A female identified only as C.D has described the incredible experience she believes happened to her on the operating table more than 40 years ago. C.D told of her time what she thinks occurred following issues with a surgical to the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) blog.
In 1978, while undergoing surgery for a blood clot in her head, the woman experienced something numerous others have in similar situations.
She said: “I went out of my body. Saw the doctors around working on me during surgery.
“I went through a tunnel really fast. I was in a wonderful light. I saw a bridge.
Across the bridge were people I knew who had died, like my father who had died less than a year before this.
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She said: “Then after a while, a voice said I had to go back. It wasn’t my time.
“I had things to do. My dad’s face dropped. He looked sad.
“I said I didn’t want to go back. I was crying.
“Then like an instant. I went back through the tunnel and I was back in my body.”
One such landmark scientific research was lead by Dr Jimo Borjigin in 2013 which studied the brain activity in dying rats.
He said in a statement at the time: ”This study, performed in animals, is the first dealing with what happens to the neurophysiological state of the dying brain.
“We reasoned that if near-death experience stems from brain activity, neural correlates of consciousness should be identifiable in humans or animals even after the cessation of cerebral blood flow.”
Surprisingly high level of gamma frequency brain activity was observed, leading the scientists to conclude, “at near-death, many known electrical signatures of consciousness exceeded levels found in the waking state, suggesting the brain is capable of well-organised electrical activity during the early stage of clinical death.”