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This paper proposes that ordinary waking consciousness binds autobiographical experience into a strict forward sequence, and that threshold conditions disrupting this binding admit a distinct mode of access (the navigable mode) in which a life is encountered as a single object rather than as a sequence of moments. The framework derives, through Buckingham π dimensional analysis, a scalar access index that combines seven physiological factors into a single real number on the unit interval, predicting how readily a given subject in a given state can enter the navigable mode. The framework has been calibrated against eleven clinical trajectories and is falsifiable in the strong sense: the paper identifies specific physiological conditions under which entry into the navigable mode should not occur and against which the framework can be tested. The paper does not commit to any metaphysical or theological interpretation of what the navigable mode is. The claim is structural: a hypothesis about how the dying brain reorganizes access to its own autobiographical material, and a measurable prediction about when this reorganization occurs and how completely. The framework converges with phenomenological reports documented in the near-death experience literature without depending on the interpretive frameworks experiencers have offered for their phenomenology.