Our lives might really "flash before our eyes" when we die!
It turns out that what happens in our brain the moment before we die activates the same brain regions as dreaming. This unusual discovery prompted researchers to suggest that our lives really might "flash before our eyes" when we die! Here's the article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brain-scans-suggest-life-flashes-before-our-eyes-upon-death-180979647/, and here's the research: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.813531/full.
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