A panoramic review of one's entire life, often simultaneous rather than sequential
A rapid, panoramic review of one's life, often described as simultaneous rather than sequential, and sometimes experienced from the perspectives of those one had affected. A hallmark of the classic near-death experience, appearing almost exclusively in the NDE accounts.
The narrow gap between the two numbers reflects that those who reported a life review almost always described it with real specificity.
I'm doing a Life review while I'm on planet Earth. I'm not waiting till I die to go through another Life review — I'm reviewing life right now.
My entire life started playing backwards like a movie... I started feeling like there was an emotion connected to that person or that event and I would feel the pain.
There was a complete flash of my entire life before my eyes, and it was like this divine mosaic, and every single piece was pristine and perfect and exquisite. And there was this overwhelming sense of love and joy, and I could see that every single piece had its place.
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience, drawn from the interviews in this collection:
Francisco Valentin was a young Catholic man from Puerto Rico who died in a severe car crash in 1979 at age 17-18, experiencing a death event…
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Watch interview →Nancy Rynes was a geologist, archaeologist, and science writer who identified as a complete atheist and was terrified of death. In January 2…
Watch interview →Angela grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household in the Bible Belt with hereditary psychic gifts she suppressed due to fear of rejecti…
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