Dreaming

Last night I dreamed of being in the workshop of my old school.    At one point, I was aware that I was constructing the situation out of past experiences.   For a moment, I was watching my dream.    I was  aware, in that moment, that I was making it all up.

I  once heard of such a thing, perhaps a year ago.    Someone described dream yoga, which taught one to manage and construct their dreams.   It springs from the practice of being aware that when we are awake, we are walking through situations that we are actually constructing.   It is possible to take this same awareness into sleep and apply it to dreams.

The awareness we have is shaped by our past experience.  We carry constructs in our mind and these shape our encounters.   Even when awake, we are walking through our own dream.   We have a role in creating our interactions, and it is at that juncture that reality occurs.

I am today wondering if this is what is happening to me, that as I become aware that reality is not what it seems, I am tuned in more to the dream world that I live in.   I understand it better as it actually is.  I am becoming aware that the ‘world’ that I see around me is constructed by me out of my past experiences and my mind.

Perhaps I am realizing that this is all a dream being played out my me, given meaning by my training, by my practice.   It is my reality.   Even while awake, I am part of creating it.   The deeper I enter into the dream, the more I understand it as it is.  And it feels like home.