That’s a fascinating question. Accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) often include perceptions of other people, sometimes deceased relatives, spiritual beings, or unfamiliar figures.
There are reports, though rare, of people in NDEs encountering someone they thought had died, but who was later found to still be alive. A few types of cases are described in the literature:
- “Mistakenly dead” encounters
- Some experiencers report meeting a relative or friend during their NDE whom they assume to be dead, only to discover later that the person was still alive on Earth.
- For example, psychologist Kenneth Ring and psychiatrist Raymond Moody collected anecdotes where experiencers saw acquaintances who were later confirmed to be alive.
- Living person encounters (sometimes called “veridical apparitions”)
- In some cross-cultural reports, NDErs describe seeing living people in the “other realm.” For example, in India, there are cases where experiencers report being greeted by still-living relatives or officials, perhaps due to cultural frameworks about the afterlife.
- Researcher Osis and Haraldsson (in At the Hour of Death) documented cases where the dying perceived living persons as if they had come to escort them.
- Shared NDEs and “co-experiences”
- There are reports of two people having related or overlapping near-death/altered states, where one sees the other in the experience. These are extremely rare and controversial but have been described in the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) archives.
Skeptics often suggest these cases are due to confusion, memory distortion, or symbolic appearances, while experiencers may interpret them as evidence that consciousness can access realities not limited to the physical world.
👉 Would you like me to pull up some specific documented cases (with names and sources) of people encountering living persons in NDE reports?
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