Am I dreaming all the time, or is there a reality and a dream?

That we build the world with a center located in our body is something really curious.

Everything we perceive is done from the inside out. Not the other way around.

I look in one direction and my mind constructs a scenario.

Does it exist what I think I am looking at?

Imagine if there were no forms and we were just a mind, an idea, that has no form.

Just a mind that imagines.

I'm moving because I'm walking, but I might not be moving and I might be imagining how the stage is sliding, giving the sensation that I'm walking.

In the old video games, this was very simple to understand.

A car did not move, but the buildings did. From the horizon of the screen they were approaching the position of the car.

That everything can be a construction of the mind should not surprise us. When we are dreaming, it happens this way.

And we are not able to understand that we are in a dream and that everything is being created by the mind. When we run, we are not running.

So we are not moving down a street, because that street does not exist.

No, the focus is always the same and, perhaps, what varies is the scenario that I am perceiving each time.

So, when I run to move while dreaming, there is simply a scenery that is varying with each step I take, like in old video games.

And I wonder if I should overlook this.

That is, if during a dream I have a totally believable experience of what it is like to live, such that I am unable to differentiate it from reality, could it be that reality is not what I claim it to be?

Could reality be something like a dream?

Thus, it would be the mind that would generate all that scenario and nothing would really exist.

Like when I dream.

But, unlike the dream, it would be a scenario created by all beings living at the same time.

Like a shared dream. Like an online video game with millions of simultaneous users.

But everything would be an idea that the mind would process, giving the impression that we walk, that we take things, that we have a body that moves and interacts with the scenario we have created.

This idea is fascinating, because if reality were like this, there would be nothing but a mind that is behind the existence.

Hardly anyone will believe this, because it doesn't matter what you say about the mind and the stage.

In the end, I wake up in a bed and have to get up to go make a coffee.

My body aches, I find it hard to take each step and I hear annoying noises.

Can I ignore all that?

Yes, that's true. But if it were a dream, you would have a lot of subjective experiences and you would not doubt that it is real.

That's why we believe that dreams are real.

But if during a dream I believe that the unreal is real, the first thing I should accept is my inability to differentiate what is real from what is not.

And, after recognizing this, the next step would be to give the possibility to a different explanation, but much more coherent with the subjective experiences I have.

Because everything I know about the world is through subjective experiences, with my mind at the center.

So is it possible that Consciousness is creating the Universe?