Designing a "Near-Death Experience" Reality Testing System.

Near-death experiences often involve a vivid sense of leaving the physical body. The AWARE research projects tested whether consciousness during such events is cerebral or extracerebral by placing images in CPR areas and later asking survivors about them. A new complementary system has been designed with a transmitter connected to an electroshock device and a receiver connected to a monitor. Laboratory experiments showed the system's connections were systematically organized. Unlike the AWARE projects, this system uses unfixed, dynamic images, timed movie capacity, and automatic activation, and it also records ambient sounds. After successful resuscitation, researchers will ask about those sounds, enabling more detailed study of environmental and bodily events during the phenomenon.

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Abstract

"Near-death experiences (NDEs)" are usually depicted with a vivid perception of departure from the physical body and being in a distinctive spatial and temporal area setting. There are challenges to whether consciousness during this phenomenon is cerebral or extracerebral? To investigate this subject further, the AWARE research projects were designed. It was a research milestone in this field. During the AWARE projects, images were put in the cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) area. The person with experience of leaving the body was then asked about the nature of the images. In a recent project, a complementary system was designed that contains two main parts: a transmitter connected to the electroshock (as starter) and a receiver connected to the monitor. The laboratory experiment showed that the connection between the parts of the system was systematically and meticulously organized. This new system, such as the AWARE projects, is based on the perception of the visual and auditory elements, during the out-of-body experience component of the NDE but, unlike the AWAREs, it has three main differences in testing of visual elements: unfixed/dynamic images, "timed" movie's capacity, and the automatic activation. Also this system, records the ambient sounds.So, after the successful resuscitation, researchers will be asked about the ambient sounds specification. The new system records the ambient sounds. Consequently, it becomes feasible to study environmental and corporeal events in more detail, during the phenomenon.