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Prevalence of near-death experiences in people with and without REM sleep intrusion

Kondziella, Daniel et al. (2019)

Published
Aug 27, 2019
Journal
PeerJ · Vol. 7
DOI
10.7717/peerj.7585
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At a GlanceAI

Crowdsourced survey of 1,034 people: NDEs in 10%, and more often in those reporting REM sleep intrusion.

SummaryAI

Kondziella and colleagues recruited 1,034 lay people from 35 countries online. 10% reported NDEs meeting the Greyson cut-off. People reporting REM sleep intrusion were more likely to have had an NDE (odds ratio 2.85 after adjustment), while age, gender, place of residence, employment and perceived danger did not matter. The link is interesting, but both NDEs and REM intrusion are self-reported in an online sample.

Method SnapshotAI

Online crowdsourced survey with multivariate regression.

BackgroundAI

Greyson NDE Scale; basic regression.

In Collections

Psychology28 papers

Near-death experiences: reports, measurement and explanations

Some people who come close to death later report leaving their body, a tunnel, a bright light, meeting deceased relatives or a review of their life. This collection follows how psychology and medicine have studied these reports: from the first case collections (Moody, Ring) and the Greyson NDE Scale, through prospective studies of cardiac arrest survivors, to neurobiological, psychological and cultural explanations, distressing NDEs, and what changes in people's lives afterwards. What NDEs are is still debated, and the verdicts here are ours. Terms: * NDE: near-death experience * OBE: out-of-body experience * WCEI: Ring's Weighted Core Experience Index, an early measure of NDE depth

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Evgeny Smirnov