I am wondering what it is like to be a ghost or to experience reality without a physical body like the people who have died or live in haunted houses. Some people describe it as relaxing and other people say it’s scary or unfulfilling if they did not accomplish things they wanted. If you guys have ever died or are currently dead, what is your experience?
If you recall how you felt before your birth, it feels exactly the same as that.
I feel that I have a vague idea about what that was like but I wish it was possible to have pictures or videos from that time so people can have a clear idea.
Ask your parents, they probably have some photos of the time before your birth.
Edit: typo
So one of my mother’s friends very briefly died from COVID-19. According to her, being dead was peaceful, basically just nothingness, and she was slightly miffed that they brought her back.
if you went into space, stuck a spoon out and tried to eat what the spoon collected, the nothingness that goes into your mouth, well, at the smallest levels, there are millions of things popping into and out of existence. when we die, the nothingness we become will fade in and out of this reality, but our consciousness won’t be able to interact so we’re back to that spoonful of nothingness.
Have you ever gone under general anaesthesia? The kind where you are up and talking one second, and then, ten hours later, you wake up somewhere else entirely? You know that space in-between, where there was nothing at all?
It’s about like that, except that you never wake up.
Your consciousness is inextricably entwined with your physical existence. Everything about you that makes you you is contained in your brain. When your brain chemistry is changed–by drugs, disease, or injury–who you are changes as well. When your brain dies, when it ceases to function, you cease to exist. There is no evidence that there is some supernatural force that inhabits your body and brain, but on the contrary, there is plenty of evidence that you are your body and brain.
7/10 it’s 'aight
Literally no one alive can tell you because there is no sensory input when you’re dead. Hence the being dead part.
But if you want to try to imagine what it will be like, the commenter who stated imagining what it was like pre-conception/birth…that’s about as accurate as is possible to describe.
I anticipate nothingness — and I’m reminded of what Mark Twain said about fearing death.
I have a friend who used to drink too much water. This eventually lead to him having dangerously low sodium levels but he didn’t know that. One day, he knew something was wrong and was yelling to his landlady next door to get help. He passed out outside of his apartment. Then he was in a coma for 4 days.
I asked him what the coma was like. He said he remembered having a vague sense of panic like he was still trying to get his landlady. He doesn’t remember, but when he first woke up, he was screaming her name and fighting the nurses.