Definition of near-death experience in US English:
near-death experience
nounˈnɪ(ə)r dɛθ ɪkˈspɪriəns
An unusual experience taking place on the brink of death and recounted by a person after recovery, typically an out-of-body experience or a vision of a tunnel of light.
Example sentencesExamples
- Kerry Packer famously had a near-death experience and claimed there was absolutely nothing there.
- The chapter on death deals with out-of-body and near-death experiences, and past-life experiences and regression.
- For some people, a near-death experience prompts a serious rethink.
- She admits that the only thing she ever did sober was rehearse, and she gave up drinking only after a near-death experience in a diabetic coma.
- The mathematical study of vision is also helping to explain near-death experiences.
- They are similar to the people who have near-death experiences of going down the dark tunnel to the bright light, or who see Jesus beckoning to them.
- If near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences don't come from the brain, where is consciousness based?
- What often passes off as extrasensory perception, past-life memories and near-death experiences could well be fantasy, delusion or downright fraud.
- By plying patients who claim to have had near-death experiences with leading questions and affirmations, Mandrake has made a sort of cottage industry of pop-psychology books and lectures on NDEs.
- Even a New Yorker knows that there has to be some message from the universe in a near-death experience.
- Yet when we asked people when their near-death experiences occurred, they said it was during unconsciousness.
- Furthermore, it needs to be pointed out that a near-death experience is not an experience of death.
- And what we know about near-death experiences is that there are certain core experiences, but it doesn't mean that everybody will have every single experience.
- I am fascinated by near-death experiences, because of the glimpses they give us of what lies beyond death.