Dreams & Alternate Realities

Experiencing Waking & Dreaming as Simultaneous Realities

[Updated April 6, 2021] The ultimate Déjà Vu experience, just walking down a street in China.

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August 26, 2019, in Haikou, Hainan, China — well before the coronavirus outbreak!

ON the day after a conference I had attended ended, I had lunch with a Canadian who is teaching in the Arizona State University tourism program housed at Hainan University in Haikou, China. So, she works for ASU but lives and teaches full time in China.

After lunch, she took me on the back of her electric motorbike to a shopping mall across the river from where I was staying because she (and I) wanted to go to the grocery store there. She also kind of pointed toward the location of “night market” near her university.

Later, I decided to walk to the night market for dinner. Crossing the big road and then the river was quite an adventure because of the throng of motorbikes at this time of day (after work) sharing the same pathway that pedestrians use.

Déjà Vu 1

BEING a pedestrian in the midst of these electric motorbike commuters brought on my first déjà vu experience. I felt like I have been in this scene (or scenes) before in a dream (of dreams). I thought that was interesting, but I did not think much more about it than that.

My friend’s directions were not very clear on how to get to the night market from the mall, but I kept looking for an interesting activity and I soon found myself at the Haida (short for ‘Hainan University’) Night Market.

This was a pretty amazing place with food on one side of a long pedestrian street and a variety of toys, cell phones, other products, and fruit on the other side. I got a vegetarian wrinkled cheung fun (a large, rolled flat rice noodle with cabbage and egg in the middle.

I am mostly vegetarian, but flexible enough to accept two fried oysters from the two guys who were sitting next to me. Through my broken Chinese, I exchanged WeChat contacts with them. I ate some jack fruit and watermelon for dessert and then walked back to my hotel.

Déjà Vu 2

AT some point, I think while walking back through the market, but I cannot really identify it exactly when it was, I found myself in both this waking reality place and in a dream reality of the same place at the same time.

The waking reality was the night market as I walked and took photos and bought a ‘bubble milk tea’ drink for 7 yuan (US $1.00).

However, I was also acting out a sleeping dream reality version that was similar, but with different challenges — more game-like choices.

As I walked further along, I moved more completely back into the waking reality. But I had the memory of the waking reality place and the dream reality activities that I just had.

I was trying to remember clearly what I had done in the dream reality part. This is exactly what I do when I try to remember a dream as I teeter on waking up in the middle of the night.

Like most dreams, I do not fully remember what I was doing in that experience. I do recall the sense that I had some choices and the ones I picked fit together very well — creating some kind of curved, dark-stained, wooden track.

I felt a bit disoriented by this odd memory recall, grasping for it while also wondering how something like this could happen while I was awake, walking, and not in bed.

Despite the disorientation, I found my way back to my hotel quite easily, with a little help from Google Maps.

I do not recall ever experiencing this before and have not (yet) heard anyone talk about this type of experience.

Defining Déjà Vu

IN The Early Sessions, Book 2 of the Seth Material (by Jane Roberts), Seth, who is a higher dimensional channeled being, comments on how déjà vu is the experience of two versions of myself existing and experiencing two different realities.

So when I have a déjà vu experience, it is because another version of myself is actually having that experience as a full reality experience. I am getting a glimpse of the experience of that other reality self.

In our physical time-base 3rd Dimension, we often call these other parts of ourselves “reincarnations”. More correctly, however, they should be called “parallel incarnations”.

According to Seth:

“Other kinds of consciousness coexist within the same ‘space’ that your world inhabits. They do not perceive your physical objects, for their reality is composed of a different camouflage structure. This is a general statement, however, for various points of your realities can and do coincide … points of what you would call double reality, containing great energy potential … where realities merge.” — Seth (Jane Roberts) (1977) The “Unknown” Reality, Vol. 2

I also know from Seth (Jane Roberts) that our dream reality is constantly taking place and forms the basis for our waking reality experiences. The line between them is very thin — we flip back and forth between them daily. It just depends where we put our focus.

Something about tonight’s experience got me right on the line between those two realities — those two parts of myself. And it was extremely interesting.

(Also kind of interesting is that this experience came the day after I had my first lucid dream in quite a long time.)

You are involved in a juggling of realities. The dream reality is simply the nearest reality with which you are concerned outside of your physical preoccupation. It is necessary to see the personality as it operates within both realities, if you are interested in viewing the personality as a whole. And, even then, unless you delve deeply, you will fall short.”

Seth (Jane Roberts), The Early Sessions, Book 4, Session 174, August 2, 1965

and

“I am still waiting for the day when you become aware of your own dreams while you are awake, and conscious at the same time, fully, of your physical environment, and able to operate normally at the same time in the physical universe.” — Seth (Jane Roberts), The Early Sessions, Book 6, Session 246, March 30, 1966

Conclusion

Seeing all reality, especially our 3D experience, as a dream is one way to look at it. Another way is to see all dreams as being as real as our 3D experience. There are no dreams, just different states of awakeness.

Related

• For a different experience of the waking-dreaming in-betweeness, this ⬇ is another experience I had…

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