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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

sweats and demonstrates the other physical affects that the human
body undergoes in a dangerous situation.

A person who falls from a high place in his dream feels it with all
his body, even though he is lying in bed without moving. Alterna-
tively, one might see oneself slipping into a puddle, getting soaked
and feeling cold because of a cold wind. However, in such a case,
there is neither a puddle, nor is there wind. Furthermore, despite
sleeping in a very hot room, one experiences the wetness and the
cold, as if one were awake.
Someone who believes he is dealing with the original of the ma-
terial world in his dream can be very sure of himself. He can put his
hand on his friend's shoulder when the friend tells him that "it isn't
possible to deal with 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 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 pedal
suddenly. While going on the road, trees and road lines seem solid

because of the speed. In addition, he breathes clean Bosphorus air.
But suppose he is woken up by his ringing alarm clock just when
he's getting ready to tell his friend that he's seeing the original of
matter. Wouldn't he object in the same manner regardless of
whether he was asleep or awake?
When people wake up they understand that what they've seen
until that moment is a dream. But for some reason they are not sus-
picious of the nature of the life (what they call "real") that starts with
a "waking" image. However, the way we perceive images in "real
life" is exactly the same as the way we perceive our dreams. We see
both of them in the mind. We cannot understand they are images

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