our perceptions are reality.
dreams are our perceptions in their raw form.
in essence everything is a dream. nothing has any meaning besides that which we prescribe, and in so prescribing meaning we entirely shape the totality of every single thing we will ever experience.
throw a pie at someone. what is the subjective interpretation? for a clown it is good.
for a businessman he might be enraged… to a hungry person he might be really happy.
to the businessman, in order to be hit by a pie he might have been harboring a lot of extreme negativity and this reinforces his views that everyone hates him.
to the clown it might be his job.
to the hungry person he might have just been in the present and happened to get lucky.
get it?
strip away all our judgements and look at the core raw nature of reality and you find that it is of the same substance of dreams, because it only exists because we and all other humans perceive it, and what we THINK is reality is actually just the consensus of the symbolically charged world.
language is an excellent example
if you saw a huge sign and all you saw on it was the word
JUST
what do you think the message is?
What if it actually says something else, but you see what you think it is?
I saw a person wearing a shirt that said JUST on it and I saw it say “Just say no” until I looked closer and realized it said “Just do it”
that is because society charges meaning to the word JUST through advertising. but in actuality all things are perceived as symbols with no inherent meaning or value, or stability.
life is basically a picasso painting that people try to confine with terms and consentual agreements, but really it’s all just your perceptions.
and all you are is your perceptions. it is easy to see how this is a dream, but how if not taken within the context of spiritual training such as Tibetan Dream Yoga, one could instead become “schizophrenic” instead of enlightened.
It is very unfortunate though. It is perhaps more unfortunate that people would call him psychotic, when maybe there is a realized teacher who could really help him understand what he is seeing and experiencing, other than telling him it is wrong.
If I think a pie is ugly and someone thinks it is erotic, is the latter psychotic and the formal normal? No, but that is how reality works. Anyone who differs in their symbolic interpretation (or lack of symbolic insight) is brandished as insane.
Well, perception is perception whatever, whenever, wherever…
maybe the internet is a dream.