
Some of them underwent a major perspective shift toward past events and people in their lives. I was not in time/space so this question also feels impossible to answer,” one participant said.Īll interviewees described LRE as an intensely emotional event. “There is not a linear progression, there is lack of time limits…it was like being there for centuries. For one, people lost all sense of time and witnessed life events both out of chronological order and simultaneously. The team conducted in-depth interviews with seven people who had full LREs and found similarities in each of their stories. In a new study published in “Consciousness and Cognition,” researchers from Hadassah University in Jerusalem explored the cognitive and psychological basis of LRE.


Researchers believe life review experience (LRE) - an immediate moment of reliving significant past events - is a real, documented phenomenon. Life flashing before your eyes is a popular trope in movies and books, but it’s not just the stuff of fiction anymore.
DOES YOUR LIFE FLASH BEFORE YOUR EYES SKIN
It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time.” He relives random moments of his life: how he watched the stars at Boy Scout camp, the trees that lined his block, the papery-thin, wrinkled skin on his grandmother’s hands. “That one second isn’t one second at all. “I had always heard your entire life flashes before your eyes the second before you die,” Kevin Spacey’s “ American Beauty” character reflects after he’s shot in the head.

‘There is lack of time limits…it was like being there for centuries.’
