'What happens when we die?

A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences. The study, known as AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), involves the collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest. TIME spoke with Parnia about the project's origins, its skeptics and the difference between the mind and the brain.


What sort of methods will this project use to try and verify people's claims of "near-death" experience?


When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases - as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing and were able see those pictures, that confirms consciousness really was continuing even though the brain wasn't functioning.'

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"So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing "...

This is interesting. Years ago, I had surgery and they gave me a drug I had a bad reaction to, and my heart stopped during the surgery. What I do remember 'seeing' was I was 'up' at the ceiling where it meets the wall, looking down, and was watching them defib me back 3 times. I remember being really irritated, since I wanted to see what they were doing, and people kept blocking my view, so I couldnt see what they were doing to me on the table. Next thing I 'saw' was a really fast rushing/falling from the ceiling area back to the table. Like a "BAM!!" type of sensation.

Thanks for sharing that article

Wow, I've never seen or met anyone with that experience. Was it fun?

A friend of mine died during childbirth and was brought back within a couple of minutes.
She told the Dr's that she watched them revive her and told them what time they started doing it.
They didn't believe her.