Perhaps your perception of time ceases and therefore and eternity can pass in the blink of an eye. If the universe is in the long run cyclical then maybe the mo

Perhaps your perception of time ceases and therefore and eternity can pass in the blink of an eye. If the universe is in the long run cyclical then maybe the moment you die is the moment you wake up in another skull. Of course, that idea makes a lot of big assumptions about the nature of consciousness that I have a hard time buying. It assumes our consciousness is akin to a singular entity, which I'm can't make sense of in either a materialistic framework of consciousness or a pan-psychic one. The real answer to this depends on the nature of conscious awareness, and I haven't been able to find a single framework for how consciousness emerges that has even been internally consistent or fully explanatory, let alone one that has a lick of evidence in favor of it. Even if we assume that death is a state of nothingness, I definitely find the popular idea that death feels akin to being basically trapped in a dark box for eternity to be nonsensical. We close our eyes and see darkness and so we assume that darkness is akin to nothingness, but in reality the perception of darkness & time is very much a something. To make an analogy, nothingness isn't what you see when you close your eyes but instead it is closer to what you can see right now out of your elbow or your foot. I think the same applies to our perception of time.