@voiceindarkness,
wayne wrote: I don't wish to be impolite, however, I don't see, by your story, when the water entered your lungs to constitute drowning,
nor is there any reference to water being removed and respiration being restored.
voiceindarkness wrote:I didn't take on any water in my lungs. I was fully conscious, but I didn't feel the presence of my physical body at all. I didn't feel my lungs needing to breath I wasn't face down, I was straight up and down, with a smile on my face, turning my head back and forth trying to look around in the darkness.
Reality as we experience it is just an illusion in our mind, a dream, you are in my dream, I am in your dream. When you leave the physical reality and your physical body dies, you continue to dwell in a dream reality that is just as real as the physical reality, but you are not bound by the constraints of your physical mind. You don't even have the realization that you died.
To a large extent, tho
not 1OO%, our respective experiences co-incided qua shared consciouness,
i.e., consciousness simultaneously both out of the human body and inside it.
All of my out-of-body experiences were shared consciousness experiences.
I have already mentioned my actively working (questioning witnesses)
in court, while out of my human body, observing the process
from a distance of c.3O feet away.
Another one (very brief) that I had was in a fast food restaurant for lunch.
I sat in a Friendly Ice Cream restaurant near my business office
with a hamburger in my hands, ready to take the first bite,
when I found myself out in the parking lot looking at myself
thru the window. I saw myself holding the hamburger in front
of my face. My thought was: "if I am out here, then how come
I can still see this hamberger only a few inches in front of me? ";
i.e., I was perplexed at seeing it both a few inches away
and about 3O feet away, at a right angle. Then it was over.
Qua what u wrote about dreaming,
I remember hearing of a Chinese saying that a Chinaman
fell asleep and dreamed that he was a butterfly.
Upon awakening, he wondered whether he was
a Chinaman dreaming of being a butterfly
or a butterfly dreaming that he was a Chinaman.
Quoth Edgar Allen Poe:
"is all that we see and seem, but a dream within a dream?"
It appears to be the case (I invite comment on this point)
that
consciousness is deemed related to observed experience
in Quantum Mechanics; i.e., that reality is
altered by observation thereof.
There is also another question:
does the Law of the Conservation of Energy apply to conscious life??
If it does, then that indicates that our lives long
ante-dated the Iron Age,
or even the formation of the Earth.
Have u studied the body of literature concerning "Near Death" Experiences?
www.IANDS.org
David
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