Have you ever dreamed of the afterlife?

[fallingleaves]

Here's my story. I don't think this is the afterlife per se, but multiple times I've dreamed of a 'last stop' in my city's urban transit system that doesn't exist. After getting off this 'last stop', which is in a field with dead wheat or dead grass, you enter a neighbourhood filled with abandoned houses where it's always twilight. The sun neither rises nor sets and the golden-purple twilight is always the same. The neighbourhood is empty. I feel like this is not a form of afterlife but instead where people go right after they die. A last stop.

 

[Rational man]

Fascinating thoughts, thanks for sharing. I dreamt twice about people who were in the so called ' afterlife' . My Mother died of cancer and two hours before I got a call from the hospital confirming her death, I dreamt she was in my bedroom just saying goodbye to me. She died at about 4am, the time I woke from the dream. She was as real as anyone living. On another occasion my ex-girlfriends Mother, who also died of cancer, arrived in a dream I had where I bumped into her in a coal mine. She too was waving at me as the coal mine train took her underground. It was a terrifying dream. Her Mother died two Weeks after that dream. We didnt know she was dying at the time. I never told my girlfriend as I didnt want to upset her.

 

[Korben0]

I can't recall having any such dreams, but I've read many stories by people who claim to have experienced the afterlife, which I found fascinating. If you're interested, there's a large collection of them on the website for the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation. Some dismiss these experiences as mere dreams or hallucinations, but after thoroughly investigating the matter, I'm convinced they're not.

 

[fallingleaves]

I can't recall having any such dreams, but I've read many stories by people who claim to have experienced the afterlife, which I found fascinating. If you're interested, there's a large collection of them on the website for the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation. Some dismiss these experiences as mere dreams or hallucinations, but after thoroughly investigating the matter, I'm convinced they're not.

Thank you for these resources.

What convinces you that these are real in some sense?

 

[FrozenOcean]

Not that I know of, but it's interesting that I got a message yesterday that seemed very convincing during a nightly walk. When we die we will remember none of this, everything we experience and see is only relevant now, as soon as we croak all of this will be obliterated from our minds. We will become something entirely different and have no memory of this world.

The NDE that explains an afterlife is simply brain activity prior to death, no one is actually dead. The experiences are always subjective, people see what they want to see, they underestimate the power of the subconscious and have no idea what lies there until they're put in the state that a NDE creates.

 

[catfriend]

last night, i think. i don't know if it was the afterlife per-se, but it certainly felt otherworldly.

i was with people i knew and liked in a resort-style setting. a lady and i danced to music.

then i woke up, and the juxtaposition between that dream world and the real world was crushing.

 

[J&L383]

Here's my story. I don't think this is the afterlife per se, but multiple times I've dreamed of a 'last stop' in my city's urban transit system that doesn't exist. After getting off this 'last stop', which is in a field with dead wheat or dead grass, you enter a neighbourhood filled with abandoned houses where it's always twilight. The sun neither rises nor sets and the golden-purple twilight is always the same. The neighbourhood is empty. I feel like this is not a form of afterlife but instead where people go right after they die. A last stop.

You paint a distinct picture with very few words. It does sound like something you might go to before proceeding on to who knows where. My dreams are always populated with plenty of people. But in my "real world" I don't particularly care for people so I don't know what that means.

 

[fallingleaves]

last night, i think. i don't know if it was the afterlife per-se, but it certainly felt otherworldly.

i was with people i knew and liked in a resort-style setting. a lady and i danced to music.

then i woke up, and the juxtaposition between that dream world and the real world was crushing.

I know the feeling. I hope you can find some of that dream world in real life before you pass.

You paint a distinct picture with very few words. It does sound like something you might go to before proceeding on to who knows where. My dreams are always populated with plenty of people. But in my "real world" I don't particularly care for people so I don't know what that means.

Maybe it means that people are more important to you than you think? Just an idea.

 

[catfriend]

I know the feeling. I hope you can find some of that dream world in real life before you pass.

it is looking statistically improbable, given my ctb date, but thank you friend. :)