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THE DREAM OF LIFE The average person wakes up, eats, goes to work, comes back home, sleeps and dreams about the day or some other fantasy. They repeat this cycle till the day they die, with perhaps a handful of lucid moments in-between. What's the purpose of this, and why do we go through life in such a cycle? What if we were to become aware of our dreams, and not only that, but what if we were to stop dreaming altogether? The answer to these questions can be found in the fact that dreaming while awake is no different from when we dream when we sleep. As psychologists notoriously recognise, and what has spilt over into conventional wisdom, is that dreams are usually about the things we did while we were awake. They are simply a reflection of our waking lives. If this is true, one could possibly say it is safe to assume that if you do not dream while awake, then you won't dream while asleep too. In other words, if you are conscious while awake, then you'll be conscious while asleep; this is a core teaching in this book. What exactly do I mean by 'dreaming while awake'? This is already a challenge for most of us to conceptualise accurately to begin with. Think about the fact that we never know when we are even dreaming when in the dream; therefore, it can be just as difficult, if not more, to understand why we barely ever know that we dream while awake. When you wake up from a dream, it is easy to admit that "oh