Well, I have to say, I've enjoyed this debate immensely.
I do believe the world as I experience it is a dream; something I am experiencing through my specific avenue of awareness. But really, it is just a belief. The way beliefs show up for me is that once I believe them, my experience in the world / dream experience / whatever, just reinforces them.
So if you are like me, whatever you believe is true, is true for you.
I think where one runs into trouble is in trying to prove the belief is correct, is right.
That one perspective is right, and another is wrong. How do we know that about any perspective?
So, lets say the world isn't a dream. Still, there is room in my belief-system for great mysteries having to do with our changing perspective. For example, 100 years ago, Einstein would have been considered a lunatic; and go back 600 years, and we would have all believed the world was flat (except for those heretics who didn't). After all, what more proof is needed than what we saw with our own eyes.
Anyway, it just seems to me that different perspectives provide us with different views. The ability to circumnavigate the globe has convinced many people that the world is truly round. Einstein's view of relativity, while not really understandable to me, says time and space, matter and non-matter are not as we experience them either. This view seems to have some merit, because they used that new perspective to design & create nuclear weapons -- who knew?
I'm going to leave room in my belief system for the dream world perspective. Why, you might ask, would I do that? Well, I have somewhere along the line acquired a great deal of empathy for others. A dream just seems so much kinder, and less harsh than if this experience were real. Also, it leaves plenty of room for grace. Although my dream is pretty kind and loving now, there was a day when it was very harsh. When I forgive, I don't forgive people for doing something bad to me, I forgive, because if it is a dream and I am spirit rather than solely body, then I'm free to forgive because it didn't happen -- and see the light of spirit, of Love, shining everywhere I go.
I've become rather attached to that view. So I have to weigh in on the dream world perspective. But heck, how do I know if I'm right or wrong -- Its only a belief.
Although perhaps this entire post of mine which speaks of a dream world is off-topic.
Sometimes I do get confused about how the dream world concept and SR fit together. . . . Still, I do want to learn to do that flying around in pink tight thingy that Angela spoke about.
Blessings from Belle,
