Survivors of clinical death say that they saw the light at the end of the tunnel, said goodbye to relatives, looked at their bodies from the side and experienced the sensation of flying. Scientists cannot understand this, because the brain practically in this state completely stops its work shortly after cardiac arrest. It follows from this that in a state of clinical death, a person, in principle, cannot feel or experience anything. But people feel. Collected stories of people who survived clinical death. The names have been changed.

novel

- Several years ago I was diagnosed with hypertension and admitted to the hospital. The treatment was cloudy and consisted of injections, systems and various tests, but there was not much to do in the afternoon. There were two of us in the four-bed ward, the doctors say that in summer there are usually fewer patients in general. I met a colleague in misfortune, and it turned out that we have a lot in common: almost the same age, both love to pick electronics, I am a manager, and he is a supplier - in general, there was something to talk about.

The trouble came suddenly. As he told me later: "You said, then you stopped talking, your eyes were glass, took 3-4 steps and fell." I woke up three days later in intensive care. What do I remember? Never mind! Nothing at all! I woke up, very surprised: pipes were everywhere, something was beeping. I was told that I was lucky that everything was in the hospital, my heart did not beat for about three minutes. I recovered quickly - in a month. I live a normal life, I monitor my health. But I saw no angels, no tunnel, no light. Nothing at all. My personal conclusion: it's all lies. He died - and there is nothing further.

Anna

- My clinical death occurred during pregnancy on January 8, 1989. At about 22:00, I started bleeding profusely. There was no pain, only severe weakness and chills. I realized that I was dying.

In the operating room, various devices were connected to me, and the anesthesiologist began to read out their readings. Soon I began to choke, and heard the doctor's words: "I am losing contact with the patient, I do not feel her pulse, I must save the child." The voices of those around them began to fade, their faces blurred, then darkness fell.

I found myself in the operating room again. But now I feel good, easy. Doctors fussed around the body lying on the table. She approached him. It was me. My dichotomy shocked me. And she could even float in the air. I swam to the window. It was dark outside, and suddenly panic seized me, I felt that I must certainly attract the attention of doctors. I began to shout that I had already recovered and that there was no need to do anything with me - with that one. But they did not see me or hear me. I was tired of the tension and, having risen higher, hung in the air.

A shining white beam appeared from the ceiling. He descended to me without blinding or burning. I realized that the ray was calling to itself, promising liberation from isolation. Without hesitation, she went to meet him.
I moved along the beam, as if to the top of an invisible mountain, feeling completely safe. Having reached the top, I saw a wonderful country, a harmony of bright and at the same time almost transparent colors sparkling around. It is impossible to describe in words. I looked around with all my eyes, and everything that was around filled me with such admiration that I shouted: “God, what a beauty! I have to write all this. " I was seized with an ardent desire to return to my former reality and display in the pictures everything that I saw here.

Thinking about it, I found myself back in the operating room. But this time she looked at her as if from the side, as if at the screen of a movie theater. And the movie seemed black and white. The contrast with the colorful landscapes of the wonderful country was striking, and I decided to travel there again. The feeling of charm and admiration did not pass. And in my head every now and then the question arose: "Am I alive or not?" And I was also afraid that if I went too far into this unknown world, then there would be no return. And at the same time, I really didn’t want to part with such a miracle.

We approached a huge cloud of pink fog, I wanted to be inside it. But the Spirit stopped me. "Don't go there, it's dangerous!" He warned. I suddenly became anxious, I felt a kind of threat and decided to return to my body. And she found herself in a long dark tunnel. She flew over it alone, the Holy Spirit was no longer there.

I opened my eyes. I saw doctors, a room with beds. I was lying on one of them. There were four people in white robes standing next to me. Raising my head, I asked: “Where am I? And where is that beautiful country? "

The doctors looked at each other, one smiled and stroked my head. I felt ashamed of my question, because they probably thought that I was not all right with my head.

This is how I experienced clinical death and being out of my own body. Now I know that those who have gone through this are not mentally ill, but normal people. Not standing out in any way from the rest, they returned “from there”, having learned such feelings and experiences that do not fit into generally accepted concepts and ideas. And I also know that during that trip I acquired more knowledge, comprehended and understood more than in my entire previous life.

Artem

- I did not see my body from the side at the time of death. And I'm very sorry about that.
At first there was just a harsh refractive light, after seconds it disappeared. It was impossible to breathe, I panicked. I realized that I was dead. There was no peace of mind. Only panic. Then the need to breathe seemed to disappear, and this panic began to pass. After that, some strange memories began about what seemed to be before, but slightly modified. Something like the feeling that it was, but not quite with you. It was like I was flying down some space and watching slides. All this caused the effect of déjà vu.

In the end, the feeling of inability to breathe returned again, my throat was squeezing with something. Then I began to feel as if I was expanding. After I opened my eyes, something was inserted into my mouth, the resuscitators fussed around. I felt very sick and had a headache. The feeling of revival was extremely unpleasant. He was in a state of clinical death for about 6 minutes 14 seconds. It seems that he did not become an idiot, did not discover any additional abilities, but on the contrary, temporarily lost walking and normal breathing, as well as the ability to ride a bem, then he restored all this for a long time.

Alexander

- I went through a state of clinical death when I studied at the Ryazan Airborne School. My platoon took part in the reconnaissance group competition. This is a 3-day survival marathon with extreme physical activity, which ends with a 10-kilometer march in full gear. I didn’t come to this last stage in the best shape: the day before I ripped my foot with some kind of snag while crossing the river, we were constantly in motion, my leg hurt badly, the bandage came off, the bleeding was renewed, I was in a fever. But I ran almost all 10 km, and how I did it, I still don’t understand, and I don’t remember very well. Several hundred meters before the finish line, I passed out, and my comrades carried me there (by the way, my participation in the competition was counted).

The doctor diagnosed acute heart failure and began to revive me. About the period when I was in a state of clinical death, I have the following memories: I not only heard what others said, but also watched from the sidelines. I saw how something was injected into the area of ​​my heart, I saw how a defibrillator was used to revive me. And in my mind the picture was like this: my body and doctors are on the field of the stadium, and my relatives are sitting in the stands and watching what is happening. In addition, it seemed to me that I could control the resuscitation process. There was a moment when I got tired of lying around, and I immediately heard the doctor say that I had a pulse. Then I thought: now there will be a general structure, everyone will strain, but I've deceived everyone and I can lie down - and the doctor screamed that my heart stopped again. In the end I decided to go back. I will add that I did not feel fear when I watched as I was revived, and in general, did not treat this situation as a matter of life and death. It seemed to me that everything is in order, life goes on as usual.

Willie

During the fighting in Afghanistan, Willy Melnikov's platoon came under mortar fire. He was one of thirty survived, but was severely shell-shocked. He was unconscious for 25 minutes, his heart did not work for about eight minutes. What worlds has he visited? What did you feel? Willie Melnikov did not see any angels or devils. Everything was so fantastic that it’s difficult to describe.

Willie Melnikov: “I was moving in the thickness of a bottomless, endless essence, matter comparable to the Solaris of Stanislav Lem. And inside this Solaris I moved, keeping myself as such, but at the same time I felt like a part of all this. And I heard some languages ​​that I had never heard before. Not that they were heard, they came from there - they lived there, and I had the opportunity to breathe them. "

He continued his journey and reached an embankment of unimaginable height. Behind her stretched a space of indescribable depth. There was a great temptation to fall down, but Willie resisted. Here he met strange creatures that were constantly changing.

“It was a kind of symbiosis of plant, animal, architectural and, perhaps, some other field form of life. And benevolence and friendliness, such a kind invitation that came from these creatures. "

Like many other people who found themselves in a state of clinical death, Willie Melnikov did not want to return. However, when he returned, the 23-year-old realized that he had become a different person.

Willie Melnikov speaks 140 languages ​​today, including those that have disappeared. Before he experienced clinical death, he knew seven. He did not become a polyglot overnight. He admits that he has always loved to study foreign speech. But I was very surprised when, in the first post-war years, I inexplicably recalled five dead languages.

“It's amazing that rather exotic languages ​​of the indigenous inhabitants of the Philippines and Indians of both Americas“ came ”to me. But there are still two that I still have not identified. I can speak, write, think on them, but what they are and where they come from, I still don’t know ”.

Death is an old woman with a scythe, which sooner or later comes for all living beings. But some people manage to literally return from the other world, having experienced clinical death.

At this stage, the cardiac activity and the breathing process stop, and all the external signs of a person's life are absent. Interestingly, at the time of clinical death, thousands of people experience certain visions or even out-of-body experiences. How can this be explained scientifically? Let's find out.

The temporoparietal junction may be responsible for the out-of-body experience.

Hundreds of people who have experienced clinical death have had the experience of leaving their bodies.

There are many common elements in the descriptions of people who have experienced clinical death. For example, they usually have a clear sense of leaving the body. Patients who returned, as they say, from the other world, later said that they hovered over a lifeless body and saw all the people around. Dozens of cases have been recorded where people with out-of-body experiences accurately described objects and events that occurred at a time when they were clinically considered dead.

Scientific studies show that this may be one of the consequences of damage to the temporo-parietal junction of the brain. This site is responsible for collecting data about the world around the senses. By processing this information, the temporo-parietal junction forms a person's perception of his body. It is possible that when this part of the brain is damaged, the very "exit from the body", described by eyewitnesses, occurs.

This is interesting: Scientists were able to make people experience out-of-body experiences in the laboratory. At the same time, they did not bring the subjects to death, but only stimulated the temporo-parietal junction with electrical impulses.

Excess carbon dioxide can create the visual appearance of a white light tunnel

Near-death survivors often see a 'white light at the end of the tunnel'

The lion's share of people who survived clinical death say that they saw a bright white light and even a tunnel that led them to the afterlife. They note that the dazzling white light seems somehow otherworldly, but at the same time it evokes a feeling of absolute calmness and serenity.

In a study of patients who have had heart attacks, it was found that there is a connection between the content of carbon dioxide in the blood and the visible image of the white tunnel. At least 11 people out of 52 who survived clinical death reported about white light. It turned out that the carbon dioxide in the blood of these people at the time of clinical death contained much more than in patients who did not observe such visions.

This led the researchers to conclude that excess carbon dioxide can directly trigger the visions described above. How? It's not clear yet.

Hallucinations occur when there is a lack of oxygen in the brain

Hallucinations occur with hypoxia

Often, patients who have experienced clinical death claim that they felt the presence of long-dead friends or relatives who led them from our world to the afterlife. People also note that hundreds of pictures from the past pop up in their heads, and a feeling of complete calmness appears in their souls. But even this scientists were able to explain.

When an excess of carbon dioxide affects a person's vision, the lack of oxygen in their brain can cause fairly realistic hallucinations. It is known, for example, that hypoxia (oxygen starvation of the body) not only leads to hallucinations, but even causes a feeling of euphoria, repeatedly mentioned by patients. Despite the limited sample available to scientists, they were able to notice that people who saw hallucinations during cardiac arrest had lower levels of oxygen in the brain.

Scientists suggest that it is hypoxia that leads to the appearance of pictures from a past life in front of the eyes, as well as to the "displacement" of a person to a place in which he is surrounded by long-dead relatives. At this stage, this version remains a common theory, but it is supported by the fact that clinical death is most often experienced by people who have had a heart attack. With it, the blood simply does not reach their brain, that is, the concentration of carbon dioxide increases in the brain tissues and the oxygen content decreases.

The dying brain releases a huge amount of endorphins into the body

The brain tries to bring the body back to life and releases all hormones into the body.

For a long time, scientists believed in the theory that most of the sensations that people feel during clinical death can be explained by the release of endorphins and other hormones into the body. The idea that all the effects of clinical death are caused exclusively by endorphins was later rejected. However, she perfectly explained why thousands of people do not feel fear or anxiety at the time of cardiac arrest, despite the realization that their lives have come to an end.

The release of these hormones, which resemble morphine in their effect on the body, at moments of extreme stress, according to neuropsychologist Daniel Kara, perfectly explains the feeling of peace, as well as the absence of pain or fear at a time when the body is in an emergency state. Therefore, at the time of clinical death, people feel so easy and even sublime.

Many scientists assume that the release of endorphins by the brain is a natural process designed to facilitate the process of dying. Other researchers note that at the time of death, not only endorphins, but also many other hormones are released in huge quantities. In their opinion, in this way the brain is desperately trying to bring the dying body back to life.

This is interesting: It is known that at the time of orgasm, endorphins are released into the body in small quantities, and it is they that make people experience very pleasant sensations. Now imagine the feeling when the entire "reserve" of these hormones in the body enters the bloodstream in an instant. Therefore, there is an opinion that at the time of death, people experience the same sensations as during orgasm, only ten times stronger.

Outbreaks of brain activity at the time of clinical death

Hyperconsciousness - a condition experienced during clinical death

Enhanced sensory perception is one of the hallmarks of clinical death. A 2012 study shows that sensations can be triggered by a powerful burst of brain activity before death. True, the experiments were carried out on rats and a relatively small sample was used. This gave reason for some scientists not to recognize their results. Researcher Jimo Boerzhijin, on the other hand, believes that they perfectly explain clinical death from a biological point of view.

During the study, electrodes were inserted into the brains of rats. And so that scientists can track the levels of brain activity at the time of death of rodents. It turned out that the rats experienced what scientists called "hyperconsciousness." It is a condition characterized by a powerful intensification of feelings that many people associate with clinical death. According to Tszimo, the researchers recorded "continuous and multiply increased brain activity."

This is interesting: It turns out that the overactive conscious activity of the main organ continues for the first 30 seconds after the moment of clinical death, after which it quickly fades away.

Is astral projection anesthesia awareness?

Sometimes, even with anesthesia, people experience awareness

Astral projection (in other words, out-of-body experience) can be easily explained not only by the above-mentioned injuries of the temporomandibular joint. Most astral projections can be signs of anesthetic awareness.

With anesthesia, out-of-body experiences are experienced by only 1 person in 1000. Despite this, there is reason to believe that people who have experienced clinical death subsequently only build false memories based on what they saw and heard while they were under the influence of anesthesia.

Perhaps this is the main reason why Pamela Reynolds, whose clinical death is often cited as an example, was able to recall many details of the operation. For example, this woman accurately described the shape of the saw that was used to open her skull, and even said that during the operation in the intensive care unit sounded the song "Hotel California".

Pamela's clinical death is often considered important evidence of an out-of-body experience. But with your permission, we dare to add a fly in the ointment. In fact, everything Reynolds remembered happened when her heart was already started. That is, she was alive then, but was under the influence of anesthesia. The patient then believed that she saw and heard everything, being in a state of clinical death. Skeptics speculate that it was just a rare instance of a person experiencing awareness of anesthesia.

Perception of time is highly distorted

Perception of time is distorted at critical moments

Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander published a book in which he described his own experience of clinical death and the visions and sensations that accompanied it. Note that Eben's heart stopped when he was in a coma due to brain inflammation. Alexander claims that, in fact, his clinical death lasted for several days. It began, in his opinion, at the moment when the cerebral cortex was blocked due to a progressive coma. His experience is paradoxical, because all the sensory sensations that he experienced are always recorded precisely by the cerebral cortex.

The release of Eben Alexander's book attracted increased attention from journalists and generated dozens of sensational headlines in the media. But a few weeks later, neurologist Oliver Sachs offered a fairly simple explanation of Dr. Alexander's experience.

He believes that any hallucination Eben saw (for example, a journey to the white light) could actually last no more than 20-30 seconds, but he himself perceived it as much longer. According to Sachs, during a crisis as deep as a coma, the very perception of time changes. He suggests that the visions of Alexander were born in his head when the body was coming out of a coma, and the cerebral cortex was slowly activated. Oliver Sachs is surprised that Eben Alexander himself does not offer such an obvious explanation, but stubbornly insists on the supernatural.

Hallucinations and real perception involve the same areas of the brain

Hallucinations are difficult to distinguish from real perception

People who have experienced clinical death often recall that during it all their sensations seemed very realistic, and sometimes even more real than everything they experienced during life. Millions of people believe that these are not just hallucinations. But scientists have a different point of view. There is at least one good reason why it is very difficult to distinguish reality from hallucinations.

Neurologist Oliver Sachs, mentioned in the previous section, says that people who have experienced clinical death do not make up anything: everything that they dreamed could really seem completely real. In his opinion, the main reason for such realism of hallucinations is that they activate the same brain systems as with actual perception.

This is interesting: When a person hears someone's voice, the zone responsible for hearing is activated. At the same time, during auditory hallucinations, the same part of the brain is also activated. Therefore, sounds born in a person's imagination are perceived by him as real.

Elevated sensations at the time of clinical death are caused by epileptic activity of the temporal lobes

Temporal lobe epileptic activity makes people feel bliss

The so-called ecstatic seizures are rare in people with temporal lobe epilepsy. However, an outbreak of epileptic activity in this area of ​​the brain can cause visions of God or heaven, as well as feelings of absolute happiness, which are reported by hundreds of people who have experienced clinical death. In a study designed and conducted by Orrin Devinsky's team, scientists were able to monitor the brain activity of patients experiencing ecstatic convulsions. Surprisingly, the number of divine visions in patients exactly matched the number of bursts of activity in the temporal lobe of the brain (in most cases, the right half).

Experts suggest that some historical figures, including Dostoevsky and Zhanna d'Arc, suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy. With bursts of epileptic activity, they experienced a sense of ecstasy and a sense of the presence of something otherworldly. It is likely that people who described divine visions also experienced epileptic activity in the temporal lobe at the time of clinical death.

Describing his convulsions of ecstasy, Dostoevsky once said: “I felt absolute harmony in myself and in the whole world, and this feeling was so strong and sweet that in just a few seconds of such happiness I would have given ten years of my life without hesitation, or maybe even a whole life. " In these words, you can find a lot in common with the stories of people who felt unearthly bliss during clinical death.

Neuralism and religion do not necessarily contradict each other.

Science and religion may be closer than they seem

Despite in-depth studies of the phenomenon of clinical death, scientists are in no hurry to refute all the experiences people have experienced, referring only to impaired neurological functions. So, even if they wanted to, they could not explain one well-known case when a patient experienced an out-of-body experience after cardiac arrest.

This is interesting: When the woman was resuscitated, she reported that at the time of clinical death she left her body and was outside the hospital. In particular, the patient said that she saw a tennis shoe lying on a windowsill in one of the rooms on the third floor. The surprised doctor decided to check her words and indeed found the shoe in the indicated place. The shocked doctors were forced to admit that the patient did not have the slightest opportunity to learn about this and about many other details that she described.

Dr. Tony Sikoria, struck by lightning in 1994, also experienced clinical death. Soon, an authoritative scientist with a high level in neurobiology, unexpectedly for himself, felt an irresistible desire to learn how to play and compose musical works. It is not known what he saw at the time of clinical death, but, according to him, this experience made him a completely different person. Tony Sikoria does not see any contradictions between religion and neuralgia, believing that if God existed in every person, then he would “work” just through the nervous system. More precisely, through those areas of the brain that enable us to feel faith and spirituality.

Other mysteries are inextricably linked with the phenomenon of clinical death. For example, why do many people really change dramatically after it? For example, the kind and cheerful American boy Harry, after his clinical death, became very aggressive and could not even get along with his parents. A three-year-old Australian girl, returning from the other world, literally demanded alcohol from her parents, began to steal and smoke. And Heather Howland felt an irrepressible desire for promiscuous sexual intercourse. Previously, the faithful spouse began to change partners one by one. What do you think about it?

Remember, in the movie "Flatulent" with Julia Roberts, medical students decided to experience a state of clinical death. One by one, young doctors embarked on an unpredictable journey beyond life. The results were stunning: the "comatose" met THERE people whom they once offended ...

What happens in those 5 - 6 minutes when resuscitators return a dying person from oblivion? Is the afterlife really beyond the thin line of life, or is it "tricking" the brain? Scientists began serious research in the 1970s - it was then that the sensational book of the famous American psychologist Raymond Moody "Life After Life" was published. Over the past decades, they have managed to make many interesting discoveries. At the conference "Clinical Death: Contemporary Research", held recently in Melbourne, physicians, philosophers, psychologists and religious scholars summed up the study of this phenomenon.

Raymond Moody believed that the process of "feeling out-of-body existence" is characterized by the following stages:

Stopping all physiological functions of the body (moreover, the dying person still has time to hear the words of the doctor, who states the death);

Increasing unpleasant noises;

The dying man "leaves the body" and rushes at high speed along the tunnel, at the end of which the light is visible;

His whole life passes before him;

He meets dead relatives and friends.

Those who “return from the other world” note a strange duality of consciousness: they know about everything that happens around them at the moment of “death”, but at the same time they cannot come into contact with the living - those who are nearby. The most amazing thing is that even people who are blind from birth in a state of clinical death often see a bright light. This was proved by a survey of more than 200 blind women and men conducted by Dr. Kennett Ring from the United States.

When we die, the brain "remembers" our birth!

Why is this happening? Scientists seem to have found an explanation for the mysterious visions that visit a person in the last seconds of life.

1. The explanation is fantastic. Psychologist Payell Watson believes he has solved the riddle. In his opinion, when we die, we remember our birth! For the first time, we get acquainted with death at the moment of a terrible journey, which each of us makes, overcoming the ten-centimeter birth canal, he believes.

We will probably never know exactly what is happening at this moment in the mind of the child, says Watson, but, probably, his sensations resemble different stages of dying. In this case, are not the near-death visions a transformed experience of birth trauma, naturally, with the superposition of the accumulated everyday and mystical experience?

2. The explanation is utilitarian. Russian resuscitator Nikolai Gubin explains the appearance of the tunnel as a manifestation of toxic psychosis.

This is somewhat similar to a dream, and in something to a hallucination (for example, when a person suddenly begins to see himself from the side). The fact is that at the moment of dying, parts of the visual lobe of the cerebral hemispheres are already suffering from oxygen starvation, and the poles of both occipital lobes, which have a double blood supply, continue to function. As a result, the field of view is sharply narrowed, and only a narrow band remains, providing central, "tube" vision.

Why do some of the dying see the pictures of their entire lives passing before their eyes? And there is an answer to this question. The dying process begins with newer brain structures and ends with older ones. The restoration of these functions during revival proceeds in the reverse order: first, more "ancient" parts of the cerebral cortex revive, and then new ones. Therefore, in the process of returning to life of a person, the most persistently imprinted "pictures" first emerge in his memory.

How do writers describe the experience of death?

The incident with Arseny Tarkovsky is described in one of his stories. It was in January 1944 after the amputation of a leg, when the writer died of gangrene in a front-line hospital. He lay in a small, cramped chamber with a very low ceiling. The light bulb hanging over the bed did not have a switch, and had to be unscrewed by hand. Once, unscrewing it, Tarkovsky felt that his soul spiraled out of his body, like a light bulb from a socket. Surprised, he looked down and saw his body. It was completely motionless, like a man sleeping in a dead sleep. Then, for some reason, he wanted to see what was going on in the next ward.

He began to slowly "seep" through the wall and at some point felt that a little more - and he would never be able to return to his body. This frightened him. He again hovered over the bed and, with some strange effort, slipped into his body, like into a boat.

In the work of Leo Tolstoy "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" the writer amazingly described the phenomenon of clinical death: -then. What happened to him in the railway carriage, when you think that you are going forward and going back, and suddenly you recognize the real direction ... At that very time Ivan Ilyich fell through, saw the light, and it was revealed to him that life it was not what was needed, but that it could still be corrected ... I feel sorry for them (relatives. - Ed.), we must do so that they would not be hurt. Deliver them and get rid of their own suffering. "How good and how simple," he thought ... He was looking for his usual fear of death and did not find it ... Instead of death there was light. "

by the way

But they didn’t see it!

Rant Bagdasarov, head of the intensive care unit of Moscow hospital No. 29, who has been returning people from the other world for 30 years, claims: during his entire practice, none of his patients saw either a tunnel or a light during his clinical death.

Chris Freeman, a psychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, believes that there is no evidence that the visions described by the patients occurred when the brain was not working. People saw "pictures" of another world during their lifetime: before cardiac arrest or immediately after the heart rate was restored.

A study by the National Institute of Neurology, which involved 9 major clinics, showed that of more than 500 returnees, only 1 percent could clearly remember what they saw. According to scientists, 30 - 40 percent of patients depicting their travels in the afterlife are people with an unstable psyche.

Have you been in a state of clinical death?

Tell us about your "journey" to another world by e-mail [email protected]

The secret of hell and heaven

Hell? These are snakes, reptiles, an unbearable stench and demons! Paradise? This is light, lightness, flight and fragrance!

Surprisingly, the descriptions of people who have been in the afterlife - even for a few minutes - coincide even in details.

- Hell? These are snakes, bastards, an unbearable stench and demons! - told the correspondent of "Life" nun Antonia. She experienced clinical death during an operation in her youth, then a woman who did not believe in God. The impression of the hellish torments experienced by her soul for a few minutes was so powerful that, having repented, she went to the monastery to atone for her sins.

- Paradise? Light, lightness, flight and fragrance, - Vladimir Efremov, the former leading engineer of OKB Impulse, described his impressions after clinical death to the journalist "Zhizn". He outlined his posthumous experience in the scientific journal of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

“In paradise, the soul knows everything about everything,” Efremov shared his observation. - I remembered my old TV and immediately found out not only which lamp was faulty, but also which installer had installed it, even his entire biography, right up to the scandals with his mother-in-law. And when I remembered the defense project on which our design bureau was working, then immediately came a solution to the most complicated problem, for which the team later received the State Prize.

Experience

Physicians and clergymen who spoke with resuscitated patients note a common feature of human souls. Those who had been in heaven returned to the bodies of earthly possessors calm and enlightened, and those who looked into the underworld could not get away from the horror they saw. The general impression of people who have experienced clinical death is that heaven is above, hell is below. The Bible speaks in the same way about the structure of the afterlife. Those who saw the state of hell described the approach to it as a descent. And those who went to heaven, they took off.

In some cases, when a person was absent from the earth for a very long time, he saw on the other side of the border the same pictures of hell and paradise that the Holy Scriptures paint for us. Sinners suffer from their earthly desires. For example, Dr. Georg Ritchie saw killers who were chained to their victims. And the Russian woman Valentina Khrustaleva - homosexuals and lesbians, fused with each other in shameful poses.

One of the brightest stories about the horrors of the underworld belongs to the American Thomas Welch - he survived a sawmill accident. “On the shore of the fiery abyss, I saw several familiar faces who had died before me. I began to regret that I had cared little about my salvation before. And if I knew what awaits in hell, I would have lived quite differently. At that moment, I noticed someone walking in the distance. The stranger's face radiated great strength and kindness. I immediately understood that it was the Lord and that only He could save a soul doomed to torment. Suddenly the Lord turned his face and looked at me. Just one glance of the Lord - and in an instant I was in my body and revived. "

Often, having been in the afterlife, people, just like Nun Antonia, take church orders, not hesitating to admit that they have seen hell.

Pastor Kenneth Hagin experienced clinical death in April 1933 while living in Texas. His heart stopped. “My soul is out of my body,” he says. - Having reached the bottom of the abyss, I felt the presence of some spirit near me, which began to guide me. At this time, an imperious voice sounded over the infernal darkness. I did not understand what he said, but I felt that it was the voice of God. From the strength of this voice the whole underworld trembled - so leaves on an autumn tree tremble when the wind blows. Immediately the spirit released me, and the whirlwind carried me back up. Gradually the earthly light began to shine again. I found myself back in my room and jumped into my body like a man jumps into his pants. Then I saw my grandmother, who began to say to me: "Son, but I thought you were dead." Kenneth became a pastor of one of the Protestant churches and dedicated his life to God.

Somehow one of the Athonite elders managed to look into hell. He had lived in the monastery for a long time, but his friend remained in the city, indulging in all the joys of life. Soon the friend died, and the monk began to ask God to let him know what had happened to his friend. And one day in a dream a deceased friend appeared to him and began to talk about his unbearable torment, about how an unbroken worm was gnawing at him. Having said this, he raised his clothes to his knee and showed his leg, which was all covered with a terrible worm that was devouring it. Such a terrible stench emanated from the wounds on his leg that the monk immediately woke up. He jumped out of the cell, leaving the door open, and the stench from it spread throughout the monastery. Over time, the smell did not diminish, and all the inhabitants of the monastery had to move to another place. And the monk in his entire life could not get rid of the terrible smell that clung to him.

Heaven

Descriptions of heaven are always the opposite of stories about hell. There is evidence of one of the scientists who, as a five-year-old boy, drowned in a pool. The child was found already lifeless and taken to the hospital, where the doctor announced to the family that the boy had died. But unexpectedly for everyone, the child came to life.

“When I was under water,” the scientist said later, “I felt that I was flying through a long tunnel. At the other end of the tunnel, I saw a light that was so bright that you could touch it. There I saw God on the throne and below people, probably angels, who surrounded the throne. When I got close to God, He told me that my time had not come yet. I wanted to stay, but suddenly I found myself in my body.

American Betty Maltz, in her book I Seen Eternity, describes how immediately after her death she found herself on a wonderful green hill.

She was surprised that, having three surgical wounds, she stands and walks freely, without pain. Above her was a bright blue sky. There was no sun, but the light was spreading everywhere. The grass under her bare feet was a color she had never seen on the ground — every blade of grass was alive. The hill was steep, but the legs moved easily, without effort. Around Betty I saw bright flowers, bushes, trees. Then she noticed a robed male figure to her left. Betty thought it was an angel. They walked without speaking, but she realized that he did not know her. Betty felt young, healthy and happy. “I understood that I have everything I ever wanted, I was everything I ever wanted to be, I went where I always dreamed of being,” she said when she returned. - Then my whole life passed before my eyes. I realized that I was selfish, I felt ashamed, but I still felt care and love around me. My companion and I approached the wonderful silver palace. I heard the word "Jesus". A gate of pearls opened in front of me, and behind them I saw the street in golden light. I wanted to enter the palace, but I remembered my father and returned to my body. "

Pylypchuk

Surprisingly, our contemporary, a policeman Boris Pilipchuk, who survived clinical death, also spoke about the shining gates and the palace of gold and silver in paradise: “Behind the fiery gates I saw a cube shining with gold. He was huge. " The shock from the bliss experienced in paradise was so great that after the resurrection Boris Pilipchuk completely changed his life. He gave up drinking, smoking, began to live according to the commandments of Christ. His wife did not recognize him as her former spouse: “He was often rude, but now Boris is always gentle and affectionate. I believed that it was him only after he told me about cases that only the two of us knew about. But at first it was scary to sleep with a man who had returned from the other world, as if with a dead man. The ice melted only after a miracle happened - he named the exact date of birth of our unborn child, day and hour. I gave birth exactly at the time he named. She asked her husband: "How could you know this?" And he answered: “From God. After all, the Lord sends us all the children. "

Sveta

When the doctors brought Svetochka Molotkova out of her coma, she asked for paper and pencils - and drew everything she saw in the other world. ... Six-year-old Sveta Molotkova has been in a coma for three days. Doctors tried unsuccessfully to bring her brain back from oblivion. The girl did not react to anything. Her mother's heart was torn from pain - her daughter lay motionless, like a corpse ... And suddenly at the end of the third day Svetochka convulsively squeezed her palms, as if trying to grab onto something. - I'm here, daughter! - shouted mom. Sveta clenched her fists even tighter. Mom thought that her daughter was finally able to cling to life, outside of which she spent three days. Barely regaining consciousness, the girl asked the doctors for pencils and paper: - I need to draw what I saw in the next world ...

Scientists gave explanation light at the end of the tunnel

Semyon POLOTSKY.Ytpo.Ru, October 31, 2011

Mystical sensations receive a rational explanation

People who have experienced a state of clinical death say that at this moment they felt themselves leaving their own body and flying through a dark tunnel, at the end of which a light is visible. Someone hears at the same time strange, unearthly sounds, someone looks through the events of a lived life, but as if in a rewind. Others say that they meet their relatives who have long passed away. And especially impressionable ones assure that they discovered psychic possibilities in themselves after a flight to the astral plane.

However, scientists are skeptical about such reports and explain these feelings quite rationally. So, researchers from Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities came up with a version that the brain is trying to adapt to the fact of death, which gives rise to hallucinations.

Dr. Caroline Watt of Cambridge University says you can experience the same experience without being in the intensive care unit. “We put a virtual reality helmet (HMD) on the subjects and turned on the image of themselves. It turned out that they could see themselves from the side at a distance of several meters. it was very realistic, "Watt said.

The feeling of peace and tranquility that those who have returned from the other world talk about is caused by the entry of the hormone norepinephrine into the bloodstream, scientists say. It is usually released at times of stress or injury. The brain perceives death as something akin to these critical accidents in an attempt to adapt to circumstances it has never encountered before. The apparent meeting with deceased relatives can be explained by the same. A person has pleasant memories associated with them, so a large amount of norepinephrine causes these very visions.

A long tunnel or flight towards the light is the result of the gradual death of cells that are responsible for transforming the light that hits the retina into certain patterns in the brain. This is the opinion of Professor Sam Parnina from the Department of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Other theories put forward earlier are worth noting. According to a study by scientists from the University of Maribor, elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the blood cause such strange hallucinations. Other experts agree with them, who add that patients hear unusual noise due to a lack of oxygen, which stops flowing to the brain. And "life rushing by" is a consequence of the gradual dying of memory cells. The process is reversed, so the older pictures emerge first.

Natalya Bekhtereva: Clinical death is not a black pit

The famous neurophysiologist Natalya Bekhtereva (1924-2008) studied the brain for more than half a century and observed dozens of returns "from there", working in intensive care

A black tunnel, at the end of which you can see the light, the feeling that you are flying along this "pipe", and something good and very important awaits ahead - this is how many of those who survived describe their visions during clinical death. What happens to the human brain at this time? Is it true that the soul of a dying person leaves the body?

Weigh the soul

- Natalya Petrovna, where is the place of the soul - in the brain, spinal cord, in the heart, in the stomach?

This will all be fortune telling on the coffee grounds, whoever answers you. You can say - "in the whole body" or "outside the body, somewhere nearby." I think this substance needs no space. If it is, then in the whole body. Something that permeates the entire body, which is not interfered with by walls, doors, or ceilings. The soul, for lack of better formulations, is also called, for example, that which seems to leave the body when a person dies.

- Consciousness and soul - synonyms?

For me, no. There are many formulations about consciousness, one worse than the other. The following is also suitable: "Awareness of oneself in the surrounding world." When a person comes to his senses after fainting, the first thing that he begins to understand is that there is something nearby besides himself. Although in an unconscious state, the brain also perceives information. Sometimes the sick, waking up, talk about what they could not see. And the soul ... what is the soul, I do not know. I tell you how it is. They even tried to weigh the soul. Some very small grams are obtained. I don't really believe in this. During dying, a thousand processes take place in the human body. Maybe it just loses weight? It is impossible to prove that it was “the soul that flew away”.

- Can you tell exactly where our consciousness is? In the brain?

Consciousness is a brain phenomenon, albeit very dependent on the state of the body. You can deprive a person of consciousness by pinching his cervical artery with two fingers, change the blood flow, but this is very dangerous. This is the result of activity, I would even say - the life of the brain. That's more accurate. When you wake up, the second you wake up. The whole organism "revives" at once. As if all the lights are on at the same time.

Sleep after death

- What happens to the brain and consciousness in moments of clinical death? Can you describe the picture?

It seems to me that the brain dies not when oxygen is not supplied to the vessels for six minutes, but at the moment when it finally begins to flow. All products of not very perfect metabolism "pile" on the brain and finish it off. For some time I worked in the intensive care unit of the Military Medical Academy and watched how this happens. The most terrible period is when doctors take a person out of a critical state and return to life.

Some cases of visions and "returns" after clinical death seem convincing to me. They are so beautiful! Doctor Andrei Gnezdilov told me about one thing - he later worked in a hospice. Once during an operation, he watched a patient who had experienced clinical death, and then, waking up, told an unusual dream. Gnezdilov was able to confirm this dream. Indeed, the situation described by the woman took place at a great distance from the operating room, and all the details coincided. ( The story of Andrey Gnezdilov in question, see below the article).

But this is not always the case. When the first boom in the study of the phenomenon of "life after death" began, at one of the meetings the President of the Academy of Medical Sciences Blokhin asked Academician Arutyunov, who twice experienced clinical death, what he saw after all. Arutyunov replied: "It's just a black pit." What is it? He saw everything, but forgot? Or was there really nothing? Is this a dying brain phenomenon? This is only suitable for clinical death. As for the biological one, no one really returned from there. Although some clergy, in particular Seraphim Rose, have evidence of such returns.

- If you are not an atheist and believe in the existence of the soul, then you yourself do not feel fear of death ...

They say that the fear of waiting for death is many times more terrible than it itself. Jack London has a story about a man who wanted to steal a dog sled. The dogs bit him. The man bled out and died. And before that he said: "People slandered death." It is not death that is terrible, but dying.

Singer Sergei Zakharov said that at the time of his own clinical death he saw and heard everything that was happening around, as if from the outside: the actions and negotiations of the resuscitation team, how they brought a defibrillator and even batteries from the TV remote control in the dust behind the cabinet, which he had lost the day before ... After that, Zakharov ceased to be afraid to die.

It's hard for me to say what exactly he went through. Maybe this is also the result of a dying brain. Why do we sometimes see our surroundings as if from the outside? It is possible that at extreme moments in the brain, not only the usual mechanisms of vision are activated, but also the mechanisms of a holographic nature.

For example, during childbirth: according to our research, several percent of women in childbirth also have a state, as if the "soul" goes out. Women giving birth feel outside the body, observing what is happening from the side. And at this time they do not feel pain. I don't know what it is - a brief clinical death or a brain-related phenomenon. More like the latter.

Andrey Gnezdilov's story:

“Not a single sage has yet understood what death is, what happens at the time of death. Such a stage as clinical death was practically ignored. A person falls into a coma, his breathing stops, his heart stops, but unexpectedly for himself and for others, he returns to life and tells amazing stories.

Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva recently died (Natalya Bekhtereva died in 2008, and the seminar in question took place in 2015 - ed.). At one time, we often argued, I told the cases of clinical death that were in my practice, and she said that this was all nonsense, that changes were just taking place in the brain, and so on. And once I gave her an example, which she later began to use and tell.

I worked for 10 years at the Cancer Institute as a psychotherapist, and once I was called to a young woman. During the operation, her heart stopped, they could not start it for a long time, and when she woke up, I was asked to see if her psyche had changed due to the long oxygen starvation of the brain.

I came to the intensive care unit, she was just coming to her senses. I asked: "Can you talk to me?" - "Yes, only I would like to apologize to you, I caused you so much trouble." - "What troubles?" - “Well, of course. My heart stopped, I went through such stress, and I saw that for the doctors it was also a great stress. "

I was surprised: "How could you see this if you were in a state of deep narcotic sleep, and then your heart stopped?" "Doctor, I would tell you a lot more if you promise not to send me to a mental hospital."

And she said the following: when she plunged into a narcotic sleep, she suddenly felt that as if a soft blow to her feet made something inside her turn, like a screw was twisting. She had the feeling that her soul had turned out and went out into some kind of foggy space.

Looking closer, she saw a group of doctors bending over the body. She thought: what a familiar face this woman has! And then she suddenly remembered that it was herself. Suddenly a voice rang out: "Stop the operation immediately, the heart has stopped, you need to start it."

She thought she was dead, and with horror remembered that she had not said goodbye to either her mother or her five-year-old daughter. Anxiety for them literally pushed her in the back, she flew out of the operating room and in an instant found herself in her apartment.

She saw a rather peaceful scene - the girl was playing with dolls, her grandmother, her mother, was sewing something. There was a knock at the door, and a neighbor, Lidia Stepanovna, entered. She was holding a small polka-dot dress. “Mashenka,” said the neighbor, “you all the time tried to be like your mother, so I sewed for you the same dress as your mother’s.”

The girl happily rushed to her neighbor, on the way touched the tablecloth, an old cup fell, and a teaspoon fell under the carpet. The noise, the girl is crying, the grandmother exclaims: "Masha, how awkward you are," Lydia Stepanovna says that the dishes are beating happily - a common situation.

And the girl's mother, forgetting about herself, went up to her daughter, stroked her head and said: "Masha, this is not the worst grief in life." Mashenka looked at her mother, but, not seeing her, she turned away. And suddenly this woman realized that when she touched the girl's head, she did not feel this touch. Then she rushed to the mirror and did not see herself in the mirror.

In horror, she remembered that she had to be in the hospital, that her heart had stopped. She rushed out of the house and found herself in the operating room. And then I heard a voice: "The heart started up, we are doing the operation, but rather, because there may be a repeated cardiac arrest."

After listening to this woman, I said: "Do you want me to come to your house and tell my family that everything is all right, they can see you?" She happily agreed.

I drove to the address given to me, my grandmother opened the door, I told you about the operation, and then asked: "Tell me, at half past ten, did your neighbor Lydia Stepanovna come to see you?" - "I came, and you know her?" - "Did she bring a dress with polka dots?" - "Are you a wizard, doctor?"

I keep asking, and everything came together to the details, except for one thing - the spoon was not found. Then I say: "Did you look under the carpet?" They lift the carpet and there is a spoon.

Doctors explained why dying people soar above their own bodies

June 2010

Doctors believe they have found an explanation for the experiences described by people who "returned from the afterlife."

"Electroencephalogram studies of dying patients showed an increase in electrical activity just before death," says the article's author, Jonathan Leek.

Scientists believe that this rise could be the cause of near-death experiences - a mysterious medical phenomenon described by people who have experienced clinical death - such as walking into bright light and hovering over their own bodies.

Many people refer to these feelings as religious visions and see them as confirmation of the theory of the afterlife, the article says. But the scientists who conducted the new study believe this is not the case.

"We think that NDEs might be due to a surge in electrical energy released when the brain lacks oxygen," said Lakhmeer Chawla, an intensive care physician at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington.

“When blood supply slows down and oxygen levels drop, brain cells produce one last electrical impulse. It starts in one part of the brain and spreads like an avalanche, and this can give people a vivid mental experience,” he explained.

Chawla's study, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, is considered the first study of its kind to provide a specific physiological explanation for the near-death experience. Although it only describes seven patients, Chawla claims to have seen the same thing "at least fifty times" when people died. This is reported by Inopressa.ru with reference to The Sunday Times.

Scientists have learned how a person leaves his body

The tunnel to the next world opens in a dream

There was no such person born on the planet who can take death calmly. Such thoughts cause fear in more than half of humanity. What is the reason for the fear? Illness, poverty, stress, difficulties do not scare us, but why does death make us afraid, and the human stories of survivors make us shiver? Maybe the reason is that even about a serious illness there are a couple of lines, but about life in the afterlife we ​​do not know at all who to ask.

The past upbringing proves once again: after all, almost all the inhabitants of the planet are sure that life after death does not exist. There will be no more sunrises or sunsets, as well as meetings with loved ones and warm hugs. All important senses will disappear: hearing, sight, touch, smell, etc. What happens after death and whether the stories of people who have experienced clinical death are true, this article will help to understand.

What is our body made of?

Everyone has a physical body and an incorporeal soul. Scientists and esotericists have discovered such a factor that a person has several bodies. In addition to the physical, there are subtle bodies, which, in turn, are divided into:

  • Essential.
  • Astral.
  • Mental.

Any of these bodies has an energy field, which, when combined with subtle bodies, form an aura or, as it is also called, a biofield. As far as the physical body is concerned, it can be touched and seen. This is our main body, which is given to us at birth for a certain period of time.

Etheric, astral and mental body

The so-called double of the physical body has no color (invisible) and is called etheric. It exactly repeats the entire shape of the main body, moreover, it has the same energy field. After the death of a person, it is finally destroyed after 3 days. For this reason, the burial process does not begin earlier than 3 days after the death of the body.

"Body of emotions", it is also astral. The experience and emotional state of a person is capable of changing personal radiation. During sleep, it is able to disconnect, which is why, waking up, we can remember a dream, which is only the journey of the soul at that moment while the physical body is resting in the bed.

The mental body is in charge of thoughts. Abstract thinking and contact with space distinguish this body. The soul leaves the main body and separates at the time of death, heading rapidly towards the higher world.

Return from that world

Almost everyone is shocked by the stories of people who have survived clinical death.

Someone believes in such luck, while others are skeptical about this kind of death in principle. And yet, what can happen in 5 minutes at the time of rescue by rescuers? Is there really an afterlife after life, or is it just a fantasy of the brain?

In the 70s of the last century, scientists began to carefully study this factor, on the basis of which the book "Life After Life" by Raymond Moody was published. He is an American psychologist who has made many discoveries over the decades. The psychologist believed that such stages are inherent in the sensation of out-of-body being as:

  • Disabling the physiological processes of the body (the fact that the dying person hears the words of a doctor who states death has been established).
  • Unpleasant noisy build-up sounds.
  • The dying person leaves the body and moves with incredible speed along a long tunnel, where at the end a light is visible.
  • His whole life flies by before him.
  • There is a meeting with relatives and friends who have already left the living world.

The stories of people who have experienced clinical death notice an unusual split of consciousness: it seems that you understand everything and realize what is happening around during "death", but for some reason it is impossible to contact living people who are nearby. It is also surprising that even a blind person from birth sees a bright light in a fatal state.

Our brain remembers everything

Our brain remembers the whole process at the moment when clinical death occurs. Human stories and research by scientists have found explanations for unusual visions.

Fantastic explanation

Payell Watson is a psychologist who believes that in the last minutes of his life, a dying person sees his birth. Acquaintance with death, as Watson said, begins with a terrible path that must be overcome by everyone. This is the birth canal at 10 cm.

“It is not in our power to know exactly what is going on in the creation of a baby at the moment of birth, but, perhaps, all these sensations are similar to different phases of dying. After all, it may be that the deathbed pictures that emerge in front of the dying person are exactly the experiences in the process of birth, ”says psychologist Payell Watson.

Utilitarian explanation

Nikolai Gubin, an intensive care physician from Russia, is of the opinion that the appearance of a tunnel is a toxic psychosis.

This is a dream that looks like hallucinations (for example, when a person sees himself from the outside). In the process of dying, the visual lobes of the cerebral hemisphere have already undergone oxygen starvation. Vision narrows quickly, leaving a thin streak that provides central vision.

For what reason does the whole life flash before your eyes when clinical death occurs? The stories of survivors cannot give a clear answer, but Gubin has his own interpretation. The stage of dying begins with new brain particles, and ends with old ones. The restoration of important brain functions occurs the other way around: first, old areas come to life, and then new ones. That is why more imprinted fragments are reflected in the memories of people who have returned from the afterlife.

The secret of the dark and light world

"Another world exists!" - the medical specialists say, stunned. The revelations of people who have experienced clinical death have even detailed coincidences.

Priests and doctors, who had the opportunity to communicate with patients who returned from another world, recorded the fact that all these people have a common property of souls. Upon arrival from heaven, some returned more enlightened and calm, while others, returning from hell, for a long time could not calm down from the nightmare they saw.

After listening to the stories of those who survived clinical death, we can conclude that heaven is above, hell is below. This is exactly what the Bible says about the afterlife. Patients describe their feelings as follows: those who went down - met hell, and those who flew up - ended up in heaven.

Word of mouth

Many people were able to survive and understand what clinical death consists of. The stories of survivors belong to the inhabitants of the entire planet. For example, Thomas Welch was able to survive the disaster at the sawmill. Subsequently, he said that on the shore of the burning abyss he could see some people who had died earlier. He began to regret that he had worried so little about salvation. Knowing in advance all the horrors of hell, he would have lived differently. At that moment, the man saw a man walking in the distance. The unfamiliar appearance was bright and bright, radiated kindness and mighty strength. It became clear to Welch: this is the Lord. Only in his power is the salvation of people, only he can take the doomed soul to himself for torment. Suddenly he turned and looked at our hero. It was enough for Thomas to find himself back in the body and his mind revived.

When the heart stops

In April 1933, Pastor Kenneth Hagin of was engulfed in clinical death. The stories of survivors of clinical death are very similar, which is why scientists and doctors consider these to be real events. Hagin's heart stopped. He said that when the soul left the body and reached the abyss, he felt the presence of a spirit that was leading him somewhere. Suddenly a powerful voice sounded in the darkness. The man could not understand what was said, but it was the voice of God, in the latter he was sure. At that moment, the spirit released the pastor, and a strong whirlwind began to lift him back up. The light slowly began to emerge, and Kenneth Hagin found himself in his room, jumping into the body the way one usually crawls into trousers.

In heaven

Paradise is described as the opposite of hell. The stories of survivors of clinical death are never ignored.

One of the scientists, at the age of 5, fell into a pool filled with water. The child was found lifeless. The parents took the baby to the hospital, but the doctor had to say that the boy would no longer open his eyes. But the bigger surprise was that the child woke up and came to life.

The scientist said that when he was in the water, he felt a flight through a long tunnel, at the end of which he could see a light. This glow was incredibly bright. There, the Lord was on the throne, and below were people (perhaps they were angels). Getting closer to the Lord God, the boy heard that the time had not yet come. The child wanted to stay there for a moment, but in some incomprehensible way he ended up in his body.

About Light

Six-year-old Sveta Molotkova has also seen the other side of life. After the doctors brought her out of the coma, a request came in with a pencil and paper. Svetlana painted everything that she could see at the moment the soul moved. The girl was in a coma for 3 days. Doctors fought to keep her alive, but her brain showed no signs of life. Her mother could not look at the lifeless and motionless body of her child. At the end of the third day, the girl seemed to be trying to grab onto something, her fists clenched strongly. The mother felt that her little girl was finally grasping the hair of life. Having come to her senses a little, Sveta asked the doctors to bring her a paper with a pencil to draw everything that she could see in another world ...

Soldier story

One military doctor treated a patient for a fever in various ways. The soldier was unconscious for some time, and when he woke up, he notified his doctor that he saw a very bright glow. For a moment it seemed to him that he was in the "Kingdom of the Blessed." The military man remembered the sensations and noted that it was the best moment of his life.

Thanks to medicine, which keeps pace with all technologies, it became possible to survive, despite circumstances such as clinical death. Eyewitness accounts of life after death frighten some, while others are interested.

Private from America George Ritchie was pronounced dead in 1943. The doctor who was on duty that day, an officer of the hospital, established death, which came because of the Soldier already prepared to be sent to the morgue. But suddenly a military orderly told the doctor how he saw the movement of a dead man. Then the doctor looked at Ritchie again, but could not confirm the orderly's words. In response, he resisted and insisted on his own.

The doctor realized that it was useless to argue and decided to inject adrenaline directly into the heart. Unexpectedly for everyone, the dead man began to show signs of life, and then doubts disappeared. It became clear that he would survive.

The story of a soldier who survived clinical death has spread all over the world. Private Ritchie was not only able to deceive death itself, but also became a medic, telling colleagues about his unforgettable journey.

For centuries, people have wondered what awaits us after death. Is there a new world outside of life, or is there nothing beyond the last line? It is impossible to prove the existence of the "afterlife", but there are people who, having experienced clinical death, talk about what they were able to "see" outside of being.

Some describe white light and dark tunnel, others claim to have seen "footage" of their lives. Users of the popular portal Reddit share their stories. Believe their stories or not, everyone's business, but it's definitely worth learning about how people felt while doctors were trying with all their might to bring them back to life.

"I've seen my whole life like in pictures in a book"

A user with the nickname monitormonkey survived a clinical death during a complex operation five years ago. In fact, he died for a few minutes.

I woke up in some space where there was no light or sound. I didn’t stand, I didn’t float, I was just there. I did not feel warmth or cold, there were no feelings at all, except for the realization that somewhere near there is a light radiating love. But I didn't want to move towards him. I remember that I was remembering my life, while the pages of a book seemed to open in front of me, which I idly flipped through. And then I woke up on the operating table. I cannot say that after this "journey" I have ceased to be afraid of death, but now I think that there is something beyond life.

"I saw my dead brother"

A girl with the nickname Schneidah7 crashed in a motorcycle accident. While an ambulance was driving to the scene, the victim showed no signs of life. But later the girl told how she really felt.

I remember lying on the sidewalk, and everything around gradually became dark and the sounds went somewhere far away. The only thing I heard was someone's voice: “Wake up! Get up! Get up! " I opened my eyes and saw my brother, who was squatting next to me and lightly tugging at my shoulder. This surprised me a lot: my brother died a few years ago. Noticing that I opened my eyes, he looked at his watch and said: "Don't worry, they will come soon." And then he left. An ambulance arrived a couple of minutes later.

"I was in a blooming garden"

Many storytellers note that outside of life they found themselves in a kind of emptiness. But the user with the nickname IDiedForABit was "lucky" to be in a different place. His heart stopped due to an allergic shock. And while the doctors brought him back to life, the man saw an amazing place.

It looked like a large blooming garden. At the same time, I was not alone there: in the center of the pastoral picture there was a large merry-go-round on which a girl and a boy rode. They were absolutely happy. I felt that I could choose whether to stay here or leave. But at the same time, my attempts to return to my body did not want to end in success. And only when I remembered my mother, realizing that I could not leave her, that she would not survive it, I was “allowed” to leave the garden and return to life. The doctors said that my heart did not beat for six minutes.

"I didn't want to come back to life"

As a teenager, the user with the nickname TheDeadManWalks had to undergo several sessions of chemotherapy. As a result, his blood vessels weakened so much that one day he had a nosebleed that could not be stopped. The teenager's condition began to deteriorate rapidly, in addition, an infection entered the body. This led to clinical death.

The most amazing thing in all that happened is that I did not want to return to life. It was easy for me, there were no worries. But they persistently tried to return me to the body. You know, it's akin to when the alarm goes off, but you really don't feel like getting up. You switch it over and over, and it rings over and over again, trying to wake you up. And you understand that you have to get up. It's the same here. The doctors managed to bring me back to life, although I didn't want to. Of course, now I am glad that I was "resurrected".

"I have not seen anything"

Another motorcyclist claims that he saw absolutely nothing when he had an accident and his pulse stopped for two minutes.

I just felt empty. There was no light, no visions. Just NOTHING. And then I seemed to emerge from this emptiness: it turned out that my friend managed to make my heart beat again.