Matthew85

The analogy of a dream is often used when discussing the nature of reality. During lucid dreams I am amazed as I explore my dream landscapes how my mind is creating it and how similar it is to waking reality with all the seeming solidity and physicalness. My body often appears the same and feels physical with the same senses. I had a lucid dream the other night where I was in a movie theater full of people watching a film. Finding myself amazed at how my mind was constructing all of it. It was indistinguishable from a movie theatre in my waking reality. Lucid dreams can be a helpful tool to give us insight into the nature of consciousness and reality. While there are many similarities between the two realties, there are some distinct differences as well. For those of you who have had awakenings into the nature of reality, what distinctions, if any do you make between waking reality and our nightly dreams? Is your perspective that both are a creation of only your mind?

I keep coming to this awareness during my flotation tank meditations. If true, the implications are profound. The world begins to feel a lot smaller. Also, in what state if any do my friends and family exist when I am not interacting with them? Or the cities and businesses I frequent? Do they still exist in some state when I am not observing them? If any of you have awakened deep enough to observe the process of form being created I would love to hear your perspective.

@amanen I have. It still isn't clear to me. I would say others are having a conscious experience similar to mine. How you are able to to feel they are not is interesting to me and needs further investigation. How do you avoid falling into delusion while pursuing this work?

Yes, but this includes the body, it isn't any more special. @amanen How do you explain that I am a conscious awareness having the experience of being a human living in California? I exist and am having experiences outside of my interactions with you. So if this is the case with me, you have to presume it is the case with every other person you interact with.

@amanen So your perspective is waking reality and everything and everyone you experience and interact with is a creation of your mind?

The experience of being a very limited being existing in an external world is so dominant and convincing. If I am God with infinite power shouldn't it be easier to sustain expanded states of consciousness? I will spend hours meditating to achieve an expanded state that usually only lasts a few hours until the limited self comes back. People take very powerful psychedelics only to achieve a temporary shift in state until the old state locks back into place. Why is that? If I am God, it seems it should be easier to feel and know it.

@Tyler Durden Where are the sounds in your nightly dreams being produced?

@Breakingthewall You have had some deep awakenings. What is your perspective on things existing outside of limited human senses?

I would say to exist is being aware and being perceivable.

I bet. It is profound. I have may deep insights and reach expanded states. I have trouble sustaining them though. The limited mind comes back and doubts creep in. Maybe I am deluding myself or not intercepting it correctly.

Thank you! This helps it make more sense.

In one of Leo's past videos he discuses how God creates endless probes or perspectives to investigate and learn about itself. Maybe his viewpoint has evolved since then, I don't know.

@amanen It may be true. One reason I doubt it though is I don't understand why infinity would limit itself to only what me as Matthew is having direct experience of. Something about this doesn't resonate. This would mean God which is infinite and able to create anything is only experiencing one tiny perspective that is my direct experience. Why would God be limited to a single perspective and direct experience? It could just as easily create endless eyes or perspectives and block their awareness of one another to make the viewpoint unique. This would certainly be a much richer diverse experience.

@amanen So your definition of direct experience is only what our limited human perceptions are perceiving? So if I go and visit a friend and they tell me about their recent vacation and show me pictures. Your perspective is another aspect of mind didn't have that experience? You are saying I am creating all of it including the memories and experiences they share?

@thepixelmonk All limitations are self imposed. I don't see how Karma plays into it unless you mean energies we create to work through.

@thepixelmonk Karma is one of the most distorted and misunderstood subjects in spiritualty.

@Leo Gura Why would I as God imagine people with genetic gifts and make it an impossible achievement for myself?

That isn't always the case. I have been given gifts in the past that I cherished and valued. I don't think struggle is always necessary to appreciate something.

Something in between would be tremendous fun. I don't want to be in God mode. Expanded enough to have mastery over my emotions and state.

Yes, but it's still only a temporary shift. People always revert back.

@amanen I am not talking about being in God mode. Just expanded from the severe limitation. Those states are highly desirable and much preferred.

@Leo Gura If everyone is a sovereign God from their viewpoint. Are we each experiencing our own unique waking reality dream? Is every God in their own created universe and is the appearance of a shared or consensus reality an illusion?

I don't agree. In my most expanded states I had no preference or biases. As God I wanted Matthew to have anything he desired.

@Consilience I dedicated the majority of time to it for years traveling the world. We are already God right now. You shouldn't have to mediate several hours a day for 40 years to realize what you already are.

@Consilience I spent many years doing everything you mentioned and still only achieved temporary shifts. It still doesn't answer the question if I am God, why isn't it easier to feel and know it. It shouldn't be this difficult.