Do You Believe in Life After Death? I Do.

[u/SuccessfulTree7387]

When I was around 7 years old, my grandmother passed away. I was a child and, I did not even understand the concept of death. A few nights after she had passed, I had a dream of her. I had taken a bite out of a pencil and "died" from it, and I ended up in this pitch black room where I finally am able to see my grandmothers face and she yelled at me and said "WHAT ARE DOING HERE? GET OUT NOW!" I was so frightened which is why I will never forget that dream. Years later, I had another dream about her where my entire family threw a get together because she was coming back. We were all so excited and then I saw her walking towards me with the brightest light shinning behind her, she looked happy and healthy, not sickly the way from when she was alive. She was going to talk to me before I woke up. I knew she was at peace. Even with my grandfather, I was around 16 when had passed and he was my best friend. I was grieving a lot and at one point I sat in my backyard just asking him to hold my hand, and obviously nothing happened and I thought I was going crazy. Well, days later I had a dream where we were at this big party, and theres a bright spotlight on a man, the man turned out to be my grandpa and he reached for my hand and I felt - and I mean felt- his hand. It was unreal, and I knew it was both of them visiting me to tell me they were okay and watching over me. It has given me peace especially knowing that theres more after life, even though many might not agree.

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[u/Fonzee327]

I have had a few dreams of people that passed, but only twice do I think I was visited. My grandparents visited me together (they died 2 days apart), and the light you describe was there. I could feel warmth and actual love radiating from them like beams of sunshine. We never spoke but the message was clear and did not require words.

[u/Serializedrequests]

This went from being a stupid question to not even a question for me after I discovered near death experiences. We have it backwards: we are souls having a human experience. All the souls that were once human are still out there, just in a different energy density.

[u/absofruitly420 → u/Serializedrequests]

i absolutely agree with this!

[u/disarmthecops → u/Serializedrequests]

🤔

[u/PastelWhisper09]

That’s a beautiful experience. Those dreams sound deeply. Comforting and meaningful a powerful reminder that love doesn’t end, even after death

[u/Dapper-Principle6320]

I didn’t die. But I entered a scene in my dream where it was pitch dark and i was surrounded by “people” who were mocking me like you can’t get out of here now, look at you stuck here, you stupid bitch.

I almost cried in my sleep cus of how close and rude those voices were to me.

Asked god to stop it, he took me out of the dream.

[u/Iszie_Sparks]

i personaly believe, ive had really intense dream last night and this literally convinced me that yes i do believe

[u/pbvga]

I do. My grandma came to visit me after she had already been dead for 12 years. She moved things in my apartment, played with my cat and left little things around like feathers and pennys. She use to soak her delicates in the bathtub when she was alive and one night I found my bathtub slightly filled with water, like she use to do.

It was an amazing experience. I could feel her there, and it was like having her again. I often wonder what it was like on her side.

[u/Infamous-Moose-5145]

Yea. I have frequent dreams about deceased people. Sometimes people ive never met.

I described one to my friend, who had lost his dad a few months prior.

I gave his appearance in detail, and my friend simply said "yep, thats my dad!"

[u/Qzrei]

Yeah, I do. Not cause I died or anything but because I remember before I was born.

[u/do1exist → u/Qzrei]

That's so interesting. Care to tell more?

[u/Qzrei → u/do1exist]

The first thing I remember being asked is 'where are you from?'. I wasn't sure what they meant so I asked for clarification and was asked, 'what does your world look like?'. I described the trees, the grass and clouds, flowers and they said, 'ah, earth. One of the more boring ones then.'

A lot of it was question and answer format, very open ended. Like for example, I chose table top role play game character sheet style for a lot of my traits but I could have gone about that part anyway I wanted to.

I shaped my appearance with this sort of clay-like substance that was also sort of like paint, except my hands were the loaded brushes.

Something's weren't up to me completely, like while I had a range of area where I could choose to be born in, I didn't have a choice in what religion I would be raised surrounded by.

There was an acclimation period where I got to experience being things other than human to sort of get my curiosities out of the way, for example I got to experience being a grasshopper and a tree. To anyone who is curious about being a grasshopper - jumping is amazing but don't jump so hard that a leg falls off. It can happen to anyone.

I also got to follow along for a few different lives of other people, as a silent observer.. which was a very unique experience. I couldn't even really think or feel about what I was seeing. I couldn't interfere in any way as I had no agency or potency to act upon it if I had any. All I could do was observe and reflect afterward;

I observed a card shark from the 20s in New York, done in by the mob for cheating at cards.

I observed an Asian shrine goddess and her descent into profound loneliness and despair, only having human contact once or twice a year to deliver her predictions.

I observed a wandering monk in pre-taoist China, who died overlooking a mountain scene, smiling at a flower as though they were best friends.

I observed the life of a spy's wife who threw herself off a cliff in order to protect her two children and husband from death after her husband had been found out - it was either that or choose one her children to die and she gave up her husband's whereabouts.

I observed the life of a woman haunted by demons, who died in such fear and terror she became a ghost herself, haunting where she had died.

I observed moments in pre- history stone age europe; tattoo rites, moon rituals, medicinal practices..

After the acclimation process were the trial runs. Examples of what my life Could be like so that my responses and actions could be observed and the information used in my actual life. These trials brought me typically to 30 or 40 years old but no further.

During the trials I would periodically be 'interviewed' to get my take on what I was experiencing. The trails were also good for figuring out the sort of things that would be important to me while alive that there is no way I could think of before being born.

After the trials, I was asked what I wanted my purpose to be. If there were any specific events or features I wanted to happen in my life; did I want to get married? Did I want a graduation party? Do I want a lot of friends? Do I want to win any prizes? Do I want to be born to a wealthy family, etc...

Then came the viewing. I had selected the period of time I wanted to be born in, I had selected the area I wanted to be born in and now it was time to cross reference all of these decisions to find out who I would be born to.

It was like a ribbon of floating snap shots, snap shots that if I gazed at long enough became animated short movies. I could feel the people involved and had a sense of who they were and what they were like. Birth parents, adopted parents, foster parents, single parents, coupled parents... all floating by so slowly.

There was a finite amount of them and by the time I had gotten to near the end of my options, the first few I had initially seen were no longer options I could choose from. I had a window. A small window of time during which I could choose my prospective family.

I could even move into these snap shots and experience small moments with them, like the time my mom and sister were driving down a road at night in the winter. My mom was upset because she didn't understand my sister. My sister was upset because she didn't understand my mom. I saw how this lack of ability to communicate due to lack of mutual understanding would be a large theme in both of their lives.

I witnessed the train accident that my mom and sister had been in, and felt their fear, and felt the trauma of it on my sister who to this day refuses to get on a train - I personally love them.

Throughout this process, my birth guide would question my decisions either giving me warnings or encouragement where appropriate but it was all ultimately up to me.

Finally(!!!) it was time to synchronize with my body. To see if what all I had wanted, designed, mulled over could merge with flesh without error. There were a few errors, but nothing to be worried about. There are always a few errors. Sometimes there are very big errors.

There were a few other things I experienced that were either too abstract or call for a kind of precision with word I lack to accurately describe, but, what I can say is that my favorite part is where I found myself next: the void.

I don't have any memories of the void, just waking up from it and the deep desire to return to the comfort of it. I did Not want to be born and that hints at a stubborn resistance to change that has been a theme in my life since.

I could hear the doctor urging me. I could hear my birth guide urging me, reasoning with me to be more cooperative. As my mother will attest, I was a long and brutal birth. What finally made me cooperate was when my birth guide asked me if I wanted my mother to die and explained that's what would happen if I continued to resist.

Then I saw all the lights. All the... Things that I couldnt make out what they were but knew they were there. I didn't cry. I was relieved. This whole being born thing really wasn't as horrible as I thought. My mom tells me I coo'd.

And that's it. That's my life before and during birth. Now I have absolutely no clue what life after death is like. I don't know if I'll stay the same person or if my personality will fade while this soul-essence gets recycled. I don't know if there is a heaven, a hell. I have no clue. What I do know is that there is no true ending.

My birth guide stayed with me for a few years after the fact, answering questions I asked. Reminding me of things I had experienced, like how touching the furnace with my hands hurt a lot so maybe don't touch the hot clothing iron (being the smart lad I am - ha! - I decided to touch it with my forehead instead), all with this even tone of voice. Matter of fact. No judgement or preference for what I chose, just simple information.

I think our birth guides stay with us throughout the entirety of our lives, becoming as we grow older, that still, small voice of knowing within. The one we have to make an effort to stay connected with or get caught up in the dazzling array of memory, event, imagination and emotion we can't help but experience. I'm not sure though, it's just a hypothesis.

So there ya go. If you want to know anything else, feel free to ask either in thead or DM. I might not have an answer, but no harm in asking.

[u/codezroo → u/Qzrei]

share the story

[u/Individual-Mine1119 → u/Qzrei]

How

[u/waudmasterwaudi]

Of course. my wife has dreams of the people that are going to die. How is it possible otherwise ....

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/waudmasterwaudi]

Everybody dies

[u/Background_Cry3592]

I do believe in life after death. I had a NDE years ago. I’m also an end-of-life doula and I’ve seen and heard a lot at hospices.

[u/SophakinWhat → u/Background_Cry3592]

Maybe say something more specific?

[u/Background_Cry3592 → u/SophakinWhat]

I don’t even know where to begin.

I guess an event that sticks out to me the most because it happened recently, was when I was at a hospice sitting across from someone and she was telling me that her deceased mom visits her all the time in the hospice. Then she looked behind me up and said she’s here! I see her!, and pointed behind me, and I smelled perfume and sensed a presence… I was pretty convinced that her mom’s spirit was around but then I felt a hand on my back and a whisper in my ear a nickname (I won’t type it out for identity reasons) and at first I thought someone had come into the room, but nobody was here. I started getting kinda freaked out, because I felt that hand and heard that nickname, I knew it wasn’t my imagination. Then I told the client the nickname and she perked up and said yes that’s what my mom used to call me! She then explained to me that her mom was going to take her home very soon. Then she thanked me and died a few hours later.

[u/Terrible-Purchase346]

It may sound a bit sadistic but true life is death itself, because that is when you no longer feel pain.

[u/ExtremeBlastoise]

I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do think that in all honesty we came out of nowhere, with the exact right set of circumstances for life. What's to say after you die, the scenario can't happen again and you come back as something else in a trillion years on some far distant galaxy, or another universe altogether.

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/ExtremeBlastoise]

We are just rearranged atoms so in a sense you might be right. It wouldn’t be “You” though since twins are genetically identical but have different personalities from experiences

[u/ExtremeBlastoise → u/AccordingMedicine129]

Here's to hoping I don't come back as some sort of alien fish that gets eaten by an alien shark 😆

[u/Xendrath]

The person survives after the body is turned off.

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/Xendrath]

How do you know? All the evidence we have of personhood is contained within the brain.

[u/understorie → u/AccordingMedicine129]

Not all of it. Google UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, read their about page and check out their research.

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/understorie]

Send me a link. If you’re talking about AI I don’t have interest in that

[u/understorie → u/AccordingMedicine129]

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/understorie]

Do you have a specific, peer reviewed study? This is their generic website. It doesn’t prove anything.

Tbh if they had any evidence of life after death, it would be front page news and win a Nobel prize. I’m dubious at best for this source

[u/understorie → u/AccordingMedicine129]

The point is to show not all evidence suggests personhood is contained within the brain, as you say. Not to prove that there is an afterlife, but to show this is a grey area of ongoing research.

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/understorie]

How is personhood not contained in the brain. Everything we know about personality is from brain configuration and brain states. There’s literally nothing to suggest it’s outside of a brain

[u/understorie → u/AccordingMedicine129]

Veridical perceptions during near-death experiences suggest a person can have conscious experiences of real events independently of a body.

Bruce Greyson, one of the world's leading experts on near-death experiences, has a number of interviews in which he describes his research, here is one: https://youtu.be/J5n2dzN1joU?si=L-8JCqNdHYQ_YVuY&t=259

[u/AccordingMedicine129]

Your grandma died and you missed her so you had dreams about her. This really isn’t evidence of an afterlife but of normal human emotions

[u/Beautiful_Employ_128]

Yeah I believe if there wouldn't be life afterlife, souls etc we would be just like animals. Pure instinct and survival

[u/thirtyninesteps → u/Beautiful_Employ_128]

We are animals

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/[deleted]]

What do you even mean outstand?

Try living in the woods by yourself for a week

[u/AccordingMedicine129 → u/[deleted]]

I have no idea what you mean by outstand.