UNIVERSE-DREAM UNIVERSE [A MODEL FOR HOW IT ALL MAY BE] DREAMUN1.TXT *********************************************************************** FOR MANY WHO TRULY WANT TO CHANGE, TO GROW, TO BLOSSOM FULLY AS HUMAN AND SPIRITUAL BEINGS, IT IS A HELP TO HAVE A "MODEL" THAT APPEARS TO TO EXPLAIN "HOW IT ALL IS", TO EXPLAIN THAT WHICH CAN NOT BE SHARED IN WORDS FOR THE MIND TO UNDERSTAND. THE MODEL CAN BE USED AS A BELIEF SYSTEM, USED TO ASSIST MANEUVERING IN THE STORMS OF LIFE, IN SETTING GROWTH GOALS, AND IN MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AS LONG AS IT IS CONSTANTLY AND CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT IT IS A "MODEL" NOT ""TRUTH"" (EVEN IF IT MAY ACTUALLY BE TRUTH). FOR ALL BELIEF SYSTEMS, NO MATTER HOW CLOSE TO THE TRUTH, GET IN THE WAY OF GROWING AND BLOSSOMING COMPLETELY, IN THE WAY OF ENLIGHTENMENT. A SPIRITUAL SEEKER OF TRUTH AND WISDOM ""MUST"" BE SCEPTICAL OF ALL BELIEFS, ALL BELIEF SYSTEMS, ALL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM COMING FROM OTHERS OR FROM BOOKS-ESPECIALLY BOOKS OF "SCRIPTURE". WHAT CREATES, MAINTAINS AND DISSOLVES EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, IS BEYOND ALL INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING, BEYOND ALL WORDS, BEYOND ALL EVERYTHING EXCEPT ONE'S DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF IT, WHEN ALL THOUGHTS CEASE, AND THE MIND "DISSOLVES INTO IT" ! BELIEF SYSTEMS, WORDS, SHARINGS OF OTHERS, AND MODELS CAN ASSIST IN YOUR EXPLORING, IN YOUR JOURNEYS, IN YOUR SEARCH, ----BUT---- THEY ALL MUST EVENTUALLY BE ""DROPPED"" IF YOU WISH TO REACH PERMANENT INNER PEACE, HAPPINESS, AND TOTAL WISDOM. THE HIGHEST THINGS THIS ONE CAN SHARE WITH THEE IS; THERE IS SOMETHING TO FIND. YOU CAN FIND IT IF YOU ARE DEVOTED IN YOUR SEARCHING. FINDING IT WILL CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE IT DIRECTLY, REPEATEDLY, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY --BE IT-- ALL THE TIME. YOU WILL BE COMPLETELY HAPPY AND FULL OF BLISS ALL THE TIME. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOW COMES THE MODEL: *********************************************************************** THE DREAM UNIVERSE ****************** EACH AND EVERY NIGHT, ABOUT EVERY 90 MINUTES HUMANS ENTER INTO WHAT IS CALLED THE DREAM STATE. THEY EXPERIENCE A DREAM. THEY CREATE AN ACTUAL UNIVERSE INSIDE THEMSELVES, THE DREAM UNIVERSE. THE LENGTH OF THE DREAM, I.E. THE AMOUNT OF TIME THE DREAM LASTS VARIES. THE FIRST DREAM OF THE NIGHT MAY ONLY LAST A FEW MINUTES. THE LAST DREAM OF THE NIGHT MAY LAST 30 TO 60 MINUTES. SOMETHING MAY CAUSE THE DREAM TO END ABRUPTLY SO THE ABOVE STATED DURATIONS MAY VARY GREATLY. A PERSON MAY BECOME SO FRIGHTENED OR SO EXCITED THAT THEY WAKE UP BEFORE THE DREAM NORMALLY WOULD HAVE ENDED. DURING A DREAM THE PERSON'S BODY MAY HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM OR THE PERSON MAY BE LAYING ON HIS/HER HAND AND THE SENSATION MAY CAUSE THE PERSON TO WAKE UP. PHYSICAL SENSATIONS IN THE BODY MAY CAUSE "THINGS" OR SITUATIONS TO APPEAR IN THE DREAM, SUCH AS SEARCHING FOR A TOILET THE DREAM BECAUSE THE PHYSICAL BODY NEEDS TO PEE. IN THIS CREATED DREAM UNIVERSE THERE ARE A SET OF "LAWS"/"RULES" THAT CONTROL WHAT MAY HAPPEN IN A DREAM UNIVERSE AND HOW IT CAN HAPPEN. THE LAWS OF THE DREAM UNIVERSE THAT IS CREATED ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE LAWS OF THE WAKING UNIVERSE. HOWEVER THERE ARE MANY CORRESPONDENCES. IT THE DREAM UNIVERSE, ONCE YOU BECOME "AWAKE" AND REMAIN IN THE DREAM, YOUR CONSCIOUS THOUGHT CAN CREATE OBJECTS, BEINGS AND SITUATIONS IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE AT WILL. THOUGHTS CREATE IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE ! IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE YOUR THOUGHTS CAN ALSO CREATE IN A SIMILAR WAY. IT IS MORE COMPLICATED IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE AS THERE ARE SEVERAL PARTS OF MOST PEOPLE'S CONSCIOUSNESS THAT ARE NOT READILY AVAILABLE TO AN AVERAGE PERSON. THE TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS INTERNALLY SEGMENTED. WHEN ALL PARTS OF A PERSON'S CONSCIOUSNESS ARE COOPERATING FULLY WITH EACH OTHER, IN SYNCHRONIZATION, A PERSON CAN CREATE HERE WITH THOUGHTS JUST AS HE/SHE CAN CREATE WITH THOUGHTS IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE. THOUGHTS CREATE IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE ! HOW IS THIS UNIVERSE CREATED ? A PART OF A PERSON'S CONSCIOUSNESS, BELOW THE PERSONS "CONSCIOUS AWARENESS" I.E. THEIR "WAKING PERSONALITY", DECIDES WHAT EACH DREAM WILL BE. IT DECIDES ON THE DREAM PLOT, THE DREAM'S CHARACTERS, THE LOCATIONS AND SCENERY THAT WILL BE THE "BACKDROPS" FOR THE DREAM SCENES. THIS IS VERY SIMILAR TO HOW A PLAY WRITE WRITES A PLAY TO BE PERFORMED BY ACTORS ON THE STAGE. THEN THE AFOREMENTIONED MENTIONED PART OF A PERSON CREATES A UNIVERSE OUT OF THE TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS AVAILABLE IN THE PERSON BY FRAGMENTING THAT CONSCIOUSNESS INTO MANY MANY TINY PIECES. EACH "PIECE" OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS THEN TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE. MANY TINY PIECES MAY BECOME THE GRASS GROWING IN A LAWN, A PIECE BECOMES A HOUSE, OTHER PIECES BECOME THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS IN THE HOUSE. OTHER PIECES BECOME THE PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND ANY OTHER BEINGS IN THE DREAM. THE VARIOUS PARTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT BECOME THE CHARACTERS IN THE DREAM ARE CAUSED TO NOT REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE PART OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT CREATED THEM AND SO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE SEPARATE INDIVIDUAL THINGS OR LIVING BEINGS AND LIVING IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE. IN MOST DREAMS A CHARACTER IS USUALLY CREATED THAT LOOKS LIKE AND HAS ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERSON CREATING THE DREAM UNIVERSE. OCCASIONALLY THE DREAMER BECOMES A NON-BODIED OBSERVER IN THE DREAM, INSTEAD OF A FULLY ACTIVE DREAM CHARACTER. NORMALLY WHEN A PERSON IS IN A DREAM UNIVERSE HE/SHE HAS CREATED, ITS SEEMS TO BE TOTALLY "REAL", I.E. AS REAL AS THE PERSONS NORMAL WAKING LIFE. IF YOU ARE HIT BY SOMEONE, IT HURTS, IF YOU ARE CUT IN THE DREAM, YOU BLEED. SINCE THE "LAWS" OF THE CREATED DREAM UNIVERSE ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE LAWS OF THE WAKING UNIVERSE, MANY "STRANGE" THINGS CAN HAPPEN OR APPEAR IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE. YOU IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN FLY, YOU CAN FLY, DOGS CAN BE AS BIG AS A HOUSE, CREATURES AND THINGS THAT DO NOT EXIST OR CAN NOT EXIST IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE, MAY APPEAR IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE AND MOST OF THE TIME THE "DREAMER" I.E. THE DREAM CHARACTER WHO REPRESENTS THE DREAMER, NORMALLY ACCEPTS THESE STRANGE THINGS AS "NORMAL". THE DREAMER BELIEVES HE/SHE IS IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE AND REACTS AND RESPONDS TO THE SITUATIONS THAT ARE OCCURRING AS IF THEY WERE TAKING PLACE IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE. HOWEVER IF THE "DREAMER" BECOMES "LUCID" IN THE DREAM, BECOMES FULLY CONSCIOUS IN THE DREAM AND IS ABLE TO REMAIN "IN THE DREAM", A VERY INTERESTING THING HAPPENS. THE DREAMER REALIZES HIS/HER "REAL NATURE". THE DREAMER BECOMES THE "GOD(DESS)" OF THE DREAM UNIVERSE, FOR THE DREAMER HAS ACTUALLY CREATED THE ENTIRE DREAM UNIVERSE FROM HIS/HER OWN CONSCIOUSNESS. SINCE THE ENTIRE DREAM UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT ARE CREATED OUT OF PARTS OF THE DREAMER'S OVERALL CONSCIOUSNESS, THE DREAMER IS ACTUALLY EVERYTHING IN THE DREAM, IS ACTUALLY EVERYONE IN THE DREAM, THE DREAMER WHO HAS "AWAKENED" KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING IN THE DREAM, KNOWS WHAT EVERYONE IN THE DREAM HAS DONE, IS THINKING AND WILL DO. THE DREAMER CAN "DO MIRACLES", CAN CREATE ANYTHING HE/SHE WANTS TO CREATE, CHANGE THE SCENERY, LOCATION, PLOT AND CHARACTERS OF THE DREAM AT WILL. THE DREAMER CAN READ THE MINDS OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS IN THE DREAM, "READ" THE ENTIRE "HISTORY" OF EACH CHARACTER HE/SHE ENCOUNTERS, HEAL THE SICK, AND EVEN BRING THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE. DOES ANY OF THIS BRING ANYTHING TO MIND ?????????????? IT IS SAID AND RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT ANYTHING YOU LEARN IN A DREAM IS AS VALID FOR YOU AS IF YOU LEARNED IT IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE. IF YOU LOVE TO PLAY THE GUITAR, BUT YOU HAVE LITTLE TIME IN YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE TO PRACTICE WITH THE GUITAR IN THE WAKING UNIVERSE, AND YOU SPEND A COUPLE OF HOURS IN YOUR DREAMS PRACTICING, YOUR WAKING STATE PLAYING IMPROVES AS MUCH AS IF THE PRACTICE HAD OCCURRED IN THE WAKING STATE. IT IS SAID BY SOME THAT MANY "SPIRITUAL PRACTICES" THAT ARE LEARNED IN THE WAKING STATE CAN, UPON DEVELOPMENT OF DREAM AWARENESS, (FULL LUCIDITY WHILE IN THE DREAM STATE) BE USED IN THE DREAM STATE. IN FACT, ONE MAY DEVELOP THESE PRACTICES MORE EASILY AND SPEEDILY WITHIN THE DREAM STATE, IF ONE HAS THE CAPACITY TO BE LUCID IN THE DREAM STATE, AND THAT IF A PERSON APPLIES A PRACTICE WITHIN A DREAM, THE PRACTICE IS NINE TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE. this file is in progress-that means it is not done/complete and some of it may change very much.... ganashyam das