I would think that LDing would help you get over fear of death, but for some reason I cant stop thinking about it. Im fasinated with it, but it still scares the hell out of me. I know that death is just a natrual part of life, I would imagine its like a trip, but I really dont want to recycle back into life just to feel the same fears of dying again, and again.
Have you ever noticed how all moments in life peak after a year or more. Or how a song you havnt heard in a long time takes you back to that moment in life, that at the time didnt seem to be that great, but when you look back on it you think to yourself, “wow that was a great time in my life”, and while you reminese on the past moment, the present moment is peakink without you realizing it, and want realize it untill a future moment. Like right now the present moment dosnt seam that great, but soon it will. I think thats how death works, at the moment when you die, and your life is flashing before your eyes, you will be rushed back to all the moments in your life, and become euphoric. You will smell sences that you smelled at a times in your life, smell is the strongest sent tied to memory (acording to that deoderant comercial) I think thats why it may be important to use aroma therapy, and insence. Now Im starting to rambale, I can never stay on one topic for too long 
Im thinking of starting to burn a diffrent insence stick for every diffrent song I listen to. Then Im going to put away those songs for about a year, and then light up the insence stick, and get a natrual high. Now I dont even know what Im talking about, rambale, and then…bla, bla, bla, bla
I am the SAME way. I often feel weird about how much I think about it as well. But it’s not a morbid thought like “I wish I was dead!” It’s like…thinking of a place I vaugely familiar, like an old childhood memory. Whenever I read NDE’s, I get a very intense feeling, like I was reading something that I knew was true but too beyond my comprehension to accept fully.
But it’s in turn, made me appreciate life 100X more. Instead of wasting all that energy on the fear of Death, I now put it towards creating a better Life Review for when I finally do pass.
It makes logical sense to me as well. We log all this sensory input all through our lives, using the Brian to faciliate this information from the Physical to the Mind/Spirit. Upon Death, we become One with the ‘databank’ again, much like opening a Database in a Program and everything rushes back that you just experienced all at once because you are free from the constraints of Time.
I think when we die, we don’t ‘lose’ any part of ourselves, at least nothing we miss. All physical attachment is gone and all that’s left is what we crave the most out of life; pure emotion…and if we have spread love in this life, it will be positive emotion. If anything, we’ll GAIN more information about ourselves. Why we act certain ways, why we have certain likes/dislikes, etc… And best of all, we’ll KNOW we’re dead, we’ll retain our individuality. I believe upon passing I will be able to look back on this Life and willfully let go of it. We have Free Will and I do not think that will ever change. We must CHOOSE to Return to God.
As for me i cant actually wait till i see the other side.Finally no toothaches,no money problems,no aging…just me and my thought created worlds and swinging on the fluffy clouds.
If i had one wish id just like it to happen sudden and fast…hate being sick,hospitals,pills,and all this.
Heartstroke while making love would be my favourite way of saying goodbye to this world:)
I used to think about death A LOT. At a very young age, like 8 or 9 years old. I was terrified of death after almost (accidentally) hanging myself with a jump rope on a play ground. I’m not sure what happened, but I gradually stopped thinking about it and now I don’t even fear it. I can’t explain it, but it’s like I’m completely indifferent to death now. I don’t welcome nor fear it, I don’t mourn other peoples’ deaths nor do I feel happy for it. I don’t have any beliefs whatsoever as to what happens to us when we die, so it hasn’t been a spiritual change. Like I said I can’t describe it, maybe I’m unconsciously ignoring it or something but I doubt it. For all you people who already posted here and have said something about what death is like, I hope you came to that conclusion by yourself because it’s one thing that you can’t take anyone’s word for.
Like I said, im both fasenated, and scared of it at the same time. I think Im fasenated with the fear of it. I think death is a very mystical expireance. I hope I dont die before my time. I want to be prepared for it. Thats why Im really enterested in dreaming, lucid dreaming, and astral projection. The fact is one day when we die, it will be just as real as the present moment is now.
Well, I just hope I don’t get murdered or die of some horrible disease like Ebola, that would not be spitual or interesting. And death maybe a natural part of life, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it, if the grim reaper comes for me I’m gonna ask him to play me at chess for my life, and then because I don’t know how to play I’m going to hit him over the head with a rock when he’s not looking.
Same here Jack. I can’t wait to see what the other side is like. I meen it’s not like I’m going to kill myself to get there but I’m kind of exited to see what It’s like. I really hope it will be fast and painless.
To put your mind at rest…if you die, it was your time. Everything that happens to you is the best thing for you, even though our Ego’s distort the intention.
I’ve done a fair amount of out of body stuff and plenty of LD’s, when I have a really high one, something that means something, ones that feel powerful, they always seem to intensify my appreciation of waking life.
I don’t want to die and I’d rather that when it happens it was a good death but, I’m not afaid of dying. I am sort of worried about continuing my existance rather than just oblivion. Oblivion seems easy to handel really, If the afterlife is like astral planes then I have no dought It will be a middel to higher plane for me. So life will carry on, some questions will get answered and some are going to remain.
This astral stage of your existance could last for eternity, think about that when you sometimes go misty eyed for the beyond.
Maybe this world IS the jewel of existance, the fact that you can catch Ebola or get hit by a car and your stay is likely to be less than a brief 100 years might make it the most special thing a soul could ever experience.
I think death is nothing to be afraid of and the reason that most humans are scared of death is simply survival of the fitest b/c a long time ago the humans that were most scared of death were able to reproduce more than the others so the trait was passed down
That makes sence. I bet alot of our fears have just been past down from generations.We greave at funerals, instead of celibrateing the life lived. Which is understandble because its sad, that the life has departed from us, its hard to lose loved ones, and that sadnest feeds the fear of our own death. We display death in caskets, and grave yards. I think grave yards are places of beauty, and peace, and Ive allways been fasinated when I see a hursh go by, with a long funeral resestion behind it. I hope that dosnt sound like Im some sick morbid person, but I think you understand what I mean.
I understand what you’re saying. I read once in a book that people should die in graveyards and be buried in hospitals, because graveyards are so peaceful and hospitals are depressing. I completely agree with that, but I only wish I could remember where that was written.
this is one of my favorite quotes:
“Death is the only great adventure.” -Captain Hook
I’m more afraid of dying than death itself I think.
I’ve seen too many waste away, slowly losing every body function with great pain and suffereing until the only thing left is their mind then that goes too. Okay I’m depressed now.
Rather than go through that sort of crap I think when the time was near and if things were very painful or unpleasant I’d like to be able to die willfully, if you know what I mean.
For instance I’d like to go to sleep, be lucid and pass over to the other side if there is one by will rather than be driven insane by pain.
Seen too many stick around to the bitter end and it wasn’t a pretty site. Stuff that, if I’m going to go I want to go quicker!
I have no idea how to do that by thought alone but hopefully when the time comes I’ll figure out how.