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What are the common effects experienced during a Near Death Experience and the after-effects post NDE?

It is very hard to describe a Near Death Experience and even find the right language to articulate your feelings or experience. Many people have very profound experiences that change and shape the rest of their lives. Some experiences are very seemingly mundane but still have a profound effect. There are many scientific reasonings and arguements about what Near Death Experiences are, what causes them and what we define as consciousness when you are clinically dead. Regardless of all these ongoing debates, your experience will feel very real to you. The physical, mental and emotional changes after an NDE can sometimes be quite daunting. Some people find that their bodies have somehow been "reset" after being exposed to a strong "light source" reported by many experiencers as thousands of times brighter than the sun but comfortable to look at. Illness and diseases sometimes disappear and the electromagnetic make-up of a body can be completely "rewired" in a person who has had a Near Death Experience. This is often linked to being exposed to this "light source" that is so common throughout many reported experiences. These are just the physical manifestations of an NDE - the mental and emotional changes are often more marked - especially if you experienced a "life review", had an awareness of how your actions impacted others or if you went through some sort of judgement process. Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of the effects experienced during a Near Death Experience and most importantly the after-effects unique to an NDE - similar to other PTSD symptoms...

Physical during NDE:

• Viewing your death during your NDE from above or the ceiling or other out of body sensations
• Moving towards or seeing a bright light during your NDE
• Your life flashing before your eyes during an NDE
• Experiencing your life from the viewpoint of every other person you encountered
• Passing through a light or dark tunnel, crossing through dimensions or vortexes
• Coming to a boundary (gate, door, river, bridge) - awareness of the "point of no return"
• Weightlessness or flying
• Hearing "heavenly" or "other-worldly" music

Mental during NDE:

• All encompassing knowledge or understanding
• Communicating telepathically or psychically with "light beings", deceased loved ones or a "light source"
• Inexplicable imparted knowledge impossible to know otherwise
• Information about future events or premonitions
• Timelessness
• Being shown a "life review", jusgement process or assessment of your actions
• Awareness of a "supreme presence" or a neutral and loving entity

Emotional during NDE:

• Overwhelming feeling of peace and love
• Complete anguish or fear of a negative presence or energy
• Panic or fear at having to return to body
• Remorse, anguish, pain or regret regarding your life

Physical post NDE:

• Involuntary return to the body following resuscitation or medical intervention
  
• Strong electromagnetic change in physical body
• Electrical items frequently fail or pop
• Lights buzz, pulse or dim
• Hyper-photosensitivity (sensitivity to light)
• Heightened senses or colours appear brighter and more vivid
• Sharper or more accute hearing and overwhelmed by noise
• Seeing "energy fields" or "auras"
• Suddenly, or uncharacteristically, much more physically affectionate or seemingly flirtatious

Mental post NDE:

• Premonitions, vivid or lucid dreaming
  
• Increased psychic ability
• Time and space is experienced as distorted, malleable or negotiable
• Feeling abnormal, isolated or "other worldly"
• Strong connection with or being able to "talk" with animals
• Unable to communicate or verbalise your NDE
• Traumatising guilt or remorse following a "life review" or judgement process
• Dealing with inexplicable knowledge passed on by a deceased loved one or "entity"
• Sudden, or uncharacteristic, move away from atheistic or religious philosophies
• Existential or psychological breakdown, fractured belief systems

Emotional post NDE:

• Suddenly, or uncharacteristically, very loving to all beings, overly trusting, childlike or innocent
  
• Regretful, guilty or remorseful
• Anger, grief, panic or rage at having to return to your life or body
• Profound change of value system and morals
• Discarding of religious teachings or background
• Intense uptake of personal interpretations of spirituality
• Wanting to terminate relationships or considering divorce
• Unable to shed or break away from old lifestyle
• Feelings of solitude, loneliness or despair
• Suicidal thoughts