Migraine aura, a predictor of near-death experiences in a crowdsourced study.
PeerJ 2019 Daniel Kondziella, Markus Harboe Olsen, Coline L. Lemale et al. 17 citations
Near-death experiences (NDE) occur with imminent death and in situations of stress and danger but are poorly understood. Evidence suggests that NDE are associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep intrusion, a feature of narcolepsy. Previous studies further found REM abnormalities and an increased frequency of dream-enacting behavior in migraine patients, as well as an association between...