Alan Watts explains Inception.
the dream of your life is probably the only true dream. how do we really know that we aren't dreaming? how can you really differentiate what you perceive from what is? maybe the dream is really the only truth, the origin of both consciousness and silence. everything comes from dream: your sense of self, your desires, your fears...
...the dream of alchemy was awakened into chemistry, the dream of astrology was awakened into astronomy, the dream of silence was awakened into sound, the dream of freedom was awakened from slavery.
the dream of love was awakened from pain and loneliness, although so too was the dream of hate...
sometimes I dream in hieroglyphs, snipets of snapshots of what my life could have been , or what it is and what it could be and I wake up in the middle of the night fetal-fisted and shuddering from the nightmares cuddling in my bed. nightmares, some built of my own volition, some watered with blissful ignorance, some born of boredom or rather necessity. I try to wake up. but my eye-lids can’t manage to gather the strength to lift off into the night and the anxiety of all the pain in the world, in my world, in my dream...it lingers ...a deafening silence...
what if the dream is the lesson? the dream is the purest form. the way a black hole tears at the fabric of space and time I yearn voraciously for connection and in effect the things i pull fall infinitely slower, so slow and timeless that they freeze in time, patterned in the infinite night and deepness of space. the mind is also space, and the i is that black hole:
“this is me, that is me, this is not me, this is, that is not, i am, i am not...”
...but the self is silence, it hugs the i in context and gives it a point of reference. maybe death is true return and the i is a dream we share collectively. i used to yearn for awakening...
desperately...
but now i’ve learned that nightmares can also give birth to dreams and that all growth also stems from and becomes decay. the cycle of life and harmony. who are you to question that? who are you to argue against it? or maybe you should...
but enough talk. it’s time for bed. i have to be up early and it’s late. thanks for listening...
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