John, if you were to realize that right now, this very instant, as you read this email, you were actually dreaming...
And you realized that, as is true of all dreams, you are your dream weaver, and all that's necessary for something to happen next in this dream is for you to DEEPLY expect it...
And you understood that nothing else you could do would bolster your expectations more than vividly imagining what you wanted, and then demonstrating, via some minor physical gesture each day, that you believed in its inevitability...
Could you pull it off? Would you believe and behave in spite of the circumstances that now surround you (the old dream still lingering before your physical senses)?
Would you at least try to redirect the ship of your life? Muster the courage, the faith, and the will to at least pretend??
John, you've been doing it your whole life. It explains your every friend, romance, and happiness; your "lucky breaks," your connections, and the coincidences; the finds, the steals (deals!), and the clutch comebacks. There was NO mountain high enough to keep John Do down (and back then... you didn't even know you were dreaming!). And there NEVER will be.
Tallyho,
The Universe