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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
"Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep."— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
Contrasting death with the beginning of consciousness challenges ordinary intuitions about personal existence.
Key takeaway:
Approach the thought experiment with curiosity rather than treating it as proof about an afterlife.
Origin of the quote
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Who actually said this?
No exact primary-source passage established in this review; repetition in later quotation lists does not authenticate the attribution.
