Possible to determine your time of death?
Throughout history, there have been many cases in which people seem to know subconciously that their time on this earth is drawing to a close. I know a grandmother that suddenly got an urge to make a quilt for each of her children and grandchildren, seemingly out of the blue. She died shortly after completing them.
There have been cases documented in which for some reason people suddenly feel the need to get their affairs in order and then shortly die. Often dayw or weeks before onset of a heart attack, people will experience mood shifts, becoming depressed or apprehensive.
Is it possible that your subconcious knows that death is approaching and urges you to make changes?
If so, would it be possible in a lucid dream to learn this from your subconcious? Does anyone feel brave enough to ask?
Re: Possible to determine your time of death?
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Throughout history, there have been many cases in which people seem to know subconciously that their time on this earth is drawing to a close. *I know a grandmother that suddenly got an urge to make a quilt for each of her children and grandchildren, seemingly out of the blue. *She died shortly after completing them.
There have been cases documented in which for some reason people suddenly feel the need to get their affairs in order and then shortly die. *Often dayw or weeks before onset of a heart attack, people will experience mood shifts, becoming depressed or apprehensive.
Is it possible that your subconcious knows that death is approaching and urges you to make changes?
If so, would it be possible in a lucid dream to learn this from your subconcious? *Does anyone feel brave enough to ask?
Interesting topic seeker. I was kinda discussing this with my boyfriend the other night, warning him not to make me the centre of his world, because i could die tomorrow. He's like 'don't be silly!'
I'm not.
Call me morbid, but i just don't think i'm going to live to a ripe old age. It's like, more often than not recently, i find myself thinking about the stupidest things, like order of services and arrangements for my funeral!
Regards elderly people 'knowing'
I work in a nursing home. I've had experience of many patients who knew something was 'wrong'. they became distressed, agitated, and in some cases quite vocal. One lady continually shouted for help.
Another one stressed and fussed the last two weeks of her life.
Both died of heart failure.
so maybe we do know when we are going to die. Maybe not to the minute, but i think you can have this sense of 'time running out'
Probably why i don't waste time.
some experience and ideas
Many years ago, I had met a girl through a friend who needed someone to accompany her to a dinner (she later became my girlfriend of 2 years). At dinner, we sat at a round table with her parents, and a few others. A few days later, her father died of a heart attack. Only a week before, he had arranged insurance to pay off the mortgage for thier house, renewed his life insurance, and arrange his will. My ex-girlfriends sister was asleep when her father died, and dreamt that her father had come to her in her dream and said, "tell your mother I love her". A year later, their mom remarried the man sitting next to her at the round table from the dinner I attended (where he had met her for the first time). It seems as though once their father saw that everything was in order and taken care of, he was able to die.... or something like that.
From another angle, the Mahayana Buddhists believe that the time of death is related to the internal energy winds. During the death process, the winds disolve and leave the body (such as the fire wind leaves and the body becomes cold, the water wind leaves and the body becomes dry, and the wind wind leaves, and the breathing stops, until the life supporting wind leaves and the very subtle mind leaves from the body). Perhaps we have some sort of recognition of when the dying process begins (if we are in tune with it). It's explained better in a book called "Living Meaningfully - Dying Joyfully" by Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche (from Tharpa.com) if you're interested.
Re: Possible to determine your time of death?
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Originally posted by Seeker
Throughout history, there have been many cases in which people seem to know subconciously that their time on this earth is drawing to a close. *I know a grandmother that suddenly got an urge to make a quilt for each of her children and grandchildren, seemingly out of the blue. *She died shortly after completing them.
There have been cases documented in which for some reason people suddenly feel the need to get their affairs in order and then shortly die. *Often dayw or weeks before onset of a heart attack, people will experience mood shifts, becoming depressed or apprehensive.
Is it possible that your subconcious knows that death is approaching and urges you to make changes?
If so, would it be possible in a lucid dream to learn this from your subconcious? *Does anyone feel brave enough to ask?
I will ask about it once I establish a contact with my subconscious.
Funny thing is: 3 days ago I had a dream where I actually thought I was dead. It was just out of a blue. I was walking down a hallway and I saw all my friends, they bid goodbye to me.
Then I got a really strong urge to go to the 5th floor. Once I finally got there I met some entity that I felt/knew as my subconscious or my mortality. It told me something important and hurried away. I've even repeated it to myself and became lucid. But I cant remember what it was, all I have left is a lingering sense of discovery .
The dream became incredibly vivid, even epic in feeling.... I felt like I've finally jumped into another life or something.
Well, I must say that was extremely weird.
Let's see if I will die any time soon :D
