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Originally Posted by SeekingClarity
My friend died of a heart attack for 20 minutes and was brought back to life. He doesnt remember anything. Why? I was so disappointed, because I get so much comfort from stories that Ive read. I thought maybe this happened to him so that hed come back with a comforting story for those of us that have lost our loved ones. i was so sad that he had no story. What does this mean? 20 min would be an amazing nde, but he remembers nothing.
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I think it is amazing how we humans categorize things, and I say this because I guess the difference between a Near-Death Experience (NDE) and an Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) is that in the OBE the person does not experience death, unlike the NDE, but they both involve out-of-body experiences.
I have had out-of-body experiences that did not involve a near death feature, but when I worked in the medical field I saw, and heard, lots of NDE type stories. It happened a couple of times when I was an ambulance EMT back in the 1970’s, and the medical examiner pronounced someone dead at the scene, we took that person to the morgue in our ambulance, and later that person woke up at the county morgue. In one case they told a fantastic story and in the other case there was no memory of what had happened.
It also happened a couple of times when I worked in a hospital assisting on a surgical procedure where the patient was under a general anesthetic. Afterwards on the post-surgery recovery unit both patients, at separate points in time, shared a story of floating above the surgical table while the operation was taking place, and recounted the details of what the medical staff said and was doing at particular times. In both cases the patients' heart had stopped and needed to be restarted by electrical stimulation (defibrillator) and the patients' recalled everything.
When I myself have had an out-of-body experience, mostly while just sitting in quiet meditation, when I return to my physical body I do not always recall everything from that experience. Over the decades that I have been doing quiet meditation and having these OBE’s I have come to realize that my physical human brain does not have the capacity to recall all that I have experienced beyond this physical human realm. In fact, when I have an OBE this physical human realm seems like a very faint dream. The physical human life that I was living does not seem real from that OBE state of consciousness; it appears as a faint memory. Now this is just me recalling my OBE, and it may be different for others. It is my experience that memory is different when in the OBE than it is while in a physical human body.
However, another analogy may be like having an epiphany of such great clarity, and you grab a pen and write down what you just gained from that epiphany; an incredible flash of astounding wisdom that immediately comes and then goes. After returning to your everyday consciousness, and a day or two later, you look at what you wrote down during that epiphany and it makes no sense whatsoever. The human body, including the features of our mind, memory, imagination, etc., is limited. While the OBE and greater states of consciousness are unlimited. For instance, the human mind does not have the capacity to imagine infinity, because everything we picture in our mind is framed and infinity has no frame.