This is very problematic, because up to now there has been no technology to enable direct brainwave communication, and the most powerful technology has only been to turn lights on and off via brainwaves.) During the first two years of the Alpha 3 program, four volunteers left the earth, but the computer did not receive any information from them. Scientists were not discouraged, they made further changes to the computer program and finally succeeded. At that time, a volunteer named Freddy died of illness. Three days later, the long-awaited message from the scientists appeared on the computer's fluorescent screen: "I'm Freddy, and I'm telling you that I'm happy and free of pain ...... free of pain ...... free of pain ... ..." These words, repeated more than 20 times, were abruptly interrupted by the message. This result greatly encouraged the scientists and volunteers participating in the "Alpha 3" program, so that the experiment was carried out in a more organized manner. However, since then, four volunteers have passed away, but the computer did not receive any information. At the time of the "mountain of doubt", a 23-year-old leukemia patient unfortunately died, the result of the research and "dark flowers and another village", because the next day the computer received her message: "This is a beautiful place, I am happy to be here, I am happy to be here, I am happy to be here. place and I am happy to be here, this is often sunny." "A lot of people are with me, I love them very much and I will be ......" The messages stopped abruptly. The scientists involved in the Alpha 3 program agree that the similarity of the feedback from the life messages conveyed here is strong evidence for the existence of "near-death experiences". In view of this, the "Alpha 3" program will have to be further developed. Some experts are skeptical about how this experiment was conducted. The debate will continue. With advances in medical technology, more and more people are being awakened from death and are reporting a large number of near-death experiences. Regardless of the culture, era, or religion of the person experiencing the experience, the content and impact of the near-death experience on the person is remarkably similar. Some have questioned whether there is an objective and verifiable basis for the reports of near-death experiences, which are essentially subjective personal experiences. Kenneth Ring, a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Kenneth Ring, a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, answered, "The most objective and verifiable data is the disembodied portion of a near-death experience. People see things when they are out of body. These are things that scientists can investigate and verify." In the last two decades, scientific research on near-death experiences has been published in large numbers in academic journals, such as THE LANCET and JOURNAL OF NEAR DEATH STUDIES, which continue to publish scientific papers in this new field of research, but most near-death experience studies are retrospective and only focus on patients who have had the experience. Often there is a five to ten year gap between the scientists' investigations and the patients' actual experiences, so many of the medical factors that may influence a patient's near-death experience cannot be accurately measured. To address this situation, Pem of the Cardiovascular Center at Rijnstate Hospital in the Netherlands. Dr. Pim Van. Dr. Pim VanLommel and colleagues conducted an eight-year follow-up near-death-experience study of 334 patients aged 26-92 years who were successfully resuscitated with sudden cardiac arrest between 1988 and 1992. Details of these patients' conditions at the time of onset, the medications used, and the medical measures taken at the time were documented. In subsequent years, he interviewed and tested these patients again to examine whether they had biased memories of the experiences they had at the time of the onset of their illness, including near-death experiences. Dr. Lamaner's findings were published in the December 2001 issue of THE LANCET, a leading international academic journal. All of these patients had been declared clinically dead on one or more occasions, then regained consciousness with prompt cardiac pacing, artificial respiration and medication. Sixty-two of them reported near-death experiences, which included varying degrees of recognition that they had died, experiencing pleasant positive emotions, having their souls leave their bodies, walking through a tunnel, communicating with a light, observing strange colors and heavenly sights, meeting with deceased relatives and friends, looking back over their lives, and gaining insight into the boundaries of life and death. Through rigorous comparative analysis and statistical testing, Dr. Lamaner found that near-death experiences occur when the patient is in a state of death with no brain waves or electrocardiogram. The presence or absence of a near-death experience is not related to the effects of drugs or psychological factors of the patient. The depth of the near-death experience is also independent of the patient's condition. After a near-death experience, most patients gain new insights into the meaning of life and are no longer overly concerned about the loss of material benefits or fear of death. The experience also did not pass over time or undergo substantial memory bias. National and international studies have shown that despite differences in the content of near-death experiences described by different individuals, it is remarkably consistent and universal and has a wide range of transcendental content. Psychosocial, cultural level, occupation, marriage, personality, and inclination also have different degrees of influence on the content of near-death experiences. The study of Feng et al. showed that men have more feelings of accelerated thought processes than women; unmarried people have more experiences of supersensory perception and a sense of world destruction than married people; the higher the level of culture, the more feelings of exceptionally clear thinking, and the lower the level of culture, the more disembodied experiences, experiences of surviving in a non-earthly realm, feelings of physical strangeness, and feelings of unreality in the world; peasants and no-workers have more feelings of slowing down or stopping time and bodily sensory experience of abnormality are more frequent, cadres and workers have more of the feeling of sudden awakening; those who believe in ghosts and gods and fate have more of the feeling of playing the role of another person. "Once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope. Once bitten by a snake, it takes ten years to fear a well rope." If snakebite is like that, how subtle should be the psychological changes of those who have accepted death and returned to the human world! The study by Feng and his collaborators reported that 47 of the 81 cases studied had personality changes before and after the near-death experience. Those who had a near-death experience with a sense of special clarity of thought became more docile, while those who "met" non-earthly people or souls, or had a sense of being judged for not being under conscious control of their thinking or behavior, became more blindly optimistic or impatient. After "coming back from the dead," most people remember the near-death experience vividly, and it remains etched in their minds even after a decade or two. However, there are many theories as to the mechanism of near-death experiences, which can be divided into two general categories. However, any one of these theories must be able to explain how the brain processes and stores near-death experiences in a near-death state, when the brain is not working properly or has stopped working. A near-death person describes: I feel like my body is divided into two, one lying on the bed, which is just an empty shell, and the other floating in the air, which is my own form. What does it feel like when death is near? Does everyone feel the same when they die? Scientists have studied this meticulously, providing information about the subtle feelings at the junction of life and death. This is called a near-death experience. In 1892, Heim, a scientist with a Swiss address, first gave a phenomenological description of near-death experiences based on reports of people who had fallen from mountains. Subsequently, many scholars have investigated and studied this. China's research on near-death experiences has also taken off. According to Feng Zhiying, director of Tianjin Anding Hospital, who was the first to introduce this foreign study to China, the dying process is a psychological change during the process of facing death, which lasts for a long time, while near-death experience occurs in the emergency of sudden death and lasts for a short period of time. At present, there are about 40 kinds of near-death experience phenomena reported at home and abroad. Psychiatry theory and practice confirms that people do not have any fear at the critical moment of death, and feel especially calm and happy, which is beneficial to prolonging life; on the contrary, any agitation, panic or dying grief will quickly deplete the body's energy reserves and accelerate the approach of death. Example Tangshan earthquake survivors experience Feng Zhiying and colleagues of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake survivors of near-death experience survey, although only 81 cases of valid survey data, is the world's near-death experience research history of the collection of the largest number of samples. According to statistical analysis, these survivors, more than half of the people in the near-death review of the life course, nearly half of the people produce consciousness from their own feelings of separation, feel their own image out of their own body, wandering into the air. Their bodies were divided into two, one lying on the bed, which was just an empty shell, and the other was their own form, which was lighter than air, swaying and floating in the air, and they felt extremely comfortable; about one-third of them had the strange feeling that they were passing through a pit or a tunnel-like space, sometimes accompanied by some strange noises and the sensation of being pulled or squeezed; and about one-quarter of them experienced that they were "meeting" something other than themselves. About a quarter of the people experienced the phenomenon of "meeting" people or spirits that were not real, mostly deceased relatives or living acquaintances who appeared to be reunited with them. A girl named Liu, who was only 23 years old at the time of the Tangshan earthquake, was injured in the lumbar spine by a collapsed house and could no longer stand up. She said in describing her own rescue before the near-death experience: I think especially clear, thinking significantly faster, some pleasant life episodes such as a movie scene by scene in the mind and sped past, childhood and small friends with laughter and play, the joy of falling in love, by the factory when the joy of commendation ...... I strongly experience the happiness and joy of life! She said, I will spend my life in a wheelchair, but whenever I recall the kind of feeling I had at that time, I know that I have to live well! "I felt myself flying on the ceiling, floating, with a body (mine) lying on the hospital bed. I clearly felt its pulse and breathing. "This was a personal disembodied experience recounted by a psychiatrist to his peers. "I was indeed particularly surprised by this. " "I felt a particular clarity of thought, and certain scenes from my past life flashed rapidly through my mind one by one as if they were camera images. There were shots of awards as a child, and shots of the excitement of getting married, like 'panoramic recollections' of life. "At that time I was not afraid, nor was I in pain, nor did I miss my relatives, as if I had lost my emotions. "This was 41 of the 81 instances of near-death experiences recounted by Director Feng in his study of survivors of the Tangshan earthquake who had similar brief experiences. Example 2 A man named Fred Skoonmaker (弗雷得). A doctor named Fred Schoonmake works as a physician at Saint Luke's in Denver, Colorado. While serving as Chief of Cardiovascular Services at Saint Luke's Hospital in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Fred Schoonmake reported that one of his female patients had a disembodied experience during a near-death experience. The patient, who was blind, "saw" fourteen people in the room when her spirit left her body. Although she could not distinguish colors, she "saw" objects while disembodied and could accurately describe what was happening in the operating room. Dr. Skoonmaker said it was as if the woman had actually seen: her descriptions matched the facts (On the other side of life: Exploring the phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience, Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, 1997, pp. 89-90). phenomenon of the Near-Death-Experience Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, 1997, p89-90) . Example 3 In M.B Sabom's treatise, Recollection of Death (Sabom, M.B., 1982, Recollection of Death, London, Corgi), it is documented that a young American woman, who was clinically dead at the time of a brain aneurysm resection, and who was fortunate enough to come back to life after the operation, reported that at the time of her death, she was in a clinically dead state. She reported that at the time of her death, she had a profound near-death experience, including a disembodied experience, and saw the various instruments used by the doctors to perform the operation, and the detailed procedure, and it was confirmed that what she had seen corresponded to the facts at the time. This shows that the disembodied experience of the soul is corroborated and objective, and these lay a solid foundation for the study of near-death experiences. Example 4 In another of her books, TheLightBeyond, Dr. Raymond Moody mentions the near-death experience of a nine-year-old girl who lost consciousness during an appendectomy, and after she was resuscitated, she recalled, "I heard them say that my heart had stopped, and I realized that I was floating on the ceiling looking down, and that from there I could see everything, then I went out into the hallway and I saw my mom crying and I asked her why she was crying but she couldn't hear me and the doctors thought I was dead. Then a beautiful lady came up to me and tried to help me because she knew I was scared. We walked through a tunnel which was dark and long and we walked very fast and at the end of the tunnel was very bright light and I felt very happy. The famous American psychologist Dr. Raymond R26;AR26;Moody tried to reveal the truth about death for people after studying 150 cases of near-death experiencers (people who came back to life after experiencing "clinical death"). Although the circumstances in which a near-death experience occurs and the personalities of the individuals who have experienced it are vastly different, there are, to be sure, some unmistakable similarities in the accounts of these people's "near-death experiences" - which I have summarized in 14 general categories They are listed in the order in which they appeared 1. knowledge of death 2. experience of pleasure 3. strange sounds 4. entering a black hole 5. disembodiment of the soul 6. limitation of speech 7. disappearance of time 8. sensitization of the senses 9. loneliness and helplessness 10. companionship of a "human being" 11. appearance of a bright light 12. looking back on one's life 13. boundary blockage 14. return to life The most successful near-death experiences are the ones in which the person has been able to see the world and the world. The most successful experiment in near-death experience British doctor Sam Parnell was the first person in the world to use scientific experiments to prove that the "soul" really exists. His experimental design is this: if the patient's "soul" can float after death, can still see their own bodies, see the doctors to save his body, see the lights on the ceiling, then if you put a board under the ceiling, the top of the board to put some small objects (only Sam himself knows what objects, others do not know), then the "soul", and the "soul" can be seen on the ceiling. Then the "soul" should be able to see these small objects. If the patient can be resuscitated, can say what the small objects on the board, then you can distinguish the "soul" in the end is a vague imagination, or an objective entity. Sam conducted a study of more than 100 patients, and found that seven of them were rescued from the patient woke up to be able to say their "soul" out of the body to see the scene, especially the small objects on the board, said all right. Sam's experiment was a success. Sam's experiment has a pioneering significance, he is the world's first scientific experimental methods, confirmed the objective existence of the "soul". The "soul" is an objectively existing entity, with a certain size, can float up, can move, it is another form of human life existence, rather than the imaginary imaginary. On June 20, 2001, Sam was invited to give a presentation entitled "Near-Death Experiences: A Perspective on Brain Death or a New Science of Consciousness?" at Rice University in Houston. The presentation attracted a number of people interested in the study of life. In his presentation, Sam began by giving a background on the study of "near-death experiences," which have been studied by many doctors and scientists. When talking about the relationship between consciousness (the soul) and the brain, Sam presented different views. The traditional view is that consciousness is generated in the neural network, and if there is no neural network, there is no consciousness; other new views are: 1) consciousness is generated due to quantum effects; 2) consciousness is generated due to morphology *** vibration effects; 3) consciousness exists independently of the brain, just as electromagnetic fields can exist independently; 4) "spirit" is a science in its own right; 5) "spirit" is a science in its own right; 6) "spirit" is a science in its own right; 7) "spirit" is a science in its own right; 8) "spirit" is a science in its own right; 9) "spirit" is a science in its own right. " is a science in itself. Sam also described the next steps in research: the UK will spend 140,000 pounds on a multidisciplinary study of the "near-death experience" of cardiac arrest; the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA, will conduct a study of the relationship between consciousness and gene expression; and there are other studies being conducted in the UK and the USA. other studies in the UK and USA. Finally, Sam showed a video of a typical person having a "near-death experience" and answered questions from the audience. Researchers at the Texas Medical Center in Houston expressed great interest in Sam's research and thought it was of great significance in exploring the nature of life, and offered to collaborate with Sam to ****together study this new area of life. [Sam proved the existence of the "soul" through scientific experiments. However, in the world of spiritual cultivation, people have already proved the objective existence of the "soul" thousands of years ago through the method of spiritual cultivation, only that the world of spiritual cultivation called it "Yuan Shen", that is, the body of a human being existing in another space. Attachment: an American doctor called Duncan McDougal as early as 1907 did an experiment, he will be six dying patients placed in a sensitive measuring device equipped with a bed, you can confirm the weight of the deceased before and after life, in the confirmation of the patient's death in the moment McDougal noted the patient's weight changes. At the moment of the first patient's death McDougall recorded a weight loss of 21.3 grams, which he attributed to the weight of the soul. Because the soul left the body, it lost weight. By extension, the soul can leave the body and exist.