However, my understanding of the life review experience is that it’s the phenomenological correlate of stopping a bunch of the active cognitive processing we employ to dissociate. In order to “unsee” something (i.e., dissociate from it), you still have to see it enough to recognize that it’s something you’re supposed to unsee, and then perform the actual work of “unseeing”. What I’m proposing is that all the work that goes into “unseeing” halts during a life review, and all the stuff that would originally have gotten seen-enough-to-get-unseen now just gets seen directly, experienced in a decentralized and massively parallel fashion.
That doesn’t seem to match the account in the trip report you linked, though, which seems to involve processing a lot of things in a time-consuming linear fashion. E.g.:
It took me through my best friend’s passing something like 20 times. First person. Just relive it and rewind it and relive it and rewind it and relive it and rewind it again. And the Teafaerie is screaming “How many times do I have to do this?!”
To which the voice did not hesitate for a moment before replying, “Until you can stay present.”
It took me a few more rounds. I never lost sight of the feeling that it was trying to help me, though.
That doesn’t seem to match the account in the trip report you linked, though, which seems to involve processing a lot of things in a time-consuming linear fashion. E.g.: