how old were you when you first started to contemplate mortality?https://twitter.com/goblinodds/status/1251750546114932737 …
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2 years 9 months minus 10 days, to my recollection. It was September 11, 1993 and I was struck by an infant (my cousin) in a rogue swing, causing me to black out. Otherwise, a few years later, I formally began nightly contemplations of mortality.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1245937804888035329?s=20 …
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x.noaidi @NoaidiXWhile not raised in a religious household, in the 90s, I was deeply impacted by an obscure TV ad with morbid imagery & a child's voice reciting a prayer: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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whew that's intense!! :o now i'm wondering whether i had a sense of mortality by the time i was 6 and was put under anesthesia for the first time
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Anaesthesia seems to induce a visceral sense of dying for some people. My first time under at age 10, I recall the contents of my visual field dissolving as the beeping sound of the heart monitor increased, leaving only a single note and radiant white light. Woke up crying.
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whoa that's terrifying!! both times for me it was like falling asleep--vague awarness of some time before going under, and then no awareness of whatever the last moments were, then next thing i knew i was awake
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Nearly the same occurred many years later approaching the conclusion of a meditation retreat and then also at a mountain monastery in Taiwan, both in the context of lucid dreams. In those cases, it was a profoundly liberating experience, but absolutely terrifying as a child.
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