The analogy is not perfect by any means, but lets look at a regular computer monitor. Is the area/space in front of it the same (state) as the area behind the

The analogy is not perfect by any means, but lets look at a regular computer monitor. Is the area/space in front of it the same (state) as the area behind the monitor? With respect to "is there a monitor in this place" they are not that different. But in front of the monitor is obviously different from behind the monitor. Whatever the monitor shows is only visible from the front. Likewise, what you did in your life, what you leave behind is only accessible after (admittedly also during) your life, but not before your birth. Does the monitor project those things out of nothing? It won't work by magic, there is no creatio ex nihilo at work. Instead it has input connectors for power and display on the back. When viewed from the front it is easy to forget them, but they are mandatory to see anything. These connectors are like your pre-birth, your parents, your family history, their manners, their culture, the broader circumstances of your birth and life-to-come. These pre-birth things are the inputs that get transformed by you in your life into the things you project into your after-life.