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<strong>ETERNITY</strong> <strong>HAS</strong> <strong>ALREADY</strong> <strong>BEGUN</strong><br />

sweats and demonstrates the other physical affects that the human<br />

body undergoes in a dangerous situation.<br />

A person who falls from a high place in his dream feels it with all<br />

his body, even though he is lying in bed without moving. Alternatively,<br />

one might see oneself slipping into a puddle, getting soaked<br />

and feeling cold because of a cold wind. However, in such a case,<br />

there is neither a puddle, nor is there wind. Furthermore, despite<br />

sleeping in a very hot room, one experiences the wetness and the<br />

cold, as if one were awake.<br />

Someone who believes he is dealing with the original of the material<br />

world in his dream can be very sure of himself. He can put his<br />

hand on his friend's shoulder when the friend tells him that "it isn't<br />

possible to deal with the original of the world", and then ask "Don't<br />

you feel my hand on your shoulder? If so, how can you say that you<br />

don't see the original matter? What makes you think this way? Let's<br />

take a trip up the Bosphorus; we can have a chat about it and you'll<br />

explain to me why you believe this." The dream that he sees in his<br />

deep sleep is so clear that he turns on the engine with pleasure and<br />

accelerates slowly, almost jumping the car by pressing the pedal<br />

suddenly. While going on the road, trees and road lines seem solid<br />

because of the speed. In addition, he breathes clean Bosphorus air.<br />

But suppose he is woken up by his ringing alarm clock just when<br />

he's getting ready to tell his friend that he's seeing the original of<br />

matter. Wouldn't he object in the same manner regardless of<br />

whether he was asleep or awake?<br />

When people wake up they understand that what they've seen<br />

until that moment is a dream. But for some reason they are not suspicious<br />

of the nature of the life (what they call "real") that starts with<br />

a "waking" image. However, the way we perceive images in "real<br />

life" is exactly the same as the way we perceive our dreams. We see<br />

both of them in the mind. We cannot understand they are images

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