I just came here to share this, because it moved me deeply when I first saw it, and it somehow fits here.
"What happens as we die? | Kathryn Mannix" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDDByT0Vr0
End-of-Life Dreams
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#82Just a theory: The brain probably subconsciously predicts death when it is basically a sensor for your entire body, when it does predict it, it triggers something basic in nature, looking forward to something that will happen and non materialistic and basic in nature.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I'm just confused why so many people are pre-facing their comments with some version of "I'm a life-long atheist but I can relate to this story somehow" as if there is a discrepancy between atheism and the article. For the record, I think strong atheism, or the confidence that there is no god or after-life, is just as wrong as being confident that there is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_…
Oh, thanks for that! As an atheist I always wondered what annoyed me so much in other more vocal and militant atheists. I'd love to believe in God, a superior power, benevolent aliens, re-incarnation, anything! The problem is that I just can't, no matter how much I try.
And there have probably been people who think like you since the beginning, otherwise the bible wouldn't have to go out of its way to say:
> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good
Psalms 14:1
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#85While bedridden, I hallucinated wordless conversations with the Grim Reaper. One day, in the landscape of my mind, he rode up to me on a black steed, leaned down and peered into my face, then swirled around and rode off. I ran after him screaming "Don't leave me here! Take me with you!"
That was the last time the Grim Reaper came to see me. With his departure, I knew I would live.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19598654
Thank you for posting this. I think dreams are meaningful and give clues to our state of health. It's hard to find good material on the topic. I have a Reddit for it but I'm the only member and I'm having trouble figuring out how to develop it. This is an excellent piece and I'm happy to be able to post it there.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Since I have a rich interior dialogue with myselves "inside" Interesting~! We are a DID system that contains around 8 people but we don't have a very rich internal dialogue between ourselves despite the fact that we're capable of trying if we focus. What is this like for you? How rich is 'rich'? -Emily
I don't really know how to go about asking this, so I'll just ask it. No disrespect intended. What do you mean when you say around eight? Are there like hidden or incomplete/developing selves?
> Are there like hidden or incomplete/developing selves?
Yeah, pretty much. We know there's probably at least one entity that we're not sure counts as a full person or even a member, and past that we're just not sure.
A fun fact is that we're pretty sure that entity thinks in only words and doesn't have a mind's eye (or that mind's eye only visualizes text).
> No disrespect intended.
None taken~
-Emily
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#87Was hoping this would be about broken promises made to devs about fixing bugs and technical debt.
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#88Whatever is happening, it is sad to hear about yet another case where doctors are too arrogant to listen to their patients and try to understand. It might not be a spiritual experience, it might be delirium. But perhaps it is important step in the human mind making peace with death. And it disappoints me greatly that the medical community shuns this phenomenon and anyone who tries to research it. There is nothing wor…
> And it disappoints me greatly that the medical community shuns this phenomenon The medical community is a joke as a whole. They even brush off side effects because they have never heard about them before. They are as unscientific as you can go. Nowhere in hard science world do people act like that.
I have respect for doctors and their skills, but I don’t associate the guys actually running around in a hospital with hard science. They are factory workers, like programmers that produce widgets on a tight deadline. They have a metric ton of shit to handle under enormous stress.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Since I have a rich interior dialogue with myselves "inside" Interesting~! We are a DID system that contains around 8 people but we don't have a very rich internal dialogue between ourselves despite the fact that we're capable of trying if we focus. What is this like for you? How rich is 'rich'? -Emily
Not that rich. It's usually a two-person dialogue. But the quality here is that most people have some kind of interior dialogue with themselves. Most? Above 50%. I think well above, the web disagrees. If it's couched by most people as an interior monologue rather than dialogue, I think it stands as a distinct state which argues at a minimum 2 participants (the one listening, unvoiced?) Sometimes mine is in schoolboy…
I've asked a close friend of mine something along those lines. His native language is Spanish but he's been speaking English was well since he was around 3, so I think he safely grew up bilingual.
Anyhow, he said his default voice in his head these days most of the time is English, unless he is around his family and is exclusively speaking Spanish out loud with them, in those cases he just naturally continues speaking Spanish in his head to himself as well without having to "think" about it.
But a lot of times when he's not kinda zoned out, or high/drunk/tired, his thoughts sometimes slip into being entirely in Spanish without him even realizing, and when he's reeeealllly drunk he won't even realize for a bit he's speaking Spanish out loud to me as well haha.
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#90This is a Catholic magazine so it's not surprising that it puts a lowkey spiritual spin on the topic but honestly, the first thing you'd need to do if you wanted to look at is soberly is consider how often people have death related dreams, how often they happen in dying people, and consider whether this isn't merely an artifact of randomness.
I've had death related dreams dozens of times if not more and I don't think that's super uncommon, and had I actually kicked the bucket you could've probably called it an end-of-life dream. This may very well be the literal opposite of survivor bias.
How often do people immediately disregard dreams if it turns out they have no relationship to experienced reality shortly after? Probably every day.