Living The Dream Or Living In Reality

We can’t make assumptions about this
as it’s very tricky.
🙂

Living in now, this present moment as it is, is the reality-experience of pure consciousness. It’s nothing mysterious or religious. The senses are wide open, the mind is wide open, consciously aware, but relaxed. It is effortless. You’ve heard the expression, “in the zone” – a mental state of relaxed focused concentration in which one dissociates oneself from distracting or irrelevant aspects of one’s environment. We are open to whatever occurs, and there is no premeditation. 🙂

The moment when we dwell on the past, however, we are in memories. Watching memories is what happens in dreams, so when we dwell or become stuck in past experiences, we live in a dream world of projections on a huge screen that takes up all our space.

When we just go through our routine – even ‘spiritual’ routines – in a routine way, we can also be in a dream state. That is tricky, when we assume we are doing good. 🙂

We see people walking around and talking in their predictable dream state; their mannerisms become a caricature, and we know it’s them from a mile away – and, of course, us to them … and we wave in our dreams. 🙂

When we are aware-awake and consider past experiences,
the screen is smaller, not taking up all of space-mind.

Beware of hypnosis.
Hypnosis: the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. From Greek hupnos ‘sleep’.

Of course, if we don’t notice that we’re in a hypnotic state,
we are in the hypnotic state
… told you it was tricky 🙂

As a practice, fully conjure up a past memory,
and then suddenly drop it!

See the difference.