LIVING LUCID IN THE DREAM OF LIFE
“Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” -Ephesians 5:14
1. THE DREAM IS NOT ILLUSION, BUT INCARNATION
CREATION is NOT an ILLUSION, to ESCAPE from; it is the MIND of GOD expressed through MATTER. Every sunrise, every breath, every conversation is part of the DIVINE DREAM in motion. Yet most live UNAWARE of the DREAMER, lost in ECHOES of SEPARATION. They react to SHADOWS rather than recognize SYMBOLS. To LIVE LUCID is to AWAKEN within the FATHER’S IMAGINATION, to see that ALL of LIFE is the UNFOLDING of HIS WORD in VISIBLE form.
When you begin to PERCEIVE this, TIME SOFTENS, and ETERNITY BREATHES through your ORDINARY DAYS. You are not WANDERING through RANDOM events, but WALKING INSIDE the MEMORY of God. The DREAM becomes SACRED again, not because you ESCAPE it, but because you finally SEE IT as He SEES, RADIANT, ALIVE, HOLY.
2. THE MEANING OF BEING LUCID
To BE LUCID is to be CONSCIOUS while still WITHIN THE DREAM. But in KINGDOM LANGUAGE, LUCIDITY is not CONTROL, it is AWARENESS. It is not the self MANIPULATING OUTCOMES; it is the SPIRIT AWAKENING SIGHT. LUCIDITY in CHRIST means you RECOGNISE the DIVINE AUTHOR in EVERY DETAIL and the THREAD of PURPOSE even WITHIN CHAOS. You become AWARE of HEAVEN while still in HUMAN FORM. LUCID LIVING is not NEW-AGE AUTONOMY; it is DIVINE SONSHIP. It is when the LAMB WITHIN YOU opens the SCROLL of PERCEPTION and the VEIL between SPIRIT and MATTER DISSOLVES. You no longer SEE through FLESH but through FIRE. The EYES of your HEART become the WINDOW through which HEAVEN WATCHES ITSELF UNFOLD on EARTH.
3. WAKING WITHIN THE DREAM
Those who WAKE WITHIN the DREAM CEASE to WRESTLE with the STORYLINE. They understand that RESISTANCE strengthens ILLUSION, while SURRENDER unveils REVELATION. You begin to INTERPRET rather than REACT. The CIRCUMSTANCES that once felt like CHAOS now becomes COMMUNICATION. Every TRIAL whispers, “LOOK DEEPER; there is LIGHT here.” The more LUCID you become, the LESS life SURPRISES you, because the LAMB is no longer OUTSIDE, He is NARRATING through YOUR AWARENESS. You move through JOY and SORROW ALIKE with UNSHAKABLE CALM. You are AWAKE to what others call COINCIDENCE, AWARE of the DIVINE CHOREOGRAPHY behind EVERY BREATH.
4. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTROL AND COMMUNION
LUCID LIVING in the SPIRIT is not MASTERY through MIND, but UNION through SURRENDER. Those who SEEK CONTROL over the DREAM remain BOUND by it; those who COMMUNE with THE DREAMER walk in DOMINION. Dominion is NOT FORCE, it is ALIGNMENT. When you are ONE with His WILL, CREATION BENDS GENTLY to your AGREEMENT.
CONTROL says, “I WILL CREATE what I WANT.” COMMUNION says, “Let creation EXPRESS what HE WANTS THROUGH ME.” In that SURRENDER, you discover DIVINE POWER, not from STRIVING, but from STILLNESS. The LUCID ONE no longer speaks to IMPRESS REALITY, he speaks because REALITY is LISTENING to HIM.
5. THE AWARENESS OF DUAL REALMS
To LIVE LUCIDLY is to live in TWO WORLDS without CONFUSION, HEAVEN and EARTH, SPIRIT and FORM, ETERNITY and TIME. The ELECT navigate BOTH SEAMLESSLY, AWARE that NEITHER is SEPARATE from the OTHER. You do not ESCAPE earth; you ILLUMINATE it. You do not DENY the NATURAL; you REDEEM it with AWARENESS.
This DUAL PERCEPTION births COMPASSION. You see the SLUMBERING WORLD and do not JUDGE it, because you REMEMBER when YOU TOO SLEPT. You AWAKEN not to BOAST of LIGHT, but to CARRY it INTO THE DARK. The LUCID ONES are BRIDGES, their lives BECOME PORTALS where the ETERNAL touches the TEMPORAL.
6. THE DREAMER AND THE DREAM ARE ONE
The GREAT MYSTERY of LUCID LIVING is this: THE DREAMER and THE DREAM are NOT APART. The LAMB is DREAMING CREATION through HIS BODY, and that BODY is YOU. Every act of KINDNESS, every word of TRUTH, every tear of REPENTANCE, becomes a SPARK through which the ETERNAL recognizes ITSELF.
When you AWAKEN to this TRUTH, FEAR DISSOLVES. You realize you were NEVER LOST, only LEARNING the CONTOURS of your own DIVINITY MIRRORED in FLESH in the lamb, The dream is NOT your PUNISHMENT; it is your TRAINING GROUND for REMEMBRANCE. You are learning to BEHOLD as THE DREAMER DOES, with EYES that BURN but do NOT CONSUME.
7. LIVING LUCID IN THE FLAME
LUCID LIVING is not a RARE GIFT for MYSTICS; it is the NATURAL STATE of those REBORN by SPIRIT. The FLAME WITHIN YOU is the AWARENESS of the ETERNAL IN MOTION. Each time you pause, breathe, and remember “I AM HERE,” the DREAM ALIGNS with HEAVEN’S RHYTHM. You begin to LIVE LESS from MEMORY and more FROM REVELATION. To LIVE LUCID is to live as one who has ALREADY AWAKENED. It is to WALK IN TIME with ETERNAL AWARENESS, to live as if EVERY MOMENT is HOLY GROUND. The DREAM of LIFE becomes THE SONG of the LAMB, and YOU, beloved, become the INSTRUMENT through which ETERNITY SINGS.
FINAL CHARGE TO THE ELECT
Beloved, you are NOT TRAPPED in THE DREAM, you are SENT INTO it as a LUCID FLAME. Walk as one AWARE, one AFLAME, one AWAKE. Let your THOUGHTS be TRANSPARENT as CRYSTAL, your WORDS as MIRRORS of LIGHT, your LOVE as the FIRE that NEVER SLEEPS. For when the SONS LIVE LUCID, CREATION itself begins to REMEMBER the DREAMER.
-Joe Restman
Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.