Had the same experience, what scared the crap out of me is that feeling of not even knowing you're out is how some people spend their last moment.

Not just in surgery for example but in extreme other situations (nukes, titan sub, piano to the head, etc)... You're just there then you aren't and you don't even know. Shook me (lightly) for a while

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lordnacho 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

For me it gave me some peace about death. Say you are vaporized by a nuke. You're walking around chatting one moment, and there is no next moment.

I'm guessing being properly flattened by a truck is similar, though of course that's adjacent to being severely injured and dying later.

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Podrod 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's basically sleep for me. I know I must dream but I only very rarely even remember the smallest fragment of any dreams. So sleeping is like I've not existed for 7 hours from my conscious perspective.

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Roark66 2 days ago | parent [-]

Same with me, check yourself for sleep apnea and "sugar crash" during sleep if you can...

Interestingly some medications like tadalafil restore my dreams... My smart watch also tells me the phases like remand deep have normal lengths. So I'm not sure why it is so rare for me to dream, but I suspect low glucose or oxygen may have something to do with it.

	▲	krisoft 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> So I'm not sure why it is so rare for me to dream, but I suspect low glucose or oxygen may have something to do with it. You might be having those but “not having dreams” is not an indication of that. And i put the “not having dreams” in quotes because for most people they have dreams but then go on to forget them. If you are having other symptomps by all means get it checked out. But if your only symptom is not remembering dreams i wouldn’t worry about that.
	▲	rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do you smoke weed? It's well known that THC use causes dreamless sleep.

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pavlov 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly it doesn’t sound too bad to me. Just blinking out of existence. No pain, no regret. So what’s there to be scared of?

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Roark66 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's such a waste. You're there with all your personality and you're gone the next. It is quite bad. That's why I think religions came up with an idea of hell...

One may think, any existence is better than nothing.

	▲	rkomorn 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		But think of the legacy of all the shareholder value you created...

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jamiek88 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dying is generally pretty easy. It’s hardest on those left behind.

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Nevermark 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Missing out.