The authors of a recent study (Timmermann et al., 2018) argue that what people experience under the influence of DMT provides a model of what people undergo during near-death experiences. Although ...

Across cultures, religions, and centuries, people who come close to death often report strikingly similar experiences. They speak of leaving their bodies, moving through darkness, feeling overwhelming ...

But Greyson and Pehlivanova counter that the experiences reported in those two studies are "quite unlike" the out-of-body experiences described in NDEs. During TPJ activation, there is a sense of ...