What happens inside your brain in a near-death experience? Why do so many people describe a tunnel, a bright light, their life flashing by, and floating above their own body?
In this animated story, we follow one stick-figure through the brain’s final surge, a burst of electrical activity that scientists have recorded, and look at what researchers think may explain the tunnel, the light, the memories and the peace.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The hungriest organ you own
0:30 When the brain runs low on fuel
1:30 The Final Surge
2:30 The Tunnel and the Light
3:30 Life flashbacks and floating
4:40 What science thinks (and what it doesn’t know yet)
What we cover:
• Why the brain uses so much energy
• What the “gamma surge” is
• Why vision narrows into a tunnel
• Why memories may come flooding back
• Why people feel like they leave their body
• Why so many describe deep peace
This is an educational, animated explainer. Science on this topic is still developing and there is no single agreed explanation. Nothing here is medical advice.
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