Hi folks!    I'm new to the site, and have had my eyes openned WIDE over the past 3-5 years about this
and other topics.   So I'd like to start sharing some things from myself to others and this is exactly
the type of place I'd do it.  Salutations 

Here I'll just share with you all, My Dream.   It was the best dream I have ever had - to date.  It was a lucid and very
vivid dream.  I experienced the strongest feelings during this dream over any other I've had.  Although I don't often
have dreams, lucid or otherwise...

Set the clock back to approx. 1993-94 I think...  Now -- I will have to reduce the story a bit, because the actual dream was very visual and visuals can be hard to describe adequately.  Plus I don't remember all the dream clearly anymore so I hope I get all the pieces I wish to tell you all.   

This dream started off as a Star Trek dream.  Specifically the Next Generation - which was still in production at the time of course.   My character, the person I am in the dream is a young woman (oddly) boarding the Enterprise-D for some important trip and experiment.   My society has found a theoretical way of testing a star for signs of ......something radical.... the fabric of our reality I think?!   So during the trip to the star to be tested, I can remember having some pointed discussion with Picard at a table in ten-forward (yes it was a kewl dream) talking about deep topics of what this test might mean...how it could apply to humanity and life... I cannot recall any of the conversation per se.   It may have been Picard asking "Are we ready to accept the results of this test if it is successful?". 

A bit later we arrive at the star where we will conduct the test.  There is a gathering in ten-forward (or some room) where everyone can observe what happens.  There are onlookers, dignitaries, and scientists.  So far almost sounds like a genuine TNG episode, right?  This is where it diverges.   I, as the female character, am walking through the crowd towards the window to see the star/sun.  The probe is in space ready to be inserted into the star.  I am wondering about it all.  Picard comes up beside me and makes some small talk.  It is here where I begin to literally feel something.  As the probes test begins I feel a change.  The probe and myself are somehow connected.  But the probe is irrelavent.   Picard notices something happening with me and backs away and draws attention to me, pointing... everyone backs away.... I am becoming somehow "aware."   The probe then fails.  I get the idea to look at the probe.   I walk forward toward the window, and literally put my head (merge/transmute/whatever)  *through the window* into space, and peer directly at the probe, feeling what is wrong with the probe.... I loose interest in the probe, and realize what I've just done.   At the same time I feel elated and unified in a deep way I've never felt before.   The enterprise goes on red-alert - for some reason.... I guess it's the "holy shit, man!" factor.  lol..  I feel their reaction to me to be so silly and petty.   I only stuck my head out for a second....

In my spontaneous transformation, I seem to turn into light, or energy.  I decide to leave the ship, partly out of innate curiosity.   I fly wholly out the hull of the enterprise into space and feel *freedom*.   I zoom and circulate around the enterprise observing it from many angles, amazed at it's shape.   I thought "There's people in there!   I wish they would understand..."   Then I flew to the probe, "landed" on it, and similar to the window, energetically "inserted my head" into the probe to find what went wrong.   I discover the problem, but I'm not interested.   I'm more interested in the star.  I wonder to myself -- "Could I do the test myself?  What would it feel like to be in a star?"   So I feel myself zooming to the star, and merge with it - on several levels.   I *feel* the star.   I *know* the star.   I *am* the star.   I energetically 'explore' the star, and it's basis for existance....   Then I touch something I wasn't meant to touch.....

Suddenly there are 'problems' around all of us, gravitational/time-space/whatever problems.   There is a huge rip in the fabric of space-time-existance right near the star.  And my awareness and the Enterprise are pulled in through it.   Here my perspective in the dream changes a bit.  I become more of a 'movie camera' than a thinking consciousness, and merely observe in picturesque fashion the events.........    On the 'other side' I see the Enterprise in what seems to be a gigantic hangar with other ships in it.  But these ships are far far larger, many times the size of the enterprise.   The enterprise is flying around in 'emergency manuevers', alarms are going off in the hangar area because the Enterprise is not supposed to be there!   There is an openning to the hangar and the enterprise flys out of the hangar to, somewhere.......The enterprise leaves this hangar area to another type of open space.   The hangar was actually part of a much much larger space ship again.   Extremely emense compared to the enterprise.   

My own perspective in the dream during all this, is just ahead of the Enterprise looking back at it watching the swooping arc maneuvers as well as reference points change for what is happening here......This sequence was the most exhilerating of it all, and the most 'kewl'.   I could lucidly 'feel' myself smiling in physicality.     Not only is there one massive gigantic space ship, there are many many others in the vicinity.   The enterprise must really be trying to figure out what the hell just happened to them.   The ship sets course to open space and hits warp and disappears in the familiar flash...... 

This is the last I see of the Enterprise.    At this point my perspective changes to an entirely new location, again, viewing as a 'camera' not as a consciousness.   Aboard one of the gigantic ships.... I see a room or corridor, not very unlike a submarine or even a borg ship.. With, humans....humans?!....yes humans....I see operators sitting at machinery, terminals or hardware slightly similar to a radar station.   There is a light blinking and a sound alerting one operator to what just happened.....A superior officer comes to see what the problem is.   Apparently one of their programs is out of control.   Hmmmm programs?    The officer says they will have to collect the errant program that escaped, and reinitialize that part of the program, and hopefully it won't happen again.......But they never expected this to be possible in the first place, either.   They are very surprised and will study this intensely.   (There is more to fill in here, in just a moment)

END OF DREAM.

I wake up literally already smiling and laughing with glee.  "THAT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME DREAM!!!!"  I exclaim!   I go to write out the dream, but that has long been lost unfortunately....

To explain more fully what I comprehended in that last part of the dream, this is what I was shown it meant while still in dream state......

In an unbelievably ancient time, there were a people, living on a world, in a specific point in the universe.  They matured greatly, and vastly expanded their abilities and eventually their awareness and technology.   They had the same questions of existance as we have here in our consciousness.   Am I all that is?   They developed their space-travel abilities, made ships, layed colonies....explored worlds...spread their likeness across vastnesses.   Always searching for ... life.   Seeking out new life, other than their own, anywhere.   No, even slight and minute a life, so that it be life, it would be enough to discover.   Their entire existance was dedicated to finding life outside from their own.   They literally explored the entire universe.  Everywhere that was cool enough to form planets...everywhere.   They found none.   No life anywhere.  Everywhere they went, they found only uninhabitable worlds, devoid of anything living.   They were immeasurably sad.....  They had wonderous technology and that was all they had that they could express with.   So eventually they decided to create a simulation of life!!    Using their computer (and other computer-like) technology they began to simulate in virtual an entire universe, beginning to ending!   And not only one, but many!!  Every molecule, every particle, every action-reaction, every event, every effect, everything..... Within those simulated universes sprung life, life of all kinds. It happened that way because they did not want to create an 'empty' simulation.  They wished to continue Learning from other life, that they had missed in the Real.  This was the purpose.  And they would observe and learn from the actions and reactions of life other than their own.  The more diverse the better.

And that's it!!   The whole dream, and the backgrounder.... I was able to recall a lot once I got into it all.  I did my best to be careful not to embellish and to stick to actual dream information as it happened at the time.  I'm happy with my effort I think.....  I'll leave it to you to define and understand the archetypes, roles, analogies, and more....I think it's terribly terribly kewl.

Thank You where ever that dream came from!   

spiritedcause......