I thoroughly enjoy lucid dreaming. I marvel at the capacity that my mind has of creating detailed scenarios that feel nothing but real, and yet they have a twinge of the fantastical to them. I have dreamt of being able to fly through crowded cities, of creating buildings at my will, of walking through memories of my childhood while being aware that it is simply a dream.
Awareness. It seems that the gift of awareness while having such an experience changes everything about it. Only then can one shape the feeling of such experience–the way of interacting with it. When we are simply dreaming it feels more like a movie; one just a character in it, where there is a predetermined outcome and one is simply playing out the part. But with awareness comes control.
This examination of what dreanms feel like made me think about reality. Sometimes reality also feels like a dream, where day in and day out we are playing a part we cannot escape, a script that has already been written, a path from which there is no deviation. But with awareness comes an ability to transform reality, to reshape it, to understand it. After all, what we see as real is not much different from the dream world; everything is sensory input received and processed by the mind. Some experts even suggest that true reality may not be even close to what we experience every single day.
And so the real question exposes itself: what kind of awareness is necessary to reshape our reality?