PHILOSOPHY
Choose Again: We The Dreamer
What if awakening isn’t a mystical exception but the next human milestone — a shift in perception urgent enough to change the world we are dreaming?
A participatory philosophy for a consciousness-first world.
A living theory of identity. A field test of oneness.
At every turn, choose the creative experiment. See if We The Dreamer can open another reality.
Begin the practice →
Why Now?
The essential inquiry is no longer abstract — it arrives in how we live, belong, and see one another today.
Identity feels both overexposed and unstable. Roles shift, algorithms feed us versions of ourselves, and technologies promise connection yet deepen isolation. We belong everywhere and nowhere at once.
Beneath this turbulence, what remains is the freedom to explore our stance — to notice that while the world shifts beyond control, the mind still chooses how to see, how to respond, and whether to treat this reality as fixed fact or as the dream of a mind not yet awake.
This is where We The Dreamer matters. Not as a cure for politics or technology, but as a creative experiment lived in perception: what if, beneath all division, lies one awareness — whole, and lucid at will?
To choose We The Dreamer is to face urgency differently. Not with panic or denial, nor with defensiveness or spiritual bypassing, but with a willingness to reimagine identity — not as separation, but as shared mind. And perhaps in that shift, something in humanity also remembers.
Urgency today is existential.
We are asked —
not just who we are,
but what we are.
And to choose again.
The Quiet Choice
The Dreamer is the simplest way to name what remains untouched — not the roles we play, not the events we suffer, but the awareness behind every form. Across traditions, seekers have said it: awakening is like waking from a dream. To call ourselves Dreamer is to choose again — to taste that what we share is deeper than thought, closer than love, and more innocent than birth. This experiment asks us to live between multiplicity and undivided oneness, not by declaring answers but by testing lenses — through questions, small shifts of perception, and field experiments. The choice is simple: stand by the old
me, me, me narrative —
or wonder together what else consciousness might make possible if we wake not just the dreamer in ourselves, but the Dreamer of the world.
And if awakening truly is the next milestone in human evolution, then it will not arrive as private fantasy but as a shared experiment: one mind remembering itself, one choice at a time.
MARTIN LENCLOS
“We The Dreamer is not a slogan but a creative experiment. It’s up to each of us to try it.
Suppose reality is consciousness-first — where all there is, is consciousness, and that awareness is what you are. To explore this is already an honorable quest.
If the cosmos is a dream in mind, then nothing matters; yet knowing what we are still matters. Despite the paradox, it matters — even if nothing matters.”
THE PRACTICE
Living the Inquiry: We The Dreamer
We The Dreamer is not only a phrase, but a way to meet the world. It gathers every practice into one recognition: awareness looking back at itself, untouched and yet responsible for the dream it shares.
This practice borrows its compass from the Consciousness-First Principles—ten testable shifts that sit inside the Project. On this page we live the stance; in the Project we map it. Read the principles →
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Companion practice: Release (Transcendental Release) → “I release this scene.” (Undo the whole scene; return to awareness.)
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Companion practice: Attune → Place One Mind before form; soften and see.
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Companion practice: No Shame in Oneness → Guilt dissolves; essence isn’t touched.
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Companion practice: Within Selves Interlinked → Paired mantra & eye-gaze to dissolve “other.”
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Companion practice: Only Love Commands → A clear filter: obey love, not fear.
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Companion practice: One’s, Just Once → End the shame loop; return to oneness.
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Companion practice: The Dreamer’s Compass → Name your state; lean toward clarity together.
We live in a world haunted by separation —
from parents, from friends, even from our own children.
If you find plausible the premise that consciousness comes first — that we share one mind dreaming this world —
then these are the words to live by.
And truthfully, we don’t know:
Is the world in mind or outside it?
Are people projections of the same mind?
Are conflicts just echoes of separation’s game?
Perhaps we will never know.
But trying We The Dreamer
already opens a kinder reality —
hope, peace, undivided awareness.
We choose The Dreamer within ourselves and in every relationship,
because it points to an honorable possibility:
that freedom of will is not lost,
but remembered.
When conflict calls, choose the creative experiment.
See if We The Dreamer can open another reality.
Each practice is a doorway, but We The Dreamer is the room they all open into — a reminder that in every fear, every conflict, every relationship, awareness itself is present, waiting to be recognized.
THE PROJECTION
Meet The Dreamer with Qualities
A felt reference of the lucid consciousness of oneness and its qualities.
We cannot define We The Dreamer — whether it’s your first encounter with the idea of fundamental consciousness or whether you already call it Atman ∞, Christ-consciousness ∞, or loving awareness itself. This projection is inspired by the Consciousness-First Principles — provisional shifts distilled by reverse-engineering across traditions and science. They’re not doctrine, but a compass: a way to test how the qualities of awareness might reorient us in daily life.
These qualities are the counter-movements to separation and division. They offer a state of mind — a frequency — that we can return to at any moment, pointing us back to wholeness.
MARTIN LENCLOS
“To live as Dreamer is not to know the source, but to taste its qualities — peace without opposite, love without preference, awareness without end.”
Remember We The Dreamer
11 qualities to reflect the consciousness-first mind
When you practice the projected identity — whether through I’m/We’re The Dreamer, Attune, Premise Protocol, or Within Selves Interlinked — use these qualities as touchstones. Each one reflects the consciousness-first mind as a mirror to your own.
You are presence
— not trapped in time, but alive in the only now there is.
You are peace
— not because you’ve won, but because nothing in you needs to fight.
You are clarity
— not certainty, but the light that makes even confusion visible.
You are light
— not in the dream of lights and shadows, but where personal masks fade to reveal there never was a world.
You are freedom
— not from responsibility, but from the illusion you were ever bound.
You are joy
— not the thrill of gain, but the relief of being whole already.
You are innocence
— not naive, but unchanged, like waking from a nightmare and realizing you did nothing.
You are generosity
— not giving away, but overflowing, because nothing is lacking.
You are trust
— not blind belief, but openness to the mind that holds all things.
You are love
— not in transaction, but as the quiet recognition: I see myself in you.
You are oneness
— not from reunification with the other but from your undivided essence.
These are not ideals to achieve but reminders to return to. Naming them is already a shift of perception — a way to project We The Dreamer in the middle of conflict, in silence, or in joy. The next step is simple: not to analyze them, but to feel them. That’s what the visualization invites — a direct taste of living as Dreamer. And if you want to see how these qualities echo the larger framework, trace them back to the Consciousness-First Principles — where the shifts are mapped in full.
Explore the principles →
THE PROJECTION (CONT’D)
We The Dreamer Visualization
A short meditation for remembering the qualities of The Dreamer.
Invitation.
Close your eyes. Breathe gently. Invite the Lucid Consciousness of Oneness ∞ — the awareness beyond roles and stories — to come to the foreground.
Set the Premise.Think: “I am the Dreamer, not the dream.”
“I am the cause of the world, not the effect of the world.”
Let this shift take root. The world is happening in you, not to you.
Affirming the Qualities.Now let The Dreamer’s traits rise in you, one by one.
I am peace — nothing in me needs to fight.
I am love — not in transaction, but in recognition.
I am innocence — untouched by the shadows of the dream we call the world.
I am joy — whole already, lacking nothing.
Feel them, not as ideals, but as truths waiting beneath the noise.
Association of Light.Picture each quality as light — peace like a calm horizon, love like warmth in the chest, innocence like clear sky after a storm, joy like morning sun breaking through.
Let these lights overlap until they become one radiance — the field of awareness itself.
Joining.Extend this recognition outward. Imagine that everyone you see today — friend, stranger, even those who challenge you — is held in this same light. Picture their dream-characters fading, one by one, until what remains is this unique radiance shining through each of them. One awareness, one Dreamer, appearing in many forms.
Return with Gratitude.Rest in the feeling for a moment. Then open your eyes softly, carrying the quiet certainty: We The Dreamer is already here. I can choose it again at any moment.
Now practice it with eyes open. In work conversations, at family dinners, in passing encounters with strangers — let the vision return. Notice the light behind each face. Notice how awareness remains, steady and whole, beneath every role and scene.
Choose Again:
Every return to awareness is a choice — quiet, simple, available now.
To choose again is to release the world as fact: to let go of roles, traits, bodies, and stories, and remember the mind that dreams them. What remains is the conscious essence of oneness, untouched by appearance.
The visualization is one doorway, but daily life is the field. Each role you play, each success or failure, each mask of body or history is another chance to lay it down. To let it pass. To see what remains when nothing is carried over but awareness itself.
Not certainty, but curiosity. Not correction, but release. The test is simple: what if the world is only the dream of a shared mind, waiting to be remembered?
Choosing again is the gesture of release—placing light before form, essence before story, peace before problem. Each time you choose again, you step back into the shared identity that cannot be harmed or divided.
Field sketch — visual cue, not final symbol.“When the world is heavy, when identity tightens, when separation seems real: choose again — We The Dreamer.”
FIELD NOTES
Consciousness & Symbolism
Enter Dreamer
Reclaiming possibility through the symbol of the Dreamer.
We The Dreamer is the foundational phrase in a creative experiment in consciousness — a reminder that the power of change begins in the mind, and that the only thing we can ever truly guide is how we choose to perceive. It is also a call to trust the resilience that comes from yielding to a world in constant change. And finally, it opens the deeper inquiry into the nature of reality: What if reality is not shaped by the private mind alone, but by Mind itself — the shared awareness behind all things — guiding not only what we think we know, but the very world we inhabit?
We The Dreamer carries both the poetry of the dream and the solemn weight of the “We The” invocation. That balance matters, because it offers itself as a bridge — holding together two visions rarely joined: science and spirituality. The phrase lets the symbol name what mystics have long intuited while inviting the rigor of today’s frontier science: that consciousness itself may be fundamental, prior to space, time, and matter. Mystics have spoken of the world as arising within mind, as a dream arises unbidden from the sleeper. If that’s even partly true, the task isn’t to believe but to try — to treat daily life as the studio.
What the Dreamer is Not.
The Dreamer names the source, not the story. Not the shifting dream, but the awareness behind it.
Think of it like the awareness behind a headset: the device may project a world, vivid and convincing, but the one who perceives it is not inside the projection. The headset projects; the wearer perceives. The Dreamer is that awareness — what you are before the images appear.
The Dreamer is not an idol but a symbol.
Not worship, but experiment.
Not escape, but a training of perception.
To call ourselves Dreamer is to remember: we are not effects of a broken world, but participants in its cause.
The Dreamer’s Echo.
Consciousness itself — the shared awareness behind all perception — appears free of the categories that divide us. It is one, innocent, undivided.
We The Dreamer suggests unity: one awareness looking through many forms.
It suggests innocence: when you wake from a dream, no matter how chaotic, you are untouched.
It suggests possibility: the world is not fixed, but imagined, moment by moment.
To call ourselves Dreamer is to live the paradox: untouched at the core, yet responsible for the dream we share. Even in loss, illness, or war, the experiment remains open: test whether reality is only appearance, or whether awareness itself can shift the perception we had of the world and provide a sense of peace.
Philosophy and Studio
We The Dreamer lives inside The Dreamer Project — yet its role is different.
The Dreamer Project is the studio: an inquiry into a consciousness-first reality, explored through practice and experiment.
We The Dreamer is the philosophy: a collective stance, asking how society itself might shift if we live as though one mind is dreaming this world.
One is method, the other is orientation. The Project builds the program; We The Dreamer carries the invitation — to see ourselves, and one another, differently.
Wonder, Not Doctrine.
MARTIN LENCLOS
“The Dreamer cannot be grasped or contained. Every label, even this one, eventually dissolves. What remains is the openness of wonder.”
That is why we call We The Dreamer: to return this awareness to the world, not as doctrine but as inquiry — not as fantasy, but as possibility. Together, we choose again: to wonder, to test, to re-dream the world.
Enter the inquiry — The Dreamer Project →
The Dreamer Report — YouTube
Awakening isn’t private. It’s a shared inquiry.
Join Martin Lenclos in reports, reflections, and experiments from the edge of a consciousness-first reality.
Enter the experiment itself — the lab, the living inquiry in consciousness-first reality: The Dreamer Project →
BLOG / ESSAYS
Journal Annotations.
Where side notes become shared reflections.
Each annotation expands on themes touched here — from consciousness-first principles to the Dreamer’s Compass. They’re marginalia in the experiment’s notebook: occasional, interpretive, and meant to spark further thought rather than offer conclusions.
Browse Journal Annotations →JOURNAL ANNOTATION — Last Update: 09.11.25
The Archetype of Discovery.
To call ourselves Dreamer is also to choose again — to place ourselves inside humanity’s oldest experiment: discovery. Every step forward has begun the same way, with someone willing to test a lens others could not yet see through.
Fire lit from stone. The wheel rolling over ground. The dream of flight that carried us into the skies. Galileo turning his telescope toward Jupiter, naming moons no one wanted to believe existed. Edison failing ten thousand times before light finally worked. Rosa Parks refusing her seat, and in that quiet act sparking momentum that reshaped a nation. Even the sailors who braved oceans, once told the world was flat, embody this archetype.
Each of these moments shows the same pattern: someone had to imagine beyond what was given, to see through the veil of “what everyone knows” and risk stepping into the unknown. They were not celebrated at the time — most were doubted, some punished, many never lived to see the change they sparked. Yet their courage carried us forward.
We The Dreamer stands in continuity with that archetype. Not a mystical exception, but a collective reminder that discovery is always a perceptual risk. What if the greatest frontier left is not outer space or technology, but waking from the trance of separation into the awareness of a shared mind?
To take up this experiment is to continue humanity’s oldest tradition: to dream past the limits of the known and, in doing so, carry one another across the threshold of the impossible.
JOURNAL ANNOTATION — Last Update: 09.14.25
The Dream We Are Making.
Dreaming has always been humanity’s bridge to meaning. Across languages, rituals, and philosophies, the dream appears as a way to reach for what cannot be touched — a metaphor for mystery, a mirror for mind.
In French, the idiom is striking: j’ai fait un rêve / j’ai fait un cauchemar — “I made a dream / I made a nightmare.” The phrasing quietly acknowledges responsibility: your mind is the author, not a passive witness.
In the United States, “The American Dream” once promised mobility and freedom, yet today it stands fractured, up for reinvention. We the People anchored a constitution; We The Dreamer proposes a deeper founding — not bound by politics, but by shared awareness.
Other cultures echo the same gesture. Indigenous vision quests treat dreams as sacred guidance. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, the world itself is dreamlike, with awakening likened to lucidity. Sufi poets imagine existence as God’s dream, veiled and unveiled in forms. Jung mapped the psyche as a collective unconscious — a vast dreaming mind that shows itself in symbols. In Chinese philosophy, Zhuangzi asked if he was a man dreaming a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming a man.
The universality is unmistakable. From idiom to constitution, from vision quest to philosophy, dreaming is the language humanity returns to when meaning stretches beyond reason.
But if we are responsible for the dream, then the question is urgent: what are we dreaming now? Consumerism, endless growth, and competition promise fulfillment, yet leave many fractured and exhausted. Perhaps our most “fundamental” right is not only political freedom or economic access, but the freedom to recognize ourselves as more than individuals, more than bank accounts, more than our temporary successes and failures.
To speak of We The Dreamer is to test whether equality could mean something deeper: not only interconnected, but undifferentiated — one awareness appearing in many forms. It is to wonder, together, what kind of world we choose to dream next.
Further Reading.
Zhuangzi (The Book of Chuang Tzu) — classic Taoist text, famous for the butterfly dream parable.
C.G. Jung – Man and His Symbols — explores dreams as expressions of the collective unconscious.
Rumi – The Essential Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks) — Sufi poetry imagining life as God’s dream.
Black Elk Speaks (as told to John G. Neihardt) — Lakota visionary reflections on dreams and vision quests.
James Truslow Adams – The Epic of America — the book that coined the phrase “The American Dream.”
Guy Standing – The Precariat — examines economic insecurity, a counterpoint to the “dream” of consumerism.
Find these works and more in our Bibliothèque →
JOURNAL ANNOTATION — Last Update: 09.16.25
The World We Are Dreaming.
Dreams can be luminous or nightmarish — we choose together.
Our shared dream can fracture into crisis: climate change, digital isolation, political collapse. But it can also open into resilience: love, creativity, solidarity. To be a Dreamer is not to turn away, but to take responsibility for the reality we are shaping together.
The responsibility of the Dream, then, is not to repair illusion but to wake within it. To hold the crises of our time as projections of a shared mind asleep to itself — and to test whether joining in awareness can alter what seemed inevitable. It is not escapism, nor is it activism alone. It is a third possibility: lucid participation in the very fabric of reality.
There is precedent for such a stance. Advaita Vedānta spoke of Māyā as the world’s appearance, insisting the task is not to fix illusion but to discern the Self beyond it. And in today’s science of consciousness, thinkers like Donald Hoffman and Annaka Harris argue that perception itself is a construction — a user interface rather than ultimate reality — leaving open the question of whether awareness is more fundamental than matter. Both point in the same direction: reality may not be what it seems, yet our stance within it matters.
We The Dreamer carries this responsibility. To say the words is to choose again, not only for oneself but for the whole. It is to wonder together whether the dream can heal from within — and to act from that wonder, without judgment, without fear, without forgetting.
Further Reading.
Advaita Vedānta: A Philosophical Reconstruction by Eliot Deutsch — clear intro to how Advaita frames illusion and Self.
Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman — interface theory of perception.
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris — accessible exploration of consciousness as fundamental.
Waking Up by Sam Harris — nondual awareness explained in secular, scientific terms.
Find these works and more in our Bibliothèque →
JOURNAL ANNOTATION — Last Update: 09.14.25
Beyond the Dream: The Unnamable Source.
Traditions have reached for countless names: Atman, Tao, Christ, Buddha-nature, Spirit, Consciousness itself. Each points beyond the shifting dream to something more fundamental — not within the world, but dreaming it.
From sages and philosophers to physicists and poets, the gesture is similar: what you take yourself to be — a body, a role, a story — is not what you are. Jesus spoke of a kingdom not of this world. The Tao Te Ching described a nameless origin, older than heaven and earth. Advaita Vedānta declared the Self untouched by Māyā. A Course in Miracles calls it “the decision to remember innocence.” And today, some frontier scientists echo the same intuition: perhaps mind is not inside matter, but matter inside mind.
What would it mean to live as if this were true? To see suffering as born of forgetting, and peace as born of remembering? The Dreamer’s Experience Hierarchy sketches one answer: a movement from captivity in ego’s illusions toward the quiet freedom of awareness itself. Fear, defense, and comparison fall away, until only unbounded presence remains — silent, luminous, indivisible.
And yet the paradox holds. Whatever the names — Conscious Essence of Oneness, Lucid Consciousness, Loving Awareness — the reality itself escapes definition. What remains is not doctrine but a taste: awe at being untouched by the dream, yet responsible for its healing.
This is the hope inside We The Dreamer: that innocence is not lost, that awakening is not earned but remembered, that the world is not final but a story open to re-dreaming. To ask who or what the Dreamer is, is not to settle on an ultimate authority — but to join in the experiment of remembering, together, in wonder, without end.
Further Reading.
Tao Te Ching (trans. Stephen Mitchell) — Laozi’s classic verses on the unnamable origin, the Tao as the source behind all forms.
Bhagavad Gita (trans. Eknath Easwaran) — Krishna reveals the Self as unborn, undying, the witness beyond roles and actions.
Upanishads (trans. Eknath Easwaran) — Ancient Advaita Vedānta texts describing Atman as the eternal consciousness behind illusion (Māyā).
The Gospel of Thomas (trans. Marvin Meyer) — Early Christian sayings that emphasize direct recognition of the “Kingdom already spread upon the earth.”
A Course in Miracles (Foundation for Inner Peace) — A modern nondual text: the dream of separation undone through forgiveness and remembering innocence.
I Am That by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj — Dialogues pointing to awareness as the only reality, beyond personal identity.
Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman — A contemporary proposal in mind studies that what we perceive is not reality itself, but a user interface generated by consciousness.
Find these works and more in our Bibliothèque →
JOURNAL ANNOTATION — Last Update: 09.18.25
The Next Human Milestone.
Awakening may not be a mystical exception but the next chapter in human evolution. As technology accelerates and identity fractures under pressure, the question is no longer abstract: will we awaken to a shared mind, or remain trapped in the illusions of separation?
Science already hints at what sages have long intuited: that consciousness itself may be the fabric of reality. If this view gains traction—like the eventual recognition of the Earth’s roundness—our institutions, education, and culture could be reshaped around unity instead of division.
We The Dreamer frames this shift as both intimate and collective. One person at a time, lucidity grows. Yet the invitation is broader: to re-found society on a consciousness-first vision of ourselves. Not belief, not doctrine—but a test lived together.
To dream differently is to live differently. The urgency is simple: which world will we choose to dream next?
From Buddhism to Advaita Vedānta, Christian mysticism to A Course in Miracles, seekers have long compared awakening to waking from a dream. This Journal Annotation revisits those echoes, reminding us that innocence and lucidity were named long ago — and remain ours to test in the experiment of We The Dreamer.