Here is a dream that may offer something of an example:
An Optimistic Flying Dream
I was with a community of very nice people, and we had built a large superstructure, which seemed intended more for our amusement than anything else, in the way that one suspects the French had built their famous Eiffel Tower. Well, in dreams I am so used to levitation… not really flying but simply taking shortcuts through the air from place to place instead of getting up to walk. Well, as I went to levitate over to simply mingle with some of the dream characters, a Great Wind lifted me upward, and I indeed allowed it and even encouraged the Wind, spreading my arms to it as it carried me aloft.
Up far above the Superstructure, it occurred to me that I had a great distance to glide downward when the wind would finally release me, and I noticed all of the trees, smaller towers and poles that would obstruct my flight back to the ground. But then a VOICE of Realization came to me and assured me of my practiced skill as a Flyer and then I could see myself in my imagination swooping and zooming all around all of the ground clutter.
A very reassuring Dream. In my younger days, I would make great personal efforts to fly higher and faster. Now, the Dreams take it upon themselves to lift me up. And the Dream Scene is penetrated with a Benevolent Presence – a VOICE coming to me out of the simple Consciousness that interpenetrates all things.
Now consider what would have happened if I had instantly assumed complete control – raping all the girls or pulling rabbits out of hats or shooting energy beams from my hands, all the whatevers the children are doing nowadays?
Yes.
It may seem a boring and hostile litany that I take up, rebuking this obsession that people here have with Dream Control, but I do sincerely believe that sometimes the BEST DREAMS are unalloyed GIFTS from the Higher Mind.
Just look at my dream -- I was lifted up by something other than myself. I was reassured by something other than myself. How can any Self Invented Device of Imagination, some self imposed CONTROL, how could that possibly compare to what was given to me from my Dream Higher Mind, or from whatever is Above or whatever is Beyond or even from that which is most cherished Within – wherever and whatever it is that sends us these special dreams? How could patching together our own dream materials, with even an absolute Dream Control, how could it come close to the same quality of experience? It is like comparing Masturbation to Love Making. Dream Control versus the Grace of Heaven.
We hear how we use only 5% of our Brains. You would think the direction we would take would be toward trying to integrate and synthesize into the unused and latent 95% of the Brain. But no. Not at all. Not on This Page. Here we have these advocates for Total Dream Control campaigning on the principle that we should exile the 95% of our Brain away from all of our Dreaming so that we may fully exert our stupid and insignificant 5% in a Total Egotistical Dream Control.
Watch ladies and gentlemen while I pull this rabbit from my hat.
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