To which level of reality are people with Alzheimer’s escaping?

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so when people get something like Alzheimer’s and they escape from their physical reality so what reality are they escaping to it’s not so much an escape in that case as it is an impairment impairment means it’s a limitation it’s like say if something very terrible is happening around me I may close my eyes I don’t want to see what is happening or somebody may be blind and they can’t see what is happening so in the case of brain regenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s the consciousness which comes from the soul it comes to the mind to the body and it needs the body in a working condition to be channeled so if my eyes are blind then I can’t see although I as a soul have a capacity to see so like that when people’s brain start getting regenerated as it happens in say Alzheimer’s then the brain does not function properly and the consciousness does not get channeled through the brain to the outer world so in that case what they experience is a mixed jumble of something perceived from the sensory world and something which is experienced at the mental level so often they live in their memories or they may have alternate perceptions so that is basically the consciousness is caught at the mental level and there is some consciousness coming out of the physical level but it is primarily at the mental level and little from the physical level which they conflate and then they just live in their own world sometimes when they have moments of lucidity that means that time the brain is functioning properly and the consciousness is coming out to the physical level so I wouldn’t call people who are having Alzheimer’s as escaping because usually it is not done by one’s free will, it is something which is forced upon a person because they because their brain doesn’t function properly, of course some people may may want to live in that world there is one famous well known mental health doctor, he said that when he goes and treats people who are in the mental health care unit sometimes he feels that those people are happier than people in the outside world, so should I be treating them or not but the problem is they may be happier there but that is not reality, it is temporary somebody may say okay if we consider physical reality is also ultimately not reality, it is temporary, so people live in their own mind that is also unreal, this is also unreal no but the difference is in the physical reality we can use our free will practice bhakti and rise to spiritual reality in the mental reality we can’t do that, so that is why the physical reality, the difference swapna and jagruti is that in jagruti we can use our swetcha we can use our free will to turn towards higher meaning, towards Krishna ultimately, so Alzheimer’s and other brain degenerative diseases are not so much escaping as being cut off by the brain’s dysfunctionality transform depressing