"Like The Best Morphine Drip Ever": Adults Are Sharing Their *Brutally Honest* Theories About What Happens After Death, And Some Of These Have Completely Broken My Brain

There is an age-old question that humans person been asking forever: What happens erstwhile we die? The beauteous (and sometimes scary) happening astir the taxable is that nary 1 truly knows. To acquisition what happens aft death, you person to dice archetypal — and erstwhile that happens, you're not wholly capable to archer your friends each astir it successful the radical chat the adjacent day. Because of that, determination person been centuries of speculation, theories, and predictions. And since nary of them tin beryllium definitively confirmed, determination are nary incorrect answers.

So, retired of genuine curiosity, I asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock their thoughts connected the matter: What bash you deliberation happens aft you die? I adjacent asked them to sidestep the accustomed answers similar "heaven and hell." I wanted the astir obscure, unique, and possibly adjacent downright weird theories they could travel up with. Well, they decidedly had a batch of thoughts connected the subject. Take a look:

1. "When I was a kid, I thought erstwhile we died, we went into a shot of vigor that's really a compartment oregon atom floating successful the bloodstream of a elephantine deity carnal oregon computer game."

—Anonymous

2. "I deliberation we get what we expect and judge in. Some spell to eden oregon hell, immoderate get reincarnated, immoderate spell to the Otherworld, Tir Nan Og oregon the Summerland. Some spell nowhere, similar a dreamless slumber without ever waking up."

—greyhedgewitch

3. "I deliberation we are each successful an experimentation being watched implicit by aliens. I deliberation erstwhile we walk away, the aliens instrumentality america backmost to wherever they are watching us, and hole up our mechanisms and spot america successful different clip and spot to fufill different experiment."

—Anonymous, 68, USA

4. "I person nary thought what happens erstwhile you die, but I bash cognize 1 thing. Growing up, my mom’s adjacent person mislaid her 8-year-old girl to cancer. Her sanction besides happened to beryllium a gemstone. After she died, the astir peculiar things happened. The girl’s best friend was a swimmer, and she had a aquatics contention that she was ace tense about. She was besides grieving, arsenic her champion person had died 2 days before. She recovered a gemstone by the pool, and it was the EXACT aforesaid gemstone that her dormant champion friend’s sanction was after. She ended up winning her aquatics meet."

"My household was connected abrogation astatine the clip of the girl’s death. On our trip, we saw truthful galore buildings with the gemstone the miss was named aft successful their name, arsenic good arsenic jewelry with the gemstone. A fewer months aft the daughter’s death, my mom’s person went to a mediator amusement conscionable to find immoderate benignant of peace. The mediator frantically started calling my mom’s friend's sanction successful the mediate of the show, and my mom's person said that a tone wanted to speech to her. The mediator past started saying each sorts of details astir the dormant girl’s life, including however she hears her dada talking to her retired large connected his mode to enactment each greeting (the dada had told virtually nary 1 that helium did that). That made my mom’s person and my ma judge adjacent much successful the afterlife."

—Anonymous, 33, USA

5. "I deliberation decease is the aforesaid acquisition arsenic erstwhile you're nether wide anesthesia: cessation of consciousness. All our perceptions and our consciousness travel from our sensory organs. Ergo, erstwhile they nary longer function...do the math. I deliberation content successful an afterlife mostly stems from the information that it's benignant of intolerable to ideate not existing, to the constituent that adjacent radical who accidental they don't judge successful it person a hard clip comprehending it."

—Anonymous

6. "In a way, I truly privation I could judge successful a religion — but I deliberation it’s truly improbable that immoderate ‘entity’ would beryllium successful our image, fto unsocial beryllium wrong our comprehension. I besides can’t rather fathom that beingness and each its complexity, space, and planets could beryllium without immoderate vigor root oregon intent down it. I reckon we’re each invisible energy, and erstwhile we die, our vigor floats backmost to a elephantine vigor shot oregon achromatic spread oregon something. But I don’t deliberation we proceed successful our image, and bent retired successful clouds, catching up with dormant radical oregon anything. We’re conscionable a elephantine conscious wide of something."

—Anonymous, 38, Australia

7. "I've had this mentation since I was small. I deliberation you aftermath up arsenic a babe and think, 'Man, that was a weird dream.'"

—Anonymous, 13, USA

8. "My idiosyncratic thought is that the afterlife (assuming determination is 1 astatine all) is simply an alternate universe. There's a mentation that the Multiverse exists, and virtually EVERYTHING that could person happened did hap successful one. This means that virtually each azygous clip you astir died successful 1 universe, there's a branching beingness wherever you got retired of it. This means that we astir apt unrecorded done millions of universes each and conscionable don't recognize that. My presumption is that erstwhile we die, we simply extremity up successful a antithetic subdivision of the beingness until each universes that would see you specifically arsenic a communal constituent person nary much branches that see you. After that point, we apt cease to beryllium due to the fact that the vigor is utilized up and our parts are written out."

—Anonymous, 34, USA

9. "I’m not spiritual by immoderate means and ne'er truly person been, truthful I don’t truly person the accepted content of an afterlife oregon anything. There is grounds to suggest that the encephalon is flooded with hormones and endorphins during the last stages of death, and that astir apt feels beauteous good, not gonna lie. I ideate it feels similar the champion morphine drip ever. Brains besides inactive person immoderate enactment aft decease for a fewer minutes, and bash you cognize however you tin imagination for a fewer minutes, and it feels similar hours? I ideate thing similar that happens. Like it’s conscionable a agelong imagination that you don't aftermath up from. It’s benignant of beauteous to deliberation that the past spot of our lives mightiness beryllium spent feeling truly bully and dreaming for what feels similar forever."

—Anonymous, 25, Florida, USA.

10. "After dying, I judge those who tried to beryllium bully radical spell Home, which is heaven. Once there, we reappraisal our lives to spot if they turned retired the mode we planned successful our beingness charts earlier we were calved connected Earth. We besides determine whether we privation to instrumentality to Earth for different beingness determination oregon conscionable enactment astatine Home."

—Anonymous

11. "I judge that we are surviving successful a computerized simulation, and we are controlled similar a video crippled by a much intelligent being. So erstwhile we die, they take to let the death. And then, our information volition beryllium recycled for different usage successful the simulation."

—Anonymous, 43, Tennessee, USA 

12. "I didn’t judge successful guardian angels before, but I judge successful them now. Without going into excessively overmuch detail, erstwhile my woman died successful 2013, a fewer things happened successful the ensuing months that made maine deliberation that she is present my guardian angel. It was similar getting 3 wishes from a genie — 3 things happened that I ne'er thought would happen, and they fulfilled my deepest desires."

—Anonymous, 60, Delaware, USA

13. "This is really a taxable I walk an inordinate magnitude of clip researching. I’ve agelong since arrived astatine the sentiment that erstwhile we die, our consciousness persists and we instrumentality to wherever we emerged. The 'zero vigor beingness hypothesis' truly solidified this for me. We are conscionable ripples. There’s nary eden and nary hell. We astir apt unrecorded many, galore lives, infinitely and indefinitely."

—Anonymous, 41, Canada

14. "My assemblage is conscionable an envelope, and my psyche volition beryllium portion of a cosmopolitan and eternal beingness erstwhile I’ll die. 💕"

—officialgoat837

15. "You spell to a paradise wherever you unrecorded successful a location of your dreams, and you get to beryllium with each animal that loved you implicit the years. People, too, maybe, but optionally. You get to prime which and who you get to beryllium with."

—Anonymous, 62, Nebraska, USA

16. "I deliberation we're bathed successful infinite emotion and welcome, and we observe that what we did mattered much than immoderate creed we subscribed to. We are reunited with loved ones and person each our questions answered. We observe that the higher power(s) are precise antithetic than what we ever imagined. I deliberation emotion and mercy yet conquer all."

—torty

17. "I utilized to judge that erstwhile you died, it went acheronian and that was that, crippled over. But astatine 29, I had a superior car accident, and I was told afterwards that if a passerby hadn’t seen my car, I had astir an hr to live. When I was dying, I had 1 representation of it being cold, dark, but very peaceful. There was nary pain, contempt the galore injuries I had. I had an overwhelming feeling that everything was going to beryllium okay. Since then, I’ve ne'er disquieted astir death. We spell on, and that’s what matters."

—Anonymous, 50, UK

18. "When we die, I judge that perfectly thing happens. It's similar switching disconnected the airy successful the darkness. And, it volition beryllium a question that subject volition ne'er beryllium capable to reply due to the fact that each the scientists who person implicit impervious of the reply volition nary longer beryllium successful a presumption to stock their findings. Sorry folks. It's zip, nada, nary mas, zilch, f-all, nut'n but acheronian and silence. But if that sounds scary, interest not. You won't consciousness a thing."

—Anonymous, 55, USA

19. "I deliberation each beingness connected world goes backmost to Mother Earth and becomes a portion of her again aft it dies. 🌺 I deliberation our beingness force, arsenic good arsenic our biologic mass, is recycled arsenic we instrumentality to the Earth that we were created from. Goddess blessings. 🌍"

—crispyjaguar243

20. "When you die, the archetypal happening that happens is you make caller bills for surviving radical to woody with. You make sadness for radical to woody with. But you. You're gone. There is thing left."

—Anonymous, 54, Mexico

21. "I judge decease is the nothingness of a heavy sleep. No consciousness oregon thought, it is each conscionable done. I would similar to deliberation the assemblage is returned to the earth, feeding the soil, bugs, and works beingness arsenic a benignant of recycling."

—Anonymous, 57, Minnesota, USA

22. "I deliberation erstwhile we die, that's it. Our beingness ends, our bodies decompose, and we go thing beyond the memories held by others."

—serenesvit

23. "Your consciousness gets recycled somehow, but the essence of who you are is gone due to the fact that your property is contained successful your prefrontal cortex, portion your memories are successful your hippocampus. Once your encephalon is gone, past you are gone. There is nary afterlife, nary hell, and nary heaven."

—Anonymous, 49, Pennsylvania, USA

24. "I’m not spiritual successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form, but I honestly judge that we’re reincarnated erstwhile we die."

—coolchair46

25. And finally... "What happens aft we die? Usually a funeral."

—fluffyghoul1435

Now it's clip to perceive from you! What bash you deliberation happens aft you die? Tell maine each astir it successful the comments oregon the casual anonymous signifier below. The weirder the better. There are nary incorrect answers.

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