  Okay. Let's talk about life. There's three theories I'd like to present to you. The River Theory, the Road Theory, and the Learning Theory.
All of these have been compiled through many, many hours of deep thinking. Tonight, I'll be talking about the Learning Theory. Tomorrow, or possibly later tonight, I'll discuss the River and Road Theories, because they're opposites, and it would be appropriate to discuss them at the same time.
The Learning Theory was developed just yesterday, when I was talking to Kelly.... Yes, I know that I'm not really religious, but that does not mean I deny the existance of God. I believe that the point of our lives...is to figure out why we are here. The meaning of our life is to learn our individual meaning. A part of this was expressed in a book called "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" by Mitch Albom. In this book, it describes a Heaven in which you enter upon dying, and meet five people. They can be relatives or complete strangers, but all of these people share one thing: you were of great significance in their lives.
I believe every person wants to know their purpose. We all have one, its expressed in many different religions, including Christian religions. Part of the Learning Theory is something I thought of called the Dream Effect. In it, though incomplete and easily proven false, a person lives their entire life....in a dream. You live out everything, then wake up on some random day when you're like....eight years old or something.
Now for the first part...what happens when you wake up? Secondly...what would you do if you did wake up? Well, I believe that some people have woken up. These people have lived their lives, and have died. When they died, they woke up. They died because they learned all they needed to learn. They learned that life was really about, and why they needed to be there. They learned what importance they served in people's lives and in the world. For this, God had to take them away, because this knowledge could not spread.
However, God can not stop one from waking up. You wake from this dream, and the memory fades as quickly as a dream does, and you forget everything. But what if you remember long enough? What if you realize what your life is about, or if you realize taht something bad will happen, because this dream just told you everything about your life? I believe that this is a cause for mental disorders...or suicide. People with mental disorders aren't LESS intelligent or capable of anything, they are MORE capable. It's almost like a form of post traumatic stress disorder. You wake up from this dream, and you know everything that will happen in your life and you know why you are there.
You know all of this, and you really have no reason to live, because you....have already lived. So these people who remember their dream kill themselves, or (literally) go crazy. Now I believe we all have this dream many times throughout our life. Sometimes in pieces, just like a regular dream. Also, some people will remember a piece, and live it, and think that they "saw the future in their dreams", and....they really did.
So we have this dream many times in our life, I don't know how many times, and we slowly remember more and more. The reason it seems like we have a dream about our day, is because events from that day stand out in this dream of our entire lives. We remember them better, because they happened recently. So when we wake up, we remember! Once you get to a certain age, you start remembering everything.
You have memorized this dream through repetition. (Another piece of advice from my band teacher was "Repetition is the key to memory") Now here you are, at your old age. In your real life, and not your dream, and you have memorized this dream because you have had it so many times. So part of this dream is the time between the current time and when you die. In this time, you learn of your significance and importance in this world.
So before you die, you know what you learn, which is the reason for your death. Here's how it goes. Say you're 98, and it's Monday. You're going to die on Thursday. You know this, because of the dream. Sometime between Monday and Thursday, you realize what life is all about. You learn why you are here. So on Thursday, God brings you up to Heaven, because if everyone knows the meaning of life, there is no purpose to life itself, and everyone would be living in vain.
God takes you, and you die. You have seen this in your dream, but you memorized the dream, so you know your meaning in real life, and not just in a dream. When you realize your meaning in real life, God takes you, and you live eternally in Heaven, with all of those who share the same knowledge as you.
Once again, this is just a theory. It got me thinking, and I really hope it helps you. 
