Hiding pictures

[Nick]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7621608.stm

Some people report seeing a tunnel or bright light, others recall looking down from the ceiling at medical staff.

The study, due to take three years and co-ordinated by Southampton University, will include placing on shelves images that could only be seen from above.


To test this, the researchers have set up special shelving in resuscitation areas. The shelves hold pictures - but they're visible only from the ceiling.

I heard this on the radio and thought it was a joke. If I did ever have an "out of body experience" and wound up watcing myself being temporarily dead I f ind it hard to imagine that I would be also looking round the room for interesting pictures. Bt maybe I am not normal.

[Snoopy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7621608.stm

Some people report seeing a tunnel or bright light, others recall looking down from the ceiling at medical staff.

The study, due to take three years and co-ordinated by Southampton University, will include placing on shelves images that could only be seen from above.


To test this, the researchers have set up special shelving in resuscitation areas. The shelves hold pictures - but they're visible only from the ceiling.

I heard this on the radio and thought it was a joke. If I did ever have an "out of body experience" and wound up watcing myself being temporarily dead I f ind it hard to imagine that I would be also looking round the room for interesting pictures. Bt maybe I am not normal.

Would be interesting to hear the results though ~ at least it might prove things one way or another, but probably it will just lead to a lot of different questions.

[Uncle Mort]

I had an weird 'dream' when I was taken ill and ended up at death's doorstep.

I felt that went 'somewhere' - a huge (infinite?) place that had a grid-like feel to it. While I was there I seemed to know what life (and death) was all about. It was an odd feeling but calming. Then I seemed to get a choice of staying or going back. I chose to leave.

The doctor's told me that at the time I was given a 20% chance of surviving through the night.

It was very 'real' and the sense of knowing was unbelievably strong.

I put it down to the cocktail of drugs they were pumping in me.

[Nick]

You were in Terminal 5 and I claim my £5

[Uncle Mort]

If so it was a premonition as it happened in 1990.

[Nick]

Premonitions also happen!

I had a floating about he ceiling thingy once, but it was only at the dentists 

[Grumpmeister]

Bt maybe I am not normal.

 

Leaving the obvious comment aside. Of course people are going to have these experiences, they are ingrained into our psyche having been told about them for years now. All it takes is the effects of the anaesthetic, or pain relief medication to loosen your grasp on reality and it doesnt take much for the memory to become a dream or a hallucination.

I have a hunch that in some cases during surgery this happens because the patient has been given enough anaesthetic to let them reach a state where their subconscious can have a direct effect on them but they are still awake and this is a defense mechanism that protects them from the horrific reality that they are still away when they are being cut into.

[Nick]

 

[Uncle Mort]

Double plus 

But you're probably right.

[Nick]

So it's drugs then. Must ask my BiL. Devout Catholic and Consultant Anaesthetist

[Uncle Mort]

The time I had surgery under anaesthetic I remember absolutely nothing after being asked to count to waking up in ITU.

That's nothing, nil, zilch, nada, no sense of time passing at all.

Did I exist for that period of time?

[Nick]

Do you exist when you are asleep?

[Uncle Mort]

 

Not sure about that.

What about the Star Trek transporter thingie. If you're disassembled and then reassembled somewhere else where did your consciousness go during the trip?

[Nick]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TYt44fvt3Hk&feature=related

 

[Uncle Mort]

Blank screen?