I did get messed up by some anxiety and have these thoughts rolling through my head so I'll leave it at cosmic horror warning.

spoilerI'm not religious but I have thoughts about experiencing consciousness and what it is. I say that consciousness is independent of memory because we forget, clearly dependent on our physical body, etc. generally I do say that we don't know consciousness so maybe it can be reconstructed (in the can't rule out the possibility way)

So I can see scenarios were my conscious could pop into existence without my memories after I die (as I'm writing this I realized that's nothing to fear).

I am trying to adopt healthier mindset of looking at everything in life as a quest, new things are a call to action, and that it's okay if everything I do amounts to little in x number of years (worked out okay for ozymandias, right?).

Im probably just rambling because my life has got boring and monotonous along with actual fear of American politics.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (20 children)

No.

Do you remember before being born? It's the same after.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    So reincarnation is not a thing but what's to stop "you" from coming back as a new individual? After all, it happened at least once.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That's where we get into technicalities and states of dying.

    Ao while I was medically dead it wasn't so dead that it was unrecoverable. Akin to a reset. Which, depending on the state you were in and the measures taken, could also have side effects and damages.

    Anyhow biologically 'you' are still there. And leaving the body is it after a bit of decay. Like a complex system falling apart unrecoverably.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    What about people who claim past life memories?

    As is common amongst Buddhists

    Related video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BFX_qhhyk

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I am aware. I personally think it's a load of religious bull, but don't directly want to offend anyone wanting to believe it.

    I also know repatriation (I hope that's the correctly translated term) which is proven to be planted suggested memories through that very process scientifically as far as I am aware at the current state of science.

    I do love reading (eg the game is life) playing with these theories, though!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Proof of the evidence that reparitation is suggested?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Fair request.

    I did some research into the topic a year ago due to my situation and came to the stated conclusion.

    So I tried to find some scientific research again right now (in a limited time frame of like 10 to 20 minutes, on my mobile).

    I first tried in English bot got a lot of hits regarding companies and since my native language is not English I don't know what that word means in relation to companies and also didn't want to waste time on that.

    So I tried it in German and was flooded by hits which offer that ad a service and as such of course tell you how successful it is. Obviously.

    I was not able to find the research I remember within that time, I am sorry.

    However in any case you'd be free to believe whatever anyway.

    The point of the information I read was however that people coming out of the procedure (sometimes, possibly also accidentally) get memories planted in a well known psychological way and it is a highly untrustworthy procedure.

    So that's why I didn't do it. I have enough to cope with and don't need additional fictional issues added to that 😁

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    And they found that all this does is create false memories?

    Edit: Oh you meant the hypnosis does. Yeah not sure why he recommended that part before meditation

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Indeed. So the brain would create memories from context.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think conclusively stating that is a bit much, we don’t know shit about how consciousness works, do how can we know what happens if it ends?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I died and came back and there was nothing, that concludes it for me. Ymmv, of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are you sure? Like what do you mean nothing? Like it all went to black? How do you know you just don't remember it?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    (in order of questions)

    Yes I am. Well, like dreamless time-skip sleeping or before being born, nothing. No not even going to black just not and nothing being there, movie cut.

    And lastly, I can't, true. It could also be being influenced by the cocktail of medication you get in that situation which by the way has created a lot of stories to tell afterwards (trips) but not from the time of dying.

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