Re:The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
by c3534l on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:59AM
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I remember hearing about a study where they placed placards on top of cabinets and such in the operating room. When a person said they had a near-death experience during surgery and saw themselves from above, the experimenters asked them what the letter was on the placard. Not surprisingly patients didn't know.
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Re:The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
by ggg9990 on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:23AM
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Not sure why that study needed to be done, as it proved nothing. You can imagine yourself from above without actually having a camera 8 feet over your head.
Re:The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
by ocdtrekkie on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:45AM
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Can you imagine how interesting the results would've been if they HAD known the letter? A lot of scientific studies seem stupid, sometimes they have unexpected results.
Re:The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
by c3534l on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:13PM
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It's also super cheap to do as far as medical studies go.
Re:The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
by jobigoud on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:41AM
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Some people think the out-of-body experience is actually them floating outside of their body in the real world and seeing reality happen in real time from a third person point of view. It disproved that.
Re:The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
by NotSammyHagar on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:10AM
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the point of the study was that people claim these imaginations of floating about the table were 'proof' of near death experiences, or out of body exp., but inability to read the cards was to show they probably were not really doing that, they were just imaginging that. It's a way to counter the 'how could someone imagine that'. thing.