Many of you might not remember anymore. You had many dreams
during your childhood, and you were often relieved when you
woke up in the morning. Finally, those scary dreams were over.
But what if I told you that you never actually woke up? You merely
kept dreaming that you had woken up. Waking up in a bed in the
morning has absolutely nothing to do with a dream ending. There is
no end to the dream.
Try to recall what it was like back in your childhood — constantly
waking up in the "wrong" reality. No, you never truly woke up. You
only dreamed that you woke up in a bed. You only dreamed that
your parents came to your bedside and told you it had all just
been a dream.
Your parents are dreamed. Your friends are dreamed. Your entire
world, as you have known it for decades, is a dream.
And this is the ego's greatest fear—that you might realize this —
so it does everything in its power to make you forget and ensure
you never remember it again.
Since that moment, you have merely been pretending to be awake.
You are just pretending to be the person you think you are. That is
why you act as if you are the avatar.
In reality, you are over-identified with your avatar. You believe
you *are* your avatar — much like in a computer game where,
at some point, you start to think you actually are the game character.
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