Is this true

[khw777]

it takes 5 minutes for the brain to stop functioning after death during which time your brain perceives time completely differently so you can know and maybe relive your whole life and that is a scary fact.

 

[trynacbt]

What? Is this what they call life "flashing before your eyes"? If so, I welcome it. I've had a really lovely life. It's the future I'm worried about.

 

[MeltingHeart]

I thought the definition of death clinically speaking was 'brain death' which would suggest to me that it is no longer functioning- which would indicate you would not be able to 'think' or have such perceptions after that 'death' ...?

 

[Stan]

it takes 5 minutes for the brain to stop functioning after death during which time your brain perceives time completely differently so you can know and maybe relive your whole life and that is a scary fact.

It takes longer than that, google hypoxia and brain death for those doing SN

 

[fightingsioux]

it takes 5 minutes for the brain to stop functioning after death during which time your brain perceives time completely differently so you can know and maybe relive your whole life and that is a scary fact.

Almost all medical professionals define death as the permanent stoppage of the heart, respiration, and brain activity. So wondering what your brain is doing after death doesn't really make sense: you're not dead until your brain is dead.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

It takes a while for your brain to stop working after you stop breathing. This is gradual brain death. It's entirely plausible to me that your unconscious perception of time is dilated during this period. It takes a little longer for your heart to stop beating which is cardiac death, unless cardiac death occurs first and suddenly via cardiac arrest then brain ischemia follows. Clinical death is when both the brain and heart are dead.

 

[MeltingHeart]

It takes a while for your brain to stop working after you stop breathing. This is gradual brain death. It's entirely plausible to me that your unconscious perception of time is dilated during this period. It takes a little longer for your heart to stop beating which is cardiac death, unless cardiac death occurs first and suddenly via cardiac arrest then brain ischemia follows. Clinical death is when both the brain and heart are dead.

hmm interesting-so I guess it depends which comes first-if you had brain 'death' first you may not have the same experience as if cardiac death occurs first...

 

[Deleted member 1465]

hmm interesting-so I guess it depends which comes first-if you had brain 'death' first you may not have the same experience as if cardiac death occurs first...

Cardiac death will probably be a massive pain followed by swift unconsciousness and then gradual brain death.
Anoxia or suffocation will cause gradual brain death first but your circulation will be collapsing at the same time.
Who really knows what you will feel. Some peoples who are revived say they felt very little after they were out. , some few report ndes.
Personally I doubt any of us will go through the process of death without experiencing something.

 

[Sha70]

Is their a link to support your theory?

 

[Fragile]

it also deppends on which method was used or what caused death.

for example substances that interact with gaba like N or benzos may give you an entire diffent death "experience" (if there even is one) from substances like SN or opiates.

this is a very interesting subject since there is not much research on it, i assume it is very difficult to know exactly what is happening inside the brain of someone already clinically dead and it is not exactly ethical to conduct such researches or experiments.

maybe @Underscore is right and our perception of time is greatly dilated. this will explain exactly where our concept of afterlife comes from, we will never know until it happens.

 

[Edward1]

But if you're going to ctb by falling into a deep sleep then unconsciousness none of that would matter.

 

[WhiteDespair]

I heard a theory that the life flashing before your eyes is the brain giving you happy thoughts to make death more acceptable.

 

[BlueWidow]

Doesn't it happen partly because all the chemicals in your body and all the electrical circuits in your brain are going crazy and firing all at once? I thought I read somewhere that you release massive amounts of endorphins and other "happy chemicals" when your brain is dying. I have read that that's part of the reason we have the sensation of our life is flashing before our eyes, or we see deceased loved ones, and that kind of thing.

 

[WhiteDespair]

Doesn't it happen partly because all the chemicals in your body and all the electrical circuits in your brain are going crazy and firing all at once? I thought I read somewhere that you release massive amounts of endorphins and other "happy chemicals" when your brain is dying. I have read that that's part of the reason we have the sensation of our life is flashing before our eyes, or we see deceased loved ones, and that kind of thing.

That sounds like the more complete version of what I heard. I can't tell you the source because I don't remember it. Probably something on TV.

 

[sleepy dog]

I heard a theory that the life flashing before your eyes is the brain giving you happy thoughts to make death more acceptable.

That is not logical. It assumes that the "life flashing before your eyes" was a "happy" one. Some people have never been happy. I am one of them.

 

[Jean4]

I heard a theory that the life flashing before your eyes is the brain giving you happy thoughts to make death more acceptable.

If my life flashed before my eyes, I would die in misery lol.

 

[WhiteDespair]

Maybe you see Terminator 2: Judgment Day on repeat?

 

[BlueWidow]

If my life flashed before my eyes, I would die in misery lol.

Though you usually hear about people who have positive experiences, I assume there must be people that don't have positive experiences, but you don't hear about that as often.

 

[MeltingHeart]

I heard a theory that the life flashing before your eyes is the brain giving you happy thoughts to make death more acceptable.

not happy-unless yr life was thou I guess-be awful to just recall all the bad/ sad memories-but then i do that all the time anyway!

 

[Kodama]

What? Is this what they call life "flashing before your eyes"? If so, I welcome it. I've had a really lovely life. It's the future I'm worried about.

Same for me :) Terrorized by my near future

 

[MeltingHeart]

Kinda interesting article-i wish it was more indepth-re, what happened to them-how long they were techinically 'dead' for etc. id love to read the whole thing

Your life really does flash before your eyes before you die, study suggests

Your life really does flash before your eyes when you die, a study suggests - with the parts of the brain that store memories last to be affected as other functions fail.

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Moon Flower]

I hope so, the whole reason I'm not going out by gunshot like my parents did is because I want that sweet sweet dmt trip

 

[Sweet emotion]

it takes 5 minutes for the brain to stop functioning after death during which time your brain perceives time completely differently so you can know and maybe relive your whole life and that is a scary fact.

It takes three minutes without oxygen before the brain starts to die. If you see your life flash before your eyes, none of us can tell you that because we're all still here and even if we were dead we couldn't tell you.

it takes 5 minutes for the brain to stop functioning after death during which time your brain perceives time completely differently so you can know and maybe relive your whole life and that is a scary fact.

It takes three minutes without oxygen before the brain starts to die. If you see your life flash before your eyes, none of us can tell you that because we're all still here and even if we were dead we couldn't tell you.