Anyone who has suffered a near death experience claims to remember feeling the sensation of being pulled toward a light.Any theories on exactly what this light may represent?

Onset of brain shutting down due to lack of oxygen? I read somewhere deep sea divers experience the same thing when resurfacing too quickly..

I’ve heard it’s a natural physiological reaction that happens when your body starts to shut down. I’ll try to find links for that.

I had a near death experience and I saw the light… it was pretty crazy.

@Likeradar & @nisse Cheers.

Could it be just a “figment of our imagination”? After a whole lifetime of hearing about a “light” when you’re about to die, I think it would make sense.

could just be a natural response of the brain in crisis mode; tunnel vision with altered mental state and chemical imbalance.

@ChocolateReigns Yeah agree kinda like subliminal messages.

the “light” is usually referred to as “heaven”... I’ve never experienced near-death, but I do know that people have died and been “brought back to life” and been able to explain everything that went on.

my alternative theory is that “the light” may just be a figment of the imagination or a voice ‘conciense’ that is telling the victim to walk toward the light.

Have heard it’s the brain going through it’s shutdown process.
However the brain shutting down does not explain the choir I heard singing with my near death experience.
Which for a 4 year old was much to sophisticated, detailed and eloquent. Music I had never heard in all the 4 years of my life. So IDK

Supposedly, the bright light is what happens when your optic nerve shuts down before the brain does. Like the freaky lines you get on a monitor when you yank the cable out before turning it off.

@JessicaisinLove Interesting very interesting.

Brain chemistry and neural wiring.

How like us to look for a meaning and, not finding one, to invent one. That’s how we came up with religion.

I sometimes hear what seems to be amazing ethereal music of choirs as I am falling asleep. It seems to be an auditory equivalent of the gorgeous colors and patterns (not just geometric shapes but fantastic visions) I see in the same state. I think that’s brain chemistry too. I’m not dying, though, just drifting off.

Its what your brains sees when your eyes are not working…its what I saw when I feel in a river and got caugth under the ice.

@ucme along with the music was incredible peace. After being rescued from the water I just wanted to go back and said so. I was being held down at the time, was told I couldn’t go back. I looked back (kinda sideways) at the raft anchored in the lake, the area where I went under. It seemed so far away.

@JessicaisinLove Certainly something to ponder. Cheers for answering.

I had a near-death experience years ago and only saw red. Oh wait, that was when I got laid off from a job.

I saw no such thing in my near-death experience. Is that because I’m an atheist, or was it just because I was hammered?