When people have near-death experiences, they rarely say that the world is false. What they're trying to describe is much more subtle: the world is real, but it isn't final. It is not the foundation of everything, but a layer of experience. What many call a simulation is not a cold, technical construct like a computer game, but an agreement of consciousness. An agreement in which consciousness tells itself that it wants to experience weight, density, limitation, and forgetting. And that forgetting does not happen by accident, but intentionally.

Consciousness, Body, and the Choice of Experience

In that vision, before entering this life consciousness is not bound to the body. There is no linear time, no identity as we know it. There is clarity, but without contrast. Everything is truth, but there is no tension, no friction; everything is one and imbued with unconditional love.
And it is precisely then that the choice comes. Not a choice in the sense that someone wants to suffer, but in the sense of a desire for the experience of separation, because only through separation can one experience the return. It's about love. “I want the experience that love is a return.”.

Is the world a simulation or an experience of consciousness?

That's why this world seems like a simulation to some; not because it's false, but because its rules aren't absolute, but chosen. Gravity, the body, death, personality, history—all of these are parameters of experience, not ultimate truths.

In that context, the question What is the meaning of life? It ceases to be an intellectual question and becomes a question of experience.

The Meaning of Life and Levels of Consciousness

The feeling that everything is voluntary arises because, on a deeper level, it truly is. Not on the level of the ego, which fears and resists, but on the level of a broader consciousness that understands that pain is not punishment, loss is not a mistake, and forgetting is not failure. These are all tools of depth. The soul does not enter this world to succeed in any external sense. It enters to feel, to experience density, emotion, relationship, limitation, and transience. This is the heart of creation, and here we have experiences primarily through emotions.

Near-Death Experiences and Return Home

In moments of a near-death experience, the biological filter breaks down. Consciousness separates from the body, identity expands, and time dissolves. Then comes that feeling people describe with almost the same words, regardless of culture, faith, or worldview: this is not the end, this is coming home. And then comes the realization that coming here was not an imposition, but a choice. Not a choice to escape from something, but a choice to dive fully into the experience.

And it is precisely those experiences that often change the way people understand the meaning of life.

Two perspectives on the same insight

For some people, that realization becomes an escape. If the world is a simulation, they conclude that nothing makes sense.

But there is another level to that insight. If experience is chosen, then literally every little thing is meaningful. Feelings become valuable, relationships cease to be accidental, and the body is no longer experienced as a prison but as an instrument through which experience unfolds.

Everything is valuable, everything is meaningful.

Maturity of Consciousness and Life in Fulness

The difference between those two perspectives isn't in knowledge, but in the maturity of consciousness.

There are people who linger too long in the upper, abstract levels and lose touch with life. But there are also those whose memories don't turn into escapism, but into deeper engagement. With them, the attitude arises: if I came, then I came to live, not just to observe. For them, the idea of simulation doesn't negate meaning but rather amplifies it. The world then isn't something to outsmart or transcend, but something to experience to the fullest, with all its contrasts, fractures, and moments of pure presence.

The meaning of life is not escape, but immersion.

In that light, the world is not a trap but a stage. Not a punishment but an opportunity. Not an illusion to be exposed, but an experience to be lived while it lasts, conscious that beyond it lies something broader, quieter, and more familiar—something we return to not defeated, but filled with what we have felt here.

So, relax. Everything is fine.

~W