Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during death and suggests an explanation for vivid life recall in near-death experiences.

    • Cloudless ☼OP
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      171 year ago

      Sounds like it:

      “Through generating oscillations involved in memory retrieval, the brain may be playing a last recall of important life events just before we die, similar to the ones reported in near-death experiences,” Zemmar speculated.

      • mifan
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        301 year ago

        Perhaps the brain - in a last attempt to save its life - searches every situation that it has ever experienced to try to find survival tips.

            • @[email protected]
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              71 year ago

              It’s the credits screen.

              YOUR LIFE

              Written and directed by George Lucas

              Etc etc you get it

            • @Cheez
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              deleted by creator

              • @afraid_of_zombies
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                11 year ago

                Jesus, I think of that episode way too much. Mine would be some corporate suit who doesn’t know how to do anything except look good for meetings, dumb as dogshit, a total yes-man, got his job because of his dad, hates children, and was prissy.

                Patrick Bateman sans violence.

        • @grabyourmotherskeys
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          81 year ago

          I was caught in a rip current, in close to zero Celsius salt water, with significant waves as a teenager. My wetsuit was inadequate, to say the least, and my surfboard was lost because the leash failed (think of it as a flotation device).

          I was sure I was going to die. I didn’t. But, yeah, every single second of my life was screaming through my brain while I pleaded with any force in the universe to save me.

          I eventually got control of my breathing and swam across the rip and let the waves take me in. I was cold for a long time.

          That was my first time surfing. Wasn’t my last but I learned a lot that day.

          The that took me there and loaned me the gear didn’t even go in the water (said he was right behind me).

        • peopleproblems
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          51 year ago

          Where it will promptly remember I did fuck all and survived

      • Tb0n3
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        I can certainly see this as evolutionarily beneficial. When you’re on the verge of dying and you suddenly have a recall of a lot of your experiences in life it may lead to you being able to survive.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I can’t believe I haven’t heard of that before! I thought my memory was just ordinarily bad, but reading about it I definitely have that.