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When my mother died she had been completely unconscious for a whole week, but just 30 minutes before she died she opened her eyes and looked around the room. I was later told by a nurse that this is quite common when people are about to die. It seems to fit with the notion of one last burst of brain activity.
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I’ve done plenty of psychedelics. I have no idea why you would imply dreams and near death experiences are in the same boat, and much further than that, why you’d combine them with the concept of an afterlife. The pineal gland isn’t a third eye. Dreams are blatantly not random neurological firings, but have no inherent relation to death or the concept of life after death at all. Near death experiences are similar. Th…
> Pretty much all of what psychedelics taught me is that the human brain is soooo fucking primed to see patterns and make sense from anything. Or was this the pattern you were primed to see?
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Given that nobody has found concrete evidence of any phenomena being supernatural ever , defaulting to assuming natural causes seems reasonable to me. If you open your mind too much your brain might fall out.
> Given that nobody has found concrete evidence of any phenomena being supernatural ever, I'm going to take issue with this. Anytime we sufficiently understand something it stops becoming supernatural and becomes natural. For a long time lightening, and disease were considered supernatural. To assume there cannot exist things or beings we do not yet understand about the universe simply because we cannot explain it is…
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I had open heart surgery once, and was given a lot of drugs. It was extremely intense and strange, and I felt like I was at the edge of discovering something immensely important. In retrospect I believe I learned nothing.
I think I posted it on here before but I recall a story of someone who said they would speak to God on LSD and that everything was profound. So one time they decided to ask "God" what the meaning of life was and they would write it down to study the next day. The next day all that was written down was "Walls". It felt profound but meant nothing. That is unless walls is the answer and it is just too blunt for us to un…
People have been writing texts for thousands of years and it's obvious to me that no such word combos exist. If they did, they'd have been discovered and well-known.
So, all that was shown with the walls experiment was that experimental design was flawed. Nothing about whether the person could or could not speak to God on LSD.
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I think I posted it on here before but I recall a story of someone who said they would speak to God on LSD and that everything was profound. So one time they decided to ask "God" what the meaning of life was and they would write it down to study the next day. The next day all that was written down was "Walls". It felt profound but meant nothing. That is unless walls is the answer and it is just too blunt for us to un…
Assume this was a valid scientific experiment, then there has to be some combination of a reasonable number of written words that would prove they had communicated with the divine. People have been writing texts for thousands of years and it's obvious to me that no such word combos exist. If they did, they'd have been discovered and well-known. So, all that was shown with the walls experiment was that experimental de…
Why do we clinge on this type of ideas? It's an EEG not a super high resolution device. Yes our brain does stuff at the edge of breaking. EEG changes somehow when we put ourself under anesthesia . Still we don't really get it. And weirdly enough comments here go into afterlife and other esoteric stuff. We know enough about our brain that we know we are our brain...
We've just discovered that most of the world is made of "dark" matter of unknown origin. Clearly, what we know is just a thin layer of reality. And even about this thin layer we know very little.
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I had open heart surgery once, and was given a lot of drugs. It was extremely intense and strange, and I felt like I was at the edge of discovering something immensely important. In retrospect I believe I learned nothing.
I think I posted it on here before but I recall a story of someone who said they would speak to God on LSD and that everything was profound. So one time they decided to ask "God" what the meaning of life was and they would write it down to study the next day. The next day all that was written down was "Walls". It felt profound but meant nothing. That is unless walls is the answer and it is just too blunt for us to un…
I dunno, I'm not high but I can see some plausible depth here. I'm not arguing that your friend talked to god, of course, but as an answer to the meaning of life, "walls“ is pretty excellent.
Next up: colon activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences That's what happens when a system designed to fire impulses on a good day is dying on a bad day.
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very interesting, do you know the name of this phenomenon? i have experienced something similar, when the brain is munched from overworking and undersleeping, you kind of start "daydreaming", although it might be slightly different than what you have described.
> very interesting, do you know the name of this phenomenon? Not OP, but they are describing apophenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia Many things can trigger it, even high doses of caffeine (such as drinking too much coffee).