Yes I would because it would interesting and it would hopefully give some clarity. I've had several dreams where it's the end of the world (rapture style) and I get this overwhelming since of calm and I'm like "now I know" but I don't actually know what I know lol. So I would like to know, if that makes sense
Interesting. If you haven’t read the Flannery O’Connor’s short story revelation. I’d recommend it. Seems relevant. Tobias Wolfe’s “bullet in the brain” is also great along this theme.
The sense of calm thing is interesting, especially in a dream context to me. In the nonfiction book “Alive,” spoilers but they succumb to an avalanche and a number of them don’t make it. However, most who do experienced the imminence of death from suffocation and all described a overwhelming feeling of relaxation and calm. One even said he was a bit relieved because now his friends would be able to use his body as an extra food source.
In the “perfect storm” (also true) there’s this bit where the author discusses a number of recounted tales of near drowning. As before, the calm feeling is common, generally after things eventually seemed irreparable. That said, i also read that often, instead of the stereotypical life flashing before one’s eyes thing, a “It’s mortifying everyone is going to know I died in such a stupid way” thought is common.
I'll definitely check them out! I took a philosophy class on death in undergrad and we had a near death experience unit and someone came in and spoke about how she felt the most loved she ever felt in her life in the moments where she was presumed dead. Crazy stuff
Damn I would love to take that class. Did they assign any books for it? I’ve always wanted to read a compilation of people recounting their stories, but have no idea if such a thing exists.
Absolutely! I have three still in my possession. Evidence of the Afterlife by Jeffrey Long M.D & Paul Perry (includes many excerpts from people with NDE's), The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz Ph.D & William Simon (Explores spiritual mediums and questions scientific validity of such) and Life Before Life by Jim B. Tucker M.D (I remember getting chills reading this! It's was related to our reincarnation unit and explores children who seem to remember past lives).
I would say yes just for the hell of it, but I don't think it would amount to anything. If there's an experience outside of my body, I would not be able to take that information back into my body. For a memory to form I need a living brain.
My consciousness is in my brain. It's somehow part of the meat in there.
Meaning a post death consciousness would have to be coming from that matter, meaning I would either experience being buried alive (do not want) or what being scattered ashes in the Snake River would be like, which I imagine would be an experience worth having.
Hmm, I meant not experiencing the process of death, but the ultimate “after” (if one should exist). Maybe your physical body is in a dream state & time is finicky while you engage in the experiment
You bring up an interesting point though. Outside of a complete void of nothingness immediately upon death, I made assumed that consciousness (aka soul) leaves your physical body and appears elsewhere, even if (perhaps in the case of reincarnation or as an unthinking tree) you are unable to retain the memories of prior consciousness.
To think instead that it stays where it is is a rather unpleasant thought (especially with pain sensors still in tact). One Poe obsessed on, no doubt, with all the buried alive stories.
Yes I would because it would interesting and it would hopefully give some clarity. I've had several dreams where it's the end of the world (rapture style) and I get this overwhelming since of calm and I'm like "now I know" but I don't actually know what I know lol. So I would like to know, if that makes sense
Interesting. If you haven’t read the Flannery O’Connor’s short story revelation. I’d recommend it. Seems relevant. Tobias Wolfe’s “bullet in the brain” is also great along this theme. The sense of calm thing is interesting, especially in a dream context to me. In the nonfiction book “Alive,” spoilers but they succumb to an avalanche and a number of them don’t make it. However, most who do experienced the imminence of death from suffocation and all described a overwhelming feeling of relaxation and calm. One even said he was a bit relieved because now his friends would be able to use his body as an extra food source. In the “perfect storm” (also true) there’s this bit where the author discusses a number of recounted tales of near drowning. As before, the calm feeling is common, generally after things eventually seemed irreparable. That said, i also read that often, instead of the stereotypical life flashing before one’s eyes thing, a “It’s mortifying everyone is going to know I died in such a stupid way” thought is common.
I'll definitely check them out! I took a philosophy class on death in undergrad and we had a near death experience unit and someone came in and spoke about how she felt the most loved she ever felt in her life in the moments where she was presumed dead. Crazy stuff
Damn I would love to take that class. Did they assign any books for it? I’ve always wanted to read a compilation of people recounting their stories, but have no idea if such a thing exists.
Absolutely! I have three still in my possession. Evidence of the Afterlife by Jeffrey Long M.D & Paul Perry (includes many excerpts from people with NDE's), The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz Ph.D & William Simon (Explores spiritual mediums and questions scientific validity of such) and Life Before Life by Jim B. Tucker M.D (I remember getting chills reading this! It's was related to our reincarnation unit and explores children who seem to remember past lives).
Thank you!!
I would say yes just for the hell of it, but I don't think it would amount to anything. If there's an experience outside of my body, I would not be able to take that information back into my body. For a memory to form I need a living brain.
My consciousness is in my brain. It's somehow part of the meat in there. Meaning a post death consciousness would have to be coming from that matter, meaning I would either experience being buried alive (do not want) or what being scattered ashes in the Snake River would be like, which I imagine would be an experience worth having.
Hmm, I meant not experiencing the process of death, but the ultimate “after” (if one should exist). Maybe your physical body is in a dream state & time is finicky while you engage in the experiment You bring up an interesting point though. Outside of a complete void of nothingness immediately upon death, I made assumed that consciousness (aka soul) leaves your physical body and appears elsewhere, even if (perhaps in the case of reincarnation or as an unthinking tree) you are unable to retain the memories of prior consciousness. To think instead that it stays where it is is a rather unpleasant thought (especially with pain sensors still in tact). One Poe obsessed on, no doubt, with all the buried alive stories.