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What if you could experience someone else’s death…without being the one who was dying?
For centuries, people across cultures have reported something far stranger than a traditional near death experience: shared death experiences (SDEs). Healthy, conscious people (including doctors, nurses, family members, and even people thousands of miles away) have described witnessing or experiencing phenomena seemingly connected to someone in the process of dying.
But how is that possible?
Some witnesses report seeing hovering apparitions, mysterious lights, mist, sounds, or even figures seemingly guiding the dying person into another realm. In some cases, multiple people in the same room claim to witness the same phenomenon.
Are these experiences hallucinations? A psychological response to grief? Something science hasn’t yet explained? Or could they point to something much deeper about consciousness, death, and what happens when we die?
And then there are the experiences that happen after death.
People who report after-death communication experiences sometimes say they have perceived a deceased loved one as being healthy, peaceful, and fully present in what feels like a new environment. Others report receiving a specific message, sign, or unmistakable sense that their loved one is still somehow connected to them.
For those who experience them, these encounters can be profoundly comforting, sometimes helping people process grief, accept the death of someone they love, and completely rethink their understanding of the afterlife and what happens to consciousness after death.
But are these simply experiences created by the grieving mind—or could they represent something more?
We’ll also revisit near-death experiencers and NDE researchers previously featured on the podcast to hear their perspectives on shared death experiences and what these accounts might tell us about consciousness, death, and the possibility of an existence beyond this life.
In this episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, we explore the fascinating and controversial world of shared death experiences and ask questions that challenge the way we think about death, and perhaps even life itself.You don’t have to be the one dying to experience death!
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Dr. Raymond Moody Footage Copyright: Paul Perry
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00:00 – Intro
00:47 – What is a Shared Death Experience?
02:40 – Dr. Raymond Moody & The Evidence
10:21 – Jeff Olson Crash Case
13:28 – Skepticism
19:06 – Cross Cultural Research
24:16 – Annie Capp
25:54 – Nurses Witness The Veil
27:55 – Death Doula Group Vision
30:17 – Ancient Cross Cultural Evidence
32:07 – Science Meets NDE Data
33:52 – Coco & Ancestor Memory
36:26 – After Death Communication
39:46 – Why Messages Feel Positive
41:17 – Shared Psychosis Skepticism
46:20 – Death is Not the End
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Imagine how all the people who have committed atrocities on others and made them suffer, in the millions if not hundreds of millions or billions, will feel when they have their life review! I'm thinking of certain people who are in the Epstein files.
Days after my physically/emotionally/psychologically abusive mother died in 1993, I had a nightmare of her chasing me out of the family home, and down the street. She was a couple feet behind me, angrily trying to get close enough to beat me. Outrunning her merely further angered her. Her explosive temper terrified me, even as an adult.
This dream left me wondering whether a deceased person acknowledges or recognizes their abusive behavior. And if so, what do they, if anything, do about it in their afterlife?
I’ll explain it in one easy sentence. They are talking shit
My sister-in-law saw my aunt leaning over the crib of my 5-month-old nephew in North Carolina at the same time that aunt was dying in a hospital in West Virginia. She was checking on the baby and saying goodbye.
I’ve had several of these. Once I had my friends mother who lived in England come to me and give me a message for my friend. I contacted my friend and told her that what I felt her mother telling me and she freaked out because her mother had just died that day and she hadn’t told anyone yet. I had no idea. I thought she might have been ill when I reached out. This friend and I only talk about once every 6 months or so. While on the phone with her, her mom also showed me strawberries. I told my friend she is showing me strawberries and she said that the last couple weeks of her life the only thing they could get her to eat or drink were these strawberry shakes and they had to be strawberry. That was another confirmation she was giving to my friend. My friend is an atheist who doesn’t believe in any of this stuff, so I love that her mom came with so many messages for her that made her now open to the idea of life after death.
Also, I was a nanny while I was in college and one night I woke up in the middle of the night at 3am and felt something was wrong with the baby of the family I nanny for. A few hours later, as soon as I knew the family would be awake, I called to check if the baby was ok and they said they had to take him to the ER at 3am because he was struggling to breath. They were shocked that I sensed that he was in distress. Motherly instincts can be like shared death experiences.
Contrary to the statement @46:22, I had a friend who had a NDE and who afterward attempted suicide because he wanted to go back.
Perhaps a shared death experience is what I had when my grandfather passed. I never knew until now that it may be something like this. When he passed, I dreamt (what I always assumed was dreaming) of him and we were in his kitchen saying goodbye. I gave him a hug, and it was so real – I felt every bone in his body. He’d lost a lot of weight while ill. He looked well though, energetic and happy. As we hugged, a light suddenly surged until it flooded my vision. At the light’s brightest, there was something like, a ringing but not a ringing? I’m not sure how to describe it, and then I woke up be went back to bed a few minutes later. When I got up for school that morning, my mom told me he’d passed. I was left pretty dumbfounded.
It's kind of amusing when you note that all these accounts are anecdotal, which is a common criticism of spiritual experiences that are shared by those who have had them. It's hard to imagine how they could not be anecdotal. You can't after all set up the lab experiment where people are dying and others are planted there in expectation that they will have a shared death experience! Sometimes the evidence comes in a form conditioned by the nature of the phenomenon. And the explanation is bound to not be scientific in the traditional sense by definition. It's important that science learn to accept what it cannot explain.
You guys, I had to pause yot podcast to tell you. I literally thought I was the only one. So. I'm Jewish and it matters bc we know we get " recycled " bc Toyra sais so. My grandma got to Maimonidis , Brooklyn, NY in very bad condition. The woman doctor told me a story of horrifying end of life complications that will take place. I was my grandma's medical proxy. I took it in, I went home, I got a call from the hospital that my grandma ( my heart and soul, my biggest support and my soul mate) died. I rushed there and she was in the corridor on a stretcher, nobody paying attention to her. I screamed so loud the dead woke up in this place. I felt someone squeezed my hand that was on my grandma's chest and told me that I know better than this. I looked up and saw a woman who resembled grandma. The woman told me she was tired and she will stick around till I take over. She ordered me to to get myself together and at this point I remembered her, my great grandmother. So I called all doctors and told them to do to my grandma what they would do for theirs. So they made sure she is properly cared for. I took her home and she was with us for another year and a half feeling us with wisdom and commitments to my kids. Super fancy celebrations of everything. But I witnessed clearly the time when my grandma was in ICU talking to me and her mother same time. We never lost connection, I miss her physical presence of course but I learned, istead of calling, I just talk out loud and I know, I saw that it works like that. Well, maybe bc I'm Jewish and this is something we know happens. But literally seeing, being a witness to the miracle was amazing. Baruh Hashem, wishing everyone till 120.
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I think Jonathan has it partially discerned with breaking a normal barrier with the intensity of the emotion ♥️
This is a skewed view, new age, sterilized, clean feel good view of the topic, the reality is that many die in absolut terror, shadow people, demoniac entities around them, hell visions etc. If you remove God from your house, don't expect God to receive you in His Kingdom. Why gamble with your eternity in hell, take a couple of minutes and in spirit and truth seek Jesus Christ, talk to Him in humility, ask Him what's really in your heart.
If I had a quarter for every time she says the word ‘notion’….
this is all a bunch of bullshit
Funny thought. Somewhere in the Bible it states "let the dead bury the dead". ❤❤❤
I have a bad habit of predicting or knowing when family members are dead or dying before anyone else and I can’t talk to my family about it because they are strict christians
Allah says every human will taste death amen.
I had just woke up and my grandfather was sort of in my minds eye smiling at me, almost laughing, overjoyed, and telepathically told me he has finally passed (he was 90) and all is okay. I was literally giggling when my mother (his daughter) called me… I picked up the phone and said “did papa pass just a few minutes ago?” And she passed the phone to my dad cause I freaked her out. Lol. It was so comforting. When my dad passed I wasn’t there in the room but he came on the walk I had the next morning with the dog.
He’s now closed waiting on my mother who has dementia. Shes not too close I don’t think but she sees so many people and thinks they all live in my room. It’s disturbing and frustrating when she asks me where I am. But I know dad will be there and papa to take care of her. My dad and papa were not religious. They believed in God but both were serious logical rational men that didn’t say I love you or hug … and this happened with them. So fascinating
When my mother passed away she was in hospice my granddaughter was there in the room playing she was 2 yrs old she stopped playing looked around to a door that lead outside a glass door she pointed to the door and said angels took grandma to heaven it was right as my mother took her last breath my granddaughter didn’t know my mother just took her last breath it really was amazing.
total BS and delusional
Has anyone recorded these experiences?
Thank you for speaking about this on your podcast! It’s reality and naysayers need to open their minds to the data. Those of us who know these truths are not crazy. It’s truth.
Dr O'driscle… I heard that and immediately thought of RDR2 🤔 (those who know)
My best childhood friend visited me (mentally) on the 3rd anniversary of his death. I didn’t even know he had died. A couple months later I got ahold of his number in Texas and found out he had died 3 years prior…on the exact date I had had that conversation with him in my mind. So much to tell, but in a comment section of a video it just doesn’t do it justice.
My daughter has been a CNA for fifteen years. She's worked in alzheimer's facilities, convalescent homes, retirement homes, covid wards, the emergency room at Harborview in Seattle, and is currently works in a hospital ICU. She has been there at the passing of countless people, especially during the pandemic.
She's a compassionate, empathic young woman and non-theistic spiritual atheist. (Yes there is such a thing.)
She has seen and experienced things… And they weren't in her imagination!
I'm a sensitive/intuitive/empathic atheist who had an NDE as a child, and I've seen some things. And they aren't in my imagination.
There is so much more to this universe than we can quantify or explain.