…in forgiving dreams is no one asked to be the victim and the sufferer. These are the happy dreams the miracle exchanges for your own. It does not ask you make another [dream]; only that you see you made the one you would exchange for this.
The miracle establishes you dream a dream, and that its content is not true. This is a crucial step in dealing with illusions. No one is afraid of [dream] when he perceives he made them up. The fear was held in place because he did not see that he was author of the dream, and not a figure in the dream. He gives himself the consequences that he dreams he gave his brother.
This world is full of miracles. They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering, of sin and guilt. They are the dream’s alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream. [Miracles] are the glad effects of taking back the consequence of sickness to its cause. The body is released because the mind acknowledges “this is not done to me, but I am doing this.” And thus the mind is free to make another choice instead. Beginning here, salvation will proceed to change the course of every step in the descent to separation, until all the steps have been retraced, the ladder gone, and all the dreaming of the world undone. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.II.5:6-7;7:1-5;12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we dream at night, it seems as though we have nothing to do with the dream we experience. Yet it is possible to become aware that we are the dreamer and with that awareness, change the dream. This is called lucid dreaming, which can be used as a tool to heal unconscious fears and guilt.
The Course tells us that what we experience in the world when the body is awake is just as much a dream as our nighttime dreams. It also tells us that we can become aware that we are dreaming when we seem to be in a body walking about in a world of other bodies. This lucidity is key to the healing of our mind because it puts us in control of the dream.
Our dreams are no longer frightening when we realize that we can change them because we are in charge. Dreams only seem to happen to us because we have accepted the ego’s image of our identity, which denies our eternal unity with God’s Love.
Fear, Love’s opposite, is always at the core of the ego’s dreams. But we can change our mind about our identity. We can choose to identify with our true Self, God’s Son, Love’s extension. Because we have become so entranced with the ego’s dream, we need a means to step back from it. This is the miracle, given to us when we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision of Love’s innocence. This vision shows us our true Identity. We no longer identify with our body as our identity and remember that we are not the victim of outside forces. We recognize the dream of separation has no effects. We choose the Identity of our true Self as perfect Love, safe in the heart of God.
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