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54 TIMELESSNESS AND THE REALITY OF FATE

THE WORLD IN THE DREAMS

For you, reality is all that
can be touched with the hand
and seen with the eye. In your
dreams you can also "touch with
your hand and see with your
eye", but in reality, you have nei-
ther hand nor eye, nor is there
anything that can be touched or
seen. There is no material reality
in your dream that makes these
things happen except your brain.
You are living in an illusory
world.
What is it that separates real life and dreams from one another? Ultimately,
both aspects of life are experienced within the brain. If we are able to live easily in
an unreal world during our dreams, a similar state of affairs can be equally true of
the world we live in. When we wake up from a dream, there is no logical reason
for not thinking that we have entered a longer dream that we call "real life". The
reason we consider our dream to be fancy and the world as real is nothing but a
product of our habits and prejudices. This suggests that we may well be awoken
from the life on earth which we think we are living right now, just as we are awok-
en from a dream.

the original of the world", and then ask "Don't you feel my hand on your
shoulder? If so, how can you say that you don't see the original matter?
What makes you think in this way? Let's take a trip up the Bosphorus; we
can have a chat about it and you'll explain to me why you believe this." The
dream that he sees in his deep sleep is so clear that he turns on the engine
with pleasure and accelerates slowly, almost jumping the car by pressing the