Day dreaming

 Just as we

create o u r

night dreams

 

we have also

created this

daydream.

(David Wellens, Daydream)

 

Are you creating a pleasant daydream, or are you trying to wake up from the dream altogether? Can one in fact do both? In these 14 years or so of living in an alternate reality than most others appear to live in, I have gone through different stages:

 

-awakening to Oneness  

-trying to wake up from self identification altogether

 

Maybe we can compare awakening to lucid dreaming. We are aware that we dreaming. We even employ this new-found consciousness to create a happy dream. We are bringing in the Light so to speak. Yet, we will always run into little interferences until our self identification falls away altogether.

 

Lucid dreaming is fun. I gained knowledge if the fact that I was dreaming the other day and I used it to fly. It worked like magic. I felt the air and the acceleration with an intensity that was out of this world. Awakening is just like that. More than just a happy dream, it’s exciting to explore a world of magic.

 

Letting go of self identification, on the other hand, is hard. There is always still an experiencer—a father, a lover, a light-worker. It’s entirely up to us what we want to do with that fact. Do we want to have fun dreaming lucidly, or should we be in a hurry to wake up? Life has its own agenda anyway. If it is your job to be the next Buddha you will, otherwise, enjoy creating a happy dream!