An experience where, suddenly, you become aware that you are dreaming while still inside the dream?
What did you do with such awareness? Such power? …What would you do with such power and awareness?
…Who’s to say this isn’t a dream right now?
Are we ever not dreaming?
I’m not so sure…
Think about the dreams of your life. The ones you’ve made come true… and the ones you’re working hard to realize in the future.
Think about how your awareness has shifted as your dreams shifted. From dreaming of toys, to tech, to cars, to homes… From dreaming of careers at 6 years old, then 12 years old, then 18 years old, then 28 years old… From dreaming of friends, to girl/boy friends, to spouses, to becoming grandparents… what you’ve dreamt in your mind shaped how you acted in the lucid dream of your reality.
Think now about the power you have at your disposal. To know you’re inside of a lucid dream and you’ve just become aware. Are you gonna spend that time worrying anxiously about whatever you were worrying anxiously about before? Are you going to waste your power sitting powerlessly in front of screens? Are you going to let nightmare-ish surrounding events stop you from living as a hero (if not at the very least to a select few)?
I’m not so sure the magic of consciousness is much different than the magic of dreams. And if we started leaning into that magic a little more… and really utilized the power that comes from that awareness… maybe we’d start living a reality that felt more like a lucid dream.