You have had this dream before. One moment you are walking through your childhood home. The next you are flying over a city you have never seen. Somewhere in between you spoke with someone who has passed, and it felt completely ordinary. Normal. Real. Then you wake up and try to explain it, and the words fall apart in your mouth. Because nothing about that experience followed the rules your waking mind lives by. This question came up in one of our Consciousness Collective Q&A