Blurring the Lines Between The Dream World and Real Life

Category Enlightenment, Love, Universe

♪♫ “Life is but a dream…” ♪♫

You know what? That’s not a metaphor or just some random lyrics in a song… When we talk about physical reality being the “dream state,” that’s actually a quite literal explanation.

Life is becoming such a joy now that my state of being is no longer tied to the circumstances of life and thus at the affect of it. It’s like unconditional joy. It literally does not depend on what happens in the world!

Blurrrrrr

The lines between what we call “real life” and what we call “dreaming” at night have begun to blur for me. There doesn’t seem to be much difference anymore and it’s quite a fascinating and enjoyable experience.

Real life is literally starting to glow with this colorless radiance. It feels much more malleable, as if it’s more like playdough than actually solid substance. Even walking through the aisles at the grocery store, I don’t so much see cream cheese and milk (though I do mentally perceive that too when necessary), but I feel like I’m directly interacting with liquid love. That’s how I’d describe it. (Looking at this experience right now, it feels more like I’m feeling it with my heart than seeing it with my eyes. I guess our hearts can see!)

At night when I dream, my dreams are becoming more lucid. I’ve read about lucid dreaming in the past and tried to learn how to do it, but I wasn’t able to do it at that time. No biggie. Now I’m actually starting to wake up in my dreams and know that I am dreaming while I’m dreaming.

The sense of consciousness that is present while awake in a dream is the very same flavor of consciousness that I taste and delight in when awake in the real world.

It’s all just different experiences happening for/within the same one consciousness.

I love flying in my dreams! For real! When I was at the grocery store last night (in real life), I literally leapt through the air and felt myself soar, free as a bird! It’s THAT fun!

The idea of separation drops away and there’s only the experience of what is, of liquid love. And my God… it’s pure appreciation and silent bliss.

Bashar!

I just listened to this wonderful Bashar talk on youtube and there are a few parts of it in particular I would love to share with you:

First, putting human existence and forgetting our true nature into a larger context and seeing what this realization of our limitedness and unlimitedness is like for others (starting at 1:23):

A lady who is truly letting go and letting herself shine (starting at 3:57):

JOY!

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18 Responses to “Blurring the Lines Between The Dream World and Real Life”

Jean said:

Yeah thanks Bashar has a great sense of humor.
I’ve always wondered why he said that there are so many other civilizations that are interested in what we are doing. Seems something that hasn’t been done so often.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Yeah Jean, hmm, you’re right. Never really thought about that.
Nadia - Happy Lotus said:

Hi Ariel,

When I was 15, I had a near death experience and after that experience, I came to realize and see the connection of every one. I did not understand the impact of what I had experienced until I had to take care of my mom as she dealt with terminal cancer back in 2005 when I was 33. I was with her when she passed away and then I realized so much more. Life is precious and to be alive is such a blessing and gift!

I know what you mean about the joy. I sometimes feel so full of joy and love, I feel that I could explode because my body is too small to contain it all. Your term of “liquid love” is perfect and I am happy you have reached this state of awareness! May more people reach it sooner as opposed to later!

Nadia – Happy Lotuss last blog post..Happy News (March 15, 2009)

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Explode because your body is too small to contain it all… no kidding! I love how you put that, Nadia.
~ Julie said:

Nadia, you take the words right out of my mouth! Ditto on the liquid love comment and the Joy and exploding! Ariel is getting really good at describing the things we experience and have a tricky time relaying to others!

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 12:08 am
descriiiiiibing!
Ryan said:

great post! I’ve found that it’s easiest to have lucid dreams when, paradoxically, you aren’t focused on having lucid dreams but rather on becoming more aware and connected in daily life! as such, I consider lucid dreaming to be the “fruit” of this everyday contemplative attitude.

Ryans last blog post..New lucid dreaming blogs

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Ah, I see dreams are one of your passions, Ryan. I’m very glad to have you here!
Evelyn Lim said:

It must feel great to be sensing liquid love when you see cream cheese and milk. It’s awesome to know someone, like yourself, who is very much in love with life!

Evelyn Lims last blog post..My Personal Creed

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 12:09 am
It’s like Oneness and separateness simultaneously, yet the Oneness completely overshadows the separateness. It’s like comparing the light from a single candle to the light of the sun.
Marko said:

Ariel this is an extraordinary post and state of conscious beingness to be in.

I envy your current state and hope you can sustain it for an indefinite time and continue to share if it lessens or grows or comes and goes etc.

I tend to be of the mindset that this physical world is really a lucid dream and the lucid dreams we have at night are really the foreshadowing er forelighting of what possibilities are available to us here in what we call the waking world of the physical.

I too enjoyed viewing the Bashar material, and look forward to your sharing any tools and spiritual technology that helps you, us and others to create the experience you are describing and growing into.

“It’s like Oneness and separateness simultaneously, yet the Oneness completely overshadows the separateness. It’s like comparing the light from a single candle to the light of the sun.”

WoW!!! what a quote!

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Yes yes, it’s realizing that the ordinary IS extraordinary.

The fact “I am,” the fact that you exist is the greatest gift you could have ever been given. Nothing else compares. It’s marveling at one’s own existence. Consciousness conscious of consciousness.. not a mind perceiving consciousness. BIG DIFFERENCE!

The ordinary is infinitely appreciated because it is all That. There’s nothing special to strive for and no extraordinary spiritual experiences to seek because the ordinary is it.. when you stop labeling, judging, categorizing, understanding, fixing, and all that other ego perception stuff the mind can do.

As for tools, again, NO TOOLS!

It’s more like you just fall into it the way you just fall asleep. Here it comes!! It’s surrender, letting go, allowing, and stopping trying.

It is totally unforced because all forcing and all clinging is exactly what veils the Truth of your being.

Marko Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Ariel, thank you for your response. I do get the appreciation idea of the extraordinary in the ordinary.

I don’t get the no tools thing, and you just fall into it. That is, that we need no tools like meditation, or spiritual reminders to keep us on track of things, in a world where the Big Brother Ad Agency of the Collective Consciousness can weld a powerful influence even unintentional if you are not careful.

This bombardment along with the Global media and entertainment that seduces us is a powerful force. It doesn’t have to be, you don’t have to let it. Even so, I think if you are not vigilant to some degree, it can suck you in, to a greater or lesser degree that can be unhealthy.

Nevertheless if you see just surrendering is the way to go. Well that’s valid in my book. Yet even then, we can have tools to help us get there as well…and in the end, if we realize we never needed tools, well, I’ll be glad to have tools and technology that lead me to that simple realization in a very solid way.

If you are beyond that, well, amen to you brother! I don’t mind the spiritual toys that allow me to grow into a larger awareness.

However, if I’m missing a great point or or something utterly simple, I’m listening, I’m open.

In the mean time, I will still be using my toys of spiritual tools for fun and enlightenment and gladly discard them for other ones when the time is right.

Jumbo blessings.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Use all the tools you want. I’ve used a bunch as well and they helped me accomplish lots of things… except enlightenment.

Thanks to all the doing that I did, I finally found that none of the doing gave me what I was looking for.

If you still believe that a tool can give you what you want, by all means keep plugging away. I wouldn’t want to stop you from doing what you feel is best. We’re all here to live our own lives our way.

That said, if you find that you can’t find the truth no matter how diligently you use any tools, then my suggestion, my invitation, my offering to you is to drop all your tools and see what is ALREADY here when you stop trying to get anywhere other than here.

I know it may seem like there’s nothing special here, that the fact that you exist is really no big deal, but that’s because what’s ACTUALLY here is being covered up by the noise in your mind. Allow the noise to go quiet and look at what’s already here, what always was here, and what doesn’t need a tool to be created.

It’s simple Marko. The mind is a master at overcomplicating things.

When you surrender to what is, you’re free. You’re not controllable by Big Brother, the Collective, or anything else you’re afraid of. It’s when you resist or judge something that you place it there in your reality. Ironically, by allowing things to be there and not pushing against them, then fall away on their own. It’s counter-intuitive to the mind, so find out for yourself whether or not that’s the case.

I can see that you really want to get this which is why you’re still here, but what you are missing is what’s obviously right here because you’re totally stuck in the head Marko.

Marko Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
“I can see that you really want to get this which is why you’re still here, but what you are missing is what’s obviously right here because you’re totally stuck in the head Marko.”

Ha, nothing a little oil can’t help unstuck huh?

If I’m stuck in the head, it’s because many others are too and they say it’s a bad place to be, it isn’t. I’m here to help others get unstuck, including myself.

If one is open and flexible, stuckness is not near the big deal it’s made out to be. Call it a very loose stuckness.

I’m here now and it will be interesting to see what happens. Blessings.

Oh, Sounds like you’re in the “Loving What Is” Space of Byron Katie’s book by the same title, maybe I need to revist that?

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
You’re not stuck because of others and you can’t help others until you help yourself. They’re secondary. YOU are what’s important here. Your journey. Your path. Your awakening. YOU be the change you wish to see in the world.

Don’t bother trying to justify or fix or rationalize stuckness. Seriously. Quit trying so hard…

Byron Katie’s stuff is wonderful and is right in alignment with what is being pointed here.

Who would you be without the thought, “I’m stuck?”

Who would you be without the thought, “There’s something I need to fix or change?”

Who would you be without the thought, “There’s something I need to do other than be right here?”

Jasper Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Quote (Ariel): “The mind is a master at overcomplicating things.”

Yeah, definitely. Even at things like math or chemistry porblems, I often find the mind trying to figure out how to do it, assuming it is somehow “hard” to do.
Then, when I find (or rather being pointed towards)the solution, I always wonder, why the mind made it so complicated to begin with.

I love your dialogues btw, they show me my own mind-stuckness in the form of Marko.
Marko said:

Oh yea, you said “It is totally unforced because all forcing and all clinging is exactly what veils the Truth of your being.”

I like that,I agree!!!