RE: Why am I me?
July 12, 2012 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2012 at 10:31 pm by Reforged.)
(October 12, 2010 at 5:58 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: Being conscious individually, as I assume everyone else is, the question comes to mind; why do I exist from a 1st person point of view? Obviously I couldn't exist from a 3rd person POV, but when I die it'll seem to me as if the world ends; MY world will end. How can I explain this... When you sleep without dreaming everything is nonremembered, and seems 'black'. If death is the same, then it'll be lights out for eternity, and therefore I'm wondering why I'm conscious to begin with. Why me? Why here? Why now? Why at all? etc.
Any answers or ideas? I've asked my friends and family, but they don't really grasp the concept of the question.
When you're about to die you sink into blackness and from that blackness emerges a tall, dark figure.
That figure is me. I begin body-popping in a latex outfit repeating the same one minute long routine over and over like a video on loop for what seems like an eternity...
And then you die.
How do I know this? I just put the suggestion into your head that this is what happens and you will be reminded of it when you are on your deathbeds. The more you fight the suggestion the more clearly you picture what I have just described. This is comparable to a child being told in no uncertain terms not to do something, trying desperately not to and inevitably giving into the negative suggestion. I hope you weren't looking forward to your life flashing before your eyes because now, now you're going to get me instead. Is any of what I just put true? It no longer matters, some part of you believes it is and that makes it real to you. :-)
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.
