User blog comment:Ygrain/The ending: there MUST be something more to it/@comment-4930593-20120617105119

I agree with what your saying. To me the last 15 minutes is really just a dream from a dying Shepard. He gets hit with Harbinger's beam and his mind is refusing to just let it end there. Because of his experience involving the Geth data stream, Legion(VI) tells him that his minds will process things with familiar images to help understand things, this aspect is still available for his mind to interpret. It needs to play out the struggle before he dies. He continues the ordeal, beaming up to the Citidal, finding the activation chamber, bringing in TIM and Anderson as the Paragon /Renegade aspects of his conscious and play out whether or not Shepard really does want to discover what this whole struggle means to him. When he resolves this he is brought up to view what he interprets what the great plan really is. Again he uses the kid from his dreams this time as the antagonist and to pose the the question on whether or not Artificial and Organic life really can co- exist. Again it boils down to three decisions, two of which he is satisfied with and he dies within in his dream, thus his mind has resolved the struggle and he passes on. The third choice he decides that he can't let the Reapers win at any cost and fights thru to the end.. In that choice all we see that his body is engulfed in the explosion but hasn't really been blown apart. This is where his mind decided that he can't die just yet and his mind commands his synthetic parts of his body to revive him back on the battlefield in London.