What is it Like to be Dead?

Monday December 16, 2013

What is it like to be Dead? There have been many accounts of near death experiences and I have to say that my spooks have had rather a lot to say on the subject in my book. I suppose one thing that rankles them are the multitude of accounts of people “coming back from the dead” because you can’t if you are and if you do, you weren’t in the first place. Anyway that’s not what this is about but definitely a topic for another day!

We have talked about human people, us being spiritual and physical. The mind is the spiritual part and the body the physical part. They interact of course but what about when they are separated; completely?

The first and most easily identifiable part of this separation is sleep. Yes sleep, or any state of unconscious actually but sleep is the most common. When we are asleep and we dream, at the time of the dream we think it is real. Our state of consciousness during the dream is such that it is our reality. If we thought it was just a dream whilst we were dreaming then no one would have nightmares; prophetic dreams or see their loved ones. We would just opt out. “Nah this is just a dream, not real, not important.” How wrong you would be!
Nothing within us questions the content of dreams whilst we are in there and that is because it is our reality. If there are monsters, we fear them instead of saying “I’m not doing this I’ll just wake up because it’s not real.” In the dream state it is our reality and it doesn’t cross our mind to become conscious again to avoid it. If it is true deep sleep where the soul and the body separate, the choice is not a physical one to wake up anyway, we have to wait until whatever our mission is; be it during an afternoon nap, a long nights sleep or a cat nap on the couch.

Anyone who has ever had a serious operation or period of unconsciousness will have a better grasp of what we are saying. We wake up with no comprehension of time and the experiences we had whilst asleep until we were awake seemed so real. What we do whilst we are asleep? We don’t always remember but I am clearly told that sleep is not only necessary for physical and mental regeneration, but it is also a window to the world we go to when we die. A sneak preview so that when our time comes we not be afraid because we have been there before even if it is only to the waiting room or the doorstep.

When we dream we also don’t have a body. Sure you can look down and see fingers and toes as they are being eaten by zombies or floating on thin air, but the feeling during the dream-state is the body is there, but somewhat intangible. Usually if you are dreaming in the first person you will still see or more likely feel yourself but also feel like you are somewhere else as well. Bingo! You’re dead! Separated from your body, the only difference between that state and death is your biological body is still working and you still have somewhere to go back to when your state of conscious changes.

Again this is a grossly simplified version of a much more complex principal that my spooks don’t feel we are quite ready to comprehend yet. I am told we don’t know enough about the human mind to be able to debate this at present.

This is why mediums might say “Someone doesn’t know they have gone over yet.” Literally and particularly in the case of those who die suddenly or unexpectedly, they may think or assume they are still alive, maybe even dreaming; until something in their dream or those around them in spirit brings it and them to light that they are no longer a physical being.