We can start to understand consciousness by understanding a particular aspect of it, like dreaming. The spectrum of consciousness incorporates all phenomena that exist within our universal viewpoint. As the image above portrays, if consciousness were a bright white light that contained all the colors of the spectrum within it, then each color would designate a "band of reality" within a particular frame of reference. Those bands are split out, filtered out as realities based on the rigid belief systems one holds in place: the prism of our beliefs or sometimes the "prison" of our beliefs. The bands of reality can include anything. Among the unlimited phenomena available to be experienced by all conscious creation are: day-to-day life or "real life" as some put it; dreaming; out-of-body experiences; mediumship; and even alien encounters. Each band of reality is your consciousness's way of expressing itself through the filter of your belief systems. As your belief systems become less rigid, more and more light passes through without interference. This will allow a person to embrace larger and larger universal concepts. The only difference that determines whether you experience a band of reality or not, is the rigid belief systems you have chosen to hold as your own. These can be beliefs in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realms.

So, what is dreaming?

Is dreaming nothing more than a series of thought, images, or emotions occurring during sleep, as the Webster dictionary claims? Or is it something more? Is it possible we travel outside our bodies during sleep and the dream is nothing more than our conscious mind trying to make sense out of our subconscious activities? Even if we did experience astral traveling while sleeping is it nothing more than a dream, or is there some sort of reality to it? So now we are down to the most basics of questions: what is reality?

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