 The belief that there is a you that started out somewhere in time and space is part of a projection, a reflection of the belief that Christ can leave God and take on form. And there is no beginning. Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. These are part, these are figments of imagination that have been made up by the ego to reinforce the belief in separation from God. Once cause and effect are split off and cause and effect are reversed, then the obsession becomes with this little personality self that now has been built to take the place of your Christ self. Your true identity is the Christ idea that lives forever in the mind of God and this personality self, that's what persona means in Latin, that's the mask. You simply have taken on a mask and the serial adventures of the body have now become the hero of the dream. The hero is the one that gets all the attention. That's the one that is a false self that everyone's concerned with the comforts of that body, the conveniences of that body, the ongoing perpetuation of that body, the existence of that body, the skills of that body, the abilities of that body, the attractiveness of that body, the health of that body, it's a fixation. There's a total fixation on the hero of the dream and then you wonder why there's fear. Well if you put all that investment into something that's made up by the ego, what would you expect if the ego itself is a fearful idea and you invest in that fear and you invest and you put so much time and energy and investment into that personality self as if it's you, then there's going to be fear in the mind. And I would also say that if you're so concerned and obsessed about this personality self, this figure in the dream, you're not really aware that you're dreaming. If you were aware that you're dreaming, whatever that figure did would be just laughable because you would know it's just a dream. There's actually a line in A Course in Miracles in the text where Jesus says the awareness of dreaming is the function of God's teachers. I'm going to say it again because it's very important. The awareness of dreaming is the function of God's teachers.