Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is an episode of paranormal stories.

In this episode, I'm talking about terminal lucidity.

Terminal lucidity is a well-documented but still poorly understood phenomenon that occurs near the end of life.

It refers to the sudden return of clear thinking, memory, communication and personal awareness

in people who were previously unable to show these abilities, because of

severe brain disease or injury. This can happen hours or days before death. It has been

reported in people with advanced Alzheimer's disease, other dementias, long-term schizophrenia,

brain tumours, strokes and serious head injuries. What makes terminal lucidity

important is that it occurs in people whose brains are widely believed to be physically incapable

of producing normal consciousness. In many cases, large areas of the brain are damaged or destroyed.

Memory, language and recognition have

been absent for years. Under the common view that the brain generates consciousness,

these abilities should not be able to return, yet in terminal lucidity, they do. This has led

some researchers and clinicians to consider a different model of consciousness.

Instead of seeing the brain as the generator of consciousness, this model treats the brain as a

receiver or filter. According to this view, consciousness exists independently and the brain

allows it to be expressed in the physical world.

When the brain is damaged, expression becomes limited or distorted, and when the brain's

normal control systems weaken near death, expression can improve. This idea is supported by a

growing body of work from end-of-life researchers.

One of the most important contributors is Christopher Kerr, a doctor who has worked for decades in hospice care.

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