The dream features the personhood skit each dreamer uses in “The Grand Parody” mind is dreaming to play the part of a ‘real person’ in this dream. The skit the dreamer occupies in this dream showcases how the dreamer relies on the invented self to play the part of a person in this dream. No dreamer can play the part of a ‘real person’ in this dream without the invented self. Waking up in the dream makes it possible to identify the skit you occupy to showcase the self you require to do personhood believably in the dream.
If you watch children closely in this dream, you can identify who is and who isn’t skitless. A dreamer is skitless in this dream when it displays no investment in feigning being a person. It is a dreamer in this dream, not featured yet assembling the skit it will occupy to do personhood believably with the invented self. They are dreamers in this dream, content to be exactly what they are. There is no ‘self consciousness.’ They laugh and sing and play with no preoccupation with portraying being a specific someone.
Those who play high TAG in the dream, watch children with envy. In the extreme they hate them because they are a living reminder that the game of TAG isn’t winnable. No skit, no matter how dramatic and intense has any chance to prove the dreamer is a person. Skitless children remind you that truth is absolute. We see who we are, minus the skit we occupy to sustain the fiction we are ‘real people’ in this dream, and that we count on the invented self to pull off this ruse.
The shift from skitlessness to skit can be discerned, especially if the dream features you ‘waking up.’ The more you wake up, the easier it becomes to watch right now as the dream that it is and can only be. You know there are no people, only dreamers with skits to do personhood believably in this dream. You are aware of the skit you reiterate to drag out the fiction you are some kind of a person in this dream. When you are awake, you are free to watch the dream as the dream mind is dreaming. You are free to discern where the children are with the truth. You are free to watch the skit they are assembling in the dream to play the game of TAG, as if a skit will work to prove a dreamer is ‘the real person’ it impersonates in the dream.
Personhood skits fall somewhere between a positive invented self, and a negative, damaged, less than okay self, and everything in between these two extremes. Since right now is only a dream, the truth is there is no one to have a self, which explains why the dreamers, filling time defending the lie they are people, must devote so much time to the care and maintenance of the invented self. Again, no dreamer in this dream can play the part of a person, convincingly, without the invented self.
As a rule we don’t pay too much attention to dreamers who do personhood with a positive self. Dreamers who do personhood with a ‘damaged self’ dismiss them as unreal. They don’t contribute to the defense of “The Master Lie,” that right now is real and not a mind generated dream; they are viewed as annoying because they retain the spontaneity of skitless children. They don’t add to the fiction life is real because it is awful.
Most skits dreamers occupy in this dream acquire apparent realness because they showcase ‘the damaged self’ as proof right now is real and not a dream. Remember, the goal of TAG, or “The Anti-truth Game,” is to use the invented self to pretend it’s possible to prove truth is false; that nothing is content in the dream mind is dreaming. TAG features the dreamers using the invented self to discredit mind as the dreamer behind the whole dream. In this dream, the invented self is the prop dreamers require to create duality, or the not mind parody. Amnesia works remarkably well to obscure the fact truth is absolute: there is no part of this dream that isn’t being dreamed by mind. When this fact comes into focus, a dreamer in the dream ‘wakes up.’
As a rule, children raised by positive dreamers in the dream, minus the appearance of negative events in the dream, like trauma, will assemble a positive skit to occupy, showcasing the positive self. The remain closer to the truth right now is only a dream, and, therefore, not something to worry about. The flow with events, even some events the rest of the dreamers are ready to treat as ‘catastrophes.’ They display a sense of humor because they remain closer to the truth right now is only a dream. The more a dreamer comes from a positive self, the less the skit features duality.
A positive self is just as made up as a negative self, but a positive self is closer to the truth of no self. The lie a dreamer is a ‘real person’ in this dream depends on a negative, dualistic self. As the TAG level increases, the dreamer’s invented self becomes increasingly dualistic. The skit it occupies showcases ‘ a damaged self trying to survive in a dangerous universe.’ As TAG increases, the skit features ‘the beleaguered self’ trying to cope with endless threats. The negative skit works well to keep the dreamer in place as a ‘real person.’ Waking up brings all of this into focus: the dream is on, featuring dreamers stuck in a reiterated skit, showcasing the invented self to defend “The Master Lie,” that right now is not a mind generated dream.
If right now is the dream mind is dreaming, which is at the heart of the non dual view of reality, then everything can only be content in this dream, including all the ways mind dreams the dreamers filling time with the invented self to do ‘existing believably’ in this dream. If the dream is all there is to ‘go on,’ then the dream includes the dreamers who show up as your ‘parents’; where they are in the dream with the truth, and what kind of a skit they occupy in the dream to defend the fiction the self is proof the dreamers are ‘real people’ in this dream.
Every dreamer in the dream gets ‘the parents’ (dreamers) they get in this dream. Every dreamer gets dreamers called ‘parents’ who display where they are with the truth in the dream. Every dreamer gets ‘parents’ who fill time occupying the skit they reiterate to defend the fiction the self can prove dreamers in this dream are ‘ real people.’ If mind is all there is, then right now is the dream mind is dreaming, displaying where all the dreamers in the dream are with the truth right now is the dream mind is dreaming. If right now is only a mind generated dream, then nothing ‘going on’ involves people; only dreamers featured using the skit they occupy to defend the lie someone with a self can pass for a ‘real person,’ especially if the self they insist they possess is a ‘damaged self.’
In the next installment, I will focus on events in the dream dreamers treat as real to fashion the self they reiterate to do personhood convincingly in the dream. If right now is only a dream, there are no people, only dreamers reiterating the skit they occupy in the dream to maintain the fiction the self is sufficient to prove truth is false. The dream includes ‘trauma’ which dreamers will view accurately as ‘trauma’ in the dream, or run with it to play the part of a ‘damaged person with a damaged self.’ The faster you wake up, the easier it becomes to identify the skit you occupy to defend the lie the self will work to prove this isn’t a dream. The more you can live with the skit you reiterate in this dream, the faster you identify that this is what all the dreamers are doing in this dream. This is what makes this “The Main Event.”
The goal of “The Recovery Process” is to assist a dreamer to reconnect with the truth that right now is a mind generated dream so it can identify the skit it relies on in the dream to do personhood believably. Waking up in the dream features the shift from the skit a dreamer keeps in place as real, with the aid of the invented self, to a state of relative skitlessness. Wei Wu Wei refers to this as “liberation.” Imagine being in this dream no longer filling time using the invented self to drag out the fiction you are the person you portray in this dream, and what this might feel like when you find out there is no you to be not okay. Since no one can defect from the truth they can only be a dreamer in this dream, not even with a skit and a self, everyone is eligible to make the shift from the skit to skitlessness. The dream includes this possibility for all the dreamers in this dream, and the dream features TAG, or all the ways ‘we’ fill time giving truth a hard time. As far as content in a dream goes, it is one dramatic push/pull.
