Dreams and Enlightenment

What do you dream about? In life, at day and at night? What is the nature of our dreams? They are affected by the feelings and moods that we are in, our aspirations, hopes and fears, taking us through familiar places as well as showing us places within ourselves that are unknown to us, sometimes scary, sometimes wonderful but still they come from a place that we have access to, otherwise we would not be able to dream them. A place within ourselves.

When unaware of the fact that we are dreaming we are left at the whims of our subconscious, experiencing what is in there, walking through the rooms of our inner mansion at random. Random in the sense that we are not conscious of the factor deciding the direction we take, experiencing one event after the other seemingly disconnected from each other.

But we can become aware in a dream, we can realise that we are dreaming and we can choose to experience what we want to. To fly, meet a loved one, find out information about a matter we want a clearer perspective on. We can create things out of the blue, and the more we create in our dreams the more aware we get. When we give attention to our dreams we listen to our subconscious, what it tells us and it knows we hear it.

Opening up that dialogue, showing it that we listen, that we care about what our subconscious has to tell us the channel of communication with it becomes stronger.

How do we talk to it then? When we are not aware of our state of dreaming, how can we talk to our subconscious? Well, just having a notepad by your bed, writing down your intention to become aware that you are dreaming after you fall asleep, and write that you will write down everything you remember of your dreams the minute you wake up catches the interest of your subconscious.

All of a sudden it has a playmate. Having been trapped in a room, where its only other inhabitant has been sleeping and completely deaf to the words that it has been yelling to us, all of a sudden it can talk, it has someone to interact with. You might not speak the same language to start with, because neither of you have been able to learn the language of each other. We, speak the language of humans, with words, the world speaks the language of the world, with symbols and interaction. But it is easy to start speaking the same langue, take a language course, get a dictionary… a dream dictionary of course.

Writing notes and putting them in spots where you go when you are awake that implore you to stop and ask yourself whether you are awake or asleep also helps. You start recognising what it is that defines your waking state, and all of a sudden you take this behaviour with you into your dreams and realise that something is different, and that you are in fact sleeping. Fine-tuning your sensitivity to different types of realities.

Once you have done this for some time, you will find that when in the awake state, you stop and ask yourself if you are dreaming or not, you are not so certain of the fact that this is not a dream any longer. Once you have started to really look into the essence of the dreamlike world, comparing it to the essence of the so-called awake world, you start seeing similarities and you will find it increasingly difficult to assert yourself that you are actually awake.

This realisation, or habituation of being able to wake up to a greater reality in a certain state all of a sudden starts seeping through the different layers of your being, and you can awaken yourself in the awake state, just as you started doing in the dreaming state. In the dream world you don’t let your thoughts of what you think you are hold your subconscious back, the full being that you are is allowed to move and melt with the observer. You are what you observe and you start realising that more the more you become lucid in your dreams. You are allowed to let your full creative potential play out in front of you and inside of you, moulding the very essence that makes up that world into what every you desire.

This other half of you, your subconscious, is with you when you are awake. What people call random encounters, synchronistic events, omen and signs can all be read the same way you read symbols in your dreams, and the more you listen to them the louder they speak, and the more you allow your subconscious, the soul aspect of you, the aspect that contains the world and holds the form of the body of the observer that you are, speak to you the more access you have to all that information that is within yourself and within the world.

And yes, it is scary, it is frightening to realise that you are walking around in this huge being. It is frightening that what you once believed to be floor, asphalt, concrete and grass under your feet is actually the skin of a being that sees your every move and makes sure you have somewhere to put your feet down as you tread the path of your life on your way to realise that you are what you are, experience and all that you see.

And it is even more scary to realise that you are part of the consciousness of this being. That you can use its arms, just as it can see itself through your eyes. One is thought, understanding and observation, the other is the world, surface of creation and the mirror of your thoughts. Lend it an eye and it will lend you an arm. Let it see itself through your thoughts, let it into your body and it lets you into its body. It calls on you to see it for what it is, like a princess stuck in the tower of stone and earth your soul is stuck on the other side of the veil of creation, the tower of illusion. Kill the dragon of ignorance with the piercing ray of awake wisdom and attention, release your soul from the prison of the material and melt into one, so that the Kingdom becomes yours.

King and Queen over Heaven and Earth, realising that they are One, becoming the One who in joy over re-unitng with its other half roars throughout all of creation supported by the mouths of the millions a loud sounding “Finally I AM again”!

Brother Sol dreams of Sister Luna dreaming of him… who dreams who, how do we get to the same side of the coin?

Sister Luna, I am your world and you are mine, if I only knew how to, I would move to thine. Now it seems I cannot be sustained without your thoughts of me, and there is no you to think of me if I leave this world be, but truly I cannot see any other way to live on if I cannot melt with thee

Goddess of the night, come with all your might, possess me, I surrender without a fight. I give an eye for an eye and a hand for a hand, so that with one foot in your world I can finally stand.