✦Description
Scenes of one's own life surface mid-experience — moments re-seen, sometimes re-felt, occasionally with a sensed evaluator present. In NDE literature this is a canonical element (24% of matched NDE narratives in Michael 2025; a Moody/Greyson staple). In DMT it is rare and different in kind: only 6% of Michael 2025's DMT sample reported anything life-review-like, and those were conceptual and emotional rather than the vivid scene-by-scene replay of NDE accounts. Included here precisely because its rarity is informative.
✦Interpretations
Experiencers who get it often describe moral stocktaking; researchers treat the DMT/NDE gap on this motif as evidence the two states overlap without being identical — the review seems to belong to the dying brain's narrative more than to the DMT state.
✦What the sources say
Life-review-like content in 6% of DMT participants vs 24% of NDE narratives; DMT versions conceptual/emotional rather than scenic.
The panoramic life review as a core catalogued NDE element.
Life-review items on the NDE Scale anchor the comparison.
Controlled DMT-NDE scale comparison frames which NDE features DMT does and does not reproduce.
Questions
What is 'The Life-Review Flash' in DMT reports?
Scenes of one's own life surface mid-experience — moments re-seen, sometimes re-felt, occasionally with a sensed evaluator present. In NDE literature this is a canonical element (24% of matched NDE narratives in Michael 2025; a Moody/Greyson staple). In DMT it is rare and different in kind: only 6% of Michael 2025's DMT sample reported anything life-review-like, and those were conceptual and emoti
Is 'The Life-Review Flash' commonly reported?
Rare in DMT: 6% of Michael 2025's field sample (vs 24% of matched NDE narratives), and more conceptual than scenic when present. A canonical NDE element that mostly does NOT carry over.