You and I live in trance much of the time. That soup of thoughts, feelings, and sensations feels like reality. But it’s just some neurochemical noise that comes across like a bunch of some stories about ourselves, life, other people, and what’s going. Just like many of the stories you and I read and see on TV and the movies are fiction, the ones in your head aren’t real either.

I suppose you might want to believe all that stuff going in your head is the ‘truth’, right? So why do we get so many things so wrong so many times? Oh, I bet your head then tells you that everybody who disagrees with you is crazy and stupid and full of garbage, but not you. They’re the ones living in a trance, but you’re different, right? . Then again, that your trance fooling you once again.

In absolute reality, there is a game going on, but it’s not fun at all. Everybody thinks stuff, and everybody feels something. That’s just part of existence and life. The problems come when you believe that stuff is real when it’s just noise, lots of mess that got dumped into your head when you were no more than five or six years old. You’ve thought stuff, you’ve re-thought it, and re-thought it and re-thought it, and where has it gotten you? It’s just like a dog chasing its tail, except the tail is in your head.

When you get tired of being a dog chasing your own mind, there is something more profound and more beautiful than your mind and your trance can ever imagine. The real question or the ‘reality’ to question is whether you want to continue believing your trance, or recognizing that much of what you think and feel isn’t really real. It’s just old mind patterns that are enslaving you.

If you want to continue being a slave to your trance, that’s up to you. But if you want to be free and be who you really are, then be willing not to believe your trance. Your trance might tell you to be afraid of what’s available outside of your stories, but there is so much more to you than your mind and story can ever give you.