

In Vanilla Sky, David experiences this when jumping off a building.In Armageddon when Harry detonates the bomb, images of his daughter and wife briefly flash on the screen.Life review, or My Life Flashed Before My Eyes, also refers to a widely-used trope in fiction, film, and television where a recap montage of a character's life is shown in a sequence before that character's death. According to Jeffrey Long the experience of a life review is often described from a third-person perspective. The review might also include a panoramic quality. The memories are described as being "many". Bruce Greyson described the life review as a "rapid revival of memories that sometimes extends over the person’s entire life". Research and phenomenology Ĭommentators note that near-death experiencers undergo a life review in which the meaning of their life is presented to them, but also how their life affected other people, as well as an awareness of the thoughts and feelings of these people.


The phenomenon also refers to a widely-used trope in fiction, film, and television where a recap montage of a character's life is shown in a sequence before that character's death. Life review is often described by people claiming to have experienced this phenomenon as " having their life flash before their eyes". The terms life review and flashback before death refer to a phenomenon widely reported as occurring during near-death experiences, in which a person rapidly sees much or the totality of their life history. Phenomenon reported as occurring during near-death experiences
