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