A woman who recently read Becoming asked me how I came to the conclusion that reality is a dream. When did it become obvious to me that physical reality is a holographic dreamscape?

When I was a 3 years old, I witnessed energetic anomalies that really captured my visual attention; Energetic light moving in sync with the swaying of the trees.  Explosions of glittering, colorful patterns being emitted from people as their emotions reached various frequencies of feeling. As I acknowledged seeing this world of energy, it really captured my imagination more and more. I remember, even at this young age, noticing how nobody I perceived in my experience would acknowledge this world of light and color. “Do they not see it?” I would ask myself.  Why was this magic being demonstrated for me to witness?

As I grew up, I became more and more seduced by this seemingly invisible world.  Consequently, I couldn’t have been any less interested in the supposedly physical reality. This quickly became the defining conflict for my young life experience.  Indeed, everything appeared alive to me at the visual level, which made taking physical reality at face value an impossible mission.

Everything is alive and vibrating energy just as if it were human. At the energetic level, every expression of life is equal.

The chicken or the egg kind of question inundated my thoughts. What came first: energy, or the ability for consciousness to perceive energy? How can the animation of consciousness exist at all without something observing it? An old question, I know. 

It occurred to me though, what if consciousness (or whatever you want to call non-physical intelligence) sought out to create a template to experience itself? What if energy wanted to perceive itself in its limitless possibilities? What if this physical reality we call universe is that template for consciousness to experience itself?

Something else really bothered me as I was growing up. I wasn’t classically educated.  In fact, I have no schooling experience beyond the 4th grade, yet I saw my brainpower quickly grow above and beyond what I had learned. How? Why was I learning things nobody taught me, without seeking the knowledge? In fact, the entire Becoming concept wasn’t something I was taught or read in a book. I’ve spent my entire life witnessing what happens when I simply dissolve the belief of limitation, and observing organic change as I do so.

Everything you read on this website isn’t knowledge. Everything in Becoming isn’t learned.

The word dream can mean to fantasize or hallucinate. These are processes of vision, and I don‘t mean what you see with your visual cortex. The possibilities that are envisioned in your mind (another word for consciousness), including everyone who participates in these worlds you imagine are you. In a slumber-based dream, the worlds you conjecture, everyone living in those worlds, all the way down to the buildings, the ground, and sounds are all projections of your consciousness. The idea of separation is what makes the worlds you create in your dream, or imagine in your mind possible. In reality, separation and the belief in being an individual is what maintains the dream or illusion. In the absence of believing an illusion, it can no longer exist.

As I was waking up from the dream, I became aware of the truth that my observations are knowledge. Additionally, if I didn’t create stories to support my beliefs (e.g. if I don’t go to school, I can’t get a good job and make a living), those circumstances weren’t played out in my experience.

Identity is all about attaching itself to the judgments & consequences of the story you believe is real.

As I acknowledged the person I thought I was didn’t exist; that I made it all up, including every aspect of my personality and the stories about my beliefs… the idea I had any control over appearances and circumstances started dissolving. As a result, reality changed, organically, and I was no longer convinced that a cause and effect out there existed…

“Why is there suffering?”
“How can people act like that?”
“Why do some people have more than others, especially those who don’t even seem spiritual?”

These things disappear from your experience as you open up to your Unlimited Natural State, which is a field of energy that is the source of the dream. In the end, the field of energy, consciousness, you, me, reality, the dream; these words, meanings, and concepts don’t exist. They are just vibrations of possibility. When you release the need to control change, and simply observe its constant force, this template YOU sought out to experience reveals its limitless magic.

You’re not here to fix the experience other people have. Only when you acknowledge everyone in your dream is you, and allow yourself to dissolve the belief that you have to change the world; can the world you see change.

For me, it all began with asking “is this real?”