This is what happens to you before you go to sleep. #robertgreene #psychology #dreams #sleep #sublime

When you're about to fall asleep, your mind goes to a different place, and I ask you to try and observe that when you're falling asleep. Your thoughts start kind of wandering, and they start sort of scrambling and falling apart. And then you kind of go into that dream state, and if you observe it, it's a feeling that's unlike anything else. And it's a feeling that's actually similar to the experience of dying. Because when you're dying, your brain is kind of dying as well, and things are falling apart, and all the constructions of the brain are falling apart. When you're falling asleep, you're going through something similar. And then the logic of dreams, where everything is kind of scrambled, is something similar that happens to the mind in near-death experiences. So dreaming is actually akin to death, as actually akin to the experience of dying itself, and it is a kind of a nightly form of death that we go through. And it has a lot of emptiness, and it has a lot of darkness, and we're kind of having intimations of what it like to die.