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LORD_HOKAGE_ t1_iz2ocxj wrote

Reply to comment by sk3pt1c in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched

Well obviously you’re alive and you can possibly dream while you’re asleep, but your conscious experience while you are asleep and not dreaming, is the same as being dead. Nothing.

Being under anesthesia is an even better example. Same as before you were born. Non existence from your personal perspective.

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sk3pt1c t1_iz3toql wrote

Maybe but I’m not sure not dreaming is a thing, maybe we all dream but we don’t always remember the dreams.

I don’t know if you’ve had general anesthesia, for me it was a shocking experience. It was like a light switch was flipped and you just aren’t. I have no experience of the switch being flipped either, one second I was chatting away with the nurses and the next I was waking up after, there was no counting down and getting dizzy/blurry and all that they show in the movies. It was truly a mind fucking thing to have happen to me, existentially speaking.

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LORD_HOKAGE_ t1_iz4l4cl wrote

Some people don’t dream because of medical/biological issues, if you do certain drugs like smoking weed it greatly lessens your chances of dreaming. Dreaming only happens in REM sleep which takes hours of sleeping to get to that stage. Dreaming isn’t guarenteed, and most sleep is not dreaming sleep.

I e been under anesthesia before and it’s exactly as you describe, one moment you’re awake in the room and literally the next moment you’re waking up from surgery. It’s a very unsettling feeling not being to account for the lost time

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