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4.8
The structure of dream
 
  Returning to the model of the UCA without the Universe, we are talking about something that has no boundaries, no physical form, no dimension, no laws guiding its existence, for it both exists and doesn't exist at this point. We are talking about pure and limitless awareness.  
  Our question therefore is not how something was created out of nothing?, but how something physical can be created out of something "ethereal"?  
4.8.1 Creating Dimension By Dreaming  
Dreaming is a recognized feature that human beings and certain other lifeforms on Earth possess. While science has not yet determined fully the relationships between the act of dreaming, what actually physically happens and why, there is ample evidence to link dreaming as a feature of all animals that possess sufficiently developed brains with memory (as explained in later chapters).  
  In a dream we may create a scenario in our mind whereby actors on a stage may perform various parts. For example, in our dream, a person we know, is pregnant. In the dream they go to hospital and after labour pains, they give birth to a baby.  
  To the person having the dream, the perspective is that it does not happen in their current perspective, in their current dimension, it happens in a dream dimension, through the mind. After all, it is only a dream.  
  Yet from the perspective of the people in the dream, the birth really happened, a new human was really born. They must, if we observed them as happening in our dream. There is nothing to say that the mother in the dream did not feel pain, did not feel fear, did not feel joy.  
  Unfortunately, we tend to discount dreams, without considering that not everything in the Universe may be constrained by the limitations of the level of awareness and observation of a single human being. For instance, if our brain tried to store the last ten actions of every cell in our body, our brain could quite possibly hemorrhage and we would die. Yet, some super computers have sufficient storage capacity to accomplish this feat.  
  Similarly, we also tend to have difficulty disassociating ourselves when thinking about dreams, to consider that a dream consists of (1) the dreamer (2) the outer boundary of the dream (3) the dream and the inner "world" and rules of the dream.  
4.8.2 How Can Something That Is Real Be Ethereal At The Same Time?  
  Let us return to our example of someone dreaming about a dream where a mother gives birth. From the perspective of the mother in the dream, the world is real, the pain is real, the new born baby is real. From the perspective of the person dreaming, the act of dreaming is real, although the pain of the birth is not.  
  Dreaming is the only possible time where something can be ethereal and real at the same time. It is the only time where a new reality, from the perspective of the people in the dream can be created. It also happens to be the only occurrence where new dimension is created.  
  Returning to the ultimate dreamer, the Unique Collective Awareness (UCA) without dimension, without form, but pure limitless awareness nonetheless, the UCA would only need to dream of existence for:  
 

(1) objects to be created in dimension

  
 

(2) existence reality - existence to occur between the link of the dreamer and the dream

 
 

(3) physical Reality to be very real from the perspective of the objects within the dream.

 
  The ultimate dreamer (UCA) exists by the dream. Within the dream, the dreamer in the dream sees and thinks things that to the dreamer are real. They are, referenced in the world created by the ultimate dreamer (the Universe).  
4.8.3 The Dream And The Dreamer Are One  
  A crucial feature of dreams is the bind between the dream and the dreamer. The dream is always an extension of the dreamer.  
  What this means is that existence- the stars, the planets, our lives, our pain, our joy, the Universe is a dream. We live by the rules of the dream. This is because we (as self aware human beings) are within the Universe. Therefore all the rules are very real. It hurts when someone punches you- it is real. It hurts when someone we love ceases to be a living human being. We experience pain, and joy and all the physical emotions of being alive. At the same time, the dream is an extension of the Unique Collective Awareness- we are the Unique Collective Awareness.  
  This concept- "I am in you and you are in me" is not new to human philosophy. The Bible has several references as does many religions. Holy men and women, such as Gurus are correct when they say you are the Sun, you are the flowers and the sky. You are the Sun, the moon and the Universe. (We discuss these levels of awareness progressively through the following chapters.)  
  We are both the dream and the dreamer-the UCA and the Universe.  
4.8.4 The Dream and the Dreamer are unique  
  While unity between the dream and dreamer as one is important to recognize, it is equally true that a dream exists only because the dreamer and the dream are unique.  
  Uniqueness therefore is crucial and fundamental feature of creation. Creation could not occur with simply two dreams and no dreamer. The uniqueness of roles- a dreamer- an observer and the dream, the doer- mind and life, soul and body.  
  This duality of mind and body exists throughout nature and is one of the fundamental mysteries- the duality of life, the duality of mind.  
  We will see in later sections the importance of the understanding of mind and body being two intertwined elements, yet each separate by perspective, essence and nature. That in observing any physical thing, it exists in both reality ( within the dream) and ethereally in the minds eye of the dreamer.  
4.8.5 Evidence of the dream nature of the Universe  
  To many, the previous points may appear vague and difficult to grasp at first. Partly this may be due to the fairly "dry" nature of the language. Partly it might also be due to the apparent different nature of this explanation of the nature of the universe.  
  Yet there is ample evidence to suggest this really is the fundamental nature of the universe- the dream (I, you, we) and the dreamer (Us). We know for instance, that human perspective is both a fragile and unique gift. We need only eat a large quantity of sugar , or consume some drug to see our perspective on reality change.  
  You may well have experienced the sensation when waking from a vivid dream of initially finding it difficult to distinguish where the dream ends and reality begins. Similarly you may have experienced the strange "out of body" sensation that sometimes occurs during periods of great illness, tranquility or physical stress.  
  Dreams are real, because we have all experienced them. Reality can at times be dreamlike, because we have all experienced those strange moments. And out of body (being the dreamer) observing reality also exists as a human experience because we have all experienced the sensation at least once in our lives.  
4.8.6 What Did The UCA Dream About To Create The Universe?  
  We have already arrived at the conclusion that the UCA wished to exist and that through the creation of the Universe, it is able to accomplish this feat.  
  Yet two questions arise- At what point did the dream- the Universe begin to exist? and secondly what did the UCA dream about to kick off creation? Let us answer the second question first.  
  Before the UCA began to dream nothing in the Universe existed. No trees, no people, no time, no stars, no moons, no wind, no rain. So did the UCA simply invent these things up as part of dream and create the Universe in seven days?  
  We have already discussed these points in the previous chapter. We already know that human beings arrived relatively late in the cycle of life evolution on the Earth and that the Universe has progressed from a relatively simple form to become more and more complex.  
  This is a clue- the dream is becoming more complex as it unfolds. Just as the desire of the UCA is simple, the 1st act of creation could also be simple. We conclude this act to be the UCA simply dreaming of itself existing.  
4.8.7 At What Point Does The Universe Actually Come Into Existence?  
  We now return to the question, at what point does the dream- the Universe actually exist?  
  We may say that the Universe exists at the point when the UCA dreamt of itself. We also know that existence in three dimensions requires at least seven things to exist, before the object being observed can be said to exist.  
  Therefore the Universe could not exist until it could answer the question of existence in dimension in form- that is having physical properties.  
     
 
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