Suppose Jack worked as an electrician for 40 years before retiring at 65 and dying 30 years later at 95.

You might say he was an accomplished electrician during his liftetime, but is that all he ever was or will be?

Death

Let's say on your deathbed you feel no pain and just feel slightly sleepy until you eventually drift off to your final sleep, but never actually wake up. Then eventually you feel yourself fall into a dream-like state, before your brain sends you your last dream ever.

What if the dream feels like one of those really long and vivid dreams where you couldn't tell you were dreaming at all until after you woke up?

If this dream went on for an eternity, how would you know whether or not you were still alive?

So, is Jack really only an electrician? Or is he something more? Has he always been more?

If you spent 40 years as an electrician, but over billions of years as some type of spiritual/cosmic awareness/archetype (for me it's Dark Cosmic Jhin/Dark Magician/Alchemist/Rogue/Thief/Hermit/Trickster/Joker/Hacker),

Would that knowledge have been of any help to him had he still been alive when he realized it?