A study found that people can remain conscious even after they are dead.
Researchers found that some patients retained some level of consciousness after their heart stopped beating.
The findings were published in an article published in the medical journal Resuscitation and looked at 2,060 cases of cardiac arrest.
One of the men interviewed by the researchers remembered exactly how the doctors performed his resuscitation.
In the study it is stated: The patient described his experience, who says that he saw the whole incident of his resuscitation by the doctors from another corner of the room. He accurately described the people, sounds and activities from his resurrection , according to The Mirror.
The man told researchers: I was talking to the nurse and then all of a sudden, I wasn't. Up in the corner of the room was a woman beckoning me. I remember thinking to myself, “I can't go up there”… she beckoned me… I felt like she knew me, I felt like I could trust her and I felt like she'd been there for a while but I didn't know what it was. And the next second, I was up there, looking at myself, the nurse, and another man who was bald. I couldn't see his face, but I could see the back of his body. He was a fat boy. The next thing I remember is waking up in bed.
Of the 2,060 cases included in the 2014 study, 330 patients survived their cardiac arrests and left the hospital. Although many could not remember what happened to them, some clearly remembered their ordeal.
Nine of them had "near-death experiences" and two reported visual awareness during their cardiac arrests.
The introduction to the study stated: While near-death experiences are reported by 10% of cardiac arrest survivors, the overall broader cognitive and mental experiences associated with cardiac arrests, as well as awareness, and the relationship between actual cardiac arrest events and hearing and auditory and visual memory of events has not been studied.
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of awareness and the wide range of mental experiences during resuscitation. The secondary aim was to investigate the possibility of creating a new methodology to test the accuracy of reports of visual and auditory perception and awareness during cardiac arrests.