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IBRAHIM: Easy. We see dreams in our brain. I mean, just as we
experience everything in daily life in our brain's cognition center so do we
experience them in a dream. Technically speaking, there's no difference.

MURAD: To this point you've listened to what's been said. So
Ahmed, tell us: how is it that, at night, with our eyes closed, such a clear
and colorful world is formed in the dark recesses of our brain? How does
the sun shine, and how are flowers so colorful and the sea so blue? How
can we see these things with our eyes closed? Don't we need our eyes to
see?

AHMED: I don't have a clue though I know the dream I had seems
to be proof of that.

MURAD: Even if we don't receive a stimulus from outside, in other
words, even if our sense organs are really unaffected by stimuli belonging
to the external world – elements such as light, color and dimension – we
can still see and feel. In order for a world to be formed by means of the
operation of all these perceptions, we have no need of the signals that our
sense organs bring from the outside. What sees is not the eye and what
hears is not the ear. If all these perceptions were produced artificially and
transmitted directly to the relevant center in our brain, we would eat a
cake that didn't exist, we would go to a country that didn't exist, we
would smell a flower that didn't exist and we wouldn't perceive that all
these things were imaginary.

AHMED: Could you go into a bit more detail?

MURAD: As in the earlier example, imagine that you're looking at a
tree. There are signals related to the tree that your eyes send to your brain.
If we were to artificially produce the same signals, and transmit them to
the relevant nerves, we would see the same tree without eyes.