Falling Awake

[Kristopher]

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Upon sleeping, we fall asleep. Upon lucid Dreaming we fall awake.

Then of course comes remembering Dreaming, or reminding oneself one is Dreaming while Dreaming.

I like the words remember and remind because they imply connections that already exist but need to be acknowledged anew. To remember Dreaming, then, can be thought of as reconnecting with the Double, to that which what one already knows, belongs.

That which we have forgotten is still here, somewhere within us. It is access to it that is temporarily veiled. What has been forgotten needs to renew its membership in awareness.

For instance, when we "re-member" to pay attention in Dreaming, to be in the present, to embody our Double, we are already awake right in that moment of remembering.

The membership completes itself as we remember the totality of self. The same can be said for reminding ourselves. It reconnects us with what some people call "the spirit," with a mind of totality, a mind that sees the whole forest as well as individual trees. Since we are always complete anyway, it's not that we have to do anything. We just have to "re-mind" ourself of it.