Originally Posted by bronco67

Supposedly when you dream, there's no temporal measurement. This is why when you hear a sound while you're sleeping, you can create an entire dream scenario to bring that sound into the dream. That movie Inception explored the idea pretty well....a second in the waking world could be years inside your head because it's happening instantly, and forever at the same time.

So in theory, you could have a dream of an entire other life at the moment of your death. Maybe this life is a dream and you're actually some Native American in the year 1600 being eaten by a bear.