He may be out of his body for some time, desperately trying to sort out all the things that are happening to him
and that are racing through his mind, before he realizes that he is dying, or even dead.
When this realization comes, it may arrive with powerful emotional force, and provoke startling thoughts.
One woman remembers thinking, “Oh, I’m dead! How lovely!”
A man states that the thought came to him, “This must be what they call ‘death.’ ”
Even when this realization comes, it may be accompanied by bafflement and even a certain refusal to accept one’s state.
One man, for example, remembers reflecting upon the Biblical promise of “three score and ten” years,
and protesting that he had had “just barely one score.”
A young woman gave a very impressive account of such feelings when she told me that,
I thought I was dead, and I wasn’t sorry that I was dead, but I just couldn’t figure out where I was supposed to go.
My thought and my consciousness were just like they are in life, but I just couldn’t figure all this out.
I kept thinking, “Where am I going to go? What am I going to do?” and “My God, I’m dead! I can’t believe it!”
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