one lives on the average ⅓ of existence in sleep, amounting to about 7 to 9 hours a night. of that 4 to 6 hours for recuperating the the physical and mental energy spent during the previous day, and the rest in dreaming and daydreaming In whatever form one one sleeps, it is still how one lives. So we are proposing an awareness of the existence of life spent under covers

It may sound strange to coordinate the motions of life so that there would be no contrast and conflict in how one lives with the eyes open or closed. existence is a personally experienced sense of being in relation with the elements — things, beings and motions; some interactive, and some one way, such as giving or taking of material things in a dream that disperse along with the dream in a wakeful state of being. slipping in and out of dream into the objective reality normally becomes a memory of having experienced something in dreams.

this sleep-communication is so much interwoven with this person’s real life interactions with persons that even the real life friends he had lived with in his student days called him a dreamer and a head twirling mystique. one had even told him that he was like a character in a dream. but that person did not desire to ponder on the question: “in whose dream?” one of his professors had musingly told him that if he were to just lie down in one of india’s many empty ruins of temples, in a day or two he would arouse curiosity of some passerby, and bring him food. in a few more days the local community would gather around him seeking spiritual guidance. “you are that kind of person,” he was told. that professor, as the head of the art school had given him the school’s art materials, him being penniless. and his classmates and some other teachers had fed him and offered him a place to sleep.

during one of the study tours his schoolmates took him along to an island, whose owner had hosted the school’s stay there. while having a little chat with the host, the host told the young man that for his school for the ecocentric living project he would donate that small island, except for the portion where he had his cultured pearl factory. but this young man could not accept the island at the cost of the pearl oysters' lives.

another conversation with a buddhist monk had brought him to the san francisco zen centre. there, while having sensible interactions with the visitors, the rich young persons in charge had asked him to leave the centre because his talks were dissentious. along with his departure from there a few of the students of zen left with him, and the not for profit non-profit organization came to be.

it is not the issue for him whether he is living in a dream or reality, as neither in such dreams nor in the world when not dreaming there is any difference in his thoughts and actions. but he is quite certain that his is not the wishful thinking forming the daydreams. he does not daydream to escape from the hard realities of living. so in dreams he observes problems rather than avoiding them. after all, problems are the justification for having an organ called the brain. all his dreams contain a geometrically mathematical evolutionary process that not just one single element of the whole can guide the path. so it is out of any thinker’s wildest imagination to predict the next step. see if you can predict the formation of a pattern of just a couple of bits in a kaleidoscope by trying to reform the pattern by giving a carefully controlled nudge. it is a dance of all the elements constituting an ever changing formation called cosmos. instead of trying to act aloof in one’s personal moves, one can just join in the cosmic dance. so this dreamer just steps in and out of the ever changing motions of life, eyes closed or wide open, his or others’ around him.

See the starling pictured above, is pictured below dancing ethereally with millions of its fellow beings coordinating the moves with the flutters of their wings, mesmerizing the chance viewers with their cosmic dance.

You may be able to see starlings' spontaneous magical murmuration in motion on the internet.