Near Death Experiences
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience has recorded the brain waves of a person who died in real time for the first time. Though it is impossible to make a case study of one person, there is some interesting artifacts that corelates to a studies done on rats. Dying rats has sudden spikes in brain activity before going dark. This person 87 year old male, Canadian died while undergoing a medical procedure. The areas of his brain that lit up corresponds to “memory, dreaming, and other thought processes involving crosstalk between many brain regions” per Dr. Jessica Andrews-Hanna, assistant professor of cognition and neural systems at the University of Arizona.
Let me iterate, one can’t make any reasonable conclusions from the study of one, and remain scientific about it. From the article:
Researchers observed that brain activity ceased across the brain shortly after the seizures, which was followed by a 30-second increase in oscillatory activity with relatively high gamma-type brain signals before cardiac arrest. This activity then declined for about 30 seconds after cardiac arrest before stopping completely.
It goes on to reference a 2013 article that found dying rat brains spike in gamma waves, which is similar to what was witnessed in this patient. Gamma waves are reportedly the fastest wave your brain…
