The Dream Thread

[Etude in B Minor]

Last night I dreamt that I was at a university walking from the parking lot to class. I found on the road a long metal rod, extendible like a car antenna. I picked it up and pretended to use it as a blind man's cane. I closed my eyes and walked across the road, keeping in my mind's eye an image of the road and use this to guide myself. Going in this manner I reached the lecture hall, but it turned out that I was the one giving the lecture, on how blind people see. The strange thing was that even though I had my eyes closed, I found that I could still see. But people thought I was blind and were impressed by my ability to get around and recognize people. They wanted to know how I did it, and so wanted me to give them a lecture. Some cute young girls (like groupies) came up to me to say hi. They smelled really nice, and looked nice too, but I was pretending that I couldn't see them. They giggled when I turned to them and said hello.

Then some older, wiser, professors came in and sat down in front. One of them, apparently the host for the talk, came to my side and whispered to me - 'Some of the old guys think you are faking, and that you really aren't blind. Maybe you should confess before they expose you'. So I started my lecture by saying 'I am not really blind, I am just pretending to be blind so that I can learn how to experience and sense the world by using means other than visual'. Everyone seemed happy with this.

Then I began to have a rapid series of visions, like snapshots, of being out in space, with large planets and nebulas parading before me. It was very cool.

Then I woke up. Unlike most dreams, this one stuck with me for a while. I had the strong feeling that this dream represented being in the world, behind the veil, in order to learn how to experience reality from a different limited perspective, and that my purpose in having this experience was so I could tell others, who were not behind the veil, about it.