Do persons who have near death experiences have experiences based on their particular belief system?

I was 10 I was having Catholic last Rites read to me and I saw my grandpa who died a year before I was born. We talked for a couple minutes before I was sucked back into the land of the living.

And Hindus would see figures from Hinduism
So, yes.

Constructed from the variety of an individual’s life experiences including their belief system, everyone has a unique mental universe. Near-death-experiences will always reflect this mental universe.

I believe that @Bill1939 is spot-on.
It stands to reason that our death will reflect our own unique mental universe.

I’m sure the subconscious will feed back whatever information it can. I study a lot of varied mythologies, and I’m sure any serious experience with DMT would involve everything from Buddha to a wise, one-eyed Odin and possibly Cu Chulainn picking cooked eel from a boiling lake.

Hallucinations don’t care whether someone actually believes in something.

I was almost run over by a reversing truck carrying margarine to the local store, I had a random religious moment when I yelled ”I can’t believe it’s not Buddha!!”
Spread the message pilgrim :D

There is a neuroscientist that was atheist before he had a near death experience. He was in a coma for several days and swears he went to heaven so he is now a devout christian. His name is Eban Alexander and he wrote a book about it called Proof of Heaven.

Different people have related seeing some different things, but there are also many similarities in the accounts, across religions. The forms of guide-like spirits tend to be from whatever such traditions the people have. Many near-death experiences though just involve floating around outside their body and seeing things.

There are many accounts of people accurately seeing things that were really there while their body was unconscious, even though the perspective was from up in the air above the body, wouldn’t have been visible from their body (or with their body due to deafness/blindness, etc).

@Zaku I seem to recall an experiment being done (and this was 30 – 40 years ago) where they put something up on a cabinet in various ER’s; the theory was if someone had an out-of-body experience where they were floating up to close to the ceiling that would be the only way it could be observed. They then interviewed those people who had been technically dead and brought back to life or who reported out-of-body experiences. As I recall of all the OEB’s they interviewed, none saw whatever it was on the cabinet.

All I know is I read half a dozen NDE’s on youtube daily and I’ve never read one of them that didn’t see, feel or “recognize” Jesus or God. A few saw angels. Not one I’ve read saw Allah or Buddha. In fact, 100% of the NDE people who were Atheists or Muslims beforehand saw or felt God and then became totally changed Christians. Many began painting, their temperaments changed , some have had public interviews, the ones involved in crime began a law abiding life, their whole lives changed for the better. I can’t help it. Never happened to me so defensiveness is not relevant.

@rojo I knew an Atheist about ten years ago who has a website entirely devoted to denouncing beliefs in Jesus or a Higher Power. He told me via email that , when his mother died, his cat could not stop staring at the ceiling. In fact, this dyed in the wool Atheist told me he is convinced his mother’s “soul” was up there looking down on her dead body.