Dreams of enLIGHTenment

In a dream this morning, after vague moments of zipping through galaxies and stars on beams of light as part of the eternal adventure we are all a part of, Michael had some words for me about enlightenment. He said many people are 'afraid' of words like "enlightenment" and "lightworker" (are they?), thinking of them as cheesy cliches, using them loosely or not realizing the truth in them. They are very literal. When we awaken our souls, we are enLIGHTening our being and thus everything around us. We see the eternal LIGHT that we are, we open doorways for that light, we let the light shine through and brighten our world.

In what felt like a sudden dream epiphany, I understood or was told that the world most of us see and think we live in is like a photograph taken in a darkened room. We believe that all we see in this photo is all that exists in the room. If something's there, we'd see it. After all, it's a photo of the 'real world'. However, when you increase the gamma level on this same photograph, you will begin to see that there is so much more there than you were ever aware of. Things become clearer. Details you didn't see before are made visible, as if a light has been switched on. The new details aren't additions to the photo, but things that were there the whole time. In the dream I saw a photo of beautiful Michael, nothing around him but empty space, but as I enhanced this photo with some kind of super version of Cosmic Photoshop, sparkles and glitter and a whole other scene became visible all around him, as clear as day. And these were all manifestations of love and light, all around us, right now. Love is all around you. You may not see it or the bearers of it, but it is there. Let the light in. EnLIGHTen the world...

My weak example: same pic, before & after basic gamma correction. He was there all along:

Here's another example of this type of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction