Originally Posted by ThatGuyInTheCorner

OK... Well, in all honesty, Im pleased to be able to say, that a lot of the very long part of my explanation has actually been said, in the YouTube clip of the movie waking life, posted above. Its at 1.08 mins.

You see as life slips away, at that split second between life and death, your brain goes into a 'System Dump' mode, and kinda discharges all the memories and other crap, that's inside it... But it does so in way that can only be described as an extremely long, and complex dream... A dream that in my opinion, would last (To you anyway) for 'eternity'...

This isn't as far fetched as it may sound, simply because of the amount of times that you hear, 'My Life Flashed Before Me'... Because it does. That's exactly what happens...

Now if you have had a 'good' life, been happily married, raised kids etc etc, then the majority of your memories are 'good happy memories' then that's what this brain discharge will mostly comprise of.

And to integrate with popular thoughts... That would constitute 'Heaven'

Alternatively, if you have had a 'bad' life, committed a murder say, and spent twenty years in a jail... Then that would be the majority of your brain dump.

And constitute, 'Hell'

That pretty much sums it up. As I said, the youtube clip covered it fairly succinctly...

Finally you might be wondering 'How' I died... Well it wasn't anything 'exciting'... Back in 1996, I had a disease called Encephalitis, (Akin to meningitis' which cause swelling and inflammation to the lining of the brain. I was in the hospital, being treated anyway, and all of a sudden, I had the mother of all dreams... Must have lasted (to me) almost a year!

I really cannot explain the intricacy's and complexities of that dream, for you to fully comprehend it... But that's what happened. It was like an alternative life. It consisted of actual days, and nights, and going to sleep, and having dreams within the dream etc... The hospital never came into it, until 'one day' literally, There was a huge white light, and I was suddenly totally disorentated on a hospital bed...

Then I discovered, (A few weeks later) that I had been clinically dead for nearly three minutes...

Believe what I say, or not as the case maybe... But I know that if I were to die tomorrow... I wouldn't be scared of death...