"waking up" as this life were "like" a dream. If so, then it's a very complex dream! And I know I've read of others that have had NDEs as seeing it in a similar way (so I don't seem like I'm focused only on her perspective, only the most recent book I've read on the subject.) Maybe this reality is the holographic projection from our higher selves. I know that I now think of "past lives" differently. I see them more as "alternate lives" or "concurrent lives". There is no "past" any more.
One of the HayHouse authors I've been listening to lately (either Wayne Dyer or Alan Cohen) said something about the ego recently. That is, we need our egos to function in life. While "death of the ego" is something that will happen when we die here, we still need them. What we have to strive for is not letting the ego rule us.
At least I think that's what was being said 
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