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From my own experiences with DMT and from what I hear from other people the best way I can think of to make sense of this is to say this life is some form of entertainment for these entities that people keep encountering. I don't think we're being forced into it either I think we agreed to it in a sense. We're like actors in some sort of higher dimensional movie.

This truth is liberating to me in a way. It gives me focus, makes things less of a big deal to me.

I'm curious to know whether others are getting the same vibe or not?

Recently I've come across the theory that every time we go to sleep our Consciousness dies and is replaced by a new one. This theory really disturbs me, also it doesn't really make a lot of sense for the brain to work that way in my opinion. Where would these consciousnesses be dying off to, and where will the new ones be coming from to replace the old ones, that seems bizarre to me. Also even if that was the case I don't think you can really make the argument that you're a COMPLETELY new person every time you wake up.

You might be in a different mood you might have different thoughts but to me you are still using the same brain, you're still running the software on the same hardware.

Also whenever these people make these arguments I don't know if they're talking about Consciousness or the self. I would be willing to admit you have a changing "self"but to me Consciousness seems like a more permanent thing the contents change, but the same structures in the brain are needed to generate it.

What is your thought on this? Depressing

What evidence is there from one belief of another? What made the Buddha reach that conclusion?

The way I view consciousness is like a computer. I see the subconscious and physical processes of the body as like the hardware of the computer, as we go through life parts of the hardware breakdown and arel replace. To me consciousness would be like the screen of a computer, with its thousands of pixels. Some of the pixels turn on, some turn off, patterns emerge, patterns disappear, patterns re-emerge. Memory knits together a perceived "continuity". Whenever you die that would be like the computer suffering irreversible damage and shutting down. Reincarnation would be like backing up your software and copying it to a new computer.

Would this analogy be accurate according to the Buddhist Cannon?