Lately I have been playing with the mindset that life is a lucid dream. I think this identity and mindset is liberating and makes life more magical.
I have gone in and out of lucidity in the last 15 or so years.
The average person operates from a materialist paradigm.
I find this very disempowering.
Life is not physical, it’s a mental projection.
Seeing myself as the consciousness that invented everything in the universe makes more sense. This is because I’m using my direct experience as the standard for knowing.
It’s hard to learn a second language, but the first language was learned rather easily by me when I was younger. I happen to think from a dreamers perspective that the things I learned as a kid were imagined and invented. Life isn’t objective, it’s a dream that my imagination made up as it went along.
As a kid life felt magical.
Getting older makes reality seem more objective.
We assume that people are conscious and that we share an objective reality.
What if this assumption is wrong?
I decided long ago to question reality.
In my late teens I discovered the law of attraction.
This is a law that your dominant thoughts and fundamental beliefs program your reality.
With objective reality, there’s an idea of other and this limits your ability to create your own reality. Reality doesn’t belong to you in the materialistic paradigm.
In subjective reality, your true identity is the dreamer experiencing the dream. This means that brains and bodies are not conscious. Only consciousness is conscious.
Soon after discovering the law of attraction, I decided to intend outcomes that I wanted. I took this seriously. As an Ottawa Senators fan, I experimented by intending to go into the reality where they had won instead of lost. That 2012 season, they made the playoffs and exceeded expectations. My pregame meditations seemed to help them win from a subjective perspective.
In subjective reality, you are the primary creator. All other creators are in your creation. One consciousness is all there is. Thinking you share this reality with other consciousnesses is a delusion that most people act on. In a dream world, the other dream characters are in on the cover-up. They make it so you believe in others. In fact, there are no others.
You have the whole universe to yourself.
As a God playing the role of one human being, you have fooled yourself into thinking you are a person with a brain that was born and that will die someday. When death of the body occurs, the dream continues, you will still be you. Possibly you will exist on a higher plane of reality. Objective reality is still convincing no matter what dimension you are in. In a lucid dream the characters will still act like the dream is real. It takes a lot of concentration and affirmation to actually see this reality as the same lucid dream.
If other people aren’t real, then why not just be a jerk?
This would be assuming solipsism. I’m not advocating for solipsism. This belief is the idea that only your ego is real. I’m not saying your ego is the only thing that’s real. I’m saying your consciousness is the only thing that is real. Taking subjective reality the wrong way would be denying unity.
Everyone is equally you.
Even though your perspective is seen through an avatar, you would see all the projections as part of you. This includes your avatar or any other avatar. When you harm another, you harm yourself. Everyone is actually you. The whole universe is your body, a part of you. All aspects of the universe are equally you.
The dream gets better the more you treat everyone as a part of you. Being good brings more good back to you. This dream can turn into hell if you act like a devil. Being able to step back and embody a dream mindset is a true test of your character. If you can be loving to others and yourself which are both projections, then you truly have good character. Caring for other people’s suffering even though there’s only one consciousness is truly remarkable. Immaturity would be giving yourself permission to be a devil just because everything is a projection.
What you do to or for others is also towards yourself.
I like the mindset of being in a lucid dream because it’s more fun to enjoy an illusion. Objective reality is too serious and it makes you think of limitation rather than being in God mode.
To embody this mindset it takes time to affirm that your real identity is consciousness. You are so used to thinking objectively that it will take a long time to break that conditioning. Your beliefs create your reality and seeing it as any other way will bring about a lack of power. Your power is only limited by what you can believe.
Subjective reality can mesh with objectivity. You would just be putting objective reality on a relative level of truth that would help you function in the world. You still need to play the illusion according to the rules of the illusion. The illusion is still physical with laws, and you would want those laws in place.
One perspective is like seeing and another like hearing. You need both to be able to function. If you just live from subjectivity without being grounded in objectivity, you would experience some chaos and delusion. The dream perspective is very fun and magical, but you also need to be in line with day to day life.
That dream bus can still run over your dream body if you aren’t careful.
The empowering thing about subjectivity is that you discover more creative power than you had before. You see others who don’t know anything about subjective reality just following an unconscious script. But now you have the ability to see through the matrix. You are the one consciousness, and nothing exists outside of the present moment. The whole universe is imagined. This means 100% responsibility is needed. You are the whole universe, and no part of it is apart from you.
To your success,
Angus