Christof Koch on NDEs

Of course, as has been theorized, perhaps in the case of the great majority of near-death experiencers (including yours), all conscious memories of the experience are erased due perhaps to neurological issues. These issues would include a possible built-in mechanism that normally inhibits the formation of such memories, for reasons of the soul. It has always been a mystery why so few cardiac arrest and other victims have NDEs that they can report.

Thanks for this response.

Yeah... memory... The remarkable thing is that I remember everything of my entering the hospital, including the fast transport to the ICU of the gurney I lay on...
After that... nothing. As was reported afterwards they had to resuscitate me.
The next morning I woke up in a hospital bed, and I had very clear conversations with nurses and doctors... the latter telling me that within a few days I had to undergo an open-heart operation.

I remember clearly that I asked the anesthesiologist whether he was aware of the "nightmare" of every anesthesist (and patients for that matter): anesthetic awareness. The man was taken by surprise... apparently he never had met a patient who knew something of his trade... But he was honest: yes, he was aware of that phenomenon and alway took precautionary actions to prevent such a horrible thing. That made me feel at ease.

Strangely though I cannot remember at all that, and when, I was transported to an OR.

I came to with a tube in my throat, hence could hardly communicate.
My wife told me that she and three of my close friends were at my bedside and as they told me afterwards, they could communicate with me. That is, I responded by nodding yes and no... To them these noddings all made sense.

But.... I cannot remember one thing of this encounter. Not a bit...
Neither is there any memory of what could have been an NDE of sorts...
I have given up pondering about this...

Somehow I have the feeling that "the other side" prohibits to remember what happens to those on the verge of death.
After all, it is only one in six people who are clinically dead, that experience an NDE.

Regards to all

Smithy