Every night before sleep, I close my eyes and wonder — where will my soul go today?

My body stays here in this room, but where does my soul travel to? It’s a question that has stirred in me since childhood. Am I just resting... or journeying across dimensions?

I’m Rudra Chandrasekhar, a curious mind born in a sleepy village near Kashi, where the stars always seemed to shine a bit brighter. One night, as I lay under the open sky, I asked myself — is the soul slipping into outer space after sleep? Does it silently return during Brahma Muhurta, the sacred hour before dawn?

Who are these people we see in our dreams… faces we’ve never seen in reality. Do we meet these people in parallel worlds, while we sleep here in our physical bodies? These incidents in our dreams, are they real... Is that why we feel we remember them from somewhere after waking up?

I researched. I read scriptures. I listened to wandering sadhus and questioned mysterious Himalayan monks. One yogi whispered to me, “In sleep, your soul enters its astral world — a plane not bound by time or space.” He spoke of parallel universes, of souls meeting familiar strangers. Perhaps those faces in dreams are not figments of imagination, but actual encounters in another reality.

That explains the strange déjà vu we feel after waking up. These meetings, these dreams — they're echoes of reality from parallel worlds.

“But how do we consciously enter that world?” I asked.

The yogi smiled and pointed north, toward the snow-covered Himalayas. “Seek the hidden Sambhal city, where souls awaken and travel freely. Meet Guru Mahadevanda — he will teach you how to consciously journey beyond your physical body.”

He told me something I still carry like a seed in my heart: Human and animal souls are born from black holes, created from the death of stars. This soul taking another body is not just a metaphor. Death is the beginning of new life - is not just a saying. Death of a star actually creates the soul particle to split into many, which in turn takes life forms and travels from one body to another body in multiple universes which has no end. In sleep, we pass through black holes into the astral worlds, meeting other versions of ourselves.

It made me wonder — were the mighty temples like Kailasa Temple of Ellora carved by those who mastered such journeys? Did they channel the energy of their soul to create the impossible? How else did our ancestors know the distance to the Sun, the shape of the Earth, the secrets of constellations… without telescopes!

Maybe, the soul doesn't sleep but travels to different realms. Maybe, our physical bodies have forgotten to follow it. And perhaps, sleep is just a portal… to something far more transcendent than dreams.

But the bigger question is where does the soul go after a man is put to the greater sleep - death?

If our soul particle is connected to the soul particles across the multiverses, do all these die simultaneously? If yes, do all these souls meet at the same point to create something bigger... and is this the reason why the universe is expanding? If not, then do the dying souls vapourize into the deep dark endless space?