The Reality of Your Imagination

Let’s talk about the imagination and take a look at how it’s actually far more real than we give it credit for.

Your true nature is Consciousness itself.

Existence or Consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.

-Ramana Maharshi

You are the screen upon which various realities are projected. The thing is, and this is something that people don’t fully realize, all projections are JUST AS REAL in the experiential sense! Paradoxically, they’re all equally FALSE, depending on how you want to look at it for there is a deeper reality that is infinitely more real than “real life.”

Most of us tend to think that when we’re awake in “real life,” that’s “real.” On the other hand, when we’re visualizing in a non-physical plane or dreaming at night in our imaginations, that is somehow “less real” since our physical bodies were not in the experience.

What’s real is actually the Consciousness upon which all illusion is projected.

Consciousness experiences, but is not affected by all forms of illusion that is displayed upon it.

Coming back to a little more down-to-earth way of talking about it, let’s now look at the imagination.

Is My Imagination Really All Just “In My Head?”

What you experience in your imagination you’re ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING. Consciousness is actually experiencing it.

Imagination is experienced as real to the same degree, but merely in a different way, than physical reality is experienced.

This is why fears can make your heart race. This is why when you have a wonderful visualization experience, you feel like you’ve already experienced that reality and then you notice that the desire to actually have it in physical reality may lessen or disappear altogether!

When you close your eyes and visualize yourself at the beach, you’re actually having that experience! You’re actually there! You see, awareness itself (the essence of you) is now aware of the beach. There is no difference, really.

What’s happening in your imagination is actually happening. The experience of it is EQUALLY as real.

We tend to think that if I’m just visualizing something, I’m not actually there because my body is still here. Well the body is not you so what difference does it make?

You are the silent witness, the observer, the awareness. So whatever is being observed is an equally real experience, regardless of if it’s in the imagination or in “real life.” It’s being witnessed just the same.

Is Physical Reality All Just “In My Head?”

Physical reality is just like our imagination. It’s just a dream.

We may think that there is an objective reality outside of us to which we are at the effect of, but really that is a total illusion. Physical reality is a projection of the mind, in exactly the same way dreams and visualizations are simply projections of the mind.

We tend to think there’s a big difference between the dream world in our minds and physical reality. THERE’S NOT!

Your dreams are really experienced and your physical reality is just a dream! They go hand in hand and are really one and the same.

The Differences Between Imagination and Physical Reality

In your imagination, you are in no way bound by time and space.

You can imagine a change and *poof!* It happens instantly. Manifestation is instantaneous. We can travel to “anywhere” in the Universe instantaneously. The limitations of time and space do not exist.

Physical reality is also a projection of the mind in which the same ability to manifest exists, but there is also the apparent existence of time and space, though neither of the two are actually real in any way whatsoever.

The “Laws” of Physical Reality aren’t really Laws

We simply agreed to the “laws” of time and space upon entering physical reality (at birth) as a sort of rule set we will generally follow while playing in this sandbox. The experience of time certainly happens, but time is not real in and of itself. It can be bent. It can be broken.

It’s actually a lot of fun as we begin experiencing the limitations of time becoming a little more… slippery. A 30 minute meditation may feel like 5 minutes. We may drive somewhere and get there wondering how in the world we had enough time to make it there in the first place, even though we didn’t speed or anything. We are beginning to toy with the illusory bounds of time that seem to limit us.

Speaking of instantaneous manifestation (like in our dreams) and transcending the limitations of physical reality, a way you can measure how in alignment you are with your true Self is by noticing how long it takes things to manifest in your reality. Instantaneous manifestation is a very real reality, and a lot of fun to experience!! The “time” it takes something to manifest is related to how much you are resisting which is one of the reasons we talk about surrender and letting go of resistance.

Regarding the limitations of space, people throughout time have reported siddhis such as bilocation, teleportation, and so on. In quantum physics, scientists are learning to how to reproduce these effects via quantum entanglement. For example, teleportation of light has already been achieved. You and I are truly nothing more than light. We are all enLIGHTened.

What we call “real life” is actually much closer to the “dream world” than many of us actually realize.

Both “real life” and “dreams” are simply imaginary mental projections on display on the screen of your Consciousness.

The Self witnesses and experiences all illusory movies equally.