Page 51 - Eternity Has Already Begun

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

fers terrible pain. In his
dream, he perceives all
the images, sounds,
feelings of hardness,
pain, light, the colors in
the hospital, all aspects
of the incident in fact,
very clearly and dis-
tinctly. They are all as
natural and believable
as in real life. At that
moment, if the person
who is having that
dream were told it was
only a dream, he would
not believe it. Yet all
that he is seeing is an il-
lusion, and the bus, hos-
Some people accept that when they touch a bus,
pital and even the body they feel the cold metal in their brains. On the oth-
er hand, they do not accept that the feeling of pain
he sees in his dream
at the moment the bus hits them forms in the
have no physical coun-
brain. However, a person will feel the same pain if
terparts in the real he sees himself falling under a bus in his dream.
world. Although they
have no physical counterparts, he still feels as if a "real body" has
been hit by a "real bus."
In the same way, there is no validity to the materialists' objec-
tions along the lines of "You realize the real nature of matter when
someone hits you," "You can have no doubt as to whether or not you
see the original of matter when someone kicks your knee," "You run
away when you meet a savage dog," "When a bus has hit you, you
understand whether it is in your brain or not," or "In that case, go
and stand on the motorway in front of the oncoming traffic". A
sharp blow, the pain from a dog's teeth or a violent slap are not ev-

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