Should you go towards the light? Is it heaven? A trap? Soul-recycler? A vagina?
What the light and what should you do?
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If you don't want to die at the time, don't allow yourself to die. Mind over matter. If your brain never tells your cells to apoptose, you can just keep going.
I don't know what you do experience in death, but I do know what you could possibly experience during the decomposition: random flashes of lived experiences:
A freshly deceased mind, spasming out fragments of memories, mish mashes of whatever connections your neurons built during life.
As you rot and the connections dry out and crumble away, the dreams have less architecture to pull from, and you lose the inclusion of memories of lesser importance.
You have flashes of work, family, porn, memes, playing games, injuries, mantras, songs. Little micro-dreams of the school dance, that one ball game... and they occur less and less vividly, less frequently, based on how often you experienced them, how thick your neurons built the pathway.
As it melts away you're left with images of immediate family, Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols, your church sanctuary.... and Riley Reid taking 6 black cocks in ultra hard-core gangbang 6.
This hypothesis has been heard and duly considered by NDE researchers and the sources I listed show it to be a much weaker explanation. In particular, a supermajority of NDEs report greatly heightened ability to sense and to choose, many NDEs, from people blind from birth, report experiences of vision in ways that cannot be explained ordinarily, and many NDEs report observation of contemporaneous events on earth that they could not have known without the NDE. Further, the NDE generally returns to a fully intact mind, not one that has melted away in any sense. So this explanation, while it might handle an isolated, low-detail case, does not account for the data accumulated by researchers in the last 40+ years of collation on the subject.
OP said when you die. I feel like an NDE would not be anything like what I described, because I described a potential experience of actual decay, while an NDE would not include the dessication of the brain slowly over the course of months.
I bet coma dreams are crazy, if you're implying there's a hard-to-explain psychic connection to the world during an NDE.
We have no data on the experiences of people who don't come back so it's complete speculation. We do have data on coma dreams; a quick check shows that they are compatible with NDE evidence, although some comas leave permanent neural damage and few reported NDEs do, despite their short-term lethality.
Some have speculated that the physical death process informs neuronic overstimulus that explains NDEs, and my point is that many aspects of NDEs don't fit that at all. Many skeptical of NDEs were confronted by the evidence of their own, or their patients', experience and could not gainsay its inexplicability.