Page 179 - Allah is Known through Reason

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
F with your hand 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 anoth-
er? Ultimately, both forms of living are brought into being with-
in the brain. If we are able to live easily in an unreal world dur-
ing 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
prejudices. 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.

what they experience in their dreams also consists of "absolute matter", just
as they assume the things they see when they are awake are "absolute mat-
ter". However, whether it is in their dreams or in their daily lives, all that
they see, experience, or feel consists only of perceptions.

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