Page 71 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

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A person drinking coffee in his dream can feel the exact taste of the sugar, the milk and the coffee, when there is no
coffee or any other drink there. If someone were to come up to him and tell him that he is just dreaming, and that
there is no coffee, then the person would reject such an idea. He might ask how it could be just a vision when he felt
the heat of the coffee on his tongue, and when after drinking the coffee he no longer felt thirsty. He would ask how it
could remove his thirst if it wasn't real? However, he understands only after he wakes up that the coffee, which he
thinks he drank, was an image formed in his brain, and that sensations such as warmth and thirst, which he felt while
drinking the coffee. were perceptions formed in his brain.
Our experiences in our dreams and in the real world are based
on the same logic. We experience both dreams and the real
world in our mind. The only reason we believe that our
dreams are imaginary is that when we wake up, we find
ourselves in our bed, so we believe that we were actually
sleeping and saw everything in our dreams. What would
happen if we
didn't wake
up and
continued
dreaming?
Would we be
able to realize
that we were not
actually dealing with
the originals of any of
the things we lived
and saw in our
dream?
Of course not. Unless we wake up and discover that we have been sleeping,
we can never realize that we have been dreaming, and spend our entire life
by supposing that this is our real life.
So, how can we prove that our real life is not a dream? Do we have any
information about what happens when we depart this life and find
ourselves watching the pictures of our present life from a different
location?