On Dreamscapes and Nightmares
As a kid I dreamed a lot. In the sleeping or waking hours I could be found in the dreamscape in one way or another.
The problem was many of my dreams were nightmares. Night terrors really. The same one over and over again to be exact.
I would wake up in the dream and and have to use the bathroom, which was just across the hall from the bedroom. 2 1/2 BIG steps would transport me from the doorway of my bedroom to the safety of the doorway to the bathroom.
It was the hallway that I was trying to avoid.
Why, you ask?
The monsters of course!
On Life and Death
Hell and the Underworld are not the same thing.
Various religious traditions have a concept of hell, but in the West the most prevalent version of this tends to come from Christianity. Through this lens, hell is a construct created within a cosmological system rooted in fear as a means of keeping people obedient and disciplined into a narrowed sense of living.