I'm sure the idea of life being but a dream is a quite enthralling one. And assuming that it's true... I will have to make a flashback.
About a year ago, I head a preety ludicrous dream. All of us had some dreams in which we were talking about lucid dreaming, thinking about lucid dreaming and so on, while still being non-lucid. However, I dreamed that I was lucid. But I wasn't. In the dream, however, I thought I was, I was so excited, etc., but still I made a lot of stupid things which I would never do if I were truly lucid. Only when I woke up from the dream, I objectively look at it and say: Although I believed that I was lucid, I was not.
Now what if life is just a dream? Everything I believe in starts to virtually fall apart. I can say: 'I love you' to somebody, or 'I feel well', or 'I'm happy', or even 'I'm enlightened'. And this means virtually nothing. I know it may sound a bit trivial, but think about it for a while... I thought few times about the possibility of life being a dream - rather an abstract fantasy - but now... Only now I realised the implications of that.
You are non-lucid in a dream: you are a victim of your dream fate. You've got no control. There are beautiful dreams, and there are nightmares. You treat everything that happens with solemnity and after worst nightmares wake up with terror or tears, only to realise that it was but a bad dream, and sooner or later you recover.
You are lucid in a dream: you create your reality. The more you practice lucidity, the more control you've got. In a lucid dream there's no negativity. You keep what happens in perspective, as you are aware that it is but a dream and you can wake up whenever you want.
When I remembered that dream I got a gut feeling... that I understood something important. There is just such a striking analogy between a dream in which I believe I am lucid, and then I wake up and it turns out I wasn't, and my waking life. What if... your alarm clock just suddenly went off?
But seriously, only now I think I'm beginning to grasp what does it mean - to awaken... The awakening... Why 'awaken'? Because it IS but a dream, either in a literal, or metaphoric sense, doesn't matter.Too many analogies to dismiss the whole idea. What if I... just tried, for a single day, to treat all my life as if it was just a dream... I mean, not that I will jump off skyscrapers but a lucid, in which I had no control. An observer who can't wake up. For he's still to afraid to admit that the dream is nothing more...
Why, on earth, do I always have to write such leeeengthy posts... Sorry for that, guys.
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