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A few nights ago I had a dream that went differently than similar ones I’ve had before. These dreams usually consist of me dying (and waking up) shortly after the dream had started. This time, however, the dream got an interesting twist that allowed me to continue it longer with a different outcome altogether and when I woke up I had a different understanding or concept, if you will, of death.
We don’t really die, if you’ve been reading my blog and website for a while this might be your understanding as well by now but if not then don’t take my word for it and keep researching until you come to your own conclusions. If we don’t really die then what happens when we leave here? Do we go to a magical place somewhere in heaven to smoke Cuban cigars all day long (for some people that would seem like hell but role with me here)? Do we stay in stasis of some sort until our next birth where our minds don’t experience anything? People have been trying to figure this one out for many decades. There are many studies about this concept and NDE (Near-death Experiences) accounts to provide some relevant information to the intrigued person.
My immediate understanding about death, after waking up from this dream that day, was that, yes, we don’t really die, but when we do leave this reality we simply wake up from this “dream” to a different one, whether or not it looks the same or completely different that’s a matter for another discussion. It’s true that to our perspective it seems like we begin each one of these dreams from scratch and it appears like a new lifetime with absolutely nothing that precedes it, but is it?
Fear of death is one of the most commonly accepted fears among human beings, it’s usually one of the top three (along with fear of change and uncertainty) if not the first one on anybody’s list and it’s not something we can easily get rid of (unless the correct inner work is being done). Nonetheless, how would you perceive death, or life, after such a realization as I mentioned above, that it’s all but another dream and if you die you will wake up to a different place in a different time to a different reality? Will this make your life better in this moment? In this dream that you’re having right now?
Fear is about control, or the lack of for that matter. The following is by no means a judgement I pass on people that do this. Some people believe they can control their lives and plan for everything that happens. They fear that if they lose their control or loosen it, they might also lose something dear to them that they hold on to so tightly, sometimes unknowingly. So, they try to eagerly protect it just to have it taken away from them anyway, because whatever you resist – persists, the more you fear of losing something the more opportunities you will have of losing it.
So, how about letting go of those fears, especially of death, because either way after you die and wake up somewhere else none of the things in your current life will matter anyway, you won’t remember them most likely, new things will come and with them new lessons.
Thank you for reading.
