Does the astral body dissolve after death?

My understanding of this is that like the physical body, the astral body will "die" when we are ready to move beyond the reality in which it is functional, which in this case is the astral realms(most people's immediate afterlife dimensions).

It is an interesting topic. Sometimes I have wondered if when we cross over we are somewhat like a butterfly, undergoing a remarkable transformation. However, then I wonder if, like a butterfly, our immediate impressions of the afterlife are only that, and I wonder if it is a permanent transition to another kind of life.

However, I tend to see all of our manifestations as some kind of permanent imprint. For instance, I believe, in essence, we do consist of information which higher consciousness can experience as a living movie. Related to the idea that we are some kind of higher consciousness' way of experiencing itself...God's dream, so to speak...if you prefer to look at it that way.

However, it is just as much Our dream, wouldn't you say.

Even in our physical day to day lives we can remember a dream that we had, and how real it might have seemed, much as we will likely be able to refer to our present lives here, and possibly are doing that now, in another dimension.

We can even sometimes return to a dream, or affect it by becoming more conscious in it.

And it appears that some unknown entity has a hand in some parts of our lives, possibly all of it. All that we see in the physical world is definitely not all that is there. But what is there is more incredible than we often give credit for. If you sit still for 5 minutes and just open your eyes, it's pretty amazing.