@SeaAndSky
You made some assumptions and drew some conclusions that are foreign to my
hypotheses on reality. That's expected, as you operate in the
framework of your beliefs, that is different from mine.
I don't think in terms of simulations, nor of solipsism. I differentiate between physical-reality and reality. I am not familiar with the take on reality in the Matrix movies. "Red pill"?
You (
impersonal use of "you" when italicized ...) can't know which pill is "red", and even if any of the pills
you can choose from is "red"; using "red pill" as a metaphor for gurus' and dogmas' claims of knowing "the truth". Would you call atheism, science, or any major Eastern or Western religion a nightmare too?
Anyway: I believe that
your emotions will bring into the reality
you experience situations that will generate the same kind of emotions, with increased intensity. So,
your fear, anger, hate, and also
your compassion, displeasure, annoyance, will cause
you to feel more, and more intensely in kind, as while in a nightmare.
There are essential differences between
your expectations and
your desires, wants, affirmations, plans, ...
On the other hand, surely, you have no reason to believe that I am right, and I don't suggest that you believe so. What I suggest is that everyone learn to tap his own inner source of knowledge and guidance, while leaving aside
all his beliefs and expectations, to minimize distortions. Even then, everyone can accesses only whatever is at his own level of evolvement.
Every identity, awareness, associates dynamically with higher gestalts with which it resonates, and dissociates from those it doesn't resonate with anymore. Every identity is, in turn, a gestalt of elements that resonate with it., that dynamically associate and dissociate according to their resonance with the identity.
If
you pay attention to
your dreams, even if
you can't get lucid in them,
you can still see how any small negative thought, emotion, or feeling degenerates into a more and more negative situation, eventually into a nightmare, if
you don't take conscious control. The same happens in the "awake" physical-reality that
you experience, only slower, to allow
you to handle it, to learn how to do it, to allow for
your mistakes while in training here.