The Strange Case Of Bradley Burroughs

Before we ask the question of whether or not there's a Heaven or Hell, we would be wiser to first address the topic of whether there are ANY kind of other worlds.

There have been many reports of Near Death/Out of Body Experiences, but few have been like that of Bradley Burroughs, a man born blind who could see during his own Near Death Experience.

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[gsus787]

i have a q... do blind people dream?

[gmdinformation]

Absolutely; but they are blind in their dreams too. Since I put up this video, it has come to my attention that there are a number of other OBE cases just like this one in which blind people were able to see. Strange eh? if they can see during an OBE but not during their dreams, then it could be reasonably argued that whatever an OBE is, it isn't just a lucid dream. There seems to be something else at work here--something of more importance than mere dreaming.

[starburst2625]

I want to believe but have more questions. Fever can produce hallucinations. I would think that, like dreams, hallucinations stimulate a visual part of the brain. However, when I dream, I have visuals but maybe hallucinations stimulate the visual part of the brain exponentially more. That combined with stored sensory information could possibly lead to visuals in a person blind from birth. I'd like to know if such a person has visuals from drug-induced hallucinations.

[gmdinformation]

Also, there were some tests done on a particular parot where he also showed the ability to know the answers to questions before they were asked.

You might want to look for a book by Kary Mullis called _Dancing Naked In the Mind Field_. He's a scientist who won a Nobel in chemistry for his work on PCR several years ago. The book is full of otherwordly experiences he and others have had, including some mind reading things. He came away with the notion that we simply must be more than our bodies.

[Youlube32]

@4c00h Are you an Eckist by any chance? I'm only curious.

[gmdinformation]

@Rrrrobbo Also, I met several people at a UCLA sleep study a decade ago who did similar things, including floating outside the house and down the block where they heard conversations between people that they later verified as having been said. Robert Monroe (the guy who coined the term "out of body experience" claimed to have pinched a friend hundreds of miles away during an OBE, something she confirmed later and even showed a red mark where he pinched her. It's hard to say DMT was involved.

[gmdinformation]

@Rrrrobbo Well, of course the other explanation is that the OBE state is in fact a visitation to an alternate universe that actually exists. or that you do in fact go outside the body in THIS world. I knew a guy who, while in college, had an OBE where he felt himself float through the wall to his roommate's room where he saw he and his girlfriend had fallen asleep watching TV. She was wearing a yellow sweater he never saw her in before, and in the morning she walked out wearing it.

[Rrrrobbo]

@Rrrrobbo just to clarify the reason I think that is that dmt is supposedly released upon death, i had a friend who lost the sight in one eye and if he took psychedelics he could 'see' again in the other eye, obviously just because your eye is bust it doesn't mean your visual cortex is!, but the 'obe' "dreams" i've had were SO REAL, that i can think of no other explanation than dmt

[Rrrrobbo]

@gmdinformation it depends what you mean by lucid dreaming, i have had normal dreams where I realise I am dreaming, but I have had dreams where I "wake up" as myself, almost indistinguishable from normal reality, but it's odd, and buzzy, and NNNGGGGGGG, In /this/ state I have had what some others could term an 'obe' but I think it was actually a 'true' lucid dream, rather than a normal dream where you take control, i think maybe was caused by release of endogenous dmt, and that causes the 'NDE'

[dmhewey]

Carl Jung had an amazing NDE long before they became the well known concept they are today. He wrote about the experience and its aftereffects and also noted that during the NDE he learned his physician, who was apparently in good health, would die within a year -- and he did.

[4c00h]

@razched

What's so hard to understand about it? Do some research on Astral Projection, which is when you go into a low state of mind and expanded awareness you are able to see even with your eyes closed. You're not 'seeing' but you're 'perceiving' everything around you a lot more than when you're in a full wakened state. Dreams seem to occur from our mind's reference of sensatory memories so this is why he can only dream in blind mode but what he experienced was expanded awareness.

[razched]

there are just things that we are not capable of understanding. . .

[justin10292000]

Thought-provoking video. I find children's NDEs/OBEs/CDEs to be very compelling in general. Dr. Melvin Morse has studied this fascinating subject extensively.

[Youlube32]

@Kafka, a blind born peron will experience any auditory or touch related side effect from a halucenogenic drug. But they will not see anything. They'll be as blind in their trip as they are in their everyday life. When the part of your body that makes sight possible is dead, it is really dead.