How can I tell if I am alive or dead?

Thanking you for your responses, an update on my situation, it is now two years since I became ill from beta blockers, whilst the blood oxygen levels and heart rate returned to acceptable levels a full year after ceasing taking those medicines, the Drunk Zombie feeling still remain, too exhausted to get out much and I have been medically retired, NHS I have given up on so remain permanently unwell.

I think I have gotten used to how I feel in comparison to how I felt before the meds, when I was fit and well, so no longer wonder if I am dead but don't know it, I have modified my notion to wondering if I had invited Death into my life and he is drawing out the process?

Peter,

Don't listen to the bull**** these people say. Question everything. Reality could be much more complicated than they have told us. Scientists and wise men throughout the history have said that there are multiple layers of reality.

Yes maybe you are dead and maybe I am dead as well and maybe both of us are just overlapping imprints of reality that once existed in another form.

Some say there are parallel universes that each and every one of these universes ranging from a little to a lot like the other ones.

try to find a better description for death itself and one description for life .

That I am typing this for you doesn't mean I really exist or you really exist, but it could be I am a leftover of a mind that once existed.

Maybe there is God, I don't know. You can call it a god or a creator or some aliens with much more knowledge and science controlling our existence and minds and realities. But it's not a bad idea to call him and to ask him to help you and to try to behave the way he would like you to.

I think one sign of being dead is constant problems. Problem after problem after problem. And nobody seems to care. That nobody cares could be a sign that they are not real or they are real but they are a different form of reality.

if you and I ordered then we are in a universe or a reality that we can't quite understand. If you and I are dead then there is only one thing we can do and that is try to reduce the level of pain and act as if nothing's wrong. You and I -dead or alive-are creatures that can think and that have minds, and mind affects reality. Then if we can somehow make ourselves believe that there is less pain than there will be really less pain. Maybe you and I are both alive but problems and loneliness have caused us to question the very essence of reality.

Try praying talking to God but before doing that you have to do something about your sins because if you are associated with sins God will not listen to what you say. Ask both religious men and decent scientists.

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I have been having a similar thought, except.. I died having a seizure in my mums arms, and I don't know if I was having a dream about my death seizure in her arms or I actually died. The life I'm living now is... Some dream of thinking I'm still alive, but I feel floaty and messed up on this constant thought.

And it makes me sad.. But then am I letting my depression hit me.

I literally fear my epilepsy.

Your conditions might cause paranoia, go for treatment that can help you cope with symptoms and live a happier, more productive life. Consult an experienced physician.

At the age of eight I had a figure appear to me at the foot of my bed when I tried to tell my parents about it in the morning they told me I had a nightmare and to quit cussing they were a million miles away. I've come to learn that the same visitor came to me when I was 4 years old when I had a fever and I was in the closest in my bedroom. in their 40's both my parents were workaholics I'm going to bet I died when I was four. I called this visitor my grim reaper who was not there to take me away in death but to save me from it. why I saw this visitor again when I was eight I don't know maybe so I know it existed and I think it was me actually. I am the one eye'd freak ra the all we win again.

• Hi all... i took an interest in the question as two day ago i had a dream that was so real. Story short few years back I fainted but recovered. The dream was about that episode but with me bleeding and dead. Since yesterday I had the same question: did I die and i am having an out of body experience. I know but how can you prove a negative if the answer is no.

Apart from your dream, do you feel anything else that is different?

I am being investigated, (very slowly) indeed for neurological issues as the drunk zombie feeling and dissociation along with the feeling I am in a dream with depersonalization and derealization that I got from beta blockers now four years since I stopped taking them, adds to my originally posted notion.

On top of which, strange things are happening in my world in the past couple of years that are beyond logical belief, even if you say the same things are happening in your world, (the dismantling of our current world order to be replaced by a New World Order, something I have been warning my friends about for decades, is now finally happening using an over reaction to a flu strain as the excuse), I would simply feel you are probably just a part of my constructed reality.

oh my. after having this exact realisation today i thought it pruden to start a quick search. i am 43 and after 10 years have moved back to spain from uk. into an apartment i used to own using a key i didnt realise was compleatly incorrect. im currently sat with my wife of 23 year whos not aged aday. my theory is i have died 8 years ago i was in a serious car accident. over 100mph i can assure you since that moment total chaos has ingulfed me. i assume the dead would suffer this confution. it makes total sence now. also just to clarify all my memory family i now deal with assured me im not dead but for obviously they would say this because everything i now hear or see is to assist me in the whole being dead!

im 100% sure im dead. and as my wife said if i am then just roll with it you cannot died twice! enjoy the ride what ever side your experiancing

Hi Peter, I wonder this also and have for the past few years as the pandemic you speak of and the whole world forcing people to comply with these new mandates seems to me as if all free will is being removed.

While I also try to avoid all societal interactions I agree that this might be caused from a reduced brain activity while dying causing less rendering power of the subjective observable world. l still bleed and the blood is warm. I have done some other tests such as rapidly changing my destination in my vehicle onto side roads I have never been on and have no knowledge of where they go to see if new reality renders. The surroundings do render although most the houses look the same.

I have knocked on a few doors and some people answer that look different from other people but somehow I feel they might be different versions of me or me of them.

I drove for a few hundred miles and got off random interstate exits but they all seem basically the same with the same stores and gas stations.

It might just be a vivid hallucination or dream. I was forced into the hospital a few times and the police tried to shoot me a few more when I got confused or knocked on the wrong door.

Sometimes I walk around grocery stores saying nothing to see if other shoppers notice me. This strategy has become harder due to them wearing masks. If I am dead maybe its so I don't find out.

Some people say we are all one. I cant help notice that if everything is" allone" that is simultaneously "alone" as a big glob of all minus a L. maybe I am my own dead recursive reflection minus the L of life.

The hospital says I am bipolar 1. I'm tempted almost daily to do the jumping off of a high building to test it in a more concrete way however if I am not dead and become newly dead who would feed my dog.