I have heard it explained that before I was born my conscious state coexisted with my unconscious. There was no difference between them they were the same. But upon my birth they shattered in two, leaving me to believe that my waking state was separated from my dreaming state. But how can that be I have only one mind? How can I have two mind states with only one mind? It must be an illusion that my mind fashions. It is the grandest of self-deceptions. Thinking the two states are different. And this waking state seems to feed the dreaming state with events that occur while I am conscious. That is why I dream about local events, circumstances, people, places and things. Yet, every so often I dream about something that I have never seen, witnessed or could possibly be a part of. How can it be that I dream such dreams? Well, the answer might be that each one of us is a little piece, a microcosm, of the universe. We are all connected to this universe, the macrocosm, by our very existence. And it is through this existence that we are able to share together those events, circumstances, people, places and things. Archetypes that are universal and all pervading. These archetypes connect us with each other. We, really are all brothers and sisters joined together through this Universal Mind. Call it God, Creator, Almighty, Supreme Being or whatever one choses the fact remains that we dream collectively and collectively we will return from that place from which we all started. visionary imagist "Joey"