Could this reality be a dream?

That was a dream.' God smiled and said,

"A dream that seemed to be true.

There were no people, living or dead,

there was no earth, and no sky o'er head:

there was only Myself - in you."

(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

In night time dreams, we may come across age-old mountains, oceans, stars, and planets. There often are people and animals, cities and forests. Experiencing days or even years passing by. To the dreamer, in the moment, it all feels very real.

The dreamer may encounter danger and the accompanying fear can be so intense that it jolts the dreamer awake. Upon awakening, fear disappears, dismissed as a silly dream that it is.

Where was the time, the space, and the objects that filled it? One would say inside the dreaming mind. But how is it possible to be present inside that same mind that is in it.

This dream experience clearly shows how apparently solid realities such as the world of objects, space, and time could well be illusory, having no substance of reality.

Let us consider the possibility that the Self (the Christ Mind, an extension of Creator) imagines or dreams up this world in a similar way. Like the dreamer appearing in his own dream, or we might say that the Mind imagines appearing as many, experiencing a life in a world where everything is separated.

The substance of this imagined "reality' is Pure Awareness - the stuff that dreams are made of. In this reality/dream the mind appears and superimposes on this undivided whole the illusion of separate objects and events by creating boundaries in a reality with space and time.

In this universal dream, just as in the dreams we have at night, there is the illusion of places, distances, awareness of self and others, which creates the relative experiences of an unreality of space and time. The dream and the dreamer are one-and-the same Self-aware reality.

"...there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it - from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time."

(The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot)

It is simply One, expressing and manifesting itself as an intricate illusion of a multifaceted dance of creation. To become aware that we are collectively the Christ Mind is to remember what was never really forgotten, just hidden, buried in life's collection of emotional rubbish.

Much like the poor man in the children's story who suddenly finds out that his father is, in fact, the king. A re-membering called Self-realization or enlightenment, clarity, or the final understanding, eventually comes about. They all point to the same truth of what you really are, the Christ Mind, the one Son of God.

Divinity is our true reality, innate essence, true home, and birthright a treasure seeming forgotten. Once this treasure is re-cognized or dis-covered, you know your true self (Self) to be divine, immortal, eternal and beyond time and space.

A homecoming after an awesome journey in fantasyland, a return to the place we never really left. Filled with mysterious concepts and relationships, simply moving from one dream into another dream.