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feelings of peace
Among other things, the patients reported remembering feelings of peace, joy and harmony. For some, time sped
up, senses heightened and they lost awareness of their bodies. The patients also reported seeing a bright light,
entering another realm and communicating with dead relatives. One, who called himself a lapsed Catholic and
Pagan, reported a close encounter with a mystical being. Near-death experiences have been reported for centuries
but in Parnia's study none of the patients were found to have received low oxygen levels, which some skeptics
believe may contribute to the phenomenon. When the brain is deprived of oxygen people become totally confused,
thrash around and usually have no memories at all, Parnia said. "Here you have a severe insult to the brain but
perfect memory."
Skeptics have also suggested that patients' memories occurred in the moments they were leaving or returning to
consciousness. But Parnia said when a brain is traumatized by a seizure or car wreck a patient generally does not
remember moments just before or after losing consciousness. Rather, there is usually a memory lapse of hours or
days. "Talk to them. They'll tell you something like: 'I just remember seeing the car and the next thing I knew I was
in the hospital,"' he said. "With cardiac arrest, the insult to the brain is so severe it stops the brain completely.
Therefore, I would expect profound memory loss before and after the incident," he added. Since the initial
experiment, Parnia and his colleagues have found more than 3,500 people with lucid memories that apparently
occurred at times they were thought to be clinically dead. Many of the patients, he said, were reluctant to share
their experiences fearing they would be thought crazy.
a toddler's tale
One patient was 2½ old when he had a seizure and his heart stopped. His parents contacted Parnia after the
boy "drew a picture of himself as if out of his body looking down at himself. It was drawn like there was a balloon
stuck to him. When they asked what the balloon was he said, 'When you die you see a bright light and you are
connected to a cord.' He wasn't even 3 when had the experience," Parnia said. "What his parents noticed was that
after he had been discharged from hospital, six months after the incident, he kept drawing the same scene." The
brain function these patients were found to have while unconscious is commonly believed to be incapable of
sustaining lucid thought processes or allowing lasting memories to form, Parnia said, pointing to the fact that
nobody fully grasps how the brain generates thoughts.
The brain itself is made up of cells, like all the body's organs, and is not really capable of producing the subjective
phenomenon of thought that people have, he said. He speculated that human consciousness may work
independently of the brain, using the gray matter as a mechanism to manifest the thoughts, just as a television set
translates waves in the air into picture and sound. "When you damage the brain or lose some of the aspects of
mind or personality, that doesn't necessarily mean the mind is being produced by the brain. All it shows is that the
apparatus is damaged," Parnia said, adding that further research might reveal the existence of a soul. "When these
people are having experiences they say, 'I had this intense pain in my chest and suddenly I was drifting in the
corner of my room and I was so happy, so comfortable. I looked down and realized I was seeing my body and
doctors all around me trying to save me and I didn't want to go back.
"The point is they are describing seeing this thing in the room, which is their body. Nobody ever says, 'I had this
pain and the next thing I knew my soul left me."'
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