Do you think sleeping is like being dead

[affirmatice]

I know it's not exactly the same, but probably the closest thing unless you've been unconscious for a long time before.

Of course we dream during our sleep but even that is only a small portion of our sleep.

The rest… is just non existence basically. You don't even know you are asleep while you are asleep, until you wake up and you realize.

I don't know. It's a little reassuring and also a bit sad. Death isn't peace or happiness. It's just nothing at all.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Provided that the sleep is dreamless, yes. However, I think that death is beautiful because of its permanence. Yes, death is nothing at all but, for some people, that nothing is peace. I say that death is peaceful and I mean it metaphorically as what I'm saying is peaceful is the scenario in where I'm dead. There's scenario A where I'm alive and suffering; there's then scenario B where I'm dead and no longer suffering. I think that transitioning from scenario A to scenario B is peaceful for me because then I'd be relieved from all suffering and pain even if I'm not there physically to experience that. I may not be there in scenario B but, nonetheless, scenario B is a real scenario.

Additionally, some people define peace as the absence of suffering and pain which is exactly what death provides. Due to this, death is the only thing I look forward to each day. I envy those who died at around my age or even younger than me

 

[Forever Sleep]

In terms of our conscious experience of it, I expect it is. Awake one minute and then, not. Like a dreamless sleep without the waking up bit (hopefully.)

Sleep is so weird isn't it? Kind of bizare that we've evolved to still need it. Animals must be massively vulnerable when they're asleep.

 

[Pluto]

 

[ZeroM24]

Once you are dead, there will be just nothing forever. Sleep is still a biological function, death is the ceasing of all biological functions.

 

[outrider567]

I know it's not exactly the same, but probably the closest thing unless you've been unconscious for a long time before.

Of course we dream during our sleep but even that is only a small portion of our sleep.

The rest… is just non existence basically. You don't even know you are asleep while you are asleep, until you wake up and you realize.

I don't know. It's a little reassuring and also a bit sad. Death isn't peace or happiness. It's just nothing at all.

Dreaming is only a small part of our sleep? I remember my dreams every night, and some seem to go on for a real long time, especially the bad ones--Death is actually like being put under, the three hours I was put under wasn't even like a second, I never would have thought they even took my gallbladder out at all, until I saw the huge bruises on my stomach

I know it's not exactly the same, but probably the closest thing unless you've been unconscious for a long time before.

Of course we dream during our sleep but even that is only a small portion of our sleep.

The rest… is just non existence basically. You don't even know you are asleep while you are asleep, until you wake up and you realize.

I don't know. It's a little reassuring and also a bit sad. Death isn't peace or happiness. It's just nothing at all.

Das Nichts said he saw green and red lights just before he passed out from the Nitrogen(only survived because he fell and hit something, disrupting the Nitrogen flow)

 

[Marco77]

General anesthesia is closest of all, but still far from death.

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Dreaming is only a small part of our sleep? I remember my dreams every night, and some seem to go on for a real long time, especially the bad ones--Death is actually like being put under, the three hours I was put under wasn't even like a second, I never would have thought they even took my gallbladder out at all, until I saw the huge bruises on my stomach

I totally agree. I dream way too much for it to feel like death. I think it's peaceful in the way that if you were sleeping well it takes you away from your problems. But just the fact that we have to get up and go to the bathroom during the night makes me feel like it can't be like death.

Being put under is a great comparison because it's probably something you initially feel scared of like before you would try to CTB, but you are completely out and wake up what feels like five seconds later…and I'm not sure if anyone dreams while being put under.
Feel free to offer examples if you have experienced dreams while under.

 

[FuneralCry]

It's what I see as the closest to not existing which is all I personally wish and hope for, for me non-existence is peace, I could never see any peace in this cruel, futile existence where there is all this endless suffering. All I hope for is to never exist again, non-existence where I'm no longer burdened with this existence is all I personally see as desirable, I have no interest in suffering in this existence, I just want to sleep. To be permanently unconscious incapable of feeling any pain is peace for me and some peace is all I hope for, all I wish for is an eternal, dreamless sleep free from all pain and suffering.

 

[J&L383]

In terms of our conscious experience of it, I expect it is. Awake one minute and then, not. Like a dreamless sleep without the waking up bit (hopefully.)

Sleep is so weird isn't it? Kind of bizare that we've evolved to still need it. Animals must be massively vulnerable when they're asleep.

Agree. (your name suggests you are the expert! )

 

[Praestat_Mori]

A deep dreamless sleep is probably the closest we can come to death as living beings - aside from becoming unconscious.

 

[Tharg123]

One of my fears about death (well, my only fear about it really, apart from the process of dying and the pain that might involve) is: what if there is consciousness after death? Somehow. What if death was actually like a never-ending nightmare. I've had nightmares which are so bad they are even worse than life - but at least they didn't last long, and I forgot them within a day or two, or at least the intense 'reality' of them.

All my 'logic' says this can't be the case, and that death must be like being under general anaesthetic (or more so). But there is still a 'what if' that won't completely go away. Even if it's a 0.0001% chance.

Like Shakespeare wrote/ Hamlet pondered: 'To sleep, to sleep.... perchance to dream. Aye, there's the catch.' Or Nick Cave 'death is not the end'. Or all the hell mythologies/religions.

No one knows for sure. Or, those who do can't tell us. Even if some could - some who claim to have died and come back for example - even if their descriptions are accurate, it doesn't mean it would be accurate in all cases for all individuals.

And then I go into what form that nightmare/hell could take. Which is a fertile area for the imagination...

I'm an insomniac, and fear sleep at the same time that I crave it. And a would-be suicide, who fears death at the same time that I crave it.

One can only hope I suppose. That death is like what it was like before being born. It seems likely / proable. But not definite. Terrifyingly.

Yet another of the 'excuses' not to ctb I constantly present myself with, in my cowardice.

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

Do you remember what it felt like before you were born? Well, that's what death is going to feel like.

 

[ThisIsMe1357]

Yes, I do. That is the best explanation we have right now. Of course, it should be compared to dreamless sleep. Or you can compare it to the state from before you were born. There is no consciousness and therefore no perception of anything.

 

[Tharg123]

That's what I'd hope would be the case. But cannot be 100% sure. Wish I could but I can't.

 

[divinemistress36]

"Sleeping is like being dead without the commitment"