Thoughtful people have often felt uneasy about placing confidence in the mortal sense of life. Its fleeting nature has been likened by them to a dream. Isaiah prophesied of Jerusalem's enemies (29:7), "The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision."
The mortal senses strive against heaven, God's kingdom; but Christian Science explains mortal life to be a dream and the so-called dreamer to be the dream and not man. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Christian Healing" (p. 11), "A dream calleth itself a dreamer, but when the dream has passed, man is seen wholly apart from the dream." Through Christian Science we can reject the dream—cause it to pass. We can vigorously refuse to believe that we are figments of a dream. We can know ourselves to be God's offspring, as eternally awake as the Father is.
Christ Jesus described differing conditions of the mortal sense as states of sleep. He warned mankind to watch lest, at the day of reckoning, they should be found sleeping. The truths of God and man, which Christian Science reveals, break the dream of material life and inspire one to resist every degree of mortality.
