IMEs are simple hallucinations

Keywords: consciousness, death, immortality, survival, medicine, testimonies, occultism, soul, afterlife, neuroscience, hallucination, beliefs, deceased, metaphysics.

Summary

We mean hallucination in the common sense of the term, i.e. "subjective delusions", rather like visions of pink elephants! IMEs resemble delusions, which are often accompanied by the delusional person's feeling that his or her experience is "real".

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Justifications

• IMEs are like dreams
• IMEs reflect the beliefs and mythical images in which they are immersed.
• The sensation of leaving one's body is produced by stimulation of the right parietal cortex.
• Some people who testify to their IME lie to make it more sensationalist (more sellable to the media or if they decide to write a book about it).

Objections

• The delusions are very diverse, the EMIs always repeat a similar scenario.
• Delusions are accompanied by a very active EEG, whereas IMEs can take place with a flat EEG.
• Delusions often generate anxiety, IMEs lead to serenity
• IMEs affect normal personalities who are not delusional.
• IME memories are stronger and more coherent than those of imagined events

Parent debate

• Does God exist?