Near-death experiences involve clinically dead individuals perceiving verifiable real-world events
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 75/100
Clinical and systematic reviews of cardiac arrest survivors provide documented instances where individuals reported veridical awareness and perceptions of real-world events during periods of clinical death.
Evidence for · 2
Veridical Near-Death-Experiences: a systematic review
2022 · cited by 0
A systematic review of veridical near-death perceptions identified clinical cases reporting visual and auditory perceptions during cardiac arrest or general anesthesia.
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AWARE-AWAreness during REsuscitation-a prospective study.
2014 · cited by 0
A multi-center prospective study on awareness during resuscitation found that a small percentage of cardiac arrest survivors reported explicit recall of seeing and hearing actual events during periods when cerebral function was clinically undetectable.