The Transition

[Killa Rican]

So awhile ago I got my wisdom teeth taken out, I was put to sleep by injected Anastesia. It never ceases to amaze me how our brains work. There I am sitting on the chair thinking I will fall asleep any second, I feel dazed, I start to see the room around me twisting in circles, the portraits on the wall seemed to be "melting" down... Then it stopped, I didn't even blink when I saw 2 of the doctors suddenly "magically" appear before me  telling me I was all finished. An hour and a half later felt like 2 seconds, waking up being numb.

An hour and a half passes by during my "connected" awareness of what was going around me in the physical in a split second lol. I've thought about moments like these a lot how you can completely lose your sensation of "time" under certain effects or states of consciousness, and wonder how the transitional period is for people who die quickly..

If someone dies instantly or swiftly, such as they never see death coming, getting shot in the back of the head, or they die in there sleep. Do they always realize there dead? It must seem like a dream to them. Would they make it to the "other side" completely unaware of what's happened to them, or the time that has passed? Such as your "alive" for one second, and then you still think your alive, due to the swiftness of what happened, you didn't phase nor feel a thing.

Like your instantly from "here" to "there" without realizing anything of a difference. My friend told me about her father passing away. He died in his sleep due to a severe sickness. She was miserable over his death, and the night after he died she decided to sleep in his room, on his side of the bed crying over him where he used to sleep. She had a lucid dream that night similar to a false awakening. She "wakes up" from the bed in this dream and see's her dad right beside her on the bed. She described him as seeming really confused and disoriented, like he couldn't understand the concept nor grasp that he was dead; not alive.. When she woke up for real, she felt a strange eery presence in the room that made her feel weird, the rest of the night in there.

So what does everyone think? Do some spirits have trouble accepting, or denying death, or have some sort of period of adjustment where they don't even realize what's happened, that they are dead?

All opinions are welcomed.  

[ZiggyMike]

Like Jurgen Ziewe said in one of his videos, some people due to their attachment to the physical world still don't believe they are dead. He mentioned that their is an almost similar version of our world on the astral planes which some people transition to after they die. He goes on to say that the only difference could be like manifesting a cigarette instantly by just thinkin about it. I guess minor. Subtleties like that can make you realize you are in fact dead. I still believe that in fatal deaths, the silver cord is severed a tad bit before it happens, to save the person from trauma or something. Except in cases where karma is to be processed I guess. On the whole your story is definitely plausible.

[CFTraveler]

Ha ha that is mind blowing, isn't it?
Something about me that some people might already know is that I've always had a pervasive consciousness- as a child I had a photographic memory and have always been aware, even when asleep- I could always wake up at any hour and know what time it is (I called it 'the clock in my head') and when older, had the unpleasant experience of always remembering everything, even stuff that other people black out.  Even in my 'teenage wild years' everything I did was completely aware- never had the excuse of anything affecting my judgement, so everything I've ever done has been of my own volition, no matter  what.

This has made my life a bit difficult in some ways, and easy in other ways... but unfortunately the idea of 'repressed' or 'suppressed' memories have always been alien to me.....

Until I had surgery for the first time in my thirties.  Holy moly, I closed my eyes and opened my eyes and about three hours had passed, and I had no feeling of continuity-as if I had stopped existing for that time; and unlike other people I had talked to, this had never happened to me before.
Ever since I wondered if this is what death is like.
I'm not explaining, I'm just commiserating- remembering how weird this was.

BTW, my memories are not what they used to be.... now my memory is prob. average, those hormones really do a number on you when you get pregnant and again when you go through menopause.

[travilanche]

I was actually thinking about this last night, and then again today.  Last night I was watching Lost, and someone got blown up with some dynamite.  I was then thinking about what an extremely rapid death that is.  If you are transported somewhere else when you die it would be like blinking, and then when your eyes open back up on the blink, all your surroundings would be different.  How bizarre would that be? 

I had tonsil surgery when I was 4 I think (I'm 27 now) and I don't really remember anything about the anesthesia.  The last time I had surgery of any kind was when I was about 11 and I had some teeth pulled.  They gave me nitrous oxide for that instead of putting me to sleep.  Now that's a whole other experience all together. 

But yeah, I have thought about people who might not know they've died.  That would be a pretty strange realization all of a sudden.