Is The Feeling Of Death Like Watching A Scary Movie?

Think back to a time when you were watching a scary movie. The feeling of your heart racing, and you covering up your eyes. Is this the way it feels when you die?

Elite Daily asks the question "Is dying like being in a movie?" According to the American Chemical Society, It’s all a matter of the chemical processes that occur in our brains.

The process sounds complicated, but it makes perfect sense. First your brain sends a signal out saying that you're in trouble, and it sends your body into hyper mode.

The video above mentions that when we hear a scream of terror, we perceive it in the brain’s emergency center, rather than the temporal lobe, where we process language, and it tells you to  “Don’t think, run.”

At this point, keep thinking like you are in the movie....but you get injured by the bad guy and you’re laying on the ground, life flashing before your eyes.

Unless you’ve experienced brain damage, you’re now clinically dead.

In other words, as the video explains, your heart has stopped and you’re no longer breathing, but your brain can enter into a hyper state of perceptual neurological activity.

It’s this state that recent studies show could explain near-death experiences.

So, before the neighbor calls 9-1-1 and your life is spared, your mind is likely envisioning the light at the end of the tunnel. Should you reach that light and your brain shuts down, you will be pronounced biologically dead.

So to answer the question. Is dying like being in a movie. Science says yes.