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From: jimo@phred.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: NDEs
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 17:58:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 21 17:58:32 1986
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Keywords: lucid dreaming

In article <7775@tekecs.TEK.COM> mikes@tekecs.TEK.COM (Michael Sellers) writes:
>     [discussion of a book on near-death experiences]
>...  While he was "dead" (no pulse, respiration, BP),
>he had a series of supernatural encounters...
>I have heard several different theories regarding NDEs, all of which seem
>at best lame attempts to shoo away that which defies all rational explanation
>within the world as we know it...

It would be interesting to have EEG data for these experiences.
Steven Laberge, in Lucid Dreaming, postulates that the near-death
experience is really a lucid dream.  If the data were similar to
REM sleep, it would seem to support this claim.  Most NDEs
probably occur in circumstances where it's difficult to record
an EEG, however...

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