Why do people say your life flashes before you at the moment of death?

[posttk421]

How can this happen? Let's say you're 80 years old and on your deathbed. Can you really see eight decades of life experience the moment before you die?

Where does this belief come from?

 

[BobJr's Final return]

They say that after your death their is 8 minutes of brain activity left. Well lets say this minutes were the length of a dreaming and some dreams if you know can feel like several hours maybe even days when it actual has only been a couple minutes. So it almost sounds like it could be plausible that as your dying you would think over the years you lived.

 

[Fuzzy_rave_girl]

that does happen but only when you suffocate because your brains panic sensors are going off like mad!

 

[fluid_methodz]

Religious lies...

 

[Loryn]

its just an expression.
i got into a car accident last year.
& no my life didnt actually flash before my eyes but its kinda like u feel it more than you see it.
anyways.. thats just me.