If right now is what Mind is dreaming, then right now can only be what the truth is. So what is dreamer you doing in the dream these days? Even a cursory observation of dreamer behavior in the dream reveals that we are all working as a vast team to contribute to the defense of “The Master Lie,” that this is not a dream and we are ‘the real people’ we insist we are.

Mind loves parody, and this parody is the winner. It is “The Main Event” in this dream. Wherever you look, what there is to watch is just how hard the dreamers work to defend the fiction they will prove they are ‘real people,’ with an invented self, no less, and a negative one to create ‘the suffering’ we require to bring authenticity to the charade.

If you are looking for humor, consider that the dreamers enjoy the fiction that suffering will clinch the parody because a life that hurts must be a real life, right? In this dream, the defense of the lie the self is real takes precedence over everything, including the humor that goes with knowing the dream is the context for the whole extravaganza. It isn’t easy for a dreamer to defend the fiction the invented self will work to cancel the fact the dream is the context for this parody. Dreamers must be “self-centered” if they use time almost exclusively to defend a fiction as if it is a fact. There is nothing funny, apparently, about the fact nothing going on has ever had anything to do with people. Isn’t this sufficient to qualify as the wellspring for humor?

Dreamers usually assemble a less than okay self as the one they will use in the dream to give truth a run for the money. Our motto is, “a suffering self is a real self.” If right now is a dream, then it follows that only the dreamers in the dream suffer from defending the fiction a less than okay self will work to win the game.

People have no place in the whole equation. Wei Wu Wei said this a million times, and dreamers are more than inclined to think dreamer Wei was engaged in a funny spoof. He was in the dream telling the rest of us the truth, and amnesia comes to the rescue to pretend he was sharing a metaphor. He was telling the truth about the architecture of this dream, and, understandably, dreamers think he is kidding around, or avoid him like the plague. How can you blame them? Our job in the dream is to use the invented self to drag out the fiction people exist. Reality is the arena for the metaphor dreamers are ‘real people.’

Once you get a toe hold on the truth right now is the dream Mind is dreaming, you are in a position, as a dreamer, to watch the way you use the self you invented to play the part of some kind of a specific person. Once you penetrate the fog bank of amnesia, you will uncover the full panoply of your own parody in this dream. There is no one to suffer from the truth there is no one to suffer. In this dream, history displays the record of suffering dreamers cooked up to delay their date with the fact the dream is the context for “The Whole Show.” Isn’t it brilliant that Mind is dreaming a dream in which every dreamer, in potential, can reconnect with the truth of the drama it delivers in this dream to drag out the fiction that life is all about people? Because our status in the dream as dreamers in the dream is a fixed fact, the personhood parody we deliver in the dream is always transparent. It is right there in your face for you to witness. After all, all dreamers share the same secret: nothing they do in the dream can revoke the fact that is what ‘this’ is.

If, as a dreamer, you abuse food to play the part of a less than okay, “fat person,” take heart: millions of dreamers use food as the imaginary person’s nemesis. Does the dreamer suffer from the struggle with food, or does the dreamer suffer from the lie food will work to prove the invented self is a real, albeit “fat” self?

If, as a dreamer, you fashioned an ‘angry self’ who relies on ‘grudge’ to prove the self you invented endured a ‘terrible childhood,’ take heart: this parody, above all else, works best to drag out the fiction the dreamer is ‘the real,’ not okay, person it insists it is. Think of how the parody called ‘grudge’ brings drama, including ‘revenge,’ and ‘retribution’ into the fray. What could be more real than dreamers playing the part of ‘angry people?’ This is the stuff ‘wars’ are made of, both small and big. Who is the ‘enemy’ if the dream is the context for this parody? The invented self prolongs its dualistic isolation by finding something ‘real’ to be against; a wife, a child, a nation, or its own ‘self,’ if all else fails. If this is a dream, this is dreamer -inspired drama, and it works, sort of, to make nothing look just like something.

If, as a dreamer, you rely on alcohol as the vehicle to document that the self you insist you have is flawed by its craving for booze, take heart: this is only one more, very popular, docudrama dreamers depend on to drag out the fiction the self is real, and a ‘tragic’ one at that.

We all possess the good fortune that our status as dreamers is a fixed fact. We can never be anything but Mind generated dreamers using time and trick to play the part of ‘real people’ in this dream. Nothing ‘going on’ is about anyone because there isn’t anyone to be anybody, including ‘upset’ about this fact. As dreamers, don’t we love to defend the delusion that a fictitious self could suffer a setback? There is no end to our proclivity to defend “The Master Lie,” that nothing is content in a dream, and we are ‘the real people’ we insist we are. What’s at risk is the truth -- nothing a dreamer does has any chance to prove someone has a self. It’s only a parody in a dream. Get real!

Every dreamer deserves compassion because they work so hard to defend the delusion a dreamer could morph into a person in a dream, and that’s not included in what ‘the truth’ is all about. And by the way, there is no you to apologize for defending the fiction what you do will work to prove the self you invented belongs to a ‘person.’ How could a self that is content in a dream have a genuine reference point?

It looks like dreamers enjoy giving truth a hard time by defending the invented self as if it belongs to a ‘real person.’ How many dreamers are even on the cusp of owning that chunk of truth? They are “out there” in the dream, but they remain silent to avoid making truth okay. We wonder how we would use time if we didn’t use it to play this remarkable game called TAG (“The Anti-truth Game”). Damn truth! Nothing we do in the dream will work to make it false, or not true. Truth has no place to go: why it even features ‘the dreamers’ filling time with the fiction the invented self will turn the tide and we will emerge triumphant from the battle. Lot’s of luck!

By: Dr. Gregory Tucker