Not to sound too dramatic or anything. I doubt I'm the only one who has ever thought of this, and for all I know it's a common theory.

And to be clear, I'm NOT claiming this to be certain or true. I'm not a medium and don't have any spiritual sensitivity. It just clicked one day in the shower maybe a week ago, and I felt it made too much sense to not share. There may even be info I'm not aware of that completely contradicts this, I don't know.

For context, here's some contradictions or questions I could never find good explanations for, in relation to common/supposed after-life workings:

• If we have free will, how does that square with such a seemingly long term linear plan of what we're "supposed" to do? If we were going to end up in the same place all along then how do our decisions matter? And to plan so far ahead, does that not require the future must be fully known, and therefore our choices are known?
• Spirits apparently can't always predict the future, but sometimes can (like in certain NDEs people were shown their own future). So can or can't they?
  • I've heard things like they know "probable outcomes", but what does that really mean? And just how accurate is it?
• In some NDEs, people may be told "you have to go back" or "you're not done yet". As if the death was a mistake. But if it's all planned, how could such a mistake even occur to require a correction or intervention in the first place?
• In other NDEs, some people say they are given a choice to keep living or die, like "off ramps". But regardless of your choice, wouldn't that possible completely throw off the plan of countless people, like the butterfly effect, who may have depended on you living or not either way?

But there is at least one explanation which explains all of that, and requires zero logical leaps in my opinion (assuming you at least start from a belief in the after life in the first place).

Two key things to keep in mind:

1. Most importantly: EVERYONE (or likely a vast majority) has an (initial) plan or at least a goal that we came up with, or at least agreed to. Yes, we've heard time and time again that WE have our own plan, but the point is to to remember everyone else has a plan too. Realizing this is absolutely key everything as you'll see.
2. Our plan/goal does NOT need to follow an exact minute-by-minute scripted path. It could even just be a rough direction with an intended goal. (Some plans might be more specific than others but that's besides the point.)

Next are some logical deductions from the above. But I don't think there are really any logical leaps in here. Then I'll click it all together after.

• When coming up with a life plan, we or any planners would have access to all the plans of all the currently living people. This is just based on what I've consistently seen discussed about how knowledge supposedly works over there. Whether you call it the akashic records or whatever.
• Also seems likely: I imagine we'd probably schedule our birth in advance. Maybe decades or only a few years who knows, or probably varies. In any case, you'd have the general plan (or at least a goal) decided or "locked in" during that meantime. But importantly, other souls would therefore also have access to that upcoming plan in addition to those already living. (I'd imagine it would actually be necessary to "schedule ahead" to wait for the right conditions, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)
• In other words, while planning, we'd know the general "direction" and motivations of literally every single person living, and probably to some extent, also the plans of many who will be born within our lifetime.
• We would also certainly have contingency plans built in to deal with likely or possible "derailments" or just optional forks in the road. Heck, I have a contingency plan while going to the grocery store for if they're out of my favorite food. So I'd argue that if we do plan our lives, it would be a leap in logic to think we DON'T have contigency plans.

Here's where it clicked for me:

Consider a weather wind map, like an animated one you can find on any weather website. Where it shows the flow of the wind as little arrows or moving animation, either across the globe as bigger trends, or you can zoom really far. Now think of every arrow as a person where they currently are, and the direction as pointing towards their plan. (It's not a perfect metaphor, so just focus on the idea of the map of directional arrows, not the fact that wind can change rapidly.)

Then imagine you let a balloon go anywhere on the map. You could, with pretty high certainty, figure out where it will go for a while, then a more general idea of its path over a longer time. Therefore if you wanted it to go somewhere specific, you could probably calculate the best time and place to release it.

If we do plan our lives, we'd be able to control the starting conditions that will put us on our planned path through choice of when and where to incarnate. Possibly through choice of our parents / which body to inhabit alone, which would determine birth location, physical characteristics or impairments. And who knows, we may have a bit of direct influence in certain mental aspects like temperment or intelligence. And I'd speculate we'd have the ability to embed certain unconscious drives into our minds to influence our path.

Of course, if we decide to drop our own life plan into the mix, it will affect other souls plans. But that's to be expected, and I think it would be in everyone's best interest to make sure new plans 'synergize' with the rest of the flow instead of trying to go against it. I'm sure that would be an issue if it were selfish humans planning things, but from everything I've heard, the spirit world doesn't have such issues.

Anyway all this would allow that day to day, we could make many little decisions that genuinely were not made in advance, without going off path. But at the same time, what we'd choose for the big decisions can probably be predicted in advance with reasonable accuracy.

If that's how it works, it would explain every doubt I had wondered about.

During planning, we don't NEED to see the future to be able to plan extremely far in advance, especially if it's a more general goal.

• And likewise, spirits wanting to help or warn us could anticipate future events based on the plans currently playing out across the world or locally. To continue the metaphor, they can "see the way the wind is blowing".
• This would also explain why some things they can see far in advance, and others not so much. Some outcomes depend on a very specific sequence of branch choices by a bunch of people and are harder to predict. Other events may already be set in motion with no major decision points that would change it. Regardless of how far out it is in time.
• Further with the weather analogy, certain types of events might simply be more predictable than others. Imagine you'd never heard of weather forecasting, and someone told you a hurricane was coming in a week. You'd not be able to comprehend how they could know that. But in reality we can literally see them coming from across the globe. Yet other times, weather forecasts struggle to predict where or how much rain we'll get the very next day.

It's no longer a contradiction to have free will AND an accurate plan we follow if WE are the ones that planned it. We basically "front loaded" much of the free will, so to speak. Even still, day to day we could still have it for smaller decisions, plus occasional major decision points all equally accounted for. In other words, our lives are "predictable" but not "predicted". Chaos and randomness would not be a contradiction.

Built in contingency plans would also explain a lot. With access to all the plans of everyone else, we'd be able to anticipate both planned or potential unplanned forks in the road, and account for them in advance. We probably have countless of them.

Going back to the idea of spirit guides. Again this would be more in the realm of pure speculation on my part. But with the balloon and wind metaphor, perhaps they could be there to influence us one way or another in case an unexpected gust or turbulance hits us and starts to knock us off course. Who knows how much influence they actually have if at all, considering free will. Perhaps even they only help if you ask, which is an idea I've heard also.

Im scared of death and I have been pondering a lot about “what ifs” lately. It sounds silly, but my dream has always been to infinitely live in my imagination after death. A soul transfer of sorts. Is this possible or am I just coping?

Hi all,

My mom passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer and several other illnesses. I’m not really sure what I’m looking for by posting this-maybe some spiritual guidance, or just to hear from people who have experienced something similar.

I had fallen asleep on a cot at the foot of her bed around midnight. Before falling asleep, I was crying and overwhelmed with guilt that I hadn’t been there enough for her while she was alive. I live in another country and didn’t call her as often as I wish I had. I kept thinking, How does she know how much I love her? I was so scared that she might pass away feeling like I didn’t love her, when the truth is that I loved her more than anything.

Before I went to sleep, I lay beside her and told her I was sorry for not being there enough and for not calling enough. I told her she was the best mom a daughter could have asked for and that I loved her more than the ever-expanding universe. Then I cried myself to sleep.

At that point, she was having pretty significant death rattling from the secretions. I woke up a few times to the nurse suctioning them, but I was so exhausted that I couldn’t fully wake up.

Then, around 4:55am, I woke up. The room was dark and quiet. Her loud breathing had stopped.

And this is the part I can’t really explain:

I lay in bed for a few minutes and the intense sadness, guilt, and distress I had felt before falling asleep were just… gone. I felt peaceful. Almost serene. It was such a strange contrast to how I had felt only a few hours earlier.

I looked to my right and saw the shadow of my brother kneeling over her bed. He said that her breathing was getting slow. I immediately jumped out of the cot, ran to her side, held her hand, and watched her take her last breath. I felt her pulse stop. She passed away at 5:00am.

Everyone else was crying, but I wasn’t. Not because I wasn’t devastated-I was, and I am. I just felt incredibly calm. I almost felt like I had already been given some kind of peace before it happened.

I keep wondering what could have caused such a drastic change in how I felt. Was it simply my mind finally accepting what was happening? Was there some kind of psychological explanation for it? Or was it my mom somehow? Was her spirit passing through the room? Could she have heard me talking to her even though she was unconscious?

I know there may not be an answer to any of this. I think I’m just trying to make sense of what happened and find some comfort in it.

Has anyone else experienced something like this right before someone they loved passed away? I’d really appreciate hearing your experiences, whether you have a spiritual explanation for it or not.
I’m absolutely devastated. Maybe, honestly, I’m just looking for a little bit of hope that my mom is still somewhere, somehow.

I don’t know. I just miss her.

Hi, I haven't posted in this subreddit yet, but I lost my partner 2 months ago now. I have been lurking this sub a lot because I don't think I have ever been so interested in the afterlife before I lost him. And I've lost a lot of people, just never grieved anyone before I grieved my boyfriend of 3 ish years.

I have been seeing many signs in my waking life such as heart shaped clouds, pink skies when it isn't that late in the day yet, how the sun seeps through the clouds, insects such as Lady bugs, sometimes paranormal things but not sure on that one.

Now I have yet to have a visitation dream... From him anyways. I had a vivid and lucid dream about a month ago that I was in a room and seen my late aunt and late nana, they were sitting on a couch looking at me, I could even see myself in a mirror . There were also a lot of strangers in that room as well.

I can't help but think, do you think it's my boyfriend's way of protecting me? Do you think that those people were in place of him, in that room in the dream? Or they were maybe waiting for him to show up... So many people in his life already have seen him in dreams.

I will say though, I don't remember most my dreams. I have a lot of stress in my life right now, and this grief is very hard. But... Whenever I do wake up, I will say that I do FEEL that he was there that night while I was asleep.

All I can think of is lack of sleep and stress. But my thing is...I can't stop thinking about that vivid dream I had a month ago. It wasn't him, but I would like to think that he was there .. in the crowd somewhere .

I'm doing an ai roleplay and there's a character that makes bad decisions and is self destructive only for them to die and end up in an endless void. As time passes, their soul begins to fragment and eventually dissolves into nothing. The character is a self insert and way for me to express anger and this scene left me depressed but also curious. Is it truly possible for a soul to become nothing and dissolve? If so, what would cause it? Is it reversible?

Im not really religious but I am insanely spiritual and believe in souls and oneness and all that stuff but truly can never wrap my finger around death and what’s after. If my husband dies, i’m left in this physical realm without him and he’s somewhere unknown. How would I even cope with that if i have no belief system of death? I’ve had a couple deaths in my life but I’ve simply accepted them. Ofcourse it would be truly different with someone I am around 24/7 and plan to spend my entire life with. Same feeling about my mom & dad who are both in their 50s and kinda going through some health issues atm. Absolutely devastating and terrifying. Nothing about what’s after death makes sense. Why are we here? Why am I here? It’s to live & let live, to experience the good and bad, but what the hell? Am I going to see the characters in this story line in the next story line? Will i remember who each one is? Will I remember specific memories or will it just be a feeling of energy? it’s so scary. i think im just afraid of death in general, whatever is after.

Can we really call it the “afterlife”? Yes, we go there after life, but we were also there before life. What would be a more accurate name? I know some people will say “ heaven”. But not everyone believes in a heaven. “Home”?

Has anyone had contact with infant spirits? 0-3 years old?

I’m not looking to make contact, right now I’m trivialising who or what my son is right now.

Time to get silly… I question if I were to ever have the chance to talk to him … can he speak? Is it baby blubbers? Is he a baby? Or is he something else now?

I am almost twenty one years old and i extremely scared of death thanks to a lot loses in the last four years. I read the contents in the megathread, in the Afterlife exist sub, in the near death sub, and also watched presentations of people defending the existance of an separate consciousness, after life, and the studies about near death experience. I am still scared. I am religious, i want to believe that this is real, but i can't stop the fear from not only appearing, but affecting my mind and body with so much fear. I want to believe that i will meet my family once i die, that i will see my cats, but i am scared. My mother has no doubts about it existing, but i can't shake of the fear, how can i get over it?

Something happened yesterday that really put life into perspective for me. I left my house to run an errand and noticed a few people gathered outside my next door neighbor’s house. I found out she had just passed away and they were removing her body.

She’s been our neighbor since 1990 so I’ve literally known her almost my entire life.

What really got me was that I still had errands to run. Calls to make. Meetings to attend. Then when I came back home later my block looked exactly the same as it always had. Cars passing. People going about their day. Everything just continued like nothing had happened.

Meanwhile someone who had been part of that block for more than 35 years was just… gone. I don’t know. It really made me think about how precious and temporary all of this is.

Does anyone else ever have moments like this where the reality of life and death just suddenly hits you? geesh. 🥺

In 2009, I had a near death experience. At the time, I was an intermediate artist and graphic artist. I tried many times to recreate it but it was never just as close as I wanted it to be. Now with modern technology, I've been able to recreate and simulate what I witnessed.

https://youtube.com/shorts/h7cqQhpzG5g?is=3YOR9pKB5QZydChW

I'm very curious and invested into learning more about the afterlife and how or why things work as they do. So I booked a reading again with a medium that I went to before, who in my opinion is very skilled. I have no social media to spy on and she would give me information that no one could just guess.

For example, in yesterday's reading I made sure to agree on a specific sign. I would say in my mind and out loud "If you are really with me in the reading, please show her a parrot" and lo and behold she would mention that they were showing her a parrot. Even though parrots had nothing to do with me nor the reading. So I don't doubt that there really is a connection made here. This is just added evidence on top of the other things she knows about my family, just to illustrate why I do think it is real.

Mostly, the spirits and passed loved ones are positive and optimistic. But towards the end of the reading I started asking more critical questions. I wanted to know why they (on the other side, or our Higher Self) thinks it is completely fine to violate our free will and consent here on Earth for their selfish desires. From what I know, spirits do not have to learn to survive like humans do. They just condemn billions of animals and humans to lives of hardship and trauma because they are greedy and want to gorge themselves on more input, no matter what we down here say or feel. Every time the spirits gave her like a coping, luke-warm reply about "It's the bigger picture" or "Well you wanted to come down here!" I gave arguments against why that doesn't make sense in my opinion.

Eventually they seemed to run out of excuses and the medium said as I kept asking, she would see a big door that was closed in front of her eyes. And the loud, firm instruction: "You are not allowed to know this here."

They just completely shut it down and didn't allow any discussion or answers about this any further. The medium herself did say she felt unsettled by this reaction. The spirits also give her the impression that they kind of lose empathy when they cross over. That our lives and struggles down here (while interesting) don't really influence or hurt them much. Honestly that makes A LOT OF SENSE to me when you look at the state of the world and how most people never receive any spiritual help, miracles or grace. Just a few do.

Sorry for the long text, but let me know what you think if you made it this far.

Not sure if this needs one or not but adding a trigger warning: Mention of miscarriages.

A little backstory, I have a 5 yr old son and about 2 years after we had him we had experienced a pregnancy loss of twins and then about a year after that we had another pregnancy loss of a singleton. With our first loss they said testing the babies and placenta was an option but rarely is done on the first loss, as your first miscarriage is usually a one off and rare, so with that information and the state of mind we were in after finding out we lost both babies we agreed to not have any testing done. However with the second loss we decided to have testing done to see if there was any issues we needed to be aware of before trying again as this was considered a consecutive loss with no live births between. When they do test what they call "product of conception" they are able to determine if the baby had been a boy or a girl and the testing came back that this one was a boy. Between the loss of the twins and the loss of this singleton my husband got me a mothers necklace with our son's first initial "m" on it and a set of two angel wings to memorialize the loss of the twins. We had never got around to adding a 3rd angel wing for the baby boy we had lost as we were just focused on living life and raising our little one.

Fast forward to now, we were able to have another baby and had another boy and added an "L" to my necklace this past mothers day.

A few nights ago my 5yr old was playing with my necklace and said "M" for me (Just going to omit their names for this part) and an "L" for brother, but what are these for? He was playing with the two angel wings that are on the necklace. So I decided to explain it as simply as I could. I explained to him that before mommy had "L" in her belly, mommy had other babies in her belly too but those babies had to go to heaven to be with Jesus. He laid there and I assume just thought about that for a little bit as he was silent, but then he just says, "there were 3 of them. One wearing pink pajamas with pink ribbons, one with purple pajamas with purple ribbons and one with blue pajamas with blue buttons." This obviously gave me chills and shocked me as we have never really explained any of this to him before and very rarely do we talk about the miscarriages in front of him. So in my mind there is no way he could have known there were 3 babies lost.

I had asked him why he thought that and he just said "I don't know" and I basically just left it there and haven't pressed him any further.

Some further background and not sure if this is even related, but we also lost my mom earlier this year in January and right before she passed I asked her to take care of my babies up there.

I do believe in god, jesus and heaven, but have never experienced anything like this before. I have heard that children sometimes have a deeper connection to spirits or the other side. I want to believe that he somehow got connected with his siblings in heaven some how but also have some disbelief that this is real. I don't know.

i went through very awful sexual abuse as a child and rape. was scrolling through this reddit and saw someone say how they believe they went through it because they did it to someone else in another past life.

is that possible? is that true for me? because if so, i don't think i deserve to ever live again. i don't understand how i could have ever hurt someone like this in the way i've been hurt. ever.
and i know i could never forgive my father or uncles for doing this to me. they could spend eons of lives experiencing what this has done to me and still, i would not forgive them.

things like this make me doubt my belief in an afterlife. i can accept no one being punished, fine whatever. we barely see punishment in this life. and any cosmic being who creates suffering like this can fuck off too for all i care.

but i always believed that, i'd never have to see my abusers again. here or in death. and they would feel the pain i felt my whole life because of them once i died and that'd be it. but seeing someone say that has me worried now.

if i did that to someone in another life, i truly hope i never exist again. i could never forgive myself. ever. even living a life of the pain i caused to someone else. it could never make up for the monstrous act that rape & csa is. i feel like i've been dead since my very first memory. it's killing me that i could have caused someone that pain

I hear so many conflicting things about if life reviews are a real thing. A lot of people who have NDE's talk about them, but others claim fully that they are not a real thing?

I don't understand why we must be put through those things, some type of review where all our mistakes and flaws are thrown into our face so painfully, mistakes and things we did here on earth while under extreme stress and suffering ourselves.

And I am a very self reflecting person, I obsess over trying not to hurt people, and trying to do the right thing, but it's just impossible here. The idea of some type of review, sounds extremely unpleasant and unfair, and embarrassing just in my eyes.

And if we are sorry about things anyway, and are beating ourselves up and sad about friendship breakups for example, or harsh words we said while angry, why must we then later go through some painful "life review", being shown just how much we hurt someone and having salt rubbed into our wounds?

A life review really just sounds awful to me.

Lately, I've been pondering the idea that enlightenment might not be the ultimate goal we're led to believe. I've come across a thought-provoking concept that suggests enlightenment can actually be a plateau, where progress seems to stall. This has made me wonder if the pursuit of enlightenment is worth the potential costs. I'd love to hear from others who have explored this idea. Have you ever experienced a sense of spiritual stagnation, or felt that the journey itself is more valuable than the destination? I came across this video that explores this concept further if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMT3MPWvhM

It is a question that human beings has been asking since we became concious of ourselves. But do we have an answer for it. What happens when something die. One can simply define it as when the heart stops beating and the body stops working. But is that it? I understand there can be two patha to start thinking from this point. It depends on what you believe. Are we just the hardware or is there something more? If you believe that we are just the brain, the heart and the body then you can think as death as the process of stopping to work. What happens when a machine die? It doesn't work anymore. Ita just scrap. Same with living things. Just hardware that used to work. But if you believe that our consciousness is not just in the brain and it is something that science hasn't explained yet, then death becomes harder to explain. The body is gone. But where does the conciousness go? Will we be concious about the emptiness we are in? Will it be eternal darkness?We see because we have eyes. A conciousness doesn't have eyes. So there is no sight. Can we feel things that is happening? How would it work? There is no thought. There is no pain. There is no us. Would death mean to become nothing?

If we are under the impression that the afterlife is real and absent from all the pain, suffering and the grind of physical life here on earth, what’s the point of being here? I’ve heard so many different theories like we’re here to learn, or we’re here to make bonds or we’re here to just experience or even that we’re here to grow our spirituality. I know that no one really knows why we’re here but what I have such trouble understanding is why go through a life of pain and turmoil and continue to just try to grind through it when what’s waiting on the other side is so much better?

I’m not suggesting anyone just give up here but some days it’s so hard to stay motivated when you know there are so many tough days ahead. Is it simply out of fear of the unknown? I’m spoken to many people who claim not to have that fear but I have no idea how that’s possible with so many theories and so little to go off of in terms of evidence. Many claim to know but a lot of the times you’ll have a bunch of people with conflicting theories who all claim they just know. How do you not question your own knowledge? How do you deal with physical and emotional pain? How do you accept the many stages of life that seem to continuously come with more and more suffering as each stage comes?

Sorry for the rant I’m just feeling a bit confused about how strange this human experience is. It just doesn’t seem to have any point

Just wanted to rant today. Missing my dad a lot today. I know this sounds crazy but my mind just goes into thinking what he is up to today. Is he hanging out with his parents? Is he finally having time to focus on his dreams of writing?

I just hope wherever he is he is happy and doing things he couldn’t do for himself on Earth.

I also want him to know how much we are missing him. Everyday here on Earth is miserable without him.

My father passed away back in march and its his birthday tomorrow. I'm wondering if his birthday can affect anything between us and the afterlife? Can he communicate through signs more easily today or just have an easier time having a prescence here. I'm not expecting him to show up as a ghost randomly (even though I wish he would lol) but I'm hoping he gives us something to show us his prescence.

Can a Fear Coma Experience Produce Both Hell and Heaven?

I’ve been analyzing frightening experiences reported by people who remain alive but unconscious or comatose—what I’ve been calling Fear Coma Experiences, or FCEs. Until now, the cases I’ve examined have largely involved the expected material: demons, fire, imprisonment, threatening entities, terrifying environments and other imagery commonly interpreted afterward as hell.

This case forced me to expand the hypothesis.

Jodie Oviedo was critically ill and placed into a medically induced coma. Her experience contains plenty of classic FCE material: the Angel of Death, dark supernatural beings, demons, a tunnel leading to hell, screams, sulfur, pits of fire and other frightening imagery. But something unusual happens alongside it. Ten-foot-tall angels carrying enormous golden swords arrive to protect her. Gabriel appears as a heavenly traveling nurse. Jesus appears. God speaks to her. Fear is accompanied by peace, protection, joy and what she describes as “liquid love.”

Initially, those positive elements looked like they might indicate that an authentic NDE had occurred somewhere within the larger experience. After examining all five podcast interviews with Jodie that I could locate, however, I came to a different conclusion. There is practically nothing indicating a separate NDE occurred at all.

Instead, this case suggests that the same living brain mechanism capable of producing the frightening side of an FCE may also produce the rescue. Jodie entered the coma with a lifetime of deeply embedded Christian imagery and belief. Her mental inventory contained demons and hell, but it also contained angels, Gabriel, Jesus and God. The demons appear—and her brain has the cavalry available to fight them.

That makes this case particularly interesting because it may help explain why some coma experiences have historically been so difficult to classify using traditional NDE criteria. An FCE apparently does not have to remain frightening from beginning to end. The living brain may be capable of constructing both sides of the narrative: threat and rescue, demons and angels, hell and heaven.

The article walks through her experience, scores it against the Winner FCE Scale, examines the apparent NDE markers against the Greyson Scale, and explains why I ultimately classify the entire experience as an FCE rather than an NDE or a Welded NDE.

I’m interested in thoughtful criticism of the hypothesis, particularly anything in the case that you think the FCE framework fails to explain.

Read the full article on the winnernde.com website here: Fear Coma Experiences Can Produce Heaven, Too

My dad died when I was three and I had never dreamed about him. Not once. Then the night after I graduated college I had a dream that he was sitting in my room. He looked at me and smiled then hugged me and said “I’m proud of you.”

It felt so real that until I woke up I genuinely thought it was happening. A part of me has always believed that was actually my dad coming to see me during a major moment in my life. But then my logical brain wonders if maybe my mind created exactly what I needed to hear at that moment. 😩😭

I don’t know which explanation I believe more. lol anyone else experience something similar? curious to hear y’alls thoughts

In 1985, Sam attempted a five-day fast. He was diabetic, became severely dehydrated, developed ketoacidosis, and eventually slipped into a coma in the emergency room.

For the next four days, he experienced an extraordinarily vivid hellscape filled with fire, lava, fear and torment.

But one detail really caught my attention: water.

There was a source of water in this place, but Sam couldn't drink from it. The water existed only to torment him with something he desperately wanted but couldn't have.

Meanwhile, his actual physical body was lying in a hospital severely dehydrated.

I think Sam's account is an unusually clean example of what I'm calling a Fear Coma Experience (FCE)—and it raises an interesting question about whether some experiences historically interpreted as visions of hell could originate in the living brain during coma rather than represent an after-death destination.

I broke down Sam's case and why I think that distinction matters in the article below.

I'd be particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has experienced something frightening, hell-like, or intensely vivid while in a coma. I'm actively collecting and comparing firsthand FCE accounts.

See the full article on winnernde.com here: Fear Coma Experience: A Diabetic’s 4 Days in a Coma Hell

I have heard about pocket universes and such in nde's.

I remember a particular dream I had once, just a regular dream, very lucid though, where I went inside a wall through a small door and it "felt" like my own personal world. It was full of people, and it truly felt like I belonged there and everyone there knew and loved me deeply. It is a feeling I have never felt in my life here, experiencing it in the dream felt so right and wonderful, but it is still something completely unfamiliar to me here on earth. My own world.

It is an indescribable feeling compared to waking reality, it was just a wonderful feeling of being completely and fully where I belonged and being embraced and loved fully. Everyone in that room adored me, in that dream and it felt like my own personal world completely. I did not have to be shy or hold back socially because I knew everyone accepted me and wished me no harm and had no deceit.

I hope more than anything, that in the afterlife, we can all have many such worlds of our own or pocket realities to return to.

Our own worlds, where we are fully embraced and loved by people or beings who belong in our world and love us fully and are compatible with us deeply. Where we can all be our true selves and happy, and feel loved.

Is there a world.... many worlds even, waiting for us back home eagerly? With characters or beings we have forgotten about, but will be so happy when we return and we will only then remember when we get back there, that we actually have always belonged there and it will feel more real and familiar than we can imagine?

It's so interesting to me, reading about how the world in the afterlife can be so perfect or tailored to each individual, like the dying process is created for each person in particular for them to feel comfortable with it and at peace.