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This Is Actually a Dream
You’re living in a story and it certainly feels real, doesn’t it?
You’d be hard-pressed to convince me that dreams aren’t “real”. When I’m in one, it really doesn’t feel like there’s anything unreal about it. I’m still “me”, which is a real enough feeling. Objects feel pretty solid in dreams. You might argue that things often don’t make sense in dreams but would you say that they make sense in this level of awareness? Would you really?
I was reading a book called A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming where the authors listed levels of awareness in dreams. As I was reading it, things got weird, because I was experiencing so much energy in my current manifestation. I had the sense that things were changing or full of life beyond the perception of my five senses. The consciousness I am occupying felt full of possibilities. I kept reading, and on page 118, the book said this about levels of awareness:
Level One: No awareness whatsoever (…that it’s a dream)
Level Two: Slight awareness that you’re dreaming…
Level Three: You know that you’re dreaming but see things “out there” as separate from you…
Level Four: You know you’re dreaming and that everything “out there” is really “in here”; there is no separation…
Level Five: …The projections of the dream world dissolve and you reach a level of pure conscious awareness…
Admittedly, this is where I stopped reading the book. It was clear to me that the authors hadn’t realized that they just described “waking” reality. They are teaching the rest of us how to lucid dream without having lucidity in their own day-to-day lives.
In this life, we perceive things as separate from us, but they are not. It’s possible right now to reach a level of pure awareness in this reality. So many incredible things are then unlocked!
Reality and dreams aren’t different.
It’s just that we seem to keep coming back to this dream in between the ones we have at night.
