[MrRubix]

Originally Posted by perfectchaoslemon

Well the fact of the matter is, you don't know what that was like. Back then, that nothingness was temporary until you were born and conceived, and I'm pretty sure nobody knew about this nothingness while they were in the state. It's like unconsciousness, it feels like it happened in one millisecond. After you die, will it be the same thing? Won't you eventually be aware of the nothingness? Or will it keep spanning every thousand years per millisecond without an end?

Why would you ever be aware of nothingness? It's NOTHING for a reason. If you're dead, you're no longer perceiving. Your eyes, ears, nose, nerves, etc will no longer work, and neither will your conscious, self-conscious, or any other form of sentience/perception/identity/inner monologue/etc. All of these things reside in the brain, and when the brain stops working, so do all those functions.

We know what nothingness was like because we don't remember experiencing anything before we were born. This would make sense, considering we didn't exist. When we die, we return to that state of non-activity.