Many years ago, I was doing some breathing exercises that involved slowing down my breathing so that each breath would take a full minute to complete. After about 15 minutes, I was feeling pretty strange from the lack of oxygen reaching my brain. Suddenly, I saw the face of god...
It was Natalie from "The Facts of Life", only she was wearing kaboki makeup. Wondering why I would have such a strange vision, I spent some time in contemplation over the origin of it.
I traced it back to an episode of "Night Court" where Bull gets hit by lightning and has a vision of Tootie. The only conclusion I can reach is that I watch far too much bad television.
God is a Kabuki dancer.
Praise God!
Sì! Abbiamo un' anima! Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot.
Wicked Pilot wrote:The whole tunnel of light thing can be explained very easily. When you start to lose oxygen to your brain, two things happen to your eyes: First, you start to lose your periephal vision, then you start to lose color. Eventually, you can only see grey and whites, and you vision starts shrinking down to a small tunnel. Any pilot that has pulled a significant amount of Gs, including myself, can atest to this.
That just made my day. I love it when stuperstition is cast on the ground and stomped on.
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Master of Ossus wrote:I saw an interesting study that showed that a particular drug was linked to NDE's during the Vietnam War. It appears that some of them are indeed genuine hallucinations generated by a series of bio-chemical responses to different things, triggered by trauma.
That drug would be PCP if I remember correctly. It's a dissociative, which readily explains why you'd see and feel very strange things under the influence of it.
Korvan wrote:Many years ago, I was doing some breathing exercises that involved slowing down my breathing so that each breath would take a full minute to complete. After about 15 minutes, I was feeling pretty strange from the lack of oxygen reaching my brain. Suddenly, I saw the face of god...
It was Natalie from "The Facts of Life", only she was wearing kaboki makeup. Wondering why I would have such a strange vision, I spent some time in contemplation over the origin of it.
I traced it back to an episode of "Night Court" where Bull gets hit by lightning and has a vision of Tootie. The only conclusion I can reach is that I watch far too much bad television.
You sick freak! Print that on a T-shirt and I'll wear it.
Darth Wong wrote:There is also some question as to when they are seeing these things. People who experience these things generally assume they experienced them throughout the whole experience, rather than blanking out for part of it and then experiencing things during the recovery.
True, it could be just before or after flatlining too, so that the brain goes through some shock or something as the system is shutting down.
I read an article on this and it pretty much said that this is what the brain does as it dies, so one is likely to see stuff like a tunnel of light or whatever ones religion is, or whatever has had most effect on the shaping of ones personality.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who did not.
