Air

So, my newest favorite song is by a band called Air. Curious to know more, searched wikipedia, and pandoras profiles on the band. The are French, from Versailles. The duo, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel, met in college. 

I enjoyed knowing the story of their name. It is a backronym, Amor, Imagination, Reve, in English: Love, Imagination and Dream.

I love the stream of thought my mind follows with those words. Love, the overused word that still has such powerful meaning connected to it. It is the great healer, the anecdote of fear, and the key which opens so many doors. Leading to imagination, and the love that blooms from creativity, and exploring possibilities. At first I had a hiccup into dream, but, then thought: dreams are where your imaginings can be real, they can be lived and experienced. I like it. Love, Imagination, Dream. Air. Listen. :)

Also, I happened to read this in "A New Earth" about dreams and the dreamer. About how something in dreams must be real. How this life could be looked back upon, and perhaps questioned, "was it all just a dream."

"There is  the dream, and there is the dreamer of the dream. The dream is a short lived play of forms. It is the world--relatively, but not absolutely real. Then there is the dreamer, the absolute reality in which the forms come and go. The dreamer is not the person. The person is part of the dream. The dreamer is the substratum in which the dream appears, that which makes the dream possible. It is the absolute behind the relative, the timeless behind time, the consciousness in and behind form. The dreamer is consciousness itself--who you are.

To awaken from the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises..."

sources: 1, 2, 3 (pgs 208-210)