Near-death experience through the account of the blind

All blind people do not see in dreams, but most of them are able to see when falling into a state near death.

In 1982, a survey by the Gallup Public Opinion Institute, USA, found that 15% of Americans experience near-death experiences (NDEs) in different situations. About 9% have an out-of-body experience (escaping the body), 11% say they enter another world and 8% meet the soul. For the blind, their NDE experience of visual perception is still a mystery.

According to Epoch Times, in the study published in the 2014 Journal of Sleep Medicine, Amani Meaidi at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, found that no blind participants were able to see in dreams from birth. . For blind people with vision at a young age, they rarely have visual awareness in dreams.

The study of the near-death experience of a blind person by Kenneth Ring at the University of Connecticut, USA, in the 1990s shows that 15 of the 21 blind volunteers reported seeing some kind of special spectacle, three people are not sure whether they have visual awareness or not, and the other three do not see anything while in a state close to death.

Many blind people think that they can be seen in a near-death state.(Artwork: iStock).

The uncertainty of some volunteers may be due to their inexperience in previous vision, combined with the unusual characteristics of NDE. Even people who are not blind when NDE experiences are difficult to explain things that go beyond everyday life.

A born blind man who experienced NDE told Ring that he found himself in a library with "thousands, millions, billions of books, and they lasted very far". When Ring asked "Do you see them with your eyes?" , volunteers answered "Oh, yes".

Vicki Umipeg, a blind volunteer female participant in the interview, recounted her scary story while in a near-death state.

Umipeg, 22, is a blind singer at a nightclub in Seattle, USA. One night, Umipeg could not take a taxi to go home after work, so she accepted to ride with the drunken patron. The car that had an accident, Umipeg had a serious injury and a cracked skull.

While at Harborview Hospital, Umipeg felt like leaving his body and floating on the ceiling. Umipeg heard the doctor talk about the possibility of eardrum damage that could make her deaf. Umipeg observed the doctor standing near his body below. She had never seen her figure before. Umipeg suddenly fell into a tunnel, she appeared in a place filled with light with grass and people.

"The day I died, I felt overwhelmed by the experience. Because I couldn't imagine what light was," Umipeg said in an interview with the BBC.

Ring cited a volunteer's uncertainty about his ability to see NDE . "I think what happens is a sense of coherence, a visual mix in my mind with the visual, tactile, and input information I have. I'm aware of what's going on. But don't remember the details, this is why I reluctantly describe it as an image, " said a Ring volunteer.