T. 28. II. 4 – 7. Jesus: “The miracle does not awaken you, but merely shows you that you are the dreamer of the dream. Though you are still asleep, it teaches you there is a choice of dreams, depending on the purpose you would have them serve. Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death?
A dream is like a memory, in that it pictures to you just what you have wanted to see! An empty storehouse with an open door, your mind holds all your shreds of memories and dreams. Yet if you recognize that it is you who are the dreamer, you perceive this much at least: That this dream is one you have caused, and you can as readily accept another dream instead!
But for this change in content to occur, it must be recognized that the dream you do not like is your own dreaming! It is only an effect that you, yourself, have caused. And you no longer would be the cause of this unwanted effect. In dreams of murder and attack are you the victim in a dying body slain, but that is not the only choice of dreams.
In forgiving dreams is no one asked to be the victim, and none the sufferer. These are the happy dreams the miracle exchanges for your own. It does not ask you make another; only that you see it was you who made the one you would exchange for this.
A dream apart from Cause, this world is really causeless, as is every dream that anyone has dreamed within the world. No stable plans are possible, and no real design exists that can be found and clearly understood. What else could be expected from a thing that has no real cause? Yet if it has no cause, it has no purpose either. You may ‘cause’ a dream, but never will you give it real effects. For that would change its cause to Cause, and it is this that by yourself, you cannot do!
The dreamer of a dream is not awake, but neither does he know he sleeps! He sees illusions of himself as sick or well, depressed or happy, but without a stable cause which guarantees effects. By demonstrating that perception shifts with change of purpose, the miracle establishes you as dreamer of a dream, and that its content is therefore not the truth. This is a crucial step in dealing with illusions!
No one is afraid of illusions when he perceives he has but made them up! The fear was held in place because he thought he was a figure in the dream of someone else, and did not see himself as the author of the dream.”