Awakening in the Dream

by Ariel Spilsbury

Row Row Row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily, life is but a dream!!

Dreams are not separate from us. Awake or asleep, dreams are mental projections of psychic energy, reflections of our inner landscape, the inner psyche unfolding.

Dreams have no choice but to outpicture the reality our beliefs create. Thoughts create. No exceptions.

Dreams are the impermanent, energetic display of our present energy. Thus everything can be recognized simply as a mental display of our own reflections! As viewed. So appears. This can be looked as a powerful tool or gift to have a clear way to see what is actually going on inside, or it can be seen as problematic and difficult.

The sun cannot be separated from the rays that are experienced directly. So it is with the dream, which is the unobstructed expression of the True Self.

Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.

Form doesn’t exist in a separate way.

The One Dreamer moves through every facet of the appearance of our non-existent (holographic) forms. Forms are not separate from that Dreamer.

We are dreaming each  other up in every moment. As viewed. So appears. We see what we expect to see. Though no one is totally at cause, because reality is acausal, self-arising, non linear, holographic, fractal.. a mutually created holographic dream projection.

“Reality” is everything being dreamed up together in the simultaneous NOW!

You are dreaming up the dream characters in your dream, both waking and sleeping, as aspects of yourself. How is the view from your holodeck?

If I am fragmented. That is all I can see. If I am whole. That is what I can see. Thus incompletions, fear, fragmentation, energy contractions, fractally repeat themselves until we actually see ourselves clearly, why our patterns are outpicturing in a certain way, and make a new choice.

In a sense we are putting “spells”, closed feedback loops, on each other, hypnotic suggestions by the way we see others, the expectations we hold of them.  In quantum physics it is called the Observer Effect.

When we see the nature of dreaming, we realize “I am the whole Universe.”   In that realization you see you are not special, you are “a part of”..there is no separate self to be special or wounded or anything else.

There is no other. In Lakech.   This is not a theory. It is reality.

Realization is simply two things: Emptiness AND Compassion.

In that realization, we recognize that we CAN DREAM THE DREAM DIFFERENTLY!

We are approaching critical mass of dreaming a new dream.

As conscious dreamers, how would YOU dream the dream? What is our collective intention? That is what we are doing here in Malta. Consider it well.

Dream Lenses to Work with Dreams

Excerpted from Dream Tending by Stephen Aizenstat and Dream Gates by Robert Moss        

The quality of your dreams is reflective of the amount of stillness and silence and space you have in your daily life. Dreaming reveals the soul voice.

Dreams live in a multi-dimensional psyche.

Dreams Are Alive. Respond as if you are in relationship to images in a dream.

All Things Are Dreaming. Recognize that everything has consciousness and thus dreams.

Dreams Are Now.  Speak dreams only as if they were happening in the present moment.

Three Processes to Enliven and Engage Dream Images

1) Association (Signs) The Personal.

Look at the image in the context of the immediacy of daily life.

Look at developmental history.

Allow the dream to point to a context in daily life, with a possible similarity in   a) setting   b) characters, c) feeling/mood d) action

How is this similar to my present or recent experience in life?

What are the differences./similarities of the dream characters to my daily life?

2) Amplification:  (Symbols) The Archetypal. The Collective Unconscious.

Look for the most signification and seemingly most insignificant images in the dream for symbolic content.

3) Animation: (Essential Nature) The Dreamtime. The World Unconscious.

To animate the image, answer the questions:

l) Who is visiting now? And 2) What is happening here? (lots of levels) Simplify to the essential nature, the archetypal aspect.

Allow the image to be alive and present . Be in relationship to it. Particularize the details to reveal their essential nature. Allow the image to be a living entity that can change. Since thoughts create reality, that ability to change, offers healing.

(Move away from the critical mind with the “programmed in” analytical questions such as: What does this mean?  Why did this happen? )

Responding to Someone’s Dreams:  If it were my dream…

Accessing the Inner “Healer”

The Body is Dreaming.

Decoding the Body’s Dream:

Dreams will offer both information about the body’s needs  or dysfunctions and often a way to bring balance once again within the same dream image.

Naming:  Getting the essential quality out of the image. Allow the intelligence of the image to be activated.

Ask who is visiting now? What is happening here?

Ask who the healing deity is in your dream. (that can be an image, a symbol, a person)

Offering: What is being asked now by the dream image itself?  What gift or offering is being asked to be enacted in a healing process?  (Often this is a vital, nourishing substance that offers renewal and vitality to the image. It is often suggested within the dream image. )

Ceremony: The hint of a healing ceremony that can heal the image of dysfunction is often proffered within the dream.  The ceremony needs to include repetition, sustained attention.  The form is often indicated within the dream.

Images are very powerful. Changing the image, changes external reality!

Dream Gestation.       Incubation.

Ask a question before going to sleep.

On the first night. How can we support planetary unifying synthesis.

Ask for a lucid dream. When you meet someone in the dream “I am here. Are you?

What do you DO to Honor the dream?

Make something tangible from your dreams, a song, poem, art, dance etc.

Make a dream map or storyboard.

Dialog with one of the dream figures.

Step into one of the images or symbols and tell the dream from that perspective.

Tell the dream like you would be telling a delegation form outer space.

Compact the dream into one sentence, one image, one title, one bumper sticker.