Vachon Imagined

When people use force or willpower to change others—or even to control their own perception—they can turn what is naturally moving through awareness into something fixed.

What was once a movement becomes an identity.

What was once alive becomes permanent.

And in that fixation, something essential is lost.

A dream becomes something to possess rather than something passing through.

We drift from awareness in this way.

We become overly identified with form, achievement, and outcome.

The world often praises this—achievement, accumulation, success, the building of identity through material or external markers.

But in the process, something quieter can be forgotten.

The sense of life itself behind it.

When dreams are seen only as destinations, we lose sight of them as movements within awareness—experiences that arise, unfold, and pass.

Even if a person becomes what they once called a dream, it is easy to forget the source that made that experience possible in the first place.

To forget the awareness in which it all appeared.

So the deeper invitation is this:

not to reject the dream,

and not to cling to it,

but to remember the field in which it arose.

And not to become so identified with what is passing through,

that we lose sight of what is always present.