Lucid living

Lucid dreaming is a perfect metaphor, expression, and vehicle for realizing the dreamlike nature of our experience of ourselves and the world around us. Just like we can become lucid in our night dreams, we can wake up in our waking dream and see how we are all collaboratively are dreaming up our world into materialization, a realization which empowers us to cooperatively change the collective dream we are having. When we become lucid in a dream, we realize that who we’ve imagined we are, what is called the dream ego, is not who we actually are, but is merely a model of who we are. To identify with the dream ego is to become bewitched, fixated on and absorbed into a particularized stance which ultimately is illusory in that it has no substantial existence. Entrancing ourselves into imagining we exist in a way in which we simply do not is simultaneously a cause and result of a self-generating, auto hypnotic self constriction in consciousness which, ultimately speaking, we are doing to ourselves. 


When we become lucid in a dream, we don’t control what happens in the dream from any sort of personal agency, but we rather change our relationship to the dream. Stabilizing our lucidity, we are able to fluidly dance and flow with the dream so as to co-create with it, instead of fighting, resisting, damning and cursing it. Aligning with the dream, we become open channels for a more refined order to incarnate itself through us. We are truly instrumental instrumentalists of a greater symphonic orchestra thankfully conducted by someone other than our own ego. Recognizing the nature of our situation and becoming lucid, we recognize that the seemingly externalized dreamscape, the universe we were experiencing as outside of ourselves, is actually a mirrored reflection of our own inner landscape. Our lucidity is instantaneously reflected back by the dream, which shape-shifts in no-time, as the dream is nothing other than a projection of our own mind.