Last night I dreamed that I was dead, and I was walking around in the afterlife. The afterlife was made up of a bunch of different cottages and buildings dotting a sunny mountainside. In a 3d rendered environment. The only people I knew there were my parents.

I walked around from house to house and talked to a few serene people about what it was like there. From these conversations, it became obvious to me that nobody liked each other in the afterlife. They didn’t dislike each other, but love and attachment to one another simply did not seem to exist. The strangest thing was that nobody even seemed to remember those concepts from life, like they had had their memory of love brainwashed out. They were normal and happy in every other respect.

I couldn’t believe my parents didn’t like each other any more, so I went to talk to them. I remember asking my father: “But surely you remember SEX!”

That’s when he serenely explained that if you like someone, you come alive and return to the living state. But then that separates you from them, because they are still in the afterlife. He said, “So we stay like this, lest life do us part”.

And as he said that, there was a break in the environment (like a bug in a videogame) and I could see through the game world into the real world, into life, and I knew what he meant.