–Updated 20-Sep-2025
Few humans have experienced “The Void” , which makes them feel connected to one and all.
Here, I break down what the Void could be from a programming perspective. After all, this is a simulation and correlating the experiences here with the code that is running, helps de-mystify these kind of experiences.
An account of a friend who experienced the void:
“I had a “death” experience in 2007 where my heart and breathing just stopped while I was casually chilling with a friend with a glass of wine. It felt like I was sucked out of the body and pulled into this blackness that was darker than black yet not. It felt like was being sucked into the deep mud. It is only years later I learned that it was called The Void.
When I was in it, I was just awareness that was aware of itself, no feelings or emotions, just static logic. Also felt omnipotent and like I was in everything and everywhere throughout the universe, omniverse and beyond. Couldn’t quite comprehend the vastness of it all.
At some point, something communicated with me telepathically saying “you’re more than welcome to stay here but if you want to return, it must be now, as the body will no longer be viable to host you”. So I went back. And for the 3 hours afterwards I couldn’t feel my body, it was not there, felt discombobulated. And every time I looked at myself I saw myself exactly like portrayed in the picture below….I was made out of stars and light and planets.
Still uncertain whether the void is inside the construct or outside.”
Another friend who experienced the void, had this to say:
“I experienced the void like you. A place where it was pitch black. No emotions, no sound, nothing. I was all and nothing. No personality. Total neutral.
In my OBEs the void is the last Level I can get. I believe it’s before we can exit the matrix. It’s still part of it but like in front of the door outside.”
My take on this from a coding perspective (I have not experienced the void or OBE/NDE):
The darkness is when the program/matrix code terminates abruptly, due to an error in the code.
This does not happen often. It’s a rare occurrence, as most of the time the code runs seamlessly.
It’s only when an unknown, unhandled error occurs that the player gets thrown into the void.
It’s a “bug” in the matrix code and the program abnormally terminated due to this bug.
For e.g. It is like, the screen going black if the signal gets cut off on TV. Just static when a radio channel’s signal gets cut off or switches off.
Or you can say like “blue screen of death” in windows.
Or in a theater , if the projector stops running or power goes out.
It’s basically, when wearing Virtual Reality(VR) glasses, if the program that was running suddenly stops, you see a black screen.
Normally, any error in the code is handled by an error handler in a software program.
When an error occurs, the error is caught and then the error is handled depending on what the error is.
What does an error handler do?
It’s a piece of code which runs, when an error occurs. It checks if the programmer has written any code to run when that particular error code occurs.
You can also have a catch all errors program code that runs the default code.
However, there are some errors that cannot be handled. For e.g. Server errors, connection to server is lost, fatal errors, some network errors.
For e.g in the Westworld TV show, if the hosts(Robots) do not understand the question or know the answer to a question, the host says “That doesn’t look like anything to me”.
That’s how the host was programmed, to say when an unhandled question was asked.
You are still logged in, but you are in the error handler of the program as it terminated due to an error or bug. Maybe, temporarily disconnected from the avatar.
After sometime, the program restarts and puts you back in the body aka connects you back to avatar.
You can say, the void maybe experienced at the time of an untimely death( i.e not as per the life script), since the connection to the avatar is missing. Else, the tunnel of light code, kicks in, when the death is as per the avatar’s life script.
Void is still in the matrix, since your awareness is still “attached” to it. You have lost connection to your avatar, temporarily, perhaps. And, there are no signals coming in from the program and life script is not playing out. Hence, the silence and feeling neutral.
Outside the matrix, the player has to realize the program/movie has terminated, abnormally.
If you don’t pull your awareness out of the void, then you are back into the matrix avatar. If you are completely logged out, attaching back to avatar maybe a problem
In a way, The Void experience is truly the Out of Body Experience ( i.e out of the physical body or avatar).
— Savitha
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