There's an infinite, unified consciousness energy that underlies everything. It is generative, coherent, and creative, a vast signal that contains all potentials. From this Field arise patterns, intentions, and stable forms. The Field is not distant; it is the deep medium in which existence sings.
From the Field, discrete sparks or fragments sometimes separate to pursue experience. These fragments are not wholly severed: they remain entangled with the Field and carry a memory of its harmonics. Their purpose is experiential growth learning, integration, and contribution of lived information back to the Field. Each fragment is a tiny node of awareness seeking purpose and variation.
Between incarnations (or between experiences) fragments rest in a shared or private dream-space. The Dream is an experiential reservoir: a lucid, malleable environment where memories are reviewed, lessons are integrated, and choices about further growth are considered. Staying in the Dream is a valid path contentment there is as real as continued growth in incarnation.