with. What has happened in the past has happened, is there really
any need to add more content on top of it? What purpose does such
thinking have? To delve even more deeply and to talk more frankly
– you must realise that this moment, here and now, is all that ever
exists; it is the only reality you can rely on because it is the only one
you can see and experience directly with your senses.
Suppose you are currently inside a room of your house reading
this book. How do you even know that the other rooms in your
home exist without actually being there? The truth is, you don't;
you only assume that it's there. This way of assuming everything in
our lives is how we come to daydreaming our way into everything,
mechanically living through routine on auto-pilot. Every door you
open in your house, you unconsciously assume that it's going to be
the room you expect; now, when you do this in a dream, you will
do the same thing, never questioning whether it's a dream at all and
the content of the environment will align perfectly as you always
expect it to. But usually, in a dream, even when the environment
isn’t what you expect, you still don't question it; this is the deep
sleeping state of ordinary human consciousness.
We have to learn to start intensely questioning our reality as a
matter of well-trained habit. If there’s anything that ever seems
weird or out of the ordinary, we should be automatically asking
ourselves whether we’re in a dream or not.
Furthermore, often during our lives, and especially with those
who are significantly cut off from reality, we go to meet people
already with an idea of them in our heads which isn't actually them.
We project those ideas onto them, barely making an effort to truly
experience them authentically. This effect can be felt with deeply
unconscious people who come across inauthentically. Similarly, we
watch famous people on the news and create an idea in our heads
about them when they may not necessarily be a reality for us in our
personal experience. Yet, many like to think about 'celebrities'
often, upholding the existence of mental projections of them as if