| I suffer from migraine headaches.
Every ten to thirty days, for reasons medical science cannot discern, the blood vessels in my neck and scalp constrict for about a half hour and then open WAY too wide for many hours afterwards. Other chemical changes in my body accompany this process causing nausea, hypersensitivity to sound & light, stuttering, diarhea and a feeling of general misery.
In every attack I've ever had, when the blood vessels constrict for the first half hour... I see things. Lights. Colors. Sparkles. It's not unlike the images one sees in one's field of vision when one rubs one's eyes vigorously... except they slowly linger.
I bring this up because I could invent a host of nonsensical explanations that would be "logical" in a god-of-gaps way. I could invent aliens that communicate in a language of sparkles and declare them attempting to contact humanity using alpha waves that affects certain individuals by giving them migraines. I could decide that I am especially sinful and that some invented god is punishing me.
I could invent all these things and HUNDREDS more, but ultimately they're all useless as explanations (though amusing as fictions).
Near Death Experiences (NDE's) do not strike me as anything more than hallucinations. In fact, there's no evidence that they're anything more than hallucinations.
"But Zhavric!" some of you will say "What about the people who describe things they've seen while unconscious?" To you I say this:
Show me an individual who had an NDE and woke right up from it to tell his/her tale directly.
NDE's always seem to happen in hospitals. They're always related after the fact with plenty of time for family members, orderlies, janitors, doctors and nurses to visit and explain what went on.
Remember: people desire attention.
As for the individuals who claim NDE's but have no recollection of events, places or objects? I see this as nothing more than a dream-state BEFORE and just AFTER their bodies shut down. I've yet to see an NDE where an individual was conscious, lost consciouness at the moment their heart stopped and then instatnly gained full consciousness the moment their heart started up again.
It's just a hallucination... no different from the lights I "see" when I have a migraine. |