A Neuroscientist's Near Death Experience: What I Saw When I Died

A neuroscientist's near death experience: six years ago, after a long surgery, my heart stopped for three to five minutes. Here's what I saw, and what the science says.

I flatlined in the ICU, left my body, and watched my husband Mac bang on the door shouting that something was wrong. In this episode, my daughter Dominique and I talk through that experience, a shared death experience I had years later, and why so many researchers now say a dying, oxygen-starved brain can't explain what people report.

🔬 What you'll learn:

• What happens when you die, from someone who came back and studies consciousness for a living

• Why the oxygen deprivation and hallucination theories don't match what experiencers describe

• How nearly dying can take away the fear of death for good

• What a shared death experience is, and why the reports are so consistent

• How your mind drives your brain, and why that gives you more power than you realize

Want to hear more from Dominique? Follow her on substack: dominiqueleaf.substack.com

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📚 Research mentioned:

Dr. Raymond Moody, Life After Life

Dr. Bruce Greyson, After

Dr. Michael Egnor, The Immortal Mind

Dr. Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven Dr. Sam Parnia, AWARE-II study (Resuscitation, 2023)

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