Ep. 53: Knocking On Heaven's Door

People who've survived a near-death experience often describe the same things: a tunnel, a bright light, a sense of peace, even a "life review." But what if some of these experiences aren't happening at the edge of death at all, and instead are happening in the brain during a seizure?

This week Andrea dives into the eerie overlap between post-ictal states and near-death experiences, tracing the neuroscience of what happens in the brain right after a seizure and asking a genuinely unsettling question: are NDEs a glimpse of something beyond, or a very human misfire of an overtaxed brain? Grab your headphones and get ready to question everything you thought you knew about the line between life and death.