Death

[The Feather]

I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to put this ... but I have a question concering death.

As long as I have lived (I think) I have on rare occations felt I was dead when sleeping. And I have through out my life scared a few people because I was not breathing in my sleep and they thought I was dead. It supposedly only lasted very short, because no one have ever gotten to the point of actually calling an ambulance on me :smile:

Any way this I experience more and more now within the last 3-4 months it has happend 2-3 times a week that I know of my self. I can remember I have been dead (In my early days I did not have any memory of it).

It is not anything that worry me, but people around me does not have that feeling, so I just wonder if anyone here experience this? (- and no it is not a dream I still do not breath when it happens).

Does anyone know about this and why it happens?

[Internal Queries]

sleep apnea?

[The Feather]

Thank you Internal Queries - after reading your answer I went on the net to read about sleep apnea.

What I found by reading is that the symptoms does not seem to fit to me.

I should say that once I dated a person who did first aid and he told me that I stopped breathing and had no heartbeat either - he really thought I was dead.

[BlueSky]

Sleep apnea is pretty common and your heart does stop. You might want to have test done. People who have it do not get good nights sleep.
I wouldn't write it off too quickily.
James

[The Feather]

Thank you WhiteShaman. I do sleep very well though and just don't seem to have any of the symptoms of sleep apnea. I will look into it though.

[Murciélago]

It is always best to look for a material cause before a spiritual one. In my faith Thantos and Hypnos (gods of sleep and death) are twin brothers. When looking for a spiritual definition are spirits drawn to you and/or do you have a family history of mediumship/necromancy/clairvoyance?

[Scibat]

Trust me. Its 99% likely Sleep Apnea. You don't have to have all the symptoms for it to be that, you stop breathing in your sleep, that is a big symptom right there -- I have it as well. I sleep equally well (or poorly) on nights when I stop breathing as when I don't and have strange vivid dreams frequently -- Even recently a dream where I was dead and riding in a car with someone who I knew was death himself.

I know it can be hard to accept a mundane answer for something you think is anything but mundane, but usually that is all there is.

[The Feather]

Hi Murciélago

Personally I think there is a spiritual answer for all "material causes", but I do hear what you, WhiteShaman and Internal Queries is saying. In my heart I do however not believe it to be sleep apnea, and I take my heart very seriously :smile:

You ask if spirits are drawn to me? If you asked me that question 2 years ago I would have said yes, but know thinking back, I believe it was partly me who was drawn to them. Now I don't know .... if I want to I can feel "dead people", angels etc, but if they are necessarily drawn to me, I don't know.

Then you ask me about my family history - if there is any history of mediumship/necromancy/clairvoyance? I'm the only one in my family who have ever admitted to being sensitive like that - however I do believe that my now dead grandmother used to "see" things, but she never spoke about it. The rest of my family on my mothers side are absolutely terrified of anything to do with this, so in that respect I do think they are sensitive to energies like me.

[The Feather]

Thank you Scibat
You write: Trust me. Its 99% likely Sleep Apnea. You don't have to have all the symptoms for it to be that, you stop breathing in your sleep, that is a big symptom right there -- I have it as well. I sleep equally well (or poorly) on nights when I stop breathing as when I don't and have strange vivid dreams frequently -- Even recently a dream where I was dead and riding in a car with someone who I knew was death himself.


I don't dream I am dead - I am dead. I wish I could explain by words the place I go to, but there is no words for describing emptyness. Most of my life I have desperately wanted to go home. For the last couple of months I realize that I am home - the place I go to when I die I can feel within me now when I am awake and that to me feels like home.

You wrote: I know it can be hard to accept a mundane answer for something you think is anything but mundane, but usually that is all there is.

I have had enough weird experiences in my life - that having a mundane answer actually would be nice :smile:

[BlueSky]

My experience has been to find "reasons" or "causes" if you will for various illnesses.
You know when you have found one though.
This is from a site that lists some causes. Thought you might find it interesting.

http://www.mindsync.com/lam/root.htm

Sleep Apnea
Sleep Disorders
All sleep disorders are caused by neurological interference or by hormone over-secretion resulted by unresolved conflict. The hypothalamus gland controls sleep patterns. With regard to sleep apnea it would have its root in deaf and dumb spirit. Someone who has great depression, great occultism, false religion, or somewhere along the way they have opened the door. We are to Cast out the demons, not bind them! (Mathew 18)
Proverbs 3:21-24 "When you attain and acquire wisdom and understanding, and discretion THEN when you lied down your sleep shall be sweet."

[The Feather]

Before posting this, I hesitated thinking it was not something everybody could benefit from. Now I'm glad I listend to my heart and posted it, since I feel your answers help me get closer to the truth.

For everything you say I have to listen within to see if it is true for me or to find an answer for it.

The last post from you WhiteShaman made me realize that I don't see it as a decease at all. It is the actual moment when I am with God - I am home. (Believe strongly in the energy of God, but are not religious).

[LadyVirgoxoxo]

I can remember I have been dead (In my early days I did not have any memory of it).

I don't quite understand what you mean by this?