This means that the alleged deceased can likely hear the doctors announcing their time of death after they cease resuscitation efforts, the Daily Mail reported.<\/a><\/p>\n This macabre revelation was brought to light by Dr. Sam Parnia of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. He had spoken to patients who were revived<\/a> after being declared clinically dead \u2014\u00a0 when their heart stops beating \u2014\u00a0 finding that they were able to recall events transpiring in their room with astounding accuracy.<\/p>\n In the Frankenstein-like study, Parnia shed light on why their postmortem memory is so lucid \u2014\u00a0 because of \u201cnormal and near-normal brain activity found up to an hour into resuscitation,\u201d he previously told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were not only able to show the markers of lucid consciousness \u2014 we were also able to show that these experiences are unique and universal,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re different from dreams, illusions and delusions.\u201d This didn\u2019t seem to jibe with doctor\u2019s methods of declaring a patient dead when their ticker stopped.<\/p>\n To shed light on this surprising disconnect between heart and mind, Parnia and his team examined brain activity and awareness among 53 patients who survived cardiac arrest at 25 hospitals, mostly in the US and UK.<\/p>\n A staggering 40% of participants reported having memories or conscious thoughts, per the clip. <\/p>\n \u201cIn death, they have a perception that they are separate from their body,\u201d Dr. Parnia said, \u201cand then they can move around. But they\u2019re in that [hospital] room and they\u2019re gathering information. They felt that they were fully conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n The clinically dead patients also had spikes of gamma, delta, theta, alpha and beta brain waves associated with thinking and awareness, as determined by an electroencephalogram, a device that records brain activity with electrodes. These were present 35 to 60 minutes after the person\u2019s heart stopped.<\/p>\n From this, Dr. Parnia concluded that the brain is surprisingly durable. <\/p>\n \u201cAlthough doctors have long thought that the brain suffers permanent damage about 10 minutes after the heart stops supplying it with oxygen, our work found that the brain can show signs of electrical recovery long into ongoing CPR,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n In fact, not only does the brain survive \u2014\u00a0 it functions at a high level.<\/p>\n Like a seemingly defunct computer rebooting, this neurological surge is believed to induce a super-focused state, possibly explaining why people might hear their surroundings in great detail \u2014\u00a0 including medics\u2019 death declarations \u2014\u00a0 even though their body is technically dead. <\/p>\n This energy burst also allows these resurrectees to access everything in their mind simultaneously, hence the perception that their life is flashing before their eyes.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the brain shuts down, because of a lack of blood flow in death, the normal braking systems in the brain are removed, known as disinhibition,\u201d Dr. Parnia explained. \u201cThis enables people to\u00a0have access to their entire consciousness. All their thoughts, memories, all their emotional states, everything that they\u2019ve ever done, which they relive through the perspective of morality and ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with satisfying morbid curiosity, this pioneering research could perhaps change the way doctors restart the heart or deal with brain injuries caused by cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes it\u2019s the living who haunt the dead. 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\u201cThey [the survivors] felt that they were fully conscious,\u201d said Dr. Parnia. Gorodenkoff \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ekg-monitor-intra-aortic-balloon-121177376.jpg\")
Patients showed a spike in brain waves associated with higher cognitive function deep into CPR. teerapon \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n