Near Braindead Experiences

I am angered that there is any shroud of mystery around “NDE’s” aka Near Death Experiences.  Really?  Are people that fucking stupid?

Let’s review.  There is overwhelming evidence that people have very similar experiences with NDEs; there are similarities, tunnels, lights at the end of it, floating above themselves.  There is also a consistent corollary, that most of them are completely inaccurate when reporting about what they “saw” that is usually up and out of their view. 

You know that many hospitals actually put random things above cabinets and such, so should someone have an out of body experience, so if someone actually does float up, they’d be compelled to say “HEY! I actually saw this thing up there!”  You know what? NO ONE HAS EVER IDENTIFIED ANY OF THOSE. 

Never.

Not once.

So, back to what we do know.  Similar experiences, phenomena, visions… what does this tell us?  You might say “well, it just seems suspicious, doesn’t it? I mean, why would they all report the same things, even those people that aren’t aware of what other people reported??” 

It just seems like the most classic logical error of evaluating the evidence you have and jumping to an unsupported conclusion.  The only thing those common experiences prove… is that you’re using the same instrument to measure.  You’re using a human; a human brain.  You’re a vessel with limited but similar capacity to interact with your reality. 

Think of yourself as a measuring device, such as a device to detect Gamma rays.  You cannot use that device as a barometer (unless you’re MacGyver I guess).  You don’t use a scale to measure volume.  You do not check temperature to identify chemical makeup.  A human brain, in it’s seemingly infinite capacity but actually ability, is really just a device with limited applications and functions.  Tunneled vision isn’t out of this world, it’s something commonly found in exhaustion or head injuries.  The out of body experience isn’t evidence of a soul or of heaven, it’s a very likely transmutation of consciousness to dreaming in which our brain confuses and disorients us.   

How often has one dreamt of flying?  Or falling? That jump when you startle yourself awake feeling your dream-self pancake into the ground?  How often do you day dream?  When you’re tired, do you feel you see more random things out of the corner of your eye?  The shadows you drive past seem like a dog or animal, yet there’s nothing there? Your “eye plays tricks” on you? You’re going to trust your perception at a moment of severe trauma, more than you rely on your brain when you’re simply tired?  Really??

The fact that one can trick their own brain should be reason enough not to trust it.  Give it a placebo and it totally runs with it.  

It drives me insane that there is actually money and funding being wasted on such a stupid, asinine conjecture.  It’s another example of ascribing a religious nature to something without any proof that such an attribute has any logical bearing on religion, whatsoever, rather than study what is obviously at issue, the brain.  The brain gasping on too little oxygen, or feeble support systems, injury, a dream like state of delirium, or just choking on the unbearable claustrophobia of an intellectual midget.  Why would anyone assume evidence of anything else when we know enough about the mysterious brain to know every single element of a NDE is consistent with trickery of the mind.

It’s not evidence of a light at the end of a tunnel you buffoon, it’s evidence that however uselessly, you still possess a brain.