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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul
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We do not actually speak with anyone in our dreams. We see
no-one, and our eyes are closed. We neither run, nor walk. No
monsters frighten and chase us, no green and spacious lawns
spread out before us. There are no skyscrapers we are scared to
look down from or crowds of people. In the face of all these images,
we are, in fact, alone in bed. The loud noises from the crowds we
imagine to be surrounding us, never in fact reach into our silent
room.
When we imagine ourselves to be running very fast, we are
not in fact moving at all. When we imagine ourselves to be having
a heated discussion with someone, we do not in fact even open our
mouths. Yet during dreaming, we experience all these things very
vividly. The people around us, our surroundings and the things we
experience are so realistic that we never imagine that these things
are actually part of our dream.
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