He could see a nurse and doctor, a bald, "chunky fella" dressed in blue hospital scrubs. He watched as they frantically worked on his body, which was remarkable, considering he was, essentially, dead.
The man had suffered a cardiac arrest. Normally there is no measurable, meaningful brain activity after the heart stops beating. Within two to 20 seconds the brain "flatlines."
But the man would later tell researchers that he could see an unfamiliar woman beckoning from a corner up in the ceiling. "I can't get up there," he remembered thinking to himself, and then the next second, "I was up there, looking down at me."
He said he saw his blood pressure being taken, and a doctor putting something down his throat. He saw a nurse pumping on his chest. He accurately and vividly described the people, sounds and events of his "resurrection."
The case was part of a widely reported study Parnia published in 2014 called AWARE — the awareness during resuscitation trial, the world's largest study of what happens to the human mind and consciousness in the early period of death.
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