wake up after a dreamless sleep and think, omg, that is what it is going to be like! I just can’t seem to fathom never having any memories or thoughts ever again. Maybe it’s just not something any of us ever can understand. Some will argue that is what it was like before birth, but to me it’s different. We never had any experiences to remember or think about. I just.. don’t know… I can’t get my head around it.
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Hmmmm, I’ve never had a dreamless sleep…. I start dreaming pre quickly, I don’t always remember the dreams clearly but I know that I did dream. I am on the boat of death would be much like before birth (since you know you were dead before being born) so it really isn’t something to be too concerned about really, like I didn’t have the ability to care about not being alive before I was born so I sort of doubt I’ll really have the ability to care about anything when I die again…. I just hope that rebirth isn’t somehow a thing…. And I really hope that I wouldn’t end up having to constantly be born into the same life again and relive my current life with everything happening in exactly the same way each time, as I would never be aware of that…. Although that means I would experience school again, so I guess in that case it is good since the best part of my life was sort of early (highschool, everything before and after that was complete shit) but still neither of those would be good. -_- being alive at all really isn’t good if I’m being honest with myself. But don’t worry I doubt anyone can really truly get their head around dying, I’m just on the boat hoping that I just won’t exist anymore.
I don’t think reincarnation is a thing, so you prob don’t have anything to worry about there 🙂
I think about it every day, and yeah I believe that is just like before we birth. I just have dreamless sleep (well, scientists say we always dream, but sometimes don’t remember it) when I take sleeping pills. When I wake up the first thing that I think is: so that is what it is going to be like.
I recognize that it is difficult to imagine the “doesn’t to exist”, but there are somethings we won’t never understand.
It’s good that others think the same way.
Two things happen at the very moment you wake up – even before you process the fact that you haven’t had any dreams – and these two things happen whether you overtly recognize them or not:
1. You instantly realize you are an entity with a past – a history – all the things that make you, you
2. you instantly recognize that some block of time has passed while you were unconscious
Now, we know the human body has a brain that processes and store all our thoughts and memories – but after we die, our brain is also dead (non functioning). So when we die, we have no physical container for our mind to reside – our mind/brain – the thing that contains and recognizes all the things that make us, us, no longer exists or functions and so we cannot ever again perceive the 2 things I mention above.
Hope this help put death into perspective and helps you over the hurdle that you can’t get your head around … you won’t have a “head” to wrap around anything if/when we’re dead 🙂
living dead dawg
Insightful thoughts, dawg! I was thinking about my Nana today. She was alive. She affected so many people. But, as far as she is now concerned, she never existed. The warmth of the sun never existed. Flowers, the wind, hugs… never existed. It just makes it all so meaningless. Nothing anyone does means anything, because one day we’ll all be gone. Everyone.
It all makes sense. I was thinking about your replies in the shower this morning and my mind went to babies. I had been wondering why people don’t remember the time of life between birth and around about the age of 2. And usually barely anything before age 5 either. And it’s generally accepted that it is because our brains haven’t formed properly. So even though it’s technically not the same thing, it’s both due something happening – or not happening – within our brains. It’s just mind blowing to think that what is going on right now is so real to us, but one day it’ll be as if it never happened.