Life after death: What happens when you die? Does the mind know you are dying?

Bruce Greyson, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, also said the seems to be an increase in brain activity during an NDE, which “suggests that the mind is not what the brain does.”

Dr Greyson also said people who have NDEs believe it is “realer than real”.

He said: “We asked people who had come close to death to rate their memories of the event, and also of real events which had happened around the same time.

“What we found, for those people who had NDEs, the near death experience was remembered with more clarity and detail, more context and more intense feelings than real events around the same time period.

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