Do you ever wonder if you've died but haven't realised?

[PollyCreo]

This is kind of light hearted, I'm not depressed or suicidal 😅

Had a bit of a stressful and lonely day at work and it crossed my mind that I could be dead, in the Bruce Willis 'Sixth Sense' way. I wondered if I was still clinging onto my old life and refused to accept death so just hung around my office for company (also a bit like David Brent). The feeling didn't last long and spent the rest of the day dealing with lazy employees and gobshite customers.

I do have a bit of a cold/virus though so might have been slightly feverish 🫠

I did once when my toddler daughter had a nightmare and was crying calling mummy. I went into her and she was sat up in bed looking right at me but still crying calling mummy like I wasn’t there. She must have still been half asleep with her eyes open but it did give me a sixth sense moment and gave me a chill!

Nope, cause on the other side, everything is good, No illness etc

I had one weird moment....

I used to walk to the train station every morning at the same time. Every day I passed the same people and acknowledged them ...

Then one day everything felt a bit different and when I passed people they walked past me like they didn't see me.

It was really unsettling! And no it wasn't a dream.

Well that will be nice and peaceful 😴 No one will disturb your sleep or stick needles in you.

@kitkatnatnat must have been scary 😲

Very unsettling! Makes me think of that scene in Vanilla Sky where Times Square is completely empty 😳

All. The. Time.

When I was about 7 we had an assembly at school about Heaven. The vicar told us that Heaven is whatever we imagine our happiest place to be. I really started to question if I was dead already, as what I would want is to not know I was dead (including any bad bits, for authenticity). I spent months at a time throughout my childhood wondering if I might actually be dead and my life was just a simulation, whereas real life was carrying on without me. Sometimes when I'm ill I can start to have the same thoughts again!

Blimey, that was profound for 7 years old. You must have fun with the Jehovah's Witnesses when they knock on your door!

It crosses my mind sometimes that I’m actually a ghost and no one can see me. I’m just kind of wandering amongst the shining people living their very best lives. The cloak of middle-aged invisibility I suppose 🙄

I spent months at a time throughout my childhood wondering if I might actually be dead and my life was just a simulation
I feel like this all the time! Like my life is a simulation. Too tired to go into it now but yes, I feel this.

Occasionally. It's a result of MH troubles (extreme DP/DR) in my case.

My colleagues and I don't think we are dead, we have decided that work isn't real and our colleagues are our carers that keep us medicated enough to carry on. A bit like the Shutter Island film minus the murders!

A few years ago I had a bit of a mental health "wobble" and I was convinced I was slowly ceasing to exist. Little things like people not noticing me in a queue, people forgetting my name. I can't remember specifically but there was a phone call I made about something and they said I didn't have an account with them, when I knew I did. I was sure everyone was slowly forgetting me and eventually I'd be completely forgotten / not existing. Then I thought maybe I was in a coma and that was me slowly dying, everything being gently erased from my life til there was nothing left.
It was quite scary at the time. I don't know how I got out of it, I don't remember what brought me back into reality! Maybe I'm still in the coma

I’m still not entirely convinced I’m not. I had a dream once (or was it a dream?) that I was in an accident. I couldn’t see anything but could hear the beeps of hospital machinery and medical staff saying “we’re losing her!” as well as people calling my name. Then everything after that was a blur and ever since then I’ve wondered if I’m living in the afterlife.

Or a coma and everything I think I’m experiencing is just a long dream. Or I’ve crossed into a parallel universe.

No, because I don't believe in ghosts or anything after death, so there wouldn't be any 'me' to be thinking 'am I dead?' if I were actually dead iyswim!

Sometimes, when I am asking everyone to put their plates in the dishwasher, pick stuff off the floor etc. Then I find myself needed to drive them somewhere/ pay for something and realise that no I was only temporarily invisible/silent. Like Schrodinger's mother both there and not there.

I’ve wondered many times if this is Limbo and I’m paying off some kind of debt for previous wrongs by enduring the crappy, monotonous life I have now where there is very little joy. I’d love to know what I did in a past life to deserve this one.

Sometimes when I'm just on the edge of wakefulness at 3am I think I need to turn left and I die and I right I live . I make the correct choice but I'm always left with "was that my near death ? That's a bit shit isn't it?"