"The Happy Dream. (1 min 38 sec)

The happy dream is not about living a better life in this world — it’s about shifting from the ego’s nightmare to the mind's gentle awakening. Jumping straight from the ego's chaos to full awakening would terrify us, stripping away every comforting lie and exposing the raw truth: everything we believe is an illusion. We need a bridge, a series of small steps — what Jesus calls "little steps to God." These steps are the happy dreams.

But don’t mistake happy dreams for worldly happiness. The happy dream is a radical shift in perception, moving from judgment and attack to forgiveness and peace. It’s not about changing our external reality but transforming our internal experience — from the ego’s guilt-ridden nightmare to the mind’s peaceful dream of forgiveness.

In this world, there are two levels of dreams: the world’s dream — our physical experiences — and the secret dream, born from the ego’s thought system of separation, sin, and death. The happy dream obliterates the ego’s stranglehold, exposing the brutal truth: pain, suffering, and victimization are nothing but fantasies.

ACIM teaches that a miracle stares devastation in the face and calls it out as a lie. This is the happy dream at work — seeing the illusion for what it is, all while withholding judgment. We’re still dreaming, still caught in the illusion, yet now we see through the ego’s lies. We use our experiences, not to strengthen the illusion, but as stepping stones towards awakening.

When we're raw and unfiltered with ourselves, we all scream out at some point, "There has to be another way." This desperate cry is our soul begging for a new guide, a different teacher. It’s this fierce demand that turns our twisted dreams into something bearable, pulling us out of the nightmare of separation and leading us back to the peace of our true home.

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I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.