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What It Means to Wake Up From This Dream
Every moment knowing it’s all an illusion.
Most of us are sleeping. We don’t realize what consciousness even means. We’re all taking part in the creation of reality. To wake up from the dream we live within, we must know at every moment that it is an illusion. What we experience through the five senses is not what it seems. Not at all.
Everything you see around you is a mirror image of something inside you. Maybe it’s a current feeling or a past thought. Maybe it’s your unhealed childhood trauma. Whatever it is, there’s no hidden message. There’s no deception about it. It’s a direct reflection of the real you.
That may scare you, and I don’t blame you. It’s easier to crawl back into Plato’s cave to live in darkness. Ignorance is bliss, right?
Going In and Out of the Dream
Most people can’t handle the truth about reality, so they stay in the cave. But I don’t believe that’s why you’re reading this. You’re interested in coming into the sunlight to have it all revealed — and to keep it in your awareness. It may seem daunting, but it’s possible to be self-aware at all times and accept that you’re looking into a mirror.
Waking up from the dream was always going to be weird, but you’ll get used to it. I promise.
It’s easy to catch a glimpse of the real world and then go back into the cave. We can have a revelation about how none of our lives was ever real and we were creating it all along. We can see that the universe is giving us lessons that are intertwined with our innermost beliefs. We can touch enlightenment. And then we can turn back. Some of us reach this level of consciousness and then lose it.
It’s not a linear path. Awareness sometimes comes in waves. Reality is tempting to the ego. We have a tendency to attach to the separation we perceive between ourselves and “things” in the world. But none of it is separate from the self. We are all one. The life you experience is you.
Maintaining Awareness of the Illusion
What does it mean to wake up? You have to enter your daily life with this awareness…
