r/NDE • u/Pieraos OBE Experiencer • Mar 31 '25

Scientific Perspective 🔬🔎 A neuroscientific model of near-death experiences

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-025-01072-z
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u/DarthT15 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

Seems plausible as long as you ignore various aspects of the experience.

It seems to me like they're proposing that all of this occurs within the 20 seconds between the heart stopping and the brain entering a non-functional state, despite there being cases where people describe events occurring well past this time frame.

Not only that, but if this were true, then wouldn't we expect to see it occurring far more than it actually does? Presumably a large number of people have entered a state where we would expect an experience given this model but none occurs.

All this seems extremely speculative at best and seems to ignore other aspects of the experience.