I thought that the way Steve normally looked at things was that he was the container. Then everything in present moment awareness is you - the sky, the trees, the people, your avatar, etc. That's how most of the gurus describe it, everything around you is a reflection of the beliefs/imagination of the dreamer and the world is an expression of the dreamer's desire to create and share love with others.
So only the dreamer is conscious and has a mind, then he identifies with the avatar and creates a self/other polarity. What your avatar considers your mind is in fact just "the mind" and your consciousness is "the consciousness".
In some sense, all possibilities exist in the now, so you've had countless moments where you were each of the 6 billion human avatars. But that also means you are in an infinite number of dreams, with an infinite number of characters, in an infinite number of universes. Most of those universes we'll never become aware of in this lifetime. I don't see how that helps with our waking dream here on planet Earth since all of those possibilities do and always will exist and we're experiencing just one of those possibilities moment to moment and calling it our life.
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