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Tales of survivors of clinical death scare and fascinate at the same time. Tunnel, bright light, meetings with the dead relatives. But can this evidence be believed? All of a sudden near death experience – just a hallucination of a dying brain? Belgian scientists find a way to test whether memories are real patients who returned from a coma. “I flew somewhere along giant pipe. The feeling of flying was familiar – like that happened before in a dream. Mentally tried to slow down the flight, change its direction. Happened! There was no horror or fear. Only bliss. I tried to analyze what was happening. conclusions came instantly. The world into which it exists exists. I think therefore, also exist? “- says Vladimir Efremov, survivor of clinical death. Interest in the near-death experience inexhaustible. We want an answer to the eternal question – is there something “there,” after the end of life. It seems that people who have visited death threshold, closest to the solution. Tunnel bright light, unusual lightness in the whole body – the most frequent images, which describe survivors of clinical death. Often meet also stories of meetings with deceased relatives and friends. These stories frighten and fascinate at the same time – they are like prove that the afterlife still exists. Most people would love to believe in it: we do not disappear after death, there will be something else. But can this evidence be believed? Put to check whether storytellers come up with is not so difficult: there are lie detectors and computed tomography of the brain that would help recognize the lie. But how to check if they really experienced out-of-body experience, or was it just a hallucination? A common hypothesis explaining the experience of clinical death, which many doctors share – the consciousness of a dying fogs up and the field of view narrows. The vision of the tunnel is just a circle of narrowed vision, and the white light at its end is a lamp on surgical table or in the intensive care unit. According to others hypotheses, visions of bright light and the afterlife may be hallucinations, a consequence of organic brain damage and even just a psychological defense of a nearly dead person. The experiments here, of course, are inappropriate: the resuscitation team there is something to do, except how to connect sensors to the dying brain for scanning. However, researchers from the University of Liège in Belgium came up with a method that would help determine how the real impressions of patients who survived clinical death are already after dramatic events. The fact is that the human brain is capable of to store memories as events experienced in reality, and about their own fantasies, stories of books and other fiction. But these memories are stored in different zones, and when activated two different mechanisms of brain function are involved. It turns out just take a tomogram – and recognize reality or the illusory nature of near-death memories is not difficult. Scientists worked with people who survived coma. They asked them about real impressions from ordinary life, and then about the experience of dying, and recorded the work of their brain during the activation of both memories. To control the brain activity of patients was compared with the work of bark in ordinary people who never fell into a coma. What showed experiments? Their results were amazing, but give a definite answer: is there life after death, alas, is still not allowed. Clinical death memories turned out to be … more real reality, in the literal sense. The brain remembers them differently than simple ones. fantasy and any other memory of the imaginary. But also from memories about real life, the near-death experience is also different: he remembered more clearly than the pictures from the patient’s daily life – more detailed and bright. A dying person’s brain should malfunction, because at this moment the whole body goes down. However the nature of patient memories in an experiment by Belgian scientists says that at this moment the brain works even more clearly than with normal life. Memories of “leaving the body” turn out to be recorded much better than simple everyday activities. Pragmatic scientists still offer a medical model of explanation of this phenomenon. In his article published in the online edition PLOS ONE, the authors remind that for the feeling of “leaving the body” the temporoparietal lobe of the brain is responsible – this fact is already installed. Experts suggest that the illusion of leaving the body perceived so real due to neuronal dysfunction given zones. Perhaps, during dying, the brain “generates” us fascinating plot, but we experience it as absolutely real experience. However, this explanation is only a hypothesis. Though the experiment of the staff of the Liege Institute is certainly very interesting, neither the absence nor the reality of the other world, he is not proves.
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