❀ What Happens to Awareness after Death? ❀
Nothing. You continue to be aware without body. You leave your body every time you go to sleep. Not fully you leave, partially but still you are traveling into higher realms of Earth, so those are not truly dreams, it's really happening to you. Some people just partially leave body but never travel into higher realms, just hanging next to the body in unconscious state some what.
Once you draw last breath (lets take peaceful scenario, your body is old) you go to bed and this time you are not partially leaving body but fully detaching your conscious presence from it and then its individual matter, you either hang around for a while at physical level or you go into higher realms right away. There is no suffer or pain. Same as you go to sleep process. You are more aware this time because of full detachment from the body, so it's not "dreamy" experience but similar to what you had during awakening state while moving in the body.
Ego that lives in fear of this moment makes it seam "special event" with deadly consequences but that's a lie and even with ego nothing happens, since its exist in the mind. You as consciousness and your mind just continue to exist and since ego that fears death is part of the mind it continues to exist and as long as you drag it along in your mind - you are going to have again this fear in your next embodiment.
Then it all depends upon your level of consciousness and your beliefs. The more darker, low and polluted (out of touch with reality) thoughts you have, the more closed minded you are, the more low level realm you will find yourself in after you leave body.
There is nothing to fear. Death of you is a fantasy stimulated severely by the fear of the ego. Remove this ego and you are free from fear of death. It's quite a peaceful transition.
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