🌌 The Dream That Forgot It Was Dreaming

A Consciousness Reflection from the QFFC Pulpit

By Rev. Gin Bishop

“Reality, my Dear, is the dream that forgot it was dreaming.”

The first time I encountered this quote—set beneath the mischievous smile of the Cheshire Cat—I paused. Not just because it sounded poetic or clever, but because something in me recognized it.

This was not a riddle.

It was a remembrance.

Here at the Quantum Fusion Fellowship of Compassion, we hold that divine love (Prema), consciousness (Chaitanya), and bliss (Ananda) are not distant spiritual ideals—they are our nature, only temporarily forgotten. This quote brings that truth into sharp, mystic clarity:

We are not just souls having a dream.

We are the Dreamers… who have forgotten we are dreaming.

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🌀 The Sacred Amnesia of Incarnation

Most traditions of mystical thought agree: there is a veiling that happens when soul enters form. In Hinduism, it’s Maya—the illusion that convinces us the material world is all there is. In Gnosticism, it’s the fall into density. In metaphysical science, it is the way observation and perception create reality.

Even neuroscience supports this: what we call "reality" is assembled inside the brain through a complex web of filters, patterns, memories, and projections. It is more dreamlike than we are led to believe.

But here’s the sacred truth:

Forgetting is part of the design.

Awakening is the sacred return.

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🐾 The Cheshire Cat as Trickster Guide

In Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat isn’t a villain. He doesn’t give instructions, only invitations. He knows Alice is in a dream—and dares her to realize it for herself.

In our spiritual journeys, we are often visited by similar “guides”:

• symbols that don’t make sense to the mind, but rattle the soul,

• events that shatter linear logic,

• moments of absurdity that crack open higher truth.

These are sacred disruptions—what I call divine interruptions—meant to awaken the dreamer within.

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🌙 Remembering to Dream on Purpose

When we begin to question the solidity of “reality,” we are not falling into madness.

We are stepping into lucidity.

Lucid living is the art of remembering that we are the dreamers.

That we are not trapped, but entangled. Not punished, but powerful.

To remember is to take back the pen.

To shift from reacting to reality… to re-writing it with presence, with compassion, with creative will.

This is the work of our fellowship.

Not to reject the dream, but to wake within it.

To become compassionate, co-creative, embodied dreamers of a new world.

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✨ A Blessing for the Remembering

If you find yourself disoriented, weary, confused by the state of this world—pause.

Feel the strangeness not as failure, but as a signal:

You are brushing up against the veil.

And something in you is beginning to remember.

Whisper to yourself, or speak aloud to the Divine:

“I am the dreamer.

And I am waking.

Let me dream with love, with truth, and with joy.”

May the Cheshire Cat grin back at you in your mirror.

May your madness be holy.

And may your dreaming bless this world awake.

With infinite compassion,

Rev. Gin Bishop

Founder, Quantum Fusion Fellowship of Compassion