Building dreams, enlisting helpers: If reality is the stuff of dreams, how do we make our dreams real to others? Simple. We enlist helpers. Helpers who share some part of our dream just as we share part of theirs.

Our first set of helpers is our body entities, all the little dreamers who dream up our flesh and blood.

Our next sets of helpers are our family members, friends, neighbors and other daily associates, who are  endowed with their own body entities.

Our next set of helpers is the entities who maintain the physical presence of our food supply. Not the supply chain, but the food itself, comprised of biofriendly molecules.

Beyond that are all the entities of the wide world (the universe) who construct and maintain the rest of the fabric of our existence. Among these the most important to us are those who maintain the components of our daily environment: the clothes we wear, the homes we live in, the cities and countrysides around us.

And so on. This dream we call our world is, as Shakespeare said, a play with many players. Among them are those who, as Milton said, only stand and wait.

Each of us must serve in this capacity, for this existence we share is unimaginably complex. We play our parts as well as we may, and bear witness to the parts played by many others.

As we continue to do this, year after year, it all becomes increasingly familiar. It is our accepted shared reality. It may even begin to make sense. If we keep at it long enough, eventually we begin to see those pearly gates looming on the horizon. The gates to the future.

Those gates stand where we will exit the stage. Perhaps for an extended rest. Perhaps to eventually come back for another turn about the stage, another performance, with similar or possibly very different players. Perhaps to play a very different part.

Those possible futures are hidden from us, disguised by being among so many other possibilities, both similar and different. As always, as we take our steps across the stage the way ahead will reveal itself among the twists and turns. 

What do we gain from all this? Memories. Deep memories, hidden memories, but memories none-the-less, guiding our choices moment by moment on our pathways through the years.

Each of us holds a unique set of memories, defining one possible path through dream space, turning it from possible to actual. And as we go, along with all our countless fellow dreamers, we are defining from among all that is possible one actual mutual universe of dreams.

Seeing them or not, those pearly gates loom on our horizons. As we approach them, they gradually reveal the possible futures from which we will build our dreams.

Dream on.