Near-Death Experience
Experiences occurring during clinical death, cardiac arrest, or life-threatening medical events. Often include tunnels, bright light, deceased relatives, and a choice to return.
Out-of-Body Experience
Experiences of leaving the physical body, often during sleep, meditation, or medical events. Characterized by heightened senses and visits to other realms.
After-Death Communication
Encounters with deceased loved ones through apparitions, dreams, signs, or sensed presences. Often triggered by grief and providing comfort to the bereaved.
Shared Death Experience
Experiences shared between a dying person and someone nearby, often a loved one at the bedside. Can include shared visions, leaving the body together, and accompanying the dying.
Reincarnation Memory
Spontaneous recall of past lives, often in children. Includes specific details about previous identities, places, and manner of death.