This dream features TAG (”The Anti-truth Game”) as “the Main Event” in this dream. TAG features the sum of all the ways mind dreams ‘the dreamers’ filling time ‘defending the fiction they are people’ in this mind generated dream. If it is true right now is the dream mind is dreaming, then there are no people, only dreamers playing the game of TAG in the dream.
As long as mind features you playing the game of TAG in this dream, amnesia and trance insulate you from the fact right now is the dream mind is dreaming, and it features TAG, or how the dreamers in the dream defend the fiction right now is real and not a dream; and that all the dreamers are ‘the people’ they portray in this dream.
As a rule, truth comes into focus for a dreamer in the dream at the rate it does because ‘waking up’ is only an event in the dream. Because right now can only be the dream that it is, waking up has nothing to do with people. There are no people in a dream to do anything, including ‘wake up.’ When you are awake in the dream, you not only know how mind dreamed you playing the game of TAG, but all the dreamers in the dream are transparent: each one displays how it defends the fiction it is a person in this dream. The fiction called “people watching” shifts to “dreamer watching.” What there is to watch is how each dreamer fills time playing the game of TAG.
TAG includes how dreamers defend the fiction they are real people whose self was damaged by ‘terrible events’ in ‘the past.’ The more you wake up in the dream, the more obvious it becomes that a huge percentage of the dreamers occupy “The Victim Parody,” which we can abbreviate as TVP. TVP can only be content in the dream. If there are no people, this being a dream, then there is no one to be any kind of a victim. If your rendition of TAG features you defending the fiction you are a ‘real person’ in this dream whose self was damaged by “terrible events” in a “bad past,” then the last thing you want to remember is that this is how mind dreams you defending “The Master Lie,” that ‘THIS’ is real, and not a dream, and that what makes you a ‘real person’ in this dream is suffering with a self that was damaged by “terrible events” in a “bad past.”
If you prowl around in the interior of “trauma,” sooner or later you discover that if right now is only the dream mind is dreaming, then no one ever suffered from any kind of a trauma. This dream includes “good” and “bad” events as content in this dream. What one dreamer keeps in place as a “terrible,” life ruining event in the dream, another dreamer views as insignificant, and hardly sufficient to damage the self beyond repair. TAG features what the dreamer keeps in place in the dream as ‘the real event’ that damaged the self. The implication is that someone had an okay self prior to ‘the traumatic event’ in the dream, and that ‘the traumatic event’ damaged a perfectly okay self. The truth is, if right now is only a dream, then there never was anyone to have any kind of a self.
No dreamer in this dream can play the game of TAG without a self. TAG includes how a dreamer invents the self it will use in the dream to defend the fiction it is a ‘real person’ outside of the dream, as if that’s possible. If you pay attention to the kind of self a dreamer occupies in this dream to do personhood believably, you know who occupies a positive self and who occupies a negative self, and everything in between. If right now is the dream mind is dreaming, then the dream features how the dreamers invent, assemble and occupy the self they use in the game of TAG to defend “The master Lie,” which is the goal of TAG.
Every dreamer is featured stuck in the fiction it can prove it is a person with the self it invented. A dreamer wakes up in the dream when it realizes it uses the invented self to play the game of TAG in the dream. Consciousness includes this realization, but trance and amnesia work to maintain the fiction the game of TAG is winnable.
Waking up includes the realization that no one can win the game of TAG with an invented self. This is viewed accurately as comedy, or what Wei Wu Wei refers to as “slapstick.” In the awakened state, the dreamer reconnects with the truth it is a dreamer in “The Grand Parody ” mind is dreaming, featured using the invented self to drag out the fiction it can maintain the fiction it is a ‘real person’ with its invented self. Laughter usually accompanies the realization this isn’t possible. A dreamer in a dream is a dreamer in this dream with or without its invented self. The dreamer’s status as a dreamer in this dream is a fixed fact, and using the invented self to prove otherwise is standard practice in this dream. This becomes increasingly obvious the more a dreamer wakes up in the dream.
TAG features the sum of all the ways the dreamers in this dream use the invented self to play the part of a ‘real person’ in the dream, which is what TAG is all about. It’s “The Main Event” in “The Grand Parody” mind is dreaming. There are no people doing anything, so what there is to watch is how any dreamer in TGP uses the invented self to drag out the fiction that’s sufficient to win the game of TAG. Dreamers ‘know,’ upstream of amnesia, that they are engaged in a no win game they insist is winnable. Comedy includes the seeing of this directly, as it unfolds before your eyes in the dream.
The dream mind is dreaming includes everything ‘going on’ over time. There is no part of the dream that isn’t content in this dream, including “traumatic events” in the dream. All ‘trauma’ takes place as content in the dream. There is no trauma outside of the dream because the dream is all there is to ‘go on.’ In theory, a dreamer could view a ‘traumatic event’ as more content in the dream, but this is very rare. The house ‘burned down’ in the dream. The wife ‘ran off with her tennis instructor’ as an event in the dream.
The dreamers referred to as ‘parents’ could be living the life of people whose selves were damaged by trauma early in the dream. This could manifest as ‘damaged people, incapable of knowing how to love anyone,’ including their own children. All of this takes place as content in the dream, and waking up brings the truth of this into consciousness such that it is clear nothing ‘going on’ has anything to do with people.
There is no one, literally, to be not okay. Waking up includes viewing this as wonderful news. Waking up makes it possible to identify how the dream featured you using “traumatic events” in the dream to play the part of a ‘ real person with a self that was damaged by ‘traumatic events’ in the dream. Waking up makes it possible for the dreamer to shift from the fiction right now is real, and not more of the same dream, to the truth everything ‘going on’ is only more content in the dream. The shift is from a person based view of reality, to a dreamer based view of reality. The shift is from defending a fiction as if it is a fact, to the truth that right now is only content in TGP mind is dreaming, and none of it has ever had anything to do with people.
The question is, what is it about a “traumatic event” in the dream that is viewed by the dreamer as ‘traumatic’ for a person? A ‘traumatic event’ in the dream exposes the dreamer to the realization that there is no such thing as control. If right now is only a dream, there is no one to exercise control, literally. The dream features all the ways the dreamers feign control to defend the fiction control exists, and that real people have it. What makes the event ‘traumatic’ for the dreamer is the sudden realization that if control doesn’t exist, then this could be a dream, which means nothing ‘gong on’ involves people.
What is ‘traumatic’ about “the traumatic event” is not the event itself, because it is only an event in the dream, but it can snap open the aperture to truth, kept hidden with amnesia and trance. The dreamer gets a brief, fleeting, snapshot of the truth, that nothing ‘gong on’ involves people. Truth is immediately dismissed as false and the dreamer uses ‘the traumatic event’ to play the part of a ‘real person with ‘a self that was damaged by trauma.’ This false conclusion is used to dismiss truth as false.
The problem for the dreamer is that once it locks into the fiction it has a self that was damaged by ‘trauma,’ it is obligated to fill time engaged in “The Victim Parody” to use suffering as proof for the lie ‘a suffering someone is a real someone.’ The lie the dreamer is a ‘real person’ in this dream depends on filling time playing the part of ’someone whose self was damaged by a traumatic event,’ as if the event was a real event outside of the dream.
TAG starts with how the dreamer uses ‘the damaged self’ to prove truth is false. TAG displays the degree to which each dreamer fills time with the parody it occupies to prove truth is false. In simple terms, reality displays ‘the war the dreamers wage against the fact truth is absolute.’ TAG displays how the dreamers in the dream rely on the fiction ’someone has a damaged self’ to fill time trying to prove truth is relative and not absolute. That captures the essence of TAG: truth is absolute, and almost all the dreamers in this dream use ‘the damaged self’ metaphor to prolong the fiction it is possible to prove truth is false. In a nutshell, this dream features “The War on Truth” as “The Main event” in “The Grand Parody” mind is dreaming.
In the next installment, I will focus on how the dreamer keeps “the traumatic event” in the dream real by playing the part of ‘a damaged, less than okay person, with a damaged self.’ The last thing the dreamer wants to retrieve is the fact there is no one to have any kind of a self, let alone a ‘damaged self.’ Waking up makes it possible for the dreamer to identify how it lives the part of ’someone with a damaged self’ to wage war against truth in the dream.
The dreamers are only at war with truth, and rely on amnesia to obscure this fact to make it look like people are the problem. Irony includes the realization that people can’t be the problem if right now is only a mind generated dream. The question is, how does TAG feature dreamers keeping people in place as ‘the problem’ to obscure the fact all the dreamers are only at war with the fact truth is absolute? Waking up makes it possible to shift from the dreamer’s defense of a people based fiction, back to the truth TAG features how the dreamers use the damaged self metaphor to prolong the fiction it’s possible to prove nothing is content in a dream. That’s the goal of “The Master Lie.”
