Nice one Dharma, thanks for the fine comments. I’ve just tried to read Jack’s article, but have run out of free reads, so will have to wait ‘til next month.

I think it’s definitely a breakthrough to use the analogy of our dreaming world when getting a handle on this waking life. Our nightly sojourn feels like a most blatant clue, embedded so nicely inside our ‘real’ world.

I have always enjoyed the flatland concept, as a way of approaching these sorts of things : ie imagining being an inhabitant of a ‘lower dimensional’ world and then studying our world from their point of view.

My intuition (or contrary personality) keeps nudging me towards the notion that we have quite a topsy-turvy viewpoint. I would not be surprised to find that our dreaming world turns out to be more ‘fundamental’ than our waking world.

Who is the dreamer and who is the dreamed?

A dream always feels real when you are in it and then fades to nothing when you leave.

To realise you are in a dream, when you are asleep at night, is to create a channel through which your waking consciousness can rush.

In our waking ‘real’ world, it is not enough to say or imagine we are in a dream. Imagination and talk are still the stuff of the dream.

Waking will come as a jolt. A channel will open and some unknown part of ‘ourself’ will rush through to take our place.