The Recovery Process

Because our status as a dreamer in this dream is a fixed fact, the option to be some kind of a ‘person’ is zero. The dream displays all the ways ‘the dreamers’ in this dream fill time dragging out the lie they are some kind a person, often, to clinch the deal, a less than okay person, like someone with "low esteem," or a "loser," or someone obviously ruined by a "bad childhood."

None of this is true, and all of it describes how ‘The dreamers’ in this dream fill time. In fact, we can call this "The Main Event" in this dream because it describes how the majority of the dreamers fill time. Once a dreamer assembles what it takes to play the part of some kind of a person in this dream, it is often "good to go" for the duration of its appearance in the dream.

The dream features all the ways ‘the dreamers’ imposter being some kind of a person, and what kind of drama they create to drag out the fiction they are the ‘real person’ they insist they are. "Reality," from the perspective of ‘drama,’ would be nothing, literally, unless ‘the dreamers’ filled time with this parody. Defending the lie a dreamer is some kind of a person is a full time job. Once the dreamer creates its personhood parody, it becomes the software that runs the dreamer’s personhood parody in the dream; and make no mistake about it, the parody includes what dreamers do to defend the lie they are the person they are impostering. The dreamer’s drama not only includes assembling what kind of a person it will imposter in the dream, but what it takes to defend the lie it is the person it is impostering, Time provides the arena for both, and both are what there is to witness in the dream on a daily basis.

The good news is, of course, there is no one to indict for impersonating a person in a dream. If this is a Mind generated dream, as the Buddha and many others suggested, then "reality" has nothing to do with people because there is no one to be one. In a dream? How?

Waking up in the dream includes reconnecting with the truth your status in the dream is a fixed fact: the dream is ‘on,’ as usual, it is what ‘right now’ is, and it features where all ‘the dreamers’ are in the dream with the truth. A few remain flat with the truth they are dreamers in the dream, with no interest in filling time impersonating a person, unless they do it tongue in cheek, while the bulk of the dreamers in this dream show a high level of devotion to defend the fiction they are the person they are impostering in the dream.

If right now is only a dream, so what! Reality, in this light, can only be a Mind generated fantasy featuring, of all things, ‘the dreamers,’ and how they reject or come to grips with the truth. Even a cursory observation of this event in the dream discloses exactly how ‘the dreamers’ fill time dragging out the lie they are the people they are impostering. It should comes as no big surprise that defending a lie as if it is a fact results in suffering. Suffering is central to this dream because most of ‘the dreamers’ in this dream show a profound reluctance to admit they know there are no people, only dreamers in the dream defending the fiction they are ‘the people’ they insist they are.

The defense of this lie is the centerpiece in this dream. No matter where you look, this is what there is to witness. If, as a dreamer, you still have one foot in the lie your personhood parody is the real deal, you will show up defending that parody as if someone’s life is at stake. Who could possibly have ‘a life’ in a dream? The dream features ‘the life’ the dreamer is having in the dream, either giving truth a hard time, or reconnecting with the fact it is much easier to be what you are instead of what you pretend to be.

It is no accident that dreamers live on the cusp of embarrassment because the rule is always staring them in the face: "Under no circumstances can a dreamer in a dream be, or become, a person," no matter how they fill time impostering being one. Because this drama is an event in the dream, in the end, isn’t it a comedy, just like Wei Wu Wei reminds us, ad nausea?

If we can’t be anything but what we are, and we fill time playing the part of some kind of a person, isn’t this the origin of retardation? It’s like telling another dreamer you can throw a ball a country mile, knowing your statement is not only not true, it’s funny.

As a rule, not too many dreamers, defending the fiction they are the person they are impostering, find truth very funny. The dead give-a-way for this fact shows up as endless defensiveness, because, as dreamers, we know at some level that nothing we do in a dream to prove people exist will ever work. We know the war we wage on truth isn’t winnable. We know ‘reality’ features dreamers impostering being some kind of a person, usually featuring a ‘flawed self,’ and yet, most dreamers in this dream show up to defend a fiction as if it is a fact for the duration. How lucky we are that all of this is only content in this Mind generated dream, and that none of it has, had, or will ever have, anything to do with people. There are no people to be ‘the doers’ of a single thing. Don’t we, as dreamers, love to pretend that simple fact is so difficult to ‘get.’

I work with dreamers who show a readiness to reconnect with the truth in this dream, but the road from the lie to the truth can be a long, winding road, even though truth itself, as Mind, is the context for the whole show, from start to finish. Lately, I am one with the truth not too many dreamers can make the shift from the lie to the truth in this dream. There is no one to be held accountable for this outcome: it happens in the dream, as an event, just like everything else, from ‘birth’ to ‘death,’ and everything in between.

This dream doesn’t feature too many dreamers chomping at the bit to shift from the lie to the truth because this is what most dreamers do in this dream. The drama we deliver in this dream is played against the fact nothing we do in the dream can alter our status in the dream. Once a dreamer, always a dreamer, regardless of ‘our’ level of devotion to the lie the game is winnable.

‘Sadness’ (not to mention ’anger’) is often the price we pay for pretending we don’t know ‘we’ lost the game before it began. Every dreamer, because it is one, has the opportunity to wake up in this dream, but the dream features most dreamers playing ‘hard ball’ by defending the fiction impostering being a person in a dream is a winnable hand in this impossible game.

The dream is the context for the whole show ‘the dreamers’ deliver in this dream. Might as well enjoy the show because that’s what exists to ‘go on.’ Pull up a chair, close your mouth and watch Mind deliver the goods, as everything ‘going on’ everywhere, all the time, with no exceptions. In particular, pay attention to ‘the dreamers’ and how they fill time dragging out the lie what they do in the dream will work to prove they are some kind of a person. Sipping a martini might help to deal with the endless incredulity of this drama.

There are days when the drama is so ‘unbelievable,’ a snapshot will catch you with your jaw hanging down around your knee caps. It pays to think, "and then what happened," or, "he did what?" The war on truth isn’t winnable, of course, but it sure fills this fantasy called "reality" with everything it needs to drag out the lie it’s all about ‘people,’ and the struggles they face trying to find "enlightenment," as if there is someone to achieve that goal, or anything else, for that matter.

From my perspective in the dream, nothing is more fun than assisting recalcitrant dreamers to reconnect with truth they pretend to be separate from. If truth is what we are, how can anything, including the use of ‘duality,’ work to prove defection from truth is possible?"

"The War on Truth" is pure slapstick: it is what you are even when you pretend you are not what it is. Indeed, truth is the context for the lies dreamers require to play the part of ‘some kind of a person’ in this dream. There are no people doing anything at all, ever. Truth doesn’t give a rat’s ass if dreamer you surrenders to this fixed fact or not. The odds are excellent that you will do the one or the other, and the statistics favor the odds that you will fill time defending the fiction you are ‘some kind of a person,’ often with ‘grave flaws.’ Most dreamers display a high level of uneasiness about defending this fiction as if it is a fact. Can you blame them?

By: Dr. Gregory Tucker

Since no dreamer can be a person in this dream, regardless of where it is with that fixed fact, it’s only recourse in the dream is to practice its litany of ‘personhood behaviors,’ the ones it wants to hone to deliver a convincing personhood parody consistently over time. The list is huge because almost everything a dreamer does in this dream is ‘effort at the fiction people exist,’ especially the coveted, invented self, the one the dream features ‘the dreamer’ defending to play TAG (“The Anti-truth Game) successfully. Truth is very equalitarian because no dreamer in a dream will ever prove it is a person, which only makes the game of TAG even more challenging. There is no end to what dreamers create in the dream to drag out the fiction their set of tricks will offset truth. It’s only a parody in a dream, so none of it is serious, even though a huge percentage of our antics qualify as “very serious business.”

On a lighter note, as a dreamer, do you practice the smile you will use to portray a really “attractive, good looking person?” Almost all of the dreamers use the mirror to see in advance what kind of a look works best to fool the rest of the dreamers into thinking, “now that is a good looking smile.” All the dreamers watch ‘smiles’ to see whose rendition of a “good looking smile” works best to drag out the fiction a good smile will advance the fiction a real someone exists to have one. Since most of the other dreamers are adept at the art of ‘smiling,’ too, they know a practiced smile when they see it. If you run into a particularly good one, you can always file the one you just saw under “good smiles.” Later on, in front of the mirror, you can practice incorporating what you saw into your own smile. Obviously, there is always room for improvement.

Most dreamers know that the best defense of the invented self is to assemble a huge array of ‘victim behaviors’ that serve to drag out the lie a less than okay self, especially one that suffers regularly, has the legs to fill one ‘lifetime’ with dreamer antics. Once you own the truth this is how you use time, you are set free to identify this is how almost every dreamer uses time, some more, some less; but it is the dominant drama dreamers rely on to drag out the lie ‘a suffering self will qualify as a real self,’ as if there is such a thing. The dreamers all have a date with the fact there is no one to have one, and this provides the inspiration to say, as a basic adjunct to the game of TAG, “well we will see about that.”

In sleep, dreamers often take time off from using time to play the part of a real person in a dream that goes by the funny name of “reality,” but once we wake up in the dream from the dream we were in at night (in the dream), we must come to our senses, literally, and boot up into the memory of the personhood parody we deliver in the dream, day in and day out. This takes place in ‘the early morning’ in the dream, when sleep softened the contours of our personhood parody, and, as we boot up into the imaginary self, the full job description comes back into focus and dictates how we will use this chunk of time to play the part of some kind of a ‘real person.’

The victim drama works best if you boot up into a ‘bad mood’ in order to resuscitate the parameters of your ‘bad attitude’ that goes with the grudge you rely on to play the part of ‘a real offended being.’ Before your feet even hit the floor, you can engage in some preliminary reruns on ‘sarcasm,’ and ‘super know it all,’ or ‘aloof one.’ Whatever floats your dreamer drama in the dream, it requires at least visual practice, almost like looking in the mirror, to watch your performance even before you deliver it. Every morning in the dream is another dress rehearsal for the stand you will take in the dream to advance the impossible fiction that the way you use time will work to dispel truth and defend the fiction someone is doing something real. If you are a card carrying player of the game of TAG, this is the point of the game in this dream, and all ‘the dreamers’ know this and pretend they ‘forgot’ so they can drag out this drama one more time.

Let’s see, who is it you keep in place as “the enemy” so you can play the part of a genuine ‘tragic figure’ who uses time to ‘endure a difficult life?’ Dreamer drama depends on keeping other dreamers in place as ‘the villains’ who not only exist, but, as your story goes, exist to be held responsible for being ‘the ones that damaged me.’ No dreamer can play the part of a victim convincingly in this dream unless it defends its imaginary list of ‘victims and villains.’ Drama depends on a huge collection of lies in order to fill one ‘lifetime’ in this dream.

All dreamers must deal with the same problem, which is “The Dreamers’ Dilemma” in this dream: nothing they do in the dream will ever to work to prove people exist, not even with the use of the invented, less than okay self. No dreamer can deliver a convincing personhood parody without the creation of some kind of a self, and what works to almost pass for the real deal is the portrayal of a ‘long suffering someone’ with a ‘damaged self,’ which resulted in ‘low esteem,’ or a snappy cover up job of ‘superiority,’ or some combination of ‘inferior,’ often masked over with ‘superior’ to escape quick detection.

The dreamers in this dream fill time with the impossible task of using the invented self to drag out the fiction ‘this’ is real, and not content in a dream, and that all the dreamers are ‘the real people’ they work so hard to portray in this dream. There are no people to be held accountable for anything. There goes the justice system, and psychological tests to illuminate our problems, and all people-based assessment, including judgments and predictions and ‘conclusions’ about human behavior. Isn’t the defense of the lie the dreamers are the people they portray the basis for all commerce. It is what ‘industry’ is all about. If it is sold convincingly, using ‘sex’ as the come on (no pun intended), the dreamers will buy anything that enhances the lie something will make them smarter, faster, and more beautiful than the rest of the non-existent people who are all engaged in the game of TAG in this dream. The dream features ‘the dreamers’ all hooked into the game of TAG to defend “The Master Lie,” that nothing is content in a dream and ‘the people’ are ‘the people’ they portray in this dream. There is no one to be held accountable for playing TAG in this dream. The dream is the context for “The Whole Show,” including ‘the need for psychotherapy to resolve people’s problems.’

When does the parody become transparent? Well, perhaps you will catch yourself practicing you smile this week and the act will trigger “The Big Picture” and the epiphany will reveal the truth that the dream is ‘on,’ as usual, right now, featuring where all the dreamers are with that fact. Most don’t even watch when they practice their smile in the mirror for fear they will see that ‘life’ in the dream is one long practice session.

So what did your ‘boot up session’ include this morning in the dream?

By: Dr. Gregory Tucker