the post-separation state in which the Son of God dreams a world of sin, guilt, and fear, believing this to be reality and Heaven the dream; the Son, being the dreamer, is the cause of the world which is the effect, although this relationship between cause and effect appears reversed in this world, where we seem to be the effect or victim of the world; occasionally used to denote sleeping dreams, although there is no real difference between them and waking ones, for both belong to the illusory world of perception.
see: happy dream