The Unseen History of the Dreamer

“I love dream logic; I just like the way dreams go.”- David Lynch

The history books have been written. We know about the Romans, the Christian crusades, and the atom bomb. All of this has been stored in text, and reiterated, and reiterated some more. But what about the inner history of man and woman? What about the esoteric side of things? The epiphanies. The revelations. The dreams. How come these aren’t included in the history books? When the sun went down and the eyelids were shut, didn’t psychic apparitions take refuge inside the minds of history’s giants, geniuses, and historiographers?

History is partial and fragmented if it doesn’t take into consideration the oneiric, the flights and plummets of the dream body. History is destined to become stale and boring if all the modalities of the psyche aren’t factored into its constitution. A history without the dreamer is impossible, because history is a concretization of a manifold of dreams. It is equally fact and fantasy, an event and an idea, a light and a shadow, a field of study and a field where the seeds of the unconscious are planted. Below the surface of “what actually happened,” history looks more like a protean circus filled with miraculous acts from countless dreamers. The sword of history was forged by the dream-smith.

“A man may be said to consist of an Old World of personal consciousness, and, on the other side of a dividing ocean, of a series of New Worlds. These New Worlds of a subconscious can never be colonized, are seldom thoroughly explored, and in many cases even await discovery.”- Aldous Huxley

In my modest view of things, the unseen history of the dreamer is more important than all the archives in the world, because the imaginal is more august than the fact. A fact crumbles and cracks when pressure is applied from ontological realms outside the rational. The imaginal, on the other hand, morphs into a phantasmagoric parade of ideas and images when pressures are applied to it. A fact lives for decades and then another fact replaces it. The imaginal builds upon itself by assimilating rather than replacing.

“The world of dreams is real. Though at first you may think it impossible, all you have seen and felt in the dream state, all of it, is as true as anything you have ever experienced in your waking life.”- Asanaro

The imaginal, the explorations of the dreamer, the wheel of images, mind-physics, mind-stuff, subconscious worlds, the alchemical “magnum opus” inside the athanor of the imagination…all are descriptions used by the apollonian mind, the mind of the day, the mind holding the alphabet’s hand. The direct experience inside the dream is different. The descriptions are not commensurate with the experience itself. The hand pointing to the moon is not the moon. To learn the twilight dance of the dream body, we must throw away concrete rationalizations and move in metaphors.

Lucid dream.
The great shore where great waves come.
The history behind history.
The pact with the self.
Midnight sun shining within.