Have you ever wondered what happens when you die? Perhaps you thought you would be able to live another life, in a future time, such as I did. Perhaps you thought you would go to Heaven or Hell. In all reality, you opinion on this matter depends on your religous views.
For example, I'm an Atheist, so when I was little, I thought that perhaps we would live in another life. For example, I thought we had lived lives before, such as George Washington, or King Richard. For a nice backstory on just WHY I thought this was what happened allow me to explain. When I was little, perhaps five or six, my cousin Jared and I were across the street from my great Grandparents home at my great-great Grandparents' house. We were looking a window that led to their basement, and he looked at me and said, "I once lived before now, perhaps I could have been George Washington, or maybe someone else who was great, at least, that is what I would like to think." Naturally, this stuck with me, seeing as I looked up to him with admiration.
Now, multiple years later, I was laying in bed one night, stricken with my usual Insomnia, and I thought to myself "What happens when we die?". We don't have any spirtual essence inside of us as we may like to think. Even thoughts themselves aren't real, their just pulses of electricity going though our brain. Our very conciousness is dependent on our brain being intact and active, so why would we go anywhere or live again after we die? Perhaps we just cease to exist? Is there even a Heaven or Hell like we were told by our Grandparents or at least one person in our life when we were younger?
I set out to attempt to grasp a larger knowledge on this matter the next day. I used the internet for my research, seeing as I had no books at my disposal on this specific subject. After a few hours of searching, I had found quite a few intriguing
I would like to quote a rather interesting article on this subject written by Robert Lanza M.D. He says,
"Without consciousness, space and time are nothing; in reality you can take any time -- whether past or future -− as your new frame of reference. Death is a reboot that leads to all potentialities." - www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/ what-happens-when-you-die_b_596600.html
So, looking at that view, it suggests that we can take any time we want, any time at all, and use it as our new frame or reference. Therefore, we can live whenever we want to. As lovely as this sounds, I would not like to think of it as true, granted, he has a medical degree and I don't. When we go unconcious our thoughts stop, and in order to pick a new time, you would have to be conscious, if I am correct in assuming such. Perhaps death is a reboot, perhaps our 'spirit' is able to choose for us? I assume, based in my theories upon themselves, that we have no 'soul' or 'spirit'. We're just physical beings. If we have souls and spirits, then so do animals, and so do bugs. If bugs and animals have souls, then do they choose a new time to live? If they do, why don't we have mammoths or dinosaurs living right now? What about dodo birds? If they can choose a new time to live, then there would be no 'extinction'. That would just be a temporary thought.
I would like to quote Time.com next. They say
"When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases —as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing and were able see those pictures, that confirms consciousness really was continuing even though the brain wasn't functioning."
They point out that they think that Out of Body experiences happen when you die. But what happens after that, do you go to Pearly Gates? Or do you float around as nothingness? But, they also point out that the only way to test this theory is by putting pictures on a shelf, not visible from below or ground level, and wait for someone to go into that state of 'near death' and revive them. Then, once revived, we ask them if they saw anything on the shelf. Then, if they are correct, then we will have gotten closer to proving this theory. Perhaps we could speed up the chances of this by inducing Cardiac Arrest, and allowing them to 'die'. Once they do, we revive them using defibrillator's or some other mean of revival.
These are just a couple of the theories I came across that I had some interesting thoughts on. But overall, my theory is just that, a theory. It could be just as wrong as the Earth being flat for all we know. Theres no way to prove most theories, unless their ones that involve things such as Out of Body Experiences.