Consciousness

Tantra style

there is no essential difference between waking and dreaming… all our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary on an unknown, perhaps unknowable, but felt, text…

Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak §119

I had an uncomfortable dream last night. I was in a church, about to deliver a sermon. But I was in my dressing gown and I was having real trouble keeping it tied up. I guess it was the preacher’s version of that dream where you turn up to school naked.

And, what’s more, I had not had time to prepare properly. My notes were a mess and I was struggling to make sense of them. I started to speak several times, losing my train of thought while having to awkwardly retie my gown.

Finally, just as I was finally about to launch into it, two people from the congregation rose to their feet, came up to the pulpit, and started heckling me. They jabbed their fingers at me and poked me, even calling me names.

One of the interesting things about dreams is how you don’t know when you’re in …