TGOG 2024; 6-24; TEXT 18; SEC II; THE BASIS OF THE DREAM

Why do we dream? Because we feel threatened and fearful, we make up a substitute "reality" in which we are "in control" of all aspects of a story we make up, but one that is not really there. The "basis" of the dream becomes our "protection" from these attacks. We feel attacked, and this is the cause for "dreams." We want a "reality" in which we are "protected" from this attack. We substitute illusions for truth, and believe that illusions form our "safety" from a world that is dangerously unsafe, and directed against us. We arrange a fantasy world in dreams, and we arrange a fantasy world of special relationships in our "waking dreams." Perceptual temper tantrums want a different reality that we "make up." Fear does not leave us, though, and terror is still underlying the dreams we make up. We think reality is fearful. We are attacked and we have to defend ourselves. The dream is our projection that we think protects us. But it is waking up in the Holy Spirit's "happy dream" that is the trading of our "special relationships" for Holy ones. The Holy Spirit is our means for waking up from our dreams.