Hallucinations Disproved?

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Sat, 04/26/2008 - 02:02
Andrei

Join Date: 2007-08-26
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For those skeptics who have merely tried to explain NDE's are hallucinations.........would this not apply to those who use drugs as they too experience hallucinations like the skeptical psychologist Dr Susan Blackmore who herself reported leaving her body when using drugs some time back? However, there is one great difference between the drug user and the clinically dead person.......the clarity/vividness of such an experience, the life changing events in which people have had a new focus of what to do with their life, such details recorded during the experience, and not forgeting one of the most important areas experience such as overwhelinig loving emotions and what they have seen. If such an experience really WAS drug induced, would not all drug users, or many of them have found a way of boosting their life through these experiences? These are merely ideas which I chewed over a bit.

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Sat, 04/26/2008 - 04:22
Red

Join Date: 2008-03-04
Forum Posts: 50

Andrei,

Thanks for posting this as I have questioned these points many times myself. It is interesting to point ot that some studies indicate that the same
areas of the brain that are stimulated during an LSD trip are also stimulated at the time of death.

Red

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 01:39
Elisabeth

Join Date: 2004-02-05
Forum Posts: 215

I imagine out-of-body ish sensations can be produced from some drugs and some scientists take this as a evidence that if someone feels like they have left their physical body, it is either drugs or just their brain chemistry playing tricks on them. Flawed logic, imo.

I've never taken drugs myself but I suppose if someone had a good experience with drugs, it might just drive them to take more, rather than inspire them to change their lives around.

Liz