Why is the waking world more permanent than the sleeping world?
- Alberto Terrer
- Aug 28, 2023
- 2 min read
When I wake up from a dream, the world continues as it was before I fell asleep.
Why, when I sleep, do I inhabit different worlds each time and cannot continue a dream where I left off?
The permanence of what we call reality is why we believe that a dream is not real.
That is, every time we sleep, we inhabit universes we have created.
But we call it unreal.
And when we wake up, that which we perceive, we call reality.
Reality is what we perceive.
The only difference between the dream state and the waking state is permanence.
What is the reason for this permanence?
Basically, I think it is due to this fact:
It is a shared, synchronized scenario.
Imagine an old video game.
One of those that did not connect online.
When you turned on the game console, the game appeared.
When you turned off, the game ended and, when you started, that universe began again.
But the game universe ceased to exist while the game console was turned off.
However, with online video games, when you turn off your game, hundreds of thousands of other players continue their games.
So, when you log on again, it won't start from scratch for you. You will join the Universe, just as if you had gone to sleep.
In the Universe we call Reality, there is an almost uncountable infinity of Identities perceiving simultaneously and synchronously.
They are the online players of the same game.
Therefore, when I sleep, in that Universe that only I perceive, the game ends when I wake up, or when I change my sleep.
So, is there any difference between both states of Consciousness?
Of course, there is.
The difference is that the Consciousness has fragmented into each Identity that it perceives in the awake state.
And the Presence, the Self-perception, desires to defragment itself in order to restore itself again.
And, as long as the dream remains of more than one perceiver, it will never end.
In other words, Consciousness wishes to awaken.
But to do so, all Identities must awaken.
And, in order to awaken, all Identities must want to awaken.
And to want to awaken, they must know that they are sleeping and that they can, and know how to awaken.
If we were all human, we could do something.
Perhaps, a collective agreement.
But how do you explain this to a bacterium and a fungus?
An infinite number of beings of different species waking up at the same time by voluntary decision? Can you imagine something like that?
The Consciousness must defragment to become again a single being, the Supreme Being.
And, at last, this single being will be able to make the unique and voluntary decision to awaken.
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