Epic Beard Man
Bearded Philosopher
This weekend I decided to get away and go out of town for some R&R this past weekend. On Saturday I had an interesting dream. In this dream I don’t know if I was watching and fell asleep or what but I had a dream that I had died. Now of course some of you may have heard of NDE or near death experiences and people narrating their experiences of floating outside their body or going through a tunnel towards a white light.
In this case strangely enough, I saw a white light but I wasn’t walking but trapped on a roller coaster. Now, if anyone who have been on a rollercoaster knows before that giant dip the rollercoaster goes very slow and in this case this rollercoaster was going slow towards the white light.
I recalled in my skeptical mind that I knew in this dream I was dead but instead of embracing the white light my skeptical mind didn’t want to. I did what I could to get away but I couldn’t due to the bars on the inside of the rollercoaster trapping me. When I finally passed the light I arrived on the other side I arrived in front of a popular hamburger joint in California.
The dream was strange for sure but like I said to my girlfriend, I was going to psychoanalyze that dream this whole weekend. What I took from the dream (and I do not practice Freudian Psychoanalysis btw) is that my consciousness is still skeptical of metaphysics. My consciousness was still attached to this Dunyah or temporal life.
What I took was that my skeptical mind despite my desire to be more close to God, is still commandeering my spirituality. As I recalled in the dream I questioned the white light with what ifs. I recalled saying “what if the white light is a representation of my brain dying and when I pass it I die? Or what if there is nothing on the other side? I also knew in this dream that if I was truly dead my body is past the point of no return.
It seemed that me trying to escape to go back was a representation of my attachment to this Life, this dunyah. I thought this dream was interesting considering there is some elements relating to Islam such as my bodily attachment to this life.
In this case strangely enough, I saw a white light but I wasn’t walking but trapped on a roller coaster. Now, if anyone who have been on a rollercoaster knows before that giant dip the rollercoaster goes very slow and in this case this rollercoaster was going slow towards the white light.
I recalled in my skeptical mind that I knew in this dream I was dead but instead of embracing the white light my skeptical mind didn’t want to. I did what I could to get away but I couldn’t due to the bars on the inside of the rollercoaster trapping me. When I finally passed the light I arrived on the other side I arrived in front of a popular hamburger joint in California.
The dream was strange for sure but like I said to my girlfriend, I was going to psychoanalyze that dream this whole weekend. What I took from the dream (and I do not practice Freudian Psychoanalysis btw) is that my consciousness is still skeptical of metaphysics. My consciousness was still attached to this Dunyah or temporal life.
What I took was that my skeptical mind despite my desire to be more close to God, is still commandeering my spirituality. As I recalled in the dream I questioned the white light with what ifs. I recalled saying “what if the white light is a representation of my brain dying and when I pass it I die? Or what if there is nothing on the other side? I also knew in this dream that if I was truly dead my body is past the point of no return.
It seemed that me trying to escape to go back was a representation of my attachment to this Life, this dunyah. I thought this dream was interesting considering there is some elements relating to Islam such as my bodily attachment to this life.