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Unlimited Horizons
This common view has no clue why sometimes dreams give us solutions to problems by offering utterly novel perspectives, - or why they inspire inventions and works of art, as inventors and artists often describe.
It doesn't explain the many extraordinary abilities we have in our dreams - how we are able to fly, to manifest objects from 'thin air', or why - after taking that deep plunge at the end of many dreams - we always wake up in another body within an altogether different (dream-) environment.
It doesn't explain why we always take our 'I', our identity, our entire awareness with all its abilities, insights and feelings with us when we leave our physical body to enter a dream.
Yet exactly this same mechanism we experience when at the time of death we permanently leave our present 'materiali body. - In death we also take with us all our consciousness, all our knowledge, all our abilities and emotions, and certainly all our distinct uniqueness, - that center of all our perceptions.
'Dying' just means not to return to an environment we currently are familiar with. Dying means to break up all dead ends, stagnation and impossible situations we might have got entangled in in our present life. It means to start out with a new young body in a fresh environment.
Our consciousness neither becomes 'nothingness' nor does it get annihilated, nor do we enter eternal 'heaven', 'hell', or any faceless nirvana. As long as we desire to see our ideas and longings manifest in physical, material form, for as long will we get chances to experience them. And then - once this desire is utterly satisfied - we again become the magnificent, sovereign being each one of us feels deeply inside, - immensely enriched
