The Dreamer And The Dream Are One

If you want things to change, you have to wake up.

Here are three little stories that tell a tale of dreams.

1. One morning, I woke up and said to myself, "Today is the day I am going to go next door and tell our neighbor to stop letting his dog come into our carport and use it for a toilet."

It was a good idea, except we didn't have a carport, and no dog lived next door.

2. A satellite company sent our information to a credit collection agency, claiming we had not returned their two receivers. This was in spite of the fact we had delivery proof and had been assured that all was okay after calling at least five times (on that issue alone).

They claimed we had taken the card from one of them, so we owed the entire $150.00 for the receiver.

Having experienced these kinds of issues with them the entire time we had their service, my first reaction was anger at the injustice of the accusation and the fact that I had to defend myself against something we had not done.

3. It was just one more thing in our rental home that didn't work right. Turning the knob for the heater in the living room didn't make one bit of difference.

When I turned it up, it didn't get warmer; when I turned it down, it didn't get cooler.

I fiddled with it for weeks and then decided to call the landlord in the morning.

The following day, on the way to the phone to make the call, I walked past the knob and realized that for two weeks I had been fiddling with the wrong knob.

There were two heaters, and the heater and the knob I had been turning was working just fine.

Of course, when I found the correct knob for the other heater, it worked too.

What makes it even sillier is that I had already worked the correct knobs for over a month.

But one day, I forgot there were two.

What do these three stories have in common?

I was dreaming.

In the first story, it is evident that it was just a dream. And as a dream, it is equally apparent that the dreamer—me—and the dream were one.

You may think, “But two of these stories weren't dreams. They happened.”

Yes, they did—but where did they happen?

They happened in the human dream.

Once again, the dreamer and the dream were one.

It was my state of mind and my point of view perception that "created" them.

With the incident with the satellite company, I was already caught up in a belief of injustice—not just about the satellite company but "out there" in the world.

Aren't we all daily bombarded with reports of poverty, mistreatment, wars, crimes, and man's inhumanity to man?

This bombardment enforces the point of view that there is another power than Divine Love, and it's doing a great job of taking over.

This builds a state of mind perception of fear, doubt, and outrage.

These two modes of perception perpetuate each other, and we all know we experience what we believe or perceive.

The story about the knobs illustrates what happens when we live in a state of mind and point of view perception that things don't work as they should.

When we only pay attention to what doesn’t work, we become blind to what does.

Did you notice one more thing these three stories have in common?

In each one, an outside force—a dog, a satellite company, a missing heater knob—made a mess in my life.

• Seen symbolically, the dream about the dog made it clear to me that it was time to say to myself, "Stop allowing negative thoughts to invade my life."

Playing in the dream of human mortal existence is sometimes pleasant. However, when the dream turns bad, we realize it might be time to wake up.

Let's all wake up from the human worldview without waiting for things to turn nasty.

To do so, we must start from the point of view and state of mind perception that there is only one divine power, not two.

To experience the Truth of this statement, we must maintain this perception no matter how real the dream of a separate power appears to be.

Saying 2 plus 2 = 5 doesn't make it real, even if everyone we know keeps telling us it's true.

It will always be true that 2 plus 2 = 4, even if no one but you seems to remember this fact.

A wrong statement or perception does not change the truth about the Truth, and a correct perception does not create the Truth—it reveals it.

The Truth is there is just One power, and it is good.

It's time to wake up and live this Truth.

It has to start somewhere.

It might as well be you and me, and it definitely needs to start now!

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