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Harun Yahya

ally in the world in some sense. Now that’s really important because that tells us that our brains are actually
capable of constructing our visual experiences in this way in our dreams. And this then suggests, to some
philosophers and theorists of the mind in general, that perhaps when we’re awake and looking around at the
world, our common-sense understanding is wrong. Perhaps indeed that all of our experiences, all of our vi-

sual experiences of the world are in some way constructed by the brain and that this commonsense view that
we are in direct contact with the world is actually wrong. 76

If someone is aware that he’s dreaming, he will not be frightened by a car approaching, will realize
that the goods and money he acquires are transitory, and will harbor no greed for them. He knows that
the blessings and beauty he possesses will come to an end when he awakens, and these will inspire no pri-

de in him. Other people’s negative attitudes are of no importance in his dreams, because he knows that ne-
ither the circumstances nor the people themselves are real. He knows that he will wake up, for which rea-
son he does not chase after worldly things, or become worried by worldly concerns, or devote himself to
his own interests as if this life will never end. He knows that there is a real world outside the dream one.
Therefore, his surroundings are of no importance or value to anyone who knows he is dreaming.

This also applies to the period we refer to as “real life.” For someone who knows that this life is not
real, that it is presented merely in the form of perceptions, nothing he experiences in connection with
this “real” world is of any importance. Just as with dreaming, he is aware of the false nature of an un-

real life, even as he lives it. He now realizes that the people expecting gain from him do not actually
exist, and that the deceptive beauty and attractions around him in fact consist of illusions. There is the-
refore no point in his thirsting for things that exist in this world or expending energy on any personal
gains. He lives in a passing, transitory world and knows that his true life will begin after this one.
The writer Remez Sasson has this to say:

It is like a movie show. A person watching a movie gets so involved with the characters and with what hap-
pens on the screen. He may become happy or sad with the heroes, gets depressed, shouts or laughs. If at a par-
ticular moment he decides to stop watching the screen and manages to withdraw his attention from the movie,
he gets snapped out of the illusion the movie creates. The projecting machine
will go on projecting images on the screen, but he knows that it is only light

projected through the film onto the screen. What is seen on the screen is
not real, but yet it is there. He may watch the movie, or he
may decide to close his eyes and ears and stop looking

at the screen. Have you ever watched a movie,
when at some point the reel got stuck or there
was a power failure? What happens to you
when you watch an interesting, absorbing film
on the television and then suddenly there are

commercials? You are snapped out of the il-
lusion to the world around you.

When you are sleeping and dreaming,
and someone wakes you up, you feel
thrown out of one world to a diffe-
rent one. It is the same in the li-

fe we call reality. It is possib-
le to wake up from it. 77

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