Ketamine and the near-death experience.
The Journal of near-death studies January 1, 1984 Debora Rogo 39 citations
The near-death experience (NDE) shares its phenomenology with experiences induced by ketamine, an anesthetic used medically and recreationally. Surveys suggest NDE-type hallucinations from ketamine are common. The parallels can be explained by several models: the NDE as a chemically induced hallucination similar to ketamine's effects; ketamine inducing objective out-of-body experiences; ketamine-linked NDEs arising from expectancy and hospital settings; or the NDE as an archetypal experience triggered by various situations. Each theory has strengths and weaknesses.