Poking the Dream Stream
Is this life a dream that we are dreaming in another dimension?
“Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?” Edgar Allan Poe
I was awakened this morning by someone poking me in the arm.
Upon awakening, I realized that the hand that poked me belonged to someone in my dream. Whom? I do not know. I just saw an arm extended and the fingers pressing against my arm. As it happened, I felt it in my physical body, and that’s what woke me up.
As I woke up, I became aware of the fact, and it is a fact that I was awakened by something in a dream state that I felt in the physical state.
Can I prove it? No.
Does that change the fact? No!
Have you ever had a similar experience?
If you are a male, then you probably thought about the wet dreams of your adolescent years. You had a dream, and that dream state produced an effect on your physical body.
What does it all mean? I am always curious about things I don’t understand or can’t explain, and certainly can’t prove by the standards of the physical sciences. But I can’t deny the fact that it happens. It happens all the time.
Many, many years ago, I listened to an audio program by Dr. Wayne W Dyer called Transformations.
In it, he proposed that this phenomenon of inter-connectivity between the dream world and the physical world is a hint, a clue for us to become curious about the relationship between the material and the metaphysical realms, an existence beyond the physical.
Of course, he is not the first one to suggest that. Mystical literature from various cultures and times is filled with the idea that the “real world” is beyond the physical world, and life, as we know, is simply a dream.
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream,
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
Have you ever heard of Lucid Dreaming?
According to Wikipedia,
A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment; however, this is not actually necessary for a dream to be described as lucid.
In other words, during lucid dreams, you can be an observer, as you would be in a non-lucid dream, or you can “participate” in your dream. You are aware of the fact that you are dreaming, and then you see something in your dream that you don’t like, so you go ahead and change it.
You can custom-design your dreams.
What if the physical world, life as we know it, is a dream in the metaphysical realm, and we can learn how to be lucid dreamers? What if we are, in fact, having a lucid dream right now?
What if the so-called sages, and mystics, and prophets were people who were expert lucid dreamers from another realm. What if they were telling us that Life is but a Dream, and by becoming aware of it, we have the option of either being observers or participants and affect the “dream” and custom-design it.
Hmm…
