The Recovery Process

By: Dr. Gregory Tucker

Without amnesia, how would your average dreamer in this dream maintain the fiction it is the person it works so hard to portray? On the other side of amnesia lives “the rest of the story”: namely, good old Mind is dreaming “reality” just the way it shows up as “history.” Amnesia keeps “history” in place as the fate of people over time. This one was a genuine nobody while that one made a huge dent in the course of history. Amnesia serves as the dividing line between the truth about truth, and what the dreamers do to prolong the fiction life is about people. If this is a dream, the burden of proof rests on the shoulders of amnesia. Without it, how could a dreamer use time and tricks to defend the fiction history is all about people?

The whole dream depends on amnesia to keep nothing in place as something. A dream is a dream, but, with the inclusion of amnesia, the dreamers in the dream use amnesia to insist everything is very real. No dreamer can play the part of a victim convincingly without amnesia working faithfully to keep that fantasy in place as real. The dream precludes the existence of anything, other than Mind generated ideation that manages to assume apparent mass and form. Dreamers called “Physicists” already know Quantum Mechanics warehouses what resides upstream of amnesia, but their amnesia is too thick to ‘see’ “The Big Picture” that already exists and will disclose a few morsels over time. Truth is miserly: it gets top honors for being “The Great Tease.” It doles out wisdom the way people feed the pigeons in Central Park.

Amnesia fills the dream with suspense: will this or that dreamer remember nothing it does in the dream, in the name of personhood, will work to revoke the fact it is a dreamer using time and tricks to prolong the fiction it is some kind of a person, and probably a ‘victim’ at that. It is remarkable just how much suffering this impersonation requires to establish itself as an apparent fact. If amnesia could talk, it might say, “since that parody can’t cancel truth, how long do you intend to stand behind it as if it will work?” Fortunately, dreamers have amnesia about their amnesia so most of the good questions never show up on the radar screen of consciousness.

“The Big Picture” clearly establishes the fact that this drama called “reality” would never get off the ground without the inclusion of amnesia. Amnesia makes it possible to pretend we have zero memory about the truth so we can put all our energy into the person we insist we are. Anxiety is one of the many indirect clues that threatens to remind us that we defend our parody as if truth is absent, or even “false.” Amnesia can’t cancel truth because truth is a fixed fact, but it has the remarkable ability to scramble truth to the degree we think everything is what we think it is. Amnesia works diligently to keep parodies in place as undeniable facts, like there is someone in fact to have something wrong with them.

Dreamers who go about their business of being ‘real people’ in this dream count on amnesia to shield them from what leaks through the wall of amnesia as vague suspicions that “there is something fishy about this whole deal.”

Dreamers are amnesia dependent. You can’t play the part of a ‘real person’ convincingly without the aid of amnesia to keep truth out of the mix. Some of the players play hardball and you know who they are the minute you meet them. They occupy a bubble of amnesia that resists the intrusion of any unwanted, new, information that challenges the integrity of who they portray so faithfully. Amnesia allows a dreamer defending the fiction it is a “superior person,” as if there is such a thing, to fill time with this impersonation from start to finish. They occupy time as some kind of walled off entity that knows you don’t know all of the tributaries to the Nile, or the middle name of all the presidents since this fantasy called “democracy” got its start in the dream.

It’s a good thing that you run into dreamers who depend on high levels of amnesia to play hardball. They show up to test your current level of “reactivity.” The more you react to their performance negatively, fearful that “The Best Man” contest exists, and they are way out front, you reveal that you still don’t get it: you are always in the presence of dreamers relying on amnesia to pretend they are the real person they work so hard to portray. There is no one to win any contest, and this fact lives on the other side of amnesia. Once this fact is accessed permanently, let those who play hardball serve as teachers about the folly of our parodies.

The dreamer is ‘awake’ in the dream when it can sit still and watch the play with little or no reactivity, except, perhaps, humor. Thanks to amnesia, are we not surrounded by slapstick? The dream features dreamers relying on time, amnesia and tricks to pull off the fiction we are who we portray. Now I ask you, if this is a dream, how could that be possible?