This may be a bit much for most, but...

I'm not 100% sure I'm not actually already dead. Isn't it true (or so it has been said) that the actual moment of a person's death is something they will never experience, that it isn't the way it's so often depicted in (for example) films?
In a scene you'll have a person dying in a hospital bed, and they'll be saying something like, "I think I'm going. Yes, I see my grandparents, I'm going, going... "
That's all rather melodramatic, and I've come across many NDE stories that to me seem all a little bit too perfect, so I'm inclined to believe that the "moment" of death will be a non-event.
Like when I was anethetised in hospital for my operation about three years ago. I was asked to count backwards from ten, but before I got to one I found myself already waking up. I don't remember a thing, the moment of the loss of consciousness just never happened. Well... how can I know for sure that it hasn't already occurred? Maybe it happened when I tried to overdose when I was 16. I ended up waking up really late, groggy from having taken all those sleeping pills, but maybe I didn't wake up at all.
Anyway, this could be Hell. It's definitely not Heaven.

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GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

This dimension is definitely one of the lower dimensions - closer to Hell than not. It's not base reality either... Somewhat of a simulation.

Look up Quantum Immortality. It's an interesting concept.

I believe that we're all immortal souls, and that it's possible that we have died many times. Not everyone has the same experience of death. I think it's unique to the individual.

And I think the reason why we're here is different for everyone.

DLight

@GeistInTheMachine Yes, I'm already familiar with the idea of quantum immortality. It seems to be a much discussed topic at the moment, and I can understand why, because it seems to not only give scientific credence to the idea that we may never die, but it does so in a way that seems to grab you by the throat and shake you and say, "Here! Look at this! If you think you'll ever cease to exist, you're delusional".

TheHammer · M

I think going into a social site online and posting something, is a reliable sign that you are, in fact, alive.

DLight

@TheHammer But is it? Social media, like all else that we're aware of in this reality, may be just a part of the "dream" we're having.
Actually, if anything at all is fake in this world of ours, it would have to be "social media".

TheHammer · M

@DLight
You do have point there

SoftIceCream

If you take a razor blade, made a tiny little cut on the back of your hand and then pour lemon juice on it, you will know you are alive.

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DLight

@SoftIceCream "...when you are dead there is nothing" - that was your first mistake here. You don't know that. That's just an assumption.
"...brain is no longer accepting input" - Oh dear oh dear oh dear! Such a simple, and overly-simplistic, take on the matter you have here.
I don't accept the notion that the brain produces consciousness, or our sense of self. Why? Because first of all, there are no good reasons to believe the brain produces consciousness, in spite of all the alleged evidence that some have claimed for the notion, and secondly the materialistic paradigm is currently crumbling due to the inherent inconsistencies and self-contradictions that exist within it.
I believe (yes, this is a belief of mine) that consciousness is modulated via the brain, in much the same way as a television or radio signal from a transmitting station makes it possible for us to see images on a TV screen, or hear the song playing.
In other words, I don't accept your premises. At all. Not even remotely, because to me they make no sense whatsoever.

SoftIceCream

@DLight With your spiritualistic description of conscience, how do you explain the change in a person that suffers brain damage? If they had consciousness someplace else then a simple nail in the brain, or a stroke, or a brick to the skull should have no effect, but it does.
Our physical brain is all we get, and when it is gone, well, there is nothing left. There is no mysterious place our conscious goes, no spiritual plain or magical mystery tour.
Look at drug addicts, they started out as normal people long ago, before the drugs took over, altering their brains and changing what they do, who they associate with, and everything about their lives going forward. Very few ever recover.
You can fantasize anyway you like, it makes no difference to the facts of life and death. Keep your brain healthy.

DLight

@SoftIceCream No, you don't understand. I didn't make the claim that we have our consciousness "someplace else". What I basically said was that in order for consciousness to even exist (never mind in what form), a brain may be what is required in order for it to manifest in our material world, but that there is also something else without which there is no "spark", so to speak.

I mean, sure, if you hit your head on something hard enough, you may cause permanent damage to how the brain within your skull works, but even so "you" are still there, even if in modified form. It also explains why, in spite of the fact that over a sufficiently long period of time within our lives, who we are as a person, that sense of "I" persists even though our entire body is renewed. I'm still the same person I was 15 years ago, but the body I had back then is well and truly gone.

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