The Dream I Walk Through

Escaping the illusion, remembering the real world

There are moments when I look around—at the restaurants full of birthday dinners, the freeways packed with Teslas, the texts that ping with urgency—and I feel it again.

This is not the real world.

It moves like one. It demands like one. It exhausts and rewards and distracts like one. But deep in my spirit, I know:

I’m walking through a dream.

Not a fantasy. A spiritual simulation. A system designed to keep us asleep.

And I remember what it felt like to start waking up—not with a red pill, but with a question:

What if everything I see is temporary, and the truth is found in what I can’t see?

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.—2 Corinthians 4:18

The Matrix Isn’t Just a Movie—It’s a Metaphor

Neo didn’t know what was wrong.

He just felt it—a friction under the surface.

A spiritual static humming beneath the system.

That’s how I live most days. Not angry. Not rebellious. Just… awake.

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” —C.S. Lewis

This world rewards sedation—scrolling, hustling, numbing, pretending.

But your spirit can’t be sedated forever.

Eventually, something shakes you awake.

For me, it happened slowly.

In moments of stillness.

In naps that felt more like resets.

In questions I couldn’t ignore.

And once you’ve seen the dream for what it is, you can’t unsee it.

This Isn’t Just Philosophy—It’s Scripture

“Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.” —1 Corinthians 13:12

The Bible doesn’t romanticize the world.

It calls it temporary.

Jesus didn’t promise comfort here—He promised a Kingdom not of this world.

Abraham longed for a city whose architect was God.

Paul wrote about groaning inwardly for what is to come.

We were never meant to be at home here.

That doesn’t mean we escape.

It means we walk through the dream with spiritual eyes open.

Soul Insights

1. Restlessness is a signal, not a flaw.

That unease? That low hum of discontent? That’s not a weakness. It’s a compass.

“He has set eternity in the human heart…” —Ecclesiastes 3:11

Your spirit remembers what your body forgets.

2. The system wants you numb, not awake.

Comfort. Control. Constant distraction.

The dream is designed to keep you too tired to ask real questions.

“The truth will set you free. But first, it will make you miserable.” —James A. Garfield

3. You don’t need to leave the world to live above it.

Jesus didn’t unplug from the dream—He walked through it with holy clarity.

He saw through the systems. And loved people anyway.

4. Spiritual rhythm is your resistance.

Prayer. Stillness. Reflection. Scripture.

Not rituals—reminders.

You don’t drift into truth. You return to it.

5. Love is your evidence of the real world.

In a world built on performance, love breaks the code.

The kind of love that’s inconvenient, spiritual, costly, and unexplainable?

That’s realer than anything this world offers.

Final Reflections: Unplugging Is a Daily Practice

The Matrix isn’t just a dystopian future.

It’s the spiritual reality we live in now.

And waking up isn’t a one-time event—it’s a rhythm.

Some days I get caught in the dream.

I chase productivity. I perform. I scroll.

But then God taps me on the shoulder with a moment of quiet,

and I remember:

“For we live by faith, not by sight.” —2 Corinthians 5:7

I wasn’t made to sleepwalk through this simulation.

I was made to love in it.

To see through it.

To call others awake.

This world is not the real one.

But I’m here for now.

And while I walk through the dream, I will walk with God—awake.

Your Turn

💭 Have you ever felt like you’re living in a spiritual Matrix?

Like your soul was tuned to a different frequency from the world around you?

Drop a comment or message me. I’d love to hear how—and when—you started to wake up.

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