Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are unusual psychological phenomena provoked by a brush with death, such as feelings of immense joy or out-of-body experiences. A new pair of studies explores the ...

Understanding near-death experiences In their new paper, Greyson and Pehlivanova outline many facets of NDEs that the NEPTUNE model—and neurophysiology more broadly—still cannot explain. For example, ...

As many as 10 percent of us have had what we think is a near-death experience, which, doing the math, that’s a lot – roughly 36 million in the U.S. alone.

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...