Peer reviewed science of people who are born blind can see during near death experiences

So now blind people having NDE's and OBE's.

And luckily, peer reviewers being on hand to witness and record.

They just couldn't make it up, could they?

I'm not sure why someones sight would affect them having a spiritual experience or not. An OBE isn't actually that rare per se. That is basically what astral travel is, and since astral travel involves your third eye, there's no reason you wouldn't be able to see. An NDE may involve an out of body experience during it, but they are two different animals. Again, there's no reason why you might not be able to see: your spirit, body and your physical body are two different things.

I concur. Im mostly addressing the hard line skeptics

I know its tempting to be a skeptic no matter what, but science is science no matter the outcome and this seems vetted by corraborating studies. Skeptics have nothing to offer, other than a careful eye but mostly just pure skepticism, for the sake of skepticism

Blind people can and do generate mental imagery. However, the specific nature and quality of those images differs from sighted individuals due to their unique sensory experience of the world. Mental images tend to be less visual and more multisensory.

I think I addressed the issue in more depth in your previous foray into OBE/NDE peer reviewing.

Under what we might regard as normal circumstances, the human brain is constantly generating internal imagery, imagery which we perceive as normal and imagery we give little secondary consideration to.

Therefore, under non-normal stressful circumstances, the brain is likely to function similarly. Though rather like dreams such imagery has a known tendency to be somewhat more abstract and memorable. In fact it could be said that dreams regularly portray OBE's.

So I don't doubt the ability of the brain to generate seemingly realistic OBE's under more extreme circumstances, NDE's for example...Whereas I do doubt that we do ever actually leave our bodies in some sort of non-physical or spiritual state.

And let's not forget that an NDE is not a death experience, so a viable system will always retain the potential to perform internal function.

And finally let's also not forget that there will always be those who for some reason or another are highly susceptible to suggestion coercion and therefore exaggeration...And certain others who are always looking to prove something that cannot ever be fully proven.

So you present the results of a very small study of 31 people, carried out for specific reasons, probably by people who have a vested interest in promoting OBE theory.

One can only remain sceptical.

The only out of body experience someone should have is when they experience the decadent bliss of biting into a Big Mac (TM) and lose track of themselves in the great cosmic chain of being linking all matter together in accordance with the eternal law of God (TM).

Also the Big Mac (TM) comes with fries and a toy. Which is cool I guess.

-RealMcDonalds

As someone who's had a NDE i didn't have any visual the experience. The hospital OD me on fentanyl. I basically went to sleep and woke up. I had to be narcan, and they even use the paddles. They had pretty much called everyone and said, if you want to see her, you better show up because she might not make it. One of the first things I thought as I looked around the room, was my pastor who was crying, would be even more upset when I told him I didn't believe in god anymore. So while I didn't actually remenber experiencing anything, I have absolutely no doubt there was some kind of experience. As with anything spiritual, it's completely a personal opinion thing, there's really no way to scientifically say this is what happened at this point. And you're gonna get the same naysayers.

Being blind you lose ones sense of sight, but the other senses remains.

Yep, a brain not bogged down with pictorial imagery is difficult to comprehend.

Though non-congenital loss of sight presumably does not affect ones ability to retrieve stored information in a pictorial format.

True the human imagination is very powerful.

Yep the Brain is a truly amazing organic computing and management system.

It can even outperform normal vision.

It can even outperform normal vision.

Please explain.

The idea that imagination can outperform normal vision, while counterintuitive, is supported by research exploring conditions like hyperphantasiaand the neural mechanisms of visual imagery.While some individuals experience aphantasia, lacking visual imagery, others report imagery so vivid it rivals actual sight. This suggests imagination, in some cases, can be incredibly powerful and even exceed the capabilities of normal, waking vision

Hmmmmmm.

It needs a lengthy essay to respond to that properly.

Vision, as in the sensory process, whereby external light signals are converted into internal imagery and can be stored for future reference.

Imagination, as in the internal fantasy reconstruction of acquired and stored sensory information.

The former as in an immediate process relative to an optical system that under normal circumstances cannot be expanded upon.

The latter as in a contrived process only limited by the potential of the brain and the potential of stored information.

They are not really competing processes, one just facilitates the other.

Though without an optical sensory system, there would be no relevant internal information.

Interestingly I seemingly do not process aural information in the same way...That is to say I do not imagine fantasy tunes or noises...Do you?

Maybe this is the difference between myself and a gifted musician.

While animals certainly possess various cognitive abilities, including problem-solving and even some forms of planning, the ability to imagine, particularly in a creative and abstract way, is often cited as a key distinction between humans and other animals. Imagination allows humans to plan for the future, solve complex problems, and create art, stories, and other forms of culture. 

Yes, there are undoubtedly differences in evolved ability.

Though dogs dream, so I suppose that other animals dream too.

I therefore assume that they can internally reconstruct acquired information into abstract imagery.

Too bad animals cannot express themselves like humans can.

Animals express themselves to each other in a way that humans don't fully comprehend.

We are sometimes arrogantly ignorant of such things.

I think that it is often a case of humans not listening.

And I'm using the term "listening", metaphorically as well as literally.

Even animal trainers teach animals human expectation in their behaviour.

Animal trainers utilise memory, and a reward system relative to commands that creates expectation.

Such is the trainers expectation.

On a minor tangent, as an aphantasic, I always have a hard time believing that other people can see things in their minds. Maybe it will happen to me right before I die.

Some things are too dull for the mind to capture.