Waking dreams/transportation to dream world when awake

[jafar]

Hmm - so you are talking about something like a soliloquy with your higher self?

It's not really clear what you mean with the 'avatar'?
Is it like a picture of the body / appearance or the character?

Avatar is an 'identity construct', things that can be used as limit / border definition for 'me' and things that can be referred or recognized as 'you', 'he', 'she', 'it', 'them'.

Some people uses the word 'body' for it.
There are indeed many layers of 'bodies' or 'identity construct' as correctly mentioned by Yogic tradition.
Physical body, mind body, astral body, mental body, bliss body.
And all of it are virtual (Sanskrit: Maya)
I knew it's true, because I've experienced 'shifting' through those layers of 'identity construct' or as yogic calls it 'virtual sheathing' (Maya Kosha).

Another example of 'avatar' or 'identity construct' is of course webforum avatar, like jafar.'
Once logged in to bring4th then there is another 'virtual sheathing', "Webforum Maya Kosha" or the 'webforum virtual sheathing'. When jafar is 'dead' (killed by admin or self-disabled) then the physical body virtual sheathing still remain intact.
And the process went along the same manner through the other layer.

I have no visual picture of my higher self, it is mostly a feeling of being in harmony or there is no really 'communication'.
So i am talking about elemental pictures as described by Anastasia.

You don't have to, it just one way of manifestation.
The way of saying "Hey i do exist, and I am you, and you are limited identification construct of me, beside you we also have many others identity construct / avatars, here I show you, let's meet and greet some of them! or should I say some of us!"

The observer stands outside the physical body like making a astral projection, that sees every matter on earth as what it is - an illusion - an vehicle / environment.

That's the reason why I use the Role Playing Game metaphor a lot.
It's the closest metaphor.
Logging in to RPG game and assuming an avatar with a body.

When a body is dead well just respawn and choose your spawning point in space and time and assume another body.
Or start over by creating another avatar.
No longer interested in the RPG game? Everything in the game has become boring?
Let's permanently logged out from the game thus disabling the avatar(s).