Six Billion Dreams

The dream of reality is shared. No one dreams alone.

Minds are not part of the dream, but it's there that we will meet when we awake together.

You support me in my illusions, as I support you in yours. Is death a part of your dream? Together we keep the dream alive.

Although the forms we experience are exclusive to each, it is the underlying currents the forms ride upon that we all share.

In my dream a loved one dies, while in yours, sickness impoverishes a body. Yet suffering attends both. You will support the ‘reality’ of my suffering, because I support yours. Dreams seem different, yet, they have always been the same. They are interdependent, contrasting illusions of sickness and health, war and peace, love and hate.

Six billion dreamers support each others dream by dreaming up a 'world' all their own.

You are the dreamer of your dream, as I am center of mine. We seem to be apart in the dream, but are co-conspirators in cause and effect. An illusion of wealth contrasts with poverty, while our fears and joys seem to compete in our collaborative collusion. I support your illusions, as you support mine and together we make it “real.” Always together as one (dreaming we are apart).

The moment either of us chooses to end the dream, all dreams must die. Six billion minds, each cause and effect. There is no First Cause to illusion. I have allowed your illusion as, simultaneously, you allow mine.

Your satisfaction must contrast with my disappointment for both to be "real." My illusion of happiness is distinguished in opposition to your illusion of misery. You direct my performances, as I direct yours. My effects make you cause and your cause makes you an effect of me.

You cause the dream in which I control your controlling my control of you.

I can never fulfill your purpose for me. Nor will you fulfill the purposes I apply to you and in that, the dream persists. Sometimes you dream that I make you angry or sad or even happy, but if you are cause, then I can only be mere effect. We can never truly meet in the dream and our bodies insure against that ever happening.

But I must have your support, for my dream to continue and you require my services as well. If one refuses to play, then the game ends for both. Yet, as long as you are part of my dream, I will be with you in yours. What we "see," is what we agree to see and and, therefore, what we see is proof of our agreement.

Do you see death? So do I. Yet, if one of us breaks that contract, death can no longer be visible.

We are both cause and effect, for we are one. I cause my dream, while you are merely an effect of me. Yet, as an effect of my dream, you are cause to your own, while I am nothing but an effect of you. We all collaborate together in cause and effect of our mutual interlocking dreams of “reality.”

As long as we both share in dreaming of death and suffering, it must be "real" and it is this shared part of the dream that makes dreaming seem separate. We must agree we are separate in order to dream of meeting as bodies. You must share in my illusion of 'self' for me to share in yours. The moment you choose to awaken from your dream, my dreaming must end as well, for without you as an effect, I can no longer be cause.

One dreamer cannot be both cause and effect, because all dreams are.

To wake me is to awaken yourself, as you can only wake with my help. No one wakes alone, because no one dreams alone. We will eventually forget our dreams, but not each other. Never each other, because to forget is to remember. That can never change, simply because it's not a dream.


Sweet dreams are made of these
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of the them wanna get used by you
Some of them wanna abuse you
Some of them wanna be abused
(Annie Lennox)