Name: 與你想象的大相徑庭 (It's way different than you think)
Uploaded: 2025-06-19T18:11:09.000Z
Duration: 5 min 3 s

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It's a question that many are curious, if not a little scared about, but scientists are now closer than ever to understanding what actually happens while you're dying.

許多人都對這個問題感到好奇，甚至有些害怕，但科學家們現在比以往任何時候都更接近於瞭解人在臨死時究竟會發生什麼。

Recently, researchers studied the brains and bodies of dying people to gain new insight into what it feels like as you die.

最近，研究人員對垂死者的大腦和身體進行了研究，從而對死亡時的感覺有了新的認識。

A recent meta-analysis found that most people in the Western world will die in medical institutions where the first sign of death is a loss of hunger and thirst.

最近的一項薈萃分析發現，西方世界的大多數人都會死在醫療機構裡，在那裡，死亡的第一個徵兆就是失去飢餓和乾渴感。

Physicians call this the beginning of active dying, and it is caused by an intense feeling of relaxation where you will likely only be capable of handling small spoonfuls of food and water.

醫生稱這是主動死亡的開始，它是由強烈的放鬆感引起的，你可能只能處理一小勺食物和水。

Step two of death, extreme fatigue and unconsciousness.

死亡的第二步，極度疲勞和失去知覺。

One study found that 72% of patients in this phase of death reported pre-death dreams involving reuniting with people who had already died. 59% said that they dreamed about getting ready to travel somewhere, and 28% dreamed of meaningful experiences from their past.

一項研究發現，72% 處於這一死亡階段的病人報告說，他們在死前夢見與已故的人團聚。59%的人說他們夢見準備去某個地方旅行，28%的人夢見過去有意義的經歷。

These pre-death dreams are happening because at this time you are mostly asleep and even dipping into unconsciousness.

之所以會做這些死前的夢，是因為此時你大多處於睡眠狀態，甚至陷入無意識狀態。

This means that if someone tries to physically wake you up, nothing will happen.

這意味著，如果有人試圖用身體喚醒你，什麼也不會發生。

The thing is, studies of unconscious patients show that when they did eventually wake up from being unconscious, they thought they were only just asleep.

問題是，對昏迷病人的研究表明，當他們最終從昏迷中醒來時，他們認為自己只是剛剛睡著。

Essentially, you are not going to be aware of going in and out of consciousness.

從本質上講，你不會意識到意識的進出。

Some reports say that this stage of dying feels a bit like when you can't get out of bed from an intense cold or flu, but when you are dying, the sleep is no longer rejuvenating and the fatigue is consistent.

有報道稱，這個階段的死亡感覺有點像患了重感冒或流感而無法下床，但當你瀕臨死亡時，睡眠不再能讓人恢復活力，疲勞感也會持續不斷。

Because at times you are now unconscious, it's harder to plan for oral medications, so at this point you might be hooked up to syringe pumps or suppositories in order to get oral medications or dying aids before death.

因為有時您已經失去知覺，很難計劃口服藥物，所以此時您可能會接上注射泵或栓劑，以便在死前獲得口服藥物或臨終輔助藥物。

At this point, studies show that your heart will beat less forcefully, your blood pressure will fall, and your organs, including your brain, will function less.

此時，研究表明，你的心跳會減弱，血壓會下降，包括大腦在內的器官功能也會減弱。

Essentially, your brain is trying to conserve energy as it slowly dies, and this causes your brain to lose the power of inhibition.

從本質上講，你的大腦在慢慢死亡的過程中試圖保存能量，這導致你的大腦失去抑制能力。

You may have heard people talking about seeing the light or moving towards the light during near-death experiences.

你可能聽過有人說過在瀕死體驗中看到光或向光走去。

Brain studies on rats show that a dying brain's lack of inhibition causes the visual brain system to fire.

對老鼠進行的大腦研究表明，垂死的大腦缺乏抑制作用，會導致大腦視覺系統的發射。

This has also been found in some human studies as well, which may explain why many people report this phenomenon of seeing light as their brain begins to die.

在一些人體研究中也發現了這一現象，這或許可以解釋為什麼許多人在大腦開始衰亡時會報告看到光的現象。

Known as the death rattle, an unconscious person's breathing still follows the automatic patterns generated by the respiratory system of their brain, but they don't have proper awareness of their mouth and throat, so saliva builds up.

昏迷者的呼吸仍然遵循大腦呼吸系統產生的自動模式，但他們對自己的口腔和喉嚨沒有正確的認識，是以唾液會積聚在一起，這被稱為 "死亡撥浪鼓"。

The saliva in the back of the throat, mixed with the automatic quick breaths, creates loud breathing noises that many people will observe as disturbing, but it's important to note that the person dying is actually feeling no distress.

喉嚨後部的唾液與自動的快速呼吸混合在一起，會產生巨大的呼吸聲，許多人都會認為這種聲音令人不安，但重要的是要注意，瀕死者實際上並不感到痛苦。

In fact, the reason that this is happening to the dying person is because physiologically, they are so relaxed.

事實上，臨終者之所以會出現這種情況，是因為他們在生理上非常放鬆。

A 2013 study on rat brains dying from cardiac arrest found that specific brain regions surged with synchronized low gamma waves more coherent than when the rats were alive and healthy.

2013 年，一項針對因心臟驟停而瀕臨死亡的大鼠大腦的研究發現，特定大腦區域湧現的同步低伽馬波比大鼠活著和健康時更加連貫。

The brain waves were similar to when rats were engaged in high-level cognitive activity.

這些腦電波與大鼠進行高級認知活動時的腦電波相似。

This, of course, got researchers interested in what's happening to our brains as we die as well.

當然，這也讓研究人員對我們死亡時大腦會發生什麼變化產生了興趣。

In humans, a study on 567 dying men and women had their brains scanned as they were being resuscitated with CPR.

在人類方面，一項針對 567 名垂死男女的研究對他們的大腦進行了掃描，當時他們正在接受心肺復甦術的搶救。

It turns out that like the rats, the brains fired in intense ways, and those who survived the CPR reported lucid experiences such as perception of separation from the body, observing events with no pain or distress, a meaningful evaluation of their life, and assessing their own actions towards others throughout their life.

事實證明，與大鼠一樣，這些人的大腦也發生了激烈的反應，那些在心肺復甦術中倖存下來的人報告了清醒的體驗，比如感知到與身體分離、觀察事件時沒有痛苦或困擾、對自己的生活進行有意義的評估，以及評估自己一生中對他人的行為。

This is, again, all likely linked to the disinhibition of our brain as we die.

這也很可能與人死後大腦抑制功能減弱有關。

It was also found that this disinhibition caused the part of the brain involved in memory to light up, allowing some people to access stored memories, while other patients, when resuscitated, couldn't remember anything that had just happened to them, even though brain scans showed that their brains were firing in uninhibited, active ways.

研究還發現，這種抑制作用會使大腦中與記憶有關的部分發亮，從而使一些人能夠獲得已儲存的記憶，而另一些病人在甦醒後卻記不起剛剛發生在他們身上的任何事情，儘管腦部掃描顯示他們的大腦正在以無抑制的、活躍的方式發射信號。

Some of these patients reported knowing that they were dying, but also that they were going towards a place that felt like home.

其中一些病人報告說，他們知道自己即將死去，但也知道自己將前往一個有家的感覺的地方。

One other study of a man's brain while dying found that his brain activation was similar to people who were on the psychedelic drug DMT.

還有一項對一名男子臨死時大腦的研究發現，他的大腦激活情況與服用迷幻藥 DMT 的人相似。

But more recent studies found resuscitated dying people reported that what they had experienced right before death felt different than hallucinations, illusions, or even dreams.

但最近的研究發現，復甦的垂死者報告說，他們在臨死前經歷的一切感覺不同於幻覺、錯覺甚至夢境。

But what are people thinking about before they die?

但是，人們在死前都在想些什麼呢？

We actually did a whole podcast on the cognitive side of dying and people's experiences and advice for death.

實際上，我們做了一個關於死亡認知方面的播客，以及人們的死亡經歷和建議。

Link here on screen and in the description over on our podcast channel side though.

鏈接在螢幕上和播客頻道一側的說明中。

這就是我製作這段視頻的原因。

Thank you so much for watching, and I said, peace.

非常感謝您的收看，我說，和平。

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