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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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[–] FlordaMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 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?

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 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?

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

NDEs are probably not drug induced... probably

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I like to compare it to electronics (since our brain also runs on/with electricity): unplug old electronics and have a look what's being displayed while the memory and visuals lose their power. 😁

But after that, it's gone.