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Anyone else experience the feelings that you are constantly dying? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BalabakGuy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don't know how to express or articulate my thoughts and my vocabulary and grammar gets messed up the more I write so I will just write simply.

What I'm trying to say is that every day or hour or minute or everytime you think, you feels like your original selves is dying. I know that we are constantly growing but i just can't stop thinking that whenever we grow or learning new things or start to think differently, our past selves is dead. I think back to my past selves in middle school, highschool and from 2022 and think, aren't they dead? No matter what i do or think or whatever happens to me, i can't bring back the personalities or "me"s from the past. They remain dead and continue to being dead. Unless they are exist in another timeline or universe.

What exactly is identity, consciousness or the self which is me? I don't know nor understand but this idea just stuck in my mind and occasionally appears when I'm bored, stressed or relaxed.

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[–] lemmy@lemmy.stonansh.org 20 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Your past selves aren't dead. You just evolved into what you are now. That's what we do.

[–] BalabakGuy@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

What do you mean by "evolve"? I think my past selves is dead because I can't experience the exact same consciousness of the past selves of me again. Doesn't that count as being "dead"?

[–] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

By that rationale, wouldn't other people then also be dead, as you cannot experience their consciousness?

[–] BalabakGuy@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to dehumanize other people but yes. That's how i see it.

[–] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

It's a very intersting viewpoint, pardon me for exploring further. So future you (or me) is also dead until the brief flash of life where yours and his consciousness finally overlap, before lapsing into nothingness again.

It's very reasonable even, to think everything not experienced this very moment is totally alien to us.

Thanks for stretching my grey matter on this dull day!

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