How Dose Feel Die

Life is that thing where you're born and then grow somewhat bigger and fall in love with someone or go fishing and maybe have some more small people and then it's time for the next part death dying the inevitable demise of our existence now there's an eclectic range of ways you could die now there's an eclectic range of ways you could die It's quite commonly heart disease or cancer, but you could also be one of the 600-ish yearly victims of autoerotic asphyxiation. I don't know you, but no matter how you die, at some point you'll experience clinical death, which is sort of like life but just without breathing or blood circulation. In other words, it's the start of the transition from this life to that other bit. But, for most people, death isn't completely instantaneous, so what can modern science tell us about the experience of those final moments? What does it feel like to die now? Because people in the final stages of dying are usually pretty unresponsive, we normally imagine that the experience of death is dull a sleepy unconscious fade out of life, but some experiments tell a very different story. In 2013, scientists at the University of Michigan gathered a group of lab rats and measured their brain activity while they died, but something very interesting happened during this process: after the rats experienced cardiac arrest with no heartbeat or breath, their brain showed a surge of global activity with low gamma wave levels. that were more synced across the brain than in the rat's usual awake phases, and this was astounding. In previous studies, this specific type of brain activity has been linked to people's conscious perception in other less boring words, these rats may have been experiencing something between clinical death and full on brain death, which doesn't mean rat heaven it just means you know something i'm sorry yeah i i can't roll it out greg this experiment massively challenged the assumption that the brain is inactive during death, on the contrary it appeared that before lasting unnatural death, It also raised the question of what the rats were feeling as they died, and whether the same could be said of humans. Most people currently have bigger and more sophisticated brains than rats. However, an intriguing experiment done in 2018 at Imperial College London gave some light on what death would feel like for humans. Scientists sought to look at the parallels between two completely distinct events. On the one hand, there are near-death experiences or hallucinations .The scientists gave a dose of dmt to test subjects who found themselves quickly and legally off their faces. Once they had returned to reality, the scientists had them describe their experiences using a checklist commonly used to evaluate near-death experiences. They were shocked to see an incredible amount of similarities between the two types of experiences, including sensations like transcendence of time and space and oneness with nearby objects and people. The experience of nearly dying turned out to be strikingly similar to a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Approximately twenty About twenty, when we think about death, we picture it as a gloomy and tedious process, but science wonders what if it's psychedelic. Dr. Chris Tillerman, who led the research at Imperial, joins me. What can this experiment teach us about death? The main takeaway from the research, in my opinion, is that death can actually be found in life, in experiences. As of right now, we know that there seems to be an electrical activity spike; these gamma waves seem to be quite noticeable, and they might be the cause of these near-death experiences. Additionally, certain brain regions exist, such as the sections known as the medial temporal lobes. that control memory, dreaming, and other processes, including learning, which may be connected to these experiences in that our brains are in some manner mimicking reality in terms of ndes I've read that about 20 people who were diagnosed clinically at the time and later returned to report them. Could it be that some people are forgetting their experiences and that everyone has had similar experiences, or could these cases actually be quite uncommon? It's likely that some people are experiencing memory loss. due to various factors, so we observe that when we administer psychedelic DMT at high doses, some of the experience is also forgotten. What I believe is happening there is that the experience is so unique that it's beyond our capacity to express words, so when the experience itself surpasses this capacity, we also find it difficult to remember. It's also possible that some people simply don't experience that, in which case further research from that area could aid in our understanding of death. It's fascinating to see what's going on with, say, brain scans and how we can figure out what's going on in the brain and how that relates to experience. These days, people can have scans done on them that allow you to determine what kind of movie they are watching and whether they are watching it or not. It's possible that at some point, with our advanced brain imaging techniques, we will be able to mind read people in order to gain a better understanding of the brain mechanisms that underlie these exceptionally and The science of death is a murky field, but what we do know paints a surprisingly optimistic picture. For example, people who have experienced near-death experiences frequently report feelings of peacefulness and serenity and show a long-lasting reduction in distress associated with death. We also know that most deaths are described as pain-free, suggesting that any heightened consciousness we may experience as we pass away is also likely to be painless. And maybe most surprisingly, research also suggests that people tend to lose their senses in a particular order.Hearing and touch seem to last longer than speech and vision, which suggests that many people may be able to sense and hear their loved ones in their last moments even if they don't seem to be responding. A recent brain scan of an epileptic patient who was dying also revealed activity linked to dreaming and memory recall, raising the possibility that there may even be some truth to life flashing before your eyes. Ultimately, these experiments have shown that the experience of death may involve heightened potentially delusional awareness one final trip on psychedelics before the nothing times In a society like ours where we try to deny death, brush it under the rug, and really don't want to see death, I believe one of the most important things that psychedelic research can teach us is how to deal with that. We are all going to perish in the end. I'm going to die. These investigations suggest that the passage between life and death may be significantly more sensory, emotional, and even hallucinogenic than we may anticipate. Greg is going to die; you will die; the pigeon just died. Although it's in our natural nature to fear what we see, when we consider death more fully, it can help us relax a little. The final minutes may

not be frightening at all; rather, they are simply a necessary, certainly not too painful, and maybe hallucinogenic journey from now to you.