so hey what if we are all inside gods' dream? it would explain why he is all powerful and benevolent and yet horrible things happen: when one is dreaming normally things progress randomly as in real life but when one is aware (lucid) that one is dreaming one can alter the dream for the better. maybe this is what is happening; god loves us and wants things to be good but when he loses lucidity things are out of control! in our dreams we don't like it when things are scary, painful, sad or evil and when we are lucid we can fix this because we become all powerful. so it would be with god, obviously he/she/it would want his own consciousness to be happy, good and peaceful but in non lucid dream sections this is uncontrolled. in hinduism they say we are all in vishnu's dream, this works for christianity as well. the concept of karma in buddhism/hinduism is something that definitely applies to our dreams. freak out in a dream and the dream becomes scary, be calm dream calm, be violent dream violent, etc. also if you ignore things in dreams and truly don't think about them they lose a lot if not all their power. in buddhism it is said that we are nothing, empty and the only thing passed onto the next life is our desires. it's exactly the same with dreams, if a problem or desire plagues you it will be in your dreams and if you get over it completely usually it's gone. in waking life it's not this simple but it would make sense if we were all in a dream of someone else. we are subconscious ideals in someone else's dream! when we truly let go we stop being dreamed and then we "wake up" which in this case would be... i don't know... still working on that part, what is outside of this dream??? there's the heaviest part!



this would also explain why our consciousnesses are not technically whole. for example the spaces between thoughts are empty, the brain still works but there are sections where nothing is thought. not to mention the fact that we have memories that fade over time and sometimes are forgotten but that modern science says is all stored in the subconscious which access too would leave open all of man-kinds history which for this idea would actually be the knowledge and conscious mind of god. just like in a dream the way ones knowledge is broken up into pieces; dream character a doesn't know what dream character b does and neither know everything that you know but if they all linked up they would know everything there is to know about the dream world because it is all from one brain that has just created temporary imaginary separate entities that seem quite independent...



also this is a fun way to explain why our dreams are so changeable and fragmented, they are dreams inside a dream. a world created by an already incomplete consciousness. so our dreams are choppy but reality is stable with fixed laws of physics and what-not because it is the supreme dream and then ultimate reality is a unified and perfect state free from change maybe...