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Patients with temporal lobe tumors noted to have vividly real hallucination superimposed over ordinary reality..
Case report - Girl having migrane headaches stated she had an intense headache & felt she had to lie down while pain she felt herself sucked out of body & into long tunnel she flouted to ceiling of her room looked down at herself all miserable & in pain. She then traveled into heavenly realm with bright colors seemed to be flowers saw a shining castle she did not encounter spiritual being or light she thought her mother would be sad if she would die & slayed in this realm so she made decision to return to her body. The neurological & physical exam were entirely benign Her EEG read by neurologist blinded for clinical details showing abnormal right temporal lobe activity.
NDE validates other death related visions including premonitions of death, pre-death vision, post death visitation. It is part of spiritual events which happen to the dying is mystical spiritual experience super imposed over ordinary reality.
Yale pediatric oncologist Diana Kamp reported children who had reported pre-death vision except experience occurred in dream, visions prayer infrequently brain dysfunctional at the time. 7 year old girl dying of leukemia sat up & said, “The angels, they are beautiful cant you hear them singing mummy” prior to death. Osis & Haroldson surveyed 5000 doctors & nurses in U.S. & collected pre-death visions similar to NDE. typically of brief duration.
Baretl, Doyle, Madrid, report that dying adults have marked increase in hallucination of opportunities in final week of life (1990 Shared spiritual experience with dying patients e.g. 1) An off duty nurse described a vivid dreams in which she accompanied one of her patients through tunnel into a spiritual light which occurred at the same time her patient died in hospital. She stated during dream, “We burst out into the open bright light all around us I felt incredibly peaceful & good then I thought I cant stay. It is not my time I have things to do I looked she had already become part of that white light.
2) A teenager girl shared dying experience of her brother who died when a car struck him while riding his bicycle she was at home when he was fatally injured. His mother was called at Harbor vies hospital in seattle & return home to tell her daughter she found her daughter sitting & stating that she was floating out of her body & in heavenly realm with her brother who show accident & death she was able to communicate with both her brother & her mother.
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