Page 184 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

Even if someone is attacked by a dog, that
does not change the fact that he sees it all
in his brain. A person could see the same
incident with the same clarity in a dream,
and experience the same excitement and
fear.

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 distinctly. 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 illusion, and the bus, hospital and even the body
he sees in his dream have no physical counterpart in the real 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' objections along
the lines of "You realize that matter actually exists when someone hits you,"

"You can have no doubt as to the existence 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 evidence that you are dealing with
the matter itself. As we have seen, you can experience the same things in
dreams, with no corresponding physical counterparts. Furthermore, the

violence of a sensation does not alter the fact that the sensation in question
occurs in the brain. This is a clearly proven scientific fact.

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