This came from
those fantastic podcast guys over at WYNC Radio Lab
http://www.wnyc.org/ which is based on a story on the afterlife by
David Eagleman from his amazing book SUM
'These
wonderfully imagined tale–at once funny, wistful, and
unsettling–are
rooted in science and romance and awe at our
mysterious existence: a
mixture of death, hope, computers,
immortality, love, biology, and
desire that exposes radiant new
facets of our humanity.
I love it - its inspiring and if you like quirky stuff - this is for you:
'In the
afterlife you relive all your experiences, but, this time with all the
events
shuffled into a new order:
You spend 2
months driving the street infront of your house
7 months
having sex
You sleep for
30 years without opening your eyes
For 5 months
straight you sit reading magazines on the toilet
You take all
your pain at once – all 27 intense hours of it: bones break,
car crash, skin
is cut, babies are born, but once you make it through its
agony free for the
rest of your afterlife
That doesn’t always mean it pleasant:
15 months
looking for lost items
18 months
waiting in line
2 years of
boredom staring our of bus windows, sitting in an airport terminal,
1 year reading
books
200 days
taking a shower
2 weeks
wondering what happens when you die
1 minute
realizing your bodys fallen
77 hours of
confusion
1 hour
remembering you forgot someones name
3 weeks
realising your wrong
2 days lying
6 weeks waiting
for a green light
7 hours
vomiting
14 minutes
experiencing PURE JOY
3 months doing
laundry
15 hours
writing your signature
2 days tying
shoelaces
67 days of
heartbreak
5 weeks
driving lost
3 days
calculating restaurant tips
51 days
deciding what to wear
9 days
pretending you know what is being talked about
2 weeks
counting money
18 hours
staring into the refrigerator
34 days
longing
6 months watching
commercials
4 weeks
sitting in thought wondering if there was something better
you could be doing
3 years
swallowing food
5 days working
buttons and zippers
4 minutes
wondering what your life would be like if you shuffled the
order of events
In this part
of the afterlife you imagine something analogous to your earthly life…
and… the
thought is BLISSFULL
…
endure, where
one enjoys the experience of jumping from one event to the next
like a child,
hopping from spot to spot… on the burning sand.
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