

These cyclic patterns are categorized into several types of “brain waves” by their frequencies, each associated with different states of mind. Think of it as a stethoscope that listens to the brain rather than the heart. EEGs work by attaching electrodes to the surface of the cranium and measuring the rhythmic patterns of electrical activity produced by the brain. The electroencephalogram, or EEG is one of our primary methods of measuring brain activity. Thus, these studies were falsified and the “life review phenomenon” was categorized as what we know as the Mandela Effect. However, in the early 90s, critics became skeptical when it was discovered that related research was being used to attempt to prove the afterlife. The great similarities between different reports of this experience were concluded not to be a result of chance or accident as demonstrated in societies across the world and time.

Primarily in Kenneth Ring’s research, the “life review phenomenon” was based on a collection of phenomenological evidence that describes an altered state of consciousness in which a person rapidly sees much or the totality of their life history. Though it may be assumed that this theory is a part of the many generational conspiracies of our time, the “life review phenomenon” has been well discussed by psychologists Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, and Barbara Rommer. At the brink of death in the Pawtucket Patriot Ale Brewery, Peter Griffin takes quite the stumble in Season 19 of Family Guy, putting him in a montage of memories otherwise known as his “life flashing before his eyes.” In movies, literature, and countless forms of storytelling, these fantastical experiences of near-death have become almost colloquial to audiences.
