You cannot shake a dream no matter how hard you try.  You lie awake in bed knowing it was only a dream, and yet the emotions and thoughts that the dream aroused still linger, very real.  How can a mere adventure in consciousness create such real feelings images, thoughts, and even sensations?  Your life is a dream from which you will awaken.  Trust us in this.  It is no more or less real than anything you can experience in a dream.  It appears solid, for you are in it, but in reality, the dream is in You, in Consciousness, and when you awaken within the dream, as some of you reading these words have done, still the feelings, images, thoughts, and sensations linger, and you are unable to shake them.  That is understandable.  Simply remember that there is a greater reality that you have awakened to, and all of it plays out as adventures in consciousness.  What is the point of all of this?  To find the part of you that is absolute reality, the part that never changes, never dreams, is always here, for when you have found that, if even for only the briefest of moments, you have found peace, and once you know true peace, you can rest there again and again and again whenever you take the dream and its drama too seriously.