Basically, when you have time to think, you think more about this kind of stuff. A lot of the things we do are just to distract us from our innevitable demise. Ironically, we also use such activies, simply to kill time. Bringing us closer. |
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Young - I almost never think about it.
Young - Between options 1 and 3.
Young - I think about it occasionally and it's sad, but it's nothing that really concerns me now.
Young - Between options 3 and 5.
Young - I think about it often and it causes me serious stress.
Older - I almost never thought about it.
Older - Between options 6 and 8.
Older - I thought about it occasionally and it was sad, but it was nothing that really concerned me.
Older - Between options 8 and 10.
Older - I thought about it often and it caused me serious stress.
As a 22 year old who has been terrified of death and old age since I was 12 or so, and is often plagued with obsessive, nightmarish thoughts about it, I'm bewildered by older people when I hear from them things like: |
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Basically, when you have time to think, you think more about this kind of stuff. A lot of the things we do are just to distract us from our innevitable demise. Ironically, we also use such activies, simply to kill time. Bringing us closer. |
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Lost count of how many lucid dreams I've had
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I definitely thought of death when i was 11/12. And i was absolutely terrified of it. But after lots of thought i finally overcame it. |
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Yeah, I thought about death when I was younger. Especially, if I recall correctly, after my grandfather died when I was 12. It scared me a bit to begin with, but I got on terms with it fairly soon. I've talked with one other of my age on the subject, and I know that he was very much afraid of death when he was young. |
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Last edited by khh; 09-26-2011 at 09:52 PM. Reason: Crossover in the internal wireing
April Ryan is my friend,
Every sorrow she can mend.
When i visit her dark realm,
Does it simply overwhelm.
I wish I could edit the poll. I should have taken away the implication of stress from thinking about it. And for some reason I wasn't considering people who have overcome the fear while still young. I suppose if you don't fit into any of the categories, just don't vote. |
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Okay there is a poll now, between options 3 and 5. I thought about it before and it caused me COMPLETE sadness. Now only sometimes i think about it and i might get a little sad. |
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April Ryan is my friend,
Every sorrow she can mend.
When i visit her dark realm,
Does it simply overwhelm.
I've thought about the subject of course, but I got any issues on the matter resolved a long time ago. I don't think about it much now because for me there's nothing else to think about. |
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I started having serious thoughts about death a few years ago, maybe when I was 14 or something. It could have been younger. I don't think it's strange to be contemplating these things when you get to that age. This is roughly the time in life when everyone starts growing out of childhood and really starts to look at life through the eyes of an adult. You start to question things, look to the future and think about what kind of life you're going to live. The fact that some people start to think about how it will all end when they think about these things isn't really a big surprise. |
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I used to dread death when I was young, especially afraid of family members, I still am alittle, but I've learned to accept that the way life is. I couldn't as a kid, which is why it was so horrible, the uncertainty of death freaked me out! |
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I said it causes me serious stress because back when i was little it used to. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I'd guess at the age of six or seven I was terrified of death, perhaps sooner. Nothing triggered it; nobody I knew died. I suppose it must have just been from a latent tendency to think about it... I didn't go through a process of 'working it out' either; my conception of it was intuitive (and hasn't changed over time). Often on a night I'd cry about it and have to come downstairs where my parents were still awake. |
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Young (soon 20) - between options 3 and 5. |
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Last edited by AngelZlayer; 09-27-2011 at 01:03 AM.
Main LD goals:
- Futuristic/sci-fi/cyberpunk big city
- Fantasy role-playing game
- Flight and other super powers
- Use lucid dreaming as a study-aid
- Personal development, inner peace etc
I wonder why it is exactly that old people tend to claim they never thought about death. Were they really that much more busy than the modern kid that they never had enough time alone with their thoughts? It seems like it should be the opposite, if anything. I heard the "You just don't think about that type of thing when you're 20" line from my grandmother recently. My parents both agreed, but I and my boyfriend who was there didn't respond for some reason, and we both think about "that type of thing" quite a bit. |
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Because either they're not very introspective, or because they're talking shit. Possibly both. |
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The atheism thing was sarcastic humour, sorry. |
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Death? Kind of. Mostly just. |
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I thought about it here and there as a child but after getting older you realize there's nothing you can do about it and everyone eventually dies so why worry? Just make this life worth something for the people you love so that you may live life through them and they may carry you on within their memories. If this was a scenario that only a select few would undergo and others would live on for eternity then I'd have a problem with that. But since we all share the same demise, I'm cool with it. |
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It's a little different when you get into a car accident or something and realize how fragile life is. When you see death, realize that it's death and don't know how to stop it, your reaction in that moment is a lot more telling than your opinion. Being able to accept death is the only way to stifle panic and do what's necessary. Like something in your brain goes "if I die, I die but this is what needs to be done." |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
What do you mean by 'that last doorway'? "If I die, I die"? That's basically how all of humanity copes with it. |
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