Dialogues in Self Discovery

Do you dream?  Remember what it feels like to be in the dream.  And think about what you do when you wake up.  When we dream,  we experience the dream as real.  Although, an ear might be attuned to sounds in the house or nearby, which we will awake to – most of us experience total immersion in our dreams.  It is all very real to us – that dreamsite, if you will – until we wake up.  And when we wake up, we often remember the dream, as a dream.  Sometimes we may even have to remind ourselves that it was a dream – it was so real.  But we do know that the dream is over.  We shake off the feelings of the dream and move on with our waking life.  Last night as I was listening to Deepak Chopra describe the different states of consciousness – the dream state being one of them – I immediately thought about unhappiness.  In our unhappiness, we create a kind of dreamsite, a state of consciousness where we dwell in a reality of our creation.  And when we are in it, it feels so real, as if there were no other way to be.  But when we see that we don’t have to be unhappy – and we wake up – so to speak – we can shake it off and move on.  Because like dreams, unhappiness is self-created.  And that is such good news. Enjoy your waking up!