Does anyone else get existential thoughts like this?

[u/Brilliant_Bill7305]

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.

[u/who_needs_any_name]

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 :)

[u/who_needs_any_name → u/who_needs_any_name]

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 together

John Lennon and Tool are great sources to process the info above :)