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Line 1: {{Short description|Phenomenon reported as occurring during near-death experiences}} '''Life review'''{{efn|The phenomenon has been called life review,<ref name=1977paper>{{Cite journal |last1=Noyes |first1=Russell |last2=Kletti |first2=Roy |date=May 1977 |title=Panoramic Memory: A Response to the Threat of Death |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2190/0UD7-H3WR-1ENN-57CN |journal=OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=181–194 |doi=10.2190/0UD7-H3WR-1ENN-57CN |issn=0030-2228}}</ref> visual life review experience,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=King |first=Robert A. |date=October 2022 |title=A Closer Look at Visual Life Reviews and Age in Adulthood During Near-Death Experiences |journal=Journal of the Society for Psychical Research |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=209–225}}</ref> and compressed life review<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nourkova |first=VV |date=February 26, 2020 |title=Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |journal= Behavioral Sciences|volume=10 |issue=3|page=60 |doi=10.3390/bs10030060 |doi-access=free |pmid=32110854 |pmc=7139868 }}</ref> in academic papers.}} is a phenomenon widely reported in [[near-death experience]]s in which people see their life history in an instantaneous and rapid manifestation of [[autobiographical memory]]. Life review is often described by those who have experienced it as "having their life flash before their eyes". The
==Research and phenomenology== Commentators<ref name="Hagan 2015">Hagan, John C. "Near-Death Experiences. I Hope You Are Comfortable With Them By Now!" ''Missouri Medicine'', 112:2 March/April 2015</ref><ref name="Long 2014">Long, Jeffrey. "Near-Death Experiences. Evidence for Their Reality". ''Missouri Medicine'', 111:5, September/October 2014</ref> note that near-death experiencers undergo a life review in which the meaning of their life is presented to them, but also how their life affected other people, as well as an awareness of the thoughts and feelings of these people. Bruce Greyson <ref name="Greyson 2010">Greyson, Bruce. "Implications of Near-Death Experiences for a Postmaterialist Psychology." ''Psychology of Religion and Spirituality'', 2010, Vol. 2, No. 1, 37–45</ref> described the life review as a "rapid revival of memories that sometimes extends over the person's entire life". The memories are described as being "many". The review might also include a panoramic quality. According to Jeffrey Long,<ref name="Long 2014"/> the experience of a life review is often described from a third-person perspective. == In the 1790, British naval officer [[Francis Beaufort]] nearly drowned and reported experiencing a life review. In 1847, a letter by Beaufort recalling the incident was published in the autobiography of [[Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_27938 | isbn=978-0-665-27938-6 | title=An auto-biographical memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., late of the admiralty [microform] : Including reflections, observations, and reminiscences at home and abroad, from early life to advanced age | date=1847 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/dec/11/scienceandnature.highereducation | title=You must remember this | newspaper=The Guardian | date=11 December 2004 | last1=Rose | first1=Steven }}</ref>
Wrote Beaufort: <blockquote> "Thought rose after thought with a rapidity of succession that is not only indescribable, but probably inconceivable, by any one who has not been in a similar situation. The course of those thoughts I can even now in a great measure retrace... our last cruise – a former voyage, and shipwreck – my school – the progress I had made there, and the time I misspent – and even all my boyish pursuits and adventures. Thus travelling backwards, every past incident of my life seemed to glance across my recollection in retrograde succession; not, however, in mere outline, as here stated, but the picture filled up with every minute and collateral feature. In short, the whole period of my existence seemed to be placed before me in a kind of panoramic review, and each act of it seemed to be accompanied by some reflection on its cause, or its consequences; indeed, many trifling events which had been long forgotten then crowded into my imagination, and with the character of recent familiarity.
The length of time that was occupied by this deluge of ideas, or rather the shortness of time into which they were condensed, I cannot now state with precision, yet certainly not two minutes could not have elapsed from the moment of suffocation to that of my being hauled up."
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1853 "The account given by a distinguished British naval officer of his own case is familiar. While in the water he said every event of his life flashed like lightning across his mind." 1855: "As she sunk beneath the surface a thousand burning thoughts of home -- her mother, all the incidents of her life, flashed through her brain."<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=OIBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA507 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=UONDAQAAMAAJ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 1869: "I was nothing before me but a watery grave -- all my past life flashed across my mind. I had heard of such a thing in the case of people when near drowning, but I never before experienced it."<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=MlRnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA247 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 1897 Psychological schema<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=BkwMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 1907 <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=nwU5AQAAMAAJ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> In 1929-30, papers ran a comical anecdote: "Johnes was relating his narrow escape from drowning to some friends. 'As I went down for the third time,' he said, 'all the past events of my life flashed before my eyes.' 'Is that so?' asked one of his listerners. 'Well did you see yourself borrowing that fiver you've owed me for six months?'"<ref>https://archive.org/details/neworleanschristianadvocate1930m/page/n22/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> Finally I tripped over my high heels and went head over heels into the sand. My whole life flashed before my eyes as I lay there, like they say it does when you are drowning"<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=YnccAQAAMAAJ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>-->
==See also== * [[Aerial toll * [[Clinical death]] * [[Flashback (psychology)|Flashback]] * [[Out-of-body experiences]] * [[Adrenaline#Memory|Effects of adrenaline on human memory]] * [[Terminal lucidity]] * ''[[Defending Your Life]]'' * [[Astral projection]] ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== Line 35 ⟶ 46: [[Category:Near-death experiences]]
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