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been demonstrated scientifically. However, when it comes to the
bus hitting someone, not just to his feeling the metal of the indoor—
in other words when the sensation of touch is more violent and
painful—they think that this fact somehow no longer applies.
However, pain or heavy blows are also perceived in the brain.
Someone who is hit by a bus feels all the violence and pain of the
event in his brain.
In order to understand this better, it will be useful to consider
our dreams. A person may dream of being hit by a bus, of opening
his eyes in hospital later, being taken for an operation, the doctors
talking, his family's arrival at the hospital, and that he is crippled or
suffers terrible pain. In his dream, he perceives all the images,
sounds, feelings of hardness, pain, light, the colors in the hospital,
all aspects of the incident in fact, very clearly and distinctly. They
are all as natural and believable as in real life. At that moment, if
the person who is having that dream were told it was only a dream,
he would not believe it. Yet all that he is seeing is an illusion, and
the bus, hospital and even the body he sees in his dream have no
physical counterparts in the real world. Although they have no
physical counterparts, he still feels as if a "real body" has been hit
by a "real bus."
In the same way, there is no validity to the materialists' objec-
tions along the lines of "You realize the real nature of matter when
someone hits you," "You can have no doubt as to whether or not you
see the original of matter when someone kicks your knee," "You run
away when you meet a savage dog," "When a bus has hit you, you
understand whether it is in your brain or not," or "In that case, go
and stand on the motorway in front of the oncoming traffic". A
sharp blow, the pain from a dog's teeth or a violent slap are not evi-
dence that you are dealing with the matter itself. As we have seen,