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In Ian's NDE case he was able to give shape, context and meaning to his experience after he had it, or while he was having it, which is apparent viewing his earlier and later video taped recollections. It reminds me of seeing a movie then reading the novel it was adapted from. This inevitably causes me to superimpose the movie characters into my minds imagination when reading the novel.
So the underpinnings of belief and bias can affect our perceptions of what we assume are objective observations in this life and it appears so in the next. You don't get the whole truth unless you take it with you.
This is very interesting. Is it possible that this happens to all NDErs? And to what level and across what scale? For example, do people overlay specific loved ones (after the experience) over beings that are not specifically defined during the NDE? Or even much more broadly speaking, do they see light or feel love because those are common experiences?