Where Consciousness and Reality Actually Meet

Can one imagine themselves doing something? This may sound obvious and a bit like a stupid question, but what I mean is, if one is imagining, then can one also be the thing imagined? I tend to picture/remember things in 3rd person, so this effect is easier I think for me to examine than if I was always acting in imagination (or memory for that matter) from a first person perspective, but if I am the one imagining, and I see myself performing an action within the imagined place, would that not then be an image of myself performing the action imagined at my command?

Dreams often feel tangibly different than memory or imagination for me. Like even in those dreams where I feel dissociated from my body, it still feels like I am the one acting, firsthand, much as it does in this waking realm. Once more though, in cases where I am able to imagine in dreams, it is an image of myself I am imagining acting. Also, when I remember dreams it is usually in third person, so I would say personally the memory even in dreams is conducted via image as well. 

This makes me think about the relationship between consciousness and body. If we are simply sending and receiving signals to this organic vessel, even though it feels as though we are doing something, would it not be more accurate to say that we are commanding our vessel to do something, and then getting the feedback from the vessel in terms of the result? While this might be difficult to take as more than academic for those with able bodies, I imagine this point would strike a chord more deeply with those that have an impediment in communicating with their body, via some kind of physical disability; much like I am more easily able to picture understanding the gap in imagination because there is separation between myself and the image of myself imagined, I imagine one whose commands were not always accepted by their body immediately would understand the gap better between themselves and their body, for the same reason of this separation.

So what then of dreams? In a dream it is either the case that we are pure consciousness and only imagine ourselves having a body, or that in some way that we don't fully understand we actually do have bodies (in the dreams where this is applicable). In the case of pure consciousness interacting as if it has a body, could it be said that we, as our own consciousness, are actually interacting with our environment directly? If that were the case then these fleshy vessels we have here on earth would primarily serve the purpose of training our conscious minds to manifest into a particular shape in dreams, with dreams being the more direct experience of reality, where our consciousness is concerned. Given that for me the memory of a dream and imagining a dream and imagining while in a dream all carry this degree of separation, and waking life carries this separation in the same way, then if we do not have a body but instead manifest one in dreams, the present experience of having a dream is the single most direct experience our consciousness has with reality (to my present knowledge, having not definitively seen death).

This also has me curious about God's perspective. As God made male and female in God's own image (Genesis 1:27), and as I have said I can picture myself commanding my own image in my imagination, and reality might be considered equivalent to God's imagination (though with the aspect of The Word being involved it feels like there may be another critical layer to this structure that is not easily understood), could it be said that we have been "imagined" by God? If imagined in this way, and a continuous process of imagination is employed, it feels as though freewill would be an illusion, but it honestly does not feel like freewill is an illusion, and it certainly seems that, if God desires not to be alone, freewill would need to ultimately not be an illusion. Is there a point along the path of flesh vesseled consciousnesses manifesting themselves in a way that is most familiar to them in dreams where the one who initially imagined the consciousness can truly say it is separate, despite any possible methods (for God, omniscience and omnipotence) that might be used to trace the connecting line between them? Could it be possible to limit "any possible methods" down to "any method one is willing to utilize" in an honest and eternal way? The validity of this limiting function feels as though it would be predicated on the exchanging of vows, and perhaps the only thing holding back said vows is for a consciousness to reach the point where God can honestly make eternal vows with them, based on the path they have taken as a consciousness truly interacting with the reality around them (rather than through the various separated methods that have been provided as "imagined" by God- flesh, memory, imagination) during the period of grace we are in now. This would turn the appearance of freewill into the opportunity for true freewill, within these vowed parameters. 

As I write these words I realize that while memory, imagination, and even flesh would all be separate from one's consciousness based on the reasoning presented in this post, words would not be separate. It feels like this is the answer to my question on how The Word adds an extra layer to reality, a critical layer, that distinguishes it from strictly being the imagination of God, because it is also founded on The Word of God. This also feels like it explains why in the end we will be judged for every idle/empty word (Matthew 12:36). Personally my hope is that we are also assessed for all words, but this much is not said (though the meaning of the terms "idle" or "empty" might be discussed here). Personally I feel like this presents a glimpse of the final structure that is planned, as it feels like the hope would be that one's words here on earth could combine with one's directly interfacing conscious form in dreams, allowing both the stability of The Word and the wonder of one's wildest dreams to coexist forever and ever.

While this is certainly a reimagining of the "two rollers" post, I feel like the addition of using my own images in memory and imagination, as well as the distinction between flesh and consciousness, adds a new component to the concept for me, in highlighting the separation of consciousness from reality in the states of memory, imagination, and even the waking world. It feels like this allows a closer position from which to empathize with the perspective of God.