You don't remember how you got here. In fact, you don't remember there ever being anywhere but here. You're so completely lost in this dream that you have completely lost track of the fact that this is a dream. An infinitely long time ago, there was a somewhere else.
There is never enough evidence inside a dream to implicate it as a dream. None of the objects in the dream, nor the set of tools available to you (e.g., what we call "science" and "reason" in this dream) are sufficient to indicate to you that you're dreaming -- let alone enough to pop you out of it. But sometimes a voice speaks up:
But one day, things in the dream start providing you hints that the voice is indeed correct. And slowly, it starts to dawns you. You did eat something. That's how you got here. There's a somewhere else! You were once there! You can get back! You must get back!
What will you do when things in this dream start hinting at you that it's time to wake up? What would those hints even look like?
Will it look like the leading physicists widely agreeing that time and space are illusions, generated by some deeper reality?
Will it look like leading technologists being totally convinced that this universe is a simulation?
What of ancient cultures everywhere having long agreed that reality is a dream?
And how will you find your way out, once you start to suspect it?
Perhaps you will realize that nothing in the dream will ultimately lead you out of the dream. And perhaps when that realization dawns, you will finally pick up the one clue that has any value:
Find the dreamer.
There is never enough evidence inside a dream to implicate it as a dream. None of the objects in the dream, nor the set of tools available to you (e.g., what we call "science" and "reason" in this dream) are sufficient to indicate to you that you're dreaming -- let alone enough to pop you out of it. But sometimes a voice speaks up:
Psst... there was once a somewhere else.
What? What do you mean "somewhere else?" This is all that has ever been, and ever will be.
No. You ate something.
What do you mean I ate something? How could eating something have anything to do with this crazy place I am in now?Thousands of years go by. You forget about the crazy voice.
But one day, things in the dream start providing you hints that the voice is indeed correct. And slowly, it starts to dawns you. You did eat something. That's how you got here. There's a somewhere else! You were once there! You can get back! You must get back!
What will you do when things in this dream start hinting at you that it's time to wake up? What would those hints even look like?
Will it look like the leading physicists widely agreeing that time and space are illusions, generated by some deeper reality?
Will it look like leading technologists being totally convinced that this universe is a simulation?
What of ancient cultures everywhere having long agreed that reality is a dream?
And how will you find your way out, once you start to suspect it?
Perhaps you will realize that nothing in the dream will ultimately lead you out of the dream. And perhaps when that realization dawns, you will finally pick up the one clue that has any value:
Find the dreamer.
What is that by which You know that you exist and by which You perceive the body in the world? Is this not really the only question Needing to be answered? Investigate this exclusively.
- Wu Hsin
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