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THE WORLD IN DREAMS

or you, reality is all that can be touched with the hand and seen
with the eye. In your dreams you can also "touch with your hand
F and see with your eye", but in reality, then you have neither hand
nor eye, nor is there anything that can be touched or seen. There is no
material reality that makes these things happen except your brain. You are
simply being deceived.
What is it that separates real life and dreams from one another?
Ultimately, both forms of living are brought into being within the brain. If
we are able to live easily in an unreal world during our dreams, the same
can equally be true for the world we live in while awake. When we wake
up from a dream, there is no logical reason not to think that we have
entered a longer dream called "real life". The reason we consider our
dream a fancy and the world 'real' is only a product of our habits and prej-
udices. This suggests that we may well be awoken from the life on earth,
which we think we are living right now, just as we are awoken from a
dream.

car accident, get stuck under a bus, or eat a heavy meal and feel satiated.
Events similar to those experienced in daily life are experienced in dreams
too, with the same persuasiveness and rousing the same emotions.
A person who dreams of being knocked down by a bus can open his
eyes in a hospital - again in his dream - and realise that he is disabled. But
all this would remain a dream. Also, he can dream of dying in a car crash,

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