/lit/ - Literature

Just had a thought while taking a shit; what if the afterlife exists, but not in the form that people think it does? As in an afterlife that is not religious but rather is the result of brain chemicals being broken down and dissolving into a brine of exotics that cause massive changes in one's stream of consciousness. The dying person would experience huge alterations in their mental state as the very chemical makeup of their brains began to collapse, making them experience something akin to a heroin overdose or heavy LSD trip; a completely incomprehensible blur of sensations and phenomena. In this wild state of being their very perception of time and space would be fundamentally altered, perhaps making them think that they had travelled somewhere else or had been transformed somehow. From an outsider’s perspective they may take only a moment to die but from the dying person’s perspective they may continue in this state of flux for what feels like eons or millennia.