Do Dreams Make Any Less Sense Than Life Itself (Part 2)
Sure, in conscious life, things “seem” to happen. You show up for work at the usual time and see the usual people. Work is done. You grow older. Tangible things occasionally appear to have been accomplished that could never have been accomplished in dreams. Right?
Yet things are accomplished in dreams too. A castle built upon a lily pad! The Living sporting freely with the Dead! Try that in real life.
I don’t see any more evidence for one than I do the other.
Still, I can imagine some objector sitting across a table from me (someone who finds my ideas preposterous) pulling out a hatchet--and chopping off my little finger!
“There,” he would cry, “do you still think dreams are as real as conscious life.”?
And as the pain invades my body and my blood spurts out upon the table with every beat of my heart, I might need to concede that he had made, at least, a neat, rhetorical point, and had illustrated it effectively.
But convinced? Convinced?
Yet things are accomplished in dreams too. A castle built upon a lily pad! The Living sporting freely with the Dead! Try that in real life.
I don’t see any more evidence for one than I do the other.
Still, I can imagine some objector sitting across a table from me (someone who finds my ideas preposterous) pulling out a hatchet--and chopping off my little finger!
“There,” he would cry, “do you still think dreams are as real as conscious life.”?
And as the pain invades my body and my blood spurts out upon the table with every beat of my heart, I might need to concede that he had made, at least, a neat, rhetorical point, and had illustrated it effectively.
But convinced? Convinced?
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