Chapter 21. Theater

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Lucid dreams most remind me of a stage performance during which we suddenly stop playing our part or stand up from our seat. We are the person who has penetrated behind the scenes, exposing the secrets behind the stage magic. You watch as the scenery changes, screen after screen, as the lighting adjusts to each scene, as the actors prepare and apply makeup in the dressing room to play your family and friends on stage. It is telling that they do not like it when you see them without makeup. The whole theater suddenly loses its raison d'être if you don't believe in the play. After all, it's a performance with only one member in the audience: you. Your realization that this is a dream is so upsetting to the actors, because it's like standing up in the middle of a play and heckling:

- I don't believe it!

They'll be distraught by your interjection and look at you. A producer might come into the hall, listen to you, answer your questions, and ask you not to disturb the actors in the future. In the meantime, they scramble to change the scenery and start playing something new and improvised, in the hopes that you will once again believe in the fairy tale and plunge into the magic of the stage.

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