Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and you would naturally as you begin on this adventure of dreams you would fulfil all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you see and after several nights you would say wow that was pretty great but now let's have a surprise let's have a dream which isn't under control Well somethings going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream and finally you would dream where you are now If you awaken from this illusion And you understand black implies white self implies other life implies death you can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world not as something here on probation not as something that has arrived here by fluke but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolute fundamental what you are basically deep deep down far far in is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself
Alan Watts
