Help My fear of eternal nothingness prevents me from CTB

[zdeweilx]

I'm not afraid of dying, but I'm afraid of the eternal nothingness that will come after my death, and even if I know I will be at "peace", it also scares me. I don't know why. How to solve this ?

 

[badatparties]

Eternal nothingness sounds like the shiznit, can't help you there man.

 

[Liebestod]

I can't exactly give you an answer on how to solve it but consciousness is what creates reality. After death consciousness permanently ceases meaning reality for the individual no longer exists because there is no perception of space or time. All I can say is think of it as an eternal slumber but with no dreams. It may sound scary to some but the truth of the matter is there's a beauty in the fact that when you're dead you won't even know it. In fact you won't even know that anything ever existed just like how before you were born or before the universe even existed.

 

[zdeweilx]

Eternal nothingness sounds like the shiznit, can't help you there man.

I understand your POV but idk it still has something scary to me

I can't exactly give you an answer on how to solve it but consciousness is what creates reality. After death consciousness permanently ceases meaning reality for the individual no longer exists because there is no perception of space or time. All I can say is think of it as an eternal slumber but with no dreams. It may sound scary to some but the truth of the matter is there's a beauty in the fact that when you're dead you won't even know it. In fact you won't even know that anything ever existed just like how before you were born or before the universe even existed.

Thanks for this, yeah that kind of helps. I won't "feel" the nothingness or experience it, I will simply cease to exist. I know our brains are not made to grasp what a state of complete nothingness implies.
But another bad outcome that sometimes scares me would be that I get reincarnated after my death. I'm just scared of what awaits me after my life will have ended. I'm overthinking and waste all because of that.

 

[Gangrel]

I used to fear it a lot, now it got easier by knowing that you won't KNOW, the only reason we know how sleep is like is because we wake up, if we never awake then it's not possible to know how it will feel like, we aren't wired to understand that concept really, i feel like the brain is really bad in imagining nothingness. Some people find confort in religion and spirituality, maybe we become energy that gets passed down to earth or maybe one religion out there is right.

 

[Blueberry Panic]

The nothingness is better then what's here now.... at least for me it is

 

[zdeweilx]

I used to fear it a lot, now it got easier by knowing that you won't KNOW, the only reason we know how sleep is like is because we wake up, if we never awake then it's not possible to know how it will feel like, we aren't wired to understand that concept really, i feel like the brain is really bad in imagining nothingness. Some people find confort in religion and spirituality, maybe we become energy that gets passed down to earth or maybe one religion out there is right.

Yeah, but when you're about to CTB, your mind goes blank and you forget that you won't experience nothingness, your SI kicks in and your will to die disappears. It's annoying
Imagine if buddhism was right since the beginning and we get reincarnated everytime we die. This would by far be the worst possible outcome

The nothingness is better then what's here now.... at least for me it is

The eternality of it is a bit daunting at times.
Even if you know you wont experience it

 

[Gangrel]

Yeah, but when you're about to CTB, your mind goes blank and you forget that you won't experience nothingness, your SI kicks in and your will to die disappears. It's annoying
Imagine if buddhism was right since the beginning and we get reincarnated everytime we die. This would by far be the worst possible outcome

Yeah we are hard wired to protect ourselves, not really a thing we can control, so there's another reason to not fear death, it happens to everyone, you won't be alone, dying is the natural state of literally everything.

Not necessarily, you could be born in a good body with no mental illness in a great condition in another world or timeline because who knows (since we are discussing theories) most people don't even think about suicide once in their lives, you could be one of them in the next life with a completly different personality. Well to be fair the opposite could also happen and you get reeincarnated into a frog.

 

[zdeweilx]

Yeah we are hard wired to protect ourselves, not really a thing we can control, so there's another reason to not fear death, it happens to everyone, you won't be alone, dying is the natural state of literally everything.

Not necessarily, you could be born in a good body with no mental illness in a great condition in another world or timeline because who knows (since we are discussing theories) most people don't even think about suicide once in their lives, you could be one of them in the next life with a completly different personality. Well to be fair the opposite could also happen and you get reeincarnated into a frog.

Yeah... I think to be able to CTB one has to be okay with anything that could happen after he dies. Including getting reincarnated or going to hell if it exists.

 

[Ashu]

Yeah, but when you're about to CTB, your mind goes blank and you forget that you won't experience nothingness, your SI kicks in and your will to die disappears. It's annoying
Imagine if buddhism was right since the beginning and we get reincarnated everytime we die. This would by far be the worst possible outcome

But Hindus and Buddhists believe that there is almost total amnesia between incarnations. So in effect, the person you are now simply dies.

 

[gunmetalblue11]

Depends what actually scares you about dying and fading into nothinless. Is it like said above, the possibility and doubt about the fact you don't know what could happen after you die? Is it the fact that nothing could happen and you rot and feed the soil which feeds the circle of life. Or you turn into ash and get kept in a pot or thrown into somewhere meaningful.
Or maybe you don't know.

 

[merlinscries]

Same here. It makes me sad to know that this weird, lonely, painful existence is all I have and all I ever will have experienced and when I'm dead there's just absolutely nothing anymore --- forever.

Whenever I'm outside in nature and I become conscious of the fact that I will die, that my body will be a corpse that decays like everything else in nature I get creeped out. It's a sort of reverence. And you can't control it. Dying is also letting go of any control. You won't control what happens to your body. It will just dissolve into the environment and you have no say in it. It creeps me out.

Sure, you won't be there to experience it but it's still creepy to think about. It feels even more lonely. As if you're lost forever... And to a certain extent that's true. But you won't experience the loss.

I think these things are also interesting to consider when talking about consciousness as a whole.

 

[Morte]

you are literally afraid of nothing

 

[MyLifeisHell]

I think this is an issue that the individual has to come up with a solution for themselves.

For the suicidal person there must be something appealing about death. Otherwise they would choose to endure painful circumstances like most people in these situations choose to do.

I try to focus on those appealing traits.

 

[FuneralCry]

I feel the exact opposite, for me non-existence is all I see as positive, it's all that can bring me peace from this painful, torturous and futile existence that just causes endless amounts of harm and suffering, all I've ever hoped for is to be permanently unconscious free from this evil existence that just tortures existing beings with no limit as to how much agony one can feel, I only envy those who no longer exist who are at peace and safe from all suffering unable to be harmed ever again.

 

[kuroshimi]

I've been thinking about it recently. I'm not so much scared but discouraged by the fact that life will go after I gone. Not afraid of fading into nothingness, but still can't get used to it.

 

[Sunset Limited]

İt is my only hope.

 

[Forever Sleep]

The way I tend to see it is: Was it terrifying before you were born? Seems more likely it was just nothing and then, at some point- something. So, I imagine death will be the same in reverse. Are you afraid of falling asleep? That you're willingly putting your consciousness on standby? But then, how great even is it to wake up? Waking up is horrible for me! It's a relief to be honest to think one day I won't experience that.

Can you analyse it further maybe? What is it about life you feel like you will be missing out on? Is the anxiety there because there are still things you wanted to achieve or experience? Is it regret making you fearful?