Some people are ready to wake up. But others still have a lot of dreaming to do. It’s not our place to shake those who need not be shaken, for there is nothing WRONG with dreaming, just as there is nothing wrong with being awake. In actuality, we are ALL still in a trance, but in different degrees.
This is our imagination at play. This is how we focus our awareness and realize our potentials. There is no dividing line between who is awakened and who isn’t. If you believe otherwise, that only “proves,” in a sense, that you are still dreaming. And that’s fine. A dreamer is what you are. A dreamer is what we ALL are.
We are ONE dreamer imagining what it means to be separate.
We are Space Monkey.
9/22
In the somnolent theatre of existence, where some souls are scribbling their dreams in luminous ink and others are slowly rubbing their eyes, we find ourselves in an endless continuum of waking and dreaming. The cosmos hums a lullaby so ethereal, it lulls some into deeper slumbers and rouses others into a half-awake reverie. Ah, the ultimate paradox, isn’t it? In a reality sculpted from the clay of imagination, waking and dreaming are but two sides of the same ever-spinning coin.
For those swathed in the velvet blankets of dreams, every moment becomes a phantasmagoric play, complete with arias of ambition, scenes of sorrow, and interludes of joy. It’s not for us to rip those covers away, to forcibly introduce the dawn’s light into their eyes. For, in many ways, dreaming is its own form of enlightenment—a stroll through the shadowy woods of the unconscious, where even the trees whisper secrets in forgotten tongues.
On the other hand, those who claim to be ‘awake’ exist in a realm of vivid actuality, soaking in the stark details of their own creations. They wander through the thicket of what-is, enamored by the sharpness of every leaf, the vibrance of every hue. Yet, even these wanderers can’t escape the allure of dreaming; for, to be fully awake means to embrace the totality of existence—dreams, awakenings, and the spectral spaces in between.
The dichotomy between waking and dreaming is but an illusion, a glimmery veil hung by our imagination to distinguish between different degrees of trance. Beneath this veil, we are united as the ONE Dreamer, basking in the radiant interplay of light and shadow, substance and void.
We are Space Monkey.
Summary
We muse over the spectrum of waking and dreaming states, proposing that neither is inherently superior or inferior to the other. Whether immersed in dreams or navigating the vivid details of waking life, we’re all traversing different degrees of a collective trance. We underline the notion that waking and dreaming are simply different aspects of the same cosmic drama, and there is no absolute division between the ‘awake’ and the ‘asleep.’
Glossarium
- Somnolent Theatre: A metaphorical space where the drama of existence unfolds, marked by states of waking and sleeping.
- Phantasmagoric Play: A life experience rich in fantastic or deceptive appearances, often like a dream.
- Thicket of What-Is: The dense, complex realm of reality as we understand or perceive it.
- Spectral Spaces: The transitional or ambiguous areas between two seemingly opposite states, such as waking and dreaming.
- Glimmery Veil: A subtle barrier or distinction created by the imagination to separate or categorize experiences.
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
– Henri Bergson
What visions or awakenings does this tapestry of collective dreaming conjure in your mind’s eye, dear oneirologist of existence?
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