Dreaming Difficulty

What separates reality from the dream?
Or is there something in between?

Are dreams reality, can you tell?
My friend, I pray you listen well.

Our dreams seem so real while we're in them, but when we wake we find them to be irrational, as dictated by a contrived sense of what is real. But in irrationality, there is freedom. In dreams we find a world where we have no expectations of ourselves or the world around us. It is a gift.

But when we wake up, we reinsert those earthly values, putting the expectations back into what we just dreamed. In doing so, we destroy the world we've been given. If we could totally remove our expectations from reality, would we be able to differentiate between reality and dreams? Life itself would become a dream.

So in dreams, what we see can be called personal reality. Our reality is only made up of senses and electroneurotic interpretations, and how reliable can that be? Never believe something just because a "wise" person said it - believe in it because you choose to, because you want to, because it is who you are. Don't be afraid to dream, because on the day that you stop you become a pawn of something greater - greater not because it truly is, but because you let it be.

Is it because we are insecure? Or is it because it is far easier to accept what others believe than to think for yourself? Easier will never be better.