Let The Arifa-Madness Begin

Dreamworld - by Arifa Asariah

Where do you go when you dream?  Where do you go when, night after night, sleep takes you into its arms and exhaustion forces you to comply?  

What kind of double life are we leading?  

Our daily conscious life... where we live, love, hate and do endless repetitive chores; like work or dishes or general daily tasks. Our conscious life that urges us to seek out more.  For some it is more pleasure.  For some more money.  For some more wisdom.  For some more loving kindness.  For some it's answers to the aching knowing inside that there is more to living and they seek spiritual awakening.

Our night life... where we enter a small death each time we sleep.  Where for some it is death of the conscious, no dream recall, no memory of where one goes, or doesn't go, in the hours of sleep.  For some there are dreams... rich tapestries of symbolism, strange worlds, nightmares and paradises abound or dreams that seem as normal at night as life is in the day. 

Who are we?  What are we doing here?  What happens when we sleep?  And in the small death of sleep are we experiencing, in any way, the final death?  If so... then what really occurs?

Hamlet... he wanted to kill himself, but wondered:

"To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause:..."

And now I sit and muse the similarities of sleep to death and wonder at the differences.

And I know what they are... for me, at any rate.  For I have looked at the face of death and I have slept.  I have slept thousands of times, and by the grace of destiny, looked also into the world of (what we think of as) death.  I know the difference now; like the one who swims for the first time, knows what to do, even though the more you learn to swim the better you get at it.

I'm going to talk about life and death here.  The unconscious and the conscious.  The spirit and the flesh.  The soul's journey through life-times and this one life in this body.
And anything else I feel like. 

So... this is my madness... 
Welcome.


Please feel free to tell me your experiences, dreams, realities, etc...