There are little signs all around us pointing to the reality of the reality we live in. We can see it everywhere if we have the time and sensitivity within. The signs that can make us question the reality of this world around us.
Let me put forward subtle signs which can leave you thinking about the real reality. The first topic is Of course the mysterious one that we witness everyday and has made it a part of our lives. Dreams!
Here's the question "What if our lives and the world we live in is all nothing but an advanced version of dream?"
In general, People straight away refuse this possibility. Dreams are something we see when we're asleep. Dreams do not continue like our everyday real life. Dreams are something that our mind makes up when our body relaxes. Dream is disorderly, harmless, random and pure fantasy. How can one even think of stating this reality, in which we live everyday, as a dream?
The above question is definitely valid. But just think, What if the reality we're living in is just a well-structured lengthy dream imposed by a greater mind in which all our individual minds are interconnected?
Understanding the concept? Let me brief it more. Dreams are something built by our minds Dreams are all the things like objects, people, knowledge we know, intuitions, our thoughts and imaginations, put together by our mind when we're going through the dream state. Generally, The dream state is the state in which our physical body and sense organs are taking rest while the mind is awake within the subconscious.
Our mind works freely during the dream state. It takes all the information available from the memory, all the prior mentioned things and adds its own extensions by various permutations and combinations, thereby creating and projecting it as a dream.
Mind rests only during the deep sleep state. It works through sense organs when an individual is awake. Mind becomes external during the wide awake. state. It becomes internal when the individual is asleep.
Back to the concept, While dreaming, we consider everything that is going on around as reality. We get frightened to the core during the nightmares or cry in Joy in the good events of our dreams.
What a great power an individual mind. has!
We go through every incident, every situation and every moment of our dreams as if it were real. Everything feels too real to be false during the dream state. It is only after waking up, we get to know that it was all just a dream.
What if we wake up one fine day from this dream called life? What if the death here means waking up in the higher conscious state? To the people still in this dream world, it may seem like an ending, what if it's not in the higher state of reality?
If an individual commits suicide, it's considered a great sin in many religions. Does that mean, suicide is not a correct way of awakening while there're certain methods through which we can wake up to the higher reality?
The Ancient scriptures written by enlightened people state this world to be unreal, filled with illusion and temporary. Every enlightened person's teachings point to the aforementioned statement. Well, if we study or read or listen to what they say, it definitely to be the case.
In that case, this world is a really well structured dream. This must be being dreamt by the advanced well-developed Higher Mind.
Here lies the answer for the question "Dreams are disorderly or unreal when compared to the reality. How can you compare?" In the dream state, our mind creates temporary and illusory world with people within. We consider them real and alive and express our emotions towards them. We simply live with them like we do in reality. Just like that, the Higher mind must have created every single one of us and everything that is present here.
If you say that dreams are not hazardous or deadly, let me give you an example. We must have had nightmares at one point of time. We go through several horror dreams, action or adventure dreams, thriller or crime dreams in which we might have gotten hurt. We would have cried for getting hurt or for losing our beloved ones while dreaming. It is only after waking up, we would have sighed in great relief after knowing it was all just a dream. Getting the point? While dreaming it feels too real!
Have you ever dreamt of dreaming in a dream? You will be dreaming, then wake up and do certain things, then wake-up again to the reality. You'll be amazed after knowing that you woke up twice just now.
The movies like Hugo and Inception have portrayed this very well. What if we wake up again to that higher reality and live in this world with that awareness? Maybe that's what is called Awakening or getting Enlightenment!?
There's this higher dream state called "Lucid dreaming". Maybe, the enlightened people are lucid dreaming in this reality (real world) of ours.
Maybe once when every one of us wakes up to that higher reality, our higher self wakes up to that higher reality. Maybe, that's the reason why many enlightened persons speaks about how to get enlightenment and tries to guide many others.
Well, that's it for today's brainstorming. Consider it either a theory or some fantasy, or some sci-fi fiction or the advanced Science or the higher knowledge of the evolution. It's up to you to decide...
Therefore, live the short life you've got freely, staying true to your heart, always living in the present. As to the reason behind this is mentioned in the intro of this short story series that I published the other day. Take it light heartedly. Thankyou.
I wonder when I wake up from this dream...
Leaving you intrigued for the day... Take care. Stay home. Stay safe.