Your Brain Does Something Unexplainable in the 30 Seconds After Death

In 2022, doctors accidentally recorded a dying man's brain — and what they saw in the 30 seconds after his heart stopped made no sense. His brain exploded with gamma waves, the same patterns it produces when you remember, dream, or concentrate. Your brain already rehearses this every night. This video breaks down every major study on what happens inside your brain after death — from the first accidental recording in Vancouver to the discovery of the "wave of death" in Paris. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — 150,000 people will die today 0:27 — The accidental recording 1:25 — Nine rats, same result 2:41 — What the dying brain might experience 2:59 — The survivors who came back 3:34 — Why would evolution build this? 4:27 — The wave of death 5:23 — Death has a window 6:40 — The question no one can answer 7:17 — Every civilization knew something 8:08 — Your final 30 seconds SOURCES: Vicente, Zemmar et al. (2022) — Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/... Borjigin et al. (2013) — Surge of neurophysiological coherence and connectivity in the dying brain https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... Borjigin et al. (2023) — Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073... Parnia et al. (2023) — AWARE-II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitati... Dean, Borjigin et al. (2019) — Biosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in Mammalian Brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... Carton-Leclercq et al. (2023) — Laminar organization of neocortical activities during systemic anoxia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2023.10... Charpier (2023) — Between life and death: the brain twilight zones https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... science explained, psychology, human evolution, ancient humans, deep history, consciousness, neuroscience, big questions, existential, lost civilizations, what happens when you die, how the brain works, stick figure animation, animated documentary, mind blowing facts, human origins, dark history, prehistory, did you know, why we are the way we are