What is real?
This story is going to be a trip. So, buckle up and visualize everything you read.
Recommended: some weed or alcohol before you go further. Or at least imagine that you are on one of these things.
Last week, one of the nights, I was sleeping lying down sideways. A nice and sound sleep. Suddenly I feel some weight on my shoulders and it slowly moving towards my neck. I could see that my mind is trying to find out what it could be without having to open my eyes. But not able to find, I open my eyes and see a huge wounded snake on my shoulders with its head right in front of mine... looking at me. I freaked out and this time I was pushed to really open my eyes and come out of that scene... that dream...
I touch my shoulders which did really felt heavy few seconds ago. For if it wasn't heavy I wouldn't have even continued on that trip, would I? And after that I couldn't get sleep for some time. Not because I freaked out, but normally once I wake up, I can't get to sleep soon. Anyway, Nothing new but what I was amazed was how real was that compared to having the snake on your shoulders when your awake? that is supposedly real! If I couldn't wake up from that dream AT ALL, and if I got bitten, how different would I have been from death? Would my mind come to rest after that at least, assuming that I am dead. Ha... that sounds foolish, If my mind's assuming then its not resting. So how do I say it? Would I have gone into an endless state of sleep? but alive!
So whats the difference between our supposedly real world and the dream world? At this state I clearly see none! So how could we ever label anything as real?
And if this question is true, then can there be real pain? can there be real love? If we are convinced that a dream is not real, then what we claim real itself is being put to test. So isn't it foolish to say I had real pain and my love for her is real? But it all looks SO real and it does pain and we do feel the agony when we are hurt. You do care for someone and that feeling of care is true and therefore you can still call it real or true love and pain. Complicated. We can agree on that part, but we can never deny the fact that it holds a huge amount of illusion!
At this stage I can only say that it is huge amount of illusion and not complete illusion even if it probably is. I've written so much now, that I don't know how to finish this. I'd rather not finish. I just hope that all this is a big dream and I'll wake up from all this one day to realize the REAL real!
Recommended: some weed or alcohol before you go further. Or at least imagine that you are on one of these things.
Last week, one of the nights, I was sleeping lying down sideways. A nice and sound sleep. Suddenly I feel some weight on my shoulders and it slowly moving towards my neck. I could see that my mind is trying to find out what it could be without having to open my eyes. But not able to find, I open my eyes and see a huge wounded snake on my shoulders with its head right in front of mine... looking at me. I freaked out and this time I was pushed to really open my eyes and come out of that scene... that dream...
I touch my shoulders which did really felt heavy few seconds ago. For if it wasn't heavy I wouldn't have even continued on that trip, would I? And after that I couldn't get sleep for some time. Not because I freaked out, but normally once I wake up, I can't get to sleep soon. Anyway, Nothing new but what I was amazed was how real was that compared to having the snake on your shoulders when your awake? that is supposedly real! If I couldn't wake up from that dream AT ALL, and if I got bitten, how different would I have been from death? Would my mind come to rest after that at least, assuming that I am dead. Ha... that sounds foolish, If my mind's assuming then its not resting. So how do I say it? Would I have gone into an endless state of sleep? but alive!
So whats the difference between our supposedly real world and the dream world? At this state I clearly see none! So how could we ever label anything as real?
And if this question is true, then can there be real pain? can there be real love? If we are convinced that a dream is not real, then what we claim real itself is being put to test. So isn't it foolish to say I had real pain and my love for her is real? But it all looks SO real and it does pain and we do feel the agony when we are hurt. You do care for someone and that feeling of care is true and therefore you can still call it real or true love and pain. Complicated. We can agree on that part, but we can never deny the fact that it holds a huge amount of illusion!
At this stage I can only say that it is huge amount of illusion and not complete illusion even if it probably is. I've written so much now, that I don't know how to finish this. I'd rather not finish. I just hope that all this is a big dream and I'll wake up from all this one day to realize the REAL real!
posted by Zeon at 2:50 AM
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