Day 101
If I find myself in Heaven one day, needing to explain life to any souls who have not yet traveled to Earth as human beings, one of the highlights of my trip here will be my dream world.
"And then, each night as you go to sleep," I'd tell them, "Your conscious self disappears, and a whole different dream dimension begins revealing itself to you."
The kinds of dreams I've had in my life so far have been all over the map as far as topic and ability. In some dreams, I'm just experiencing repeat performances of old parts of my life, new takes on people and places I haven't seen in years. In other dreams, I'm part of a world of possibility I've never come close to experiencing here on Earth, in ordinary reality.
In some of my most memorable dreams, I've met the pope, fought the devil, hung out with deceased relatives and friends, saved the baby Jesus from a burning church, met celebrities, and even once watched the pope get married in an underwater stadium.
There's no way for me to map out all of the many dreams I've had in my life, but I do write them down whenever I can. And the most powerful dreams (some of which I've just mentioned) have all stayed with me in amazing clarity and understanding over the years. And it's the powerful teaching dreams that have always been the most vivid when I wake up, and the ones I've never forgotten.
I wish I understood this dream dimension better than I do, but I think what strikes me as the most amazing fact of it is, we cannot go to this amazing place where incredible things happen to us unless we are first consciously putting our conscious self to sleep. In other words, we cannot have our eyes opened until we shut them, and go into a place of peace. We cannot discover new lands until we forget about the lands around us. And we cannot truly see with dream-dimension eyes until we close these human eyes, and believe in the kind of seeing that never happens through our face.
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