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They say that sleeping is something that is indistinguishable from death within our consciousness, where the subconscious can sometimes apparently roam as might happen with an NDE (Near Death Experience) or a mind-altering experience. Yet most people do not have an NDE on a regular basis, or so they think. In Dreamy, or Terrifying? I discuss a certain angle of sleep and its related ‘activities’. But when there is speculation of being able to ‘leave’ this physical plane while unconscious, and that we all need sleep, I thought of sayings we have for things related to sleeping and being dead –
Sleeping like the dead – I always believed this to be about the how deeply you are asleep, and if you are able to be woken easily or not.
Dead to the world – as with this one, so deeply asleep that you are completely cut off from the ‘real world’ while your mind is actually somewhere else.
Dead tired – when you are so tired you feel like you are dragging yourself around, and have become as weighty as a corpse perhaps. On the brink of sleep, where your body and mind start initiate the sleep phase, whether you are ready for it or in the right location or not.
Death warmed up – not usually attritibuted to sleep, but to a waking state and often one of illness. Where you feel so rotten and would benefit from sleep or at a minimum some rest, but have to keep going about your day as you normally would. The wording making me think you have checked out to that ‘sleep/death’ state, but your body has to keep going through the motions of an animated corpse. Hence, death warmed up.
Land of the living – often said as ‘back to the land of the living’, again usually around illness, a phase that sometimes is known to precede actual death, but is also one that more often than not, will require sleep and rest. But saying you have come back to somewhere, means in a way, you think you were somewhere else.
There is talk that death is just an altered state of our consciousness, and what we believe to be ‘life after death’, is in fact, just another dimension of existence we inhabit after our physical body and the material world is no longer of use. And one we have ended up calling The Other Side. But if consciousness does exist outside of the brain and body, it stands to reason that once the physical has expired, whatever existed within that, then just carries on existing somewhere else.
Imagine living two lifetimes every day, one that what we know as the waking day for two thirds of it, and a shorter portion allocated for the sleeping one, yet both existing as separate lifetimes running simultaneously, playing tag with each other. While you are awake here, you are asleep there, kind of thing, neither ceasing to exist just because the other ‘wakes up’. Like day and night, a perpetual hand over each day from dark to light and back again, but just as sometimes the moon isn’t always visible at night, and sometimes can be seen during the day, it’s not always as clear cut as we think. Asleep or awake? Dreaming or reality? Or even alive or dead? How does our consciousness understand the differences in those definitions I wonder, and realised that perhaps it doesn’t…

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A throwback pic, of a few years past now. When I had more time with my Nikon and more sunshine, nature and time to enjoy it…

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That well known quote by Benjamin Franklin in his 1748 essay “Advice to a Young Tradesman”.
More for a business minded person in that context clearly, trying to convey that time is a valuable resource, which converts to monetary value in that case and then used to decide if you are successful in that endeavour.
In many cases, we are conditioned to believe that money means so much in life, affords a certain style of life and opportunities, and therefore money becomes the driver of life. As sad as that is, it’s where we are. I have written many articles already about Cash, and how is it used for purpose as a tool of control, and even though people fight to save it over digital, it is still part of the play.
And now the costs of living are going up even further with their quest of Tightening the Screw on everyone as much as they can, well, not quite everyone. Because with one hand they take away from over here, and with the other hand they give it to someone over there. And money is the crux of it all, because if they couldn’t threaten you with fines, or price you out of everything, then there would be a more even playing field. But cheaters don’t want an even playing field, they don’t want a fair fight or for the ‘best man’ to win.
But what I find quite odd about it all, is that it is not ‘real’ as such. I know I can hold it physically, and it exists in our materially created world, but so does the game of Monopoly, or any other game. I can play it and ‘buy’ into the illusion of it being real for the duration of said game time. And then walk away when it’s over and forget about the banker, the properties, the pieces, the money and so on. But in the scaled-up version of it in society, we aren’t allowed to just walk away, being kept there by the bankers for a never-ending game that keeps you coming back every day. To play again and again until I guess they decide to shut it down or as in the game version occasionally where someone just loses it and flips the board.
So, to keep you playing, everything becomes about money. Yet I have mentioned before in What We Leave Behind, about it being a very rare thing to see someone’s lifetime earnings on their gravestone. How much money you made is of no concern once you are no longer here. But time, that is something that gets noted, from start to finish, our journey of Time. Which, ironically, is also an illusion, but one we work well with in this three-dimensional construct and seems necessary.
But while we are here, it appears to be a problem for many who are obsessed with money and the control it brings. For those who have too much, they want to control the direction of society and people in it. For those with too little, they are often forced to become obsessive about it, just to get by and survive. And others who have just enough, possibly spend time fearing and worrying about it, with it being used for threats or just generally weaponised.
It does appear, though there is another group now, who seem to lack monetary comprehension, or that it equates to time. The ones who get what they call ‘freebies and handouts’. And to them, I guess they are, but on the other side of that freebie, is often someone else’s time. Of which they indeed might not give two hoots about, harvesting people’s time and money from them, pimping off them. And clearly, many don’t have a problem with that to keep doing it, wanting to be a dependent. Facilitated by those who also want you to be dependent on the system and its mechanisms. Because if we were able to use our time wisely instead of spending our time making money, which we then spend, then things could be very different. Until then, make every second and every penny count…

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The name of the book should give it away really, what its purpose was. The Doomsday Book. Also known as the Great Survey (there’s that word again, great). Created over 1,000 years ago in 1086, it was the first step towards where we are now in my mind. A register, where everybody in the land of England was visited (apparently), and all their assets, property, land etc were listed, so they could be taxed or taken off them. And tax people they did, for various things over those years, working out that it wasn’t enough to only take on the main things, they needed to reduce people’s wealth, while at the same time as increasing theirs, same shit different day…
The Digital Doomsday Database full article

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