Dream on

Dreams. We have them. They are ephemeral, not solid, therefore we call them fiction. They are not real life. Or are they? Not real physical life anyway, where we wake up every morning, like Goundhog Day, slogging it out over and over until we get it right, or until we die. In our physical life, we have dreams of a better physical life. "Living the dream" and all. In this way we put dreams on a bit of a pedestal. Because we can imagine any reality we want, we make them better than, greater than, that which is physically happening. Some of us live for the dream. It motivates us, inspires us, keeps us going in hopes of a better life.

And then there are dreams when we sleep. How is it that these astral creations have the same name as the aspirations of our desires? These dreams that "happen" when we are "asleep." These dreams that can be nightmares. I don't want to get into the nightmares right now. I just want to talk about one of my favotlrite subjects- consciousness. 

It is proven that rest is one of the best healers. When we go to sleep, we rest. We go unconscious. We may or may not remember our dreams. We may or may not know we are dreaming when we dream. We are asleep. When we start to wake up to dreaming, and we become conscious in and of our dream state- then what? Will we be able to rest? To sleep? No. We will be awake. Awake 24/7. Conscious all day, every day. And isn't that what waking up is? Being conscious? Super conscious? Isn't it's what we want for ourselves? 

So why do we resist waking up? You know we do. We create excuses to go unconscious. To not do yoga. To not meditate. To keep making Matter matter more than anything because it's the Real Thing baby! Maybe because part of us needs a break from our Matter, our dual world of right and wrong/good and bad, and if we are awake all the time we won't get a break from ourselves. 

Something to think about. 

The answer? First of all, I suggest lightening up and taking the pressure off. Get some space. Then start to make things less black and white, good/bad. Blur the edges by seeing a bigger picture. Walk a mile in someone else's moccasins. Then we won't resist and fear our own awakening. We will also be more accepting of what is, and we won't feel like failures when our dreams and physical reality don't converge. 

And in the meantime, get some rest.