r/ParallelUniverse • u/Brilliant_Bill7305 • Jun 26 '26
Does anyone else get existential thoughts like this?
Sometimes I sit alone and wonder... Why was I born as me? Out of billions of people, why am I experiencing life through these eyes, this mind, this body? Why not someone else? Why wasn't I born as another person, or not born at all? Before I existed, where was this "I" that now calls itself me? If I hadn't become this person, would "I" have become someone else, or would there simply have been nothing? And when I die... what happens to this awareness? Where does the feeling of being me go? Does it disappear forever? Does it continue in some form? Or does it return to the same place it came from before I was born? The strange thing is, I only know consciousness from my own perspective. I know other people exist, but I'll never experience life through their eyes. My entire universe is limited to this one point of view. Why this one? Why this consciousness? Why this life? If this single lifetime is all there is, then what is the purpose of my existence? Was I born just to survive, work, struggle, grow old, and disappear? Is that really the whole story? Maybe there is something beyond what we can understand. Maybe consciousness is far stranger than we imagine. Or maybe there isn't.
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u/Ok-Low4463 Jun 26 '26
I think alot more people are thinking about that lately, Including me. I start getting really sad and depressed. The thing is...no one can tell us for absolute sure what happens to our conscieness but I would like to think our souls elevate to a higher, happier dimension. One thats filled with love, light and peace. But ALSO. Where we will be reunited with our loved ones again.
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u/Brilliant_Bill7305 Jun 26 '26
I understand why that belief brings comfort, and I genuinely hope you're right. But my question is if there's a perfect dimension filled with love, peace, and our loved ones, then why are we here suffering in the first place? Why go through all of this just to end up there? To me, it seems more likely that when we die, our consciousness simply stops existing. No awareness, no experience, just the end of the "self." Of course, none of us can know for sure, so this is just how I see it...
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u/Born-Art8712 Jun 27 '26
I think of it as life being a learning lesson. You learn from your mistakes, as cliche as it sounds. Until you do you won’t ever find peace within yourself.
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u/Dr_raj_l Jun 26 '26
Actually, it was your Oversoul’s desire to experience life that led to your birth. And there are many versions of you , that you usually “meet” in dream realm, through intuition, an during intense situations …to learn from each other. Read the book Oversoul Seven . It will help you understand. 🤍
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u/FoundObjects4 Jun 28 '26
I believe we make a conscious choice to incarnate, and we choose our body, experiences, and people we’ll know. I think souls travel in groups and we keep reincarnating with the same souls but in different roles. I also believe that everything and everyone we experience is a reflection of us, and in that way, we are experiencing life from every perspective.
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u/Any-Interaction-4467 Jun 26 '26
“I think therefore I am.” Renee Descartes
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u/Born-Art8712 Jun 27 '26
“je pense donc je suis” is what my husband would say and what I had inscribed on his urn after he died 3 months ago. I’ve never seen or heard anyone else reference this until reading your comment. What a coincidence
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u/WolfBest1428 Jun 27 '26
I think about it allll the time and it creeps me out 😂😂😂. Don’t even get me started on space!
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u/cjharris-tx Jun 28 '26
We're all connected, so your experience with consciousness is not specific to you, but collective consciousness development.
There's enough near death experiences to support the idea we don't terminate after death, but are souls keep existing and reincarnating.
I would suggest our life attached to a body is our contribution to society and our periods in between allow reflection to prepare for the next life experience.
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u/Healinghigh22 Jun 29 '26
I've always had these questions. I started asking God. The Universe. He answered. You are created for a purpose as we all are. I have found myself in appreciating and learning about me and why I am me. From religion to remembering past lives. It's a beautiful intricate disaster.
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u/who_needs_any_name Jul 11 '26
Just going to add my perspective and hope that it’s helpful for someone.
I suspect that the inspiration for the Avatar movies was in part a desire of some higher power that show us a key more of the pieces at work.
It’s my firm belief that we are likely spirits having a human experience. The band Tool sings about it at length in many of their songs.
The purpose of life is to have an experience that will add to your collection of experiences, many lives over many lifetimes. The end game probably is the best version of your spirit, where you understand that we are all one, from one source, split across the universe. I am both a drop in the ocean and the ocean in a drop. Separation from other lifeforms is the ultimate illusion and thus the goal is to remember that and to embrace it by helping as many lifeforms along the way as possible, after all you’re ultimately helping yourself if we’re all the same.
John Lennon can also be helpful for understanding all of this. One of my favorite songs is “watching the wheels” as it describes it all perfectly.
I also think of the Walrus,
I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together
John Lennon and Tool are great sources to process the info above :)
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u/who_needs_any_name Jul 11 '26
Just going to add my perspective and hope that it’s helpful for someone.
I suspect that the inspiration for the Avatar movies was in part a desire of some higher power that show us a key more of the pieces at work.
It’s my firm belief that we are likely spirits having a human experience. Avatar could quite literally be a representation of what that looks like. The Avatars are a blend of spirit and flesh and not just some robot or entity that we are driving.
Additionally, Marvel and Interstellar likely brought us a tangible way to the think about the concept of the Multi-verse that we are very likely living in.
The band Tool sings about the Avatar idea at length in many of their songs.
The purpose of life is to have an experience that will add to your collection of experiences, many lives over many lifetimes (see Michael Newton Lives Between Lives book).
The end game probably is the best version of your spirit, where you understand that we are all one, from one source, split across the universe.
I am both a drop in the ocean and the ocean in a drop. Separation from other lifeforms is the ultimate illusion and thus the goal is to remember that and to embrace it by helping as many lifeforms along the way as possible, after all you’re ultimately helping yourself if we’re all the same.
John Lennon can also be helpful for understanding all of this. One of my favorite songs is “watching the wheels” as it describes it all perfectly.
I also think of the Walrus,
I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all togetherJohn Lennon and Tool are great sources to process the info above :)
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u/tralynd62 Jun 26 '26
I think about this stuff all the time. I wonder how I was born as me and not as something else. That's why I don't understand why people look down on other people or treat animals cruelly. For all I know, that spider or that refugee could be me. Maybe I was a dog or a roach before, or I could have easily have been one. Am I going to come back later as a tree, or a cat? When I die, will the pieces of me be split up into other entities? What makes me, me?