You ever get that thought...

[TA1LGUNN3R]

That, y'know how they say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die? What if, in that event before your untimely demise, you live each moment again, thus giving rise to the consciousness of the moment and therefore consciousness? So at that second before death, you remember that memory of your future as a foreboding to you doom. Hence emotion, despair, etc.

I think I got something here.

-TG

[TA1LGUNN3R]

So... grossly exponential neural activity...

So you're just about to go splat right now.... sad.


edit? HOLYSHIT! But, you say, "TG, that kind of neural and therefore biological electochemical energy at such exponential levels will eventually and actually quite quickly exceed any potential energy function in all of creation." Never fear, as I can rebuke this. If this massively big energy were active enough over a short enough time period, then that's cool because the reaction time exceeds action time. So then we're all traveling at the speed of light because to proper time in a light burst time does not pass, and we're all experiencing time instantaneously.

What is this energy? The Big Bang. Bam.

-TG

[BigBallinStalin]

21 grams, dawg.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

[jonesthecurl]

Well, Pratchett says that your life does pass before you just before you die.
It's called "life".

[TA1LGUNN3R]

21 grams, dawg.

goddamn you del Toro.

-TG

[nietzsche]

Science only describes. Science cannot be the cause.

Make room for it, I will discover the it all.

[Kaplowitz]

So you would forget having lived that life in the first place? That's depressing on it's own, I'd say.

[DoomYoshi]

"foreboding to you doom". I read this as: "foreboding to you, doom"

[TA1LGUNN3R]

21 grams, dawg.

Still haven't seen this, but I think another appropriate movie would be Rubber, which I just saw last night. What a trip that movie was. Kinda freaky.

-TG

[thegreekdog]

If your life flashes before your eyes before you die, wouldn't that mean you would live forever (at least in your own mind)?
THINK ABOUT THAT MOTHER FUCKERS!

[xeno]

This reminds me almost exactly of a premise my friend was trying to explain to me the other day while I was stoned

[notyou2]

If your life flashes before your eyes before you die, wouldn't that mean you would live forever (at least in your own mind)?
THINK ABOUT THAT MOTHER FUCKERS!

Already been done. I think they call it reincarnation.

[thegreekdog]

This reminds me almost exactly of a premise my friend was trying to explain to me the other day while I was stoned

Was he stoned?

Also, you might be dying and reliving that period of time (and also this period of time).

Hey, maybe that's what the extra X% of our brain is used for - storing up shit for when we die.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

If your life flashes before your eyes before you die, wouldn't that mean you would live forever (at least in your own mind)?
THINK ABOUT THAT MOTHER FUCKERS!

Exactly. Kinda where I was going with the whole thing.

-TG

[BigBallinStalin]

If your life flashes before your eyes before you die, wouldn't that mean you would live forever (at least in your own mind)?
THINK ABOUT THAT MOTHER FUCKERS!

Yeah, until you die.

Case Closed.

[unscripted]

What if your head gets blown off?

[xeno]

Well before you die your brain releases some pretty crazy chemicals to make you trip balls on the way out so who knows

[Haggis_McMutton]

Weird, I just read a post about some guy's near death experience and now I find this thread.

IT MUST BE A SIGN.

Anyway, here's the post, it's kinda interesting.

I had a massive pulmonary embolism (PE) and nearly died. My experience was very similar to what is described in the OP's link.
My heart was beating extremely fast due to the PE, and the lack of oxygen was making me feel very panicked. As it got worse though, a curious thing happened over a minute or so as I circled the drain in ever-smaller spirals.
First I got tunnel vision and could really only see what was right in front of me. Then all the colour leeched out and I was reduced to seeing in black and white. If you ask me, this is the origin for many of those near-death tunnels-with-a-light-at-the-end.
My hearing faded out too. It was like my ears were stuffed with cotton wool, and there was this weird high pitched buzz.
I was feeling very frightened. If you've never been acutely short of breath before you won't know quite how it feels, but ask a friend with asthma or some other breathing problem. It's terrifying, literally physically thrashing around for air. But as my vision faded, something changed.
Things started not to matter. I have bipolar disorder, and all the bad things in my life began to seem completely unimportant. That was when I knew I was dying.
Concepts like fear and courage didn't mean anything. It was like falling into a vast black ocean of calm. I felt a massive disconnection from my physical body; at the time I felt utterly separated from physicality.
It wasn't just a physical detachment. It wasn't just an end to socially constructed ideas like courage and sadness. In those last ten to twenty seconds, I stopped caring. Stopped caring about everything and everyone.
Didn't care I wouldn't see anyone again. Didn't care that this was the end of my life. It was the most profound sense of peace, but 'peace' in a very alien sense.
In the last few seconds, I felt small. I felt smaller and smaller inside my own head. And I felt I was surrounded by unimaginable vastness. If you picture me floating in that deep dark ocean I mentioned above, it was like the camera you're viewing me from zoomed out and kept on zooming until I was the tiniest pinprick.
I was absolutely insignificant to myself.
And I was at peace.
And it was ok.

[xeno]

That depressed me slightly. We aren't supposed to understand death but that is as close as I could imagine it being like

[BigBallinStalin]

That depressed me slightly. We aren't supposed to understand death but that is as close as I could imagine it being like

":(" ?

Sounds like a good experience.

[xeno]

That depressed me slightly. We aren't supposed to understand death but that is as close as I could imagine it being like

":(" ?

Sounds like a good experience.

Depends on how you look at it. I like living

[BigBallinStalin]

That depressed me slightly. We aren't supposed to understand death but that is as close as I could imagine it being like

":(" ?

Sounds like a good experience.

Depends on how you look at it. I like living

We don't really have a choice at that moment, so since it's extremely horrifying but then peaceful, I'll take that as good.

[AndyDufresne]

Depends on how you look at it. I like living

We don't really have a choice at that moment, so since it's extremely horrifying but then peaceful, I'll take that as good.

I've already uploaded my consciousness to the interwebs in this Off Topics forum, so I'mma live forever.
k tnx n bye


--Andy

[Lil_SlimShady]

If I had a near death experience and returned back to the land of the living wih a bipolar dissorder I would also make up something poetic and profound. Maybe write a book about it. Get millions. Script a movie. Get more millions. And then properly die.