dreams
Have you ever had a dream in which you believe you are awake, and upon realization of knowing you are asleep, you can not wake up. Fighting, trying to stay awake, but sleep pulls you back over and over again.
It happens to all of us. And no one has asked why? Besides scientists. But what they've proved is that our brain is as active, if not more, during a dreaming state as it is during our waking state. Glad that we have this much to go on.
I have personally come to believe that in this state of fighting to wake up, we are in a dimension so close to ours, that it feels that we are awake. Upon realization that it must be a dream, (because something just doesnt seem right) we fight with all of our will to come back here, this usually takes several attempts before we are fully awake.
In this place you may encounter un-worldly creatures, demonic in nature. I would have to say that this is my least favourite place to "wake" up in.
The word "dream" has seemed to strip us from knowing what we are capable of - it's not real, it happens simply in our mind and we are left with a memory. A memory that feels so REAL, that in dreaming state, we are convinced that it is happening. UNLESS you learn how to lucid dream. This is where you know you are dreaming and know that you are in a "dream". Here you are capable of doing ANYTHING!!!!
If astral travel is achievable in a state of relaxation, than who's to say that's not what we're doing during sleep?
Or on an even deeper scale, maybe as we go to these places, every thing we experience is happening as a collective memory. We exist in multiple realities, which we can go to whenever we choose to do so.
It's mind boggling, even hard to grasp the concept of. Experience everything, life is one gigantic experience, we were never restricted, we were only taught so - it's time to un-do what has been done.
Sweet Dreams.