We've all heard the stories about the bright light, your life flashing before your eyes, or maybe even a mysterious figure/voice telling you it's not your time yet. But what really happens after a ...

Near-death experiences are one of the most puzzling phenomena in psychology. A near-death experience is when a person appears to be clinically ‘dead’ for a short period—when their heart stops beating, ...

Understanding near-death experiences In their new paper, Greyson and Pehlivanova outline many facets of NDEs that the NEPTUNE model—and neurophysiology more broadly—still cannot explain. For example, ...

Dr. Bruce Greyson can’t say for certain what happens when you die, but he’s talked to many people with unique perspectives: They were technically dead before being revived. “Most who have near-death ...

The authors of a recent study (Timmermann et al., 2018) argue that what people experience under the influence of DMT provides a model of what people undergo during near-death experiences. Although ...

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...