On a couch
Jacob was happy, after an honest day's work. He was in charge of the presentation today, in front of all the stakeholders. The company he is working is trying to expand their operations. And they needed to capture the progress they have made last year into a half an hour speech, to impress the investors. And as the project manager Jacob felt good about what he has done today. Now it is time to relax, finally when his company makes more fortune, he will be able to move closer to a better apartment in suburbs, than current shaggy one. He needed to better breath. He ordered dinner online and relaxed on to the couch, until midnight sleepozing watching who wants to be a millionaire. A good one.
Driving
Jacob was driving his car. Beside him was his lovely wife with a big belly of nine months. They just discovered she was in labor when water broke out and started to rush to the hospital. She seems to be in severe pain, crying now, and Jacob in panic. Why and who built those stupid red lights every corner of the block. What if the baby starts to come out even before he reached the hospital? He hit the gas once again and in the corners of his eyes he saw the hospital finally at last! And soon as they arrived at ED his wife was taken away to labor room. He was waiting outside, anxiously waiting to try to keep his calm, taking deep breaths. Is she OK? Is my baby girl, OK?
Rowing
The evening sky is orange today. Few clouds on the horizon. The sun is nowhere to be found, disappeared behind the tree line and the hill above the lake. Jacob stopped paddling and let the boat float slowly on the water. The fish were not afraid of his boat as there were no fishermen at this part of the jungle. Not lot of hikers come here as well. He had been living in the hut on the bank of the lake for some time now Then he realized something. He wanted to remember how did he start to live in a hut by the lake? His memory was blurred. He remembered he was driving just before he started rowing the boat. He was driving with his wife in his car! Where is she now? How is she doing? Am I dreaming? Jacob remembered how can I be married? I just came back from work, and I live alone. I was doing a presentation just this afternoon, to a half a dozen of people. Where am I exactly? In a boat in the middle of the lake? Or in the hospital? or on a couch?
The dream
Jacob remembered watching Inception, movie just the other day on Netflix. A dream within a dream. I must be dreaming but what is the reality? All he can remember was what happened since he started to become conscious about the current dream. What was there before is doubtful. Maybe I am "The guy" in a film. Stuck in a virtual reality. Maybe the lack of coherence in his dreams is the fact that I am dreaming. More than anything Jacob wanted to wake up to the reality. But how? He could not access the reality from inside the dream All he could do is to move to another dream from the current one. And that even was not under his control. But within his dream he was in control.
Jacob closed his eyes and started listening to the sounds. Sounds of the birds were real. The move of the wind over the mountain brushing trees was real. He could feel the water on his hands which felt really cold. He relaxed into the fact that everything feels real. But he knew it's all a dream. Just one alternative reality from thousand possibilities. He could not wake himself up from the inside of the dream, as he was part of the dream. It did not matter. Maybe there is no other dream, just this one.
He did not know how where and why he felt like he was living. All he knew was he was part of it. Maybe it is the fear of losing the dream and himself, which drives it. He can imagine a reality, but as he is in the dream it would be just a false one. Maybe there is nothing to wake up. As dream about the reality is also part of the dream.
End.
You can read more about dreams on following articles.
Dream vs Reality -> Duality of the nature.
Cannot access reality from the dream -> subjective reality.
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