How to Awaken From the Bad Dream

If life feels like a nightmare it is time to open your eyes

Like many people, I often battle with dark thoughts, negative inner dialogue and general anxiety about the state of the world and my place in it. I wrote the following words in a journal entry one night to remind myself that I have the power to conquer those dark thoughts. I am sharing it here in case it may be helpful to anyone else that goes through the same thing.

There are multiple levels of consciousness that we move between.

In the lower realms of consciousness it is like you are living in a bad dream, life is harsh and brutal and cold, it is a prison that is inescapable where nothing good can ever happen, it is the level of nihilism, cynicism and hopelessness.

On the higher levels of consciousness life is a gift, it is magical, every living thing is connected and love is a very real and beautiful part of that reality. On these levels one feels playful and joyous and grateful to be alive, one does not need luxuries or vast wealth or any of the superficial trappings of materialistic life. 

When you are vibrating on the higher frequencies of consciousness you can find joy and creativity and magic in the most simple things, this is a beautiful place to be, the reason so many spiritual teachers call this aspect being “awake” is because it is the true nature of the cosmos - the lower levels are the bad dream, the bad trip, you go there when you give in to your fears and anxieties and you get trapped there because you do not know how to wake up.

I believe that the majority of people these days are fluctuating between being asleep and being awake - they have moments of wakefulness where they are loving and kind and open and see the world as a friendly, beautiful, loving place; but then, when things get hard, when trouble comes, when things are not going as you had hoped, you fall asleep again and slip into the bad dream and you begin to believe it is true. 

We need constant reminders, we need the people who are always ready to shake us from our bad dream and remind us that waking life is the truth, waking life is a wonderful world full of limitless potential and the ‘bad dream’ is just that, an illusion that you need to wake up from so you can once again live in the magic of the true nature of reality.

There are a lot of nefarious forces in this world that want to keep you in the bad dream, they work very hard at maintaining a presence in your life 24/7 to keep you deluded that you are limited, inferior, weak and unworthy; they want you to see the world as a dark and scary place. However, these forces exist only in the lower vibrations, that is where their power lies - just like a demon or succubus in a nightmare, they cannot harm you when you are awake. 

To fight these dark energies you simply need to remind yourself that the lower aspect of your reality is akin to a bad dream and all you need to do to change it is tune it out, transport yourself to the world of  creativity and love and limitless potentiality. 

It is not good enough to simply TELL yourself this though, in order to wake up “YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IT” and live it.

Now I am not saying this is easy, it’s not as simple as asking someone to “snap out of it”. It requires a  consistent effort of will to shift your consciousness into a higher vibration, but it can be done.

If you are mired in a cynical, bitter, nihilistic frame of mind you will remain stuck in the bad dream, the only way to truly awaken to the higher levels of consciousness is to tell yourself that the bad dream is an illusion. It is just another form of entertainment like watching a horror movie, you can shut it off any time it becomes overwhelming to you. You can go back to the light, to the comfort of home, to the security and humour and love of family and friends.

The bad dream will be just an experience you had that you can witness and learn from and grow. You must never let it take control because if you do it will not let go, there is danger in falling asleep and thus remaining in the bad dream for too long.

It is okay to engage with these negative aspects on an intellectual level, you want to educate yourself on the ways of the world and the machinations of global tyranny, but you mustn’t go too deep, you must not let it overwhelm you and drag you down to the lower levels, that is where you give away your power.

As soon as you feel overwhelmed, depressed and fearful of the dark forces in the world you must let go of it, move to your higher self and remind yourself that YOU are in control of your reality and the level at which you manifest it. YOU have the power and the will and the wisdom to pull yourself out of that dark spiral and back into the light and a positive presence in the world.

You do not have to live in the darkness, you can observe it,  comment on it,  satirize it and transform it into something not so big and scary - you can do the the classic trickster move and make the world according to your own design.

Where there is oppression and coercion and degenerate human behaviour, you can bring humour, playfulness, beauty and inspiration into being.

Everyone is capable of this, you are not as limited as you think. Have fun, the Universe wants to play.