Hillbilly Deadtime Stories Ep 54 Near Death Experiences

Near-Death Experiences are intensely vivid and often life-transforming experiences
Many of these instances occur under extreme physiological conditions such as trauma, ceasing of brain activity, deep general anesthesia or cardiac arrest
In these cases, no awareness or sensory experiences of any kind should be possible according to the prevailing views in neuroscience.
These events share broad commonalities: becoming pain-free, seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel, or detaching from one's body and floating above it and even flying off into space.

Why the mind should experience the struggle to sustain its operations in the face of a loss of blood flow and oxygen as positive and blissful rather than as panic-inducing remains a mystery.

In this episode, we will explore one such story…