If I can, I'll come back and tell how it's like. I'm dying of cancer, probably before we are two months further. If current experience is any guide, I'll probably just fade away with my wife and sons by my side. Not afraid but relieved. The fact that no one has ever come back to tell, is a good indication that there's nothing left to come back.
When I was fifteen I mad a deal with a buddy that when we died we would comunicate with the other to let them know how it was. He passed away almost 15 years ago. I haven’t noticed anything. Conscious or unconscious(sleeping). I’m still waiting. Maybe time or something regarding physics is beyond human comprehension. We will see…no escape possible. Religion or not we all die.
soon you will understand that life was a nice simulation game and you will keep for the oncoming ones! when your eyes will have closed remember these words told by an unknown:)
I was in a bad crash and almost died. I was unconscious for quite a while and there were no dreams, just absolute lights-out, peaceful nothing. Now, I have zero fear of dying.
Well ofc. It all depends on how you die. Im not too fussed aboud dying since i wont know im dead. No regrets, boredom etc.. I would however not want to die by getting stabbed in the ass 10 times and bleed to death... Eaten alive by an animal... you know, suffer a long dragged out death. Thats where all the regrets and pain come in... Relative short pain compared to all the years alive but still.
@@RocketLR 😟😟 The thought of death scares me. I don't want there to be nothing. It doesn't feel right to me that people and murderers kill people and don't face any repurcussions for it. If there is no reward or punishment for something , we can do whatever the hell we want. Who cares
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@@kavinmathur6793 just because there's no objective good or bad, right or wrong, doesn't mean we can just do whatever we want. There's karma, consequences.
I had an OBE once and saw a crash, I described the details that were later reported in the newspaper. I've been able to go a bit further with OBE's and projective experiences that have shown at least to me that black nothing period is just a small space we end up in but there's a bunch more also you can pop into. Very interesting stuff. Check out wat Drukama tradition is doing that's where I ended up. Be well!
The part about hearing and touch being the last to go was comforting. When I said goodbye to my uncle, he couldn't speak or see. It is nice to believe he heard me.
Agreed. my grandmother passed from cancer few years back. She could not see, speak, do much of anything. It even sounded like breathing was the fight of her life. But she held on just long enough to be with the family one last moment. I remember visiting, and when we left my grandfather walked us to our car. Moments later doctors came running out saying her breathing had stopped, and he ran back into the hospital to be with her. She waited to pass until he was there with her, held her breath for him. After he spoke n said he was here, she let go. Was very sweet, very sad. But she knew, she could hear him even in her last seconds on earth
As long as we do not know what consciousness is, it's only geese. "Life" is consciousness, death is permanent lack of consciousness. To die is a transition between the two.
That's what my father mustmust have meant when he said on his deathbed, nature is kind.He was in great pain dying from cancer.Your theory has been a comfort to me.Thank you.
It would be really interesting to take a group of people that never had any contact with religious ideas, or any supernatural theories and see if they see similar things when they have a near death experience. So we can know the things we "see" are really there or if all that just depends on your culture (which is what I believe).
@@ArvinAsh Interesting! Kinda what I thought would be the case. Really shows how much our culture actually influences us. It even controls (partially at least) what we see when we die. Crazy to think about.
Even tribal people have built around a religion of their own. People cannot exist without religion. Many original tribes who were far from civilization had beliefs in spirits and other things.
So, it’s all a result of culture exposure? That is not very intelligent, and is insulting to the intelligence of the individuals who have had such an experience; so culture has more power to influence an individual than the power of their own individuality and ability to conceive, process, understand and relay a personal experience does? You give more respect for culture than you do the phenomenal power and ability of individuality. You disrespect what you don’t understand, nor have experienced. You are in error to do so.
Find it difficult to even listen to this. I had a NDE 40 years ago when I drowned. Luckily, my friends saved me. I saw my life till then compressed. It was emotionally difficult to leave the world, the people, the trees and animals.
@Ff Tg Why do you think out of all the religions, yours is correct? Your religion is just 1 interpretation of the truth. The real truth is much more amazing than your limited human mind can comprehend.
I'm pretty sure DMT is a close experience. Having done it many times myself it's probably as close to a near death experience that you can get without actually dying. Everything is perfect geometry. Whatever it is, in my head or not. It's quite amazing.
I came close to the end and it was nothing as you describe Clair here. I was gone, I was going and the medics arrived . As soon as they placed hands on me I came zooming back. Here’s the deal the real not being induced but actually dying. You separate from yourself as you drift farther away you reach a point of “no return”. Once beyond that point you can’t go back with out intervention. I would argue to far and no way to get back. Now once you experience death you have no fear of it. There is a overwhelming sense of peace, total and complete peace. The stresses of life become overwhelmingly apparent. That for me I thought of tying my shoe and understood how even that small activity is phenomenally stressful, requiring massive amounts of ENERGY. Dying is PEACE. It is where you want to go as you drift away. It is the most wonderful going away from the world of anger, frustration, fear, false love (worldly love is false driven by our illusions). In short here is what I found death to be- Peace. Now understand in coming back into life I am again overtaken by the illusion that “something” is better then “nothing”. I am corrupted by the world I am fooled by the sensory. I am tricked by it to fear my ending. Then I remember and I am not afraid in sum. I am eased in knowledge of that memory. Finally there is being and nothingness and nothing ness is better then being. For there is no pain, no suffering, no fear just peace. That said I was going over and maybe something in time would have presented itself. But unless it resembled the feeling of peaceful nothingness. I would want no part in it. Well maybe I would if it resembled the freedom from anxiety that I felt.
@@ArvinAsh I didn't expect a response from you since your channel has grown so much. I want to tell you that I appreciate your show. It's nice to know there's wonderful people out there. 😁
Because they want to be free of pain of the body and dont want to hold on anymore, but fear and pain seems too real in that moment.but when you break trough,you are finally free..and im not saying what is on the other side,that is not the point of my comment,but that screaming that you are saying that you heard is from pain of the body and mind, and because our mind and ego are so much used to live in this form of body/mind personality that we have,than when it finally comes a point for it to end,for people who lived in pain and fear for years it can be scary experience.but only one who is affraid is mind and ego itslef,and since you are not your ego and since ego doesnt really exists in reallity(there is no biological,physical or metaphysical basis for your persona anywhere in the world,only as idea in you mind)then there is nothing really to be afraid of because there is no one to be affraid.
I got diagnosed with crohn's disease 7 years ago. I've had flare ups that were so painful I've wished I died. And now death seems like a huge upgrade to life.
I have inadvertently found myself watch a few people die. No, I'm not in the medical field, just a person in an unexpected position that I had no control over. I have seen people talk to others no one else can see or hear. I've heard people say how beautiful it is. I have also found people dying seem to know, even weeks before they die! That freaks me out. I've been close a few times, with asthma, but I do not fear death. From the time we take our first breath we begin to die. It will happen to each of us and is unavoidable. So, now, let those you care about know you do. Share questions about your family health while you have time wirh them. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed.
@@theodoreroberts3407 my grandma told us the night of her death that she was afraid to fall asleep because she wouldn’t wake up again. She kissed and hugged us (the immediate family) and that indeed was her last night. I was 7 years old at the time and still wonder how she knew that and what she felt or saw or sensed
I don't think the experiences of near death survivors are representative of what death is like. None of them experienced "true death", because well they came back. I imagine if Claire could talk to us now, she'd have a very different story to tell. The real answer is probably something we cannot even think of
I think the same. Being in coma or losing heart action for few minutes isnt death at all. Brain is still 'wet' and chemically/electrically active to some degree.
Nothing happens after die and you won't remember your death so dont be afraid to die. I have had cancer twice and constantly think I am about to die and have had those thoughts since Chemotherapy two years ago. I keep telling my sell that I don't need to worry about dieing because I won't remember it and that helps me get back to happiness, as well as focusing on my hobby of woodworking. Focusing on something that I have control over helps stop thinking that I am about to die. I am healthy and cancer free now thanks to the scientific community that has done the research and given me a longer life. THANK YOU SCIENTISTS 😁💚💚💚
I am 15yrs old I lost my father to Covid on 6th May at 2a.m. In 6days He walked to the ambulance and talked to the doctor on his way It wasn't supposed to happen He was so strong , fit , healthy I know he loves me a lot and will never leave me He will always help, support and guide me through life He is my God and role model I will grow up to be like him I really hope this video will help me
It happened to me twice. Each time it felt exactly like when you are watching TV and doze off. You just suddenly become unconscious, no feelings, no sounds, no smells, no light at the end of a tunnel. You just peacefully doze off quickly.
My only instance of hypoxia was also like that: sudden transition to dreamland, it did not feel anything scary or worrying at all, although everyone around me was naturally scared when I woke up. Even I got a bit scared, notably because it had never happened to me before.
Two friends of mine were in coma. One for 6 months and the other one for 15 days. None experienced anything, they did not even dream. For both of them, the elapsed time was zero.
I've actually had a near death experience, and I've had my "life flash before my eyes." Honestly that 1 was pretty intense... At least for me it wasn't so much about seeing scene after scene as it was realizing that all my life, all my knowledge, all the things I thought about the world were just "my life," and that I had thought that the entire world was one way but that everything was truly just my observation of it. So "my life," flashed before my eyes as if for the first time I realized all those facts I was relying upon to "know" what the world truly was, were kind if useless because I didn't even know what I truly was.... Not that I don't think objectivity exists, but that we haven't even come to understand what that word even means in context. Instead of flash think "Everything I know about existence is just my experiences, and after I am gone everything I know about all existence will also be gone." Was very.😳😳😳 But with all if that said I came to understand god in a much more complex capacity after that. And I now believe 1000% there is a afterlife. Just simply because I realized a few different truths about the universe...Anyways, conciousness is energy itself, so much so that our bodies literally take matter and turn it into energy that is what we consider thought. That transfer of matter into energy is crazy but if that is the case, that consciousness is energy then how can it disappear once the matter stops working? Isn't said that matter and energy can not be destroyed? Then how can consciousness be destroyed if it give off energy at one point then stops? Anyways just some questions I've been working on.
Your question don't have an answer because your question is wrong , it is based on the assumption that consciousness is energy itself which it isn't. Energy in simplest terms is the ability to do some work.
I often times think that our culture's active denial of this topic (ie. death) is a large part of what deranges it. IMHO Sheldon Solomon's work is important here, ie. considering how deeply our aversion to dying is and how much it shows up in fine details of harm avoidance, disgust, etc.. It's a bit like - regardless of what actually happens with consciousness (reabsorption, reincarnation, cessation, etc.) our bodies are coded with a sense that when they're gone that's it, and that's something that beats us over the head with a brick on a regular basis, especially if things aren't going as well as we might have hoped.
Hi carbon1479. I have been trying to get Terror Management Theory on people's agenda for a while now on discussions on religion, spirituality and even politics. Have you seen this extremely interesting interview Sheldon did with Lex Fridman? ruclips.net/video/qfKyNxfyWbo/видео.html I found parts of it challenging and surprising.
@@martifingers I do remember that, great interview and it actually endeared me to Sheldon's actual ethics in the matter. It sounds like has a lot of Robert Sapolsky's concerns about relatively subconscious motives to believe certain things or react in certain ways deforming the adequacy and/or appropriateness of things like criminal justice (with Sheldon it's identifying things like disgust having this impact, with Sapolsky its the idea of free will and punitive justice). I really liked Sam Harris's unpack at the opening of one of his Waking Up podcasts that centered on the topic of death because he did a good job of unpacking just how big a background concern it is, a bit like we're fish swimming in water and unable to see it in this respect.
The destruction of a human body and its brain. We are all so special. It is a tragedy it all happens so fast and it takes so long for us to find out what we want in our lives. I can only speak for myself of course. I am 81yrs old and have only scratched the surface of what may be or should be known to get the most out of life. I feel like I have just begun and now it is almost over. I had a very good life.
Loved this. You showed the science, and left all possibilities open as for what happens after death. Neither science or religion can convince me they know it. The real curious mind is agnostic.
DMT , psilocybin, LSD So many experiencers, when they do it right, come through it with no fear of death anymore and a generally completely different, positive outlook on life. I am so wanting for the experience, but I know enough that I can't chase it. They say it finds you when the time is right ( if your intentions are correct)
Beautiful video on a topic we would rather avoid! At 11.30. It is reassuring that death may not be a very unpleasant experience. Several years back, I climbed the steps to reach the fifth floor of a building. I became so breathless that nothing seemed more important than getting some fresh air. I barely cared for anything else at that moment. The hall I entered into had no windows. I barged into some big shot’s room, rattling him a bit, stood near the window in that room and got my breath back after few more minutes. I would rather believe that your statement at 11.30 is true, than my experience of breathlessness. Thanks for a timely video, when Indians are battling second wave of COVID19. Love and respect from India.
People confuse near death experiences with evidence for an afterlife but too many people think about near death as death and they forget the near part. Dead is dead and near death is still alive. The memories or experiences we have as our body and mind are crashing towards death are most certainly hormones and other chemicals reacting to the shutdown of systems in the body. The imagery can result in pleasant or sometimes unpleasant dream like illusions. Unfortunately there’s no way to link that to an actual supernatural experience and a rational person must conclude that it’s something the mind does as life fades from us. This will no doubt be unconvincing to anyone who already believes in an afterlife, and that’s okay because I’m not here to take that belief away, I’m here talking to those of us that don’t know what comes after life if anything.
Several years ago I had Stomach Cancer and due to complications have had several surgeries. Every time I was given anesthesia I went into the deepest darkest sleep that when I was awoken I was usually annoyed I hade been roused from my sleep. I think when it’s over that’s what we will experience, absolute and final rest a peace from life’s wonderful journey. I often feel like nothing could extinguish the internal force of this life I feel if I could break down my energy to some type of measured unit it would be a sunburst or atomic reaction. But the anesthetic reaction was absolute and comforting for this mortal. What a pleasure it is to share this planet at the same time as all the wonders and all the Humans that now exist, but especially thankful for people like you Mr. Ash.
I once suffered hypoxia and it was like dreaming indeed. I was playing a tabletop game with my younger brothers and some friends (incl. smoking of both tobacco and pot, surely also some beer drinking) and laughing heavily at something (which when younger sometimes triggered asthma attacks) and then (for what I was told) I dropped my cards and went unconscious until their distress calls and body shattering reanimated me spontaneously. One of those present was familiar with the phenomenon because apparently some friend or relative of him suffered that kind of consciousness failures frequently and, other than ventilating the room we took no other measure, but I was like: "is dying like this? If so, who cares?"
Sorry to disappoint. This video is based on some of the latest research and people's personal experience. I don't think any of my videos get into metaphysics, but I do get into philosophy of science, usually at the end of a video.
I had cardiac arrest for about 20 seconds some years back. I felt like I was flying into the sky and it was actually not unpleasant. The all new f a sudden I felt like I was sucked down to the ground and was lying on a cold floor with the hospital crash team around me.
@@ArvinAsh cardiac arrest isn't the same as a heart attack, I had one of those in 2005 and that is painful. My cardiac arrest was a couple of days after a bypass in 2014, I was very low on potassium and my heart just stopped beating, felt very sick just before it happened.
Yes you have proof. In one of your video about consciousness, scientists could disable the claustrum of a patient, exactly like we switch off a tv. But when they enable the claustrum again the patient came back to her senses instead of dying. This is proof the brain is just capting life just like a tv. The Spirit is life. That life is like that emmitted music that continues to play. And the Claustrum is the receiver. The Brain is the matter which hold human consciousness. Consciousness is what we call the Soul of humans. The Spirit is life coming from God. The Soul is alive because of the Spirit. The soul = Non-living Matter (Brain or claustrum) + Spirit. If you take the Brain away then there is no soul, and if you take the spirit away then there is no soul. "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing;" That's why, when you die and your brain is down, you are what we call "sleeping". When when God recreates your body at the ressurection, you will be able to be conscious again. "Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit), and the man became a living being." The non linving matter (dust/body) is needed. That matter + the Spirit (life) = your soul (consciousness). That's why God resurects your body. "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you-they are full of the Spiritand life."
Reading from the comments here I think it is not the fear of dying that's hounding people, but rather than the loss of meaning, loss of memory, loss of everything that we value especially our loved ones that is the real problem here.
@@aduts1177 It sounds like for some people who are religious, it all about the fear of God and hell? Do you think that's why we are here? To fear God and his wrath and to kiss his ass for all eternity?
@@08trader well,if we dont consider any religion, then theres no point of our existence. We are just some animals like others. We born, grow up and die just like other animals. Theres no reason.most religions focus on fear God concept,some focus on reincarnation soul concept. But biologically, our life is just as meaningless as other living beings. We are nothing but some enhanced animals
When I was in my twenties I was a huge atheist. Now that I’m older I understand what religion is for, not just to guide you while living but to help when you die. They may be fairy tales but I’ve become more comfortable with religion especially in the realm of death. I hope it helps cause I have bad anxiety and I only see it getting worse at time of death. But then again I’ll be dead and it won’t matter. Just thinking of comfort, I am American.
You're thinking of spirituality. Religion is dogma and uses spirituality to control masses of people to think a certain way. You shouldn't conflate the two.
@@JamesBiggar I used to think the same way. Understand, I’m just trying to make the point that the closer I get to death the more open to religion I am. I’m not saying it everyone could just be me.
I don’t argue anymore, believe whatever you want. It’s your right. I enjoy talking to people about there beliefs, having that’s there’s over 2000 religions on this earth, there’s plenty to learn. Maybe one of you are right, and I’m sure it’s the religion you believe.
DMT, most astonishingly, produces hyperdimensional, animated (and to the subject under the influence, seemingly alive) worlds whose topologies seem to be 2D, 3D, 4D, and possibly beyond, simultaneously. Some of the more common shapes include vortexes and inverted tori. There seems to be information in these experiences relating to quantum physics and astrophysics.
Careful not to fall for the woo woo thing. The world we live in is in 4D. Our brain can only interpret n-1 dimensions. The ''hyperdimensional'' term and the likes are nothing more than buzzwords used by people who were emotionally impacted by their experience. Neuroscience & biochemistry can best describe these experiences, not quantum mechanics or astrophysics.
@@entrancemperium5506 it is most definitely not woo. There is a characteristic Russian doll-style nesting that emerges when DMT takes off. With eyes open this crystalizes external reality with nested versions of all structures; everything appears to be in multiple simultaneous locations, all layered Photoshop-style. It looks *exactly* like the 4D projections you find on Google. I've tested this by looking at a cube directly as it comes on, and it projected into four dimensions. Closed-eye visuals are much more elaborate, with lots of moving parts that self-intersect. The geometric complexity of it is enormous, and to dismiss it as woo--which is typically done by those who have not had the experience--is intellectually dishonest.
Some ideas about consciousness says, we don't recall memories but experience all memories at once. Consciousness is like a constant flow, originating in everything we experienced and remembered trough our entire life. It's not an isolated process but more or less a concentrated elaboration about the present state of mind. So dying could be a decay of over all experience, what remains gets ever more intense when everything rest is slowly fading away. Sure we can't get scared or feel uncomfortable, those are very complex mental workings, dead is as simple as simple can be because brains can't process anything else than just to be no more.
Even with death being a natural process, I'd do anything to keep living indefinitely, or I think I would at least. I'd love to know and experience where this cluster fuck of a world goes next.
A friend of mine was dying from overdosing on narcotics, and they were pumping her stomach, but they couldnt save her and she died. She said she saw gold light and a voice say it wasnt her time yet, and she came back to life. Apparently doctors cant explain it, and she's fully healed now. She's christian and im agnostic. Im really confused about god and religion rn. How could this happen? I have more info btw.
10:04 The idea that several parts of the dying brain will sing to the dying consciousness is NOT CONSISTENT with an accidental universe. It is more consistent with a spirit being inhabiting a physical body, and the body sings its farewell to the leaving soul.
I don't know if what happened to me when I was 6 years old was death or near death, but I will tell you. When I was 6 years old I climbed a tall fence and started sticking a nail clip into a live electric wire (240 v). I got electrocuted Immediately(obviously) and I lost consciousness. Then I recalled consciousness and I was still under electrocution for maybe 3 minutes. Then I lost consciousness again, then I regained it and I was on the floor looking at the stars, then I lost it again. At that time (the last unconsciousness) my heart stopped and my breathing stopped for 15 minutes (My parents told me). Here is the catch, everything was dark and I was conscious of the unconsciousness but I lost my entity. I find it difficult to explain, but I didn't know who I am and to say it more precisely, what makes me who I am as a subject was never there in the first place. BUT the only thing I felt was the absolute bliss, the absolute relief, the peace and calmness I have never experienced before and will never experience in life. You see, There was no individuality but there was the feeling like the wings of dove took me into their tender care. Then The help came and someone jumped on my chest and nearly broke my sternum to resuscitate me and re-life happened.
Ever since I follow your channel this is the video that I'm not going to watch. How does it feel to die? I want to keep this as my last surprise in life.
@Death is our worst Enemy The main reason you think of this video as “filler” is because you don’t see it on the news, people don’t talk about it, the majority of people believe the topic is in poor taste, etc., etc., etc. And you think “death” is a vague topic? Nothing could be less vague than death.
Many of the comments are ignoring that people’s reported internal experiences are only memories. Memories are faulty and in the case of NDEs we don’t know when they formed. It is possible that they form only as the person recovers consciousness.
@@ArvinAsh I can confirm (or disprove) many of them with other people and check written records on some of them, but some of my memories are almost certainly wrong. Or maybe you’re thinking of last-Thursday solipsism, where we don’t know whether the cosmos was created last Thursday, all of our memories included.
I've been studying NDE's for decades now, my take on this is they can be real, not just imagination, but at the same time the brain can construct anything when we are in altered states of mind whether from a medical emergency, purely drug induced or not. I had a NDE-like experience during an afternoon nap which greatly altered my own sense of self which has lasted for decades and still going, my thought is mere dreams don't do that. You cannot judge one side from the other, lots of different things can happen, some appear to be much deeper than the brain alone. Doesn't matter anyway, if we continue, we do, if we don't we won't and will never know. Still, my take on life after death is there is no "life after death" merely because there is no death, only life. We just transition between different realities.
A brilliant, concise summary of a very difficult and contraversial areas of study Arvin. Tx. One thing that I would like to add though is, we must remember that just because articifial stimulation of the brain produces an affect, it does not folow that such an affect is necessarily unreal. For example, electrically stimulating the optical cortex will produce the perception of light. However, this artifical stimulation does not mean that light itself is unreal - in fact the very opposite. The mere ability to produce light in the brain is because the brain has evolved to register the phenomenon of an external event, in this case light. So, if anything, stimulating the brain and producing an affect, ie visions of gods, aliens, other dimensions, etc.., could be taken as evidence that such things exist - which is why our brain has evolved a centre to process it. BTW: at ~10:00 - you need to edit your diagram of the brain - you are pointing to the frontal cortex and calling it the thalamus.
Precision electrical stimulation around my right temporal lobe I believe gave me a glimpse of experiences sounding similar. My favourite being *massive* happiness, autoscopy and persistence-of-vision effects. Some areas were *just* like LSD, wow that was fun. In a hospital bed with friends around it is now my favourite experience ever.... Great video, nice angle NEAL
@@paullee4619 And why is that exactly? Is it because you wish there to be more, or that you've listened to many people talking about their NDEs? The question here is really what is death ? And when are you dead. I would advocate that its the ceasing of brain activity. If your brain is active your not dead even if you are not breathing and your heart has stopped. Granted you're in trouble, as you need oxygen to maintain brain function, and sorry but 7-15 minutes without oxygen to the brain is pretty much time for, the fat lady to start warming up with vocal exercises. In the case of say having a serious accident where you are loosing large amounts of blood (which I've experienced 1st hand) you start to become relaxed the pain goes and you feel like you just. Want to sleep it's sedate and peaceful Except that damn paramedic keeps shaking you and slapping you and telling you to "Stay with me!" As you slowly loose consciousness you start hallucinating see bright lights. Talk to anybody that's taken hallucinogenic recreational drugs and they'll describe much the same thing. The drug affects dopamine levels in the brain and part of the brain shuts down. The stimulus from your sensory inputs ears, eyes, nose, tounge, and skin are all effected as your brain tries to reroute the information around the non functioning parts of your brain.
@@paullee4619 Agreed! I think a NDE depends on how seriously injured you are and how quickly your brain is shutting down. In the case of the anesthetic its a 2 or 3 seconds in the case of trauma it could be several hours. The issue here is that some people think that a NDE somehow validates the existance of an afterlife!
The last senses to go are hearing and touch according to the video. Say that the person is dying in a car engulfed in fire. Death will be extremely painful only if the lost of touch sensation is followed immediately by death. However, this video makes it clear that consciousness is much deeper than that. So, death is probably painless. Or is it? Our psychology and emotions will continue to operate for some time. Perhaps, these will last until death. The amygdala and hippocampus operate last, as the video suggests. They are respectively responsible for emotions and memory. Perhaps, our last moment will be a quick last recall of loved ones. Since consciousness still operates, the person might instead have unpleasant last recalls. Depends on the life he/she had.
7 years ago I was in a bad car accident. I went into full arrest several times, cardiac and respiratory. I was put into a indused comma and had a pacemaker implanted to keep me alive. It was a month before I woke up and I could write a book about all the crazy things I saw.
The really amazing thing about this description shows that there is truly amazing potential for our minds to recall incredibly detailed information and provide us with heightened sensations. I spoke to someone who experienced "life flashing before me" many years ago and it was jaw dropping: it was not just the key events in his life, but things like the stain on the fork he could not be bothered to clean just after his 7th birthday, to the small manufacturing errors in a replacement carburettor he just glimpsed when he was 19. All of this, and much more, somehow made possible to see again within a timeline of seconds in impossible detail, from multiple perspectives, with a clarity and reality that was "impossible" - especially given the fact he had not the best eyesight for much of his life. It was like his mind captured everything and somehow made it instantly available. The sheer volume of data for this means we do not understand how the human mind both obtains and stores information, and how it can replay decades worth of it and make it completely lucid within a few seconds at most. I just hope we find a way to replicate this capability without having to die.
@@chrisiver8506 I asked him about that - he was adamant it wasn't that. There are a few things that keep sticking in my mind with what he said. 1) The perception of time. The review took seconds as we perceived it, yet he experienced every second of his life up until that point (59). He could not explain this. 2) The perspectives. He could view events from anywhere in the vicinity where they occurred. He could freeze them, unfreeze, zoom in etc. 3) The reality of it. The colors, the clarity, the sheer spectacle of it made how we perceive reality a pale imitation. He compared it to watching a small black and white TV all your life then suddenly being front row center in an IMAX theatre. Even if this is all the mind filling in gaps, creating things etc...it just shows that there is a capability within our minds to be the ultimate VR player - and that is the minimum. The alternatives, whilst far less likely, are even more intriguing.
Many cases of people who experienced out of body in hospital were able to tell who and what the guy from other room was speaking, many could tell how they could see thier parents crying nd thier own body nd they told the exact thing while being in hospital bed, but doctors dismissed the case in fear of press.
@@worlddj1364 read the summary of AWARE study by Dr. Sam Parnia about near death experiences... in it there is a case where one patient described what happened when his brain was dead ... and there are thousands of stories similar to this where patients describes things that he or she cannot see or hear unless they are out of body. www.researchgate.net/publication/276276172_AWARE_study_initial_results_are_published_--_Commentary
@@hybridwafer what rumors ?? I sent you a link to a scientific paper and the accident happened during the study.... read it and tell me what is your opinion ... thousands of people pass the same experience every year with same details and this paper supports what they say
Clever how you threw in the 'radio heaven' palliative at the end, while admitting "there is no scientific proof...". Alas, there seems to be 'scientific evidence' to the contrary.
Great video, Arvin! I think the science tends to show that either it's lights-out immediately in the case of massive trauma, or lights-out after all of the brain's circuitry shuts down. Balu 92's post below says it best: Death is exactly like it was before our birth: Nothingness.
So if a person were to die absolutely instantly their brain would not have the time to induce the dying process for them to in some form consciously experience. Some people report awful, traumatic nde's that terrify them and cause them to completely change their lifestyles in order to hopefully be 'forgiven' and when their time does come eventually they will have a positive experience and in accordance to their beliefs, afterlife. I wonder how many people would rather risk a hellish dying experience or an instantaneous death?
Our consciousness can exist outside our body - otherwise, it is not possible to explain e.g. the cases of people being able to retell exact events in the operating room while their EEG (brain activity) was zero. Sure, some experience nothing (or more accurately do not remember experiencing anything) and some stories cannot be verified, but that does not change that some can recount events that they should not be able to while technically brain dead. Yes, there have been failed experiments, but it only takes one to prove it correct. The Monroe Institute has for many years specialized in inducing OBE for people using technical means on-site. I have heard it is quite an experience but have so far only read the book “Ultimate Journey” by Robert A. Monroe. Anyone claiming there is no evidence should try it for themselves, but they are unfortunately likely to dismiss their 40 years of operation as a scam, because “it cannot possibly be true”. However, that is not a very scientific approach. Consciousness outside the body is difficult to acknowledge for mainstream science because it operates under the unverified assumptions that our brain (and therefore by extension our consciousness), and the universe are machines, which they are to some extent. They are only slowly catching up to the fact that this world is a simulation/illusion, which is why some experiences feel so real - not due to chemicals, but because they are real. You can chemically alter your brain to be able to perceive other worlds, but that does not imply they are all hallucinations. Anecdotal stories of people taking LSD claim that they all were able to see the same reality distortions, which indicates that the drug altered the way reality was decoded in their brain - it is not a hallucination if multiple people share it. That our consciousness survives the death of our avatar body, does not change the importance of this life. We are not allowed to remember who we really are and why we are here, as that would break the illusion. There is a reason we cannot remember everything we do while we are sleeping. We do not only dream but also visit reality during our nightly OBE. What we call reality is no more real than a VR headset experience, and if we take the headsets off for a while we call it a hallucination or dream. Like the robots in West World would say "It doesn't look like anything to me". We are not meant to remember, as that would make following the life path impossible, and the experience would not be genuine.
thanks for your very interesting videos ... I saw this as a bit "pulled by the hair" as we say in Italian. Maybe not wanting to offend anyone's sensitivity, we tend to leave a window to metaphysical hypotheses that have little scientific value ... without hardware there is no software, a bit brutal but reality doesn't have to be consoling. This video met my tastes less than others you have done, anyway thanks for what you do, you are among the best communicators I have found on RUclips
A bit off topic but since it's been touched; what got me interested in the subject was Anita Moorjani's NDE experience. I highly recommend checking her story out, still sends a very strong message today.
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If I can, I'll come back and tell how it's like. I'm dying of cancer, probably before we are two months further. If current experience is any guide, I'll probably just fade away with my wife and sons by my side. Not afraid but relieved. The fact that no one has ever come back to tell, is a good indication that there's nothing left to come back.
When I was fifteen I mad a deal with a buddy that when we died we would comunicate with the other to let them know how it was. He passed away almost 15 years ago. I haven’t noticed anything. Conscious or unconscious(sleeping). I’m still waiting. Maybe time or something regarding physics is beyond human comprehension. We will see…no escape possible. Religion or not we all die.
I can't give you a life but I can give you a like.
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Wishing you and your family a meaningful journey in the coming months or years. We need to learn how to die so that we can learn how to live.
Do me a favor and haunt the shit out of my ex wife for me………while she’s driving
soon you will understand that life was a nice simulation game and you will keep for the oncoming ones! when your eyes will have closed remember these words told by an unknown:)
"What does it feel like to die? The answer, is coming up RIGHT now."
**Points a gun at you**
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I might make this meme at some point but first, I need a proper editing software
I was in coma for a month this is pretty accurate
Please share more about your personal experience if you don't mind.
@@ArvinAsh curious as ever
I would love to hear about this if you wouldn’t mind sharing
do tell
Oh,curiosity is indeed strong in me as well,please,tell us about your experience,if you don't mind.
I was in a bad crash and almost died. I was unconscious for quite a while and there were no dreams, just absolute lights-out, peaceful nothing. Now, I have zero fear of dying.
Well ofc. It all depends on how you die. Im not too fussed aboud dying since i wont know im dead. No regrets, boredom etc.. I would however not want to die by getting stabbed in the ass 10 times and bleed to death... Eaten alive by an animal... you know, suffer a long dragged out death. Thats where all the regrets and pain come in... Relative short pain compared to all the years alive but still.
@@RocketLR 😟😟
The thought of death scares me. I don't want there to be nothing.
It doesn't feel right to me that people and murderers kill people and don't face any repurcussions for it. If there is no reward or punishment for something , we can do whatever the hell we want. Who cares
@@kavinmathur6793 just because there's no objective good or bad, right or wrong, doesn't mean we can just do whatever we want. There's karma, consequences.
I had an OBE once and saw a crash, I described the details that were later reported in the newspaper. I've been able to go a bit further with OBE's and projective experiences that have shown at least to me that black nothing period is just a small space we end up in but there's a bunch more also you can pop into. Very interesting stuff. Check out wat Drukama tradition is doing that's where I ended up. Be well!
sounds self delusional, like jumping to conclusions while not having been dead at all
i was in an induced coma, can't remember a single thing. pure oblivion
The part about hearing and touch being the last to go was comforting. When I said goodbye to my uncle, he couldn't speak or see. It is nice to believe he heard me.
We are surrounded by beauty at all times, if only we become more aware of it.
Agreed. my grandmother passed from cancer few years back. She could not see, speak, do much of anything. It even sounded like breathing was the fight of her life. But she held on just long enough to be with the family one last moment. I remember visiting, and when we left my grandfather walked us to our car. Moments later doctors came running out saying her breathing had stopped, and he ran back into the hospital to be with her. She waited to pass until he was there with her, held her breath for him. After he spoke n said he was here, she let go. Was very sweet, very sad. But she knew, she could hear him even in her last seconds on earth
Knowing i was going to die and then it turning it i didn't was a great gift. Not only was i alive but i suddenly appreciated it so much more.
I almost got stuck in a high tide once. I can't say I felt the same you did, but I can say that it's pretty close.
As long as we do not know what consciousness is, it's only geese. "Life" is consciousness, death is permanent lack of consciousness. To die is a transition between the two.
peace was never an option
That's what my father mustmust have meant when he said on his deathbed, nature is kind.He was in great pain dying from cancer.Your theory has been a comfort to me.Thank you.
It would be really interesting to take a group of people that never had any contact with religious ideas, or any supernatural theories and see if they see similar things when they have a near death experience. So we can know the things we "see" are really there or if all that just depends on your culture (which is what I believe).
Similar experiments have been done. Conclusion was that your experience is influenced by your culture.
@@ArvinAsh Interesting! Kinda what I thought would be the case. Really shows how much our culture actually influences us. It even controls (partially at least) what we see when we die. Crazy to think about.
Lets take the people from Andaman.they dont have any connection with the world for 60000 years
Even tribal people have built around a religion of their own. People cannot exist without religion. Many original tribes who were far from civilization had beliefs in spirits and other things.
So, it’s all a result of culture exposure? That is not very intelligent, and is insulting to the intelligence of the individuals who have had such an experience; so culture has more power to influence an individual than the power of their own individuality and ability to conceive, process, understand and relay a personal experience does? You give more respect for culture than you do the phenomenal power and ability of individuality. You disrespect what you don’t understand, nor have experienced. You are in error to do so.
This is why I simply adore your channel, you make videos on so many diverse topics, including inherently philosophical ones. Thanks for the content,😊!
Find it difficult to even listen to this. I had a NDE 40 years ago when I drowned. Luckily, my friends saved me. I saw my life till then compressed. It was emotionally difficult to leave the world, the people, the trees and animals.
Makes sense, only on our understanding
@Ff Tg Then how did the 'intelligent designer' come into being?
FF Tg has his own answer to that. No evidence, no justifications, no sound basis, just imaginings.
How about you all show respect to the person's post you are in and take your petty debates and insults elsewhere.
@Ff Tg Why do you think out of all the religions, yours is correct? Your religion is just 1 interpretation of the truth. The real truth is much more amazing than your limited human mind can comprehend.
I'm pretty sure DMT is a close experience. Having done it many times myself it's probably as close to a near death experience that you can get without actually dying. Everything is perfect geometry. Whatever it is, in my head or not. It's quite amazing.
I came close to the end and it was nothing as you describe Clair here. I was gone, I was going and the medics arrived . As soon as they placed hands on me I came zooming back. Here’s the deal the real not being induced but actually dying. You separate from yourself as you drift farther away you reach a point of “no return”. Once beyond that point you can’t go back with out intervention. I would argue to far and no way to get back. Now once you experience death you have no fear of it. There is a overwhelming sense of peace, total and complete peace. The stresses of life become overwhelmingly apparent. That for me I thought of tying my shoe and understood how even that small activity is phenomenally stressful, requiring massive amounts of ENERGY. Dying is PEACE. It is where you want to go as you drift away. It is the most wonderful going away from the world of anger, frustration, fear, false love (worldly love is false driven by our illusions). In short here is what I found death to be- Peace. Now understand in coming back into life I am again overtaken by the illusion that “something” is better then “nothing”. I am corrupted by the world I am fooled by the sensory. I am tricked by it to fear my ending. Then I remember and I am not afraid in sum. I am eased in knowledge of that memory. Finally there is being and nothingness and nothing ness is better then being. For there is no pain, no suffering, no fear just peace. That said I was going over and maybe something in time would have presented itself. But unless it resembled the feeling of peaceful nothingness. I would want no part in it. Well maybe I would if it resembled the freedom from anxiety that I felt.
I was so sad when She died. She tried so hard to live. And she was such a ray of sunshine.
Agree. She had a passion for life that few people alive have.
@@ArvinAsh I didn't expect a response from you since your channel has grown so much. I want to tell you that I appreciate your show. It's nice to know there's wonderful people out there. 😁
I don't think people who die in a lot of pain experience good things. I have heard people scream "let me die" few minutes before passing away..
Because they want to be free of pain of the body and dont want to hold on anymore, but fear and pain seems too real in that moment.but when you break trough,you are finally free..and im not saying what is on the other side,that is not the point of my comment,but that screaming that you are saying that you heard is from pain of the body and mind, and because our mind and ego are so much used to live in this form of body/mind personality that we have,than when it finally comes a point for it to end,for people who lived in pain and fear for years it can be scary experience.but only one who is affraid is mind and ego itslef,and since you are not your ego and since ego doesnt really exists in reallity(there is no biological,physical or metaphysical basis for your persona anywhere in the world,only as idea in you mind)then there is nothing really to be afraid of because there is no one to be affraid.
I got diagnosed with crohn's disease 7 years ago. I've had flare ups that were so painful I've wished I died. And now death seems like a huge upgrade to life.
I have inadvertently found myself watch a few people die. No, I'm not in the medical field, just a person in an unexpected position that I had no control over.
I have seen people talk to others no one else can see or hear. I've heard people say how beautiful it is. I have also found people dying seem to know, even weeks before they die! That freaks me out.
I've been close a few times, with asthma, but I do not fear death. From the time we take our first breath we begin to die. It will happen to each of us and is unavoidable. So, now, let those you care about know you do. Share questions about your family health while you have time wirh them.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed.
yes body feel pain fully in accidents but when lights goes off your body feel quiet light of feeling any thing just a calm and peace till you getup.
@@theodoreroberts3407 my grandma told us the night of her death that she was afraid to fall asleep because she wouldn’t wake up again. She kissed and hugged us (the immediate family) and that indeed was her last night. I was 7 years old at the time and still wonder how she knew that and what she felt or saw or sensed
I don't think the experiences of near death survivors are representative of what death is like. None of them experienced "true death", because well they came back. I imagine if Claire could talk to us now, she'd have a very different story to tell. The real answer is probably something we cannot even think of
I think the same. Being in coma or losing heart action for few minutes isnt death at all. Brain is still 'wet' and chemically/electrically active to some degree.
I agree, although this is more about dying rather than death.
@@JRLB38 Yeah, but could you talk about drying withouth considering actual death
Nothing happens after die and you won't remember your death so dont be afraid to die. I have had cancer twice and constantly think I am about to die and have had those thoughts since Chemotherapy two years ago. I keep telling my sell that I don't need to worry about dieing because I won't remember it and that helps me get back to happiness, as well as focusing on my hobby of woodworking. Focusing on something that I have control over helps stop thinking that I am about to die. I am healthy and cancer free now thanks to the scientific community that has done the research and given me a longer life. THANK YOU SCIENTISTS 😁💚💚💚
I am 15yrs old
I lost my father to Covid on 6th May at 2a.m.
In 6days
He walked to the ambulance and talked to the doctor on his way
It wasn't supposed to happen
He was so strong , fit , healthy
I know he loves me a lot and will never leave me
He will always help, support and guide me through life
He is my God and role model
I will grow up to be like him
I really hope this video will help me
No matter what Arvin says, your father is always with you.
Me also lost my father in july 2019 to cancer, I am just 18.
Feels very sad to lost part of my inner core in young age😢😢
So sad that you lost such a wonderful father. My heart goes out to you 💗🤗
@@S-A-M. No it's fine
Nothing's in our hands
@@AlexADalton Yes I know
He is watching me every second of the day
It happened to me twice. Each time it felt exactly like when you are watching TV and doze off. You just suddenly become unconscious, no feelings, no sounds, no smells, no light at the end of a tunnel. You just peacefully doze off quickly.
Do you just feel happy and OK. And no worries ?
My only instance of hypoxia was also like that: sudden transition to dreamland, it did not feel anything scary or worrying at all, although everyone around me was naturally scared when I woke up. Even I got a bit scared, notably because it had never happened to me before.
Two friends of mine were in coma. One for 6 months and the other one for 15 days. None experienced anything, they did not even dream. For both of them, the elapsed time was zero.
I've actually had a near death experience, and I've had my "life flash before my eyes." Honestly that 1 was pretty intense... At least for me it wasn't so much about seeing scene after scene as it was realizing that all my life, all my knowledge, all the things I thought about the world were just "my life," and that I had thought that the entire world was one way but that everything was truly just my observation of it. So "my life," flashed before my eyes as if for the first time I realized all those facts I was relying upon to "know" what the world truly was, were kind if useless because I didn't even know what I truly was....
Not that I don't think objectivity exists, but that we haven't even come to understand what that word even means in context. Instead of flash think "Everything I know about existence is just my experiences, and after I am gone everything I know about all existence will also be gone." Was very.😳😳😳
But with all if that said I came to understand god in a much more complex capacity after that. And I now believe 1000% there is a afterlife. Just simply because I realized a few different truths about the universe...Anyways, conciousness is energy itself, so much so that our bodies literally take matter and turn it into energy that is what we consider thought. That transfer of matter into energy is crazy but if that is the case, that consciousness is energy then how can it disappear once the matter stops working? Isn't said that matter and energy can not be destroyed? Then how can consciousness be destroyed if it give off energy at one point then stops? Anyways just some questions I've been working on.
Thanks for the interesting description!
What do you think about god now then?
Your question don't have an answer because your question is wrong , it is based on the assumption that consciousness is energy itself which it isn't.
Energy in simplest terms is the ability to do some work.
@@ARKGamerYt Energy is not understood yet.. think about the energy which caused big bang it independently existed
I often times think that our culture's active denial of this topic (ie. death) is a large part of what deranges it. IMHO Sheldon Solomon's work is important here, ie. considering how deeply our aversion to dying is and how much it shows up in fine details of harm avoidance, disgust, etc.. It's a bit like - regardless of what actually happens with consciousness (reabsorption, reincarnation, cessation, etc.) our bodies are coded with a sense that when they're gone that's it, and that's something that beats us over the head with a brick on a regular basis, especially if things aren't going as well as we might have hoped.
Hi carbon1479. I have been trying to get Terror Management Theory on people's agenda for a while now on discussions on religion, spirituality and even politics. Have you seen this extremely interesting interview Sheldon did with Lex Fridman? ruclips.net/video/qfKyNxfyWbo/видео.html
I found parts of it challenging and surprising.
@@martifingers I do remember that, great interview and it actually endeared me to Sheldon's actual ethics in the matter. It sounds like has a lot of Robert Sapolsky's concerns about relatively subconscious motives to believe certain things or react in certain ways deforming the adequacy and/or appropriateness of things like criminal justice (with Sheldon it's identifying things like disgust having this impact, with Sapolsky its the idea of free will and punitive justice). I really liked Sam Harris's unpack at the opening of one of his Waking Up podcasts that centered on the topic of death because he did a good job of unpacking just how big a background concern it is, a bit like we're fish swimming in water and unable to see it in this respect.
I drowned and had almost an identical experience to what he described. Feels like a long nap with no dream when (hopefully) you wake up
Unconscious?
@@aduts1177 Yeah
The destruction of a human body and its brain. We are all so special. It is a tragedy it all happens so fast and it takes so long for us to find out what we want in our lives. I can only speak for myself of course. I am 81yrs old and have only scratched the surface of what may be or should be known to get the most out of life. I feel like I have just begun and now it is almost over. I had a very good life.
I remember Steve Jobs last words just before he died “Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow”... I wonder what he seeing?
IPhone with 8 cameras.... In the front
Maybe buddha?his guru?
I died, it was exactly like going to sleep, a deep dreamless sleep. No lights, nada. I was gone for 6 minutes before they started me up again.
Then quantum immortality kicks in and you start your next day normally having some faint memory of your death in last night dream..
In some other parallel world .
I love this
Dude, adding "quantum" to some random stuff doesnt make it more plausible
Doctor Who regeneration going on here.
happens all the time, you believe the dream until you wake up and believe that dream too haha
Loved this. You showed the science, and left all possibilities open as for what happens after death. Neither science or religion can convince me they know it. The real curious mind is agnostic.
DMT , psilocybin, LSD
So many experiencers, when they do it right, come through it with no fear of death anymore and a generally completely different, positive outlook on life.
I am so wanting for the experience, but I know enough that I can't chase it. They say it finds you when the time is right
( if your intentions are correct)
Beautiful video on a topic we would rather avoid!
At 11.30. It is reassuring that death may not be a very unpleasant experience.
Several years back, I climbed the steps to reach the fifth floor of a building. I became so breathless that nothing seemed more important than getting some fresh air. I barely cared for anything else at that moment. The hall I entered into had no windows. I barged into some big shot’s room, rattling him a bit, stood near the window in that room and got my breath back after few more minutes.
I would rather believe that your statement at 11.30 is true, than my experience of breathlessness.
Thanks for a timely video, when Indians are battling second wave of COVID19. Love and respect from India.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, India has been in the news a lot lately. Very concerned and heart broken about the circumstances there.
@@ArvinAsh ya the new strain is making havoc in here 😭😭😭
@@ArvinAsh btw can you make vedio about muon g-2 experiment please 🥺
@@rohitwankhede9153 check out parthg channel.
People confuse near death experiences with evidence for an afterlife but too many people think about near death as death and they forget the near part. Dead is dead and near death is still alive. The memories or experiences we have as our body and mind are crashing towards death are most certainly hormones and other chemicals reacting to the shutdown of systems in the body. The imagery can result in pleasant or sometimes unpleasant dream like illusions. Unfortunately there’s no way to link that to an actual supernatural experience and a rational person must conclude that it’s something the mind does as life fades from us. This will no doubt be unconvincing to anyone who already believes in an afterlife, and that’s okay because I’m not here to take that belief away, I’m here talking to those of us that don’t know what comes after life if anything.
Several years ago I had Stomach Cancer and due to complications have had several surgeries. Every time I was given anesthesia I went into the deepest darkest sleep that when I was awoken I was usually annoyed I hade been roused from my sleep. I think when it’s over that’s what we will experience, absolute and final rest a peace from life’s wonderful journey. I often feel like nothing could extinguish the internal force of this life I feel if I could break down my energy to some type of measured unit it would be a sunburst or atomic reaction. But the anesthetic reaction was absolute and comforting for this mortal.
What a pleasure it is to share this planet at the same time as all the wonders and all the Humans that now exist, but especially thankful for people like you Mr. Ash.
I once suffered hypoxia and it was like dreaming indeed.
I was playing a tabletop game with my younger brothers and some friends (incl. smoking of both tobacco and pot, surely also some beer drinking) and laughing heavily at something (which when younger sometimes triggered asthma attacks) and then (for what I was told) I dropped my cards and went unconscious until their distress calls and body shattering reanimated me spontaneously. One of those present was familiar with the phenomenon because apparently some friend or relative of him suffered that kind of consciousness failures frequently and, other than ventilating the room we took no other measure, but I was like: "is dying like this? If so, who cares?"
That is something totally new. RADIO STATION STILL PLAYS THE SONG EVEN IF UR DEVICE STOPS
im really looking forward for Arvin going a bit metaphysical and philosophical :)
I'll unsub when he going metaphysical.
Metaphysical are those people who limit science and make logic and science the same thing......... So being metaphysical yourself dont say to others
i guess so many people are close minded they dont want to entertain any different possibilities.
Sorry to disappoint. This video is based on some of the latest research and people's personal experience. I don't think any of my videos get into metaphysics, but I do get into philosophy of science, usually at the end of a video.
same as going to sleep, and if infinity turns out to be real, you WILL wake up
I smoke DMT semi-regularly and NDEs sound extremely similar to its effects
I had cardiac arrest for about 20 seconds some years back. I felt like I was flying into the sky and it was actually not unpleasant. The all new f a sudden I felt like I was sucked down to the ground and was lying on a cold floor with the hospital crash team around me.
Thanks for sharing that. I always thought cardiac arrest would be very painful, at least at the onset.
@@ArvinAsh cardiac arrest isn't the same as a heart attack, I had one of those in 2005 and that is painful. My cardiac arrest was a couple of days after a bypass in 2014, I was very low on potassium and my heart just stopped beating, felt very sick just before it happened.
Yes you have proof. In one of your video about consciousness, scientists could disable the claustrum of a patient, exactly like we switch off a tv. But when they enable the claustrum again the patient came back to her senses instead of dying. This is proof the brain is just capting life just like a tv.
The Spirit is life. That life is like that emmitted music that continues to play. And the Claustrum is the receiver.
The Brain is the matter which hold human consciousness. Consciousness is what we call the Soul of humans.
The Spirit is life coming from God. The Soul is alive because of the Spirit.
The soul = Non-living Matter (Brain or claustrum) + Spirit.
If you take the Brain away then there is no soul, and if you take the spirit away then there is no soul.
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing;"
That's why, when you die and your brain is down, you are what we call "sleeping". When when God recreates your body at the ressurection, you will be able to be conscious again.
"Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit), and the man became a living being."
The non linving matter (dust/body) is needed. That matter + the Spirit (life) = your soul (consciousness). That's why God resurects your body.
"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you-they are full of the Spiritand life."
Reading from the comments here I think it is not the fear of dying that's hounding people, but rather than the loss of meaning, loss of memory, loss of everything that we value especially our loved ones that is the real problem here.
Fear of hell
@@aduts1177 I don't fear hell. The loss of our loved ones is already hell.
@@08trader well,then you dont have to fear anything. If there's no afterlife,then death is just an eternal sleep
@@aduts1177 It sounds like for some people who are religious, it all about the fear of God and hell? Do you think that's why we are here? To fear God and his wrath and to kiss his ass for all eternity?
@@08trader well,if we dont consider any religion, then theres no point of our existence. We are just some animals like others. We born, grow up and die just like other animals. Theres no reason.most religions focus on fear God concept,some focus on reincarnation soul concept. But biologically, our life is just as meaningless as other living beings. We are nothing but some enhanced animals
When I was in my twenties I was a huge atheist. Now that I’m older I understand what religion is for, not just to guide you while living but to help when you die. They may be fairy tales but I’ve become more comfortable with religion especially in the realm of death. I hope it helps cause I have bad anxiety and I only see it getting worse at time of death. But then again I’ll be dead and it won’t matter. Just thinking of comfort, I am American.
You're thinking of spirituality. Religion is dogma and uses spirituality to control masses of people to think a certain way. You shouldn't conflate the two.
@@JamesBiggar I used to think the same way. Understand, I’m just trying to make the point that the closer I get to death the more open to religion I am. I’m not saying it everyone could just be me.
God is no fairytale dude
@@mariodebuck1760 sure he’s not.
I don’t argue anymore, believe whatever you want. It’s your right. I enjoy talking to people about there beliefs, having that’s there’s over 2000 religions on this earth, there’s plenty to learn. Maybe one of you are right, and I’m sure it’s the religion you believe.
DMT, most astonishingly, produces hyperdimensional, animated (and to the subject under the influence, seemingly alive) worlds whose topologies seem to be 2D, 3D, 4D, and possibly beyond, simultaneously. Some of the more common shapes include vortexes and inverted tori. There seems to be information in these experiences relating to quantum physics and astrophysics.
Careful not to fall for the woo woo thing. The world we live in is in 4D. Our brain can only interpret n-1 dimensions. The ''hyperdimensional'' term and the likes are nothing more than buzzwords used by people who were emotionally impacted by their experience. Neuroscience & biochemistry can best describe these experiences, not quantum mechanics or astrophysics.
@@entrancemperium5506 it is most definitely not woo. There is a characteristic Russian doll-style nesting that emerges when DMT takes off. With eyes open this crystalizes external reality with nested versions of all structures; everything appears to be in multiple simultaneous locations, all layered Photoshop-style. It looks *exactly* like the 4D projections you find on Google. I've tested this by looking at a cube directly as it comes on, and it projected into four dimensions. Closed-eye visuals are much more elaborate, with lots of moving parts that self-intersect. The geometric complexity of it is enormous, and to dismiss it as woo--which is typically done by those who have not had the experience--is intellectually dishonest.
Some ideas about consciousness says, we don't recall memories but experience all memories at once. Consciousness is like a constant flow, originating in everything we experienced and remembered trough our entire life. It's not an isolated process but more or less a concentrated elaboration about the present state of mind. So dying could be a decay of over all experience, what remains gets ever more intense when everything rest is slowly fading away. Sure we can't get scared or feel uncomfortable, those are very complex mental workings, dead is as simple as simple can be because brains can't process anything else than just to be no more.
I was in a coma for 12 days, i had times like this but most of it was in deep submersion, and so much time had passed my life wasn't a memory
Even with death being a natural process, I'd do anything to keep living indefinitely, or I think I would at least.
I'd love to know and experience where this cluster fuck of a world goes next.
Having died before. Yes this is more or less about how it feels
A friend of mine was dying from overdosing on narcotics, and they were pumping her stomach, but they couldnt save her and she died. She said she saw gold light and a voice say it wasnt her time yet, and she came back to life. Apparently doctors cant explain it, and she's fully healed now. She's christian and im agnostic. Im really confused about god and religion rn. How could this happen? I have more info btw.
Omg this video has helped me so much to make peace with my Mom’s death. She died 6 months ago. Thank you 🙏💖
Very sorry for your loss. Glad you found this useful.
My grandfather just died... This was so comforting. Thanks a lot.
10:04 The idea that several parts of the dying brain will sing to the dying consciousness is NOT CONSISTENT with an accidental universe. It is more consistent with a spirit being inhabiting a physical body, and the body sings its farewell to the leaving soul.
I don't know if what happened to me when I was 6 years old was death or near death, but I will tell you.
When I was 6 years old I climbed a tall fence and started sticking a nail clip into a live electric wire (240 v). I got electrocuted Immediately(obviously) and I lost consciousness. Then I recalled consciousness and I was still under electrocution for maybe 3 minutes. Then I lost consciousness again, then I regained it and I was on the floor looking at the stars, then I lost it again. At that time (the last unconsciousness) my heart stopped and my breathing stopped for 15 minutes (My parents told me). Here is the catch, everything was dark and I was conscious of the unconsciousness but I lost my entity. I find it difficult to explain, but I didn't know who I am and to say it more precisely, what makes me who I am as a subject was never there in the first place. BUT the only thing I felt was the absolute bliss, the absolute relief, the peace and calmness I have never experienced before and will never experience in life. You see, There was no individuality but there was the feeling like the wings of dove took me into their tender care.
Then The help came and someone jumped on my chest and nearly broke my sternum to resuscitate me and re-life happened.
In short everyone gets to try DMT once in life :)
I was in a coma for 5 days-total black till I woke up-I was still on my bike, till reality hit me like a ton of bricks....strung up in a hospital room
Ever since I follow your channel this is the video that I'm not going to watch. How does it feel to die? I want to keep this as my last surprise in life.
I wasn’t going to watch it either. But I did. And I’m glad I did. You should too. It’s not a bad thing. It is therapeutic, to say the least!
@Death is our worst Enemy
The main reason you think of this video as “filler” is because you don’t see it on the news, people don’t talk about it, the majority of people believe the topic is in poor taste, etc., etc., etc.
And you think “death” is a vague topic? Nothing could be less vague than death.
Many of the comments are ignoring that people’s reported internal experiences are only memories. Memories are faulty and in the case of NDEs we don’t know when they formed. It is possible that they form only as the person recovers consciousness.
Good point. For that matter, how do you know that the decades of memories you have now, weren't formed days ago?
@@ArvinAsh I can confirm (or disprove) many of them with other people and check written records on some of them, but some of my memories are almost certainly wrong.
Or maybe you’re thinking of last-Thursday solipsism, where we don’t know whether the cosmos was created last Thursday, all of our memories included.
I've been studying NDE's for decades now, my take on this is they can be real, not just imagination, but at the same time the brain can construct anything when we are in altered states of mind whether from a medical emergency, purely drug induced or not. I had a NDE-like experience during an afternoon nap which greatly altered my own sense of self which has lasted for decades and still going, my thought is mere dreams don't do that. You cannot judge one side from the other, lots of different things can happen, some appear to be much deeper than the brain alone. Doesn't matter anyway, if we continue, we do, if we don't we won't and will never know. Still, my take on life after death is there is no "life after death" merely because there is no death, only life. We just transition between different realities.
what was your NDE like?
@@godsstrongestmagicalgirl5217 www.oberf.org/chris_h_obe_7921n.htm
A brilliant, concise summary of a very difficult and contraversial areas of study Arvin. Tx. One thing that I would like to add though is, we must remember that just because articifial stimulation of the brain produces an affect, it does not folow that such an affect is necessarily unreal. For example, electrically stimulating the optical cortex will produce the perception of light. However, this artifical stimulation does not mean that light itself is unreal - in fact the very opposite. The mere ability to produce light in the brain is because the brain has evolved to register the phenomenon of an external event, in this case light. So, if anything, stimulating the brain and producing an affect, ie visions of gods, aliens, other dimensions, etc.., could be taken as evidence that such things exist - which is why our brain has evolved a centre to process it. BTW: at ~10:00 - you need to edit your diagram of the brain - you are pointing to the frontal cortex and calling it the thalamus.
Precision electrical stimulation around my right temporal lobe I believe gave me a glimpse of experiences sounding similar. My favourite being *massive* happiness, autoscopy and persistence-of-vision effects.
Some areas were *just* like LSD, wow that was fun. In a hospital bed with friends around it is now my favourite experience ever....
Great video, nice angle
NEAL
Never failling your, now, standart quality Mr. Arvin. Thanks
I imagine its like when you have a general anesthetic
That fuzzy feeling followed by absolutely nothing and no idea what goes on after that.
I imagine not
@@paullee4619
And why is that exactly?
Is it because you wish there to be more, or that you've listened to many people talking about their NDEs?
The question here is really what is death ? And when are you dead. I would advocate that its the ceasing of brain activity.
If your brain is active your not dead even if you are not breathing and your heart has stopped. Granted you're in trouble, as you need oxygen to maintain brain function, and sorry but 7-15 minutes without oxygen to the brain is pretty much time for, the fat lady to start warming up with vocal exercises. In the case of say having a serious accident where you are loosing large amounts of blood (which I've experienced
1st hand) you start to become relaxed the pain goes and you feel like you just. Want to sleep it's sedate and peaceful
Except that damn paramedic keeps shaking you and slapping you and telling you to "Stay with me!" As you slowly loose consciousness you start hallucinating see bright lights.
Talk to anybody that's taken hallucinogenic recreational drugs and they'll describe much the same thing. The drug affects dopamine levels in the brain and part of the brain shuts down. The stimulus from your sensory inputs ears, eyes, nose, tounge, and skin are all effected as your brain tries to reroute the information around the non functioning parts of your brain.
@@Lamster66 well written. When brain function ceases so ends imagination , moot point.
@@paullee4619
Agreed!
I think a NDE depends on how seriously injured you are and how quickly your brain is shutting down. In the case of the anesthetic its a 2 or 3 seconds in the case of trauma it could be several hours.
The issue here is that some people think that a NDE somehow validates the existance of an afterlife!
This is EXACTLY what happened to me when I had sleep paralysis. Except there was no good feeling
Fine work Arvin, very nicely done!
I’ve been through the same thing. It’s surreal.
Some people must be reading it as HOW DOES IT FEEL LIKE TODAY... 🤣😂🤣😂
Some people pronounce TODAY as TO DIE actually.
We can't answer the question about what happens after death until we properly understanding consciousness
The last senses to go are hearing and touch according to the video. Say that the person is dying in a car engulfed in fire. Death will be extremely painful only if the lost of touch sensation is followed immediately by death. However, this video makes it clear that consciousness is much deeper than that. So, death is probably painless. Or is it? Our psychology and emotions will continue to operate for some time. Perhaps, these will last until death. The amygdala and hippocampus operate last, as the video suggests. They are respectively responsible for emotions and memory. Perhaps, our last moment will be a quick last recall of loved ones. Since consciousness still operates, the person might instead have unpleasant last recalls. Depends on the life he/she had.
*So I can throw out my Ouija Board now 😊👍*
Nah...why not keep it to punk your friends!
@@ArvinAsh *lol...😁👍*
7 years ago I was in a bad car accident. I went into full arrest several times, cardiac and respiratory. I was put into a indused comma and had a pacemaker implanted to keep me alive. It was a month before I woke up and I could write a book about all the crazy things I saw.
please share with us
The really amazing thing about this description shows that there is truly amazing potential for our minds to recall incredibly detailed information and provide us with heightened sensations. I spoke to someone who experienced "life flashing before me" many years ago and it was jaw dropping: it was not just the key events in his life, but things like the stain on the fork he could not be bothered to clean just after his 7th birthday, to the small manufacturing errors in a replacement carburettor he just glimpsed when he was 19. All of this, and much more, somehow made possible to see again within a timeline of seconds in impossible detail, from multiple perspectives, with a clarity and reality that was "impossible" - especially given the fact he had not the best eyesight for much of his life. It was like his mind captured everything and somehow made it instantly available. The sheer volume of data for this means we do not understand how the human mind both obtains and stores information, and how it can replay decades worth of it and make it completely lucid within a few seconds at most. I just hope we find a way to replicate this capability without having to die.
Fascinating!
Of course his brain could just be filling it in, but it would be amazing if memory was stored with that much accuracy
@@chrisiver8506 I asked him about that - he was adamant it wasn't that. There are a few things that keep sticking in my mind with what he said.
1) The perception of time. The review took seconds as we perceived it, yet he experienced every second of his life up until that point (59). He could not explain this.
2) The perspectives. He could view events from anywhere in the vicinity where they occurred. He could freeze them, unfreeze, zoom in etc.
3) The reality of it. The colors, the clarity, the sheer spectacle of it made how we perceive reality a pale imitation. He compared it to watching a small black and white TV all your life then suddenly being front row center in an IMAX theatre.
Even if this is all the mind filling in gaps, creating things etc...it just shows that there is a capability within our minds to be the ultimate VR player - and that is the minimum. The alternatives, whilst far less likely, are even more intriguing.
@@hiratiomasterson4009 At the very least its reassuring that the brain lights up to the fullest before shutting off.
@@chrisiver8506 I just hope there is a way to lighting up the brain that doesn't involve providing extra work for casket makers.
Thank you Mr.Ash for your integrity on this difficult subject .
Many cases of people who experienced out of body in hospital were able to tell who and what the guy from other room was speaking, many could tell how they could see thier parents crying nd thier own body nd they told the exact thing while being in hospital bed, but doctors dismissed the case in fear of press.
And you knew that because..?
@@worlddj1364 read the summary of AWARE study by Dr. Sam Parnia about near death experiences... in it there is a case where one patient described what happened when his brain was dead ... and there are thousands of stories similar to this where patients describes things that he or she cannot see or hear unless they are out of body.
www.researchgate.net/publication/276276172_AWARE_study_initial_results_are_published_--_Commentary
Stories and rumours from patients and hospital staff is completely useless. When actually tested in a controlled environment they all fail.
@@hybridwafer what rumors ?? I sent you a link to a scientific paper and the accident happened during the study.... read it and tell me what is your opinion ... thousands of people pass the same experience every year with same details and this paper supports what they say
Road to 1 mil...more power to you!
That was an excellent, well balanced viewpoint of this topic. Thank you.
Clever how you threw in the 'radio heaven' palliative at the end, while admitting "there is no scientific proof...". Alas, there seems to be 'scientific evidence' to the contrary.
How does it feel like to live, without thinking .... Just being .... ??
Like non REM sleep.....
This is one of your best videos Arvin. I really really like your videos very much. You are doing a great job. Thank you!
Thanks for the video, another great video that worth the whole week to watch, looking forward to the next one
This was a absolutely fantastic explanation
Great video, Arvin! I think the science tends to show that either it's lights-out immediately in the case of massive trauma, or lights-out after all of the brain's circuitry shuts down. Balu 92's post below says it best: Death is exactly like it was before our birth: Nothingness.
Ummm.... he does not know nor does anyone else and neither do you, so shut up.
The thought of an afterlife, IE living forever, sounds like a Hell to me. I'm glad there's no evidence for an afterlife.
You are pure genius Arvin.. thanks for this amazing video 🖤
So if a person were to die absolutely instantly their brain would not have the time to induce the dying process for them to in some form consciously experience.
Some people report awful, traumatic nde's that terrify them and cause them to completely change their lifestyles in order to hopefully be 'forgiven' and when their time does come eventually they will have a positive experience and in accordance to their beliefs, afterlife.
I wonder how many people would rather risk a hellish dying experience or an instantaneous death?
pls talk about quantum computer
That video is coming. Stay tuned.
@@ArvinAsh thanks ash :)
You can experience, but you can't can't experience. Therefore, your existance is all there is.
Living after you die is something a lot of ppl want. We should be extra careful if we believe this because we're more likely to be wrong.
It's very relaxing.
Hey man Arvin I'd like to hear you theories on quantum immortality and quantum suicide.
I made a video a while back on this; ruclips.net/video/4S8pNABpCfw/видео.html
Wow,now there's a quantum suicide also?
Well, nothing is worst than death, so no wonder people feel like in heavens when not dead yet.
Im dead inside.
Our consciousness can exist outside our body - otherwise, it is not possible to explain e.g. the cases of people being able to retell exact events in the operating room while their EEG (brain activity) was zero. Sure, some experience nothing (or more accurately do not remember experiencing anything) and some stories cannot be verified, but that does not change that some can recount events that they should not be able to while technically brain dead. Yes, there have been failed experiments, but it only takes one to prove it correct.
The Monroe Institute has for many years specialized in inducing OBE for people using technical means on-site. I have heard it is quite an experience but have so far only read the book “Ultimate Journey” by Robert A. Monroe. Anyone claiming there is no evidence should try it for themselves, but they are unfortunately likely to dismiss their 40 years of operation as a scam, because “it cannot possibly be true”. However, that is not a very scientific approach.
Consciousness outside the body is difficult to acknowledge for mainstream science because it operates under the unverified assumptions that our brain (and therefore by extension our consciousness), and the universe are machines, which they are to some extent. They are only slowly catching up to the fact that this world is a simulation/illusion, which is why some experiences feel so real - not due to chemicals, but because they are real. You can chemically alter your brain to be able to perceive other worlds, but that does not imply they are all hallucinations. Anecdotal stories of people taking LSD claim that they all were able to see the same reality distortions, which indicates that the drug altered the way reality was decoded in their brain - it is not a hallucination if multiple people share it.
That our consciousness survives the death of our avatar body, does not change the importance of this life. We are not allowed to remember who we really are and why we are here, as that would break the illusion. There is a reason we cannot remember everything we do while we are sleeping. We do not only dream but also visit reality during our nightly OBE.
What we call reality is no more real than a VR headset experience, and if we take the headsets off for a while we call it a hallucination or dream. Like the robots in West World would say "It doesn't look like anything to me". We are not meant to remember, as that would make following the life path impossible, and the experience would not be genuine.
Thanks for the video, man!
Better never to have been born than to be born and experience a slow and agonizing death!
I hope I don't get bombarded by all of my cringe-worthy memories at once when I die.
I am guessing that you will probably be bombarded by all the strongest memories you already think about.
One of the most comprehensive video, Excellent Dear Arvin 👍
I would highly recommend the works of neuropsychologist Peter Fenwick and his rigorous review of this important topic.
thanks for your very interesting videos ... I saw this as a bit "pulled by the hair" as we say in Italian. Maybe not wanting to offend anyone's sensitivity, we tend to leave a window to metaphysical hypotheses that have little scientific value ... without hardware there is no software, a bit brutal but reality doesn't have to be consoling. This video met my tastes less than others you have done, anyway thanks for what you do, you are among the best communicators I have found on RUclips
*Joe Rogan has joined the chat*
as longs as the dmt is working :D
A bit off topic but since it's been touched; what got me interested in the subject was Anita Moorjani's NDE experience. I highly recommend checking her story out, still sends a very strong message today.
If we are just a bunch of chemical reactions then life is pointless. Nothing matters.