www.freedomfiles.org/mary-book.pdf

"Think of our Creator/God as a loving parent watching her child experience a bad dream (life as we know
it is often referred to as a 'nightmare'). The parent has no idea what her child is dreaming; she knows only
that it is terribly upsetting to the child. The parent can't intervene into the dream and change it to be more
pleasant because the dream exists only in the child's mind. There is nothing to be done other than to get the
child to awaken and realize that he made up the entire dream. Only when the child awakens, will he see how
he caused himself such unnecessary grief. But while he is in the dream it seems completely real. The
following night, does the child go back into the dream with the intent to change the previous night's bad
dream, or does he just move on with the next night's dream's adventures? The intent of the child is not only
to move on but also to experience his dreams as pleasant. Wouldn't it be particularly convenient if he
remained conscious within the dream so that if a bad dream showed up, he could know that none of it was
real – that it was just a dream from which he would awaken and have no fear?"