NDE
Almost dying experience
NDE stands for near-death experience—the phenomenon reported by people who come close to death or are briefly clinically dead before being revived.
Common elements include seeing a bright light, feeling peaceful, encountering deceased relatives, or watching events from outside one's body.
She described her NDE as profoundly spiritual.
The term appears frequently in discussions of consciousness, spirituality, and medical resuscitation.
Enclosed underground route
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- out-of-bodySeparated from physical form
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
border · returning · resuscitation · flatline · coma · drowning · surgery · anesthesia
Existence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
- heavenSky or bliss
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
karma · salvation · paradise · purgatory · limbo · nirvana · moksha · samsara
Anglo-American proper name
- veridicalGenuinely true, not illusory
- anoxiaAbsence of oxygen supply
- ketamineDissociative anesthetic agent
- endorphinsBody's innate pain blockers
consciousness · neuroscience · retrospective · phenomenology · evidential
Perception without external cause
- anecdotalBased on casual observation
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- confabulationInvented memories believed true
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
hypoxia · REM · depersonalization · dissociation · suggestion · neurological · materialist · debunked
Fundamentally altering one's existence
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- fearlessnessComplete lack of dread
priorities · compassion · interconnectedness · meaning · second-chance · appreciation · empathy · altruism
tunnel
Enclosed underground route
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- out-of-bodySeparated from physical form
- floatingStaying atop liquid
peace · border · returning · resuscitation · flatline · coma · drowning · surgery · anesthesia · trauma
afterlife
Existence beyond mortality
reincarnation · karma · salvation · paradise · purgatory · limbo · nirvana · moksha · samsara · ancestors
Moody
Anglo-American proper name
- veridicalGenuinely true, not illusory
- anoxiaAbsence of oxygen supply
- ketamineDissociative anesthetic agent
endorphins · consciousness · neuroscience · retrospective · phenomenology · evidential
hallucination
Perception without external cause
- anecdotalBased on casual observation
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- confabulationInvented memories believed true
expectation · hypoxia · REM · depersonalization · dissociation · suggestion · neurological · materialist · debunked · pseudoscience
life-changing
Fundamentally altering one's existence
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
fearlessness · priorities · compassion · interconnectedness · meaning · second-chance · appreciation · empathy · altruism · aftereffects
- astral projectionastral projection, astral travel, astral plane, astral body, out-of-body experience
- Death Occultnecromancy, seance, mediumship, ghosts, channeling