Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been described as feeling different for each person. So, what happens during an NDE, you might ask? Essentially, it’s the ego experiencing a form of “concussion” or trauma to varying degrees, creating a jarring effect to the ego energetically and psychically. This force disrupts the ego, which is responsible for interpreting reality and helping you create on your physical plane. When the ego glitches—due to this trauma, consciousness or your inner self immediately switches into an inner sensory perceptive mode.

This shift is significant, as the ego is no longer in control. What happens next is that your inner senses take over, creating an automatic psychic form that is harmonious with and compliant to your ego’s expectations and beliefs about self. As you’ve likely heard, this heightened awareness of the inner senses is what creates the NDE. 

The ability to remember the NDE so vividly is due to the fact that the switch back to waking consciousness occurs before the ego goes online. Therefore, the ego cannot block or distort the data of the experience to a certain extent, so it accepts the NDE as something that actually happened and places it on its linear timeline, which would be in the past. The ego then accepts the experience unquestionably and proceeds to allow the experience to alter its own identity commonly creating a noticeable change within a person after a NDE.