These questions I am about to ask are for a neuroscientist to answer. They are very important questions. I will give a brief explanation of my situation. I have had severe depression in my life and have had horrible indescribable depressive nightmares.
In these nightmares, I experienced radically altered mental states. They are nothing normal and are the worst hellish experiences. They are experiences that cannot be explained since they are unlike any other experience.
They are mental states that can never be experienced in one’s normal waking life since mental states in dreams and nightmares are radically different than mental states in your normal waking life.
Now near death experiences are not like dreams. They are actually conscious states greater than normal waking consciousness since people who have them report that everything was more real than real. They also contain elements unlike dreams.
However, even though near death experiences are not like dreams, they may contain some elements of dreams since some of the neurological processes that are involved in dreaming can also be involved in near death experiences.
So now, I am going to ask two questions here. Please write down your answers to them and explain your answers in detail rather than a simple “yes” or “no:”
1.) If I ever have a near death experience myself someday, then there is the possibility that it could be a hellish one since some ndes are hellish. They are not as numerous as the blissful heavenly ndes, but they do exist which means there is always the possibility that I could have a hellish nde.
So the question I have here is, if I do ever have a hellish nde someday, then is it even possible for me to experience those radically altered hellish mental states during the nde? If not, then what about mental states that are similiar?
When I say similiar, I do not mean a hellish mental state that one would experience here in his/her normal waking life. What I mean is a hellish mental state similar to those I’ve experienced in those nightmares I’ve had.
As I’ve mentioned before, elements of dreams and nightmares can be involved in ndes. So I am wondering if those hellish radically altered mental states I’ve experienced in my nightmares can be one of those elements. Or if this is an element only exclusive to the nightmares I’ve had.
If it is not possible for me to experience those altered mental states during an nde, then I won’t be worried. But if it is possible, then I will be very worried since to experience this fully conscious would be the absolute worst thing.
2.) In my waking state, I am in a normal state of mind. I experienced horrible indescribable depressive feelings in my nightmares unlike any other experience in my waking life. It was the worst experience in my nightmares.
But for whatever reason, when that feeling lingered on in my waking life, it wasn’t as bad. It was a very horrible feeling, but that is all it was and it wasn’t as bad of an experience as my nightmares for whatever reason.
Perhaps being in this normal wakeful state of mind gives me power and resistance to those feelings. But in my nightmares, I am no longer in that normal wakeful state of mind. So maybe this is why the feelings are worse experiences in my nightmares than my waking life.
But this is all regarding the feelings. I am not sure about those radically altered hellish states of mind I’ve experienced in my nightmares. If I were to experience those in my waking life, then it could be an even worse experience than my nightmares. I am not sure on this one.
I can’t imagine what that experience would even be like in my waking life. Would I have power and resistance to it like I did with those feelings, or would it be just as bad or an even worse experience than what I’ve experienced in my nightmares?
Considering that it is possible for me to experience those altered mental states when I am fully conscious during an nde, then if I were to have power and resistance to it like I did with those feelings, then I won’t be very worried. But if I don’t and it would be an even worse experience than my nightmares, then I would be very worried.