PRACTICES FOR PERCEPTION
The Dreamer Action Catalogue
A working catalogue of perception-shift prompts, gathered as daily dream cues for the consciousness-first experiment.
This catalogue is not a doctrine but a field guide. Each prompt reframes an everyday illusion into a possibility worth testing. They are cues to carry into daily life — small experiments in seeing differently. Some may feel obvious, others unsettling. None are final. Together they form a living archive of shifts for anyone exploring the hypothesis that mind comes first.
Last update: Sept 5, 2025
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We begin with the basic assumption: that the world is outside and pushes inward. Each prompt asks you to test the opposite—that experience arises in mind, not to mind.
The world happens to me → Try: “What if everything happens in me?”
Circumstances create feelings → Notice: “Do feelings shape how circumstances appear?”
External events are fixed → Test: “What if events are symbols, not givens?”
Space separates things → Try seeing space as awareness unfolding.
Time flows forward → Pause: “Does time appear only inside the Now?”
History pushes the present → Ask: “What if both past and present are projected in mind?”
Future is uncertain → Try treating it as a storyboard in consciousness.
Chaos threatens order → Notice: “Do both appear as contrasts in the same script?”
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Once cause is flipped, we question the one who seems pushed around. Each cue loosens the identity of “me” as body, name, or story.
I am a body → Try seeing the body as an avatar in awareness.
I was born into life → Notice: “What if life was born in me?”
I end at death → Test: “Do forms end, while Being doesn’t?”
My past defines me → Try reframing the past as a replay in mind now.
My name is who I am → See if name is just a label on the limitless.
I’m the thinker of thoughts → Pause: “What if thoughts simply arise in mind?”
I’m the doer of deeds → Try: “What if deeds unfold through the dreamer, not by me?”
I improve myself → Notice: “What if I’m simply remembering my Self?”
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With “me” loosened, we look at the “others” who populate the stage. These cues test whether every face is another angle of the same mind.
There are many minds → What if one Mind wears many masks?
You are separate from me → Try seeing another as another angle of “I.”
Love is exchange → Notice: “What if love is recognition?”
Enemies are real → Try seeing the enemy as misunderstood Self.
Relationships complete me → Test: “What if completion is already given?”
Forgiveness fixes wrongs → Try treating forgiveness as remembering innocence.
Communication crosses gaps → Notice: “What if there is no gap to cross?”
Empathy is imagining you → Test empathy as remembering Us.
Power belongs to groups → Try seeing power as shared Being.
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The most convincing evidence of separation is the body. These prompts test whether even sensation belongs to the dream.
Pain proves reality → Try: “What if pain is a dream alarm?”
Illness attacks me → Notice illness as image in mind.
Aging is decline → Try reframing aging as a costume change.
Senses report facts → Test: “What if senses only render perception?”
Hunger is body’s need → Notice hunger as a scripted message.
Pleasure is outside stimulus → Try treating pleasure as inside response.
My body’s limits confine me → What if limitless Being plays as body?
Birth is a beginning → See if birth is just a scene in awareness.
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Thoughts and feelings are weather, not verdicts. Each prompt reframes them as signals inside the field, not causes outside it.
Guilt proves wrongdoing → Try guilt as a glitch in memory.
Fear keeps me safe → Test whether clarity keeps you safe instead.
Anger demands justice → Notice anger asking for inner repair.
Sadness signals loss → Try seeing sadness as attachment.
Joy depends on outcome → Test joy as the nature of Being.
Boredom means nothing’s happening → Notice boredom as resistance to Now.
Anxiety predicts danger → Try seeing anxiety as projecting unreality.
Desire drives progress → Test desire as masking wholeness.
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Now we look at the scoreboard—money, work, status. These cues test whether true value lies in Being itself.
Money measures value → Try value as inherent in awareness.
Work earns worth → Notice work as expression of Being.
Success is acquisition → Test success as recognition of Self.
Competition spurs growth → Try collaboration as a mirror of oneness.
Planning secures tomorrow → Notice presence shaping tomorrow.
Control prevents chaos → Try trust as revealing order.
Possessions make me safe → Test safety as non-possession.
Status proves identity → Notice identity as prior to status.
Productivity equals virtue → Try awareness as beyond measure.
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Finally, we test the path itself. Even awakening can be seen as a dream role.
Awakening is an achievement → Try awakening as return.
Truth is found outside → Notice truth realized within.
Teachers give enlightenment → Test teaching as projection.
Progress is linear → See progress as spiral remembrance.
Discipline is hard effort → Try discipline as sustained curiosity.
Meditation happens on a cushion → Test meditation as happening in life.
Spiritual life is separate → Notice all life as spiritual.
Miracles break laws → Try miracles as revealing laws of mind.
Salvation is future reward → Test salvation as present seeing.
The dream hides reality → Notice the dream pointing to reality.
This catalogue is not an answer key. It is a field of cues — each one provisional, each one worth trying on. Some may dissolve quickly, others may stay with you for months. The aim is not to collect sayings but to test perception, again and again, until the experiment itself deepens.