Can you explain why your spirit isn't "outside your body watching" when you're knocked out?

Question

I was in a car wreck & knocked out for awhile...but I don't remember anything happening with my spirit. Yet, some say that people in a coma have their spirit travel outside their body. (just trying to understand this)

Answer 1

Your consciousness=awareness.  If you are unconscious you aren't aware.

The hypothesis that we have a spirit is untestable and unverifiable.  Sure it's a tradition in a few different versions of religion, but there is really no way of knowing.  So anyone who tells you we have a soul is either a.) saying so without any authority to do so, b.) saying what he/she would like to be the case (aka wishful thinking) or c.) lying.

Answer 2

I can't answer your question, but I can tell you that I have seen, or "sensed" the spirit of an individual when they were in a state of non-consciousness; ie: anethesized, and/or dying. I do experience the presence of the energy of my deceased mother occasionally, and have been aware of the energy of my father who died when I was still an infant.  My sister has spiritual encounters with her husband to whom she was married for 45 years.  He visits her, talks to her, and she says, and I believe her, kisses her.  In a gentle loving way.

Answer 3

I don't think everyone experiences this in every situation. I had a motorcycle wreck last year and was knocked out and I did not go outside my body, in fact even after I woke up and was walking and talking I was not conscious. I did not wake up until I was on the emergency room table being sewed up by a specialist. I asked what happened and he just told me that I was in a motorcycle wreck and that was the 30th time I had asked that question but it was because I had brain trauma.

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Answer 4

I believe it's because it doesn't happen to anyone.I'll bet you knew what I was going to say before I said it.Am I right?

Answer 5

It's because it's attached with a silver paraphysical elastic cord which keeps it from straying away from the body. Kind of like a rubber band, it will snap the spirit back in place if it strays too far.

Answer 6

Well, it depends on who you ask. (me, i don't really give a c**p if it does. As long as it comes back. LOLS!)

Answer 7

Another good question. I've read that the 'spirit' will always find ways to go back home (to god). Firstly everyone is different and is in a different mental state. I think it all determines how mentally 'healthy' one is. Which is why for some, when they are physically hurt they experience OBE's (because their spirit is desperate to return to their state of bliss). Why? Because mentally they are depressed and the 'spirit' is given a signal that it's time to move on. For some people this doesn't happen because they are mentally happy in their physical environment and the spirit doesn't see a reason to detach itself from it's owner, so it stays .

*A classic example of this is vertigo. Some people experience this when they stand in very high places. You start getting dizzy because the 'spirit' is ready to fly out to the horizon, whereas the body and mind are trying to stay in one spot - basically a battle is happening between the conscious and the subconscious.

Edit: Denie, you have a lot to live for...you don't know your true value in this existence.

Answer 8

hi denie,

i can not explain why it happens only sometimes and only to some people and not for others....

the first time i had an accident i remember fighting for my life, i felt i was going to die and that really scared me, i went into panick mode, but after a short while, something made me "let go" and in an instant i found myself out of my body, and in grey fog met by my close friend who had just died a week before, we spoke through our thoughts not from our mouths, it was such a blissful feeling, i said to him that i wanted to stay there with him, but he told me i had to go back as my sister needed me.. at that stage i was sent back, bit like the same feeling of when you have an out of body experience, you get pulled really hard back into your body.. and then i woke up again, and felt all the horrible feelings of pain and everything comparing it to the way i felt while i left my body NDE.....

then a couple of years later i had another accident, this time nothing happened, i wasnt even aware that anything happened at all it was that sudden only to wake up in hospital.....

my mum snapped the bone in her ankle many years ago and while on the operating table, she had no idea where she was but her spirit woke up and got up from the table told the doctors she had to get home and cook dinner... but couldnt go any further as she realised her body was still on the table being operated on, so she had an out of body experience while asleep.......

i havent really looked into this much as to see what the pattern is as to why it only happens sometimes and not to everyone......

when i compare my two accidents and it only happening the one time...the difference was the first time when i had the NDE i was aware of what was happening and as i said i had this urge to just let go....

the second time and nothing happening it happened so suddenly i wasnt even aware of it.....

but i truelly believe that eventually it does happen to everyone when they die..(travel to the after life) but i cannt prove it.. we wont know for sure until we die i suppose....

but i have been meaning to do a little study of people having a NDE how they died for that short period and if thats got anything to do with it... try and see if there is a pattern.......

i havent really had a look at people who have been in comas as to how many claim to have travelled out of their body and how many experienced nothing but blackness not even realising they were in a coma.....its interesting isnt it....

Answer 9

Hello wondering,

Just think of your spirit as the subconscious part of you mind.

When unconscious you mind only controls the autonomic part of staying alive if it can.

So your spirit so to speak gets put on hold!

Or just think your brain is a printer and the printer has a queue

and it is waiting for the job to be printed.

Research has shown that the brain gets it all through your senses, no sensual input no subconscious, no spirit thoughts!