PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Clinical Death, Sensory Deprivation, Parapsychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3101
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

A voice saying one is going to die. Separation from and looking down on one"s body. Tunnel with light at the end (drawing the person near) Realization of return/pain on return (wanting to stay where they were) A response to the stress of facing death. Temporal lobe paroxysm (limbic lobe syndrome) i. e. going into spasms. Cerebral anoxia (starved of oxygen and begins to hallucinate) Endorphin release (heart has stopped and breathing has stopped; substance p) Archetypes (human beings have certain hardwired archetypes = makes them universal) It is interesting that some people who are clinically dead (and are resuscitated) do not report any of the above experiences.