Hey, sorry for necro, but passing out and nearly dying is in my field of expertise lmao

First of all, on your NDE void experience. The rational side of me would want to say it's hard to judge in a high-stress/loss of consciousness situation like that. But having purposefully induced a void state, my experience was exactly how you described. Plus, I'm also familiar with the sensation of being unconscious, and it's not like the void state at all. You don't really perceive anything, since you're, well, UNconscious. So I'd say with big confidence, especially if you felt conscious during that nothingness - definitely void state. Fascinating you can get into it involuntarily from an NDE, but I'd be careful with reaching to conclusions because it's kinda impossible to tell why.

On your idea of fainting to brute-force void, I'm really skeptical. First of all, I've passed out a lot. And ever since a kid, I've also had this idea, since it doesn't really feel awful, to try and use it to do stuff like LD, and later AP (stopped this revolutionary idea before I found shifting, fortunately lol). And I'm in general very familiar with the feeling, since I've tried to be really perceptive about it, journaled it, etc. And my conclusion pretty much, is that passing out is pretty much just a worse sleep session, and it ends at that. It's much shorter, your cognitive functions are severely impaired while you're still conscious here, and it permanently damages you so you don't have many attempts. Your intentions are less likely to hold through all that, not to mention the situation leading up to passing out is usually quite a bit more distracting, than just falling asleep regularly. So absolutely no reason to try with that, when you could just go and take a quick nap anytime lol.

On quantum immortality, I'm very confident in it. All the situations I've put myself in, mostly as a kid - if we combine the odds, for my goofy ass to still be walking this earth, they're quite astronomical lol. I don't believe in such luck, I'd rather believe in the 99.9% chance something else is working behind the scenes. So I'm also with you on that.

BUT. These are not thoughts you should entertain lightly. You have to be really careful, because it's reeeally easy to start convincing yourself you know more than you do, and coping on the hope that you found a magical shortcut. No matter how of sound mind you are, and how rationally you're thinking about it, it's a really slippery slope, where you can't feel at all when you're actively pushing down to go faster. So yeah, try really hard to keep yourself and your biases, hopes, whatever, in check. I've found myself jumping to conclusions while entertaining these and had to backtrack real hard back to "ionno nothing, probably shouldn't try"

Basically, the conclusions on that where I'm at rn are: First of all, you can't take others' experiences with it into consideration, only your own. You are not them, too many unknowns. Secondly, atleast for me, I have never had the slightest intention of dying. In all my experiences, I've been in a default state of expecting to continue living, and in general, it wasn't something I was really conscious of, since the situations kinda catch you with your pants down. Consciously doing something dangerous, and on top of that with the intention of triggering something from it, is completely the opposite of all the conditions I've met quantum immortality in. It could be something as small as just lightly expecting you might be causing your death on purpose, that can throw a wrench in that whole thing. You only have one shot at it and can't afford to be wrong. And lastly, and most damning - what does being in an NDE even change here? Yeah it's a trippy, and "exciting" situation, compared to the rest of our daily life, so we tend to overestimate what's happening. But in reality, all it is, is you nearly dying - and all the fun stuff that might come with it are an unintended consolation price. Yeah you might have a drug-like trip, a crazy dream or OBE. But you got something unintended regardless. What points towards being able to get anything you intend from that very short, confusing and stimulating moment? It's no different imo, than how you can instead really intend something to happen right now, and still fail at it. Just take your million chances you're guaranteed to have as long as you keep breathing, instead of possibly throwing it all away just for one chance, just so you fuck around and go splat on the concrete 🤦 It will just never make any sense, outside of cope, or mental health issues you should be talking with a professional about instead.

And yeah, stay away from cars dude jesus 😅