A thought came across my mind today: since to know one thing we need to know the opposite of it (rule of opposites - you can't know black unless you know white, and you can't know white unless you know black), it's then also logical to assume that you can't know what is it like to be awake, unless you know what's it like to be asleep. One thing can not possibly exist without the other. Same thing goes for life and death! It occurred to me, that sleeping is very much like death, and (not even considering the things said about DMT) even can be actually thought of as death! Now, from that, I can try and interpret a casual day as a whole life...
Sleep is like death. Each day we go to bed, just thinking to ourselves "man I want to sleep", and it's one of the things in our life which we cannot live without, and we are SO used to it... (let's try and use this to get something from this) Well, when we fall asleep, we are no longer in the world we are living in everyday, but we are somewhere in another reality, in the "world of dreams". So, in a way, everything that happened during the day in the dream is not relevant at all (at least because you're not aware that you're dreaming anyway). Just like in death - when you die, everything you have ever experienced will suddenly become nothing at all. It's becomes meaningless. Even if you were to make millions and millions of dollars for the sake of being a rich person and being higher status in our society, it still all disappears when you die. Why bother?
Some people say that they never have dreams. Let's use these people as an example here:
You don't know what will it be like after death. Well, let's say you don't remember what's it like in the afterlife, just the same way you may not remember a dream. And, considering the fact that it has been said that people who smoked DMT struggle to recall the experience they had, because after you come back into our reality from the trip, the memory of the trip fades as quickly as a dream does everyday (said by Terence McKenna), at the same speed even. So, let's compare an average day with a whole life. Let's at least find out, if that is even possible.
When you wake up, you don't immediately remember that you are living in this reality, at this point you can't tell the dream you had was in fact a dream - you haven't realized yet that you are now awake, and the dream you had was just that - a dream. Great. Then, after a few minutes (or hours) of lying in bed a bit more, you get up, and for the next few minutes (or hours) you feel sleepy, and not quite yet awake, you're not yet fully here, in our "reality". You may even do something silly while still sleepy, I'm sure everyone has a bunch of crazy stories, like for example one time when I woke up, I got up and when I was making coffee, just because of my sleepy state, I got myself not a spoon, but a fork, and almost tried using it to put some coffee into the cup. So... Let's compare just this part of the day (the morning) to a beginning of one's life:
When one is born, he sees the reality for the first time ever. He's not used to seeing anything like what he sees at that time - our reality. Now, this is comparable to a situation you have when you wake up. When a baby grows up a bit, he slowly gets used to living in this reality, and can do some simple tasks, like to put coffee into a mug with a spoon. But little kids, you see, are pretty silly, and all of us know that. In a way, a 3 year old kid's actions can be very similar to an adult's actions when he'd just gotten up. The morning is the beginning of the day, and people are kids in beginnings of their lives.
OK, what comes next? The afternoon. That's when you're most likely (by now) is fully awake and you're totally in our world. 100%. It's also when the sun is the brightest it can be (basically)... It's the part of the day where you know what you're doing and why you are doing it and... you get the idea. It's when you are your best (that's not the case for every person, but I'm talking about the majority here, I guess, just for the sake of the argument). Now what connection might this have with one's whole life?
Well the afternoon, I guess, can be thought of as the middle of one's life, or rather, I'd say, when you're 20-30. At this time (ugh! let's take 25, just for the sake of the argument, you have to follow me here to understand) you are literally the best you can be. You're not a kid anymore - you grew up, yet you are not old, or not even getting old yet, you're young, and physically the best you can be. You're body and mind have developed fully and you are physically at your peak. You can achieve most of the things in life that one can achieve during the course of his/her life (I think). So, just like in the middle of the day, you are at your best (in a way), the same way when you're at the middle between being a kid and getting old - you're at your best too (in a way). So, in this way, the afternoon also can be compared to one's life.
Next - The evening. The sun sets and then it gets darker outside. You might feel tired in the evening, because of the stuff you've been doing in the afternoon (when you were your best), and you rest at home for the rest of the day (maybe not, but let's take the usual kind of a day for most people out there).
In "the evening" of life, you probably by now have kids,you're own family, a house, a career, maybe you're a manager of some restaurant or something (which I think is a totally stupid choice of career, but whatever). This is the time, when you're probably about 40. You might be thinking about how great it was when you were as young as 25, and you could do (or have done) some pretty amazing stuff, and looking back at that time, it is remembered as "good times". Just like in the evening of the day you might think about how awesome the most of the day was spent. And both in life, and in day, you can feel either tired from all that, or happy, or whatever, but it is the time where you look back on the things that happened during your best times of life (if to talk about one's life), or the best time of the day (if to talk about one's day). So, these two are also comparable... What about night? Let's try and find out...
Night is the time of day, when most of the creatures on Earth go to sleep. And I've already said, that sleep can very much be compared to death.
That is my theory, that states, that each day any person has in their life, can be interpreted as a whole life. With this knowledge, and by using it, we can train ourselves to not be afraid of death... Just like we don't know what dreams we will see when we will go to sleep at night everyday, we don't know what will there be in the afterlife. Yet, we go to sleep every night, absolutely casually, not at all being afraid of it, or even considering that fact that something bad might happen. Because we know that a dream is just a dream, that's all... Hmm... But why are we so afraid of death? Can we get something from this theory? I haven't thought about it much, in fact, I've been trying to find out if at all it is possible to even make such a theory, by just writing this blog. Maybe by analyzing a person's day carefully, and interpreting everything (or trying to interpret everything), we can unfold some mysteries about death! Is that possible? Is that at all rational? I don't know yet. What do you think about all of this?
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