On Reality and Dream

I know nothing; that is what I know. The 'I' is in capitals because 'I is important'. I is important, therefore I is going to philosophise about reality and dream.

There are two ways of looking at existence, one, that it is real, and it is physical, or two, that it is a sort of dream. To say that it is a dream would in essence be to say that there are many possibilities and opportunities to enhance your life. To say that it is real is to secure your belief that seeing it as such will ensure that you behave as if it is, i.e. it will improve your life. If you see it as a dream, and not of particular importance, you will then begin to behave in accordance with this belief. But, if you believe that it is a dream, then somewhere, we must be sleeping. The question then is both 'what am I sleeping?' as in what being am I that is having these 'conscious' experiences, and 'where am i sleeping', for if we are sleeping and this is a dream, then we must be somewhere. And there are theories, some which are confusing. Some claim that existence is the soul dreaming, but could the soul not purport to have some kind of form? What does the soul actually look like?

Now, some have said that consciousness itself is the 'looking in the mirror of the soul', that is, life looks like what is actually in the subconscious; we are living as an embodiment of thought inside an ‘objectualization’ of the mind. That is to say, in other words, that we are walking around inside a version of the mind itself. We are searching around the world, just as our thoughts search out new avenues of invention and imagination in the thickets of our neurological network, which could purport to be a mirroring of the outside world of 'concrete things'. So in essence, we could claim that we are in fact 'what we see', i.e, that which vibrates through virtue of its own perceptual existence, if anything. It may seem strange to claim that we are actually just inanimate objects, like cups for example, but consider the essentially eternal 'denseness' of these forms. In metaphysics it is acceptable to say that an object is identical to itself, just as it is wrong to say that object a is identical to object b in that they cannot be identical unless all their spatio-temporal features are exactly similar. Object a, therefore, is identical to object a, to an infinite degree. It is by that very nature that something like this, i.e. anything in existence, is the product of infinity. It would help to say out loud that soul is the manifestation of form itself. Now that's pretty hard to conceive of, but we have to consider that it is the realm of infinity that we are dealing with. What I am saying, in essence, is that the soul is born of the intense eternal physicality of stuff such as rocks. Things that could not claim to be conscious...

So we have a second entity that is the soul and soul can be said to have been born of the denseness of things, as a primary reaction to that. It is there. It exists. So essentially, we, as God, are all around ourselves. This however, can be said to be in the mind. All occurrences are perceived mentally, therefore mental, and life is but a dream. But the theory of form as soul could be testament to the actual intrinsic physicality of things. And if life is physical, then it is seriously no dream, but true reality.

But what do you think? Does true reality depend on sense perception? Are we to really trust our senses when it comes to experiencing things in life? Rest assured, there is a lot to this topic, and there is no assurance whether life is dream or reality... yet.

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