Jul

Consciousness, Identity and Awareness within the sleep state

I had such a weird dream, the content isn’t that weird but when I woke up I was so shocked because I thought the dream was real, I thought It was my real life ..but no, it was a dream, I didn’t understand because the dream contained some elements that are illogical and make it impossible to be my real life. In that dream I’m a movie director, I play making storyboard, writing film script and filming, I was feeling very happy in that dream.

The level of happiness within that dream was greater than the happiness of my waking self.The film I was making in the dream had something to do with dance, but I don’t remember much one of the illogical element is that I was living in the house I used to live 7 years ago, from 1985 to 2001, I lived in that house in a distant part of my city that I no longer go.
I wasn’t conscious enough to notice that I don’t live in the proper house in fact I’m not sure if I was conscious it was quite strange, I think I was conscious I had an observer type of consciousness I was enjoying following myself making a movie.

One of my project is to make small video clips or videocast about the topics discussed on this blog and make them available through the blog and video sharing websites. This strong motivation might certainly have trigger the dream.

I had some awareness that I was working on films however I don’t have the awareness that I was taking any decisions , I was observing myself doing the stuffs and I was happy because I was also the one doing that stuffs however that part of the Self that was doing the decision making wasn’t accessible to me or at least I had no awareness of it.

I had dreams like this where I was conscious and observed and enjoyed the experience, I was not bothered by the illogical elements of those dreams such living in house other than mine, or being friends with people I haven’t heard for ages.

I had dreams where I was conscious and tried without success to influence the content.
I had the traditional lucid dream experiences where I was able to change and influence the content of the dreams.

In the book ‘Seth, Dreams and Projections of Consciousness’ by Jane Roberts there is an interesting discussion about awareness in the dream world:

The nature of reality can be approached only by an investigation of it as it is directly experienced in all levels of awareness:

Reality as it appears under dream conditions, under other conditions of dissaciation and as it appears under waking state. Even studies dealing with the conscious state are supercially, dealing only with ‘upper’ level of egotistical awareness….

All layers of personalities are ‘conscious’. They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other other portions. As a rule, when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbor far better, so your sleeping self seems mysterious indeed. When you are awake, as Ruburt himself has written, you cannot find the dream locations that have been so familiar to you only the night before.

In your sleep, you may have greeted friends who are strangers to you in waking self. But consider the other side of the coin. For when you are asleep, you usually cannot find the street upon which you live your waking hours, and you are asleep you do not know your waking self.

The sleeping self is your identity.

There are connections between these two conditions, and there are definite realities that exist in both states, and these are what you looking for. Only finding these can discover the nature of human personality and the nature of reality in which it operates.

Personally the lines between waking and sleeping reality are getting blurry, I will probably learn more about that in the coming weeks , months and years.

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