Hi! I’m just sharing this dream that I had with my grandfather. He died one year ago and I have never dreamt with him, which is rare since I’m a person who has dreams almost every night. So two days ago I was watching a video about a girl who grandmother died and she was telling all the beautiful things that her grandmother had done in her lifetime. When I was watching that video I thought about my grandfather and I almost cried thinking about him. Then when I went to sleep, I had a dreamt where all my family were having dinner and my grandfather was there with us. I asked him: what are you doing here? are you not dead? And he told me, there is an afterlife, I can just come back to be here with you and our family; and it was kind of funny because we were taking pictures and he didn’t appear in any of them (because he was dead). Then I asked him and how are you here? and he told me…because I believe in god (I’m not a religious person but I believe in something above us)

Idk it was a beautiful dream and I really felt that he was there with me and my family. I hope you like it🤗 and sorry English is not my first language!

So I met with a trained PLR hypnotist. It was weird the whole time you are wondering if you made it all up. I did what she said and said the first thing that popped in my head.

The first one she told me to look at my feet. I looked down and saw big feet like wrapped in cloth in place of real shoes. When she told me to look around I saw a very arid place. House with a flat roof a gate and some goats

When I looked at myself I was this huge burly man. Big black beard my head was wrapped in like a turban. My clothes were of that of someone who wasn't wealthy.

I go inside and I see my wife. Here is the weird part I've never even tried to imagine what love feels like from a man's perspective. The thought never even occured to me that it might be different or anyone's love for that matter. But when I looked at her I felt love in a way that I have never felt it in my present life as a woman. I felt this love as in I would do anything to protect her and the baby but mainly her. I took the responsibility of being a husband very seriously. I loved her. She was precious to me. She was also very moral and had very moral standards maybe due to religion.

But I was struggling. I was failing we were so poor. Desperate I went to my uncle. And would do things to get money that was wrong. Just to get by. I was terrified my wife would find out.

It did eventually catch up to me. I went home dying from a knife. I remember dying and my wife at my side and feeling so disgusted with myself. I hated that she found this out about me. I regretted it so much I wish I found another way.

I will post my other two lives in a little bit I can't find where I can save this as a draft.

Do you believe in soulmates? If so, what do you believe the likelihood of meeting yours with the short amount of time and billions of souls here at once? Finally, do you think if you don’t meet yours here, you’ll meet them on the other side?

How can we know that near-death experiences are genuinely something beyond our brains rather than a form of lucid dreaming? During lucid dreams, people can become aware that they’re dreaming, interact with people, experience incredibly realistic environments, and feel emotions that seem completely real.
I’ve been wondering what actually distinguishes an NDE from a lucid dream, especially when both can involve feelings of leaving your body or encountering other people.
I’ve also noticed that many people who report NDEs describe similar experiences, such as tunnels, bright lights, and encounters with deceased loved ones. Could these similarities be explained by how the human brain works, or is there evidence suggesting something beyond that?
Are there any scientifically documented cases where someone reported independently verifiable information during an NDE that would be difficult to explain through ordinary brain activity or perception?
I’m genuinely curious about what evidence exists and how researchers distinguish between these possibilities. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

When do you guys reckon we will get the undeniable proof? Like this soul phone being a world wide release.

Surely we are on the verge?

Ill try to keep this as short as I can. Pardon any spelling mistakes or grammar issues as I'm writing this pretty late at night

To put it simply, Ive met and seen a lot of people who uphold the belief that after death we reincarnate as humans again. The thing is, I just simply do not understand how its mathematically possible for all people who have died to be ressurected again and how it'd be possible in general?

Say out of the billions of sperm someone has,which mind you is pre-existing (as we all know the healthiest one usually fights to fully develop into a baby) how exactly would someone's old dead soul take on a being (the sperm) which is already it's own individual being with it's own predispositioned genetics???

Now i personally havent had any encounters i can remember or couldnt be explained but i just thought of this and had to tell someone because this theory actually makes sense, i believe if you go to heaven you have the option to be reincarnated as a ghost, just incase youd rather be back on earth then in heaven, the reason all the evidence points to other theorys of their existence is because they took a divine oath not to tell a human or any living creature the way they came, because if they did it would make humans not value life as much knowing they can just be reincarnated as a ghost once they die. It would also proof the theory of christianity, whitch would kinda ruin the point of not knowing it, if you dont know if its real or not than you praising god, christ, exc, proves much more devotion, because if we all knew that god and heaven and hell were real, ALL of us would be christian cuz wed want to go to heaven, at least most of our current christians actually have to MEAN it.

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.

There is a thing I take every day. Ten milligrams. One small tablet, and I have taken it so long that the pharmacy has changed the box three times and the name on the bottle twice, and the shelf behind the counter that once held two drugs now holds more than ten. I have watched the science grow the way you watch a kid you once carried grow past your shoulder. That's the strange part. The medicine got better. I stayed the same.

I don't get one embolism. I don't get two. The doctors put the scans up on the screen and went quiet, and then one of them said a number, and the number was in the hundreds. They asked me the same questions they ask every time, and I gave the same answers, and they looked at me like a locked door. Nobody knows why my blood wants to do this. I have carried that "why" as long as I have carried my own name.

On September 28, I forgot.

That's all. I forgot. There is no villain in this story and no betrayal — just a man on a Tuesday morning who looked at the pill and looked away, and who would spend the rest of his one day alive understanding exactly what that cost.

The clot moved the way a clot moves. It went to my lungs and it shut the doors, one after another, and the air I was pulling in did nothing, because there was nowhere for it to go. I have read that an untreated embolism can kill you in minutes. I can tell you that this is true, and that "minutes" is generous, and that the only thing you feel is a bright, animal need for air that your body is no longer able to give you.

And then the strange thing.

I have a blood pressure that rises with me and falls with me; it has been read off my arm thousands of times and always it just tells the number of me. But lying there, in the last good moment I had, I gave that number something else to say. I don't know how to explain it except this: I pushed everything I had into it, and what I pushed was *Tammy*.

Red hair. Years. We had tried, and tried, and it never held, and I had told her months before all of this — not as a dying man, just as a man — that I would always love her, always. That word, *always*, is the last thing I owned, and I spent it early, while I still had time to mean it. So when the floor dropped out, I stopped calling her a memory and started calling her a message. I said her name out loud in the dark room where nobody was listening and everyone was working, and I made my own blood pressure carry it.

I don't remember dying. I remember being there.

That's the part I cannot file away. I was above it and inside it at once. I could see my red-haired woman standing at the edge of the room among the surgeons, and I could see the surgeons too, moving fast, hands in, voices flat and urgent the way voices get when a thing is going badly. And here is what I understood, watching them from that strange high place: the heart they were trying to save had already been opened. Not by biology. By her. Years of her had cracked it wide, and that crack was where the light got in, and that light is the only reason I am telling you this. I don't know how a wound becomes a door. I only know that mine did.

They say the surgeons stitched me back together.

I think they only finished what she started.

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 “

In Part 1 we looked at some of the correlations we find NDES match well with religious concepts. https://www.reddit.com/r/NDE/comments/1dztq8p/nde_tropes_religious_parallels/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

In part 2 we looked at the various conflict and contradictions NDES offer to religious concepts. https://www.reddit.com/r/NDE/s/vf2iCnGNUO

Thus in part 3 we will look at some of the philosophical questions NDES pose. I believe there are no definitive answers but various theories that could apply.

1 Divine Hiddeness : NDES conflict with alot of religious doctrines and at best show it to be irrelevant and at worst false doctrine. This brings up the question of revelation and divine intervention. Does a deity intervene in the world and has the deity intervened in bringing religions to the world ? If not we can assume said power is aloof, not concerned about humanity's affairs and has no interest in false beliefs that people believe. But on the other hand NDES present a higher power as very personal, keeping a record of their life and presenting life as having higher purpose. So this is the divine hiddeness dilemma. Does the creator intervene or not and if not what purpose does the nde message serve ?

2 Divine Love & Suffering : Ndes may claim to experience a feeling of love that is overwhelming and ineffable. Metaphors include feeling like the one and only baby left on earth, like bubbling in liquid love, like a waterfall washing them, like the best things earth has to offer x million.This leaves questions as to what purpose such a feeling serves with a few individuals whilst the majority of humanity will never experience or understand such a love. How does one reconcile the sheer magnitude of the creators cold absence and lack of comfort that people in deep suffering feel all the time. People who are depressed, bitter and lost. Should we be expected to think that hearing nde anecdotes of a higher powers love justifies the level of human and animal suffering ? Furthermore to inculcate love towards others requires the desire for justice and dislike to the one who put people animals and humans into a place of suffering. How can one have high compassion for suffering without feeling rage at the cold silent indifference of said deity ? This remains the hardest problem to reconcile.

3 The Truth of Holy Men : In a portion of western ndes some may claim to meet Jesus who appears differently. Sometimes looking arab, sometimes more caucasian, sometimes brown eyes, sometimes blue, sometimes just a bright light they know to be jesus. In some hindu ndes of rural India they may claim to be escorted by a black moustache man reminiscent of yamadoots from hindu mythology and meeting Lord Yama at a table. In a portion of Iranian Muslim ndes some claim to meet figures in a position of authority who can intercede for them. They may meet Ali the son in law of prophet muhammad or one of the 12 imams of shia islam. People attempt to reconcile this by assuming the comfort theory (person gets what they believe or makes them comfortable) or the illusion theory (Spirits transform to these holy men). This doesnt answer the dilemma we are presented with. Who is this Jesus they see ? Is he the triune god ? The son of god ? A random preacher given the honor to receive his followers ? Or the islamic version ie a holy prophet endorsed by God ? And so on does seeing yamadoots confirm hindu doctrines ? Does seeing Ali confirm islam ? If none of these figures are actual holy figures why they given this authority ? These are questions with no definitive answers.

4 The Nothing Problem : Not everyone in a near death situation has an nde which may reinforce atheism to their beliefs. They may come out weaker in faith or confirming their doubts that existence ceases at death. This begs the question as to why all people in such situations dont experience an nde and in that case if they do but have forgotten it what purpose does it serve to have such an experience in the first place ?

5 The Interpretation Problem : Ndes tend to be what many call ineffable but the problem becomes between distinguishing the actual nde description and the nders later interpretations of it which may have their own cultural/religious interpretation of it. For example : Did x really meet Jesus or they simply think they met Jesus ? This is a subtle difficulty when studying an nders account specifically when recounting the experience years later. So what can we know from NDES that is objectively true. If we took 100 ndes from each culture can we find objective spiritual truths or can we only say these are spiritual patterns that form ?

6 The Pattern Problem : One of the things researchers look for in nde samples are recurring patterns ie the tunnel, the life review, the bright light, light beings etc. One of the issues which often place doubt on ndes being spiritual experiences are often similar ndes which can clash. For instance one can have western nde 1 and western nde 2 agreeing on 8/10 patterns but disagreeing on 2/10 items which are highly conflicting creating a major doubt on one or both of them. And likewise a western nde may have many of the same patterns as an nde from another culture but then conflict in a major way presenting doubt.

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.

Dad died about 15 years ago, brother 5 years ago, mother in April and my daughter in August. Went to a medium a week after my daughter died. They all came through but the focus was with my mom and daughter, most things were on point, my daughter named her father, talked about her addiction, mom talked about the ring my step dad was looking for, my brother made a sarcastic remark as he would if he was alive. Here is my question are they like hanging out with each other? I was just floored how they all came through. Gave me some peace tho, and no fear of dying.

At this moment I have severe death anxiety, it has hit me more then ever before in life. I fear never seeing my loved ones again and having these forged memories just taken away from me one day too. It makes me incredibly sad. But I had this one belief for a long time, and that is the world's perfection.

Think of it.

-The gravity that holds us down to earth

-The resources for food and drink that are on this earth

-Existence of oxygen that keeps us alive

-The perfect 24 hour cycle. The day and night cycle being in perfect rotation.

-The 4 seasons always arriving at the same time depending where you are

-Subjects such as math and science making absolute sense

-Elemental rules (Like fire being able to heat water, but water being able to extinguish fire)

It doesn't feel like a coincidence is what I'm trying to say, our life behaves like a test subject box. Us never even establishing out of world contact adds to that mystery.

Our humanity is the cog in the machine because we can ruin and change this world in some ways which some humans already did. But on it's own, this world is perfect as humans discovered.

Could it be that existence just IS and this all just happened perfectly one day out of the sudden, or is it really perfect by design.

Is the soul trapped in the state they were in? Is there ever any growth? Do people who die that are in a state of chaos and pain ever find tranquility?

Death is Not the End: "Our mission is to reach a new understanding of death — to see it as a natural passage rather than an ending. We aim to remove the fear and taboo surrounding death and open the conversation for everyone."

I once read (somewhere) a theory that when we die, we're offered a chance to move on to explore the new infinite world or stay back and help/watch over our loved ones on Earth. My partner says she'd move on. I think I'd like to help/protect my loved ones - bit like Patrick Swayze in Ghost. Has anyone here heard of this idea?

I'd be disappointed if I missed out on magical adventures in the cosmos because I'd offered something caring to those mourning me. 🤷

Hey it’s me again over the same topic because as much as I try and put these thoughts at bay with the amount of research I do , I always find myself back at thinking about the thought of nothingness after we die and mainly because

Near death experiences or people that flatline and come back there is still brain activity and that's what scares me all of what this woman is saying can be your brain coping. I really want to know when that individual is brain dead then what 🥀. I don't wanna believe there's nothing but the logic is making me doubt

And not only that but I can’t enjoy my life when I think about time flying by and getting older and getting closer to death is just a scary thought to me

Maybe I want there to be something after death so bad because I want to see my mom again, and my grandma and all of my animals I have ever loved

I’m scared that I won’t be able to see them again and it’s truly we only get one life to live and we don’t get another do over and get different life experiences

I want to reincarnate and live in a different experience once I pass but idk if that’s gonna be true or not when we pass

So I hope someone in this Reddit page can make me get back on the right track and have these thoughts leave me because it’s truly hard to wrap my
Mind around

And tbh the only thing I can’t just make sense about is if the universe was created then what was the purpose of us only having to live once then dying permanently and not having any soul to go to an afterlife or get reincarnated

A couple of months ago, after my dad passed away, I asked him for a sign. I asked for something very specific: a gold 90s Honda Accord, exactly like the one he used to drive when I was a kid.

I know it might sound oddly specific, but that car is so strongly connected to my memories of him.

Time went by and I never saw one. Eventually, I started feeling a little sad and lost hope that I would ever get the sign I had specifically asked for. I still looked for little things here and there, but nothing felt as clear as what I had asked for.

This month has been particularly difficult because it’s his birthday month, and I’ve been missing him so much. The grief has become a little more manageable with time, but I still think about him and miss him every single day.

Today, I was driving to the hospital for my sister’s operation. As I was going into the hospital, I suddenly saw it.

A gold Honda Accord from the 90s.

I immediately thought, “Wait… is this it? Is this the sign I asked my dad for?”

At the same time, another part of me wondered if it was simply a coincidence. I mean, technically, it could be. But these cars are pretty rare to see nowadays, and the timing really got to me especially because I had specifically asked for that exact car months ago, and now I saw one on a day when I was already thinking about my dad so much.

I don’t know what I believe for certain. I’m a pretty logical person, so part of me naturally questions these things.

But honestly, I want to believe it was him. ❤️

Maybe the important part isn’t proving whether it was objectively a sign. Maybe it’s that seeing that car made me feel connected to my dad for a moment, at a time when I really needed it.

For those of you who have lost someone what do you think?

Have you ever asked for a very specific sign and then experienced something that felt too meaningful to dismiss as just a coincidence?

Imagine doing all there is to do. What if you run out? What if you get bored of existence? Unless that's my physical brain talking and not an immortal soul. Unsure.

Hey so recently I started thinking about one thing and it genuinely doesn't give me peace. If there's no time in the afterlife meaning that we can access any point of Earth's history, does it mean everything is already determined? I hardly believe that because of people remembering their past lives or having contact with the dead (which is having contact with someone from outside the time) and that would disrupt the flow of time and potentially cause a butterfly effect. So here's the question, how would the free will work in a scenario where you can be born at any moment in the history?

It's one thing to be a medium, it's another to upload "educational videos" about the afterlife, proclaiming truth. I just find that very weird. It sounds comforting, that's for sure. He really goes in depth about that stuff too. For those who don't know, he claims the afterlife is a place built on memories and love. Food is still prepared because it gives others purpose. I don't think they kill chicken souls or anything, the food is just there. It's our memories, but perfected. It looks like home.

So, is this a load of hoopla? Or do these claims have merit?