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by Teletio 1519 days ago
Im curious how this is different from normal day to day.

I recall memories very often. they are very shallow though.

Like I remember touching the soft inner layer of my kid jacket (it had trains on it) but this is not a very detailed memory at all.

If I'm dying and those shallow memories would pop up, yeah sure why not? But 'life flashes before the eyes' is a very romanticized thing and I do not get why.

Recalling memories btw could also mean recalling any memories. This is probably no effidence for 'life flashes before...'

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It's an involuntary recall of every (or so it seems) memory sequentially at very high speed in very specific circumstances. It's incomparable to just thinking about your childhood.
It probably seems to be to the people nearly dying.

Is this proof? No.

Is it more realistic that it's more shallow and uncoordinated and you are dying and your brain doesn't work properly currently due to dying?

I would say yes.