NDEs - What happens during an Near Death Experience, for the "Experiencer"— the person having it?

My mother had an NDE when she was giving birth to my sister (mind you my sister was a pretty large baby and she should have had a caesarian). She said that she felt peaceful and could see a bright light. She didn't say much else other than to tell me that I should never tell my sister that she nearly died giving birth to her.

I've personally had an 'nde-like' experience before I went into surgery. I felt calm, protected and at peace, as well as that my surgery would be fine (it wasn't a major surgery though). I also got the impression that I would be let known when I was going to die. It might have just been the codeine they gave me hours before.

Supernatural or not, people do experience these things.

I'll use this space to write a summary of what people said:

Most seemed have these Assumptions: You will experience things from the religion or belief system that was "drilled into your head" during your childhood. The cause is: From Oxygen Deprivation, releasing DMT (dimethyltryptamine,) producing hallucinations.

FEELINGS DURING NDE:

Peace, peaceful, intense peace, well being, calm, protected, spacey, floaty.

COMMUNICATION DURING NDE: Was reassured surgery will go well. Was informed she would be told when it's time for her to die.

SEE DURING NDE: Bright light, white light. "Hallucinations" (undefined) Angels, looking like people from the culture you come from, Jesus, God, Heaven, also depending on your culture. One grandfather's NDE included being abducted by aliens.

My comment: From the many NDEs I've read, there were many features that were not mentioned. People don't know much about what people experience during NDEs. I think this is probably because they have not actually read them much. People read what other people say about NDEs and that's how they learn what they do know. On YA R&S, people who believe NDEs are "real" are not respected as intelligent. Note that two people who experienced NDEs does not say it was real and yet most people who have NDEs do have the impression that they are real, not like an hallucination or a dream in any way.

Well you have the known effects of oxygen deprivation to the brain--but those effects can vary a lot amongst people; then you have the cultural intrusions into the NDE---you don't hear about a white American from Montana experiencing little brown angels speaking Spanish.

It depends on the individual and their views in life. When the brain is deprived of oxygen, either through trauma or death, it releases a powerful psychotropic chemical called dimethyltriptomine. It produces hallucinations for some, just intense peace and well being for others, and both for yet others. It is the ULTIMATE trip. For god believers, there's a good chance they'll see Jesus or heaven or God or something similar (depending on flavor of religion) because that has been drilled into them.

I had an NDE and just saw some white light and felt kind of spacey and floaty. My grandad had an NDE and in his experience, he was abducted by aliens.

I had a NDE where I overdosed on meds and was sent to the Hospital. I didn't experience anything.

Someone is likely to experience what they believe in. If someone has drilled into their head that a heaven or hell exists, then the chemical that causes NDE's, dimethylripomine, will cause them to have a hallucination and/or peace. If they have a hallucination, it will be one of something they believe happens to them if they fail to wake up from that near-death state.