NDEs can vary from person to person, but common elements of the phenomenon can include seeing a bright light or lights, strong emotions, having an out-of-body experience, and seeing religious figures or deceased friends and family.
Furthermore, fringe Mormon voices like Pap and Avow, along with all those NDE and End Times authors, they're constantly adding their own bits of lore to the Mormon storyline.
We also know that NDEs are overwhelmingly described as pain free, meaning that that heightened consciousness we might experience as we die is also likely to be painless and, you know, maybe a little bit fun.
But just to scratch my own itch, I'm going to pick up on a thread from quite a few minutes ago where I was asking about possible differences in reported NDEs.
They suggest that NDE memories may not simply be imagined event memories, but rather that their physiological origins could lead them to be truly perceived, even if they are not lived in reality.
Potentially furthering a correlation between the human brain and near-death experiences, another recent study found that NDEs were uncommon in head-injury cases compared to other near-death conditions.
A near-death experience, or NDE, is a significant psychological event that can occur when a person is close to death or in other situations of physical or emotional crisis.
Curious as to why this was, researchers found in a recent smaller study that NDE memories have more phenomenological characteristics than memories of imagined and real events.