13 Questions About Existence That May Break Your Brain

Have you ever contemplated the existence of existence and gone into a dark recursive loop that starts to give you a migraine headache as you feel yourself slipping deeper and deeper into an inky nothingness that can seemingly only end in cranial or cerebral vascular implosion?

Breathe. Breathe.

I’m fine now. We’re fine.

Let’s try that again. Are you with me?

If you start to think about how the universe was created, if there wasn’t a universe before the previous universe or state of being, even if this existence is an illusion, how could something first come from nothing…?

This is beyond an existential crisis, this is cosmological existential horror. This is like an existential logic fault.

Does any of this make sense?

How could there be a beginning of anything from nothing before it? No matter, no energy, no particles, nothing. How did it come to be that things could come to be before they could come to be? Are before and after… real? Even if we’re not real, how could whatever is dreaming us up have come into…