What Does the Collective Dream Look Like?
Imagine a narrow, nonlinear wave that travels horizontally across the ocean horizon, ripping across the wave formations surging towards the seashore, this narrow wave afire with movement, like a fuse riding the spark of fire on a stick of firecrackers, furiously but steadily shooting its way towards its destination.
This kind of wave was first noted by Scottish engineer John Scott Russell in 1834 as he was standing near Union Canal near Edinburgh. Called a "soliton," this type of wave has a momentum of its own, is independent of all other waves, yet it influences other waves without losing its own form and power. Unlike a hurricane or tsunami, this kind of wave does not destroy others within its wake, but somehow affects them without either the soliton or the individual waves losing their form or effect.
But what would this soliton wave look like amidst humanity?
Imagine a group of people who have "attuned" themselves to the Collective Dream. Like a soliton wave, each individual would nonlinearly affect all other individuals, since all individuals are part of this Collective Dream; and while recognizing the affect the "attuned" individual riding the soliton wave might have on the environment, this person would be taking part in the nonlinear movement of the wave through movements of the body, oftentimes describes as "living."
Each individual making this "attuned" movement in coordination with the Collective Dream would be therefore riding the solitonic wave of that Collective Dream, too, and in this movement, a synchronic, choreographed-like translation would transpire, this translation filling moments of time with the unveiled sight of the Collective Dream in Action.
A group of performance artists in New York gave us a staged view of what this might look like during a performance in New York's Grand Central Station. Here's the view from the camera:
Imagine each of the 200 performers as representing their human "attunement" with the Collective Dream. Each is acting and moving and being in accordance with the solitonic wave they are riding in conjunction with the Collective Dream. Therefore, as it shows in the video, there is harmony within this wave, even though it appears as there are 200 separate individuals taking part in this collective performance. When stopping their physical movement at the peak of this solitonic wave, a portrait is formed, a snapshot, and those elements not entrained with the wave, but physically present, have been imagined into a different reality, whether they've selected it or not. If they are conscious of this altered reality, they will realize something strange is going on. And when and if they "get it," they have been affected by the consciousness of those who have momentarily paused at the crescent heights of the solitonic wave of the Collective Dream, and although not an actor in the movement before them, their recognition of this moment has indeed catapulted them into the action in a greater way.
While we may not know what our actions as part of the Collective Dream look like in relationship to others, it is in relationship to others that the dream can be viewed; that a harmonic resonance is now visible, reflecting the deeper reflections emanating from the Collective Dream.