to dream or not to dream ...
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
−Plato 
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
−Plato
6 comments:
This reminds me of something from Pascal's Pensées:
"And if an artisan were sure to dream every night for twelve hours' duration that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king, who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was an artisan."
(Part 6, Number 386)
22 Mar 2007, 12:49:00
Nice one, thanks! Yes, it appears things aren't what they appear to be.
Which leaves the question: if our so-called reality is merely a dream (which makes our night-time dreams 'dreams within a dream'), what then is truly real? And how does one 'wake up' to that which is real?
22 Mar 2007, 14:04:00
I don't know. :) Maybe the night-time dreams, or dreams within a dream, are more real than people give them credit for.
22 Mar 2007, 20:07:00
I didn't mean to say that dreams have no significance, just that they are not what they appear to be, i.e. that they cannot be taken at face value. They are important symbols of - and pointers to - something yet to be discovered (which I called the 'Real', for want of a better word). This would be true for night-time dreams as well as the dream we call 'waking state'.
23 Mar 2007, 00:46:00
Oh, I know you didn't say they have no significance, I meant other people in the world, who do not value dreams or think that they are more than just movies that play while we are sleeping.
I really enjoy the quotes you're putting on your blog. They really apply to what's going on and they all resonate with me. Great choices! I try to check your blog every day.
23 Mar 2007, 19:36:00
Rudi,
There is always this strange feeling on awakening between dream state and awakening a little pause and you open your eyes and it is all there where you left off ...?
hugs4u
22 Jun 2007, 10:16:00
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