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that angels of death retrieve his soul, and his life in the Hereafter begins.
The images, sounds, feeling of hardness, pain, light, colours - all the
feelings pertaining to the event he experiences in his dream - are perceived
very sharply. They seem as natural as the ones in real life. The cake he
eats in his dream satiates him, although it is a mere perception, because
feeling satisfied is a perception too. At that moment, however, this person
is lying in his bed. There are really no stairs, no traffic, no buses, no cake,
because the dreamer experiences perceptions and feelings that don't exist
in the external world. The fact that our dreams give us events with no
physical, external correlates clearly reveals that the "world out there" is one
whose true essence we can never know. We can learn the true nature of
that world only from the revelation of Almighty Allah, Who created it.
Those who believe in the materialist philosophy, the Marxists in partic-
ular, are enraged when informed of this reality. They quote examples from
the superficial, ignorant reasoning of Marx, Engels, or Lenin and else make
emotional declarations.
However, they should realize that they can make these declarations in
a dream as well. They can dream of reading Das Kapital, participating in
meetings, and even feel the pain of getting involved in a fistfight. When
asked - in their dream - they will think that what they see is absolute real-
ity, just as they assume that everything they see while awake is absolutely
real. But they should know that everything they experience - be it in a
dream or in their daily lives - consists of only perceptions whose "real"
source they can never reach.

The Example of a Shared Nervous System

Let us consider Politzer's car crash example: If the injured victim's
nerves travelling from his five senses to his brain, were connected in par-
allel to another person's - Politzer's, for instance - then at the instant the
bus hit that person, Politzer, sitting at his home at that same time, would
feel the impact too. Politzer would experience all the sensations experi-
enced by the person undergoing the accident, just as the same song will
issue from two different loudspeakers connected to the same tape

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