Lucid World

Years ago I had a dream.

I was flying. Effortlessly. First over a small city, then over a wide open landscape. It felt as if gravity had never existed. As if flying was the most natural thing in the world.

I remember thinking, wow, this is amazing, and at the same time I knew: this is a dream.

And then I woke up.

Back in bed. Gravity fully functioning (unfortunately), but very satisfied because of the experience.

Many people experience dreams like this and give them a special meaning. Sometimes even a spiritual status.

They write books about it, teach how to do it, explain what is happening. They say the spirit leaves the body, the soul travels, consciousness moves through other dimensions. Astral worlds, parallel realities, higher planes.

It all sounds mysterious and beautiful, and I understand the fascination.

But A Course in Miracles is not interested in upgrading the dream.

It is interested in waking up from it.

In that flying dream, I was aware…and that knowing did not destroy the experience, it actually made it lighter. I wasn’t afraid to fall or die. I felt safe. Free. I could enjoy it without fear, because nothing was really at stake.

And that brings us to something very interesting.

If the awareness of being inside a dream made me feel so safe, so light, so free…

then why am I not aware here?

Right now, I am inside an experience, (not flying ), I am sitting, typing, choosing words, thinking, correcting, smiling at sentences, feeling inspired.

But i am not truly aware this is also a dream, like ACIM teaches.

So why do I not feel that?

Why does it stay in my head as an idea, instead of landing as a knowing?

Why do I understand it, but not yet recognize it completely?

In the flying dream, the lucidity came naturally. Something in me simply knew: this is not the truth. And because of that knowing, fear didn’t exist. I did not need to control the dream, I did not need to defend myself, I did not need to worry about consequences. I could just be in it. Lightly. Playfully. Without attachment.

Here, in this world, I do the opposite. I take everything seriously. I give meaning, weight, importance, urgency. I protect, I plan, I worry, I defend, I identify. I act as if everything is at stake… as if this is the truth.

And that is the only difference.

Not the scenery or the experience, not even the intensity.

“As if this is the truth…”….. and that thought is only “the BELIEF.”

In the night dream, I knew it was a dream.

In the waking dream, I believe it is real.

And that single belief changes everything.

This is what the Course calls the ego….Simply the thought: this is real.

And once that thought is accepted, fear becomes logical.

Defense becomes necessary.

Guilt makes sense.

Attack seems justified.

Even suffering starts to look reasonable.

Because if this is real, then everything matters too much.

The Course is not asking us to escape the world. It is not asking us to deny what we see. It is gently inviting us to become lucid here.

To walk through this world with the same quiet awareness as in that flying dream. To be inside the experience, but not owned by it. To participate, but not drown. To feel, but not be trapped.

The Holy Spirit does not shout: “Wake up!”

He whispers: Are you sure this is what you are?

And every time you are willing to pause and say, even for a second, maybe this is not the truth, something opens. A tiny crack. A little space. And through that space, awareness enters.

This is the mind training the Course speaks about. Not concentration, not control, but undoing.

Undoing the belief that this defines you. Undoing the belief that this can hurt you. Undoing the belief that this is your home.

This is why the Course says the world was made as an attack on God, and yet can be used as a classroom for love. The content is false, but the purpose can be changed. You do not need to fix the dream. You only need to recognize it.

And that is the miracle.

With love and light,

G.