r/afterlife

I've seen many NDEs and while they have some similarities, they are vastly different from one another. Some people go to hell, purgatory, outer space, see a religious diety, etc. These seem to be influenced by personal beliefs. Which, if that is true, wouldn't it make much more sense if NDEs are products of the brain that we can't understand?

I'd say the NDEs in which people are floating outside their bodies and not going to some afterlife are real. These produce veridical information, so I'm inclined to believe it really is consciousness existing outside of the brain. Since those people haven't gotten past the point of no return, my guess would be that the veil isn't completely lifted until the body is biologically dead. No return. That is assuming that OOB NDEs are the only ones that are real.

The other NDEs, when people go elsewhere, why did we reach the conclusion that they are real? It seems far more likely that the differences imply it is a result of the brain we can't understand. Saying that the afterlife is so varied seems like mental gymnastics to believe they are real experiences of the other side. I understand the similarities, but that could be something that is just ingrained in our system.

Is this conclusion problematic thinking? Why do we believe these experiences are proof of a varied afterlife, when logically speaking, it is far more likely that they are products of the mind due to how varied they are? I'm not for either side by the way. I just want to know why we come to the less plausible conclusion.

this is a really silly question but recently i've been extremely paranoid of my boyfriend watching me. he isn't dead, but he always tells me when he does die, he wants to "spectate" me. is this actually possible? i genuinely can't do a single thing without being paranoid about it, i've been having trouble changing, sleeping, showering, etc. he's back home right now in a different country and whenever he goes to sleep, i feel as if he's watching me. i know this sounds insane but i'm curious to know if it could actually be a possibility in the future 😭

I’ve never considered myself able to connect with the other side, but something bizarre happened to me this week.

I had a very vivid dream about a guy I was in love with for a period of time when I was really young, we had a bit of an on and off again relationship that was never serious. He struggled with addiction and mental health. He kind of treated me like shit to be honest. But I always really cared about him even to this day. We were still acquaintances and on good terms 20 years later. I felt like he developed respect for me as the years went on. We had a great chat about 9 years ago right after I got married.

I woke up drenched in sweat and could not get myself back to sleep because this dream felt so real and I felt super emotional when I woke up. The context of the dream was basically I was running from some sort of danger, there were police I remember. He showed up and “rescued” me, took me to this peaceful cabin in the woods where he was living, and we just spent time hanging out for a few days like old times until it was safe again. It just felt peaceful and happy, to reconnect after all that time. It felt like we were 19 again and all of the feelings when we met were there when I awoke. Then we said our goodbyes in the dream, but in my mind it was still “see you again maybe”. It didn’t feel final. But I remember not actually wanting to say goodbye in that moment.

That morning I received a call that he had been murdered 9 days ago. I had no idea. I’m still in utter shock and this dream is comforting that perhaps he’s at peace and watching out for those he once cared about.. but it’s also blowing my mind that maybe he was truly visiting me before I heard what happened to him. I then took a deep dive into astrology and was blown away at what I read. Apparently we are polar opposites and share the same cosmic frequency. We share a profound telepathic link.

Hey it’s me again third time making a post like this but today one of my coworkers noticed my energy felt down and they noticed I was looking depressed & anxious

And I straight up told her my anxiety about what happens we die and I understand about energy cannot be destroyed & things we cannot explain

However I’m starting to feel like nothing I do & research about is real. I’m starting to feel NDEs are not real and it’s just our mind trying to cope because it has never experienced that before

I’m starting to believe that ghost/spirits are not real because there isn’t any scientific evidence that back up that they are real & it might just be our minds playing tricks for us

And lastly I know I’m probably gonna get hate for this but if there is a god I did try and pray to him and ask him to show me a sign of the afterlife to help me relieve my anxiety and I didn’t get anything back

Idk maybe I’m thinking too much into it and I need to stop or I am way too alone with my thoughts or even the retrograde we are currently we are in is messing me.

All I know is I never had these thoughts until that fucking Neil deGrasse Tyson video put up on my fyp and basically him saying “Death is like before we were born it’s nothing” and ever since then that sent me into a full spiral starting this year. That’s also when I saw other posts saying that religion is just a coping mechanism to say there is something after death cuz there is truly nothing

And I understand that we don’t truly know what will happen until we pass but I want to live a normal
Life again with these fears or anxiety and TikTok doesn’t help with these fears because almost every single comment or past always says “death is like we were born - nothing “

Not necessarily as a religion, but a Rainbow Bridge? Have you seen or had experiences of your fur baby after they had passed? I lost my boy 6 days ago and I think I've been seeing orbs on my cameras. I like to believe its him, as its in the middle of the night with no one walking past to cause an airflow of dust?

With the help of this subreddit, as well as my faith and lots of research, I’ve become more convinced of an afterlife. But grief still hits like a freight train. Does it ever disappear because you are so happy about what comes next?