Dreams & Alternate Dimensions

What Happened in Between My Dreaming & Waking Realities

“I gotta go now, talk to you later” I said, going from a dream into my waking reality.

Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here.

This was my last dream of the night before waking up today…

A former work colleague called me on the phone to suggest we cancel something that I had set up several years ago, but never used. He had a football game playing very loudly on his TV and I had to get him to turn it down so I could hear him.

As we were talking, my wife started to get up from bed, which partially brought me from my dream state into a waking state of consciousness. When I realized it was time to get up, I returned to the dream reality and told my friend that I needed to go and I would talk to him later. I then hung up the dream phone and turned my focus fully on my waking reality.

Just because we “wake up” in the morning does not mean our nighttime dream reality ends. Spiritually, our waking reality is considered the 3rd Dimension (3D). Our dream reality is often considered part of the 4th Dimension (4D), or higher.

There are many definitions of the “spiritual dimensions of reality” (see my article on that ⬇), the one I like best sees them as different states of consciousness.

I think Seth/Jane Roberts is correct when he says that our nightly dream reality continues in its own dimension after we wake up. (See the collection of Seth quotes below on that topic.) We simply changed our focus from the dream dimension/reality to a waking dimension/reality. And there are many other states of consciousness that we experience through our days, nights, and lifetimes.

From our soul/source/higher-self perspective, dreaming, waking, and other realities are all temporary illusions or mirages. But from our ego-self perspective, they are as real as anything can be — and so I behave as such in each of them (see my recent article on that topic ⬇).

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 dreams within dreams. And we can experience them all by shifting our state of awareness (or consciousness, or focus).

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.” — Zhuangzi / Chuangtzu (350 BCE)

I had the dream described above on August 12, 2022. The very end of the dream was like a lucid dream because, at least for a moment, I knew I was in my dream reality, and I knew it was time to leave it and return to my waking reality/dimension.

But it was not like any lucid dream (or any other dream) I have had before. It was just one more way the universe unfolds itself through the 3D linear time I am experiencing.

That dream was also vastly different from another in-between realities (or dimensions) experience that I wrote about in the article bellow ⬇. That other one was more like a déjà vu experience.

We spend a lot more time in-between realities than we know. Knowing and being aware of that liminal in-betweeness opens entirely new opportunities for experiencing the wonders of our existence and universe.

Here are a few Seth/Jane Roberts quotes on dreams related to my experience…

“You construct the dream universe, again, on a subconscious basis. The dream universe is as permanent in its way as the physical universe. You construct dreams whether you wake or you sleep. You are only familiar with your dreams when you sleep, for then your perception and your energy is focused in that direction. I will here repeat an old definition of many sessions back: Consciousness is the direction in which the self looks. In sleep, when the ego is quieted, then the self looks in other directions. In sleep the self becomes conscious of its dreams…” — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Early Sessions, Book 4, session 162 on June 14, 1965

and

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 on August 2, 1965

and

“Your dreams exist constantly beneath consciousness, even in the waking state. The personality is constantly affected by them. It is impossible to deprive a person of dreams even though you deprive him of sleep.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, Dreams and the Projection of Consciousness, session 194 on September 29, 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 on March 30, 1966

Related

• For more on the Spiritual Dimensions of Reality, see this collection of articles:

• Note that the articles in that collection are behind the Medium paywall. For paywall-free access to my articles go to www.AlanLew.com, linked below.

Contact

• I appreciate comments, questions, and typo corrections. - See the About link in my Medium profile for contact information and related articles.
• Written in collaboration with my Energy Group/Higher Self and drawing on others. This is our perspective of the truth and not the whole truth of reality.

My Medium writings are available “paywall free” at www.AlanLew.com:

• follow my Facebook page linked to my Medium writings
• subscribe to My Medium Writings
• become a Medium member to support my writings

Visit and Follow New Earth Consciousness (NEC) for More Articles like this.

• Subscribe New Earth Consciousness NEWS, the occasional newsletter for NEC
• And join our New Earth Consciousness Group on Facebook