Sleep is Just Death Being Shy

[eternalmelancholy]

He makes some good points. Not sure if this will help anybody feel at peace with death but it was an interesting watch none the less.

 

[Someone123]

Sleep is maybe the best part of my life at this time, especially when I am half awake and still in a dream and I think my life is better than it is.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

Sleep is maybe the best part of my life at this time, especially when I am half awake and still in a dream and I think my life is better than it is.

Sleep is the only relief I get from my misery. The best part of my day is the first few seconds of waking up, before you fully realize you are still alive. It is all downhill from there.

Our minds use all kinds of trickery to give us false hope. No wonder so many people cling onto hope and delusions, it is the only way they can escape reality.

 

[just_wanna_die]

Sleep may be death being shy, but it could also be that sleep is death without the commitment.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

Sleep may be death being shy, but it could also be that sleep is death without the commitment.

Well said. No one fears sleep because it is a given you will awake up in the morning. No so much for death. To be honest I am not sure why I made this thread back then.

I will be the first one to admit that I am a coward. I think the only way I will be able to ctb is just not thinking about it. I know it can be done because I have made attempts before, albeit more practice runs than the real deal. I guess I am just scared of the finality of death. Even though it is all I wanted for the past 10 years.

 

[GentleJerk]

"It was easy, folks. It was easy..."
@eternal melancholy I'm scared too.

 

[MolinaKeyLime]

This would be an awesome tv show idea or anime or whatever.

 

[GentlyFading]

Well said. No one fears sleep because it is a given you will awake up in the morning. No so much for death. To be honest I am not sure why I made this thread back then.

I will be the first one to admit that I am a coward. I think the only way I will be able to ctb is just not thinking about it. I know it can be done because I have made attempts before, albeit more practice runs than the real deal. I guess I am just scared of the finality of death. Even though it is all I wanted for the past 10 years.

I think for me it's not the certainty of death but the change from what I'm used to, the mundane suffering, to the unaccustomed, nothingness. I'm scared of the change from everything to nothing. It's terrifying.

 

[Ashu]

"Il gran sonno".

 

[Bleak]

"Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night."

The Internet Classics Archive | Apology by Plato

Apology by Plato, part of the Internet Classics Archive

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[TheHatedOne]

Sleep is the only thing that brings me comfort. It's cool to not have to experience reality 24/7 and be in misery always, the more you sleep the more you are shielded from suffering and pain. However, sometimes even sleep can become a negative because of nightmares.

 

[ClownMe]

Sleep is the only thing that brings me comfort. It's cool to not have to experience reality 24/7 and be in misery always, the more you sleep the more you are shielded from suffering and pain. However, sometimes even sleep can become a negative because of nightmares.

If I could, I would just sleep away my entire existence, I have no real reason to be awake anyway, nothing brings me even a shred of happiness anymore.

 

[Pluto]

 

[just_wanna_die]

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I found this post to be both very amusing and quite ...CAT-tivating! =^..^=

 

[eternalmelancholy]

Sleep is the only thing that brings me comfort. It's cool to not have to experience reality 24/7 and be in misery always, the more you sleep the more you are shielded from suffering and pain.

I love sleep as well. It is the best part of living sadly.

If I could, I would just sleep away my entire existence, I have no real reason to be awake anyway, nothing brings me even a shred of happiness anymore.

Is it even possible to die in your sleep? That is the dream. I hate being awake as well. Just knowing that I have to get through another day is tiring. Existing is just a tiring experience. That is why all the money in the world wouldn't matter to me at this point. I just want to disappear.

 

[motel rooms]

Sleep may be death being shy, but it could also be that sleep is death without the commitment.

In Greek mythology, Hypnos (Sleep) & Thanatos (Death) are twin brothers who live in the Underworld (Hades).

A bronze head of Hypnos with wings sprouting from his temples: