It was a normal day in my childhood apartment in Amadora, Lisbon, and the sun was shining.

I was with a couple of friends in the living room while the TV was on. News reports warned that something was wrong—humanity was at risk. The Apocalypse or Armageddon was coming.

Suddenly I looked outside through the window, where I could see a park and the buildings across from mine. It was an open space where kids played and adults walked their dogs. It was a sunny day, probably in the middle of spring.

I looked at the sky and, like a blanket being pulled over a bed, darkness began to cover everything. Like when the moon passes in front of the sun and casts a shadow on Earth, it felt as if the world was being forced into sleep. Within a minute, all sunlight had vanished.

Strangely, I didn't feel any fear, and even though everything was supposed to be dark and scary, it wasn't. Even with the world losing its light, everything remained somehow visible.

My friends beside me were scared and panicking. They decided to jump from the window. I lived on the second floor and it was quite high to jump, but they did it anyway, and I didn't try to stop them.

I was astonished when they jumped—instead of falling, they floated in the air as if gravity no longer existed.

I felt a strange sensation in my body and realized I too was weightless. Every object around remained in place, at least from what I could see.

Everything was simultaneously covered in darkness and light. Somehow, both could exist at once.

When I looked out the window again after briefly surveying my apartment, my friends had vanished. They were no longer floating outside.

With a sense of perplexity, I decided to approach the window and jump as well.

I dove headfirst as if jumping into a swimming pool and began swimming breaststroke. It felt like being underwater, like scuba diving. To my surprise, I felt excited and exhilarated.

For a while, I "swam" through the air until I realized my forward movement was just in my mind. When I stopped moving my arms and legs, I still moved forward. The buildings 200 meters ahead kept retreating as I tried to approach them.

I didn't see anyone around me, not even my friends who had jumped. It was just me and a shadow of the surroundings I once knew.

After some time observing, I understood that the physical world existed only because I was creating it with my mind.

The buildings, trees, and roads were there, but I couldn't reach them. It was like those movies where you become a ghost or spirit, floating around unseen.

I looked at my body and could see it—or thought I could—but it was just a projection of my mind. My physical form was gone, yet my energy, spirit, or soul remained, floating in the air.

I realized I could move freely everywhere without gravity, though at first I limited my experience to my neighborhood. But movement was so fast I could go anywhere.

When I understood I could move even faster between points, I no longer needed to travel the space between. I could appear anywhere I imagined—teleporting instantaneously. Like magic. I was in a magical dimension.

I started thinking about different places and people, and realized I could not only be there but could become that thing or person. I could do or be anything I wanted.

Thinking of someone allowed me to "see" them before me. I could create their body if I wanted, but it wasn't necessary—I knew who they were by their energy.

I began thinking about people or situations I had judgments about and understood that those judgments no longer existed. There was nothing to judge—only experiences to feel.

I could create and experience anything in my mind: a mountain, a river, an ocean, even the Sun. I "traveled" to the Sun and back in an instant. I became the Sun, feeling its being. Becoming an ant or a planet required the same effort—none at all.

I experienced everything on an energetic level, as vibration. There were no emotions, good or bad—just being. Pure existence, without beginning or end.

Soon after, I opened my eyes. I was in my bed. I wanted to tell a friend what I'd seen. I wished this person was next to me so I could describe everything while it was still fresh in my memory. Then I realized I could. I thought about this person, closed my eyes, and returned to the dream—but it was no longer a dream. I could go there anytime and experience everything. This person was there with me.

I realized this "dream" or energetic world exists all the time; we just need to go there with our minds if we want.

In this world, everything exists and nothing exists. Everything is a construct of our minds. We can create and be anything we want. There are no limits. Light and darkness exist simultaneously. I could choose to see nothing or everything.

I feel this world is a game or movie we create to crystallize these sensations or thoughts in physical reality. We don't need anything to exist—no air, water, food, money, or any physical construct. Everything I see feels like part of the consciousness of the whole. A piece of energy, like me, that decided to go somewhere or create something. A tree, a butterfly, a human—it's all part of this infinite ocean of energy and potential.

What do you want to be?

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