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I have an experience like this. I don’t want to go into depth about it right now, except to draw some connection to this finding. Firstly, just to establish a basic understanding, there were parts of the experience that were more intense than a cumulative lifetime of physical and emotional sensation. One part of it came full circle in my life afterward when I felt the memory being triggered again by the screaming of my son ex-utero. Birth to life, the comfort of nothingness and the terror of consciousness. I can’t shake the feeling that something was eerily similar between what I was observing and what I had felt viscerally without understanding, as if that part of my near-death experience was recall of something deeply hidden, my own very first memory, imprinted at a level of neurotransmitter activity far above ordinary consciousness, finally unleashed.

From a technical standpoint, I have never any moderately powerful drug other than general anaesthesia, but, based on what I hear, I wonder how this scan compares to active DMT use.

Previous discussion of the same topic from other source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30431711 (186 points | 18 days ago | 192 comments)

My takeaway of the old discussion:

* It's not clear that it's the "first ever".

* The part about "shows life flashes before eyes" is only a wild speculation.