Scientists continue to probe on what happens to a person at the time of death. They have tracked down the chemical components that are released on death which may explain how people perceive and feel death.
Inside the center of one's brain is a vestigial gland. It was thought to have little function. The pineal gland, roughly the size of a grain of rice, is more heavily protected than even the heart with its literal cage of protection, because if something happens to your heart you die, but if something happens to your pineal, some say you can’t go to heaven.The pineal gland influences on both melatonin and pinoline, its end of life role in the creation of dimethyltriptamine or DMT. This chemical, DMT, may well be the reason we, as a species, are capable of sentience itself.
DMT is a narcotic substance. It is a powerful psychedelic. The pineal gland produces this substance every day.
DMT is also the trigger that elicits dreams. So the reason one has dreams is that the brain is producing a narcotic.
However, at the time of death, the gland floods the brain with massive amounts of DMT.
Science has studied the effects of DMT on normal people. These drug users experience two major themes while under the influence:
1)
A stretching of time – they experience the hectic 6 or 7 minutes as a
near eternity or lifetime. 2) They experience religious incarnations with a tilt toward whatever sect the subject is affiliated with.
This compound has been known for a long time. Cultures have known about the pineal, more widely known as the inner eye, all-seeing eye, or the like – considered the body’s gateway to the soul.
Egypt had its "Eye of Horus" Hindu culture has its bottu (the familiar forehead dot). Even the ancient art of yoga recognizes the brow chakra, or ajna, as blossoming at the pineal, or third eye.
Since science is aware that DMT is released at death, they have also observed that there is a mysterious several minutes of time after death where the brain still functions. These last few minutes after death, subjectively, are experienced as an eternity, engrossed in the DMT universe. Also, the trip itself is a highly personal experience dictated by the deepest realms of the subconscious.
The scientific chemical basis of death helps explain LOST.
Each person was experiencing a traumatic event (the plane breaking a part mid-flight). They were charged with adrenaline, anxiety and fear. Their minds would have "flashbacks" on their lives, their experiences, their families and their regrets. "Your life flashes before your eyes" is a common recall from near death experiences. But at the moment of death, the people on board Flight 815 did "survive" for several minutes through the massive release of DMT into their brain. A wash with an intense psychedelic narcotic drug which induces a dream state. A dream state that would seem to last for an eternity because there is no "time" barrier in the subconscious. One could feel or experience days, months, years of livid events in the minutes after death.
Those passengers whose final thoughts were centered on the will to survive the crash did so in their last dream state upon death.
So we did not view one coherent interaction between the survivors and the island, but hundreds of layers of final dreams stitched together like an overlapping quilt.
