I think that's called reincarnation. I heard that if you reach nirvana/enlightenment you'll never have to be incarnated again.
I did have the same query . If I don't remember "me" , then even if I am the same "me" , does it even matter ? But imagine you remember everything about your past life. How traumatic it would be. Some might have been killed mercilessly, some brutality raped, some might have been the doer , involved in killing, destroying. Your current life can't handle such events. Hence stuff are wiped out. But what is not wiped out are the repercussions. One needs to pay for their act. Hence we keep coming back.
The end goal is neither punishment, nor atonement. For example, let's say you have sex. The outcome is you get pregnant. Now if it's teenage pregnancy, it is deemed as punishment. If it is post marriage pregnancy, it is deemed as a blessing. How we perceive things is dependent on societal rules created by humans. But at the end of the day , it is neither a blessing, nor punishment. It's just the outcome of an act. You are here and you perform acts. You cannot not perform act(unless you are in coma). And whatever action you are involved in, the outcome is what you have to be ready to receive. Now , this outcome may be happens immediately or in some other life. Let's say you killed someone and caused immense pain. You will be the recipient of that amount of pain. But may be you have very strong connections and power , so you escape in this life. But what has to come , will come. However the person who lost a loved one and was a recipient of pain because of your act of killing , will never know because you might receive the outcome in some other life. Had it been a punishment, that other person would have had the right to know that you received the punishment, right? It's all cosmic. I have my own inhibitions to believe all this stuff , but then I don't see any other framework explaining brutal stuff happening around the world.
Ok. Now I am convinced the concept of soul can be debunked if human clones start trodding the face of this earth
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Have you ever met someone and felt that you have known this person like... forever? Or have you any of what they call "talents"? Things that you know how to do intuitively without learning.
Neither of those things are supernatural, and if they seem so, then that person who claims them is deluded or lying. Regardless, even if I had a soul that was a little russian girl 300 years ago, I do not consider that little russian girl as myself. We have entirely different life formulating events and DNA. We are different people.
Why do these need to be supernatural to have a background? Calling children who can speak foreign languages without learning "deluded" is... unfortunate. Even then, has anyone called psychiatry a "supernatural" science? Because the chemical imbalance theory was a honest mistake at best.
There are examples of identical twins who had similar experiences at the same time, both mentally and physically, while being miles apart. And twins are quite far from clones. What I meant by "blind" was that one might not register at all that their clone exists. When walking past the mirror, everyone generally takes a look, because it is in fact, a mirror image, which might seem surreal for a second. Looking at a photo of self is a different experience.
Apparently prenatal memory is a thing. The study I attached in the other thread includes statements given by children and they used hypnosis on adults.
I am not talking about religion and/or some mystical figures in the clouds. It has been researched to the best of human abilities, so far. This is not done by any religious groups and they do not deal in beliefs. Can I ask, why are you arguing something you have no interest in? Just curious.
That was a part of hypothesis, that brain acts as a receiver, similar to a radio or TV set. Flying could happen because there is a lack of signal from limbs though. Maybe someone has studied sleepwalkers, not sure if they dream. I had a few occasions of wandering around as a child, no dreams at that time. Or at least I don't remember. What poisons NDE's and "afterlife" is that people make things up to comfort themselves or some just seek to profit from it. The scientific approach is to filter out anything conflicting. There are bigger mysteries than dreams, and it is easier to dismiss than to explain unexplainable. Our reality is our immediate surroundings and things that do not short circuit the mind. We are detached from everything else, and the more we see the horrors of life through the media, the number we get. For us, the only experiences that mean something are our own.
Dreams occur during REM sleep, and their function is regeneration. New neurons and connections between them are being created. I take pills to not have dreams, and this has actually devastating effects. Short-term memory is just not there anymore I have lost interest in things, it just has aged my mind some 30 years in three.
Hypnotized people can be instructed to do things that thy would otherwise never do. Military has been experimenting with that, and for answers, it is supposed to be more reliable than a lie detector. A serious researcher would not instruct the person to lie, and subjects are tested for inconsistencies. The real and made up parts are filtered and tested in their own way. Aside from hypnosis, there are limits what a five year old can make up. All the answers are analyzed and in cases of "past life" accounts also verified. Everything contradictory is discarded. There are people who do this as clean as possible. Anyone who is there to sell something, the "mediums" and similar, are not the right source.
I think dreams are formed based on deep emotions. Could be fear , love , anything that is not evident externally but is pretty deep seated. I keep seeing my father and another person I was very close to almost every night in dreams. I lost them to death and it has been over a decade now. I don't think about them. I don't discuss them . My day goes as any normal day. But the next day I wake up , I do remember few snapshots of the dream and I remember seeing them. I don't believe in any of those stuff pertaining to souls coming and visiting you in dreams etc. But yeah , it's pretty much the brain. That's where everything lies. ..lol .
Your dreams are not derived from your thoughts (unless there has been an overstimulation), but your subconscious. I've had nightmares for over 35 years, and there was never a person I knew in any of them. In my extremely rare "normal" dreams I've seen familiar faces, but these people were all alive and well. The only departed friend who came to say goodbye was my dog. Just once. There has been a lot of death and tragedy around me, and I remember all of it. I never see them in my dreams. If you'd like to know what my dreams are like, look at my avatar. I used to draw and paint my nightmares.
It has been blamed on remote memory, which is genetic and evolutionary. It also includes flying in dreams, among other things, so there's that.
I think it was not upfront, the amount is paid at an interval from the estate until the re-animation happens. So they can get up and reunite with their now empty bank account, well, and maybe buy some cheap zombie flick to kill some time.
I guess they then warm them up, in a furnace. This is also a lot cheaper. They may have also changed tactics. The current price lists are around 200k, and that can be paid upfront, but there is nothing about the price of revival, should the day come. This can't be paid upfront. Let's say they slap a 10 million price tag on it. Those who are unable to fork it out while dead will be wheeled out with the trash...
They may be derived from subconscious, but is there any reason why narratives are spawned and characters placed in them ? There has to be some evolutionary justification to all of it ?
This is what they think, according to Freudian dream theory and its later developments. Dreams can't be put under a microscope, so it's slow and tedious process.
I have my fears like everybody else, but my nightmares do not reflect any of those. The lighter ones are just surreal, like mutated Dali paintings, but heavier stuff is downright "demonic". There is rarely a normal human being in there. I have seen these from an early age, so no contamination by media or anything. Years after the nightmares started I had a brain trauma, among other ones, and I think they just got more intense from there. I've also had 33 years worth of headaches from that point, every week, around four days a week, or more. I have ultrasensitivity to mostly everything, like smells, light, sounds, touch. Before I started taking a lot of meds in 2015 I also had almost animal senses (I think we call it the sixth), I could tell what someone in the same room with me was thinking(the mood of it, and sometimes the theme), the intuition was painful. For others it was either amusing or creepy. So my nightmares could actually have many reasons and sources.
True. There are many things beyond our perception. We have this amazing brain but sadly whatever we have unlocked about this world doesn't even come close to tip of the iceberg.This is what they think, according to Freudian dream theory and its later developments. Dreams can't be put under a microscope, so it's slow and tedious process.
"Remote memory may even involve information collected over the course of evolution and reflected in typical dream themes, such as flying and being chased."
I have my fears like everybody else, but my nightmares do not reflect any of those. The lighter ones are just surreal, like mutated Dali paintings, but heavier stuff is downright "demonic". There is rarely a normal human being in there. I have seen these from an early age, so no contamination by media or anything. Years after the nightmares started I had a brain trauma, among other ones, and I think they just got more intense from there. I've also had 33 years worth of headaches from that point, every week, around four days a week, or more. I have ultrasensitivity to mostly everything, like smells, light, sounds, touch. Before I started taking a lot of meds in 2015 I also had almost animal senses (I think we call it the sixth), I could tell what someone in the same room with me was thinking(the mood of it, and sometimes the theme), the intuition was painful. For others it was either amusing or creepy. So my nightmares could actually have many reasons and sources.
I need a constant distraction to not go completely insane, and some of those distractions are Starry Night and Redshift. The imagery in these is not completely accurate, but it'll have to do. In these there are only a few known Earth like planets that can support life, out of the billions and possibly trillions that exist. When we finally start to understand the Universe and all the parallel ones, we might finally get past the few kilobytes of data and it's utilization in our head hard drive/CPU combos. Human intellect actually might have been higher at some point in history. Humanity is supposed to have four seasons like a year has, and right now we have reached the Fall.
True. Either we had higher intellects in the past or may be we shall evolve to become higher intellects in the future. Like the ones in Interstellar, the future beings able to perceive dimensions beyond space and time. I love starry nights. I used to go to the terrace with my aunt and stare at the night sky for hours. She would tell me about constellations and different mythologies and their importance. I can hardly observe night sky now.
