Thoughts of Death at Night

I dont know if this happens to anyone else, but this is something kind of scary that has happened to me frequently in the past.

Sometimes as i go to sleep, i look upon the clock and ponder to myself "what is death going to be like?", and once i get on this subject, i cant get it out of my mind, and i get all these deppresing ideas on death and what it will be like once you die. It causes insomnia for me. Sometimes i have to get out of bed and walk around the house and get some water or what not. And even once i have gotten the idea of death out of my system, it always springs back at me without me even wondering about it. Its rather scary sometimes and i stay up all night, laying in bed just wondering about it.

This hasent happened to me in awhile, but it use to happen about every other night. Its just odd, even on days where i feel really good and nothing went wrong that day, the idea of death still springs up.

 

Actually death is really a joyfull event for me, as no one knows about what'll happen afterwards, a full new experience... Are you good? so why bother?

 

i dunno, death just really freaks me out sometimes, and thinking about it is creepy for me.

 

I used to have the same problem. The only real way to "cure" it that I have found is to just occupy yourself with something. The more busy you are, the more you forget about it. Get a nightlight too, it really helps.

 

I do it to every night. It trips me out mostly because ice studied so much about it, theories and what not. It makes me really upset somtimes.

 

Yep me too, when I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet I find that I'm extremely sad and full of dread... I think of my deceased grandparents and that they're gone forever, and that one day I'll be gone too.

 

im already dead

 

I think about death all the time; I thoroughly enjoy it though.

I used to wonder all of the time about death when I was younger, then, when I was 15 I had somewhat of an out of body experience. I was talking to a friend online, doing regular things, and all of a sudden time stood still for a moment.

I could feel myself in my English classroom at school... I mean, really feel it. I walked in the door, called upon everyone's attention, and shot myself in front of the class. And in that moment, I had not once ounce of stress or worry in my body. All of my muscles literally relaxed and my breating became slow and deep. Then as quickly as it came, it left. It was an amazing feeling that left me actually looking forward to dying.

 

Maybe you should kill yourself and find out.

 

lol... i used to get worried someone would kill me, and i think it's just inner guilt or fear or whatever.. but now i'm not so wrried about death..if someone were to kill me i would enjoy the fight (hell, you could release a lot of anger), and dieing wouldn't be so bad...if there's nothing you wont care, if it's good it will be an experience, and if it's bad there will be a way out... maybe you wont even remember dieing and you'll just wake up as somebody else with a full memory..maybe that happens all the time..there are so many maybes that it ain't worth driving yourself crazy over

 

I used to get freaked out about it, but I couldent really care less anymore.

 

Come'n guys death is inevitable, so stop thinking of it... why think about it, it just is a fact.. and i do believe we should have the maximum fun in this life , while respecting of course. Then when that time has arrived, and we die we will have twice the fun we had in this world, or tripled or quatro.. etcetera )

yeah come on death im ready )) smile please dont be afraid

 

Sometimes I wish I knew there was an afterlife. Because I think death would be a lot of fun, the ultimate mindtrip. If i knew there was something beyond or reincarnation, I think I might kill myself just for the experience. HahaHahAhahaHa....

Um, but seriously, I do think about death pretty often. It's good to do, makes you remember to do what you want now, not later, cuz you may not HAVE a later. Death keeps us grounded. Living like we're immortal leads to very bad things. I don't really fear death, though I wouldn't mind putting it off a while, haha. It's probably not so bad, whatever it is. Everything living dies, so what's the worry?

 

fear death? either find a cure, or let it sink in (you are the all singing all dancing crap of the world -tyler durdan) and act accordingly. unfortunately death is currently a part of life, its also the cost of having such a irresponsible culture. think if everyone lived forever (overpopulation, lots of idiots, bad people, miserable cripples, and most importantly do you think that people would accomplish anything if the knew they could prolong important tasks indefinately?). you notice how people always seem to be happier in more dangerous areas? for instance san fransisco, its on the san andres fault right? its quite possible that there is a cure for death, its not likely that whoever possesed it would make it available to just anyone though so you would have to actively search for a cure. one that comes to mind is genetic engineering, currently its pretty dangerous but if you are willing to risk death for immortality, have the money and or connections go for it. im sure with enough research they might be able to spawn some kind of gene for super regeneration, and one for a immune system boost, and another advanced one to regenerate genes. though it wouldnt make you invunrable it would probably buy you a few hundred years to come up with a better solution if you lived your life carefully. we dont need to accept death, i just do because im too lazy to become a genetic engineer.

 

i used to be like that. I dont fear the expierience of dying. I fear no longer living.

 

I've been thinking that I am gonna die in a car crash soon. I've been having dreams about it almost every night.

 

I didn't read any of this thread.... but at nite, before I fall asleep I'm usually thinking they (from the movie They) will spring out from my wall or my closet or my bed and drag me to their world... I fall asleep under the covers just about every nite (because in the movie, they cant get you then...).

 

I thought I could share something with you all...about death and dying.

It is natural for us to fear the unknown, and the dark, and dying seems like it might be both of those things. Plus you add the pain, the grief of saying goodbye to people you love, maybe guilt for things done or undone...and of course it seems to be so frightening and so inconceivable....to be and then suddenly (apparently) not to be...
But I have been with people who were dying a number of times (I have volunteered in a hospice, and I now help people who choose to die at home).
It can be a beautiful experience too. It is like a birth...the same kind of intense moment...the same kind of sacredness. Somehow a person's death highlights their life, the people they have touched, the good that they have left behind them from having lived.
Each person I have been with at the moment of death has passed peacefully. For a while they just seem to retreat further and further from normal waking awareness, into an inner world, in preparation for the transition.
When we are young we think it must be like holding your breath, and struggling for more air, but it's not like that at all. It seems more like a gentle "slipping away"...there is no sense at all of struggle, only peace, a relinquishment, a letting go.
Once you have had an out of body experience you will realise that this body is only one layer of your larger self...the bit that vibrates on the physical level, and without it all the other parts of you can still survive quite happily (and in fact do).
Some people who die suddenly, jump out of their bodies so fast that they don't even realise they are dead for a while.
Many people experience moving through a tunnel and towards a beautiful light that is warm, loving and compelling...it seems natural to go towards it and they do not want to come back to their physical bodies.
Check Google for "near death experiences" and you should find lots of great websites. The best antidote to fear of the unknown (ignorance of something) is knowledge...if you do decide to check this stuff out, you'll have a wonderful journey ahead of you!

 

I think mostly of homicide and suicide when I am trying to sleep.

 

Well, that's not really knowledge though, is it? I mean, we all know that when we dream, time in 'the real world' is meaningless, dream-time is independent. We might be asleep for 10 minutes and dream a whole hour of time. Death is likely the same thing. Maybe all these NDEs are just the final moments of brain activity, it can seem like a long time, but once the brain stops, there's no more 'dreaming', no more NDE. And if there's no brain activity, there will be no memory of lost time, of the blankness between the end of the dream and the restarting of brain activity when they are brought back. It would seem like a continuous experience, but it isn't.

Now, I'm not discounting it, but it's still not real knowledge. We don't understand the brain yet, so how can we describe NDEs as actually being "the afterlife" rather than sporadic brain activity? Until this is understood, it's just another hypothesis.

Anyways, I figure we'll know when we die, and that's what's important. Death is the completion of life, the final brick in the grand building that is our lifetime. Not something I fear.