I. At Home in God
2 You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. Is it your decision to do so? You recognize from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep. Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all. You do not think this strange, even though all the laws of what you awaken to were violated while you slept. Is it not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another, without really waking?
Journal
This morning, I lay in bed thinking about my dream. I remembered it clearly, but I did not for a moment become confused about it. It was a dream I had while asleep, and while it sure seemed real, now I am not asleep and I know it wasn’t real. It was kind of interesting to think about but I am not going to suddenly believe it actually happened.
How do I know for sure it wasn’t real? For one thing, it violated all the laws of the world. In it gravity was only a suggestion and easily ignored. I was driving a car and then I was still moving along, but there was no car. I was me, then I was someone else.
Jesus is asking me to consider this: what if I didn’t really wake up at all? What if I just went from one dream to another? I am pretty certain now that this is all that happens. I am dreaming right now as I write in my journal. How do I know I am dreaming even while I tell myself I am awake? My experience of being awake ignores all the laws of Heaven.
In this story I am separate from my brothers; I am not perfectly happy: I suffer and I die. None of this makes sense in Reality, so I must be dreaming. Have you ever experienced lucid dreaming? A lucid dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming.
Several years ago I had a very bad dream, a terrible nightmare. Since then I have had that dream try to replay, but when it does, I either wake myself up or I redirect the dream. I say no, and the dream changes. That is an example of lucid dreaming. I have also had a simple awareness that what is happening is a dream. I have told myself in my dream that I am just dreaming.
This is beginning to happen in my waking dream, that state that I call life. I am dreaming this story of Myron and it is becoming a lucid dream. Not all the time, but sometimes. And if it is happening sometimes, I know that it will begin to happen all the time. I encourage that progression as I practice the Course.
Doing the Lessons this year is extremely helpful. I seem to have shifted into a sharper clarity and the lessons are clearer and more meaningful than ever before. Reading “The End of Death” by Nouk Sanchez has helped a great deal. Now I am also reading “A Course of Love” and that is helping as well. The Holy Spirit is leading me to whatever will help me realize that I am dreaming and it is time to wake up.
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