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So when Steve says Life is a Dream, does he mean it in REAL sense, or a metaphorical (it's a good way to look at things) sense?
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Steve, himself, could mean it in any context that we as the reader choose. So what the individual thinks of what his/her own "real" sense is becomes more important. How limited would we be in our thinking if we let someone else do it for us?? Is real what you can see, touch, or hear? Because dreams are capable of all of that. Is it a memory? Well we all have the ability to remember our dreams, so are they not real? Not many people take the time to sit down and contemplate the definitions or limits they have put on all these thrown around terms over the courses of their lifetimes. What's the difference between real and a metaphor?? Even the word 'apple' is a metaphor, the very word itself doesn't manifest the realness of what is an apple. It's actually just a simple human-made sound of consonants and vowels. Words themselves are poetry of the truest kind of a metaphor, the kind that only the mind itself can decode and in which all definitions of what an apple becomes takes place. (So was your preferred realness attached to the fruit or the computer?
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So now let us for contemplation's sake put our current beliefs to the test and say that life is indeed but a dream. When we sleep our dreams are a manifestation of our thoughts and emotions, everyone knows that, psychology 101. And according to the Law of Attraction (like attracts like), our waking life is also the sum product of our thoughts and feelings. So then now what is real? What would fit into our old metaphor of the word 'real'?
Most of us would find that our definition of real was limited in it's thought, and couldn't logically handle the vast idea we've placed before it. Now at this point the ego's of many may say to themselves, "Sorry, I'm not willing to give up my old beliefs, I must maintain my apparent identity to survive; this stops here." And they continue on with their blind walk into the familiar. But those who are comfortable enough in themselves will take the leap in the form of a very bold statement and say:
Everything we think real is would in fact be... an illusion (just like in our dreams). And so they have to change their metaphor to a more unlimited way of thinking to hold such a starry-eyed question.
So then once we come to the realization that all we've known is an illusion, what then fits into our open slot of what real is? Think for a moment. If all of what you've known to be real suddenly becomes fake, what then, is real? The answer is that now
everything is real! Because now there is nothing left to be categorized and divided into 'fake' and 'not fake'. It all just is as it was, and it is all as real as real can be. Now isn't that a wonderful way to stretch your mind? We're now opening doors inside ourselves we never even knew we had
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Before what we call the light bulb was a light bulb it was just a dream in one man's mind. Before we found certain groups of people free of slavery it was but a dream. Whatever thoughts we hold in our minds, be we judge them as positive or negative, they will always manifest the visions we put in place. Perhaps the results show more slowly in our awake times than in our sleeping times, but could that be because it's what we think to believe and know? Whether you truly believe in it or not, either way you are always correct because that is what this termed Law of Attraction states. The evidence is everywhere if your conscious of it, the teachings are everywhere if your mindful to them. But the most intriguing part to remember is the possibility that perhaps it could be you that is putting them there, because if that's what you believe... then you are right
