Waking Up While Awake: Lucid Dreaming and the Illusion of Separation

Waking up is like lucid dreaming.

What do I mean by that? Well, you know lucid dreaming. That's when your dreamed character is wandering through a dream and then realizes, I'm actually in a dream.

Well, waking up while you're awake is like that, Waking up while you're awake is like realizing, I've been wandering around in delusion.

What is the nature of that dreamy-like delusion? The delusion is that I am somehow separate from all of this. That I am somehow over here and that is over there and there's no connection. There's a boundary between this here and that over there and my person and your person.

That's illusory.

Everything we know from the deep spiritual traditions and from 21st century physics says that's nonsense. There is no boundary between you and anything else and anybody else.

So, waking up is like that realization that, “I'm dreaming.”

When you wake up, there's a whole new set of capacities that are available to you, just like when the dreamed character realizes that he or she is actually a dreamed character within a dream. When we wake up in this reality, all of a sudden we have a freedom and a peace that's unavailable to us when we think that we're separate from all of this.

So wake up from the dream to the fundamental reality that we are, that we are all of this. We are not separate from the one being.

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