Sometimes right before I wake in the morning, I find myself lying half awake or half asleep engaged in some convoluted, seemingly impossible task which has to do with matching or combining (or correlating) elements that would seem to be incompatible but intuitively I know they are compatible and furthermore they must be correlated or brought together or I have failed at my task. For the first time I think I know why my dreaming saddles me with this formidable semi-conscious task. It is because I am trying to weave the conscious and unconscious mind together, to essentially link them together.
What am I saying?
In waking reality the object becomes the subject. In dreaming reality the subject becomes the object. This is not an idea or a philosophical construct, it is just a fact. I don't mean to be smug but we don't need to understand it. It's just how it is. The reality is we are always moving between subject and object whether we know it or not.
Another way to say this is, when we are sleeping our inner reality becomes our whole reality, so the subjective reality of the dream becomes our objective reality for as long as we are dreaming. In other words, if we are running from a dangerous person, we don't stop and say, "wait a second, this isn't real", because it is real within the context of the dream. Conversely, when we are awake, the outside world requires our attention but in order to function in the waking world, we have to capture it or net it with our senses, our emotions, our intelligence, so we can relate to it in reference to ourselves. That is, we find a way to reel in our waking reality, into our own field of reference.
When we are waking up, emerging from a dream state, we pass through an in-between place where we aren't dreaming and we aren't fully awake. Most of the time waking is a simple matter of hearing some sound that we have set to wake us up at a given time, and the dream we were in becomes a distant memory, reduced to a parting image or a fleeting feeling. But, because of my nature, or the nature of my psychology, I cannot separate dreaming from waking because for me, as for many introverted types, when I wake I am aware that I am still dreaming in the sense that I am inside the bubble of my self-consciousness.
So what I am doing or trying to do when I procrastinate at waking in order to finish some formidable semi-conscious task is, I am syncing up the components of my sleeping reality with compatible components of my waking reality and I am often close to succeeding! If I succeed that means that I have created a viable bridge between waking consciousness and dreaming consciousness, which might translate into the ability to lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is accomplished by staying in that realm between waking and sleeping by choice, fostering a state of mind that is comfortable with being in-between. The rest is a learning curve.
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