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Old 03-26-2018, 03:54 AM  
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Out of body, white light at end of tunnel solved.

Was listening to NPR radio yesterday and the US military was investigating why they were having a lot of crashes when training Air force pilots. There was like 9 crashes in one year so they started investigating what was going on.

Turns out in high G maneuvers the brain can "lose sense" of the body. At the edge of black out the brain can lose its contact with the body meaning your brain gets confused and doesn't know what is going on so it attempts to recreate what it believes is happening. This can last from just a few seconds to 30 seconds.

In some people they might have about of body experance, other people might see the tunnel with the white light at the end others might experance some random encounter as your brain tries to recreate what it thinks is happening so it replays a memory..

Seems this is the same thing people see in near death experiences where they claim to be out of their body. Turns out it's just the brain not knowing what is going on not some Jesus experance.

Thanks science.
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