would have shattered my mind I think that might have had a similar effect on me that I'm like okay I guess I'm dedicating my life to this because if I experience that I'm like there's nothing else that's more interesting than that

Yeah, but you know what? There's a funny thing about how we experience things.

Once you are in an event, when it happens always right now, and you are in it, you don't question.

You just go along with the moment.

But I must say that at the moment, I was merely grateful.

And I already back then was a student of Viktor Frankl, you know, the famous psychiatrist.

Yeah.

I was very curious about what their own memory of that experience was like in the near past.

First, what is terminal lucidity, Alex? And how did you become interested in studying it?

Well, I mean, terminal acidity refers to the fact that, and it has been observed ever since humans took care of humans, so for a very long time, in other words, as long as we are human, that it sometimes happens that, I mean, we all observe our vulnerability, that certain diseases can rip us of certain abilities, mainly cognitive abilities, such as the dementias, but there are also a couple of other diseases, brain disorders, And it has been reported, and only very recently, 2009 or so, it has begun to become a new topic on the landscape of science, that sometimes what people always told us in the hospices and so on, that sometimes people, when they're getting closer to dying, let's say people with dementia, different types of dementia, or brain tumor, so a whole variety of disorders.

It seems to be not dependent on, it's not a function of a basic disorder.

That they sometimes make, where the relatives say, they come back.

And that's, I think, the easiest description.

Slightly better one would be that some people do have a return of spontaneous, meaningful, and relevant communication.

at a time when the textbooks would tell us that that's no longer possible given their brain state or severely compromised brain function so it might be the restructure of the brain such as in the dementias or it might be more functional.

would be wonderful.