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A person sleeping in his house can see
himself on a rapidly turning wagon in a fair
ground while dreaming. He can realistically
sense the wind that he would experience on
a fast moving wagon in the real world.
friend's shoulder when the friend tells him that "he is dealing with a copy
image of matter; it isn't possible to deal with the original of the world", and
then ask "Am I an image now? Don't you feel my hand on your shoulder? If so,
how can you be a copy image? 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 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 what he's living at that moment isn't a
dream. 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
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