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What would your idea of a Heaven and a Hell be?

My idea of Heaven would be, that it'd be a place where you get to spend as long as you want there before deciding to move on. Like whether you want to comeback as someone new or want to be an angel or want to do something on a cosmic or spiritual scale that contributes to the bigger picture. You're free from all suffering, regret, torment and guilt.

The idea of Hell is, is you get planted into two potential places aside from the commonly registered idea of hell that's depicted. One place is solitary confinement, for your spirit. No contact, nothing. Whatever you suffered with, still remains and nothing or nobody will bother with you.

Another place, is where you get to relive your better dreams and memories. But they're going to be fucked with until they're nightmares, robbing you of ever reliving the pleasantries that they once provided you. It'll be like partaking in a bad sitcom and you're its star. You're here in this idea of hell for quite the eternity, you don't get choice as to when you want to leave or what you do with your spirit.

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  • Heaven: me chilling in my bedroom with all of the dogs I've ever owned, who can also talk to me, I have an endless supply of weed, Coca-Cola and the ability to make any of my favourite foods cooked in the way I remember with access to every single piece of entertainment at my fingertips.

    Hell: just me being forced to spend eternity listening to my asshole father scream about me not wanting to play sports and how it's my mum's fault his life sucks, obviously I'm also being tortured by demons but that's my layer of personal hell they'd add.

  • They say that life's a carousel

    Spinning fast, you gotta ride it well

    The world is full of Kings and Queens

    Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams

    It's Heaven and Hell, oh well

    And they'll tell you black is really white

    The moon is just the sun at night

    And when you walk in golden halls

    You get to keep the gold that falls

    It's Heaven and Hell, oh no

  • Heaven would be somewhere that you can just do all the things you ever wanted to, with no restrictions on time or capability.

    Want to know the answer to every mystery or conspiracy theory? Done.

    Want to watch and savour every and any great old movie, with the full cinema experience? Not a problem.

    Want to be a rock star, or a DJ, or a classical pianist? You are.

    Want to be able to relive great moments from your life, happy times with your kids or your friends or your parents? It's all just there for you whenever.

    And there's no boredom, and there's no sadness, and there's no rivalry. Just endless happy times.

  • Heaven and hell are individual: what the mind creates from the worldview it has built up until death, that one must experience as cells in the brain die and connections sever. One's final dream, so to speak.

    So if you have built strong convictions of the existence of either, neither, or something else entirely - your brain will default to the imagery that you yourself have constructed up to that point in the brief moment that those connections still exist.

  • I hope hell doesn't exist, an ethical creator would not create a realm for torturing people, however long it's for, especially if it's eternal. They also would just give you heaven now, you wouldn't have to experience a horrible human life to get into it. And it would be eternal pleasure, just like all the happy chemicals in your brain in a magical way so you don't build resistance to it.

    Anyway, directly affecting chemicals in your brain is a less interesting but better way to either create pleasure or pain in a human, experiences are fun to describe, but not the best way to actually do it.

    Idk what if anything happens after death. Heaven or oblivion would be good, hell or reincarnation would be less desirable.

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